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Review of Tasty House of Fun 12 March 2005
Reported by Adam Symbiosis
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Submitted 18-03-05 01:44
If London nightclubs were restaurants we‘d without a doubt have more Michelin Stars then anywhere else in the world. With such a wide range of delicacies to chose off an a la carté menu, you’re never short of a new flavour to try. One of these delicacies has to be Tasty, the once-every-so-often party that has settled on a home at the Mass, Brixton. With two birthday celebrations to contend with, a bag full of chocolate and people seemingly coming out of the woodwork to get themselves down to Brixton, even before we got there the night was lining itself up to be a blinder. The bouncers certainly seemed interested in the choccies and impressed me with their good attitude. It’s certain there’s been a sea change with regards to bouncers across the capital, with professionals who talk to you with respect and make you feel safe and welcome rather than oppressed. After speaking to Bex and Phil on the door, who went through the door list a couple of times for me, thanks guys, we got inside and up the stairs.
A quick wander round the club presented three rooms, the main hard dance room, the hardcore room and the trance room. Bright colours, giant backdrops and lots and lots of smiley, happy people were everywhere. A couple of stalls selling the usual glowing, sparkly things that seem so important at 2 in the morning and even a hot dog stand, though I’m not too sure just how many people indulged. Every time I tried to get two more steps, I bumped into someone else I knew and I must of spent the first hour or so wearing out my jaw catching up with everyone.
We finally settled on the trance room, held downstairs in 3rd Base. For some reason it seemed smaller than my last visit there, very strange. Ian Betts was playing some nice chilled and uplifting trance typified by a remix of 'Temptation' by Matt Darey. The room was pretty packed with all the seats taken at the back, a photographer waiting to take and print out your photo and people dancing everywhere. We took a breather to go back upstairs, only to find the main room even more rammed. No surprise though as Roosta was laying down some great tunes like Awakening by Rank 1 and the Tasty faithful were going crazy for it.
Back down into the depths of the trance room, the air and the crowd now clearing noticeably. Maybe the music was too chilled, maybe they’d heard how good the music was upstairs. No bother for me as it just left more room for to dance. Quite honestly, I thought it was way too packed to move properly in the main room and it was quite refreshing not having to fight my way through muntered ravers to get to whereever it was I was trying to get to. Raymondo stepped up to take over the reigns and the birthday boy didn’t disappoint. Kicking off with 'Show Me Love', he took us through a proper classics set, taking in both new and very old. From 'Hold That Sucker Down', to 'Everlasting', to 'Inside Of Me', to 'I Believe', to 'Wizards Of Sonic', to 'Luvstruck'. Every track held a memory and demonstrated Raymondo’s vast experience. In all the set stood head and shoulders over all the others and was easily my favourite of the night.
Back up in the main room quickly and Spencer Freeland was dividing the crowd right down the middle. Following on from Roosta with some breakbeat and even an attempt at scratching, some people I talked to thought it was fantastic and different, while others thought it was completely out of place. DJs who are musically diverse and innovative should be applauded but some times it can misfire badly. One Tasty regular was so disgusted she had to leave the room completely, “It was rubbish,” she told me, “It completely broke up the atmosphere built up so well by Roosta.”
We wandered over to the hardcore room. I’ve been well out of the scene since I turned 15 and so don’t have much idea about the DJs or the music, but I quickly got onto my toes and started bouncing around. Whoever it was that was playing dropped 'Sunshine On A Rainy Day' and it even put a smile on Mrs Symbiosis’ face! I bounced around a bit more like zebadee on some kind of stimulant, just like everyone else in there in fact, before popping my head in through the door to catch some great tunes and energy from Steve Blake.
I also had a chance to have a word with another Tasty regular who was having it in the corridor between the main and hardcore rooms. I wanted to know just why he liked Tasty so much. He told me just how much it was his favourite party because “it’s got the best dancing music.” A sentiment shared by almost everyone in the club, including me. I know for one I was hard pressed to sit down for long in any of the rooms before another blinding tune was dropped.
With time quickly running out (wow it went fast) we got our arses downstairs only to find the music deeper and darker than earlier. It was heads down and dance all the way through with 'Loops and Tings (Reloaded)' into 'Sunday Afternoon'. Then 'Till Tears Us Do Part' into 'Perpetua' – what a song – and like a hungry dog at the back of a butchers' waiting for an old bone, I hung around the DJ booth waiting to find out just what it was. Thanks to Anthony who confessed he had no idea of the names of any of the tunes he was playing but was more than happy to let me have a look at the record.
End of the night came but too soon. While saying goodbye to the dedicated trancers still left in the room, I could still hear music wafting down from above. So we pegged it upstairs to catch Tasty boss Daniel ‘Billy’ Bunter having it with a still rammed room dropping half of 'Shh… Listen' as his last song. Funnily enough calls for half more rung about the room after.
Credit to Bunter, who has built Tasty into nothing less then an institution within London. The anticipation that preceded this party and already for the next one scheduled for June is nearly as impressive as the party itself. I heard a comment from Bunter saying 2005 is going to be the year of the classic tune and he’s proved himself right through his own party, as all night long I watched while people pointed fingers in the air and shouted “Tuuunne.”
Adam Symbiosis 
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Can't believe I missed this! Oh well there is always next time! Good review though.