Somehow in early 2009 everything was coming together; not just one but three top international artists coming. And first up is Austria's Eiterherd. P.P. Flo and Eiterherd are on the door, and Eiterherd is introduced to me.
I go and sit at the bar, drink some water, slowly realise that no one is going to buy me a drink tonight because they seem to be getting a steady supply to Eiterherd instead.
Softsmell, aka Rewa, is playing. I find out later it's her first solo show.
8bit Kidd I've never seen before. He plays Nintendo style music. So, not exactly hardcore, but interesting, listenable. I look over to Eiterherd to guage his reaction, and he seems to be enjoying himself. I start thinking about how interesting it must be to go to different cities and hear the kind of stuff other people are making.
Beatmeter played his usual breakcore set; I haven't ever told him, but he's good - he always plays a really solid set of premium breakcore in a way that no other DJ I've seen here does. I guess it's because he's got a good selection of vinyl that he brought over with him from the UK, or maybe because he's only a DJ, not a producer.
k5k played an awesome set, the best I've seen from him in ages. I believe this is mainly due to him playing his own material off his last album "Fakecore Fakecore Fakecore", which sounded incredible over this soundsystem. I guess that fact he was working at Whammy Bar and basically used their soundsystem to test the album while it was in production helped. To be honest it was the first time I've ever felt the bass in that venue.
Eiterherd followed k5k, and k5k turned up the volume, and it was great. Different. New. Very high quality. I danced and danced. I can see why he has this reputation; I can see why European breakcore is so much stronger than what we have here.
Incredible Hexadecibels were supposed to play, but there was some dramas with laptops or projectors or software or something and it just didn't happen all night. I sit at the bar again, drink some more water. I assume P.P. Flo was playing at this point, or maybe that was actually when Beatmeter was playing. These shows start to blur together after a while when it's always the same people. That's why it's so great to have international artists come to play here. Anyway, I'm left fully excited for the artists still to come...
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