spoonyd Posted September 26 Report Share Posted September 26 Not sure if you caught this in the other thread so I thought i'd give it to you here.Long typed - here's the detailed review for last Friday:What can I can. I was stunned.Aquaviva was a super starter. He kept it quiet, and tech-funky. He really eased people into the night. I was enjoying his styles, but you could tell he knew his place in the lineup.Richie's appearance at the decks was met with hoots and hollars. And he started off pretty tame. A little 1/2 hour warmup before he dropped the shit. from 2:30 and for about 45 minutes it was a 909 tech-trance onslaught. Now, I define it as tech-trance because he was dropping a lot of repeating echoing accents and basslines in with the 909 that gave everything a real spaced out feel to it. It's a sound I really dig (which is why I enjoyed Mills so much - very similar through that part of the night). I was in a freekin zone.Then he left everyone at the station.A little after the 3, the efx dropped out all together and the music got fierce and unrelenting. Hard hard techno, all snares and hats, no music, just death on a drum machine. I was flowed with it for the first 15 mins, then he lost me. I think he was slowly losing much of the crowd before he backed off and added a bassline again.At around 4 or so things kinda levelled out. He was having trouble with one of the turntables and flew solo on the 909 while the techs took care of that. With the problem fixed, he started the havoc again, this time dismantling anthems left and right. He hypnotized the entire crowd with a drawn out and re-engineered on the fly version of How's Your Evening so Far. Take a song with an already killer bass drop, and multiply by 3 - ouch! (he actually drew the drop in the middle of the track out for 3 minutes - unreal) He peaked for an entire 45 minutes, splitting songs in two with long efx loops, pulling rewinds drops back into the same track. FUcK it was too much for the head.He spun the night out with real airy pieces, with a trancey feel but no overbearing emotional quality. More like filler sounds that he would keep spilling the most unexpected snare loops into which would progress out than back into nothing.What can I say? Hands down the best techno I've ever heard at Twilo.That was one for the record books.phewd------------------cold spoonin' on this lovely autumn day spoonyd.iwarp.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
back2basics Posted September 26 Report Share Posted September 26 Spooney thanks for the great review.Sounds like he was on form.. again.I have to wait an 3 weeks before he hit here....dam------------------I want to go out blazing not fade away.I can resist anything but temptation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoonyd Posted September 26 Author Report Share Posted September 26 I'll expect a detailed review. ------------------cold spoonin' on this lovely autumn day spoonyd.iwarp.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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