First of all I am now sporting the freshest new look straight from south
beach:
two-tone-i-did-too-many-drugs-at-night-then-passed-out-on-my-face-in-the-sun
for that perfectly divided scorched look.
I wasn't there for too long, got there Monday afternoon and left late
Tuesday (to return to Orlando just in time for the Propellerheads). And
not that I claim to have any idea what was going on the entire time, I
was mostly a follower, but it seemed to me that our music was woefully
underrepresented. I probably went to 7 or 8 different parties and
heard some jungle (a hour with the metalheadz) but the rest was all
house and techno. I scoured the pool at the Fountainblue and found one
guy in a Stepjazz shirt but it turned out he was with a New York house
label. That night after two hours at Groovejet with Danny Tangelia,
i.e. 100 measures of boom-che, boom-che, boom-che, boom-che, build up to
a big break: blllrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr, and then right back to boom-che,
boom-che, boom-che, boom-che, that sent the crowd absolutely nuts, I'd
had enough. I almost felt guilty being the only person there who wasn't
absolutely wetting my panting with excitement. Don't get me wrong, he's
a great DJ but I would have killed to hear another noise, maybe a synth
or string or something. My friend and I left the club kinda of
disappointed with the whole night and were sort of wandering aimlessly
around when I heard faintly, from down the street, the sound of Ninja
Tune. At a random coffee shop completely unrelated to to the
Conference, was four guys funking out on 2 turntables, a CD player and
little drum machine. Occasionally one of the guys would freestyle into
the headphones. It was by far the best music I'd heard in two days.
For some reason there were also 2 professional breakdancers in the
coffee shop. I can't even tell you the tunes, some pork maybe, Q-burn's
Abstract Message (flava lamp?), something on freezone 3. God, I was so
happy!
Later when the DJ switched out my friend went over to talk to him and I
heard him mention he didn't live here now, he goes to University of
Penn. My friend and I headed back to our hotel to get a video camera to
film the breakdancers (we do visuals) and I realized I'd just met fellow
listee Pedro C. He was gone when I got back but thats my story and
thanks Pedro for saving my trip to Miami!
sirka
there was also the most phenomenal radio station there, I really
couldn't believe it, aj in the morning, beats the afternoon, DnB in the
evening and experimental at night. anyone in Miami wanna make me some
tapes?
np: kid loco grand love story (finally!)
-- temper's Tantrum http://alt.theslant.com/tantrum electronicmusiccultureinformation
Jim Kerr wrote:
> Anyone down there, recovered and care to report? > > It's hellishly cold here - lets hear tales of sunshine and vibez! > > Jim