Advertisement
Published: November 12th 2008
Edit Blog Post
Just another party review. This time about really good music (again). Saying again I feel tempted to say that the scene for core music is really productive here even though it seems to be a quarter of the size of the one found at home. But once infiltrated it presents itself as having a bunch of really good artists. And what is more is that the sounds do not sound like a copy, on the contrary, they are very original most of the time.
The venue this time is called Hermann's Bar - a small bar/club on the corner of Sydney campus. Good party concept of mixed styles. I like it like that and this was not the first mixed party I attended here. The timetable at legal parties is a little different here. I can get used to the early start but if it is a good one than it always sucks if it ends directly after the headliner. As I knew this was going to happen this time again I arrived just for the end of the warm-up phase. After that there was a local Hip Hop Crew performing: Kwit's Crew. It was at this point already that I discovered that I brought my camera for nothing, because the battery was flat... great... and very clever of me, too. After this hip hop act the dancefloor was clearing. Something I could hardly understand, as the next guy - DeeMolish - was presenting a great DJ set, playing mainly D'n'B but breaking the common structures of it quite frequently without breaking its conventional speed limit. Great style of mixing genres. Lucky me, that I've been one of the first 50 guests through the door and got a set of him on CD. But this mixture was a little confusing for some people and most of the girls didn't really know how to move to that music. When I say most of them I mean something like four out of seven, as we have never been more than 20 people on the dancefloor; sometimes only five, with me being the only one moving. I didn't mind - nobody knows me here (and even if...).
DeeMolish was followed by DJ Vic, who presented uninventive techno. Flat sounds, no ideas. Sorry, mate, not my style. Luck for me that Mari and Sarah arrived at that time so I wasn't bored to death.
From that point of time things got better and better. Next up was a live act called dep affect. Far more intelligent dancemusic. According to the timetable he was a 'hardtechno' act but his stuff was broken every now and then nonetheless and it was far more creative than the preceding act.
The next two acts were Tymon and Paul Blackout, playing quite cool pieces, mostly hardcore but in a style I can enjoy - anything but monotone. It was at that point where all the girls knew what's going on again and the dancefloor was populated with more than 20 people now, at least sometimes.
Now it's about two o'clock and you can feel that something is going to happen that most people were waiting for. As Mark N starts his set there are as many people in front of the stage as for the hip hop act and nearly nobody was moving (apart from Mari and Sarah, who never sat down for one single minute), as all the crowd was standing and watching how he scratched his intro. I remember seeing him something like three years ago at home and I remember that he was fast but I didn't remember
that. However, the average span of focussed attention was comparatively low among the listeners and a lot of the people seemed to think 'now that I can say I've seen him I can get another beer' and soon there was enough space for our small family of craze heads moving all of our four limbs without any noticeable synchronisation. So it was maybe only about thirty of us enjoying his set, that covered a really broad range. That there was a good deal of drum'n'bass in there after the preceding core sets was not understood by some of the listeners. I instead was simply amazed. Amazed by his skills in looping, scratching and mixing, and I was more than pleased by his choice of records and the flow he was creating in only one hour.
In German we have a saying that may translate to something like 'stop at the top' (if you know what I'm talking about please tell me the English equivalent, in case there is one, in a comment, thanks). This saying claims to be a very wise one but it is just annoying that you have to leave when the party is reaching its climax. Yet, that's the way it goes here in bars and other official venues (they have to close at three) so I went with Mari and Sara to a playground nearby and we roamed the streets, ending up at the front of Central Station, playing Jew's harps for a good hour until eventually I went in to catch a train back. It must have been about half past five and I had to wait for another few minutes, when I saw how some (fairly young) people had to be picked up by the ambulance because they were so drunk that they fell unconscious. One girl, she must have been about 20, was from Newcastle and came all the way to Sydney just to get drunk till she can't remember having a name any more. So why do I think twice sometimes if a decent party and experiencing the music of good artists is worth a trip from Wollongong, that is half the distance? I don't really know but one of the cops told me that they had to pick up really young really drunk people from the streets and the train stations all the time. For some reason there is some frustration building up when I hear stuff like that, because it was their (obviously very efficient) liquor laws that forced us to end our party at three o'clock again tonight.
Anyway, good party, great artists... und wenigstens etwas Unterhaltung gehabt, so fern von Zuhause; obwohl es ja eigentlich hieß es gäbe Keine Ausreden. Beste Grüße Jungs und Mädels!
Advertisement
Tot: 0.094s; Tpl: 0.012s; cc: 7; qc: 44; dbt: 0.0472s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 2;
; mem: 1.1mb
micha... ;-)
non-member comment
schöner party bericht!!! weiter so!! :-D aller aller aller liebste grüsse zur anderen seite der erde..!!!!!! ..micha