Electrode @ Lobster 23.02.07

Wild and crazy was the friday night at Lobster in Senec. I think that everyone who was there would agree, that it was heavy and with surprisingly many people. Also, two of them were celebrating birthday there (happy birthday once more :-)

The party started slowly at about ten o'clock. The first man behind the decks was Igitech, then he was exchanged by Daily at about eleven. Nice minimal grooves were sometimes interrupted by not so good mixes. Guys were trying their best, but one of the turntables refused to work and jumped anywhere it wanted. Ten minutes before midnight has Daily tried what a notebook will do when closed still operating, so we entered the saturday morning in silence.

That was exactly the time when I (Electrode) was supposed to play, so I just plugged everything in and started. From midnight to half past one I was playing my minimal set, which was actually my premiere as a minimal dj (I do live acts more than mp3 dj-ing). I have also played live with Igitech, who combined my live tracks with his vinyls, which was also very unusual, but nice.

I suppose that no one wanted to go home when the party ended, but barman has to sleep too. I have to say, that I haven't left Lobster with such a good feeling ever before, so I wanted to thank everybody who was there and who created such a delicious mood. Many thanks!

And here are some photos of pirates and other creatures ;-)

Milkshake 16.02.07 - Viena Rock

We have arrived to Subclub (Bratislava) at about midnight. At that time, Milosh and Skank (www.leporelo.sk) - residents of this night were behind the decks. Maybe it's only my feeling that Subclub is filling with people slower and later that other clubs, but at midnight there were about eight people dancing on the floor. Milosh & Skank were playing sometimes solid minimal, sometimes disco (hehe) and they played also some Depeche Mode remix, which may be cheap, but sounded really good. I have to say, that I didn't have very good feeling about their performance , maybe because they have been changing behind the decks, but I was definitely missing something there. Guys were using Serato (Skank : "Because it is the best"), which seems to be popular among many djs now.

At two o'clock has djane Tibcurl from Vienna (www.tibcurl.com) exchanged leporelo crew behind the turntables. The club was now much more filled with people. If I was missing something before, now was everything at its best. She was playing good, lively and in black galusses. She played tracks like DJ Fame - Name it X or Gummihz - Isolate (Sebo K remix).

At about four o'clock another guest from Vienna started to play - dj Romancer (www.myspace.com/r0mancer). He was playing minimal techno without compromises, very rythmical, less melodic. It's a shame he was playing so late, because we were leaving at five, when his set was really good pumping.

It was a nice party with more people than I have expected. My respect and applause to leporelo crew for the education of visitors :-)

Double X '07 - first info

Fourth volume of senec based open air festival Double X will take place on saturday, 30th of June 2007. Dus@n decided to change the date from august to end of june and beginning of holidays while there was terrible weather last year. I suppose that this event will be even more massive than before, but I think that it will affect mostly the younger party people.

While none of the headliners is officialy announced, I will not tell any names. But what I can give away is, that the most "bigger" headliner will be on hip-hop stage. It is a group, that is known worldwide and became a classic in this genre.
Of course there will be two classic stages - techno and dnb, where slovak and international artists of high quality will appear.

So I'm starting to look forward :-)

Electrode liveset - january 2007

Se here is my live set for january 2007. It was recorded live in "skusobna" with my Creative Zen V mp3 player (that is why .wma format).
As usual, I have played my own tracks live with Ableton Live and my midi controller.

No edits, just as I have played it.

http://rapidshare.com/files/14276443/electrode_-_livePA_jan_2007.wma

I'm sorry for the lower volume and also not so high quality (128kbps - hihats are sometimes distorted), but I think it's nice. What do you think? :)