Date: Sun, 5 Feb 1995 22:27:16 GMT


The space was great, well set up. The lights downstairs were *VERY*
annoying though, 5 minutes under that strobe and it started to drive
you nuts, the red light wasn't any better. A chill-out room should have
a more peacefull atmosphere. Kill those lights, and just the monitors
(which had excellent trip-graphics) would have been perfect.

Music was excellent. Though I think too hard core in places. The long
jungle set (2 DJ's back to back I believe) between 1-3 drove many
people off.  Even many ravers don't like jungle (too hard, too fast),
so you can't expect the many non-ravers who showed up to be able to
tolerate it.

This is important, as considering the raver population in KW, and the
general mandate of the club I think we should try to make the music at
our events more accessible. I believe this is possible without stooping
to lowest-common denominatorism, forcing DJ's to play crap because the
audience asks for it. As always in life a zen ballance is required :).


One suggestion I have for the future is that the club should run a
lemonade/iced-tea/gatorade stand. This would give us a spot to display
info about the club, gather & hang out and possibly make a little
money.


Thanks to Stephen for a great set. Don't forget about us when you get
famous and rich :).


Victor "See you all at the next one, i.e. hopefully soon, hope
you all like your T-shirts" W.


......James Thai replies......

Date: Mon, 6 Feb 1995 04:37:50 GMT

In article <D3Jt1G.K7t@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
Victor Wiewiorowski <wwiewior@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>
>The space was great, well set up. The lights downstairs were *VERY*
>annoying though, 5 minutes under that strobe and it started to drive
>you nuts, the red light wasn't any better. A chill-out room should have
>a more peacefull atmosphere. Kill those lights, and just the monitors
>(which had excellent trip-graphics) would have been perfect.

Well, I thought he red light was ok. but yeah, the strobe was really 
annoying.  I don't see how anyone cal like those things..

>
>Music was excellent. Though I think too hard core in places. The long
>jungle set (2 DJ's back to back I believe) between 1-3 drove many
>people off.  Even many ravers don't like jungle (too hard, too fast),
>so you can't expect the many non-ravers who showed up to be able to
>tolerate it.

Well, as much as I love jungle, it does get rather tiring trying to dance 
to it for two hours.  See! We should have broken it up.. oh well.

>
>This is important, as considering the raver population in KW, and the
>general mandate of the club I think we should try to make the music at
>our events more accessible. I believe this is possible without stooping
>to lowest-common denominatorism, forcing DJ's to play crap because the
>audience asks for it. As always in life a zen ballance is required :).
>

I thought that the music we're promoting was qutie well represented.  We 
had what, jungle, progressive, trance, hard trance, ambient, techno.  
What did we miss?  Rotterdam?  Hehe.. that would have scared everyone off 
for sure.  I don't see why we should try to make it more accessible, 
because this is what we're representing.  Although drawing more people 
would have been nice..

James.
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