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A Tasty Mid Summer’s Night Dream
Reported by AlmostEddie
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Submitted 26-08-05 01:03
The ultimate trance & hard dance elevation sounded like some kind of aerobics class with glow sticks, but with the allure of the first party of the season with the word Summer in it and a line up that included Roosta, K90, Billy ‘Daniel’ Bunter, Raymondo, CLSM, HarderFaster legend Dirty DJ TinTin, and, if rumour reached me right, an Antipodean female hard dance star in the mould of Lisa Lashes with the pedigree to take on the musical force of Anne Savage or any other disc jockey this blot on the world’s landscape of hard dance cared to put in her way as she made a shooting trip to this our flagship city. This was gonna be summertime madness at The Mass! This is Tasty’s A Mid Summer’s Night Dream and how I fell into and out of R.E.M. on Saturday the 11th of June.
After finding out I had lost two halves of a pair of shoes I was not in the best frame of mind for a bounce, but this was Tasty and their parties are not only the bee’s knees but so far and few between the year that if you’re a lover of hardcore and hard dance clubbing and if your feet are in trouble, if you can find them, Tasty parties are not to be missed, as they’re constantly evolving yet stick so close to the spirit of raving. Billy ‘Daniel’ Bunter and his crew are a ship well worth sailing on and they’re enough to raise the spirit of any sad boat.
The entrance to The Mass is like no other, with its close quarters entrance space and winding stone stair case, it seems like a set from some low budget horror… so as I climbed the stairs holding onto the wall in fear of any ghosts that may not be too happy with heathens using a church as a place of sin, I was faced with a decision to make: was it going to be left, into the arms of Raymondo and his classic trance set, or was it going to be right and start my night with a bit of a kick to the head with a free fall into a different taste of music than that I’m used to hearing when the sun goes down? But only from an absolute HarderFaster legend and one if the nicest djs you’ll come across, DJ TinTin… nah just TinTin, as that says so much more. So for once, trance will have to wait as I was about to join TinTin’s spin, if you feel what I mean. This was a completely alien sound to me, but with such a happy disk jockey it was hard not to join in.
As the room filled, I felt it was time to tickle my earbuds with something more familiar, so I headed for the main room to the open arms of Raymondo. Now for me, trance is a great way to warm up for the hard stomping night many of us choose to put our ears through, so I was well up for ‘Samsara’ by Dave Holmes, Sosa’s ‘The Wave’ and when our musical mountain guide Raymondo took us to Delirium with the aid of ‘Silence’ I was ready to step off the main room stairs and play with the angels, so before I ended up chewing the dance floor, it was off to take a look around.
“Red Stripe?” “In a can and change, I must be dreaming”, I was thinking to myself as I left the main room. Now Tasty is quite a colourful unique party. This was reinforced for me when I noticed a happy girl dressed in a little devil’s outfit reattaching another girl’s angel wings. This had Tasty written all over it. My hat’s off to the Tasty party people! Where else can you see the bad help the good? So was this a get down to get up, or a get up to get down? Whichever you look at it, it was back in the main room in time for K90 to turn it on.
As you may know, our Eddie likes to taste his dance beats on the dance floor, but for all its qualities, the Mass has, in my opinion, a sh*t dance floor (sorry, but there’s no other way to put it!) and although it’s the music we want to hear, it’s always good to see the look on a DJ’s face when you feel like you’re having the time of your life, or in this case, the face that launched at least a million arms in the air in his happy career, as to hear him play is great, but to see the impish joy in this DJ’s deck stomp is to live clubbing. As you can tell, I’m loving K90’s set, I think I’m having flashbacks just writing this, it was a top set. He even played us one of his brand new tracks, ‘Ghosts in the Machine’. I guess even the blind can see why K90 is such a great DJ and with some great events that he’s playing this summer, from Global Gathering, Creamfields then back to London for what I’m hoping will be this summer’s don’t miss outdoor event, SW4 @ the Metro Weekender on Clapham Common.
It was time to check out Pure Anthems — The Party Zone. “Red Stripe?” “Don’t mind if I do, but please forgive me for what I’m about to do”, for when I first saw the flyer for this event, the main room was what hooked me into going, and I really only used the lower room as a chill out area, as for me, playing 17 years of house music from 1988–2005, made for a dance floor filled with memories and ghosts and in fact makes me feel a little older than I wanted to feel that night. With that in mind I’ll fill this space with the memories of the moments I spent in that space. Now sweet harmonies entertained Robert Miles’s ‘Children’ as DJ PK and Faithless kept us in a state of ‘Insomnia’. Many seemed to share PK’s dream as there were many who told me they really enjoyed his set, but in Anthony Atcherley’s musical journey I heard and felt the funky house force in a f*cking blinding mix of a Bassment Jaxx track that I found myself bouncing off the walls, really nice to hear something you’ve never heard before in a song you know so well. Billy Bunter’s ‘Alright’ had me back in the days of ‘Promised Land’, but Dan’s set in the old skool/club classics room was not just about memory lane or our ‘Break for Love’ back then in the eighties, as he mixed the more modern house vibe into the brew.
There was lots of good times to be had in this room, but what I will never forget is my first encounter of ‘I Wanna Be a DJ Dolly’ rage. Now, just because your partner happens to be a DJ, does not make you lord and lady of the club, and so when I felt the painted nails of a DJ dolly trying to hay bail her way through the crowd I had to stop her and ask her to take a look at one of us clubbing peasants she had just trampled on and that did she see it fit to almost push a person with one leg to the floor just to stand up close to her DJ lover? Well that’s enough of my bitching, but please remember the free world does not stop just because our partner steps into a club with a bag of records. This room in the mass is a great little space but at times it was a little too empty, but perfect for me as a chill out! Thanks to Devious Dave, Anthony Atcherley, Dan Bunter, PK and DJ Twista and sorry to have lumped you all in together.
This event boasted that every DJ had been selected for their unique ability to send the dance floor into overdrive and with the first four DJs heavily laced with trance, it was an intriguing moment to hear this dance elevation crank up the bpm. I was about to have a stomp with a lovely cup of Aussie Chia. I always enjoy hearing a DJ fresh off the boat, as they bring in new flavour without all the local fads that us locals have been hashing and re-hashing in the clubs week in, week out, so when this obviously very competent disk jockey rode a track entitled, ‘What You Got for Me?’ I felt we were on the same page. Yes, this was hard trance with what I could tell had an extended euphoric build up, which at times had me starting to stomp when I should’ve still had my arms reaching to the roof, but she was, in the words of one hardened hard house fan, “F*cking awesome!” ‘Free Your Mind’ was yet another well-turned out record to play and at this point in her set I was open to a whole manner of things and every one of them bought a happy mess to my lips and my legs. Every mix Chia laid out had my head in a wizzing kaleidoscope: this jockey was steering the main room to the rafters.
It would be remiss of me not to mention the Hyper Zone — Together As One room, for it was rammed too and awashed with colour and smiles and some if the most NRGetic vibes on offer in the Mass, with great sets from Daddy Tasty himself, DB Bunter, Kevin Energy. I swept aside any negative views of this hyper scene when CLSM played a fantastic hardcore remix of a Dido song in a quite uniquely hardcore way. If hardcore is your thing, then this is a great party to hear it in, and when I asked a hardcore lover what she thought of this display of Tasty’s Hyper Zone, her most happy reply was, “JUBALARLY lovely jubbly bubbly but better”, which just spoke volumes.
Back on the elevator that was the main room for Roosta, who had bought the lights down and the NRG levels right up. This was hard and dark: say goodbye to the angelic rifts of trance and hello to the demonic beats of hard house. Amongst the bodies on the dance floor it was hard to make out the changeover of DJs. I was pushing for full time, so when it was time for Billy ‘Daniel’ Bunter to bring this outstanding night to an end, I was in little happy pieces. What a f*cking great workout!
Through all this mess of hard sell promotional merry-go-round that you see printed on most party invites, Tasty certainly delivered in this party, for I truly felt that it was an elevation from trance to hard dance which left me and most that amassed at St Mathew’s church with the ultimate high to be had on that mid-summer’s night. So don’t just dream about Heaven, get down there this August 26, the Carnival weekend, to feel Tasty Raindance us into Bliss.
All photos courtesy of the HarderFaster archive. Thanks to all the photographers involved.
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From: Claire99 on 30th Aug 2005 15:38.08
wicked read wish I was there sounded like an awesome night
From: WEBBO on 30th Aug 2005 18:47.48
was a great night claire , still my fave event , this seems like ages ago now , bring on the 12th nov
From: AlexHeylin on 1st Sep 2005 18:21.03
If you liked the Pure Anthems room, be sure to check out Billy Bunter's Pure Anthems show Saturdays 6pm - 8pm only on Pure Dance - Sky 890 and www.puredance.co.uk
From: pk on 6th Sep 2005 02:35.13
nicely written! i had an absolute blinder - it's nice to play tasty events as there's such an attitude-free vibe in every room.
the promoters are really nice people and i think their crowd reflects this. it's nice to play old skool once-in-a-while - especially to such an up-for-it crowd.
[spam]I'll be playing similar tunes at next month's 'old skool euphoria' event at The Fridge [/end spam]
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