From: Olaf Molenveld (olaf_at_interactivelink.nl)
Date: 2003-06-17 13:08:39
this was my 3th sonar visit, i had the luck to enjoy the older
night-location 3 years ago, before they switched to all huge halls..... i
really think it's a shame that acts like peterson and metro-area aren't
programmed in the daytime, which has a much better athmosphere for their
kind of music...... i spoke to the sonarkollektiv guys who threw their own
small party in a nice pub in barcelona, because their music was considered
"not electronic enough" for sonar..... a pity imho..
Olaf
----- Original Message -----
From: Staffan Söderman <staffan.soderman_at_home.se>
To: <acid-jazz_at_ucsd.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 12:53 PM
Subject: RE: [acid-jazz] Sonar Festival
> 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...
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