Update on Thursday
27 Nov 2004 01:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
karohemdLeft work, headed into town and got a table at the Red Cow as it looked rather busy already. Got a call from Simon (LJ?) from somewhere near Baldock, as ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
sogoth's car was stuck in traffic. They made it eventually at about 7:45 and surje turned up shortly afterwards.
After some chatting, we set up things at the Kambar.
surje started off the night with some wonderful dark ambient, neofolk and noise (similar in style to my first set at the last Octaine) and then sogoth and I alternated for the rest of the night, pulled all the stops and chucked out a wide range of Industrial, Electro, Noise and related music, most of it recent with a few classics thrown in but avoiding any overplayed tracks (in Germany, Feindflug's "Kahle Bedrohung" might be considered overplayed but not over here). When it was really empty in the last half hour, I threw in some breakcore as well and ended with the rather wonderful "Cthulhu Supermarket" by Arzt+Pfusch.
The audience (all 36 of them) was mixed from Calling regulars I had expected (but missing quite a few I'd hoped they'd come) to some we'd never seen before. Everybody seemed to have enjoyed themselves although it took them a long time to get dancing.
The decks were their usual arsey self. I managed to play one CDR with the dcdisk remix but the Rotersand remix EP wouldn't play so I had to resort to Social Distortion instead of the Lifelight redestruction of Electronic World Transmission. There was another screwup where I pressed the wrong button and was confused as to which deck I was on, probably due to being tired.
And then, the idiots of the evening. I had cued up P•A•L and took a pic of two blokes on the dancefloor who then got arsey that I took their picture and wanted that I delete it. That's not a problem but they didn't want to accept my explanation that I couldn't delete the photo there and then because of the broken display on my fuji. I had to go back into the booth to restart the lights and they first stood outside, drumming at the window. I gestured to them to wait because the end of the track was coming up but they wouldn't stop. Then the one guy came in and hassled me again which caused me to press the wrong button, stopping the track rather than start it.I quickly restarted it but obviously it wasn't from the point I had paused it on but from the very start with a rather long voice sample. The idiot (allegedly a journalist) finally gave in, though. *shakes head*
This was the first electro set I played without Tactical Sekt but only becausesogoth had played Devil's Work before. We also managed to not double up artists which I'm quite pleased with.
The Iszoloscope remix of Axel F caused fewer (or rather none at all) reactions than I thought it would but apart from that I didn't play anything silly. I'm quite pleased thatcasilda asked me about the Phil Kieran remix of Murderous as it is quite a cool track and fit nicely into my small trancey section (Phil Kieran, Mindless Faith and This Morn' Omina).
As I said earlier, the turnout wasn't great but bigger than at the previous one.
I could still kick myself for not printing posters for Tuesday as all of the posters at the Kambar had gone, even the one in the window as Sue had thought "it was one of the old ones". Geezus, the date was on the poster...
If anyone has ideas where and how to advertise (at a reasonable cost), any hints would be appreciated.
A few photos are here.
sogoth's car was stuck in traffic. They made it eventually at about 7:45 and surje turned up shortly afterwards. After some chatting, we set up things at the Kambar.
surje started off the night with some wonderful dark ambient, neofolk and noise (similar in style to my first set at the last Octaine) and then sogoth and I alternated for the rest of the night, pulled all the stops and chucked out a wide range of Industrial, Electro, Noise and related music, most of it recent with a few classics thrown in but avoiding any overplayed tracks (in Germany, Feindflug's "Kahle Bedrohung" might be considered overplayed but not over here). When it was really empty in the last half hour, I threw in some breakcore as well and ended with the rather wonderful "Cthulhu Supermarket" by Arzt+Pfusch.The audience (all 36 of them) was mixed from Calling regulars I had expected (but missing quite a few I'd hoped they'd come) to some we'd never seen before. Everybody seemed to have enjoyed themselves although it took them a long time to get dancing.
The decks were their usual arsey self. I managed to play one CDR with the dcdisk remix but the Rotersand remix EP wouldn't play so I had to resort to Social Distortion instead of the Lifelight redestruction of Electronic World Transmission. There was another screwup where I pressed the wrong button and was confused as to which deck I was on, probably due to being tired.
And then, the idiots of the evening. I had cued up P•A•L and took a pic of two blokes on the dancefloor who then got arsey that I took their picture and wanted that I delete it. That's not a problem but they didn't want to accept my explanation that I couldn't delete the photo there and then because of the broken display on my fuji. I had to go back into the booth to restart the lights and they first stood outside, drumming at the window. I gestured to them to wait because the end of the track was coming up but they wouldn't stop. Then the one guy came in and hassled me again which caused me to press the wrong button, stopping the track rather than start it.I quickly restarted it but obviously it wasn't from the point I had paused it on but from the very start with a rather long voice sample. The idiot (allegedly a journalist) finally gave in, though. *shakes head*
This was the first electro set I played without Tactical Sekt but only because
sogoth had played Devil's Work before. We also managed to not double up artists which I'm quite pleased with.The Iszoloscope remix of Axel F caused fewer (or rather none at all) reactions than I thought it would but apart from that I didn't play anything silly. I'm quite pleased that
casilda asked me about the Phil Kieran remix of Murderous as it is quite a cool track and fit nicely into my small trancey section (Phil Kieran, Mindless Faith and This Morn' Omina).As I said earlier, the turnout wasn't great but bigger than at the previous one.
I could still kick myself for not printing posters for Tuesday as all of the posters at the Kambar had gone, even the one in the window as Sue had thought "it was one of the old ones". Geezus, the date was on the poster...
If anyone has ideas where and how to advertise (at a reasonable cost), any hints would be appreciated.
A few photos are here.
