ya ya - what she said.... she also forgot to mention the talents of da
zinger, a good on mc, didnt try to impress, much like gilles himself, they
were there just to have a good time... and they threw down w/o attitude, it
was a kick to see his goofy grin instead of the usual stern grimace most djs
put on in the booth....
anyways - since I dont really belong on this list, im buggering off
elsewhere....
TOM PARKINSON IS INNOCEnT - or at least sort of anyway.....
----- Original Message -----
From: "stephanie" <nnine@yahoo.com>
To: "ajlist" <acid-jazz@ucsd.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 23, 2000 12:49 PM
Subject: Gilles, philly, last night. =)
| Shit, what can I say? I went in all grumpy and salty
| and not feeling well and did i say grumpy? And now,
| lunchtime the next day, I'm still glowing. =)
|
| Rob Paine did a pretty nice job of warming up the
| crowd with a wide variety of smoothly blended stuff,
| but Mr. G. P., the man 'imself, was everything I hoped
| and then some.
|
| He opened with a snippet of Space is the Place for us
| (as well as the new york crowd on monday), then
| proceeded to lay down track after track of *good
| music.* That "Naima" rmx is a must have!!! DAMN!!
| He dropped nugget after nugget of incredible funk,
| jazz, afro-whatever, and latin stuff, and did some
| tasteful, selective mixing. It took all of 30 seconds
| of his set to plaster a big goofy grin on my face that
| hasn't let up yet. Everyone was so up and positive
| and he spent half his set doing the happy dj dance
| behind the tables. He dropped this ridiculous track
| that I'd love to get an ID on: it starts out all
| batucada'd out, then blasts into a full-on old-school
| jungle track. That's what I'm talking about! That's
| what will bring world peace! Maybe a cure for PMS!
|
| He played War-"The Ghetto", and a really pretty track
| "Slowly and Surely" by someone who sounded like a
| female d'angelo, (ID anyone?) eh, what else? oooh, the
| 4 hero rmx of black gold of the sun (which i hadn't
| heard before! shame on me!)...and some archive-like
| slightly electro-y stuff filled to capacity with soul,
| then, shit! Gang Starr! Got me to thinkin'...if you
| were going on tour on another continent, how the hell
| would you decide what records to bring?
|
| anyway, I was thinking...if all of us aj
| representatives from around the US put our heads
| together, maybe by the time he goes back home we could
| trainspot all his records. what do you think? =)
|
| So That's How It Is, huh??? =)
|
| east coasters: Femi Kuti is this friday at the
| trocadero in Philly, and Dego is next Wednesday @
| Fluid as a guest for britt/wink's Womb night.
|
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