From: Olaf Molenveld (olaf_at_interactivelink.nl)
Date: 2003-06-17 13:11:45
i believe he also did a 25minute set at the sonar pro event thursday-night
(i am not 100% sure though) and his records were rocking..neptunes stuff, a
love supreme, good old US paradise garage disco classics etc.....exactly my
kind of sound... jeff mills was also killing it with a classic set that
night..... kraftwerk etc..
Olaf
----- Original Message -----
From: nethed <nethed_at_ninjatune.net>
To: <acid-jazz_at_ucsd.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2003 1:02 PM
Subject: RE: [acid-jazz] Sonar Festival
> 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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