Midi in the City videos & visuals :o

Everyone here at S.L.T are as much about DJs are we as VJs (and by everyone, I mean me! :P) so when I learnt another fellow Sydney-VJ-blogster, VJ Darko, also did the poster and visuals I had to post up his videos from the night!

Seriously slick visuals for a slick night, by many accounts Midi In the City was a great success showing off the great underground talent...pity I couldn't make it but I'll definitely be at the next one...

Also some of the guys who run Midi also run TECHnique THIS SAT @ Sly Fox





Marshall, live @ MIDI IN THE CITY from Ando on Vimeo.


Dane Austin live @ MIDI IN THE CITY from Ando on Vimeo.


Marshall, live @ MIDI IN THE CITY from Ando on Vimeo.

and just a general crowd shot, with Oli G dropping some phattt break beat tunage;

Oli G mixing into the end of Royalston's set @ MIDI IN THE CITY from Ando on Vimeo.

Steve Lawler's Top 5

Originally from Beatportal there some great tracks that I think define the sound internationally right now have listen at the original link.

Wrapping up our Viva Tour live blog coverage is the man himself, Steve Lawler, who reveals exclusively to Beatportal five tracks that have dominated his club sets during this mammoth North American tour.

“Throughout the whole tour there have been some tracks that I’ve played during every set and they represent the sound that I play, taken from different times of the night,” says Steve.

Here are the big five tracks of the Viva tour. Get set.

1. Nyra ‘Tongue’ (Breakout Audio)

2. Dave Aju ‘Crazy Place’ (Luciano Remix)

3. Barem ‘Seeee’ (Minus)

4. Dubfire & Oliver Huntemann ‘Dios’

5. Steve Lawler ‘Kalimba’ (R&S)

This Saturday happenings

First up, its always nice when you get a nice reviewer to club that actually knows what their talking about and this review of last Sat at kink was probably better than anything I could write up, but it captured the night perfectly. Little excerpt:
"For me personally, the night was a success. The music is simply fantastic, it is truly a great thing to hear music this good, on a sound system this clear, in a club this swish, in a city that has come so far since Tom Clark first visited. Kink has come a long way since the Arthouse, and while ‘Kink 2.0’ is like comparing XP with OSX, it is worth upgrading. With leading figures in the Australian scene having already played, names like Deepchild and Mike Callander, Scott Robertson’s vision deserves the attention of people with a passion for quality underground dance."


This Saturday KINK @ nevermind welcomes Shades of Grey playing live. The 'becoming famous' duo have being honing their skills in the studio for the past 3 years and are the founders of the well known BEEF Records also from Sydney.

Competing for local talent is the other party MIDI IN THE CITY @ The Loft UTS Bar! And seriously this is the most amount of local electronic artists I've seen in one line up with so many playing live! Well it is dedicated to people playing live so go figure! but Interesting to say the least. It also the Double EP launch of Dane Austins new label

SET TIMES FOR SATURDAY 8th NOVEMBER
Downstairs:
8: RYAN NEWSOME
9: JEREMY NOTHMAN
10: MASS STATIC [live]
11: WE'D [live]
12: DANE AUSTIN [live]
1: MARSHALL [live]
2: DAVE STUART
Upstairs:
9 : DUDE
10: PRIZE
11 : ANDOSOUND [live]
12: THE ZODIAC PROJECT [live]
1: ROYALSTON [live]
2 : OLIVER GURNEY

So if you want something special get down to both! (Say "Shorty" at the counter at KINK for discounted entry peeps!)
Get in it!

Cheer up your day....

No I'm not talking about the fact that Obama just got elected to be next president!(interesting how it may be) but look what just came up in the news for Lost Baggage in December!


tasty...
And to sweeten the deal here Audiofly live La Nocha Escabrosa

Tom Clarks set last Sat...

Photo credits: FiniK from ITM

Well last saturday Tom Clark played at kink and to be honest!? I LOVED ITTTTT...

You know when a minimal set gets into this groove? call it deep minimal or whatever you want to but it was epic! the dance floor thinned out pretty early on last Saturday so there was tones of dance space and of course the funktion one system is purrrring after being tweaked some more recently.

Anyone notice he played half his stuff on vinyl too? I reckon a lot of underground German promos for sure, it was very ' Berlin' thats for sure...I chatted to him quickly after his set and he commented on how he liked the club (nevermind) and how he finds that sometimes Sydneys crowd thin out (like last W/E) and how often though its pumping!

Also he played a suprise set a SPICE afterwards which, man, I was soooo close to getting along too but as mentioned in my prev post...sigh. Anyone else go care to comment?

One song Ive being playing recently and Tom played too, that also went down well with the other pundits was Guido Schneider and Andrea Galluzi's "Too Late" #5 in player below ;)

lack of posts, so heres another article!

Hey peeps sorry for the serious lack of posts but with exams (uni!) around the corner my life has being reduced to staring at non-sensical questions...Trust me I have a whole pile of posts in draft which are yet to be posted!

So while procrastinating I stumbled upon this interesting article from the IrishTimes called Techno: Second Coming

Not that the title surprises me its more the fact that its in the Irish Times!? I'm not sure what type of newspaper that is but could you imagine Sydney Morning Herald doing an article on Luciano coming to play in December! ha! no way! their so disconnected from Sydney music culture it would be like reporting about how someone grandmother fell ill in Russia to them! In fact last time I heard anything from them was I believe a terrible internet article on how the reporter thought trance was crap and AvB was an idiot...

The article is basically about a techno oldie who, according to them, created the genre of electronic music...but have a read

Deepchild - Donut Hound music video! (filmed @ nevermind)

Great Music video of a great night, simple, slow motion & effective + its an awesome song. Heres the interview I did after Deepchilds set;