Substation, Feb 7, 1997, NYC

Well Substation took place NOT at a con-ed substation but at Andy
Warhol's third "Factory", in commenoration of the 10th
anniversary of his death. It was weird none of this was announced
or listed as part of the promotion of the party. Maybe that's
called good cameflague, I don't know. ANyway, I thought it was a
great time :) DOes anyone know what this space is used for
normally? Is it a gallery of sorts or what?

Soundlab seems to do excellent jobs at all of their parties. Got
there about 12:30, and explored for a while - the next time I
looked at my watch it was 2:00am - wow it WAS really crowded if
it took that long to get from room to room. The crowds didn't
leave until 3:30ish or 4ish it seemed and that was a bit of a
bummer. While there WERE many rooms, they were connected by the
smallest of passageways and stairways. The music was excellent in
the jungle and techno rooms, and I just chilled for a while in
the room off the techno room where there was a window open - it
seemed like a whole lot of netters just randomly met there around
2:30ish - that was fun!

Now while it was crowded crowded, people were generally friendly
and non-agressive and that made for an interesting vibe
considering I didn't run into many attitudes at all. This was
clearly NOT a rave, but I think the tightness of the space is
what defined that more than say the variety of people - although
it was a huge different mismash of individuals. THis was a party
where, if you found a space to dance, you grabbed it and OWNED it
for the night - although ventilation was a bit of a problem.

DIdn't see that many computer software or performance artist
setups tho, the puppet in the ambient room on floor 1 was cool tho.
Did anyone have any of the food? Comments on that?

Sorry if this seems like a negative review since I actually quite
enjoyed the party :) TONs of you there, that was fun. :) Sad I
missed both Anthony's and Sheldon's sets tho - but I had to jet
before you guys came on. Although it was nice to be in a NEW
space, the soundlab folks should either just stick to SMALL
places and sell appropiately (they should've only sold advance
tickets), or take on the hugh places like the anchorage. I could
see how it would have been easy to have gotten clasterphobic in
that space.

While sadly there wasn't much work done on lighting (basically
the house lights were on or off, that was it) but the projections
were nice, and the globe in the jungle room (Andy's Workshop
according to the map) immediately caught ones attention on
entering the room.

Ah well - only wish the folks running the gig would've stuck to
limitied tickets - but maybe someone else will do so and use the
space more effectively in the future.

.\.\ichael -- sentinel