Biased or not Robot Soap on Saturday was probably one of the most fun ones we've done. All in the name of Elliot Smith AKA Expo84's Birthday.
We changed the formula a little bit and didn't really have set, set times and it really worked, Paulo T, Correct Effect and I warmed things up slowly with a bit of minimal, tech house type stuff playing one on off. It worked really well, Paulo T and rob on a CDJ and me in the middle with some proper turntable action!
Things started getting heavy around 9pm and the basement was quickly becoming quite rammed with bodies starting to move. I left Rob and Paulo to it for a bit while I prepared to play my first ever laptop set, using Traktor 3.
I settled in nicely after a couple of minutes of nerves and really enjoyed it. The room of people bouncing around said that I was doing alright too.
By the time I'd finished playing the room was going crazy, everyone dancing and making a racket. I quickly joined them! from then on it all gets a bit hazy from too much alcohol and dancing. The atmosphere was electric though, everyone was at exactly the same place at the right time.
Sometime's its astounding to think about, but I love the fact that all we did was turn all the lights off and pump up the jams in an old beer cellar and then we had this wicked little rave going on.
Elliot's set was pretty special, taking to the decks for the last hour he did Robot Soap by playing a riotous party set with old and new sampled and cut up all over the place. It really was 'lovely stuff' (Not my words, the words of shakin' stevens!)
Elliot finished to a whole load of cheers which was followed on by a racket of a chorus singing 'Happy Birthday'
I'll post the videos from facebook once I work out how to get them off there and onto here!
My Top Five Tunes of the night:
Bizarre Inc. - Playin With Knives (L-VIS 1990 B.More Mix) - Sorry I can't find a link for that remix!
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