PAROXYSMAL DISCHARGE » belgium http://ukiro.com Poorly filtered brain leakage Fri, 28 May 2010 19:23:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 DJ report: Belgium round III http://ukiro.com/2009/09/08/dj-report-belgium-round-iii/ http://ukiro.com/2009/09/08/dj-report-belgium-round-iii/#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 07:52:43 +0000 Ola http://ukiro.com/?p=69 I played a DJ set in Belgium this weekend, where Psykovsky and Cosmosis played live. So it was kind of big, but my morning set (I got on at 8am) got a slightly smaller crowd than last year. Nevertheless, the Belgians know how to stir up a dancefloor riot, and here’s a short glimpse of when I played my favourite track off of Filteria’s “Heliopolis” album:

I arrived just 40 minutes before I started playing, since I had to get up at 6am on Saturday to catch the flight to Brussels and hence needed to get some sleep before playing. Then I also had to jump into a cab to go straight to the airport after my gig, so I didn’t get to socialize much. Thanks however go out to Arne for booking me, Joske and Sammy for their neverending hospitality and friendliness, Philip for the record (nice to finally meet!), Matthias for buying some vinyl from me and Billy (Cosmosis) for the nice handover and for being such a nice bloke.

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A few minor technical mistakes are par for the course (I still don’t have CD players at home, so I can’t practice!) but what bugs me the most about my performance is that the buildup wasn’t as linear as I’d wanted for the last hour or so. Some tracks seemed to sound much more powerful at home than on the dancefloor, but I’ll do better next time.

There were lots of cameras around but I haven’t found any pictures. There’s a youtube clip where I’m present for all of three seconds, but there’s none of my music in there. So, if anyone from the party reads this, feel free to link to photos in the comments!

Huge thanks to Kevin and Sanne for the great organizing effort and again to Joske & Caroline for their generous hospitality. There’s got to be something in the Belgian tap water…

EDIT: Pictures here!

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