- A.L.X. 1138

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- Grande mochafrappacino and a fudge brownie, mate

- Look!.. Vibert!!!!!!!

Woah what an amazing night!!!! Just zactly what the doctor ordered. A night of pure quality electronica from one of the masters - mr Luke Vibert.

12 min, 25M Video montage..

http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=CB2B37F64BA8BD4E









The gals had a bloody blast too and we boogied all night long - me donning my home-made pusher t-shirt!! Sabrina and Caro were the best company ever.. viva France!!






The venue was as good a place as you could ask for for a night like this - just the right size and capacity - Newtowns RSL club at the 10th anniversary Frigid rave. For some bizarre reason we had to become temp members for the night an dthey required ID off us with our home addresses on it. Yeh right... i pleeded "just offf the plane" syndrom and the real nice lady bouncer gave me a motherly pat on the face saying "now we won;t forget next time will we?". She was well cool.





All was happening upstairs and we found ourselves in a smoke-free tripped out club with a more than decent laser system and massive visual screens sort of weirdly overlapping in th emain room. The bar was never too crowded and the small secondary room had a killer bass system that suited the jungle/reggae-techno being played there. We hung around there till LV came on at 1145pm then got soem more Vodkas' and Orange and went to see the acid maistro do his thing.






Vibert played enough Squarepusher, Aphex, Ceephax and his own stuff to keep me going for ages. It's what he did with those tunes that was incrdeible too... here comes the nerdy bit: Early on he played here Aphex's "Alberta balsam" which was amazing to hear at a club. This slow groove part was peppered with plenty of lush vibert tracks and when "i love acid" was brought in the crowd was well and truly settled into the night. In his faster mode, about half way through, he played some Squarepusher "Selection 16" cuts - he ALWAYS does actually... every time i've seen him play. Then came soem Analogue Bubblebath tracks and a good few Wagonchrist ones too. I was hoping for soem of his jungle choons but i guess they wouldn';t have really fit in tom his set










The best was yet to come though when he slipped the last half hour into what i can only describe as full on acid-gabba. Yes, you heard me - acid gabba!!!!! It was't hard at all but light and fluffy and very spine-tingling but god-damn fast and relentless. The golden moment was when he mixed Ceephax's Rough Acid version of Prelude in 303 Major.mp3 available http://www.ceephax.co.uk/Music.htm with a cut-up version of Aphex's unreleased "complicated mathimatical equation" song that features in those circa '97 livesets. This was the freshest and lushest music i have heard in ages - a new sound from London - again!







The Frigid DJ's guys then came played a blinding closing set of gescom-type electro/techno and we partied some more. Luke walked by us and of course i shook the mans hand off him and regretted not having a minidisc of my own stuff (comin soon!) to wedge into his pocket!



The night was topped off by our taxi ride home with The Nicest Cab Driver Ever, a chap from Bali with a huge afro, and irish wife - he's been to the old sod 6 times, and photos of the cutest afro/irish kids you ever saw.

Pure fecking mexico.