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Logic Presents: The Movie - Episode II
Reported by bunny
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Submitted 23-01-03 23:34
Tip-toeing with a mixture of trepidation and excitement down the tunnel of light, you can almost hear the music from 2001: A Space Odyssey echoing around the back of your brain. Walking onto the main balcony of Camden Palace tonight is like walking into a Sci-Fi paradise... It’s Saturday, 18th of January 2003 and for one night only Logic have taken this familiar old venue (well-worn and well-loved like your Grandad’s favourite armchair) and turned it into an almost unrecognisable cyber seventh heaven. Everywhere you look there are bright, vivid splashes of colour – it’s like Jackson Pollock for the neon generation. And the more you look, the more the feeling grows inside that this is going to be a blockbuster night... Though you don’t know it yet, tonight is gonna prove to be the Empire Strikes Back of all sequels; following on from the far from modest success of the first Logic Movie (the Christmas edition) 
Let’s start from the very beginning, a very good place to start...
Of course, all the signs of an evening to remember are there from the off. First of all, there’s the pre-party over the road at the Purple Turtle. Most CP regulars will be more than familiar with this place and it’s surroundings as the perfect warm-up to a night of memorable muntedness and tonight’s no exception. It’s just gone 9.30 when I turn up and the party is very much in full-flow. I’m pretty beat from the morning’s afterparty (not to mention the onslaught of Convergence the night before) so I’m perhaps not the most sprightly person in the place but the enthusiasm whirring round the room is more infectious than the common cold – and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out why (hell, even I managed it)! Chris Vincent is up on decks (and when I say up I really mean UP – you guys must get altitude sickness up there!) mixing up a devil of a storm with some pure pounding vinyl and blasting away the blues like there’s jet engines in the speakers. It’s not long before the rhythm gets me and by the time the happy hysteria of Organ Donors 4 Tribes kicks in I’m well and truly kicking up a ruckus along with every other party person in the place
Drinks downed and fully energised we head over to the Palace ready to take on whatever the night throws at us, and it seems like the first challenge will be the queues – they’re big, bad and dangerous to know. Well alright, one out of those three anyway  It’s a bit chaotic out here but Logic clubbers are an easy-going lot so although there’s a fair share of hanging around to be done, no one’s really minding. Well, you normally queue to see a movie, don’t you? Once we’re inside it’s a quick stop-off at the cloakroom (no problems there) and by quarter past 11 we’re in the club and on standby to stomp!
Ok, I touched upon it in the intro but a whole passage has to be set-aside for what the Logic crew have achieved with this venue. There’s no better way of saying it; it’s out of this world. Turn around 360 degrees and this is what you see... The balconies are a trail of beautiful fluorescent banners like Niagara Falls on acid; 3 screens suspended over the dance floor stream out a sequence of tech graphics and space oddities while down below on the stage dancers weave patterns in colour and light; and in between it all lasers sketch strange fantasies in the dark and disco balls twinkle, twinkle like diamonds in the sky (Those lasers were something else, super-fine, bloody elaborate and kinda psychotic too... loved the Pink Panther in particular!) But it’s not just a feast for the eyes, as Logic have brought in extra rigging to really bump up the (already massive) sound-system as well and every beat and note sounds as pure as a teardrop. You can tell that Dave, Nadya and everyone involved have put their heart and souls into making tonight work and I can definitively say that it all paid off!
What’s pumping through those skyscraper speakers when we hit the dance floor is a fast & furious set of uplifting Hard Trance, served up with relish by Marc French. The stage tonight is off-limits – gotta make space for K90’s equipment (and the LAK:UK I think?] dancers, who kept us entertained all night with some stunning moves and neat juggling with the biggest glowsticks I’ve ever seen), so the dance floor’s pretty cosy... but even if it was open you’d still be hard-pressed to catch a glimpse of the floorboards. The crowd capacity tonight is just right, it’s constantly thriving but you never feel claustrophobic and there’s always the essential space to throw your arms around in
By 12 of the clock all’s more than just well as upstairs in the Black & White bar Pierre Knott’s thumping out some solid slabs of prime techno (anthemic horns a go-go) while in the main arena Rubec’s taken over deck-duty and the pace hits 6th gear as a locomotive of banging tunes go tearing through your head, the champion of which has to be current all-round favourite Times Like These. As experiences go tonight’s all a bit of a blur so far, like a Monet travelling at high speeds, but it’s a brilliant blur and leaves a feeling inside you as warm as a tummy full of toasted marshmallows  Before you know it, the clock’s just shy of 1.30 and it’s almost time for K90 to hurl us into deep space with his distinctively schizophrenic line of euphoric but banging beats. First up though is a little visual stimulation in the shape of our first feature presentation for the night. The lights dim and silence flows in from the shadows, the big central screen crackles to life and there before our very eyes is the final, frenzied fight for the Death Star from the first Star Wars. Camden Palace is full but you’d never know it from the hush that descends over us all as we watch Luke Skywalker and R2D2 play chicken with the Tie Fighters. Then there’s THAT timely shot from Luke and the Death Star is space confetti, while at the exact same moment glitter bombs go off left, right and centre in the club and everyone giggles with glee. Ah, man that was wickeeed!!!
In all the confusion no one notices Mark Doggett take to the stage so it’s more than a slight shock for even the sober souls amongst us when the music comes booming back and K90’s set begins. Putting the euphoria on the back burner for the time being K90 opens with a darker track to match the mood of the movie and, like you’d only expect from his set, it’s a winning move. But you can’t escape those dreamlike breakdowns and as the terrific hooks of I Get A Rush, All Your Base, Chemical Love, Breathe and Red Snapper shudder through the air an ecstatic crowd of disco bunnies start burning some serious rubber – shoe soles that is
Next thing you know it’s 2.25 and everything goes quiet once more for the second screening and this time it’s the climatic tussle from The Phantom Menace that gets the glitter and ticker tape treatment Everything about tonight radiated originality and flair and the choice of film clips were no exception... Hehehe, it was hysterical taking a look around people’s reactions to them, especially those who were, well, having a REALLY good time!
Then it’s Spencer Freeland’s turn to knock a few years off our lives as the opening tattoo of the monster track Society stabs through our skins. It’s a killer tune and one that’s making it a hell of an effort to leave the main room but I’ve got to head upstairs to the Black & White bar where for the whole of tonight a cluster of London’s brightest up and coming DJs will be showing us The Way Of The Stomp... Currently delivering musical salvation is Paul Reeves and the second you step through the door you realise there’s a LOT of people that want liberating. The room is absolutely chock-a-block with swaying, stomping, smiling clubbers and, as you’ve come to expect with the upstairs room, the temperature’s higher than Stephen Hawking’s IQ. Logic have been hard at work up hear with the decorations too; there are more of those mental banners illuminating the darkness everywhere you look, making you feel like you’re in the God of Hard House’s grotto The sound system has evidently been turned up to 11+ tonight but with tunes like these it’d be criminal to have it any lower... Paul’s pummelling the speakers with the rock-hard Glazby remixes of Incisions and Andy Farley and Paul Jane’s I Can Feel It and the crowd’s pounding floor in response as if they’ve got a personal vendetta against the carpet.
3am and Alan Laing introduces himself to the nutters with 99.9, giving us all a slight reprieve before throwing in a wicked Drum N Bass track that puts a distinctive spin on an already unique event. I just can’t get to grips with the bizarre brilliance of it all, how many other Hard House nights have you been to where a DJ drops a D’n’B tune and everyone still goes mad to it? That’s the kind of truly up for it atmosphere we had in the Black & White bar all night, and when Alan played BK’s classic Bad Ass it all just sky-rocketed once more...
I never thought I’d catch myself saying this (because on the whole I’m a main room devotee and only venture into the other rooms to catch certain sets) but I was actually finding it very hard leaving the second room to check out what was going on downstairs. This is no criticism on the DJs in the main arena – every time I made it down those stairs I gave it my best effort to put some major dents in that dance floor – but the music and the atmosphere up top was unreal. The kinetic energy our bodies were generating, if you could fins a way of harnessing it, would have made an atom bomb seem like a firecracker in comparison. But back to that main room! When I charge in fresh from Alan Laing’s set Superfast Oz is in the DJ box and the Nick Sentience remix of Twisted is blasting out across the club. One thing passes across my mind: AVE IIITTT!! It’s a dirty set of rumbling, thumping tracks and on the main balcony a little troop of HarderFasters (myself included) are boshing away like there’s no tomorrow. As Speedfreak said;
‘Why would you ever want this night to end?’
And I couldn’t agree more! But at 4am I’ve got to scamper upstairs again to catch the B2B set of Shaf De Bass and Tin Tin in the second room (which I’m coming to think of now as the anteroom to heaven ). It’s even more jam-packed up here now but far from pissing anyone off it just means there are extra endorphins to go round and the music is so divine that when you’re drifting away in front of the DJ booth, you’re finding it hard to believe you’re NOT in heaven... HarderFaster’s all but taken over the dance floor here and there are more good vibrations floating around than in a Beach Boy’s record. There’s no determination to party here cause none’s needed, all you’ve got to do is give in to the euphoria in and around you and there’s not a soul in sight who isn’t doing just that. Lost In Love, Sharkboy’s Night Time, Man On The Moon – tunes you can’t help beaming to and with all the pearly whites on display it felt like you were raving in the tooth fairy’s warehouse!
By quarter to 5 I’m wondering if there’s a way you can force yourself to have a Groundhog Night, so I can do this over and over again. I don’t think I’ve ever sweated so much in my life but it feels like that’s the only way I can get all this exhilaration out of me. The walls are at best sticky and in some places there are patches of what looks to be a strange substance somewhere between a crust and an ecosystem... whatever it is it’d almost certainly have a pop at Captain Kirk and Scottie, given half the chance I decided there’s just enough time to check out what’s up in the main room before the B2B set of Tom Allen and Dave Lochrie and head off to catch a quick 15 minutes of Karim’s set.
After a superb set at Convergence the night before I just have to have another hit of Karim’s style of distinct and ferocious Hard House. Not a bad decision at all is the conclusion when I Don’t Care in all it’s glory judders out just as I hit the dance floor and I’m bouncing yet again to the point where I think my legs are going to shatter. If it’s straight up, unforgiving and completely filthy Hard House you want, here it is and by the bucket load. Only wish I could stay for longer but I know what’s waiting upstairs so it’s time to up glowsticks and do the vertical 100 metres dash again. Christ it’s knackering when there are 2 equally excellent rooms but on 2 different levels!
5am and the Black & White bar has finally broken free from its mortal coil and gone into orbit. I can’t emphasise enough how good I’m feeling by this point but right now I don’t need to because I just know everyone around me is feeling exactly the same. (All I can say is that if you could taste nirvana, listen to paradise and touch cloud nine all at once you’d be just below where we are now ) If this was a movie then there’d be a big dial on the wall somewhere with coordinating colours showing the different levels of happiness, and the arrow would be deep in the red, wobbling around the OVERLOAD point. Tom & Dave (certainly NOT the Chas & Dave of the Hard Dance scene) are belting them out - the Daniel Ro remix of Ignite, DJ Kim’s Jetlag, Dirty Trancing, Kinetica’s Let Go, Feel What I Feel, Wanna Ride, Todd Tobias’ I Will Return, Miss Shiva’s Dreams, Remedy and a filthily fierce track called Escalation by Dave Lochrie himself (cheers Tom for helping me out with the titles!) – and the crowd’s reaction puts me in mind of a hymn we used to sing in primary school... If I had a hammer... I’d hammer in the morning... I’d hammer in the evening I didn’t know what to expect when I came to Logic tonight but I never would have expected what I got, which was all my birthdays rolled into one and served up on a bed of Christmas Eves.
Somewhere after 5.30 (time’s lost it’s meaning by now) the CP staff gently ferry us all downstairs where Karim’s wrapping up the closing set. From what I can hear filter through to the chill out bar it sounds like a typically mental arrangement but for tonight at least this bunny is spent, so it’s strictly finger-dancing with the odd hand jive thrown in until 6am and the last beat rolls away into a roar of applause
This was a night like no other and I genuinely feel sorry for anyone who missed out. Hopefully Logic will decide to make this series of clubbing nights a trilogy (maybe even more?) because it’s something that can and should certainly catch on. Unique, exceptional, fun, eccentric, remarkable, frenetic, funny and just plain bonkers... Logic: The Movie Episode II had it all and all who went there HAD IT!
With thanks to Stevie and mrbicgit for the use of their photos
Relevant Links
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http://www.lakuk.com
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The views and opinions expressed in this review are strictly those of the author only for which HarderFaster will not be held responsible or liable.
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From: mrbicgit on 24th Jan 2003 11:08.43
lovely words all in the right order
the only thing missin was some pictures from your man in the bush so much to stick in the box at this event i loved it
and loved that face u pulled when confronted with Mani dahat
c u soon sorry i can't make the frigde sat looks fantastic
MORE POWER TO THE FEMALE DJ SET
From: mrbicgit on 24th Jan 2003 11:10.35
o yer K90 is da man what a proformer i never really took the time to watch him b4
thanks4da smiles
From: littlemissgenki on 24th Jan 2003 11:10.57
a brillian review Bunny, I think it's your best yet! thanks for another wicked night!
From: Paul Reeves on 24th Jan 2003 12:52.24
who played 99.9  well done chick on another top bit ov work, it made my whole night just standing behind you for ten minutes and watching you go ballistic, no-one can stomp like you m8  
From: UFS… on 24th Jan 2003 13:01.19
tell u wat, with rviews like thes it almos feels like i were ther myself... + neva lettin da feelin go away...
From: tomfrombristol on 27th Jan 2003 00:02.14
shit i spent pretty much the whole nite in the main room had a quality time but you make me wish Id been upstairs....!
Brilliant review cant wait to come back to london again!
From: Stevie on 27th Jan 2003 10:25.51
Yet another excellent review of an excellent night bunny. You managed to bring the whole thing back to me, kinda like watching the movie again on video! Glad you liked the pics, keep the reviews coming babes.
From: Silvertone (Alan Laing) on 27th Jan 2003 13:13.46
I didn't play 99.9, in fact I don't even know who that is by......shows you how much I know about hard dance music....I assume it must have been Paul Reeves before me....My first tune was The Red Pill by someone (don't know who did that either)......I'm not very good at this am I....but I know the D&B tune was Champion Sounds by Q Project.....I know a lot about D&B though.......anyone need a Breakbeat/Drum&Bass DJ for a warm up set....anybody........anybody???? Can't say I didn't try....Nice Review though, cheers for the kind words....
From: shauny69 on 27th Jan 2003 18:49.19
Will any of you ever get bored of hearding K90 play the same tunes over and over again? :bizzare:
From: Stevie on 27th Jan 2003 23:10.52
No Shauny, coz they are classics, where do you get the idea that people should only like something for a short time?
From: Norris123 on 30th Jan 2003 14:00.46
Very well written, thanx for your kind words. Big thumbs up to everyone at the event - clubbers and Dj's and of course Dave & Nadia Logic. Bring on the next one....!!! Mwa!
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