Tapatio. It makes me happy.
This weekend was Field Day.... which was a nice day out, but not without some massive problems. The main ones being the unbelievable queues for drinks & toilets. It was a bit of luck to be honest that no-one could buy any beer, else the toilets would have gone into complete meltdown.
The other big problem was the sound on the main stage, which was hopelessly inadequate. I'd been really looking forward to both Battles and The Aliens, but they were virtually inaudible.
Fortunately the sound was pumping in the Bugged Out tent, where 'Safe Hands' Alkan rocked the place. (a Soulwax mix of Phantom Pt 2 being a particular highlight), and we had the good sense to get down the front for Justice so that we could actually hear them.
Most people I spoke to afterwards thought they were dull, but I think that was due to the sound. It was certainly rocking hard enough where we were, and this probably saved the day to be honest.
To be fair the organisers have recognised the problems & promised to rectify them next year, but although you can add more bars and toilets, if the sound levels were cabooshed by the council there's not much you can do about it is there? Also i'm not sure what you can do about some seriously overzealous policing... a kid being cautioned for smoking a spliff, which was then sealed in an evidence bag! Someone else outside being arrested for some tiny stencil graffiti. Have they nothing better to do?
So it seemed that getting hammered on fine tequila was the order of the day after that... and can I wholeheartedly endorse firstly the Watermelon Margaritas served at Green & Red on Brick Lane. Phwoar! I can remember saying at one point that i'm never going to drink anything else again. A bit impracticle down the local boozer I think, but there's no harm in asking I suppose!
Could I also recommend this Tapatio Tequila. Damn it was good....
Excuse the pissed up photos, but it was my birthday, and we had been necking tequlia for several hours!
I heard rumours recently that Zoot Woman were going to be heading back into our conciousness, however it seems they've been beaten to it by Frankmusik, who does a great impersonation of their lush electropop on his debut EP, Frankisum.
FRANKMUSIK - MADE HER SMILE
You may be off-put by the new rave hair & glasses, but he's clearly a talented kid. This version of 'confusion girl' from the EP is a bit 'x-factor' but rather nice all the same....
An article in this weekend's Observer Music Magazine covered the 'birth of rave'... you know that tale repeated ad nauseum of how Oakenfold, Rampling, Holloway & Johnny Walker went on holiday to Ibiza, dropped a load of pills & then came home and started Shoom, Spectrum and Acid House.
Probably the figure who escapes the credit for all this raving is DJ Alfredo, whose DJ sets at Amnesia actually inspired all this. This may be redressed now however, with a new double CD mix album - 'The Original Sound of Ibiza'. Disc 1 contains a blend of glorious balearic anthems - well known stuff like Chaka Khan; Tears for Fears and Soul II Soul, alongside many lesser known gems such as this. 'Jibaro'... a blissed out bit of latin-tinged funk.
ELKIN & NELSON - JIBARO
Disc 2 is better still, especially for someone like me who can't get enough of early house & techno. There's loads of trax tunes, euro proto-industrial weirdness like Les Liasons Dangereuses, and this absolute cracker by The Residents. A tune that's supposedly a cover of a Hank Williams song, but enhanced with a Billie Jean bassline & a gloriously distorted horn section. You'll know it (it was on the 2 Many DJ's album), but perhaps didn't realise it was done by a load of blokes with eyes for heads. I'm sure I heard it spilling out of one of the tents at Field Day at some point...
THE RESIDENTS - KAW LIGA
This whole album is beautifully compiled and flawlessly mixed... and guaranteed to turn you all misty eyed & jabbering on about how it's not as good as it used to be. Ahhh, Joe Smooth's 'Promised Land' has just come on now... it really doesn't get much better than that! :-)
The other big problem was the sound on the main stage, which was hopelessly inadequate. I'd been really looking forward to both Battles and The Aliens, but they were virtually inaudible.
Fortunately the sound was pumping in the Bugged Out tent, where 'Safe Hands' Alkan rocked the place. (a Soulwax mix of Phantom Pt 2 being a particular highlight), and we had the good sense to get down the front for Justice so that we could actually hear them.
Most people I spoke to afterwards thought they were dull, but I think that was due to the sound. It was certainly rocking hard enough where we were, and this probably saved the day to be honest.
To be fair the organisers have recognised the problems & promised to rectify them next year, but although you can add more bars and toilets, if the sound levels were cabooshed by the council there's not much you can do about it is there? Also i'm not sure what you can do about some seriously overzealous policing... a kid being cautioned for smoking a spliff, which was then sealed in an evidence bag! Someone else outside being arrested for some tiny stencil graffiti. Have they nothing better to do?
So it seemed that getting hammered on fine tequila was the order of the day after that... and can I wholeheartedly endorse firstly the Watermelon Margaritas served at Green & Red on Brick Lane. Phwoar! I can remember saying at one point that i'm never going to drink anything else again. A bit impracticle down the local boozer I think, but there's no harm in asking I suppose!
Could I also recommend this Tapatio Tequila. Damn it was good....
Excuse the pissed up photos, but it was my birthday, and we had been necking tequlia for several hours!
I heard rumours recently that Zoot Woman were going to be heading back into our conciousness, however it seems they've been beaten to it by Frankmusik, who does a great impersonation of their lush electropop on his debut EP, Frankisum.
FRANKMUSIK - MADE HER SMILE
You may be off-put by the new rave hair & glasses, but he's clearly a talented kid. This version of 'confusion girl' from the EP is a bit 'x-factor' but rather nice all the same....
An article in this weekend's Observer Music Magazine covered the 'birth of rave'... you know that tale repeated ad nauseum of how Oakenfold, Rampling, Holloway & Johnny Walker went on holiday to Ibiza, dropped a load of pills & then came home and started Shoom, Spectrum and Acid House.
Probably the figure who escapes the credit for all this raving is DJ Alfredo, whose DJ sets at Amnesia actually inspired all this. This may be redressed now however, with a new double CD mix album - 'The Original Sound of Ibiza'. Disc 1 contains a blend of glorious balearic anthems - well known stuff like Chaka Khan; Tears for Fears and Soul II Soul, alongside many lesser known gems such as this. 'Jibaro'... a blissed out bit of latin-tinged funk.
ELKIN & NELSON - JIBARO
Disc 2 is better still, especially for someone like me who can't get enough of early house & techno. There's loads of trax tunes, euro proto-industrial weirdness like Les Liasons Dangereuses, and this absolute cracker by The Residents. A tune that's supposedly a cover of a Hank Williams song, but enhanced with a Billie Jean bassline & a gloriously distorted horn section. You'll know it (it was on the 2 Many DJ's album), but perhaps didn't realise it was done by a load of blokes with eyes for heads. I'm sure I heard it spilling out of one of the tents at Field Day at some point...
THE RESIDENTS - KAW LIGA
This whole album is beautifully compiled and flawlessly mixed... and guaranteed to turn you all misty eyed & jabbering on about how it's not as good as it used to be. Ahhh, Joe Smooth's 'Promised Land' has just come on now... it really doesn't get much better than that! :-)
posted by headphonesex @ 1:20 AM
