The Lexxus wrote:Headhunter and I played there a few months back...
such an awesome venue, great sound, the nicest people...
bratislava is just a sweet place in general...
can't wait to go back next year!!
so true! wicked crowd, you can pick up 3 pints at the bar and stumble across the most crowded dancefloor without spilling any drop! in vienna you usually can't even leave the bar with a cluster of people pushing from behind
some thoughts after 3hrs of sleep in the afternoon...
mirtez was in the middle of his set when we arrived, playing mostly his own tunes i suppose... didn't know ANY of the tunes, but some of them were just pure killers! dunno the name of the dj afterwards, maybe any1 knows? huge set, starting off with some dubstep and constantly moving towards grime, not without throwing some sick scratching skills in the mix at times - without overdoing it. haven't seen such scratching in a while - except lexxus of course hehe

next dj had a classic selection of tunes by dmz, hyperdub and skream, balancing hits with deeper stuff quite nicely. unfortunately he seemed quite drunk as his mixing was not good at all

hm, that can happen is guess. as an intro for the main-act it still wasn't too bad
ok, then goth-trad... KILLER SET! can't remember a live act of similar intensity, maybe kode 9 & the spaceape, although the sets are hard to compare. incredible how he puts all those layers on top of each other. structurally it reminded me of a set by digital dubs soundsystem i saw two weeks ago, which was nice... however, goth-trad takes it WAY FURTHER. delay, echo & reverb are not just nice effects, but they build up a huge wall of sound which - in combination with the subbass - builds up a concrete foundation as basis. on top of this, he piles layer after layer, sometime crumbles just one sound, sometimes he crumbles the whole wall and leaves just a bass-drone standing in the room. impressive as well the way he managed to keep the tension over the whole concert. in the end, people were just mad! those who missed it can maybe get a clue at his brief live-set at the
boomnoise & pokes show, although his stuff seems just made for public live-concerts as - especially in goth-trad's case - a canned recording can hardly carry the intensity of the triangle artist-crowd-sound
after that side 9000 b2b ans had the quite difficult task to take over... heaps of dubs as well, often a bit too dark, stomping and in a strange way rnb-ish for me personally though. however still a quality set, and considering having to play after such a fabulous concert... so big ups beyond personal flavor-preferences
plus in general...
- the soundsystem was really good
- the venue is amazing indeed
- staff is super-friendly as well, haven't met such patient bouncers in a while haha
- lightning was way too bright, the red & green neon in front of the stage sort of burnt my pupils

and the moving light was all colors and very hectic... hm
all in all.... WHAT A NIGHT!!!

all styles represented!
big respect to everyone involved!!!!!!!!!
+ big up the bratislava crowd!!