Electronica/Dance

[willsnewman]

Walked into a church today and never have I felt so close to religious.

 

[Kaboom Boxer]

I caved and bought tickets for Bicep’s Chroma AV show at WHP. 

[mjfromthelane]

In the spirit of the bigger thread on attending gigs solo, do many in here do it for club nights?

 

Only worked up the courage to do it once before at one of Andy C's XOYO residencies, but thinking of going to a specific night at Fabric soon.

Edited October 4, 2024 by mjfromthelane

[Upside down frowner]

Yes, mainly by accident though! I queued with a mate for an hour at Manchester's White Hotel last weekend not knowing it was cash-only. Only had enough for myself, he went bank but didnt return. Was fine as the place is so smoked filled you could be with 20 friends or on your own and not know the difference. 

 

Went to a Boiler Room night in Bristol. For one reason or another mates didnt get in, so stayed on my own. 

 

Been to El Row at Amnesia on my own. Mate refused to pay 85e on the door. 

 

As I approach 40, if it isnt a really young crowd, once i'm in and listening/dancing to music - im fine. 

[Talcroft]

8 hours ago, mjfromthelane said:

In the spirit of the bigger thread on attending gigs solo, do many in here do it for club nights?

 

Only worked up the courage to do it once before at one of Andy C's XOYO residencies, but thinking of going to a specific night at Fabric soon.

 

Done it a couple of times at WHP, it's big enough and dark enough to be pretty anonymous and I haven't noticed any attention towards me, although I do feel a bit self conscious. 

Bonobo and Tourist gigs were club vibes and great fun, felt less conscious of it there as it was shorter.

8 hours of Kieran at WHP soon is really gonna test my nerve!

[Semprini]

I went to see 2manydjs and Erol Alkan on my own just before Christmas last year at Electric Brixton. Most of the 'issue' around this is in your head as majority of people don't notice or care. I'm 48 btw so was older than most of the others there and it was all fine.

My lad turned 18 in May and is massively into dance music so I'm fortunate as we go to a lot of events together now. In exactly 2 weeks we'll be in the Gashouder for Awakenings Upclose with Four Tet as my birthday present to him was a weekend at ADE. Got a boat party hosted by PIV on Saturday afternoon and then Breakfast Club on Sunday with Avalon Emerson, Call Super and Peach. Also looking at getting late/cheap tickets for DGTL with Bonobo, DJ Tennis, John Talabot and Young Marco on Friday night and possibly a party with Anz on Saturday. Just hope we make it back to Schiphol in time for our plane on Sunday evening!!

We're also booked to see Todd Terje at Phonox the weekend after and then Bugged Out at Drumsheds with the Chems. My wife isn't into it at all so he's really opened the door for me to go out fairly regularly again - feels like the coming of the second summer of love or something!! We get to spend quality time together as well doing something we both really enjoy so it's been a great few months already.

[Kaboom Boxer]

2 hours ago, Talcroft said:

8 hours of Kieran at WHP soon is really gonna test my nerve!

We’re there too. 

Edited October 4, 2024 by Kaboom Boxer

[nikkic]

2 hours ago, Semprini said:

I went to see 2manydjs and Erol Alkan on my own just before Christmas last year at Electric Brixton. Most of the 'issue' around this is in your head as majority of people don't notice or care. I'm 48 btw so was older than most of the others there and it was all fine.

My lad turned 18 in May and is massively into dance music so I'm fortunate as we go to a lot of events together now. In exactly 2 weeks we'll be in the Gashouder for Awakenings Upclose with Four Tet as my birthday present to him was a weekend at ADE. Got a boat party hosted by PIV on Saturday afternoon and then Breakfast Club on Sunday with Avalon Emerson, Call Super and Peach. Also looking at getting late/cheap tickets for DGTL with Bonobo, DJ Tennis, John Talabot and Young Marco on Friday night and possibly a party with Anz on Saturday. Just hope we make it back to Schiphol in time for our plane on Sunday evening!!

We're also booked to see Todd Terje at Phonox the weekend after and then Bugged Out at Drumsheds with the Chems. My wife isn't into it at all so he's really opened the door for me to go out fairly regularly again - feels like the coming of the second summer of love or something!! We get to spend quality time together as well doing something we both really enjoy so it's been a great few months already.

Love this, mate.

Early signs are that I’ve managed to impart my love for dance music on my two, both really into it.

At 4 and 8 respectively, there’s a long way before I can potentially share a dance floor with them, but there’s promise. 

(When they turn 18 I’ll be 51 and then 55, so it might all be beyond me by that point tbh!). 

[Superscally]

Spoke to an old school house DJ (Cream, 051) tonight for a few beers and without even declaring my hand he said that Fred is the biggest joke (his words) in dance music he's ever seen. Zero talent, all push. I had to agree. 😉

[nikkic]

8 hours ago, Superscally said:

Spoke to an old school house DJ (Cream, 051) tonight for a few beers and without even declaring my hand he said that Fred is the biggest joke (his words) in dance music he's ever seen. Zero talent, all push. I had to agree. 😉

Did he also say you’re not a real DJ unless you’re playing vinyl? 

[Mardy]

Hey team electronica,

 

I'm off to this in a couple of weeks, not been to Drumsheds before, any tips/things I should be aware of? 

 

As an old, out of touch man, I'm obviously excited about FourTet, Blawan, Kode9 and the Bug. Anything else there I should be salivating at the thought of? Sorry if these are dumb questions x

 

 

 

[Talcroft]

13 hours ago, Kaboom Boxer said:

We’re there too. 

Don't want to intrude but if you don't mind a guest joining you for a drink or two give me a shout. Are you in the Whatapp group? 

[Superscally]

5 hours ago, nikkic said:

Did he also say you’re not a real DJ unless you’re playing vinyl? 

😄😄😄😄

[Semprini]

3 hours ago, Mardy said:

Hey team electronica,

 

I'm off to this in a couple of weeks, not been to Drumsheds before, any tips/things I should be aware of? 

 

As an old, out of touch man, I'm obviously excited about FourTet, Blawan, Kode9 and the Bug. Anything else there I should be salivating at the thought of? Sorry if these are dumb questions x

 

 

 

Been to Drumsheds a couple of times and I really like the venue. Few people moan about the sound in the main room but as long as you stand near one of the line arrays it's absolutely fine. They've added more sound now apparently and improved the lights. Toilets are on the floor below the three rooms but again, I didn't mind the walk.

From that line up, I'd definitely be checking out Ahadadream, Logic 1000 and The Bug. Was really looking forward to seeing Young Singh a couple of years at a festival but he played a fairly generic House set that I wasn't too impressed with. Would give him another go though if the opportunity arose.

[Kaboom Boxer]

3 hours ago, Talcroft said:

Don't want to intrude but if you don't mind a guest joining you for a drink or two give me a shout. Are you in the Whatapp group? 

I didn’t even know there was a WhatsApp group! Add me and give me a shout on the night. We’re a group of 6 so plenty of people to chat with 😊

[bennyhana22]

My Berghain review:

 

f**k me 😲
 

Right, I've got a plane to catch. As you were. 
 

Ben
x

Edited October 7, 2024 by bennyhana22

[Upside down frowner]

On 10/5/2024 at 9:22 AM, Mardy said:

Hey team electronica,

 

I'm off to this in a couple of weeks, not been to Drumsheds before, any tips/things I should be aware of? 

 

As an old, out of touch man, I'm obviously excited about FourTet, Blawan, Kode9 and the Bug. Anything else there I should be salivating at the thought of? Sorry if these are dumb questions x

 

 

 

Logic1000 on the Glade was one of the best sets I saw at Glastonbury this year - I would try and catch her

[gfa]

Just got back from bangface - cannot recommend it enough.

 

Having a bed is such a gamechanger, feel completely fine after a heavy weekend and got 6+ hours a night of quality sleep!

 

Some of the music definitely not to my taste but theres 4 really well setup stages, great soundsystems and all quite good rooms (bowling alley one was my favourite, smallest of the 4 maybe around a 500 cap room). By the end of the weekend I was enjoying most of the programming to be fair! The move to butlins seemed to be a success (there were a few security incidents but for the most part ok)

 

Crowd is absolutely mad, so much fancy dress and around 50% of the audience are wearing bangface merch at all times (the other 50% generally in fancy dress!). Super friendly.

 

Highlight has to be the pool party - had Mandidextrous and Gladde Paling shelling it while everyone is in this donut shape pool which has jets spinning around like a washing machine, with heaps of inflatables in. Special Request, Hudson Mohawke (who did play CBAT - crowd went feral), Dj Can't Say No, Samurai Breaks, and Lobsta B were some other highlights. Also some random smaller act i had never heard of called Gullyteen was excellent - complete surprise so will definitely try to catch again.

 

Other than the lack of stages vs SEC, i'd say for fun / bimble factor it was ahead of glasto honestly. Crowd generally a lot more into it than at glasto - every DJ was getting huge rounds of applause after sets which was lovely. Vengabus count about 20 after 3 nights of partying FYI 🙂 

 

Very fun weekend - not sure its one for every year but definitely everyone on here needs to do it once. I'll definitely be back.

Edited October 8, 2024 by gfa

[Kaboom Boxer]

16 hours ago, Upside down frowner said:

Logic1000 on the Glade was one of the best sets I saw at Glastonbury this year - I would try and catch her

 

I'm toying with the idea of going to see her here: https://ra.co/events/2004876

[Claire0406]

6 hours ago, gfa said:

Just got back from bangface - cannot recommend it enough.

 

Having a bed is such a gamechanger, feel completely fine after a heavy weekend and got 6+ hours a night of quality sleep!

 

Some of the music definitely not to my taste but theres 4 really well setup stages, great soundsystems and all quite good rooms (bowling alley one was my favourite, smallest of the 4 maybe around a 500 cap room). By the end of the weekend I was enjoying most of the programming to be fair! The move to butlins seemed to be a success (there were a few security incidents but for the most part ok)

 

Crowd is absolutely mad, so much fancy dress and around 50% of the audience are wearing bangface merch at all times (the other 50% generally in fancy dress!). Super friendly.

 

Highlight has to be the pool party - had Mandidextrous and Gladde Paling shelling it while everyone is in this donut shape pool which has jets spinning around like a washing machine, with heaps of inflatables in. Special Request, Hudson Mohawke (who did play CBAT - crowd went feral), Dj Can't Say No, Samurai Breaks, and Lobsta B were some other highlights. Also some random smaller act i had never heard of called Gullyteen was excellent - complete surprise so will definitely try to catch again.

 

Other than the lack of stages vs SEC, i'd say for fun / bimble factor it was ahead of glasto honestly. Crowd generally a lot more into it than at glasto - every DJ was getting huge rounds of applause after sets which was lovely. Vengabus count about 20 after 3 nights of partying FYI 🙂 

 

Very fun weekend - not sure its one for every year but definitely everyone on here needs to do it once. I'll definitely be back.

Boomtown and Balter vibes, love them both!

 

Bangface is on my list for next year!

[Mardy]

On 10/5/2024 at 1:06 PM, Semprini said:

Been to Drumsheds a couple of times and I really like the venue. Few people moan about the sound in the main room but as long as you stand near one of the line arrays it's absolutely fine. They've added more sound now apparently and improved the lights. Toilets are on the floor below the three rooms but again, I didn't mind the walk.

From that line up, I'd definitely be checking out Ahadadream, Logic 1000 and The Bug. Was really looking forward to seeing Young Singh a couple of years at a festival but he played a fairly generic House set that I wasn't too impressed with. Would give him another go though if the opportunity arose.

 

Ah, that's great. Thank you very much

[mandana]

Also headed to BangFace last week - had so much fun. Chaos and high quality bants in every direction.

Exceptional production and visuals, it is as bananas as it looks (check the gallery on the website) but there is so much love poured into the event by organisers and hard crew.

[Kaboom Boxer]

Off to see Max Cooper's AV set at The Ritz tonight. First time seeing him but long time admirer. Excited.

[NorthernSoul52]

8 minutes ago, Kaboom Boxer said:

Off to see Max Cooper's AV set at The Ritz tonight. First time seeing him but long time admirer. Excited.

Saw him at Brisbane Powerhouse last year. Hope you enjoy, I was quite bedazzled.

[Ben7amin_]

1 hour ago, Kaboom Boxer said:

Off to see Max Cooper's AV set at The Ritz tonight. First time seeing him but long time admirer. Excited.

 

Saw it in New Century hall last year - f**king incredible show 10/10