The Music was absolute garbage this weekend

[Skylizard]

And then heres another thread to once again voice your anger over how shite the music was from the weekend. If you post here try be constructive as well as critical, tell the DJ what you disliked and hopefully he\she can look to changing his set, making it a better experiance for all

If you know the DJs name put it in .

[lillyxxxo]

I totaly agree the music from saturday was not all that, most of the people seemed to be just standing around waiting 4it 2get better. Also dont mean to sound funny but there seemed to b a lot of children there i felt at one point that i was at a school disco :? in the end i left early around 3 :cry: a bit dissapointed but hey i will be going again lets just hope its a lot better.

[Guy13]

I totaly agree the music from saturday was not all that, most of the people seemed to be just standing around waiting 4it 2get better. Also dont mean to sound funny but there seemed to b a lot of children there i felt at one point that i was at a school disco :? in the end i left early around 3 :cry: a bit dissapointed but hey i will be going again lets just hope its a lot better.

The last couple of weeks, the music has, at odd intervals, been dire. It's Slimes, people, not The Ministry of Sound!

[snoww_wwhite]

right, i might cause a big stink again by writing this but i am not here to flatter anyone's ego, or to entertain the people who might be bored with complaints about the music....

... so if you are bored with this type of comment... go skip this one and we will both be happier for it!!!


to whom it may concern

i felt the music was not satisfactory this weekend...

after a blasingly good start in the noise department by Untermensch (who has some wicked remixes made by himself....) and Pete, who made me hope that the weekend would be a great one, then disaster struck and it was becoming townie central up there once more.

well, if it had looked that everyone else liked what was going on there including maybe a few goths and them lot but apart from a couple of people mister DJ (Matt i was told is his name, a blond guy not Implant Matt!) managed once more with some rather annoyingly boring techno type of bilge to clear the dancefloor

his answer:

play Apoptygma Berzerk

i feel that takes the piss!

*non stop violence* i was almost tempted to act upon that but i did not forget that i am a lady and a nice customer so i walked away and sulked.

i then went onto the middle floor where the music was less than exciting but the DJ there started to play Feindflug and TMO and kept our sprits up til we could sort of cope with what was going on upstairs again.

i think it was obvious what was happening:

the dancefloor was boiling, the mood was great, it was packed, people obviously enjoyed themself while Untermensch and Pete pounded the noise.... they have both made a great selection and i have thanked both Pete and Untermensche for their sets.

it was still going with the techno ( iam saying it was techno, not sure what it was to be honest but i name it techno for the lack of better knowledge... some techno is indeed good stuff, this is not the type i mean here)

but after a few tracks, it turned into bilge, a sludge that failed to have highs and lows, a messy knobtwiddling source of boredom. so it cleared the dancefloor... but instead of having watched what was going on previous to that (noise) and what reaction it cause on the floor (dancing) out comes the futurepop (futurepoop) to the rescue.

very obvious that mister DJ has got NO IDEA who the people are he plays music at and what they like.

shame....

maybe asking your collegues would help or maybe having a look who is dancing to what, maybe making contact with the normal mortals helps?

only suggesting but what i am actually saying is:

IT WAS NOT GOOD

thank you for allowing me to express my heartfelt opinion on the club night at my most favourite club in europe on the floor that gave me the best club nights i have ever had in my life(on the day of the Xotox concert and the night of the three Maniacs [Pete, Implant Matt and Untermensch in a soul destroying trio that has to yet to meet its match] ).
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[Crash_Dark]

right, i might cause a big stink again by writing this but i am not here to flatter anyone's ego, or to entertain the people who might be bored with complaints about the music....

... so if you are bored with this type of comment... go skip this one and we will both be happier for it!!!

Yes, it is a bit dull, but if we DO just ignore it, there's a danger that Slimelight managment may start to think that yours is some kind of majority-held view, just because you shout so loudly about it and no-one says any thing to the contrary.

Personally, I still have no problem with the variety of music at Slimelight - it makes the club what it is, and I LIKE what it is.

I have nothing against you personally Snowwy, as you know, but this is getting seriously old.

[snoww_wwhite]

right, i might cause a big stink again by writing this but i am not here to flatter anyone's ego, or to entertain the people who might be bored with complaints about the music....

... so if you are bored with this type of comment... go skip this one and we will both be happier for it!!!

Yes, it is a bit dull, but if we DO just ignore it, there's a danger that Slimelight managment may start to think that yours is some kind of majority-held view, just because you shout so loudly about it and no-one says any thing to the contrary.

Personally, I still have no problem with the variety of music at Slimelight - it makes the club what it is, and I LIKE what it is.

I have nothing against you personally Snowwy, as you know, but this is getting seriously old.

i like you but your comment on this being old bores me, it doesnt make any difference and i shout about it cos i danced amongst the townies, who fail to understand that they are in what is supposedly a goth/industrial club.

it was not just my own opinion, it was shared by a good few others and a cleared dancefloor spoke for itself (so hush up already!|), though i am the one person passionate enough (and not afraid of comments form either yourself, or your mates who obviously heard it all) to say it. you seem to forget what else i say about the club. its sooo easy for you (who i again, did not spot on the night) to say that youre bored with this type of comment, i do what i do and feel i am invited to do so by the club ITSELF, to feel passionately about music, dancing and clubbing is not a crime, its not even designed to entertain you.

[snoww_wwhite]

by the way, i have got no problems with people saying that they disagree but i would very much appreciate it if those people were actually there at the time when this took place

cheers

[Crash_Dark]

Yes, it is a bit dull, but if we DO just ignore it, there's a danger that Slimelight managment may start to think that yours is some kind of majority-held view, just because you shout so loudly about it and no-one says any thing to the contrary.



i like you but your comment on this being old bores me, it doesnt make any difference and i shout about it cos i danced amongst the townies, who fail to understand that they are in what is supposedly a goth/industrial club.

it was not just my own opinion, it was shared by a good few others and a cleared dancefloor spoke for itself (so hush up already!|), though i am the one person passionate enough (and not afraid of comments form either yourself, or your mates who obviously heard it all) to say it. you seem to forget what else i say about the club. its sooo easy for you (who i again, did not spot on the night) to say that youre bored with this type of comment, i do what i do and feel i am invited to do so by the club ITSELF, to feel passionately about music, dancing and clubbing is not a crime, its not even designed to entertain you.

I didn't think you WERE trying to entertain anyone Snowwy, and I appreciate that this is your opinion (and is probably shared be some others), but if I don't add my 'boring' comments there's a danger that your outpourings may be interpreted as a majority view. I like noise, and agree that there should be some played at Slimelight, but there should still be a variety of music played or Slimelight will become less than it is.

[SP]

Crash ... nicely said ... I agree! 8)

[snoww_wwhite]

Yes, it is a bit dull, but if we DO just ignore it, there's a danger that Slimelight managment may start to think that yours is some kind of majority-held view, just because you shout so loudly about it and no-one says any thing to the contrary.



i like you but your comment on this being old bores me, it doesnt make any difference and i shout about it cos i danced amongst the townies, who fail to understand that they are in what is supposedly a goth/industrial club.

it was not just my own opinion, it was shared by a good few others and a cleared dancefloor spoke for itself (so hush up already!|), though i am the one person passionate enough (and not afraid of comments form either yourself, or your mates who obviously heard it all) to say it. you seem to forget what else i say about the club. its sooo easy for you (who i again, did not spot on the night) to say that youre bored with this type of comment, i do what i do and feel i am invited to do so by the club ITSELF, to feel passionately about music, dancing and clubbing is not a crime, its not even designed to entertain you.

I didn't think you WERE trying to entertain anyone Snowwy, and I appreciate that this is your opinion (and is probably shared be some others), but if I don't add my 'boring' comments there's a danger that your outpourings may be interpreted as a majority view. I like noise, and agree that there should be some played at Slimelight, but there should still be a variety of music played or Slimelight will become less than it is.

we are talking here about the event that the DJ cleared the dancefloor and that more and more people who hang out at the fridge, mass, se1, fabric and wherever else come to the top floor at slimelight and that industrial (i mean the hard stuff) gets not enough attention at slimelight and i am just saying, maybe somebody is interested to know, maybe i am just worried that my friends who will come form germany at easter might hear APB cos the DJ hasnt picked up on clues about what the people REALLY want to dance to.... whihc was so OBVIOUS that it was noise that it stared into your face.

variety... bring it on but once you cleared the dancefloor, then maybe back to noise would be good?

also i am usually there form when it opens to when it shuts, i think its fair to say, i am one of the people who got quite an overview of what is going on there all night and yes dammit,

i luuurve da noise oh boy oh boy i just luuuurve da noise :P

[Crash_Dark]

i luuurve da noise oh boy oh boy i just luuuurve da noise :P

You like noise Snowwy? You should have said! ;)

LOL

I'm glad you're taking this in the spirit in which it's intended.

Sometimes DJs do mess up though, and clear a floor, but noise isn't always the answer.

[snoww_wwhite]

i luuurve da noise oh boy oh boy i just luuuurve da noise :P

You like noise Snowwy? You should have said! ;)

LOL

I'm glad you're taking this in the spirit in which it's intended.

Sometimes DJs do mess up though, and clear a floor, but noise isn't always the answer.

for you m'dear i woudl be prepared to ditch my usual militia outfit and wear my special music t-shirt ;)

maybe i will ... i am prolly too though vain ;)

[CheapCopy]

then disaster struck and it was becoming townie central up there once more.

These people aren't townies. They are new "Slimelighters" and friends (to most of us). You were new once, were you not? Are you so elitist that you feel the need to verbally bully the "first years"? Do you have some deep set inadequacies in your head?

Mmmm, thought so!

[snoww_wwhite]

then disaster struck and it was becoming townie central up there once more.

These people aren't townies. They are new "Slimelighters" and friends (to most of us). You were new once, were you not? Are you so elitist that you feel the need to verbally bully the "first years"? Do you have some deep set inadequacies in your head?

Mmmm, thought so!

yup and yup

actually, i cannot see where they are being bullied by me but then again, you could argue that bullies never see that anyway.



yup, i am so elitist, i am bigheaded, i got an ego bigger than mount everest and...

i know how to behave myself in townies clubs, so why can they not do the same in return.

further, i dont go to clubs where i am new and pick fights with people who obviously go there all the time (demeanor and dress) or anyone else for that matter. in fact i think picking fights is more the done thing by said townies.


oh just one thing in reply to my deep set inadequacies:

i think thats personal flaming, i would rather not resort to that

cheers

[Crash_Dark]

for you m'dear i woudl be prepared to ditch my usual militia outfit and wear my special music t-shirt ;)

maybe i will ... i am prolly too though vain ;)

Aw, now I feel honoured! Thank you :oops:

But it just wouldn't be right - Snowwy, without the military garb? Nah...

Maybe we'll have to keep it to a private modelling session ;)

[snoww_wwhite]

for you m'dear i woudl be prepared to ditch my usual militia outfit and wear my special music t-shirt ;)

maybe i will ... i am prolly too though vain ;)

Aw, now I feel honoured! Thank you :oops:

But it just wouldn't be right - Snowwy, without the military garb? Nah...

Maybe we'll have to keep it to a private modelling session ;)

eh? i think i have had a "yoda" moment... i meant to say iam prolly too vain though...

private modelling session... hahaha good joke... why didnt you look around the corner when i got changed at Sin's the other day?

*sniggers*

anyway... i have a think and who knows, i might be able to make it look military after all ;)

[Skylizard]

I didn't think you WERE trying to entertain anyone Snowwy, and I appreciate that this is your opinion (and is probably shared be some others), but if I don't add my 'boring' comments there's a danger that your outpourings may be interpreted as a majority view. I like noise, and agree that there should be some played at Slimelight, but there should still be a variety of music played or Slimelight will become less than it is.

But on the same token if people didn't speak up and represent others who don't have access to the forums regualrly then DJs and staff could asume that all is well and the music been played is great, which we all know clearly isn't. I agree that variety is needed but it's that current definition variety which is the problem.

[ecclecticbb]

OMG...!!!

Untermensch, Pete and Mak were GREAT!!!

I must say that I had one of the best nights I had in ages!! Great music-Industrial/Noize/Hard Techno-, great atmosphere... The people on the top floor were very up for it and it made me realize at the end of the night that I had not been to ANY other floor in the entire night, which is truly amazing as I always like to dip a bit of everyfloor.

I was there from 1:30 am till the end and maybe just sat around chatting for an our slot or so (needed it in order to keep myself going till the end) and well maybe for that reason I missed nearly the whole set you are talking about, Snowwy.

On the whole I think saturday 19 Feb was smashing and certainly much better indeed than last week...

[snoww_wwhite]

OMG...!!!

Untermensch, Pete and Mak were GREAT!!!

I must say that I had one of the best nights I had in ages!! Great music-Industrial/Noize/Hard Techno-, great atmosphere... The people on the top floor were very up for it and it made me realize at the end of the night that I had not been to ANY other floor in the entire night, which is truly amazing as I always like to dip a bit of everyfloor.

I was there from 1:30 am till the end and maybe just sat around chatting for an our slot or so (needed it in order to keep myself going till the end) and well maybe for that reason I missed nearly the whole set you are talking about, Snowwy.




yeah, i also thought as a whole the night was better than the previous week. i was just surprised that there was an encore and almost exactly the same music and also the same solution (APB) which made me feel somebody is having a laugh ;)

[industrialfreak]

Some interesting points - i like noise and can listen to it all night as there are so many different styles, however the best nights i have experienced in the Slime has been when there has been a good blend of progressivley harsh noise into a spot of hardstyle and minimalist techno, nothing too happy clappy just stomping beats - admitadley some of the djs do tend to hang on this for a bit too long for my liking but its still been a good night - variety is the spice of life - i also like to experiment with the dancefloor on occasion - this often falls flat on its arse because most people want to just dance there ass off not appreciate a well blended mix of distorted and harsh frequencies bult into a dancefloor stylee, again Slimes would be even better if the top dancefloor was dedicated every week all in an experimental feel eg; experimental one week, harsh noise the next week, drum and bass and so on rather than having a smattering off styles in one night - just my opinion though i hope others agree, see you all on the 12th March when i have some free ESA (http://www.electronicsubstanceabuse.com) cds to give away!!! :twisted:

Later

[snoww_wwhite]

hey you know me by now and also that i dance and give most things a go no matter if they are right up my left passage or not but there are styles that go together well and make the dancefloor busy and the punters content and stuff that doesnt.

and aprogressively emptying dancefloor is what one has seen in recent nights when too much techno and other Labbermusik were played. still i wouldnt have said much but apoptygma? fork orf!

[kylon]

Hmm. I don't recall the dancefloor being cleared by APB last weekend.

Anyway, I enjoy a mixture of music on the second floor. Noise is good, but when its relentless, frankly i find it tedious.

[snoww_wwhite]

Hmm. I don't recall the dancefloor being cleared by APB last weekend.

Anyway, I enjoy a mixture of music on the second floor. Noise is good, but when its relentless, frankly i find it tedious.

well you can always escape to the middle floor for some futurepop and stuff. or to mass/fabric/fridge for hard techno, psytrance etc. quite a few places for that style of music but not enough for noise.

[kylon]

I prefer DJ sets that move between sounds and i find variety in the music enriches my experience of the night. APB is the lighter end of the EBM that gets played upstairs, but hey, i happen to enjoy APB, and can quite happily dance to them one minute and Sulphuric Saliva ten minutes later.

I'm an upstairs slimelighter, have always been an upstairs slimelighter, as are the circles i move in, and few of the people i associate with want noise all night. You may disagree, but I don't see why our enjoyment of slimelight should be sacrificed for yours.

[snoww_wwhite]

I prefer DJ sets that move between sounds and i find variety in the music enriches my experience of the night. APB is the lighter end of the EBM that gets played upstairs, but hey, i happen to enjoy APB, and can quite happily dance to them one minute and Sulphuric Saliva ten minutes later.

I'm an upstairs slimelighter, have always been an upstairs slimelighter, as are the circles i move in, and few of the people i associate with want noise all night. You may disagree, but I don't see why our enjoyment of slimelight should be sacrificed for yours.

not sure as to why you think that i would want your enjoyment to be sacrificed, a bit over dramatic if you ask me. though futurepop gets played at lot, on the middle floor and at Synthetic culture and other clubs like Panics electronics anonymous, whereas noise gets maybe played one a month at sick and twisted but obviously not every month and not much elsewhere other than slimelight. in fact i would dare say that slimelight gets its reputation on the continent as a great club because of the noise played, as there are futurepop (weiber elektro), trad and gothic rock clubs by the dozen. so i think you have got enough oppotunity to enjoy yourself with your music, even though you might have to go to a different floor and there is no need to be demanding the same music on "your" floor just because your friends are there and you feel that you do not want to have to go to the less "cool" floor, thats just plain selfish.

[kylon]

thats just plain selfish.

Hang on a mo... Do I sense a certain hypocrisy here? Haven't you just been demanding that only music you like be played upstairs?

Furthermore, I haven't said noise shouldn't be played, since I enjoy harsh noise sets. But musical diversity ennriches the night and contextualises the noise that is played. Otherwise you just spiral into extreme extreme extreme and that's not really what a nightclub should be about.

Slimelight's had a reputation on the continent for years, long before noise became one of the main musical aspects of the top floor.

anyway, there is no point argueing this further. My point, perhaps poorly expressed was that there seems to be some kind of assumption here that you are speaking on behalf of the majority of upstairs slimelighters presumed to want nothing but power electronics all night, an assumption i think is somewhat innaccurate.

[IamFroggy]

there seems to be some kind of assumption here that you are speaking on behalf of the majority of upstairs slimelighters, who want nothing but power electronics all night, an assumption i think is somewhat innaccurate.

... but that has never been claimed , nor I suggest an assumption people make , rather they regard it as just someones opinion!

[industrialfreak]

its getting a little heated in here - i think the old adage -

"You can please some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time"

Applies quite well, no matter what DJs play there will allways be someone who doesnt like what is played, its a tough job but someone has to do it!

[SP]

its getting a little heated in here - i think the old adage -

"You can please some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time"

Applies quite well, no matter what DJs play there will allways be someone who doesnt like what is played, its a tough job but someone has to do it!

Well said! :wink:

[snoww_wwhite]

its getting a little heated in here - i think the old adage -

"You can please some of the people all the time and all the people some of the time"

Applies quite well, no matter what DJs play there will allways be someone who doesnt like what is played, its a tough job but someone has to do it!

that is not the point at all... pleasing everybody or not...

its the truth though that i can easily find a venue that caters for my hard techno, house, trance, psy, goa and other needs but not much at all for noise, yet noise is a part of the industrial scene and as such somewhat (even if i should hack off my hands for writing this) connected to the goth scene. techno and house and trance on the other hand are much more connected to the townie club scene.

iam not demanding that anything is getting played in there, its nto up to me to demand but i knwo the noise lot gets by far too little out of the scene and to be honest, i do not know how much longer i would want to repeat this, because i have got the feeling that people who agree with me in priciple then turn on me and tell me that i am not being open enough about music.

i think industrial is being treated like the step child in the clubs and so far i was really happy that slimelight made a very big difference.

how many people do not bother coming anymore because they have waited far too long through trance and techno sets until they were able to hear some noise again?

how come that my feet get stepped on by people in white trainers who then tell me the music is too hard?

what about the people who have got absolutely no chance to dance to hard industrial noise in clubs?

:(

somebody tell me about a club in the south other than slimelight where noise and heavy industrial gets played every week.. i shall happily go there instead.

[CheapCopy]

somebody tell me about a club in the south other than slimelight where noise and heavy industrial gets played every week.. i shall happily go there instead.the machine in southampton

[industrialfreak]

the machine - you got a web link or email contact?

Also implant (http://www.clubimplant.co.uk) in Manchester - worth a trip up once in a while if i do say so myself :D

[snoww_wwhite]

the machine - you got a web link or email contact?

Also implant (http://www.clubimplant.co.uk) in Manchester - worth a trip up once in a while if i do say so myself :D

yes will check out the machine in southampton.. got a weblink and yes i would love to go up to manchester.... though i would need a place to rest my bones before going home... any suggestions welcome :)

[Guy13]

somewhat (even if i should hack off my hands for writing this) connected to the goth scene.

I shall be waiting...axe in hand! :twisted:

[IamFroggy]

somewhat (even if i should hack off my hands for writing this) connected to the goth scene.

I shall be waiting...axe in hand! :twisted:

will you be doing your custom rubbing hands gleefully and gloating thing?

[snoww_wwhite]

saturday march 12th.

now i was hopeful hearing thar Matt was going to DJ but no, it was not Implant Matt, it was another Matt and i was SHOCKED.

what is this ibiza, lil industrial and synth- and futurepop selection all about if i may ask?

it was dire.

dejavu as i thought the set was very much a likeness to that for a previously DJing person who i get some sort of run-in with.

well i did the done thing this time, just looked annoyed and outraged into the general DJ direction and when it did not get much better then went downstairs though i was not that into what was played there either.

which would be fine cos i do need to get used to taking the occasional break, though that late at night means that my feet hurt too much to dance again later, once i give them a break ;)

i blame old age.

also while i like Pete's quirky breakbeats and some of the more unusual stuff his late set was not what i had hoped for either after Matt. :(

please no more ibiza!!!!

[industrialfreak]

unfirtunatley i was unable to make it this weekend due to inforseen circumstances, i am playing Resistance fest 4-5pm Saturday night and then the following Sat on the top floor as usual - i promise no 'ibiza' all night (maybe a little though as ive just got hold of some banging hardstyle) :twisted:

[snoww_wwhite]

unfirtunatley i was unable to make it this weekend due to inforseen circumstances, i am playing Resistance fest 4-5pm Saturday night and then the following Sat on the top floor as usual - i promise no 'ibiza' all night (maybe a little though as ive just got hold of some banging hardstyle) :twisted:

well hardcore is not a problem for me to be honest i love a bit of rotterdam at times or really heavy psytrance if you wish as well ;) its the things you find on the playlist of ibiza clubs which lacks bite or depth or hardness that really get on my neves and you know me, i normally dont even request any songs as i think you guys know very well what to play and when...

Matt's set was disappointing to put it the mildest possible phrase.


yay for resistance :D

[Goblino]

*taps feet manically*

[snoww_wwhite]

well i guess its me again who write the review of the night and even if it comes later this week as i was busy so far.

april 2nd.

no thanks!

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Untermensch was fine, the noise was great but what was wrong with Matt?

no no no... it was not what i had hoped for, it was errrr... not better, not intruiging it was like: i dont want that, give me noise

we need more NOIZE djs i did not feel that the evening was getting better by hearing this other stuff and to be very honest, i couldnt even put a name to it. well done Matt for finding thngs that bored me but something i have defiently not heard of or at clubs.

but then noize.. not sure who djed it.. noise yeah but noise light..

boring.

then somebody in the beginning defiently mistook VNV nation for industrial... i think we had this discussion a few times before but why dont they DJ it on the lower floor, where everyone expects that type of music?

i think Slimelight is lacking in real Noize Djs (Untermensch is great though cheers mistah you kept me sane so far.)

but all in all

musiclaly DISAPPOINTING!!!!
thankfully i shall be off to FOH in 3 weeks :D

[SP]

well i guess its me again who write the review of the night and even if it comes later this week as i was busy so far.

april 2nd.

no thanks!



Untermensch was fine, the noise was great but what was wrong with Matt?

no no no... it was not what i had hoped for, it was errrr... not better, not intruiging it was like: i dont want that, give me noise

we need more NOIZE djs i did not feel that the evening was getting better by hearing this other stuff and to be very honest, i couldnt even put a name to it. well done Matt for finding thngs that bored me but something i have defiently not heard of or at clubs.

but then noize.. not sure who djed it.. noise yeah but noise light..

boring.

then somebody in the beginning defiently mistook VNV nation for industrial... i think we had this discussion a few times before but why dont they DJ it on the lower floor, where everyone expects that type of music?

i think Slimelight is lacking in real Noize Djs (Untermensch is great though cheers mistah you kept me sane so far.)

but all in all

musiclaly DISAPPOINTING!!!!
thankfully i shall be off to FOH in 3 weeks :D

Perhaps we should have this young lady playing ...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/DeepJoy/dj-nicerack1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/DeepJoy/dj-nicerack2.jpg

... she would definitely provide some "eye-candy"!!

[untermensch]

I calculate her resonant bouncing frequency to be about 145 BPM. Just perfect!

[Rivetmike]

Heh, She'll be sure to get the place bouncing!

I think that she actually posts on another firum that I'm on......

Rivetmike

[SP]

She's called Portia Surreal ... and although I personally haven't seen her play, I'm told that her mixing really sucks! Ahh well ... I guess you can't have everything!

What forum do you know her from?

[Rivetmike]

What forum do you know her from?

www.dependent.de

Now that you have told me her name I think that someone is just using a picture of her as their avatar......

Rivetmike

[snoww_wwhite]

well i guess its me again who write the review of the night and even if it comes later this week as i was busy so far.

april 2nd.

no thanks!



Untermensch was fine, the noise was great but what was wrong with Matt?

no no no... it was not what i had hoped for, it was errrr... not better, not intruiging it was like: i dont want that, give me noise

we need more NOIZE djs i did not feel that the evening was getting better by hearing this other stuff and to be very honest, i couldnt even put a name to it. well done Matt for finding thngs that bored me but something i have defiently not heard of or at clubs.

but then noize.. not sure who djed it.. noise yeah but noise light..

boring.

then somebody in the beginning defiently mistook VNV nation for industrial... i think we had this discussion a few times before but why dont they DJ it on the lower floor, where everyone expects that type of music?

i think Slimelight is lacking in real Noize Djs (Untermensch is great though cheers mistah you kept me sane so far.)

but all in all

musiclaly DISAPPOINTING!!!!
thankfully i shall be off to FOH in 3 weeks :D

Perhaps we should have this young lady playing ...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/DeepJoy/dj-nicerack1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/DeepJoy/dj-nicerack2.jpg

... she would definitely provide some "eye-candy"!!

no thanks, artifically enhance boobs.. not that i was envious of her perfection, her beauty, talen, youth and guts.. oh no, not at all...

i just hate her like almost everybody else in this world :P

but most of all her DJing

[snoww_wwhite]

I think that she actually posts on another firum that I'm on......

Rivetmike


cos youre on every bloody forum thats why :P

oh hang on.. have you signed up for http://www.darkelectro.net/



why not? ;)

[Rivetmike]

oh hang on.. have you signed up for http://www.darkelectro.net/


Apart from that one.

*yoink*

Rivetmke

[Rivetmike]

oh hang on.. have you signed up for http://www.darkelectro.net/


It's all a bit.........you know, German ;)

Rivetmike

[Skylizard]

oh hang on.. have you signed up for http://www.darkelectro.net/


It's all a bit.........you know, German ;)

Rivetmike

Guessed you missed the English tab then ...... :wink:

[Rivetmike]

Guessed you missed the English tab then ...... :wink:

Hey smartarse. I didn't you know :)

Most of the forum topics and conversation is too. All very well if you are educated and bilingual like Snowwy but for me.......?

Rivetmike

[Skylizard]

Guessed you missed the English tab then ...... :wink:

Hey smartarse. I didn't you know :)

Most of the forum topics and conversation is too. All very well if you are educated and bilingual like Snowwy but for me.......?

Rivetmike

Hook line and sinker... :)

[snoww_wwhite]

moan moan moan

saturday 23 rd

okay, i enjoyed myself, i liked DIJ a lot more than i thought i would, i liked Francesca's and Pete's DJong but what the hell happened there later that night?

techno techno techno techno techno tastic.

has upstairs become an extention of the Fabric? and who was the weirdo guy before Mak? i mean i dont know two things about DJing but he was seriously lacking skills. nicely cleared dancefloor and then COVENANT?

jesssus, i know so many people who would come to slimelight much more often if we knew that more noise was playing and when... its frustrating to listen to techno for a large section of the night and i preferred to dance to Siouxie at some point to techno... well not just some traditional indiustrial made it better for one song as well downstairs.

maybe mixing industrial and noise would go down so much better... maybe we could have a good night again some time?

Untermesch was sorely missed, he knows the banging tunes that us noise whores so get off on and yes, i did not overhear that This Morn' Omina and WInterkaelte was played at some point... even Xotom did register with me but gowd knows hours of techno is dull, frustrating and unpleasant.

why is it that the noise DJs try and play techno but the techno DJ do not play noise, to break it up? or was that their attempt of playing noise?

no, iam not happy about that, i feel that again noise gets a raw deal!

and yes, overall i enjoyed myself because it was an odd night and so many seriously lovely dressed people ;)

but the music

A LOT OF LAME STUFF!!!

[demonbitch]

........but the techno lovers were loving it! :twisted:

[TZAR]

yeh tecno was played a lot on the middle dance floor as well.surely the dj would have realised his mistake by the empty dance floor or was he playing music for himself????why do we have request lists when they are ignored?? :roll: do like the new look with the carpets and black walls.

[Loki]

yeh tecno was played a lot on the middle dance floor as well.surely the dj would have realised his mistake by the empty dance floor or was he playing music for himself????why do we have request lists when they are ignored?? :roll: do like the new look with the carpets and black walls.


Well techo on the middle floor; can't be refering to me . . . it's so nice when your not guilty 8)

[Blink]

yeh tecno was played a lot on the middle dance floor as well.surely the dj would have realised his mistake by the empty dance floor or was he playing music for himself????why do we have request lists when they are ignored?? :roll: do like the new look with the carpets and black walls.

The only thing I noticed clearing the dance-floor was some Depeche Mode *shrugs* I swear we all go to different clubs :roll: :wink:

[icequeen]

I think to clear up all that trouble regarding the music played in Slimes , it would be handy if Slimelight could make it clear for everybody : what do they consider to be GOTH , what do they consider to be industrial ? The middle floor is supposed to be the mixture of these two ..... Well that meaning about 3 hours goth and and the rest is mainly music that is played in lots of "normal" clubs all around London . Some nights it feels like i`m in the Ministry of Sound or in Ibisa .......

I agree that there should be a variety of music played after all it is a long night , but but why cant we have a fair ballance between the industrial and goth music ?

[demonbitch]

I think to clear up all that trouble regarding the music played in Slimes , it would be handy if Slimelight could make it clear for everybody : what do they consider to be GOTH , what do they consider to be industrial ? The middle floor is supposed to be the mixture of these two ..... Well that meaning about 3 hours goth and and the rest is mainly music that is played in lots of "normal" clubs all around London . Some nights it feels like i`m in the Ministry of Sound or in Ibisa .......

I agree that there should be a variety of music played after all it is a long night , but but why cant we have a fair ballance between the industrial and goth music ?

Have you ever been to Slimelight?

Slimelight user manuals are currently out of stock ... sorry!

[icequeen]

have been going there in the last 3 years . And apart from the 3 floor spec nights there is not much i would consider goth - or how people seem to be calling it lately "trad goth " I don`t mind "bleep" but like i said : in a fair ballance .

[TZAR]

ditto :wink:

[Alexander]

She's called Portia Surreal ... and although I personally haven't seen her play, I'm told that her mixing really sucks! Ahh well ... I guess you can't have everything?

Obviously there must be some reason why she's asked to DJ.

I just can't put my finger on it...

[DJSynne]

>no thanks, artifically enhance boobs.. not that i was envious of her perfection, her beauty, talen, youth and guts.. oh no, not at all...

>i just hate her like almost everybody else in this world :P

>but most of all her DJing[/quote]

Heh - I`ve seen this lassie kicking around for a while now - I think she is seriously ***hot***!! :) Many of her fetish pix are to die for:)

::Shana/DJSynne::
::Relentless::Distorted::Rhythmical::Denied::

[snoww_wwhite]

while i do not think that the music was absolute garbage, it had its moment but as a whole i was disappointed with the night.

too much techno made it somewhat samey and boring in my opinion and i know that i am not alone in that, soem of the noise lot went home early as they could not face even more of the techno boredom.

i did however like the couple of industrial tracks that had been played and also obviously the noise, which could be, in my opinion a touch more varied.

my verdict, the last 4 hours at slimelight where pretty boring, also the more conventional type of music in the end did not do anything for me either.. again i know i am not alone in this.

also somehow i must have missed the good stuff downstairs :(

shame.

[CIW]

this weekend was very, err, weird...
who the .... had the idea to play goddamn EBM on the Industek floor?
When I want to listen and dance to EBM, I go to the EBM floor, ain't it?

so hopefully that won't happen again...

[industrialfreak]

Ah that would have been Mr Andy Judas then.....

[CIW]

bet this Judas played again this weekend...

hell, is the upper floor now there for EBM/Techno and a little bit of Industrial now? or what?

of course lots of people dance on EBM when it's played upstairs, because somehow at the same time trad. goth gets played on lower floor, so many go up, it seems.
and the indus people either stand pissed off around, or dance pissed around (if they like EBM as well, then maybe not ^^ )

yeah, so why not call it now EBMTek, upper floor?

(rather not, keep it Industrial, more Industrial again, as it was)
EBM is for lower floor!

[faticeira]

When I dj'd there for a short time, it was against the law to clear the dance floor :o Which is kinda annoying considering they expect you to play people's requests which honestly, some were crap. Ah well.

Basically, it isn't that easy dj-ing and you can never please everyone. Saying that, it isn't difficult to keep your music collection up to date and stop playing the same old boring tunes from years gone by. There is a guest dj, remains nameless, who drives me mad when I see them get behind the box. You just know the night is over and out.

I do not know all the dj's and can't be on two floors at once, however from what I do know by experience is that Francesca and Steve will play more up to date sets and are great at fulfilling people's requests (which again, is not always an easy thing to do). Steve is esp good on a 3 floor night. Both of them aren't afraid to play new music.

As for Matt, he played a killer set on the EBM floor several weeks back which I was happy to catch. I usually end up going home before his set comes on upstairs as it is too late for someone so old as myself ;p But I do know he has some great taste in music. I would like them to place him on the ebm floor if possible as it was just so good!

I have caught a bit of Untermensch and agree, some of his sets are spot on!

But I can promise you this: you will have some great nights with mostly good music, and lots of so-so nights with music you aren't happy with. I have resigned to this fact.

[Rivetmike]

When I dj'd there for a short time

I didn't know that, when was this?

Rivetmike

[faticeira]

I didn't know that, when was this?

Rivetmike

A very long time ago when it was still goth with the upstairs room and they had an industrial floor on middle bit and punks used to still attend.

[unbeliever]

ive been to slimes only 4 times now, living in newcastle, the frequency is about to get better due to the fact that the clubs i used to attend up here are now (in one case) an industrial club that started playing old school rave anthems and is housed in a place where you can get ejected for being drunk but not for snorting a line (i was so disgusted at being thrown out ive not been back and refuse to do so) (and in the other case) a traditional goth rock / alt 80's night with fantastic music but an atmosphere full of backbiting and two facedness from a lot of the small community who attend.

i appear to be about one of 4 people i know that :
a> feel physically sick on queue of hearing Temple of love played(again)
b> listens to a range of music from john cooper clark to ministry to anne clark to the pain machinery and cabaret voltaire (basically has some sense of ecclectiveness in their taste)
c> hates with a passion EBM that sounds like something from an early 90's rave
d> respects the other members of the club he's in.

being that this is the case, the 4 of us have come searching for pastures new, and the music in slimes hads normally been exceptionally good, but one thing ive found is that sometimes the traditional side is a bit lacking. it may just be that im hitting the wrong time of the month or that there's not a demand (if thats the case, then its off to asda for a crate of beer for me to cry into listening to my bauhaus and play dead CD's)

there was one night i remember i was there, when one of the floors kind of turned a bit hard house...and thats about the only negative thing to say really from my end, well apart from you being so bloody far away :P

stay happy, question everything, gnihgual eid

[Antagonist]

ive been to slimes only 4 times now, living in newcastle, the frequency is about to get better due to the fact that the clubs i used to attend up here are now (in one case) an industrial club that started playing old school rave anthems and is housed in a place where you can get ejected for being drunk but not for snorting a line (i was so disgusted at being thrown out ive not been back and refuse to do so) (and in the other case) a traditional goth rock / alt 80's night with fantastic music but an atmosphere full of backbiting and two facedness from a lot of the small community who attend.

i appear to be about one of 4 people i know that :
a> feel physically sick on queue of hearing Temple of love played(again)
b> listens to a range of music from john cooper clark to ministry to anne clark to the pain machinery and cabaret voltaire (basically has some sense of ecclectiveness in their taste)
c> hates with a passion EBM that sounds like something from an early 90's rave
d> respects the other members of the club he's in.

being that this is the case, the 4 of us have come searching for pastures new, and the music in slimes hads normally been exceptionally good, but one thing ive found is that sometimes the traditional side is a bit lacking. it may just be that im hitting the wrong time of the month or that there's not a demand (if thats the case, then its off to asda for a crate of beer for me to cry into listening to my bauhaus and play dead CD's)

there was one night i remember i was there, when one of the floors kind of turned a bit hard house...and thats about the only negative thing to say really from my end, well apart from you being so bloody far away :P

stay happy, question everything, gnihgual eid

Welcome to the perrenial music debate.

Plenty of hard-house music on some nights. If there was more STJ-style agit-industrial (especially now STJ is sleeping for a few months) all the happy stompers will actually start loving the music rather than just dance to avoid falling asleep, which seems to becoming more the case of late.

Some of the middle-floor EBM gets pretty sleepy as well... although I really can't be bothered with this debate, mostly because I can't tell my ass from my elbow when it comes to industrial music (that's the umbrella term as far as I'm concerned.)

Having said that I am really not into goth music either, tho I feel Slimelight should play it by definition, and I hope the dancefloor continues to be packed out to Temple of Love and I can run away and dance to some Prodigy!

As long as DJs play requests and continue to hunt out and play tracks the crowd won't have heard before so the scene continues to move onwards, I refuse to criticise the music itself.

Oh, and ecclecticism is the way to go! Go out and spread the word... but Mr Cooper Clarke is definitely poetry dear, even with musical accompaniment. Kudos to you for namechecking my hero, tho!!

Welcome to the fold
*dingding* round a-million!!

[Crash_Dark]

ive been to slimes only 4 times now, living in newcastle, the frequency is about to get better due to the fact that the clubs i used to attend up here are now (in one case) an industrial club that started playing old school rave anthems and is housed in a place where you can get ejected for being drunk but not for snorting a line (i was so disgusted at being thrown out ive not been back and refuse to do so) (and in the other case) a traditional goth rock / alt 80's night with fantastic music but an atmosphere full of backbiting and two facedness from a lot of the small community who attend.

i appear to be about one of 4 people i know that :
a> feel physically sick on queue of hearing Temple of love played(again)
b> listens to a range of music from john cooper clark to ministry to anne clark to the pain machinery and cabaret voltaire (basically has some sense of ecclectiveness in their taste)
c> hates with a passion EBM that sounds like something from an early 90's rave
d> respects the other members of the club he's in.

being that this is the case, the 4 of us have come searching for pastures new, and the music in slimes hads normally been exceptionally good, but one thing ive found is that sometimes the traditional side is a bit lacking. it may just be that im hitting the wrong time of the month or that there's not a demand (if thats the case, then its off to asda for a crate of beer for me to cry into listening to my bauhaus and play dead CD's)

there was one night i remember i was there, when one of the floors kind of turned a bit hard house...and thats about the only negative thing to say really from my end, well apart from you being so bloody far away :P

stay happy, question everything, gnihgual eid

There'll always be something you don't like in the music at any club, unless you're hosting it in your front-room ;) Slimelight does have a great atmosphere and good people though, IMHO, and at least you have other floors to go to if the one you're on turns 'bad'.

There's more trad stuff played (including Temple of Love - be warned! LOL) when Slimes opens all three floors , which seem to happen fairly often these days (the three-floor specials don't have a schedule, they just happen from time to time - watch the Slimelight emails for details)

[Guy13]

there was one night i remember i was there, when one of the floors kind of turned a bit hard house...and thats about the only negative thing to say really from my end

Yes, some of the DJs tend to forget that Slimes is an ALTERNATIVE club and not some mainstream house/techno club.

[Byakhiam]

First time me posting into this thread for the topic. Last saturday was Bleh musicwise for me. Really, never been as bored. Partly circustancial reasons, but in other parts certainly not.

Most importantly, please, please, please never again have five plus hours straight powernoise sets! Sure, there was the live acts playing that stuff, but do the DJs before, in between and after the live acts need to play more of the same. I don't think I've ever been as numbed by top-floor stuff. It even didn't get anyhow better in the end, but rather just drifted towards the mainstreamy sounding simplistic techno and do note that I know my synthpops and EBMs and I'd call them that, the stuff that got played late at night wasn't that. I'm sure that the FUBAR-crowd that filled the dancefloor wouldn't have minded if the DJs played something even somewhat melodic, like for example Soman.

This wouldn't have been as striking of course, if we wouldn't have got about five hours of trad goth, two hours of industrial metal and barely the same about two hours of EBM/synthpop on the middle floor. I can't really complain against trad goth, since it did fill the floor, but such an amount of trad goth and industrial metal was definitely not what I was looking for as I had got loads of that on friday at Fright Club.

Well, I hope there will be greater variety the coming saturday...

[CIW]

well, after all it's the industrial floor :P
I found it amazing last saturday upstairs :)

[snoww_wwhite]

Yes, some of the DJs tend to forget that Slimes is an ALTERNATIVE club and not some mainstream house/techno club.


i think its because they dont get a job in a mainstream club, they like to pretend... or practice or something.

[snoww_wwhite]

First time me posting into this thread for the topic. Last saturday was Bleh musicwise for me. Really, never been as bored. Partly circustancial reasons, but in other parts certainly not.

Most importantly, please, please, please never again have five plus hours straight powernoise sets! Sure, there was the live acts playing that stuff, but do the DJs before, in between and after the live acts need to play more of the same. I don't think I've ever been as numbed by top-floor stuff. It even didn't get anyhow better in the end, but rather just drifted towards the mainstreamy sounding simplistic techno and do note that I know my synthpops and EBMs and I'd call them that, the stuff that got played late at night wasn't that. I'm sure that the FUBAR-crowd that filled the dancefloor wouldn't have minded if the DJs played something even somewhat melodic, like for example Soman.

This wouldn't have been as striking of course, if we wouldn't have got about five hours of trad goth, two hours of industrial metal and barely the same about two hours of EBM/synthpop on the middle floor. I can't really complain against trad goth, since it did fill the floor, but such an amount of trad goth and industrial metal was definitely not what I was looking for as I had got loads of that on friday at Fright Club.

Well, I hope there will be greater variety the coming saturday...

i think thats the slimelight disease, you can say it til youre blue in the face and remind everyone that it is an alternative club, that break beats will piss off almost every one (apart from totally non slimelight compliant people with large amounts of ketamine inside themselves) that mainstream club music got no place there, that all same music sets are incredibly frustrating.

i think slimelight is digging its own grave here though by not having a more thought through music policy (no mainstream music, no prodigy, mixed hours, goth/industrial/ebm/synthpop/neofolk/noise mainly and no private self satisfying hours for the DJs.

but i think we said that about err a few years back when we were assured that the temporary decline of guests was indeed a normal occurrence...

shame really as i do like slimelight a lot.

[SP]

I don't think it makes the slightest difference what we write here with regard to music policy, but I don't care coz I usually like it!

Prodigy should be played once an hour on every floor!! lol

[dwellems]

I'm always so waisted to even notice what's playing and who just said hello to me.... That's why I haven't ever said anything about the music:rolleyes:

[ecclecticbb]

Prodigy should be played once an hour on every floor!! lol

Go, SP, go!!

One day, we will succeed with that wish of ours!!;)

[DerOberst]

Go, SP, go!!

One day, we will succeed we that wish of ours!!;)
Told you spoilsports like us always intervene when somebody threatens us with the prodidgy!Ask the guy who asked me to play charly in a goth club what happened hehehehe!:)

[ecclecticbb]

Told you spoilsports like us always intervene when somebody threatens us with the prodidgy!Ask the guy who asked me to play charly in a goth club what happened hehehehe!:)

Charly no good...

Smack my bitch up, to heaven.

Ok, I will make a Prodigy comando!:p Who joins me??

[ecclecticbb]

To make things clear...

Music was not garbage this week!

[DerOberst]

Charly no good...

Smack my bitch up, to heaven.

Ok, I will make a Prodigy comando!:p You joins me??

heeee!heee prodigy commando now you are talking where are my cammo undies!!!
:)

[DerOberst]

To make things clear...

Music was not garbage this week!
Who said it was lemme at em!!!!

[fad]

Just for the record I played both Smack my Bitch up AND Spitfire on Sunday night but as almost everyone had gone home to sleep before Monday morning I'm not sure it counts. Sorry to all those anti-Prodigy types but as you weren't there don't let it put you off!!

[ecclecticbb]

Just for the record I played both Smack my Bitch up AND Spitfire on Sunday night but as almost everyone had gone home to sleep before Monday morning I'm not sure it counts. Sorry to all those anti-Prodigy types but as you weren't there don't let it put you off!!

Fad, you ARE the one!!

I have started a Super-Prodigy-Commando. Find the thread and join me!:p

[Flux]

Prodigy should be played once an hour on every floor!! lol

As long as it's not any of the pish off the rubbish new album then I'm game ;)

[nulunu]

wasn't absolute garbage as such this sat, but is it just me or has the top floor mellowed? 5 bpm average or what? where's the noise gone? apart from after 5 it didn't sound very noisy to me. and after 5 it got crowded at some stage with the refugees from middle floor where they played ultra-mellow stuff, it seems.

[ecclecticbb]

wasn't absolute garbage as such this sat, but is it just me or has the top floor mellowed? 5 bpm average or what? where's the noise gone? apart from after 5 it didn't sound very noisy to me. and after 5 it got crowded at some stage with the refugees from middle floor where they played ultra-mellow stuff, it seems.

Yeah, maybe it was more mellow than it has been nearly every week for a few months...

Oh, well, Noise heads cannot always win...:)

We have been utterly spoilt and some dj's need their breaks too for very obvious reasons. They will be back and wanting to kill us!

[snoww_wwhite]

i havent been there.. did the arty thing and went to see Laibach's art performance.

but its the old trouble... the top floor's djs just dont seem to wanna mix their sets up and that can get exeedingly friustrating, especially if youre hoping to find some industrial or ebm

yeah i know this might unleash the old "what is industrial and what is ebm" discussion once more but fact is that indus is not being catered for and tech totally.

this has turned away so many people who really dont wanna go anymore because they are sick to sit through several hours of harsh techno and find that after that its ibiza dance club shite after.

we come early because we live in the hope that the djs take pity on us and play a bit of stuff that we actually enjoy, which they do and we are greatful for that.

still after so many years of dancing my boots to shreds, i still carry on dancing even if i have to admit that i get bored with a lot of the techno sets and i also gladly admit that Cosey is the better clubnight musically speaking.

why can we not have one old industrial and ebm style night a month similar to the goths having a whole floor dedicated to their music on a 3-floor night.
or even share the night equally between industrial and techno?
it would be quite possible to mix it up.

nawww, sorry... prolly not, that would mean the DJ have to learn what industrial actually is as some seem to think Tiesto is the hight of industrial now ;-)

[CIW]

this has turned away so many people who really dont wanna go anymore because they are sick to sit through several hours of harsh techno and find that after that its ibiza dance club shite after.


5 pounds for using my phrase, please.

;)

well
a) didn't know anything of Laibach art stuff :|
b) be damn happy that you weren't there, the evening was one of the biggest waste of money this year for me :|
"highlight" of the evening was Asche - Monster (or whatever it's called), and Monolith - Disco Buddha..., oh, and DCDisk been played once, so much to good music upstairs...

Harsher sound was absolutely nowhere last night, Ibiza Saturday evening for the win!
:(

[snoww_wwhite]

5 pounds for using my phrase, please.

;)

well
a) didn't know anything of Laibach art stuff :|
b) be damn happy that you weren't there, the evening was one of the biggest waste of money this year for me :|
"highlight" of the evening was Asche - Monster (or whatever it's called), and Monolith - Disco Buddha..., oh, and DCDisk been played once, so much to good music upstairs...

Harsher sound was absolutely nowhere last night, Ibiza Saturday evening for the win!
:(


thats a right pain...

well i guess people who appreciate music for its own sake dont get much these days... lets drop tons of pills instead and jump up and down to twatcore etc.

i think if the DJs are bored with playing decent stuff, why does slimelight not employ a few new ones who actually like the music the club advertises to play?

i mean i have given up to ask for decent stuff all of the time but to slip something in inbetween would be great! oh and let us normal mortals know when this almost cosmic event will take place, so we can all be there at the right time.

sorry, daydreaming again..

[CIW]

problem, I guess, is not that the DJs were bored or something, much rather that they don't have a clue of what to play, as the regular upstairs-DJs were not there.

[alicia_ahh]

did anyone else make the switch from the top floor to the middle floor when apoptygma bezerk were played upstairs(!!!!), only to discover that they were being played on the middle floor, too?

it's not so much that the same band were being played on both floors at the same time (that's purely coincidence i guess), but rather that apoptygma of all bands were played upstairs at all. :(

actually, at one point there was a lot of "mid-floor music" being played up there... :mad: that said, i didn't make any requests, so i shouldn't really moan.

[alicia_ahh]

problem, I guess, is not that the DJs were bored or something, much rather that they don't have a clue of what to play, as the regular upstairs-DJs were not there.
ahhh... read this after posting. explains it a bit more now. ;)

i should probably pay a bit more attention in future...:rolleyes:

[ecclecticbb]

Monolith - Disco Buddha...,

Sooo, you did stay till the last tune!;)

I danced to Kiew, Seinwolf(Cheers to Mak for that tuuuuuuuuuune-not a request, he just played it), Hypnoskull,...

But I spent lots of time talking (yes! me talking!!!:eek:) utter absurd rubbish with people. Then again, Horny Simon sets are not my stuff and did not make the effort for Panic, neither.

I just thought I would give it a go a trying to talk to my dear wasted Veronika and, damn, we had a laugh!:p

[snoww_wwhite]

did anyone else make the switch from the top floor to the middle floor when apoptygma bezerk were played upstairs(!!!!), only to discover that they were being played on the middle floor, too?

it's not so much that the same band were being played on both floors at the same time (that's purely coincidence i guess), but rather that apoptygma of all bands were played upstairs at all. :(

actually, at one point there was a lot of "mid-floor music" being played up there... :mad: that said, i didn't make any requests, so i shouldn't really moan.


not many of the DJ upstairs take requests at all.
otherwise i will request SPK, Klinik, Dive and Portion Control soon to name but a few random ones.

[CIW]

Sooo, you did stay till the last tune!;)

I danced to Kiew, Seinwolf(Cheers to Mak for that tuuuuuuuuuune-not a request, he just played it), Hypnoskull,...

But I spent lots of time talking (yes! me talking!!!:eek:) utter absurd rubbish with people. Then again, Horny Simon sets are not my stuff and did not make the effort for Panic, neither.

I just thought I would give it a go a trying to talk to my dear wasted Veronika and, damn, we had a laugh!:p

yeah, stayed till the end there.
paid 5 pounds for a garbage night, so I thought I might as well stay.

Disco Buddha has been played twice though, first time you weren't there yet I think :P

[ecclecticbb]

Disco Buddha has been played twice though, first time you weren't there yet I think :P

*cough, cough*

I got there pretty late due to chatting to one of my best friends...

I won't do again the 3am arrival. 4 and a half hours of Freedom a week is not enough...:(

[dythlan]

The problem is it does not matter who is djing, you can not please all the crowd all the time.

Some nights are harsh and noisey, others wont be.
If it is not to your exact ipod requirement tough, go speak to people for a while, make some new friends or just dance you are going for a night out to escape from your weekly routine, just go and have a good evening ffs.

While everyone was at Infest Pete, Mark, Myself and Sheila played harsh noise upstairs all night with Mak finishing the evening. In my opinion it was the best music i have ever heard at Slimelight Mark and Pete were incredible.

Some nights i dislike the music, some nights i love the music. Just dont take it too seriously and dont expect everything you want to hear, you will only ever get that at home.

[Flux]

Y'know, tis rubbish I missed that night, from what I heard it sounded all good *poot*

Considering venturing down this weekend tho mate...will Mark & your good self be playing?

[dythlan]

I am not playing for a little while, i have my mom over from S.A, i was thinking of taking her out clubbing , i dont think she will like the music. :p

[Flux]

Oh I dunno, you could always chuck in an Enya track or something ;)

[SP]

Pete couldn't praise you and Mark enough for that set you did on the Anti-Infest night ... awesome!! ;)

[Zesty]

Pete couldn't praise you and Mark enough for that set you did on the Anti-Infest night ... awesome!! ;)
Couldn't agree more.

[untermensch]

Pete couldn't praise you and Mark enough for that set you did on the Anti-Infest night ... awesome!! ;)

Haha, looks like the vodka really did work! :D

[dythlan]

I guess this means Untermensch and I are going to have to have another battle.

It just means Mark will get owned.
:p

[Flux]

I guess this means Untermensch and I are going to have to have another battle.

It just means Mark will get owned.
:p

Dooooooooooooo eeeeeeeet!

[Zesty]

I guess this means Untermensch and I are going to have to have another battle.

Like ninjas? :D

[CIW]

EBM upstairs = won't please any upstairs regular who're there for upstairs regular music.

apart from that, where from SA? :P

[Byakhiam]

There is no point to have EBM on the top in 3-floor night, since there is usually much EBM on the middle floor and EBM-lovers (like me) won't be on the top anyhow. EBM could be on the top on 2-floor nights, when the lower floor is having long sets of trad goth / metal played.

In any case, more inter-DJ coordination could be in order, so the DJs have some kind of idea what kind of stuff is going on at the other floor and play accordingly. Or DJ slots assigned in such a way that there wouldn't be too much of an overlap in styles. Or whatever.

[Flux]

In any case, more inter-DJ coordination could be in order, so the DJs have some kind of idea what kind of stuff is going on at the other floor and play accordingly. Or DJ slots assigned in such a way that there wouldn't be too much of an overlap in styles. Or whatever.

Hehe, nice idea but to summarise in three words:

Never...gonna...happen.

[Guy13]

Hehe, nice idea but to summarise in three words:

Never...gonna...happen.

More likely to see a squadron of flying pigs in full RAF colours...

[SP]

More likely to see a squadron of flying pigs in full RAF colours...
... or Guy13 in a pink skirt! lol

[Guy13]

... or Guy13 in a pink skirt! lol

You never know... *wiggles eyebrows* ;)

[nulunu]

The problem is it does not matter who is djing, you can not please all the crowd all the time.

if you push this argument too far, you can as well play reggae.

Some nights are harsh and noisey, others wont be.

but there should be some sort of minimum level of noisyness for the floor to keep its character. I mean you can go elsewhere to get (better!) techno, and at the other end of the corridor to get EBM (which is fine, just not on all floors). well at least if it's not like last week's every week...

While everyone was at Infest Pete, Mark, Myself and Sheila played harsh noise upstairs all night with Mak finishing the evening. In my opinion it was the best music i have ever heard at Slimelight Mark and Pete were incredible.

damn. hope the next good night is not during maschinenfest! :)

[CIW]

well, it was similar like last week.

Lahannya's sets were good, the other ones more Ibiza again, especially from that bold-headed DJ. He should NOT play upstairs by any means.

The other one (I think Steve's his name) was better than above mentioned one, some songs ok.

Hope the other DJs who are currently unavailable will be back soon, so everything will be normal schedule again. *hopes*

[electronaught]

Perhaps they should be pointed in the direction of this thread. Does anyone know how long the regular DJ's are away for?

well, it was similar like last week.

Lahannya's sets were good, the other ones more Ibiza again, especially from that bold-headed DJ. He should NOT play upstairs by any means.

The other one (I think Steve's his name) was better than above mentioned one, some songs ok.

Hope the other DJs who are currently unavailable will be back soon, so everything will be normal schedule again. *hopes*

[untermensch]

No promises yet, but next weekend GassMann (aka Uwe) should be back. Also, I will see if there's any room for me because I'm itching to play :P

[splatgirl]

Does anyone know how long the regular DJ's are away for?

Pete should be back next week, he's been tied up for a while.

[snoww_wwhite]

okay i danced all night like the bloody loon that i am but i have to say, i hated most of the music. i know i give the wrong signals, well tough.

i had a major traumatic event in my life and whats more, it was DerOberst and my engangement night.


so there, yeah, he proposed at slimelight.


now how dedicated is that?


so would the DJ please just for one night come off their high horse and play something us old slimelight regulars can actually relate to?


should i make a playlist for them as they are obviously too disinterested to know

(yeah Mak, i actually liked your set in the beginning, so you are excluded from the rant [this time] ;) )

please take pitty on us.


or even better, ask DerOberst to DJ ;)

[CIW]

if DerOberst will play a whole night, I have to sue him for my broken body afterwards :D

[phantasm]

The music this week was just bad. No wonder the Goths who arrived late left early...
Since when has stuff like System of a Down been Goth, EBM or anything like? Leave it to the (Nu) Metallers, it's no more than they deserve.
10 or so Goth tracks in 6 hours?????
Small wonder that Goths have a rep for being mopey, we never get to hear 'our' stuff! (Unless there's a three floor of course.)

[ecclecticbb]

The music this week was just bad. No wonder the Goths who arrived late left early...
Since when has stuff like System of a Down been Goth, EBM or anything like? Leave it to the (Nu) Metallers, it's no more than they deserve.
10 or so Goth tracks in 6 hours?????
Small wonder that Goths have a rep for being mopey, we never get to hear 'our' stuff! (Unless there's a three floor of course.)

Mmmmhh...
After creating the thread asking if Goth/After Punk was dead, I did some investigation and found out that actually London seems to be quite served as for Goth nights. There are quite a few, so I came to the conclusion that having a 3 floors night with one of the floors dedicated to Trad Goth was ok since there is already lots other places to attend that cather for that style.

Now, for EBM(which as already said) and Industrial/Noise/Powernoise/whatever-name-you-want-to-give it, there are so little that if you really like this sort of music, you are in deep s***t in London.

[ecclecticbb]

(yeah Mak, i actually liked your set in the beginning, so you are excluded from the rant [this time] ;)

So when I asked him for Seinwolf and he said he had played it earlier on, he was not joking????:confused:

Well, Mak ended Slime nicely and with that tuuuuuuuuuuune by Noisex. you know the one...

Hey, couple, congratulations!:)

[snoww_wwhite]

if DerOberst will play a whole night, I have to sue him for my broken body afterwards :D


well, not sure if he would do a whole night or at all... just said that because i so want a great night again for once at slimelight.

now i know he "could" DJ a lot of stuff that is varied and could please more people than just the ultra hardcore power electronics people.

[ecclecticbb]

well, not sure if he would do a whole night or at all... just said that because i so want a great night again for once at slimelight.

now i know he "could" DJ a lot of stuff that is varied and could please more people than just the ultra hardcore power electronics people.

Snowwy, do not forget you have missed terribly good nights at Slimelight in the past months... We cannot always win.

I have a sweet friend who actually have been djing in known clubs in Ibiza for the past 8 years. He is craving to come to Slimelight since I lent him some music and he liked it. I will only believe Slimelight plays Ibiza Techno when he will confirm it to me...;)

[snoww_wwhite]

So when I asked him for Seinwolf and he said he had played it earlier on, he was not joking????:confused:

Well, Mak ended Slime nicely and with that tuuuuuuuuuuune by Noisex. you know the one...

Hey, couple, congratulations!:)

thankies.
we couldnt stay til the end.. rarely can these days. we arrive as early as we can though in order to catch the few good pieces of music

usually its Francesca who keeps us very happy bunnies...


i mean i think i said it plenty of times. everybody accepts if there is a few tracks here and there that arent to taste etc but its the long hours of rubbish that we go through that make it actually less and less enticing for anybody who likes industrial ...


(waits for the wild discussion v 356789008654433 on what industrial really is ;) )

[snoww_wwhite]

Mmmmhh...
After creating the thread asking if Goth/After Punk was dead, I did some investigation and found out that actually London seems to be quite served as for Goth nights. There are quite a few, so I came to the conclusion that having a 3 floors night with one of the floors dedicated to Trad Goth was ok since there is already lots other places to attend that cather for that style.

Now, for EBM(which as already said) and Industrial/Noise/Powernoise/whatever-name-you-want-to-give it, there are so little that if you really like this sort of music, you are in deep s***t in London.


yes indeed you are but make it old ebm/industrial/matrial/neofolk.. then there are exactly zero clubs.

it could be the thing for the top floor, even if it was only happening once a month or so but for gawds sake there are so many generic and techno dance clubs..

and they got better toilets too ;)

(do i sound like a broken record? - hell yeah but at least its an industrial one ;) )

[nulunu]

well, it was similar like last week.

missing the first few hours, it felt better, like half bad half good sets, but still not it. funny how I found Feindflug sound out of character on the top floor even if I elsewhere would like it. (not the most out of character thing played of course.)

[electronaught]

Do you think he could and Slimelight could be persuaded to go a regular set?

if DerOberst will play a whole night, I have to sue him for my broken body afterwards :D

[CIW]

missing the first few hours, it felt better, like half bad half good sets, but still not it. funny how I found Feindflug sound out of character on the top floor even if I elsewhere would like it. (not the most out of character thing played of course.)

yeah, Feindflug is odd upstairs, though imho it suits upstairs better than middle floor, and I still danced to it (as it was my fave song from FF - Leitbild)

But seriously, stuff like "SITD" upstairs etc. should be banned and only played on the EBM floor. Don't know about others, but I guess that the middle floor was and still is for EBM/synthpop/futurepop/whatthehellpop and not the upper floor

hell, if there are no regular upstairs DJs available for whichever reasons, just get other DJs suitable for upstairs, I bet there are a lot who would like to play in Slimes. And in the odd case that not, just announce that there are no regular upstairs DJs available IN ADVANCE

[electronaught]

Good idea.


hell, if there are no regular upstairs DJs available for whichever reasons, just get other DJs suitable for upstairs, I bet there are a lot who would like to play in Slimes. And in the odd case that not, just announce that there are no regular upstairs DJs available IN ADVANCE

[DerOberst]

Hmmmm !Yeah I would love to do a set in slimes!!Maybe if me and snowwy move back down south I will ask mak!!I have been asked if i would dj for one of the hinoema events so you never know!!!!
As regard to ebm music naahhh you Rarely hear proper EBM in slimes,The diluted crap they play on the middle floor is NOT EBM Trust me I was one of the first djs in england to play ebm.The club I used to work at you would hear the likes of,young gods,A;grumh,front 242 (Official version era)consolidated,foetus,daf,thrill kill kult,borghesia,click click,portion control,skinny puppy,throbbing gristle,kmfdm(up to naive era)test dept,nitzer ebb,hoodlum priest,spk,cabaret voltaire,Ebn,manufacture,clock dva.I could go on and on!!!It a real shame the waythe top floor goes when there is a serious lack of djs(ie francesca,pete,untermensch,dylan,matt noise)But put it this way if I wea on the deck I WILL CHURN YER BOWELSS!!!!

[phantasm]

Mmmmhh...
actually London seems to be quite served as for Goth nights. There are quite a few, so I came to the conclusion that having a 3 floors night with one of the floors dedicated to Trad Goth was ok since there is already lots other places to attend that cather for that style.



Which is fine if you actually live in London.

If you don't, like me, and your local Goth night seems to have moved itself to Ibiza, it's not so much fun. I do support it as much as I can, but it's getting more than tedious.

Everyone else is allowed to have a whinge about 'their' music not getting played, why not the 'trads'? (I hate that word).
While I'm at it, hardly any punk is played anymore, shame that. Is that the way that Goth is heading in Slimelight too?

More three floors please!

[Guy13]

But put it this way if I wea on the deck I WILL CHURN YER BOWELSS!!!!

Power electronics goatse! ;)

[Byakhiam]

On two floor nights the middle floor tends to have a set of crossover indu-metal and the first (10-11/11.30) and the last (6/6.30-7.30) set tends to be goth, fairly trad even, as far as I understand it. So, the middle floor is by no means only new EBM/synthpop floor.

For last saturday, I thought they had it down quite well for EBM/synthpop likers, since when they started doing that indu-metal thing on the middle, they had Steve playing upstairs and although it wasn't powernoise at all, at least it wasn't Ibiza either, but rather something very suitable for Slimelight, if just more appropriate on the middle.

Although, I really do agree that the outright techno you get now and then on the top, like the first set on top last Saturday, is just so out of place in gothic-industrial club. Like I've surely said before, I'm sure even the regulars would prefer new EBM over some techno rubbish.

---

PS. Congratulations to the rivet couple too. :)

[Loki]

On two floor nights the middle floor tends to have a set of crossover indu-metal and the first (10-11/11.30) and the last (6/6.30-7.30) set tends to be goth, fairly trad even, as far as I understand it. So, the middle floor is by no means only new EBM/synthpop floor.

is just so out of place in gothic-industrial club. Like I've surely said before, I'm sure even the regulars would prefer new EBM over some techno rubbish.

. :)

Time I said something, as a DJ I try to keep everyone as happy as possible. My first set was a mixture of Goth/Neo Folk/EBM trying to cover the wide taste of Slimelight. (ps I remember when NeoFolk was called Goth)

I do get asked for NuMetal etc, the answer to that is I don't like it, I am certainly not going to buy it or play it, as in my opinion I just don't think it is for Slimes (but it is just my opinion).

As for my last set, yes indeed it was mostly Goth; the reason being there were a number of request for it; and people had moaned at me complaining there had been very little played most of the night.
I did check the set list at 6 when I was due to start my last set and found in my opinion there wasn't a great deal played apart from a fair bit from Sheila.

So that is my reason for the last set quite goth

I have just posted my set list on the Slimelight DJ's thread, so feel free to comment

[DerOberst]

Time I said something, as a DJ I try to keep everyone as happy as possible. My first set was a mixture of Goth/Neo Folk/EBM trying to cover the wide taste of Slimelight. (ps I remember when NeoFolk was called Goth)


No complaint from us mate:)Yeah I remeber when neofolk was called goth or indie!!Always liked your sets sir:)

[snoww_wwhite]

Do you think he could and Slimelight could be persuaded to go a regular set?


only he could tell if he would like to but i know he could as he know shitloads of music and used to DJ in his shady past ;)

[snoww_wwhite]

On two floor nights the middle floor tends to have a set of crossover indu-metal and the first (10-11/11.30) and the last (6/6.30-7.30) set tends to be goth, fairly trad even, as far as I understand it. So, the middle floor is by no means only new EBM/synthpop floor.

For last saturday, I thought they had it down quite well for EBM/synthpop likers, since when they started doing that indu-metal thing on the middle, they had Steve playing upstairs and although it wasn't powernoise at all, at least it wasn't Ibiza either, but rather something very suitable for Slimelight, if just more appropriate on the middle.

Although, I really do agree that the outright techno you get now and then on the top, like the first set on top last Saturday, is just so out of place in gothic-industrial club. Like I've surely said before, I'm sure even the regulars would prefer new EBM over some techno rubbish.

---

PS. Congratulations to the rivet couple too. :)

thankoo

celebrations will happen at some stage in the future.. not sure when yet.

i agree with the call for ebm.
i agree with the complaint about too much techno
i dont think the very first sets either on the middle floor or the top floor were too bad, both Loki and Mak played stuff i was very happy with..

... shame it went downhill all the way from there.

[snoww_wwhite]

Time I said something, as a DJ I try to keep everyone as happy as possible. My first set was a mixture of Goth/Neo Folk/EBM trying to cover the wide taste of Slimelight. (ps I remember when NeoFolk was called Goth)

I do get asked for NuMetal etc, the answer to that is I don't like it, I am certainly not going to buy it or play it, as in my opinion I just don't think it is for Slimes (but it is just my opinion).

As for my last set, yes indeed it was mostly Goth; the reason being there were a number of request for it; and people had moaned at me complaining there had been very little played most of the night.
I did check the set list at 6 when I was due to start my last set and found in my opinion there wasn't a great deal played apart from a fair bit from Sheila.

So that is my reason for the last set quite goth

I have just posted my set list on the Slimelight DJ's thread, so feel free to comment


well, i usually find some stuff in your sets that are just spot on.. and yeah, i remember neofolk being called goth but its not played in the normal goth clubs either.

actually i was going to ask you if you could play Little Black Angel some time as it seems the more dancier song by Death In June.

also i always thought that youre quite right at upholding the goth element at slimelight.. thats what the club advertises to be..

i still think, being so damn rivet compliant myself, that i would love to hear much much much more old style ebm, martial, neowhatsits and industrial.. the older stuff that scares most of the glowy perkies ;)

[Flux]

Flux's not-so-subliminal message of the day...

PLAY MORE MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO!!

That is all ;)

[Byakhiam]

Time I said something, as a DJ I try to keep everyone as happy as possible. My first set was a mixture of Goth/Neo Folk/EBM trying to cover the wide taste of Slimelight. (ps I remember when NeoFolk was called Goth)

I do get asked for NuMetal etc, the answer to that is I don't like it, I am certainly not going to buy it or play it, as in my opinion I just don't think it is for Slimes (but it is just my opinion).

As for my last set, yes indeed it was mostly Goth; the reason being there were a number of request for it; and people had moaned at me complaining there had been very little played most of the night.
I did check the set list at 6 when I was due to start my last set and found in my opinion there wasn't a great deal played apart from a fair bit from Sheila.

So that is my reason for the last set quite goth

I have just posted my set list on the Slimelight DJ's thread, so feel free to comment

I wasn't complaining that there was trad goth about, not at all. Just pointing out that middle floor is not solely EBM/synthpop floor, as some people like to think. Even if trad goth isn't exactly my thing, it is one of those things that there should be in Slimelight, in my opinion.

I think you are doing very good job as a DJ. :)

PS. So there is indeed a set-list of what has been played before available for the DJs? I should have guessed that already, as it's not too common to have exact same songs on same floor twice in a night... Then again, one wonders why us mortals can't have setlists too. :D

[DerOberst]

Flux's not-so-subliminal message of the day...

PLAY MORE MEAT BEAT MANIFESTO!!

That is all ;)
Fuck yeah I'm with you on that feller!!!Strap down and dog star man where always favourites of mine:)

[Flux]

Oh yhus! Jack Dangers is a god!

I reckons I might have to be listening to some MBM on the way to work tomorrow (^_^)

[Sin-RazorAngel]

it.was.shit
that.is.all

p.s i vote we clone francesca and unter and dylan etc so that the bastards can't leave us alone again
yes we are their lovesick children and long for their return

and if you are reading this i am damaged by your absence
i think it's permanent

and it AIN'T.PRETTY

goes back to biting tables

[DerOberst]

it.was.shit
that.is.all

p.s i vote we clone francesca and unter and dylan etc so that the bastards can't leave us alone again
yes we are their lovesick children and long for their return

and if you are reading this i am damaged by your absence
i think it's permanent

and it AIN'T.PRETTY

goes back to biting tables

yup dire aint the word sis!!!Though I enjoyed the biting of the table:)

[untermensch]

Looks like this Saturday should be alright! Just waiting for confirmation of DJs...

[Sorry, Sin! We will try to be more diligent in our attendance in the futre :]

[Sin-RazorAngel]

Looks like this Saturday should be alright! Just waiting for confirmation of DJs...

[Sorry, Sin! We will try to be more diligent in our attendance in the futre :]


cwies
it wuz owwible unter we wuz scared and disturbed

[untermensch]

unter we wuz scared and disturbed

Oh, we will do our best to keep it that way. Erm, in a GOOD way of course :D

[DerOberst]

Oh, we will do our best to keep it that way. Erm, in a GOOD way of course :DYou better had young mr unter!!Or a jolly good spanking shall be heading your way:P

[Byakhiam]

Yesterday was either the worst Slimelight in a long time or ever even. While some old industrial and crossover / nu-metal is all well and good, three hour-long sets is just overkill in a bad way. Then combine this with a set or two of non-descript 80s-sounding synthpop and add some less danceable trad / punk to the mix. Result = Middle floor suckyness. Then an apparent all-nighter of noise or hard techno passing for noise on the top to crown it up.

So as a result, night that started exceptionally packed was unusually empty by four-fivish...

---

There's always next week, which should be good with Reaper, but a week is a long wait.

[Clodia]

Yesterday was either the worst Slimelight in a long time or ever even. While some old industrial and crossover / nu-metal is all well and good, three hour-long sets is just overkill in a bad way. Then combine this with a set or two of non-descript 80s-sounding synthpop and add some less danceable trad / punk to the mix. Result = Middle floor suckyness. Then an apparent all-nighter of noise or hard techno passing for noise on the top to crown it up.

So as a result, night that started exceptionally packed was unusually empty by four-fivish...

---

There's always next week, which should be good with Reaper, but a week is a long wait.

Whose set was this?

I really wanted to go, but, well, didn't. Though I wanted to see how Sonya's set was and what she played given she's from a metal band.

[unbeliever]

dammit - that description of the middle floor makes it sound like it could have been my ideal type of night... if you change the nu-metal to coldwave / industrial metal

[industrialwarrior]

top floor was powernoise all night, was it? sounds like top floor was top notch then.... shame i missed it.... *sigh*

still i'm there for reaper....

[Flux]

You didn't really miss much tbh...unfortunately it all started to sound the same.

The night was saved for me by the attendance of people I hadn't seen in YEARS :) But otherwise it was a "sit around chatting" kinda night.

[Blink]

The night was saved for me by the attendance of people I hadn't seen in YEARS :) But otherwise it was a "sit around chatting" kinda night.

Slimes is turning into that for me too.

Maybe we are getting old :eek:

[Byakhiam]

Whose set was this?

I really wanted to go, but, well, didn't. Though I wanted to see how Sonya's set was and what she played given she's from a metal band.

Well, I only got there at half twelve or so, so I missed the first sets, but in the time I was there, Francesca played one set and Lahannya two sets of the old indu / metal stuff and now that you mention it, there was some woman DJ I hadn't seen before, so there might have been four sets of this stuff. Jeeze...

unfortunately it all started to sound the same.

Exactamundo. I can get into pounding noisy stuff at times, but not when it's a garbled mess of endless bass and screeching.

[ecclecticbb]

Maybe we are getting old :eek:

You certainly are, like everybody else.:rolleyes:

I guess...

Or maybe not??:confused:

[Flux]

Slimes is turning into that for me too.

Maybe we are getting old :eek:

Yup, I reckons we are.

Actually, I have a theory that it's also to do with the fact that the when you have hours & hours of noise blasted at you, you really do notice that the vast majority sounds more than a tad similar...this is why you want it broken up with some variety...but then hey, what do I know?

[Blink]

Actually, I have a theory that it's also to do with the fact that the when you have hours & hours of noise blasted at you, you really do notice that the vast majority sounds more than a tad similar...this is why you want it broken up with some variety...but then hey, what do I know?

I have postulated that theory for quite a while now, and yet, there do seem to be a certain amount of noise-heads who would seem to disagree.

Anyone would have thought we lived in a democracy, letting people disagree with my opinions!!


You certainly are, like everybody else.
I guess...
Or maybe not??

I have found the secret of eternal youth, and much to the annoyance of my girlfriend, it is Pizza, Beer and Football. All of which, if consumed in large amounts, keep your skin looking young and healthy.

[snoww_wwhite]

Yup, I reckons we are.

Actually, I have a theory that it's also to do with the fact that the when you have hours & hours of noise blasted at you, you really do notice that the vast majority sounds more than a tad similar...this is why you want it broken up with some variety...but then hey, what do I know?


i said that many times.

aparently Gassmann's set was more than just decent and he even brought out a few really nice classics like Skinny Puppy.

I also find Lahanya's sets more varied and therefore usually quite alright.

was missing the beginning as Francesca's first hours are usually the best on the night.

and i have to say i was not impressed with what Industrial Freak was trying to do.. i got bored with the music he played.. i always do and yet i know he can do sooooo sooo soooo much better.

[untermensch]

Yep, Gassmann lay down lots of oldschool stuff, good man!

[snoww_wwhite]

Yep, Gassmann lay down lots of oldschool stuff, good man!


a yeah, i forgot about yow...


yeah alright, you didnt do too bad either.



(hand over that tenner now!)


;-)

[untermensch]

I didn't play!

Well except after the PCP Principle I stuck a CD in because Uwe wasn't ready yet :p hahaha

[Byakhiam]

Yep, Gassmann lay down lots of oldschool stuff, good man!

As said, nothing against old school stuff, as long as it's not the only stuff.

The beauty of Slimelight is in the variety, not in same sort of stuff for hours and hours and hours.

[untermensch]

As said, nothing against old school stuff, as long as it's not the only stuff.

The beauty of Slimelight is in the variety, not in same sort of stuff for hours and hours and hours.

You hardly ever hear nice oldschool stuff upstairs at Slimes. It definitely wasn't the same for hours and hours!

[industrialwarrior]

untermensch: are you dj'ing this coming sat (9th)?

[untermensch]

untermensch: are you dj'ing this coming sat (9th)?

There is a nasty rumour going around to that effect :)

[Byakhiam]

You hardly ever hear nice oldschool stuff upstairs at Slimes. It definitely wasn't the same for hours and hours!

Ah, we're talking the top floor here. The hours and hours part would rather refer to the middle last week.

I wasn't on the top for very long, but I went up several times for like a few minutes each time and every time the music was the same. Either I was phenomenally unlucky or the music on the top was just hours of the same last weekend. And I've been on the top enough times to know that it does vary enough for me to hear usually. ;)

[Dj_GASsMANn]

yea, just to settle things - i was in a nostalgic mood for various reasons. So I decided to play a few select old classics from the early 90's onwards from the beginning's of my club dj'ing quests down south... it almost brings tears to my eyes how time flies!

Surprisingly, I got an overwhelming positive response form a lot of people on the night, so who knows, I might just play some more classics when I'm down again for NYE.

Cheers Unter for starting the set off, I was kinda caught off guard since PCP principle finished his gig 15 minutes early. Not quite sure what the track was u played but heres what I did after that from what I can remember... in no particular order (after the Architect track)

Numb - Shit hammer
Skinny Puppy - inquisition 12" mix
Orphx - Nullity
Xebox - Industrial Pop
Cubanate - Angeltrance
Haujobb - Clear vision
Architect - ICL feeling
---
Feindflug - Kalte unschuld
Terrorfact - Ausland Rmx
Terrorfact - Arsenal (EC mic)
Tom Wax - My deffinition (Soman mix)
Noisuf X - Jesebel
Noisuf X - Tinnitus
Converter - Domination (Lm)
Promethius Burning - Some things
P.R.O.E - Antiglabalist1
Monolith - The wisdom of Prophets (MF comp)
Vitalic - LaRock
VSB - motorhertz
Stahlfrequenz - First Nightmare
Manufactura - Forever darkness
Manafactura - Killing you
5F_55 - 4C2E....

[dythlan]

Nice set Uwe, nice to see you can still play some wicked stuff.

Mark, i head a rumour that you were going to get shown up this weekend!

:)

[Phoenix]

I do enjoy the trad goth floor; but at times last Saturday the music was just wrong, EBM on a trad floor. . Why??
No wonder the floor was almost empty at times.
Why does the girl DJ have to be so arrogant, she seems to ignore request; I've asked her before on previous 3 floors, but it's normally "I'll play request if I like them".
I've held back until now but it's just too much, she seems to be so egotistical, and as the night goes on, drunk and rude as well.
Well that's my opinion; and by the number who walked out of the room when she was being a DJ others thought the same!

[Phoenix]

I have to say it. I was not happy with the trad floor this week.
Why does Vicky play so few request, I've asked for request before and at best I get "I only play request I like”. . Well thanks for that!!
I was under the understanding that providing it was the right music for the floor it would be played; the other DJ's don't seem to have a problem with that!
And as far as the right music for the floor, why play EBM, perhaps you could answer that.
Also if you are going to DJ, don't be so arrogant, and try drinking less may make it more pleasant.
I hate having to go on like this, but this happens every 3 floor lately; I know I am not the only one who feels this way as there were a fair number who walked out, and some said they were going to complain before they left.
Can someone from Slimelight please sort this out?

[Fenbane]

"I only play request I like”. .

I can't recall ever saying that in five years of DJing. I will admit that if I *really* don't like a song I a) won't have it with me and b) will be very reluctant to play it. I play music I personally like; because that is what I have specialist knowledge in and from experience others will like it too. That is how a DJ ends up with their own 'style'. I do play songs which I'm not totally in love with but if I really can't stand it I won't play it. Furthermore I'd rather be honest and say I don't have/won't play a track, rather than lie to people like the majority of DJs I’ve made requests to. Don't forget there are two more DJs on that floor, with different tastes from my own. If a DJ doesn't play something I ask for I don't get shitty with them, instead I respect their decision, hope they'll play something else I like and write it down on the request list hoping the other DJs will play it.

You must be mistaken with me playing EBM on the Trad Floor. I play a fair bit of darkwave/electro-goth e.g. Diary of Dreams, The Crüxshadows, etc) but not full on doof-doof EBM. It would be much appreciated if you could point out which tracks in my setlist (published elsewhere on this forum) you consider to be EBM. I'll admit Dream Disciples – Room 57 is a tad EBM to some but I've decided to not play it again. It's a track I don't like much but often gets requested.

Out of interest I'd like to know what you requested and then I could detail my reasons for not playing it. I mark requests on my setlists, so you can see how many I play. Sometimes the request I get won’t get a full enough dance floor for the time of night or won’t fit a set, and therefore it gets rejected. If I don't have a track with me I usually endeavour to get hold of it for the next Slimes, thus tailoring my CD collection to the Slimelight audience (as any good DJ should).

It would be nice if you introduced yourself at the next three floor Slimes too.

FYI: I don't drink very much when I DJ, I find I can't concentrate and make mistakes when drunk. Of course this means I must deal with drunken people when sober….. I'm only ever off with people if they come into the DJ box and/or try to interrupt me when I'm working or they're pushy with requests. Be nice and I'm doubly nice back :)

[Fairy Hag]

You can't argue with that!! Perhaps Phoenix needs to drink less!!
And Vicky - You've always come up trumps when I've made a request and not once been "arrogant" or "rude"

[phantasm]

'You must be mistaken with me playing EBM on the Trad Floor.'

I don't think so, I've walked away from the trad floor a few times because of it. If it's EBM I want, I go to the middle floor. I believe that's what it's there for?

'FYI: I don't drink very much when I DJ,'

Ok, so you once tried to stove a girls head in whilst sober? Not good....

Desperately hoping that Sunday night is a good 'un....

[Phoenix]

well in my opinion such things as Diary of Dreams, The Crüxshadows are good bands, but not on a trad goth floor . like . .darkwave . and I'm sure I've heard you play Blutengel as well again not a bad band, but not for the trad floor. And what the hell was going on playing the Awakening - dark romance . . . it is NOT trad goth, the clue is in the word trad as in Traditional, perhaps you're too young to understand.
If I want to hear Awakening and other stuff like rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, again I would go to the middle floor when the girl who's name begins with L is DJ which I would not, as I don't go to Slimes to hear that crap, and those last bands should never be played there.
You say "Sometimes the request I get won’t get a full enough dance floor" well you sure emptied it last time you played and to be honest a good number people were complaining . . it's a trad floor, so play that, not your darkwave electro etc

[Decline]

'You must be mistaken with me playing EBM on the Trad Floor.'

I don't think so, I've walked away from the trad floor a few times because of it. If it's EBM I want, I go to the middle floor. I believe that's what it's there for?

'FYI: I don't drink very much when I DJ,'

Ok, so you once tried to stove a girls head in whilst sober? Not good....

Desperately hoping that Sunday night is a good 'un....

ahahahah sunday? for the last 3 times in 7 years of slime have been lame, playing RAMSTEIN AND NIN in what is supposed to be TRAD (stands for tradistional lol ) floor really sucks!
no need to say anything about sunday another great performance that managed to empty the dancefloor by playing "NU" goth ...
thank you for ruining NYE night and we even payed money for that...

just a reminder
you are a deejay WORKING not having fun so if you are destined to the TRAD goth floor well people expect you to play TRAD goth stuff... it's your JOB as a deejay to get people to listen AND dance AND enjoy the music they payed for.
cheers

[BaronSamedi]

I have to say it. I was not happy with the trad floor this week.
Why does Vicky play so few request, I've asked for request before and at best I get "I only play request I like”. . Well thanks for that!!
I was under the understanding that providing it was the right music for the floor it would be played; the other DJ's don't seem to have a problem with that!
And as far as the right music for the floor, why play EBM, perhaps you could answer that.
Also if you are going to DJ, don't be so arrogant, and try drinking less may make it more pleasant.
I hate having to go on like this, but this happens every 3 floor lately; I know I am not the only one who feels this way as there were a fair number who walked out, and some said they were going to complain before they left.
Can someone from Slimelight please sort this out?

To be honest, I hardly leave the bottom floor & I enjoy Vicky's sets more than most. I've never heard anything that I would describe as EBM - I'm pretty sure I would notice as I can't stand it. Maybe they watch me and wait until I'm at the bar or in the Khazi?

I've never spoken to Vicki so I don't have a clue about how sober / polite she is. However if someone is shouting because it's loud others might take that wrongly as agression - it's happened to me.

[Decline]

To be honest, I hardly leave the bottom floor & I enjoy Vicky's sets more than most. I've never heard anything that I would describe as EBM - I'm pretty sure I would notice as I can't stand it. Maybe they watch me and wait until I'm at the bar or in the Khazi?

I've never spoken to Vicki so I don't have a clue about how sober / polite she is. However if someone is shouting because it's loud others might take that wrongly as agression - it's happened to me.

I honestly know that some people have been answered to quite abruptly and I know for a fact that she punched somebody whilst deejaying.
apart from that you probably must have been one of the 3 people dancing not longer that a month ago when she managed to empty the whole room.
:)
greets

[BaronSamedi]

Oh you should never punch someone

once

it's inefficient

;)

[Flux]

I know for a fact that she punched somebody whilst deejaying.

Interesting...do you know why this person was punched? I'd imagine they'd have had to be doing something to warrant such an action?...

[Phoenix]

Interesting...do you know why this person was punched? I'd imagine they'd have had to be doing something to warrant such an action?...

yes they did do something, they were with Vickys ex boyfriend ! that is just unexceptable behaviour as far as I am concerned

[Byakhiam]

The floor was packed full on Vicky's second set at least on NYE. Besides, it's hardly a "Nu Goth Set" with about three or four songs that are made after 1990. :p

[BaronSamedi]

yes they did do something, they were with Vickys ex boyfriend ! that is just unexceptable behaviour as far as I am concerned

Oh poor lamb. Did he cry? Why is being Vickys ex-boyfreind unacceptable?

[Phoenix]

Oh poor lamb. Did he cry? Why is being Vickys ex-boyfreind unacceptable?

No it was just a young girl who was with Vicky's ex, so Vicky gave her a bashing in the toilets, if it was going to be anyone who got hit (and I don't think anyone deserves that) it should have been her ex . . although the clue is in ex.
I think staff acting that way is just not on .. if it was a punter they would have been thrown out!!!

[Fairy Hag]

Phoenix....

If you are continually disappointed with the music/dj's/clientelle then here's an idea.....

FUCK OFF!!!

It seems to me you're on a witch hunt and incapable of making allowances or opening your tiny mind

Since you also seem to be unsociable then why not listen to your fave tunes on your own at home....

Just a suggestion.....

[Flux]

yes they did do something, they were with Vickys ex boyfriend ! that is just unexceptable behaviour as far as I am concerned

Perhaps, but people handle these things differently.
I think the fact that Vicky was djing is a moot point here. I you see someone with your ex there's a chance you're probably gonna be a bit annoyed/upset...remember, there's gonna be a history between them and without the back story as to what happened between Vicky and her ex this whole thing is totally out of context imho.

[Crash_Dark]

Well as long as the punching is beat-matched, what's the problem? :)

[Phoenix]

Phoenix....

If you are continually disappointed with the music/dj's/clientelle then here's an idea.....

FUCK OFF!!!

It seems to me you're on a witch hunt and incapable of making allowances or opening your tiny mind

Since you also seem to be unsociable then why not listen to your fave tunes on your own at home....

Just a suggestion.....

I'm not continually disappointed with the music and dj's, so your limited intelligence want's me to fuck off, well I've been going to slimes for many years so why should I?
I have enjoyed Slimelight over a long time and will continue to do so
I am on no witch hunt (some of my best friends are witches!).
Yes I do have a problem with one dj, not just because of a number of what I class as unsuitable songs, (all dj’s do the odd one, so what) but with her general aggressive attitude towards people as the night goes on is what pisses me off and I’m not the only one

[Flux]

It's probably cuz the "stompy stompy punch punch" is more associated to the top floor ;)

[ecclecticbb]

Pmsl...!!!

[Blink]

Well as long as the punching is beat-matched, what's the problem? :)

Lol.

(apparently posts have to contain at least 10 characters, so I am adding this bit!!)

[Byakhiam]

I'm not sure whose bright idea was to put the combo of Loki-Lahannya-Francesca playing goth-metal-goth in the middle of the night on middle floor last saturday, but it definitely emptied the club efficiently, especially when the top had only noise available before Mak's set.

I bet it is nights like this, that make noise seem so popular, when electro-folks have to go upstairs to catch anything they'd even somewhat like. :p

[ecclecticbb]

I bet it is nights like this, that make noise seem so popular, when electro-folks have to go upstairs to catch anything they'd even somewhat like. :p

Noise is NOT popular!

What Metal was played? Could you name bands or tunes?? I am interested.

You probably would have needed to ask the dj playing it what sort of mood they were on to dj that or why they thought it was a good idea... It is normally their idea to play the music they think suit or they fancy...

[Byakhiam]

What Metal was played? Could you name bands or tunes?? I am interested.

I didn't stay to listen to the whole set, but from experience, I'd bet it included Rob Zombie, Rage Against the Machine, Ministry, Rammstein and other similar bands.

You probably would have needed to ask the dj playing it what sort of mood they were on to dj that or why they thought it was a good idea... It is normally their idea to play the music they think suit or they fancy...

It's not particularly out of place in Slimelight, but too much is too much.

[ecclecticbb]

I didn't stay to listen to the whole set, but from experience, I'd bet it included Rob Zombie, Rage Against the Machine, Ministry, Rammstein and other similar bands.

A part from the fact that none of them is Metal, they(except Rage Against the Machine) were commonly heard a few years back in Slimelight, so this seems to me like a nostalgia set. Basically Byakhiam after all the remarks you make, I come to the conclusion you would have disliked Slimelight a few years ago. Simply it would not have been your cup of tea in those days...

I was on that floor when Rage Against the Machine was playing and the dancefloor was far from being empty.

[Flux]

I think a lot of people who go there these day's would've hated it in it's earlier days...I mean, they used to play the Prodigy, Underworld, Captain Tinrib Nu NRG stuffs and GABBA!! OMFGZZ!!! It's almost like they were playing all that techno stuff before noise was even a little spermtadpole in papa industrial's nutsack ;)

[ecclecticbb]

but it definitely emptied the club efficiently

Why did I overlook this...??:confused:

This was actually one of the most successful and full nights it has had in these days. Although Slimelight is actually fairly full since a few months ago.

Anyway, as I was saying, last saturday there was lots of people around till the end and it was certainly one the nights bouncers had most difficulty in getting people out of the club.

Byakhiam, you seem to have had a strange lapsus this saturday...

[Byakhiam]

A part from the fact that none of them is Metal, they(except Rage Against the Machine) were commonly heard a few years back in Slimelight, so this seems to me like a nostalgia set. Basically Byakhiam after all the remarks you make, I come to the conclusion you would have disliked Slimelight a few years ago. Simply it would not have been your cup of tea in those days...

All the mentioned bands pass for metal for quite a number of people. If I'd want to be pedantic, I'd probably call them industrial-metal. I'd be curious to know what you call them though. Rock?

Also I want to call them metal, because soundwise, if you start looking for bands that sound like Rammstein or Rob Zombie, you need to head down further into metal or resort to some really obscure bands, since their sound has much more in common with metal bands than with bands that these days pass for industrial.

I like industrial-metal in general, just not in Slimelight, firstly because it doesn't fit the mental image of the atmosphere of Slimelight I have and secondly because I know that I'd much rather hear something more electronic. If I'd be in Inferno or some other would-be industrial club, then I'd be completely all right with it, since my expectations musicwise wouldn't be as high.

I was on that floor when Rage Against the Machine was playing and the dancefloor was far from being empty.

If it had been, say, Covenant instead of Rage Against the Machine, I'd bet the crowd would have been doubly thick.

Nor does packed dancefloor during one track change that before the combo Slimelight was more packed than usual for that hour, but after it clearly quieter than usual. If the combo had been a bit more spread out, like say having first Loki, then maybe Steve in between and then followed by Lahannya and Francesca or some other similar interjection of Slimelight "standard fare" electronica, I'd bet many of the regular middle-floorers would have been much happier. It'd have worked perfectly with the hours too, since Steve had a set just after them three, so it'd just had changed the order.

[Byakhiam]

Why did I overlook this...??:confused:

This was actually one of the most successful and full nights it has had in these days. Although Slimelight is actually fairly full since a few months ago.

Anyway, as I was saying, last saturday there was lots of people around till the end and it was certainly one the nights bouncers had most difficulty in getting people out of the club.

I must have been in different Slimelight then. :D

[ecclecticbb]

I like industrial-metal in general, just not in Slimelight, firstly because it doesn't fit the mental image of the atmosphere of Slimelight I have

Enough said!

[ecclecticbb]

I must have been in different Slimelight then. :D

Or very obviously you need glasses!! There were people everywhere and the queue to the clock room reached the bar comfortably even 15 minutes after the music upstairs finished. And I know because I was talking to Matt N upstairs for a few minutes. People would not even go!!! By the way I met Gee and Golgotha in that famous queue.

Also you talked about a set you did not hear in full...

You confuse me or are very confused!!

[snoww_wwhite]

I think a lot of people who go there these day's would've hated it in it's earlier days...I mean, they used to play the Prodigy, Underworld, Captain Tinrib Nu NRG stuffs and GABBA!! OMFGZZ!!! It's almost like they were playing all that techno stuff before noise was even a little spermtadpole in papa industrial's nutsack ;)



noise is a tad older than you might think mistuh

[snoww_wwhite]

i agree with Byakhiam's definition of metal.

if you tell me that you think it is industrial then i shall have to eat your liver with a nice red wine

http://www.willisms.com/archives/lecter.jpg

[Flux]

noise is a tad older than you might think mistuh

Yeah, I know...but it's still relatively new where Slimes in concerned. That's what I was getting at. Probably shoulda been more specific but I am hella tired.

[Byakhiam]

Enough said!

At least I'm honest about it. :p

[Fairy Hag]

Byakhaim, you're complaint (as you freely admit) is that the evening/DJ pattern/set list is not to YOUR personal taste....

Well I love that the likes of Rob Zombie/NIN/RATM/System of a Down etc etc are played. I also love the electro stuff that is played. I also know that I am not alone in this.

As lots of us have said before, you can't please all of the people all of the time and the day that everyone likes every song on every floor every week is a day that will never come!

[Endscape]

i agree with Byakhiam's definition of metal.


Those bands have more in common with metal than industrial. Perhaps metal bands with an industrial influence. Except early ministry which is classic industrial imho and belongs perfectly at Slimelight. As for Rammstein and Rob Zombie it depends on which song is played, in which case I see them fitting in OK at the middle floor. I'm not sure about RATM. I think I heard them played there at NYE. I wasn't there last week so can't really comment. But going by the bands that Mr. B said were played I wouldn't have minded. Even RATM would be a bit of welcome nostalgia but I don't think they really fit in Slimes

[untermensch]

ministry which is classic industrial

If by "classic" you mean "what some people previously mistook for".

No, it's industrial metal. Sure, there's a bit of cross-over, but "classic industrial" came 7 or 8 years before Ministry, in an entirely different form.

[Byakhiam]

Byakhaim, you're complaint (as you freely admit) is that the evening/DJ pattern/set list is not to YOUR personal taste....

Well I love that the likes of Rob Zombie/NIN/RATM/System of a Down etc etc are played. I also love the electro stuff that is played. I also know that I am not alone in this.

As lots of us have said before, you can't please all of the people all of the time and the day that everyone likes every song on every floor every week is a day that will never come!

If you read my complaint more throughly, you'll see that my proposed solution for getting the night better, without changing the sets contents, would have been to just change their order. One hour of sitting around and waiting for a better set to come is easy. Two hours still tolerable. Three hours gets excessive. Especially when you don't know which DJ is going to play when, so you might start already suspect that its not going to ever get better during that night.

[ecclecticbb]

Aaaaaaaaahh...

I get it now...:rolleyes:

Byakhiam is unhappy because there was goth and metal played. And that it was three sets he did not like...

Ok, well, Byakhiam, you are in the wrong club altogether. Goth is part of the club and as said in another thread started by you not long ago, the floor you so like has only recently changed. But...!

There is such a demand for goth that the Trad Goth floor is there more and more often and probably the fact that Goth is being played in the Middle Floor respond to it.

It does not suit your tastes... Tough! It seems that lots of other people want it.

I will not get into the discussion of how Metal Ministry and the rest mentioned are. I have some Friends into Death Metal with an inmense and extensive knowledge of their stuff(Metal in all its variations). And only their opinion on this matter is valid for me as they know what they talk about. How much there is of Industrial/Goth in them is not even the matter... Let us not get all of us pedantic and so classist and music racist. I think they suit the place and they have suited it for years.

I mean, we are not talking about a set where Venom, Pantera, Metallica was heard I see it this way, but then again...

...I am a bloody ignorant. And not more or less than any of you!;)

[Flux]

I remember back to New Years Eve at Slime in *thinks*, fook, must've been about 2000 or something, but anyway, top floor...someone played Fear Factory - Replica. Made my night, and from the reaction on the rest of the dancefloor everyone else seemed to enjoy it too.

There wasn't any point to this post tbh, I just felt like sharing :p

[untermensch]

I remember back to New Years Eve at Slime in *thinks*, fook, must've been about 2000 or something, but anyway, top floor...someone played Fear Factory - Replica. Made my night, and from the reaction on the rest of the dancefloor everyone else seemed to enjoy it too.

There wasn't any point to this post tbh, I just felt like sharing :p

Yeah man, there's nothing more boring as a DJ (and as a regular floor-inhabitor) than to have slight variations on exactly the same music every week. You *need* to throw something out there every now and then that's completely different or out of place. That could be just a track, or maybe a whole different set. Variety is the spice of life, etc. It feels risky to do, kinda like jumping out of a plane or eating my mum's cooking. Adrenaline rush, and a good laugh (possibly on your way to hospital).

Breaking the monotony of thumping choonz with some remixed Scissor Sisters and Short Dick Man over Converter, or Fear Factory, or *anything* that has at least some character to it, just makes the regular programming that bit nicer when it resumes.

I remember once hearing Marilyn Manson blasting upstairs at the same time as Terrorfakt downstairs, total role-reversal. Liven things up a bit. Is nice. I like.

[Byakhiam]

As long as it's somehow connected to the club. So no house, please. ;)

[ecclecticbb]

I remember back to New Years Eve at Slime in *thinks*, fook, must've been about 2000 or something, but anyway, top floor...someone played Fear Factory - Replica. Made my night, and from the reaction on the rest of the dancefloor everyone else seemed to enjoy it too.

There wasn't any point to this post tbh, I just felt like sharing :p

All the point!!

Forgot(how could I??) Fear Factory, which used to be played quite often and before 2000, Mista Flux, with that flow of people rushing into the dancefloor...

Those were the days of "Suffer, bastard...", etc... The days I decided to investigate them and some other Metal bands. Remember that Slimelight introduced me to this world(if only anyone is interested).

Mak used to be the one playing them. About a month ago I think he took them out of his magic cd box... People danced happily cos remember they have 2 albums pretty electronic. And damn f*****g good!

[ecclecticbb]

It feels risky to do, kinda like jumping out of a plane or eating my mum's cooking. Adrenaline rush, and a good laugh (possibly on your way to hospital).

:confused::confused:

Huh?:)

[industrialwarrior]

Fear Factory = fab!! Anything from the Demanufacture album and I'm there (esp Pisschrist...)

I'm a metalhead too so whenever I catch any kind of industrial metal sets on the mid-floor I'm quite happy with it. In fact I can tolerate most stuff; just not so much of the trad-goth cos it gets kinda dreary (for me). I like goth-rock, with some guitars in there (see, that's the metal in me once again) that's quite up-tempo, but the slow stuff... no thanks. not my thing. neither is too much of that breakcore/idm/drum n' bass kinda stuff on the top floor, either. i don't mind some, but after about 3 or 4 tracks of the same kinda thing i get bored of it. i like the stompy stuff nice and rhythmic - but that's just me.

so i'll happily listen (and dance)to rhythmic powernoise, dark elektro, synth/futurepop, ebm, industrial metal.... even some goth-rock... i think people only really complain if their taste is quite narrow and won't embrace any of the similar "styles" - but then, everyone is different - though all these styles belong in slimelight.

[Blink]

Byakhim - Most of the DJ's will quite happily tell you what time they think their next set is supposd to be (sometimes even they aren't sure!!)

On occasion I have been known to ask Steve when he is on next if I fear that a long session of goth is coming along

[Fairy Hag]

If you read my complaint more throughly, you'll see that my proposed solution for getting the night better, without changing the sets contents, would have been to just change their order. One hour of sitting around and waiting for a better set to come is easy. Two hours still tolerable. Three hours gets excessive. Especially when you don't know which DJ is going to play when, so you might start already suspect that its not going to ever get better during that night.

And if you read MY answer properly you'll see that I noticed your complaint was about the "DJ PATTERNS".

[Fairy Hag]

i think people only really complain if their taste is quite narrow and won't embrace any of the similar "styles" - but then, everyone is different - though all these styles belong in slimelight.

FACT. I agree totally.

[Flux]

Forgot(how could I??) Fear Factory, which used to be played quite often and before 2000, Mista Flux, with that flow of people rushing into the dancefloor...

Those were the days of "Suffer, bastard...", etc... The days I decided to investigate them and some other Metal bands. Remember that Slimelight introduced me to this world(if only anyone is interested).

Mak used to be the one playing them. About a month ago I think he took them out of his magic cd box... People danced happily cos remember they have 2 albums pretty electronic. And damn f*****g good!

Hell yes! Ahhh, I miss the days of "SUFFERRRRRRR! BASTAAAAAARD!" roaring on the dancefloor. That was awesome.
We used to get some Remanufacture as well..."That's not even the worst of it!" ;)

*drifts off into happy memories*


And mr.Unter, I completely agree with you. Tis why I personally never "plan" a set in advance...sure I may have some idea of stuff I wanna play before I go out, but I'll make it up on the fly. Tis even better (and more fun imo) when SP & I have played back to back. We find the mix up gives us more inspiration for what to play :)

[amax]

Ninja Flux I'm putting the last touches to your Rmix..... Ninja Dude

[Flux]

Ooooh, thank ye kindly sir :) Am intrigued! Looking forward to having a listen.

I've got a mix I did a while back if you fancy a listen? Will try & remember to bring you a cd of my tunes too.

[Guy13]

The new DJ from Cosey was excellent...a much needed breath of fresh air. The rest was absolute shite. It was if I'd been magically teleported to some crappy mainstream rave club like Fabric. Do the DJs know that Slimes is supposed to be A...L...T...E...R...N...A...T...I...V...E and not some poor copy of Ministry of Sound with a few cybers thrown in?

[DerOberst]

Is it me or is slimes turning into a proto ibiza rave night??Last night the music was absolute garbage!!Nothing at all alternative,safe dance music played by horny simon!!!Garbage absolute!The way its going our slimes is gonna go bye bye!

[Icicle]

Not sure which floor you're refering to, last night I was mainly downstairs and the music was awful.
Does this Simon play Ibiza stuff only when horny or most of the time?

[Byakhiam]

Is it me or is slimes turning into a proto ibiza rave night??Last night the music was absolute garbage!!Nothing at all alternative,safe dance music played by horny simon!!!Garbage absolute!The way its going our slimes is gonna go bye bye!

Oh noes, an hour and a half of something else than noise, we are so devastated.

[DerOberst]

Oh noes, an hour and a half of something else than noise, we are so devastated.
Excuse me???I dont listen to power noise/rythmic noise and never will,(distorted techno or Idm is not my thing)What I object to is the shite that the horned one was playing Do I have to spell out to you people.This is or was an ALTERNATIVE venue and what I heard last night was 99 percent of shit!then again most people are to pilled up to care what is gonna happen to their favourite club!

[Byakhiam]

What Simon was mostly playing was quite standard for Slimelight, though maybe more commonly heard on the middle rather than the top. New EBM from the harder end of it. I hope you do not mean to say that new EBM has no place in Slimelight?

[DerOberst]

Yeah its not EBM though is it!!!I can trawl through a bunch of EBM bands for you if you like!Its pure electropop/synthpop basic 4/4 beat!What I do object to is music that really belongs in a club like fabric being spun.Ibiza driven anthems belong elswhere!

[DJ_Horny_Simon]

Mmmm wouldn’t normally comment or get involved on here but I object to your tone.
I see you have not been to a dance club before.
Nothing of what I played was unusual for Slimes, I have been going to Slimes for nearly 14 years and dance music has always been played on the top floor.
In my first set I played some noise tracks & some of my own favorite bands are noise acts, so im not against noise music.
Its just I know from the DJ roster who is likely to playing noise, as was played on saturday.
I just try and play stuff which not everyone else is playing, if you feel differently on the night come and say something ... in a polite manner.

[Byakhiam]

Well, a thing is, new EBM is the most popular style of gothic-industrial music these days and it is what most people going to Slimelight want to hear. While some of it may be getting too poppy these days, the sub-genre as a whole is definitely alternative music belonging to the gothic-industrial genre. It makes sense to complain about Ibiza-music, if some DJs venture to play hard dance, real trance or techno (as opposed to that part of new EBM that kind of sounds like trance / techno), but not about new EBM being played. New EBM is clearly here to stay and it needs to steered away from excessively poppy direction from within rather than by taking a superior attitude and saying that all of it shit, because the 'masses' know that clearly not all of it shit.

As such, it is actually good to see groups like Combichrist being popular among alternative people, because they are putting more industrial crunch into the genre, while being still accepted as part of the new EBM whole. And while you might accuse Simon of playing Ibiza-goth, at least he plays mostly the more interesting and alternative style of new EBM, rather than endless re-runs of Covenant/Apop/VNV and bands that take their musical style from them.

[DerOberst]

Mmmm wouldn’t normally comment or get involved on here but I object to your tone.
I see you have not been to a dance club before.
Nothing of what I played was unusual for Slimes, I have been going to Slimes for nearly 14 years and dance music has always been played on the top floor.
In my first set I played some noise tracks & some of my own favorite bands are noise acts, so im not against noise music.
Its just I know from the DJ roster who is likely to playing noise, as was played on saturday.
I just try and play stuff which not everyone else is playing, if you feel differently on the night come and say something ... in a polite manner.

You object to my tone!Its my opinion and if you cant take the criticism dont get into the game!!Sorry my friend I beg to differ was one of the first djs in the north west to bring over E.B.M from belgium(I used to dj in planet x liverpool )and did to my knowledge the first industrial ebm night In the north,What is played upstairs is not noise not in the sense I refer to I dont think I have ever heard Richard Ramirez or Con-dom played upstairs And,as to dance clubs and such well I was in Ibiza when bands like nitzer ebb and such was a stable!I also worked the door in cream in Liverpool and have been to the likes of fabric the egg and such venues,as regards to you being against noise I never said that!And you will find I can be one of the politest
individuals you care to meet

[DerOberst]

Well, a thing is, new EBM is the most popular style of gothic-industrial music these days and it is what most people going to Slimelight want to hear. While some of it may be getting too poppy these days, the sub-genre as a whole is definitely alternative music belonging to the gothic-industrial genre. It makes sense to complain about Ibiza-music, if some DJs venture to play hard dance, real trance or techno (as opposed to that part of new EBM that kind of sounds like trance / techno), but not about new EBM being played. New EBM is clearly here to stay and it needs to steered away from excessively poppy direction from within rather than by taking a superior attitude and saying that all of it shit, because the 'masses' know that clearly not all of it shit.

As such, it is actually good to see groups like Combichrist being popular among alternative people, because they are putting more industrial crunch into the genre, while being still accepted as part of the new EBM whole. And while you might accuse Simon of playing Ibiza-goth, at least he plays mostly the more interesting and alternative style of new EBM, rather than endless re-runs of Covenant/Apop/VNV and bands that take their musical style from them.
Again my friend it's my opinion and I'm sticking with,it's music that lacks balls
I'm intruiged by The ebm tag you keep getting at!As covenant and vnv even apop will tell you they dont play E.B.M,even feindflug will tell you they dont play E.B.M!As for combichrist give me a break(I have had this conversation before,I dont like arseholes who use needle culture on their sleeves,its generic music that is not original and sounds like a cross between the revolting cocks and white zombie)I dislike this culture of glow and pills that has destroyed a scene I once loved!Superior attitude haha!Well I have to dont forget young man I reveiw a lot of music for certain magazines and online journals I have to be!!

[Flux]

I think Slimelight needs to become a drum & bass club! All your noise and CheeseBM suck so much dick it got throat cancer ;)


No disrespect to anyone, but seriously, I hate to say it but the music really does kinda blow atm, and has done for the last coupla years imho. I used to go to Slime week in, week out and dance my ass off...now I'm lucky if I hear anything in particular that makes me want to actually get up & bust a move. I think it's partly cuz the all the noise comes across as being a bit...soulless...and the CheeseBM/Ibiza Goth, well, I hadn't realised Slime was hosting the Eurovision Song Contest :p

It's a shame really as I still love the place, the staff and all my friends who go, but it seems more & more of them are just getting fed up with the monotony of the music. As I said to Mak, I really think the place needs a shake up and a rethink. Sure, there are people that love it, but when you compare how busy it is today to how busy it was a few years ago...

The thing is, I really don't wanna see the demise of Slimelight (in any sense). It's been my home away from home for many years, and I'd like it to be for many more.

[untermensch]

I think Slimelight needs to become a drum & bass club!

Heh, you should've been there 2 weeks ago :)
Threw in half an hour of evil dnb at 3am, the floor went from empty to bursting in a few minutes. There's certainly room for a touch of that as long as it's got some balls (99.999% of dnb is absolute fucking hogwash). Chuck me a few band names or mix CDs if you want, & maybe we can slip something in. As long as it's interesting :)

[Byakhiam]

Again my friend it's my opinion and I'm sticking with,it's music that lacks balls
I'm intruiged by The ebm tag you keep getting at!As covenant and vnv even apop will tell you they dont play E.B.M,even feindflug will tell you they dont play E.B.M!As for combichrist give me a break(I have had this conversation before,I dont like arseholes who use needle culture on their sleeves,its generic music that is not original and sounds like a cross between the revolting cocks and white zombie)I dislike this culture of glow and pills that has destroyed a scene I once loved!Superior attitude haha!Well I have to dont forget young man I reveiw a lot of music for certain magazines and online journals I have to be!!

It was not my invention to call new EBM what it is, but rather that's what seems to be the generally understood term for it. I mean, if you'd ask the average 20-something gothic-industrial person what is EBM, they'd probably say Covenant or Combichrist rather than Nitzer Ebb or Front 242. It doesn't make that much sense either, really, since Covenant and Nitzer Ebb are like Marilyn Manson and Bauhaus in similarity. :D

But that is the generally accepted naming convention, so that's what I'm sticking to.

I've never vouched for Combichrist's originality. What I am saying that they are taking new EBM back towards its industrial roots by reinventing those sounds in their own style, which is a good thing because, face it, the young people do not really want to go back to listening to stuff that was hot twenty years ago. We are young and we want the cutting edge, not dusty old fossils. Even if that cutting edge is alike to some of those old fossils.

I don't mean to offend, since I see your points being valid. I just think you're not putting them across in a constructive way.

[Flux]

Heh, you should've been there 2 weeks ago
Threw in half an hour of evil dnb at 3am, the floor went from empty to bursting in a few minutes. There's certainly room for a touch of that as long as it's got some balls (99.999% of dnb is absolute fucking hogwash). Chuck me a few band names or mix CDs if you want, & maybe we can slip something in. As long as it's interesting

Sounds good! I know you guys don't normally know when you're playing til the last minute, but try & let me know when you're playing next & I'll see if I can make it out again...will be good to see ya again mate :)


As for the music, I'll try & fix you up with a compilation cd of some stuff I think you'll appreciate...as I'm sure you know, I have some rather tasty D&B ;) (I do agree with you tho that most D&B is pony...you just have to know what to look for :))

You should come check out SP & I play sometime too ;)...going by the feedback we've been getting I think it's safe to say that we've been playing some good sets together back to back (we played upstairs at Synthetic Culture in November & ripped it up biiiiiig style (^_^))
Our last gig was at Club Hades last month where we spun just over 3 hours of electronic goodness.

[DerOberst]

It was not my invention to call new EBM what it is, but rather that's what seems to be the generally understood term for it. I mean, if you'd ask the average 20-something gothic-industrial person what is EBM, they'd probably say Covenant or Combichrist rather than Nitzer Ebb or Front 242. It doesn't make that much sense either, really, since Covenant and Nitzer Ebb are like Marilyn Manson and Bauhaus in similarity. :D

But that is the generally accepted naming convention, so that's what I'm sticking to.

I've never vouched for Combichrist's originality. What I am saying that they are taking new EBM back towards its industrial roots by reinventing those sounds in their own style, which is a good thing because, face it, the young people do not really want to go back to listening to stuff that was hot twenty years ago. We are young and we want the cutting edge, not dusty old fossils. Even if that cutting edge is alike to some of those old fossils.

I don't mean to offend, since I see your points being valid. I just think you're not putting them across in a constructive way.
Ahh yes but the thing is its not cutting edge is it!!You have much to learn its not about young or old or who glows the most or how goth the next person is.Andy L combichrist has been around a long time,as has the likes of ronan harris so does that makes them dusty old dinosaurs!I'm not going to go on a slagging match about certain bands and his shit most certainly wont fuck me up!!While I accept music must evolve and things must be made apealing for the Blank generation,it still doesnt mean I or any individual has to like it,I have heard music that has been played in slimes played in the more popular techno/rave clubs!Years back there was actually a lot more variety in slimes and it saddens me that the club is becoming more one dimensional!
Last saturday I was with one of the american djs who has done sets with death guild and das bunker in the states who thought the whole night was absolute toss!!!!Again I hear the name industrial,I listen to real industrial music,ie Throbbing gristle,cabaret voltaire,clock dva,23 skidoo,and I enjoy power electronics ie genocide organ,whitehouse,death squad,slogun etc and to be honest I'm not really gonna hear that in slimes!!!
If you wanna hear real ebm I suggest you track down the compilation
this is electronic body music and listen to the song NO WAY OUT by a;grumh
you will get the point of what I'm saying,or try anything on the zoth ommog label which shits on anything that is produced today!!!
anyway I'm off to pack for germany pip pip:D

[Byakhiam]

anyway I'm off to pack for germany pip pip:D

I think we'll need to continue with this discussion on some quiet morning in Leipzig. ;)

[DerOberst]

Last night degenerated into what I would call the worst night I have ever spent in slimelight,The music on the top floor apart from francesca's set was absolutely Garbage shite pill inspired dance music which serves a better place in clubs like fabric,at one point I actually thought I was in the wendy house in leeds There was an obvious blank no pete or no matt noise which made the whole night Dull and uninteresting!
Still the middle floor was ok as was certain points on the goth floor!!!!

[ecclecticbb]

Last night degenerated into what I would call the worst night I have ever spent in slimelight,The music on the top floor apart from francesca's set was absolutely Garbage shite pill inspired dance music which serves a better place in clubs like fabric,at one point I actually thought I was in the wendy house in leeds There was an obvious blank no pete or no matt noise which made the whole night Dull and uninteresting!
Still the middle floor was ok as was certain points on the goth floor!!!!

Mmmhh...

I "heard" Xotox was a bit disappointing but it would be nice to know why and how...

Shame! It looks like many people were well excited about this night...:(

[DerOberst]

Mmmhh...

I "heard" Xotox was a bit disappointing but it would be nice to know why and how...

Shame! It looks like many people were well excited about this night...:(
Xotox where ok Not my cup of tea to be honest,The whole night was generally awful

[Antagonist]

hmmm... sorry chaps but I'm agreeing on this one. Xotox were ok and the DJ set that followed was good. Other than that, best moments of the night included "This Corrosion" on the goth floor and a couple of tracks in the middle floor. too many horrible horrible moments including that godawful "Oh My Goth" which just makes me want to stab things, and that terrible cover version of some 80s track that I can't even remember the name of.

Too p*ed off to even know what the bilge was called... that's pretty bad I guess. Maybe I'm complaining too much, stayed on my feet all night, mostly on the top floor, so maybe it wasn't quite so bad. Definitely felt like there was something missing from it all though.

[Fenbane]

Still the middle floor was ok as was certain points on the goth floor!!!!

I'll take that as a compliment then :P

Vicky