British techno pioneer Ben Sims Tweeted about the thorny topic of what track to play as the absolute last record of the night, this week, and revealed an unexpected passion for classic New York disco.
“Yes I did purposely play a re-edit of Dan Hartman’s Relight My Fire- (NOT THE TAKE THAT VERSION-“ he Tweeted, “So you'd finally go home. It worked.”
Chatting to Skrufff about how he finishes sets, Italian house and tech star Dusty Kid revealed one of his favourite last records of the night is Vortex’s Final Exposure, the hardcore classic produced by Joey Beltram , Mundo Muzique , Richie Hawtin in 1991. He admitted, however, that the diabolically noisy rave anthem provokes mixed reactions.
“I played it to close a set in Japan once and the crowd went completely nuts,” he said, “but strangely enough it was also my most disastrous last track once too. I played it soon after in a club in my hometown in Italy expecting the same reaction and people HATED it: they were shocked,” he laughed.
Great Stuff supremo Rainer Weichhold revealed his also favours hardcore classics (‘Rockers Hi-Fi’s 'Push Push' is always a smasher’, he said) though added that he’s more than happy to tease the crowd.
“People basically want- and demand- another banging track but I prefer to bring in a Dean Martin song instead. Which means I’m prepared for loud booing but I don’t care,” he chuckled. “I want to send people home with a nice melody or song which should stay in their head on their way to bed.”
Progressive house type Paolo Mojo was more circumspect insisting he’s always entirely spontaneous on last tracks.
“I tend to play fairly diversely within my sets anyway so its not like I play 3 hours of dubby tech house and then finish off with Kylie Minogue- although there’s an idea,” said Paolo.
“I dislike however, the idea of playing something that’s 'wacky' for the sake of it,” he continued, ‘it all depends on what you’ve played for the last three or four hours”.
While Rainer said he’s never experienced the situation of playing one more track when police were trying to shut down the party, both Paulo and Dusty Kid had problems, with Dusty Kid ending up in the cells in Italy.
“It happened in my home town a few years ago when we did an open air New Years Eve party,” he recalled.
“The police arrived and demanded we turn down the volume- but not off- and I was drunk and the people at the front of the stage were completely crazy and screaming about the music.”
“So I told the cops I was unable to change the volume because of the crowd, then the crowd realised what the cops were doing and started screaming like hell. The cops then got really pissed off and asked me for my ID but I’d given them a fake name and when they realised, they hauled me down to the police station.”
Paolo Mojo had a luckier escape: in India.
“My set was stopped by police when I was playing in Ahmedabad earlier this year and I was being told to carry on as the police were standing right in front of me,” he said.
“I ended up being confronted by three police officers with guns and nightsticks who were shining torches in my face and ordering me to stop, I only narrowly avoided spending the night in a Gururati jail,” he shuddered.
http://bit.ly/2FYmCf (Vortex: Final Exposure)
http://bit.ly/bB7Cw (Rocker’s Hi-Fi: Push Push)
