Ninjatunes Presents FUNKINFUSION at the Cooler
Monday, September 28, 1998

Wow - last night had some amazing music being spun!!

Nice to see such a large list crowd (cormac, deryck, michal,
paulh, dori, yvonne, jill, wendy is it?, anyone else?) and
despite the cooler being such a small place I'm surprised we 
actaully found each other :-) I'm surprised they didn't use a
bigger space because it could have been filled as well.

Sadly I got to the cooler late cause I was trying to meet up with
another friend, so arrived about midnight perhaps - only got to
hear the last 5 or so tracks that mixmaster got to spin. I was
surprised that he (and djs all) were spimnning on the hyper-bpm tip.
These guys are normally known as chill djs/producers. In a way I
was a bit disappointed because you don't get to hear downtemp and
chill stuff out at all, and it can b e mindwarping when down
right (reference sheldon drake's garden party a month or so ago -
but then again I didn't see anyone else there other than peter.)

In any case, a proper party would've been either twice as long
or two nights in a row to showcase both styles of djing...

In any case - the party was AMAZING - I really enjoyed what I
heard of mixmaster - his collection is amazing because he has ALL
wanna be electronic musicians around the globe sending him their
output as demos. Nice clothes as well with a vinyl (??) t-shirt.

In my opinion AmonTobin STOLE the show! Yes folks, the first
track he spun had the most AMAZING beats and basslines. And he
continued with latin-inspired tracks, jazz-inspired tracks and
some just killer drum n' bass. I agree that the PA was WAY WAY
loud - but those without earplugs should stuff them ears with
tissue paper so you can properly enjoy the magic that transpired!
I guess I might be partial to what is known as "noise" tracks.
It was funny how calm and collected Amon was when he was
spinning such insane tracks. Okay, he wasn't the best BEATmatcher
but I thought his selection of material was ear-expanding.

This is the loudest I've heard the PA pumped at the cooler, and
once in a while it is kinda cool to be so totally engulfed in sound.
However earplugs always help ;) It was sad that the sound was
very distorted however. They could've fixed that I'm sure.

Jonah Sharp had on both a cool shirt and some great jazzy tunes.
I was actaully more impressed with his vinyl selection than 
when he normally does a live PA - but his atmospheric litebpm
ambient does not do much for me.

I didn't stay out his set - but Paulh - let us know how it went, k?

Okie - time to leave work finally...See you all at the next
installment of nyc-electronic-scenterfests ;)

.\.\ichael -- sentinel

(PS: Cormac what CD did you get free?!?!? I want one!! ;) )