So anyway, some random chick named Karina contacted me through discogs asking about the Auckland breakcore scene. And then on this same day Anti-Kati were contacting me saying that Hrvatski was playing and I should come. So as I was riding the bus into town to meet Anti-Kati I was texting this Karina and telling her about this show, but it turned out she worked at the venue and already knew.
I met Anti-Kati on Symonds Street, and they gave me some beer and we walked down to AUT and found somewhere quiet to smoke and drink and talk. Then we walked down to the venue. It was in a side room of the St James, and we arrived just in time for the Keith Fulerton Whitman set to be starting. We scored a spot down the front. This room was like carpeted, and people were sitting and lying on the floor.
We chilled out, let the noise wash over us. When you were lying on the floor you could feel the bass under you, while the high frequencies floated above you. It was quite magical.
After he had finished, he invited all interested audio geeks to come and check out his equipment and he talked to them for a while. We texted Karina, to meet up with her. Word was Keith was heading up to the Wine Cellar to play a show as Hrvatski. She was already on her way there, but came back to meet us. We walked up Queen St together.
I have a feeling she was also headed up there anyway to see Fandaby Dozi play, my memory is hazy but I'm pretty sure this was the night we met him. Anyway, Hrvatski played a short set off his laptop. Me and slypussy did some dancing. It was over too soon really.
Then slypussy tells me that Koil is running his goth-EBM-industrial-hardtekno night called Elektrode just up the road at Ibiza, and we should check it out, because there is a lot of black-light-glow-in-the-dark cybergoths there, and they play hardkore tekno there. It turns out that the real reason he wants to go there is to see the DJ, hot goth chick Nina RK.
We go into Ibiza, and they're playing like Vengaboys and stuff, and me and slypussy bump and grind for a bit. There's no sign of the Elektrode night. We go back to the Wine Cellar to look for k5k, but it's all over, so we go to K' Road Ballroom, and slypussy buys us some beer, and there's a jukebox that costs no money, so we queue up some music like Wham!, and then before we leave we queue up a bunch of Alanis Morisette and shit like that, for some other suckers to have to listen to.
We head back to Ibiza and work out that there's an upstairs, and we blag our way in without paying by saying we're just looking for our mate k5k, and there's only about 10 people there, and Nina RK is playing some hardcore tekno, CoretexLabs kinda stuff appearantly, and me and slypussy bump and grind some more with the about 3 other people on the dancefloor.
and eventually it's all over.
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