BLECH at Vinyl, Friday January 2, 1997

BLECH the warp club night set down in NYC at club Vinyl.

Got there around 10:30 - line moving very slowly - got in around
11:20 or so? Went with friends from Columbia, Jake, ALex
(different ALex), and Beth. Went in - hearing some nice trance
and techno - remembered the track Monster!!? by Planet Jazz being
played (Eye Q). Ran into Gopal, and later saw Adam Mackler, a
friend (forgetting your name! sorry), Brian Tang, and Christine
(finally we meet :) ). Later saw Noah (e.munster). I think I saw
Fluid out of the corner of my eye but that was during the
performances and didn't run into him later.

In any case, next spining some hard hard techno was Carlos Terra
- wow. Never imagined I'd see vinyl so energy packed and with
such (to my ears) good music. Haven't really heard too much hard
music in those halls. Next up was an interesting, but rough set
from Freeform. He had some great sounds -- lots of 70s sounding
stuff, but the grooves never quite sit right and it was hard to
get into. He BROKE vinyl as the power went out to his gear at one
point and people were scrabbling to get that working
again. Howeber, it was Autechre who DESTROYED the place once
again - such crazy insane amazing orgasmic beats - totally insae.
I think I liked their show (with Space Time Continuum) here last
year better, but this was still insanely good. Has anyone heard
the latest Autechre release? This performance seemed harder and
less complex than last years based on the Tri Repeatae album.

Next up spinning was Aphex Twin -- although we never saw his face
lite up in the dj booth -- but no one else would spin the
grinding strange altered tempo stuff. It was good, but believe me
he would get booted out of most dance clubs ;) I was still having
an insanely good time twirling the litesticks that Alex
bought. This is my first time really playing with them and I
never realized they were that much fun! However Vinyl was REALLLY
dark - and that helped make it easy to flail ones arms around :)

Left around 5:00am or soto some hard beats - I don't know who was
spinning at that point, but there was crazy energy going on at Vinyl.
If I wasn't planning to go to Underground Solution later tonight,
I would have joined the hectic dancing.

How was the second room? The few minutes I was there it felt
quieter and not as darker with lighter good music. Also I saw a
Hammond Organ in there - was the third live PA in the second room
anyone?

okay -- gotta hit the sack...g'night...

.\.\ichael -- sentinel