Der geile Ami
Mar 15th, 2004, 08:25 PM
Sunday was one of the best parties I have ever been to and especially to be involved with. I had first heard the 2 play together and ricardo at all at the demf afterparty in 02. That party redefined what I'd like to experience. Sunday redifined things again.
In novemeber i met the beatstreet people when I setup a friends mackie system for them. It was an instant match and we have done maybe 8 parties together since. The approach has been to be underground, high quality and hospitable. No flyers, promotion has mainly been through emails and text messaging 2 days before the events. The guests are great party people and treated as such, as the perfect production means shit if theres an asshole crowd or the promoters care mostly about money or ego.
Wow, sunday.
We managed to go with a Meyer UPA and USW system. It was really the best system one could rent for the room. There is a newer selfpowered series, but the old generation we were using allowed for more control. Richie brought in his mixer and away I went. Tweaking the tops was standard fare. The subs were another story. Somehow one of hte sub amps had a test cable shorting the outputs and hte fan blew up. Luckily we had anotehr amp of similar specs in another rack for anotehr rig we otherwise use. However, it was a bitch to do so much disassembly, but u gotta do what u gotta do sometimes.
The mixer is way dope. On minus there are some tech briefings, but none of the pictures clearly make out the top. Now I had it firsthand and still had no idea. There are knobs and buttons added all over and im sure some of the stock buttons have changed fucntion. There is labeling -- in numbers. One could reasonably guess some parameters controlled, but there is a lot going on. There's even a foot pedal integrated into it.
Richie had final scratch, cycloops sampler, and ableton. Ricardo had a korg electribe mx1 (the blue one, which i had mistaken as hte sampling one before), laptop (presumably running ableton), and a cdj800 (yes records as well). Cassy Britton, a rising dj with Perlon, opened and provided some delcicious vocals here and there. Don't me ask what any of them were doing. It was too loud and cramped for me to want ot hang out any longer than necessary and hte dancefloor was too good.
Altho we have to limit ourselves with bass as we do have neighbors, the sound was undoubtedly my best work. We can still hit close to 110 in the middle of the dancefloor tho, so bass is not lacking too much. I've certainly heard better sounding dancefloors and even by others that I've had no part in, but it was certainly a better result than I've heard anywhere in berlin thus far if i can pat myself on the back a lil. The party makers all wear more than one hat so I had to spend a lot of my dancefloor time picking up bottles and periodic window openings (like liquid nitrogen blasts, but the opposite -everythign is quiet til the windows close - and free!)
Locals Manfred and Dan provided chillout support inthe theater room, with tiered couches positioned so the room is hte stage and play.
Crowd? Perfect. About 400 people made it through and we had hte door held for hours and hours. People waited up to 2 hours to get in, but when they came in they found there was still room. Perfect mixer of freaks, trannies, gays, straights, bi's - sweaty bodies rubbing and undulating to some proper techno music. Pictures will evoke antihipster reactions from nycers, but there is no attitude to be found and nobody worried about getting theri outfit filthy. Its the type of crwod where guests will go back outside to help bring more booze (ran out twice, when there is often a surplus) and ask for cases to pick up bottles.
Party officially went from 10 am to 10pm and then after most eeryone left we chilled til 3am with 20 or so people. It is very refreshing to wakup from good sleep before a party. It's magnitudes less stressful on the production side.
Music? I don't think a better lineup than richie and ricardo can be billed aside from sonic youth jamming in there too........hmmmmmmm..., for my taste at least. I had worked with richie before at twilo, but in a much less involved sound capacity and ricardo 2 parties prior, but really, the combo was a dream. I did not hear many tracks I knew, altho I was bouncing in and out to help monitor the rset of hte party. I can offhand rem Plastikman's "Panik Attack", Green Velvet's "I'm losing my mind" (or whateverhte track with that smaple is called), "The Wipe," and some tweaked remixes (including live vcals) of Ricardo's "Easy Lee." I'm no longer a dj so i have no idea what new tracks are called, but there was very lil of the standard berlin sound. The set was that edgy - not sure what is going to happen next - flavor. Never too hard and never that atmospheric. Some atmospheric stuff might have been interesting, but perhaps early mornings are better for that.. They had played differently at decemebr Groove Magazine party at watergate, but that was indeed a different party.
It was also the first time I could experience this world with some of the friends I have made. There has always been something that prevents my rooamtes or neighbors from attending, but this time we got to party a lil bit.
Man, everything was jsut perfect. Soaked, exhausted, and happy.
pictures to come.
not too shabby for a less than a year of starting a new life. And tomorrow I start my first self designed major install. Turbo tms3 and tse 218 corners and tse111 sidefills for a 9 by 6 meter dancfloor in a 500 person room with arched pillars and located 7 meters underground. Was used as a bunker in ww2 and total underground space is 7000 sq meters which works out to 70,000 sq ft. not to toot any horns, but it really finally feels like the shell has crackedand im no longer jsut seeing specs of light while scratching.
randy
In novemeber i met the beatstreet people when I setup a friends mackie system for them. It was an instant match and we have done maybe 8 parties together since. The approach has been to be underground, high quality and hospitable. No flyers, promotion has mainly been through emails and text messaging 2 days before the events. The guests are great party people and treated as such, as the perfect production means shit if theres an asshole crowd or the promoters care mostly about money or ego.
Wow, sunday.
We managed to go with a Meyer UPA and USW system. It was really the best system one could rent for the room. There is a newer selfpowered series, but the old generation we were using allowed for more control. Richie brought in his mixer and away I went. Tweaking the tops was standard fare. The subs were another story. Somehow one of hte sub amps had a test cable shorting the outputs and hte fan blew up. Luckily we had anotehr amp of similar specs in another rack for anotehr rig we otherwise use. However, it was a bitch to do so much disassembly, but u gotta do what u gotta do sometimes.
The mixer is way dope. On minus there are some tech briefings, but none of the pictures clearly make out the top. Now I had it firsthand and still had no idea. There are knobs and buttons added all over and im sure some of the stock buttons have changed fucntion. There is labeling -- in numbers. One could reasonably guess some parameters controlled, but there is a lot going on. There's even a foot pedal integrated into it.
Richie had final scratch, cycloops sampler, and ableton. Ricardo had a korg electribe mx1 (the blue one, which i had mistaken as hte sampling one before), laptop (presumably running ableton), and a cdj800 (yes records as well). Cassy Britton, a rising dj with Perlon, opened and provided some delcicious vocals here and there. Don't me ask what any of them were doing. It was too loud and cramped for me to want ot hang out any longer than necessary and hte dancefloor was too good.
Altho we have to limit ourselves with bass as we do have neighbors, the sound was undoubtedly my best work. We can still hit close to 110 in the middle of the dancefloor tho, so bass is not lacking too much. I've certainly heard better sounding dancefloors and even by others that I've had no part in, but it was certainly a better result than I've heard anywhere in berlin thus far if i can pat myself on the back a lil. The party makers all wear more than one hat so I had to spend a lot of my dancefloor time picking up bottles and periodic window openings (like liquid nitrogen blasts, but the opposite -everythign is quiet til the windows close - and free!)
Locals Manfred and Dan provided chillout support inthe theater room, with tiered couches positioned so the room is hte stage and play.
Crowd? Perfect. About 400 people made it through and we had hte door held for hours and hours. People waited up to 2 hours to get in, but when they came in they found there was still room. Perfect mixer of freaks, trannies, gays, straights, bi's - sweaty bodies rubbing and undulating to some proper techno music. Pictures will evoke antihipster reactions from nycers, but there is no attitude to be found and nobody worried about getting theri outfit filthy. Its the type of crwod where guests will go back outside to help bring more booze (ran out twice, when there is often a surplus) and ask for cases to pick up bottles.
Party officially went from 10 am to 10pm and then after most eeryone left we chilled til 3am with 20 or so people. It is very refreshing to wakup from good sleep before a party. It's magnitudes less stressful on the production side.
Music? I don't think a better lineup than richie and ricardo can be billed aside from sonic youth jamming in there too........hmmmmmmm..., for my taste at least. I had worked with richie before at twilo, but in a much less involved sound capacity and ricardo 2 parties prior, but really, the combo was a dream. I did not hear many tracks I knew, altho I was bouncing in and out to help monitor the rset of hte party. I can offhand rem Plastikman's "Panik Attack", Green Velvet's "I'm losing my mind" (or whateverhte track with that smaple is called), "The Wipe," and some tweaked remixes (including live vcals) of Ricardo's "Easy Lee." I'm no longer a dj so i have no idea what new tracks are called, but there was very lil of the standard berlin sound. The set was that edgy - not sure what is going to happen next - flavor. Never too hard and never that atmospheric. Some atmospheric stuff might have been interesting, but perhaps early mornings are better for that.. They had played differently at decemebr Groove Magazine party at watergate, but that was indeed a different party.
It was also the first time I could experience this world with some of the friends I have made. There has always been something that prevents my rooamtes or neighbors from attending, but this time we got to party a lil bit.
Man, everything was jsut perfect. Soaked, exhausted, and happy.
pictures to come.
not too shabby for a less than a year of starting a new life. And tomorrow I start my first self designed major install. Turbo tms3 and tse 218 corners and tse111 sidefills for a 9 by 6 meter dancfloor in a 500 person room with arched pillars and located 7 meters underground. Was used as a bunker in ww2 and total underground space is 7000 sq meters which works out to 70,000 sq ft. not to toot any horns, but it really finally feels like the shell has crackedand im no longer jsut seeing specs of light while scratching.
randy