Saint Patrick's Day blizzard: a Montreal tradition

It's so guys have plenty of fresh snow to pee four-leaf clovers in.

Meanwhile: BOOKA SHADE TONIGHT. I do have tickets - had to trawl Tranceaddicts to figure out where and when they were going on sale. >_>

Speaking of which, MUTEK 2007 lineup. Mayer + Wighnomy + Boratto + Aguayo +++ *flails*. Here's hoping Villalobos and the Minimalicious Krew play the Piknic again (and that the weather is good).

I also may have found out about Daft Punk's August show just in time to score tics in the red (with smurfmatic). Did I mention I hate the Bell Centre.

EDIT -- Randomly, I found a video from last year's MUTEK that shows the pink stuff Hawtinbos were guzzling. Hot pink, not cranberry mixers. It stayed in my mind as the perfect stylistic touch, somehow. XD;

Friday is the fever / and Monday the destroyer

Whereas this is mp3 blogging relating to events two Saturdays ago. XD I have an unfinished post canned from that Monday detailing how there was a massive blizzard Friday (March 2) and work let out early, T and I went shopping and then to Talal's birthday dinner at the Maharaja, etc. The others actually went clubbing, I begged off because of the all-nighter going down the next day.

March 3 was fairly epic, seemingly every young and healthy individual in Montreal turned out onto the streets. Met Ced and Tania for coffee/exhibit at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (the giant tearaway notepads were memorable; have to ask T what happened to those XD), then picked up Andrew and wended over to Metropolis with a stop for coffee - at which point we met Ced again with a dude from anime club I hadn't seen in about seven years. XD Then it was Nuit Electronik, which was wall-to-wall packed. One of the forum peeps estimated 850 people (including she who will go down in anecdotal history as GHB Girl, and cohorts). Afterhours crowd, SAT electro crowd, who knows. The chemical palette was broad. =_= The sound was great, as it tends to be for Metropolis electronica shows.

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence (Richard X Extended Mix): Koze played this at 2:40AM by my notes - it was an eclectic set, all unidentifiable Hot Chip remixes and SUDDENLY DRUM & BASS. And a Voigt track I can hear in my head right now but still can't put a name to, so it's not uploaded. =_= Mixing was a bit rocky but selection was super fun.

Mayer/Aguayo - Slow: an oddity, because I'm sure Holden played it, not Koze - but I'm dead certain that at one point in Koze's set I heard two bars' worth of "Lovefood", and the only way that could've happened is if he'd been seguing into "Slow" instead. XD; So either he was using it as a transition and it gave Holden the idea to play it, or my memory is more shot than usual.

Gui Boratto - Arquipelago: yet more singalongs ahaha. It's a problem I have.

Egoexpress - Live At Sirius Prime: Holden was dark and epic and 120% brilliant. I literally flirted with dehydration because I didn't want to leave the dancefloor long enough to get water. XD;

Depeche Mode - The Darkest Star (James Holden Dub)
Nathan Fake - Charlie's House (Apparat Remix)
Nathan Fake - The Sky Was Pink (James Holden Remix)

3AM-6AM is a perfect time slot for the Border Community style IMO. One trance track dropped like a starburst at 5AM before and after three hours of minimal darkness beats trance-all-night for pure euphoria. (Check 7:50 of this video [1] - if anyone can ID it for me I'll ♥ you forever.) On the flip side, it was a bit samey. XD;; I say this in the most complimentary way possible, i.e. throughout the whole set I kept imagining I was hearing "The Sky Was Pink", which is one of my favorite tracks and one of the best the genre has to offer, period.

Oh, and:

Apparat - Montreal: operatic electro breakbeat recorded live, bpitch style. I had to ask one of the nodding trainspotters what this was called. Then I bought it off Beatport ahaha. At 5AM over a club soundsystem I heard a vocoded voice four minutes in chanting "Montreal, Montreal, Montreal"; somewhat unnervingly, this is not at all what it sounds like under sober daylight conditions. XD;

I'll be uploading more mp3s once I get back from Booka Shade, no doubt. There's also a massive bookblog to be done of everything I read over that weekend.


[1] Actually I was a few feet away when this dude was up in Holden's face for ten minutes with his credit-card-sized camera, I just didn't expect the resultant Youtube clip to be ten minutes long as well. XD;