Digweed, RED 6 Yr, Spundae, Fuzzy 6/8 - 6/10

Thursday. - I'll start off with John Digweed @ The Mayan.
WOW! What a great set/show that was. Digweed held his ground as one the best DJs in the nation easily. I have not missed a Digweed show in several years (though someone is telling me I missed one... I don't remember). This was one of the best live sets I have heard from him. It reminded me of the 2001 Twilo set that has made its way around the net.

The Mayan is always a great place to catch DJs like this. Plenty of room and a great balchony make for a comfortable feel and set up. The sound system always rocks. While the lighting setup can be bright when on full fire, they lighting guy always seems to be able to keep a good balance of darkness in the place really bringing the club alive. Drinks are good but beware of cheap vodka.

Digweed tore the place apart. Not much more can be said about that. This was classic Digweed. Dark, hard, and relentless. I was there for the last hour and it was quite intense.

John Digweed does need to cut his hair though. haha

Friday night brought RED with internation techno DJ Marco Bailey. It was quite a treat to have him here in LA at Avalon. Unfortunately Los Angeles doesn't feel the same way. I think 2006 will be a good year for techno. I just hope it takes hold in Los Angeles. With names coming through like Marco Bailey and clubs like Compression Los Angeles is in for some damn good techno music.

The turn out for this event was very weak. Was it because John Digweed was the night before? Or was it because techno has a hard time getting love in LA? or was it that it was only promoted for 3 weeks? Either way, this was probably the weakest crowd in a while. The night started off with Justin Michaels. Decent house music. I did notice he was playing a lot of older tracks though. It did not seem to really be making the crowd move.
Up next was DJ Fei Fei. She brough it in with techno and some trance. For the most part her track selection was ok. Probably a party foul of playing the same song that Marco Bailed ended up playing, but what can you do... There was some trouble with one of the turntables, I believe this was contributing to the slightly off mixing.

Once Marco Bailey came up, he had a trance song to mix into... He wrecked it...
His set seemed to start losing steam right away. However, thanks to the quick thinking of one of the patrons, she handed him a message requesting that he keep it hard. (lol shut up! pervets!) Keep it hard, he did! (PERVERTS!!! ALL OF YOU!)

Here is a clip of Marco Bailey rocking the place.

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Saturday night Sander Van Doorn graced the decks at Spundae. All I really have to say about that was that he was not very impressive. After his set we quickly exited the building for something a little more fun.

FUZZY!!!
now this was the event we should have checked out first. Music was good. It was a retro party reflecting the music from 1999-2001. "When raving was fun," it said on the flyer. Um.. more like to me when the people that went to this party were actually YOUNG. This was a cool party with a neat retro feel to it. I do find raves with people in their 30s+ a bit troubling though. Not because of their age, but because it just feels wrong. Rave has always been about youthful energy, but what can you do when the people that love rave are aging? Nothing. Just accept it as part of life. It still feels weird!
Anyway, the music was good. DJ's were good. Loved the outfits by some of the people.
Eric really knows how to put together a smile inducing event.