me_lindsay wrote:
Having a glance at each's screens at some point during the night/s was only a small priority. Sasha's set in my opinion (however biased that may or may not be) was awesome. Good tunes, lots of stuff going on (I'm sure due to hard dedicated work by producers, rather than sasha) and kept my attention/me dancing for the marjority of the 3 hr set he played.
Perhaps a divide can be drawn between sasha/hawtin in terms of who dj's and who performs using live to it's utmost.
thoughts?
But Sasha's not even DJing. I mean, beatmatching records is such a simple skill I taught my 71 year old mom to do it (admittedly she was 68 at the time). It took her less than three sessions with me to mix records well enough to play out. But this Sasha clown isn't even doing that!!! Sure, he kept you dancing, so could somebody's ipod. The issue isn't the merit of the music (that's the producer's credit as you admit yourself) but the the performance. and in Sasha's case, this fucking parasite isn't worthy to step on any stage without a gallows on it.
montrealbreaks wrote:EDIT:OK, admittedly that last bit was overstatement. I in no way actually think that he deserves the gallows (nor should operate one)
Honestly!!! I STILL haven't heard one of this dude's sets, I've only ever heard the name Sasha mentioned "around" for the last ten years or so - but this old dog's tired and lazy. I never had an opinion on him until I started reading this forum.
What's the point of this rant? I mean, SO WHAT if he plays "good tunes". If you're into trance, at least go see a trance performer who's actually performing, not being a human ipod. I don't know my head from my ass about trance, but I hear that both Infected Mushroom and DeepSky are killer shows.
As far as Hawtin goes, I don't really care about Techno, and even less for minimal techno. The sound either drives me batty or bores me. That said, I would be genuinely honoured to look over that man's shoulder for five minutes, and to thank him afterwards.