seven

it became a tradition, an end of the year showcase by "seven" dj team, where we play a carefully chosen mix of the best and the latest material, as well as some obscure "classics".

we provide the music for over a thousand people in the biggest night club in the city. there are multiple rooms with djs, performers, merhandise booths, art shows, live bands, body art/modification, costume contests. we run the lights, the fog (and lots of it!), and play standalone sets as well as music for some performances.

while we would never succeed as djs for the "regular" club night (sheer apathy of people that after a few drinks only want to hear the same material over and over again, which leads to our favorites being "worn out" by overplaying them, plus the need to compromise in order to "keep" the floor, plus the fact that this music needs an adequate soundsystem to sound "right"), it is a whole different story playing for the special "events". they do call for a bit of compromise, but only in terms of "thematic" consistency. we agree to play music suited to the occasion, carefully chosen (we spent a few days working together, and a few days before that gathering material). there needs to be a room for dancing, a room for moody atmosphere, but above all, a sensibility for the (tasteful) extreme, an intense sensory overload - be it the sleaziness of electro, or the harshness of rhythmic noise, or the constrasts between the two. this is the underlying feel of the whole night, and we do our best to match it.

what follows is (slightly) annotated playlist; the whole experience is very personal - the most appealing for us is the chance to properly hear the music we like, hence the nature of the comments. of course, a lot of material below has been reviewed on "seven" at some point.

[8:30PM - doors open]

opened up slowly with eerie synths and subtle rhythms. then gradually moved into organic, almost acoustic tribal tracks. the intensity slowly building up (ritualistic herbst9, bizarre contagious orgasm, tightly controlled explosiveness of cyclotimia, then brooding squaremeter, hypnotic hybryds, tribal drive of arbre noir and the pinnacle of the set - bad sector with beats (!) slowly dissolving into grinding, shuddering ambience of predominance), and then, since the crowd filled up the main room, slow buildup by tmo, then more tribal material by imminent/silk saw and xabec, then unstoppable overdrive by mika, juno reactor, and gradual transition from tribal trance into stomping industrial - spies, 5F_55, slowing things down with empusae, then mimetic's october 1993 russian samples (notice the timing - almost exactly 10 years later), grittiness of orphx, stomping rhythmic ebm of converter perfectly matched by yelworc, building up to herman's abrasiveness and finally, imminent - a wall of sound, squealing, screeching unstoppable avalanche of beats and twisted synths). we kept running down to the floor on as many tracks as we could, cherishing this moments of *perfect* sound - speakers above and on all sides, a huge space filled with sound.

tangerine dream - main title - sorcerer - mca

jean michel jarre - oxygene (part III) - oxygene - dreyfus

first law - a generation wasted - refusal as attitude - loki

herbst9 - bloodmoon ritual - consulamentum - loki

contagious orgasm - firewalker... the age of the rhythm - cause of the flow - ant-zen

cyclotimia - morphology - wasteland - stateart

squaremeter - the cry of morgoth - war of sound - ant-zen

hybryds - pain - lustt - spectre

arbre noir - protoplasma - overflow - polymorph

bad sector - droinate - planar energy - small voices

predominance - under the blackened sun - hindenburg (re-release) - loki

this morn' omina - ophiuchus - le serpent rouge - ant-zen

this morn' omina - sagittarius - le serpent rouge - ant-zen

xabec - dark time rising - electric mandala: pulses - hands

rob(u)rang & friends - tr(i)hhem robofull (imminent rmx) - rob(u)rang & friends - ant-zen

this morn' omina - shiftwind - cyclops 1 - spectre

juno reactor - badimo - shango - metropolis

spies - wide shot - wide shot - aurinco

5F_55 - track 2 - II - hands

roger rotor - drown delay - daruma - ant-zen

empusae - god - funestus - divine comedy

mimetic field - overrule (decision) - overrated - moloko

orphx - pre-dawn haze - daruma - ant-zen

converter - shock front - shock front - ant-zen

yelworc - triune junction - proven in action - first aid

ah cama-sotz - vucub cacuix - 10 years bat vibez - hands

imminent starvation - tentac one - north - hymen

[10:10PM - dance performance]

mimetic - zany - data_sensitive - parametric

[10:50PM - live band]

[11:45PM - costume contest]

started playing music on the background, slowed down and muffled, then gradually building up the "sleaziness".

squadra blanco - theme from the forgotten cable car - night of the illuminati - holosynthesis

dopplereffekt - z-boson - z-boson/meuon-neutrino - gigolo

the omni incentive - a2 - creme eclipse 01 - creme eclipse

legowelt - visions fade - wirtschaftswunder - bunker

bangkok impact - aus birgittes tagebuch - bangkok impact - traveller - creme

FPU - time safari - traxxdata - turbo

legowelt - 2002 - disco nouveau addendum - ghostly

dot allison - substance - substance - mantra recordings

bangkok impact - aspirin - frisky disco mix - creme

felix da housecat - happy hour - kittenz and thee glitz - emperor norton

macho cat garage - on a night train - freedom for the macho cat - viewlexx

giorgio moroder - the chase - midnight express - polygram

alden tyrell - love explosion (vox) - love explosion - viewlexx

[12:45AM - live band/suspensions/flesh pulls]

the crowd was properly disturbed and warmed up after all the body modifications, so we played the set that served as a background for continuing "anatomy" performances and dance floor. a bit of technoid touch at first (oil10, asphalt), then gritty, rusty crunchiness of mata, then an excellent (and the only really good track on the new album) synth-etik, then pure danceable energy of sina, overwhelming intensity of antigen shift (those shuddering bass drops - as if heavy *physical* blows - followed by crumbling, piercing, pummeling noise), even more increasing speed and intensity by pneumatic detach, the finish line, the last breath - pure beats - by manufactura, and a welcome escape, a release of all this energy into sheer madness of japanese gabber and demented recycled pop mashup, an attack on all senses, fading into twisted complex mass of somatix.

asphalt - dark dreams - belio:cd:war - hymen

oil10 - lost in metropolis - arena - brume

celluloid mata - rhizome - invasion of - noise museum

synth-etik - dimensional construct - dimensional construct - hands

sina - strong ahead - back in stereo - hands

antigen shift - blunt force trauma - implicit structures - frozen empire media

pneumatic detach - untitled (C2 remix) - pareses reinfected - hiv

wumpscut - war combattery (fixed) - mesner tracks - metropolis

pneumatic detach - drill - cybonetix2002 - dsbp

manufactura - sacred sin - regression - auricle media

sonic dragolgo - don't stop the music - don't stop the music - klangkrieg

tarmvred - 8 - viva - ad noiseam

somatic responses - rwy eisiau dy gariad - touching the void - hymen

[1:50AM - live band]