From: nethed (nethed_at_ninjatune.net)
Date: 2003-06-17 13:02:26
hehehe that's funny - has gilles ever been to Sonar before? guess no
one filled him in about which records to bring... and i have seen him
clear dancefloors many times (being an original attendee at Talkin
Loud at Dingwalls in Camden back in the day) sorry Gilles, but you
know that's true.
xx nH
At 12:53 pm +0200 17/6/03, Staffan Söderman wrote:
>I had really been looking forward to hearing Gilles Peterson's set,
>but what a disappointment that turned out to be! He lost a lot of
>people on the dancefloor by starting off with fairly generic and
>dull brazil beats. Halfway through the set, he suddenly must have
>realized that people started heading off to the other dancefloors,
>because he started playing some horrible-sounding euro-dance stuff.
>We had to look really closely to make sure somebody else hadn't
>taken over the decks, but it was Mr Peterson alright. He did,
>however, recover somewhat by playing the original version of Rhythim
>is Rhythim's "Strings of life", which was amazing to hear in a PA of
>that size!! Luckily, Darshan Jesrani (Metro Area) played a great set
>right afterwards...
>
>-Staffan
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