mars Posted June 9, 2002 Share Posted June 9, 2002 This Elephant'om party was in fact filled with BooM Records artists. So it was planned ot be outdoors but the uncertain weather conditions made it that we gathered in the caves of a castle pretty far from paris.... i couldn't dance due to a wounded leg/foot so i took the time to visit. the place was incredible : first a big dancefloor like a "L" with the djs/acts in the corner, then a few meters of catacombs, then a long dedalus of caves and small rooms on the left and on the right. some of those rooms were used for stands, bars, others were corners with the main room's sound in it, or simply silent and black, and the last one was a small circular chillout with its own soundsystem. really relaxing. i said hello to many people, put our flyers everywhere and listened : - (Zephyr had played before we arrived) - i don't know the name of the dj that played then, but it was pretty psychotic...too hard for the begining of the night i think. - then Zendaï played : mostly Alien Project / Logic Bomb stuff. Conventional but good. .....and after that, this was the typical style of parties you Belgian people would have loved : - Battle of the Future Buddhas replaced Fractal Glider, originally on the lineup. The Buddhas are totally unknown in france but people won't forget them : they played truly psycho music during 90 mins. it was heavy with lots of psychedelic breaks and melodies..the guys were moving a lot, people enjoyed and shouted. BOTFB sound is not really clear but it gave a very cool touch of underground that made people dancing. hell !! during their act i spoke a bit with MattBoom. I had seen him in Antwerp once. He told me he liked our compil, and......(you'll read later) - at the end of the act, there was a very very linear track. People landed and MattBooM could play all his crazy stuff...it was very very psychedelic. Actually the most psychedelic stuff he has at the moment. so Teleport remix, Come on remix, some Alien projects remixes, Fractal Glider's Chasing Ganesha remix, etc, etc, etc...rhaaaaa..people became nuts !!!! near the end of his set, i was standing in the middle of the dancefloor, amazed by the wonderful ambiance, and a new track started. my friend Ben told me "this is on out compilation"....and indeed i recognized Agalactica's Awkward Lightrate !! with the huge soundsystem we had in those caves, the track sounded like some infected. (actually Matt had told me he would play it because he thought it was awesome. so if you Agalactica guys read me, know that MattBoom plays your track a lot !).... People became nuts again and i was happy. after that Matt could play whatever he wanted, people were mindblown ! The set ended on some pure psy stuff again. we though the climax of the party had passed....but NO ! - Rastaliens started their live act : the first track was a very good psychedelic stomper, people started to smile...and you know what ? it was the least good track of the act ! E.v.e.r.y. single track was a shock. The track were filled with psychedelic sounds, *all the time*, sometimes it sounded like some Infected Mushroom's. The technical acheivement of these guys is incredible. It was SO great ! i was with good friends speaking about their equipment and music and we noticed they played directly some melody on the keyboard (!!!) and that many of the sounds we could hear were really generated realtime by the synths. We were blown away ! you can't imagine....i even tried to dance. The dancefloor was still filled and it was 8AM when they stopped and were applaused. - After that, we had Franco and some other guy from SubMachine records, and they played really minimalistic stuff (mainly MOS). people were hot enough to dance on anything and the party went on. i left because my leg was too painful. So if you Boom records guys read me, i can tell you you did the job 100% well and i think Paris people won't forget you overnight !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest AgalactiA Posted June 9, 2002 Share Posted June 9, 2002 hehe I'm very happy my track is being played somewhere out there Thanx for these wonderful news ...... Philip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars Posted June 9, 2002 Share Posted June 9, 2002 wow you replied 4 minutes after my post ! i forgot to say that when we left, all of the flyers for our party had disappeared. When we arrived my friends thought i had brought too many flyers with me, but there were not enough....this is a good sign )) i'll give a big part of the rest to Roopak for that party in which he'll play next week end in paris, and i'll put the last ones in techno import....hmmm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest artex Posted June 9, 2002 Share Posted June 9, 2002 C'est quand la prochaine party sur paris, à part gaïa ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars Posted June 9, 2002 Share Posted June 9, 2002 answer in english : next party in paris : Astralys, june 15 : http://chillout.shop.free.fr/flyers/astralys2.jpg and don't forget out launch party : click here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest artex Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 Thanx fellow Parisien ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mars Posted June 11, 2002 Share Posted June 11, 2002 hmm no : "fellow Bordelais living in Paris" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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