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Last saturday James and John played probably the biggest DJ-oriented dance music event ever held in Finland, the Colors-festival (not to be confused with the legendary Scottish-club). We've had big events here before and even in the same building but before they’ve been more live oriented-things, this was all about DJs. Other big names on the bill were Eric Morillo and Tiesto.
The place opened at half past three in the Saturday afternoon and I went in right after five. Marcus Schössow was playing first and proved that he was the worst possible choice for that slot. Not that there we’re that many people in there yet at that point but Smith & Selway-techno was hardly the choice of music for that hour. Thankfully he toned it down a bit for his last 30 minutes.
Zabiela kicked in at six with his usual kind of atmospheric intro with some movie samples. At that point there were maybe 200 people in the room but it’s a huge room and only about 20 we’re at the front dancefloor-part (it was devided in half, the other part had the bars and you could only drink there at the back). James didn’t seem to mind. Up until his last 30 minutes I doubt he had more then 50 people at the front but it wasn’t his fault, the place was filling all the time but everyone seemed to prefer hanging at the drinking section boozing and schmoozing. The time he was playing was just bad considering it’s Finland where people can’t loosen up unless they have atleast 6 drinks in them. Yet he was smiling and popping his head and seemed really happy. Got to admire his attitude.
Music-wise he was spot on, melodic tech, some breaks and bit of prog, didn’t recognise that much apart from Ameobe Assasins – Rollercoaster (Oakie’s Courtyard Dub) which really kicked the party going for me personally, don’t think I stopped smiling after that. For the last half hour of his 3 hour set the front started fill up too and James started doing a bit of jumping too. His last tune was some amazing chilled breaks number with ethereal female vocals in some foreign language (I think).
Digweed started his 3 hour-set at 9 PM sharp to a full dancefloor with some really old school dark prog-number. He kept it quite minimal for awhile but went into pretty intense stuff pretty soon. 40 minutes in his set he played one of the toughest techno tracks I’ve heard in awhile.
He was still playing with cdjs and cdrs so I guess he’s not comfortably enough with the Traktor-set up to take it on tour. Technically I haven’t heard stuff like that in a long time, actually not since I last saw Digweed.
One fuck of a flow, seamless mixes and amazing music, the second hour was like a musical equivalent of getting run over by a freightrain, it literally left me breathless at times, it was that brutal.
Last hour he went into more melodic, even trancey (the good kind) stuff, closing with the duo of Timo Maas – Satellite and On Spec vs The Police - Voices Of Columbus (Jamie Stevens Re-Edit). The last one got one fuck of a reaction, it’s amazing live. Hopefully it’ll see the light of the day after Digweed gets bored with it himself. Didn’t recognise anything apart from the Alan Fitzpatrick-remix of Misstress Barbara’s K10, Roman Flugel & Sven Väth – Trashcan Dance and the new Christian Smith tracks on Bedrock.
After he ended I went to the front with the missus and Petra to get an autograph and pic and he was kind enough to agree to both. He also gave me the biggest laugh of the night.
Digweed: “Do I know you from someplace?”
Me: “Um… I’m Homegrove on the Bedrock-forum…”
Digweed: “YOU’re Homegrove? YOU have a girlfriend?!!”
Me: “Um…. Yeah….”
Missus was REALLY embarrassed, Petra laughed her arse off and I don’t know what to say.
After that the music went full on trance with Cosmic Gate and we took a taxi to a downtown bar where a few of my mates had a deep house night for some more (hell of a lot cheaper) alcohol.
The place opened at half past three in the Saturday afternoon and I went in right after five. Marcus Schössow was playing first and proved that he was the worst possible choice for that slot. Not that there we’re that many people in there yet at that point but Smith & Selway-techno was hardly the choice of music for that hour. Thankfully he toned it down a bit for his last 30 minutes.
Zabiela kicked in at six with his usual kind of atmospheric intro with some movie samples. At that point there were maybe 200 people in the room but it’s a huge room and only about 20 we’re at the front dancefloor-part (it was devided in half, the other part had the bars and you could only drink there at the back). James didn’t seem to mind. Up until his last 30 minutes I doubt he had more then 50 people at the front but it wasn’t his fault, the place was filling all the time but everyone seemed to prefer hanging at the drinking section boozing and schmoozing. The time he was playing was just bad considering it’s Finland where people can’t loosen up unless they have atleast 6 drinks in them. Yet he was smiling and popping his head and seemed really happy. Got to admire his attitude.
Music-wise he was spot on, melodic tech, some breaks and bit of prog, didn’t recognise that much apart from Ameobe Assasins – Rollercoaster (Oakie’s Courtyard Dub) which really kicked the party going for me personally, don’t think I stopped smiling after that. For the last half hour of his 3 hour set the front started fill up too and James started doing a bit of jumping too. His last tune was some amazing chilled breaks number with ethereal female vocals in some foreign language (I think).
Digweed started his 3 hour-set at 9 PM sharp to a full dancefloor with some really old school dark prog-number. He kept it quite minimal for awhile but went into pretty intense stuff pretty soon. 40 minutes in his set he played one of the toughest techno tracks I’ve heard in awhile.
He was still playing with cdjs and cdrs so I guess he’s not comfortably enough with the Traktor-set up to take it on tour. Technically I haven’t heard stuff like that in a long time, actually not since I last saw Digweed.
One fuck of a flow, seamless mixes and amazing music, the second hour was like a musical equivalent of getting run over by a freightrain, it literally left me breathless at times, it was that brutal.
Last hour he went into more melodic, even trancey (the good kind) stuff, closing with the duo of Timo Maas – Satellite and On Spec vs The Police - Voices Of Columbus (Jamie Stevens Re-Edit). The last one got one fuck of a reaction, it’s amazing live. Hopefully it’ll see the light of the day after Digweed gets bored with it himself. Didn’t recognise anything apart from the Alan Fitzpatrick-remix of Misstress Barbara’s K10, Roman Flugel & Sven Väth – Trashcan Dance and the new Christian Smith tracks on Bedrock.
After he ended I went to the front with the missus and Petra to get an autograph and pic and he was kind enough to agree to both. He also gave me the biggest laugh of the night.
Digweed: “Do I know you from someplace?”
Me: “Um… I’m Homegrove on the Bedrock-forum…”
Digweed: “YOU’re Homegrove? YOU have a girlfriend?!!”
Me: “Um…. Yeah….”
Missus was REALLY embarrassed, Petra laughed her arse off and I don’t know what to say.
After that the music went full on trance with Cosmic Gate and we took a taxi to a downtown bar where a few of my mates had a deep house night for some more (hell of a lot cheaper) alcohol.
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