In Belgium 2005 Journal Part Three

Day 3 Saturday
Diner at 8:00. Very nice restaurant. I had an Irish steak in mushroom sauce, a salad, fries, and two Dutch beers. The food was very, very good. I like food. Especially free food.

Along side me was Bart, Anthony Millard a dj in from London, Matt Boudin the other half of the Nighflight nights, Sofia who is Matt's girlfriend, and Ann Van De Vyver the girl in charge of all the booking for Decadance.

I'm full, time to hit the club. We arrived and set up by 10:15pm. Bart played till 1:00am. Then enter Fabrice Ligny. We gave each other a big hug and I told him I was honored, he said the same. Bart played very minimal and Fabrice stepped it up a bit. He played a lot of Detroit techno. Go figure. He also told me he was using Final Scratch and that he would of just brought his laptop if he'd known I was setting mine up. Fabrice played till 3:00am. Next was Anthony. His spot was 3:00am to 5:00am. Then it was my turn. The ole' 5 to 7 spot. Anthony stepped it up even more then Fabrice. The club was rattling and people were poring in. Anthony's style was very old school. Backspins, fader cuts, beat slamming. He was fun to watch.

5:00 AM
Things didn't start off the best. The Final Scratch hub had been plugged into a channel that was pre-amped in the mixer. This equals a psychedelic phasing distortion sound. Not good. The problem was fixed in about 30 seconds. The cable was disconnected and reconnected the proper way. Not much damage done. People were still poring in and the night was still very young by Belgian standards. I really had wanted to get on a mic and talk a little shit before I started playing but the hook-up wasn't working. So I decided to let KDJ do the shit talking for me. The first record I played was "Freaky Motha Fucker" a very "Prince like" Moodymann production with a haunting minimal techno beat and Kenny and a girl exchanging words about sexual encounters. I don't think the majority of this crowd gave two shits. The people who had been at Clues and new my music were loving every filthy part of it. I then went into an Edit I did of a very rare KDJ track, this one with a Kenny vox saying "Its so nice ya'll are drivin' thru detroit. I drive in it ya understand, everyday." Not much reaction from the majority of the crowd. So I busted out a bomb. I dropped B-OO-G-IE! Only one of the rarest best disco records of the 70's. Still no good. So I decided it was time to fuck em up. They just needed not to think. Out with the Romanthony "Trust" and "Ministry of Love". "The Orange Record" and Mood II Swing's "All Night Long". Now everyone was going off. I kept up with Cheek "Venus", Delgado's "Byrd Man's Revenge", and even the Masters At Work classic, "River Ocean, Love and Happiness." I closed with Mass Production's "Welcome to Our World" and then faded out that record and brought up nice and slow "Another Star", Stevie Wonder. The place went crazy. I ended up playing 3 hours and everyone was very happy. When I had finished I walked outside into a beautiful Belgian morning and thought to myself, "What a wonderful world."
to be continued...