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Chemistry: A Different Class Reported by bunny / Submitted 05-09-02 08:18 Take a generous helping of top DJ’s, a PA from one of the best live acts around and the ultimate three hour set from one of the greatest DJ’s on the scene and what do you get? Chemistry: another first-class Frantic night! (...The only Khemikal Imbalance going on in here tonight is in those little ravemonkey’s bloodstreams – Red Bull can have that effect sometimes...) After a mad dash across London involving the kind of capers that’d make the Keystone Cops look like Driving Miss Daisy, we get to the great and glorious Camden Palace for 10.30, in time to catch the last half an hour of a gorgeously geared-up opening set from Ed Real & Steve Hill. The air-conditioning’s on polar bear & penguin mode but after 20 minutes of advanced glo-stick semaphore practice down on the dance floor you’d be hard-pressed to tell It’s the quintessential early evening Camden Palace scene, wall-to-wall fluorescence courtesy of the hardcore Cyberkids, eager to squeeze every last drop of exhilaration out of their clubbing experience. By the time K90 comes on stage at 11 the venue is rammed and everyone’s all set for some serious partying! The beats drop thick and fast, with K90 bringing in a tougher, darker edge to the music than at recent gigs... and the crowd are sucking it up like caffeine-addicted hoover-testers, TUNE! Signs flying around the dancefloor like lightening, along with smiles, glo-sticks and discarded brain-cells. All Your Base kicks in and everyone from the top balcony down goes into overdrive, it’s time to feel the burn people, hehehe!! Before you know it the hour’s almost gone, so to spare our poor little muscles we’re treated to some of the all-time top bliss-out tunes. The K90 remix of Steve Blake’s I Get A Rush pours straight into Dreams and I melt into a little puddle of happiness by the side of the stage. Bless. “It’s the best Hard Trance this year” – David J Determined to send us out on a high of Mount Everest proportions, we’re treated to every last euphoric drop of Red Snapper – another personal favourite. Once again, it’s everything you’d hope for from a live set and more, it seems it’s impossible for K90 to ever do a bad gig. Only criticism goes to those ravers forming a protective barrier between the crowd and the stage set-up. Guys, it’s great to dance on the stage but PLEASE not right in front of the performance, it ruins all the interaction between the performer and the audience, something K90 always delivers in shedloads. Just stick to the sides and give us all a chance, cheers! Ok, grouch over, cause what’s coming next is no place for a bad mood to be The last three-hour Phil Reynolds set in the world...ever! Now, the prospect of a solid three-hour set from one DJ can be a little daunting. The question keeps drifting across your mind ‘Can they carry it off?’ But I’ve seen Phil do such a set before and he didn’t just carry it off so much as launch it through the stratosphere to go play among the stars So I’m thinking we’re in safe hands here... Sure enough, it’s all engines firing on turbo from the very start. The level of bouncing that’s going on out there makes that bouncing-bomb scene from the Dambusters look like an unfortunate accident with an over-ripe tomato. This is all-out warfare on the soles of our shoes, we’re decked out in the finest combat gear and taking no prisoners tonight, hehe!! Phil’s really turning out some classic tunes, in between stomping for Britain I go into delightful little fits of apoplexy when Baby Wants to Ride, Twisted and that Hard House mix of Insomnia come on. Yeah, baby!! “I want to video it and send it back to my family and friends. WHAT A CRACKING NITE!!” - Beks Then it’s time to leave the rest of the nutters to revel in their madness while I make a break for the Black & White bar to catch the end of Jon Rundell’s set. Despite the competition from the main room things are really pumping up here, the whole bar’s packed and thanks to some blistering tunes the bounce factor is riding sky-high . Top tracks, top set, top atmosphere...sweet... So far I’ve always found myself cruelly neglecting the upstairs bar at the Palace and spending most of the night in a happy place with the lasers and big spiky ball. But neither were on show! Have to say it was a bit of a let-down after the excellent show put on at Timeless But it did give me the chance to go walkabout, so for the next three hours, in between soaking up large helpings of Phil Reynold’s pure euphoria, I made it up to the Black & White bar to catch outstanding sets by Simon Field and Simon Rutherford, filled with the kind of elevating tunes, and carried by such an exhilarating vibe, that lasers and wide open spaces are no longer needed. I think I was always wary of venturing in here because I thought it would be short on atmosphere, but really that couldn’t be further from the truth. It’s got a real intimate feeling to it, you can get into the music a lot more because everyone gets stuck into it together and thanks to that air-conditioning duct it’s also the coolest place in the venue. Check it next time you’re at eh Palace if you haven’t yet. Unfortunately, because of this new discovery I missed most of Spencer Freeland’s set, but what I did here was very deep to begin with but had lifted by the end to go out on a few tunes of Hard Trance happiness that sets everyone up on the perfect high for what’s to come (Music is the Drug being the stand-out track for me). Last set of the night and BK and Andy Farley are doing the honours. All around the place sleeves are rolled up determinedly, legs and shoulders stretched, glo-sticks firmly put into position. We know what lies ahead can only be an hour and a half of relentless insanity. Guess what? It is... If quantum theory is correct, then half the earthquakes on planet earth must be caused by Frantic events. Think about it: 2000 people stomp like lunatics in London – half of Asia shuffles into the sea. Ok, not strictly true, but the amount of bone-breaking jumping that’s going on in this building cannot be healthy. But what the hell, it’s fun!! And when the music’s this good, resistance is futile. So it’s time for everyone to do the Hard Dance hokey-cokey ‘til the cabs come home... And once more with feeling in the encore So another Frantic event goes off like a dream. Shame about the lasers but what it’s all about is the music and when the music is as good as it was tonight, the electricity running through your veins is more than enough... (Huuuuuge thanks to all friends, DJ’s, ravers, promoters and bar-staff I pestered during the night. Next time I’ll try not to lose the bits of paper with the track listings on...doh...!) 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