Chris Randall of Sister Machine Gun took to the turn tables and his iPod with a pretty brutal mix of crunchy oldies greatness. Alas, the Portland crowd once again proved that if they hadn’t heard it a millions times already, they refuse to dance to it. Chris wouldn’t take that for an answer and after a few introductory songs, the floor finally filled up and the body heat kicked the temperature of the room up in quick fashion.
DJ Uberlush pumped out some very tweaky-twitch-dancy tracks; I always enjoy his music choices and his bobbing enthusiasm to his own sets. (I swear that Xlover’s Aneurysm would have fit in there somewhere and not killed the floor) I managed to snag some good photos of him finally.
DJ Carrion’s set was dark dark dark. The mood he laid down early was very impressive. At the end he spun out two requests of mine: Battery Cage – State Machine (Stromkern Mix) which was a lot slower than I had remembered it. Oops. Then, when I was grabbing my bag to go pay my tab he growls at me: “you’d better dance to this one Lynn!†Then I listened and he was playing Red Cell – Related Skin from the Born-Evolve-Progress comp – ahh, that track is so good. (Sounds even better at the volume, its tough going from living alone in a house in BFE Montana to an apt downtown Portland… volume levels stay much lower.)
The crowd was very diverse, for every familiar face there was one I’d never seen out. The place really was packed for the last few hours and getting a drink was crazy, even with two bartenders the drink demand was unquenchable! I helped bar-back a few rounds of drinks from around the bar at one point. Great sign of Dementia’s popularity! Lots of dancing people!
UPDATE:
Chris Randall had this to say on his blog about the night @ Noir, which confirms what I say above about Portland IGs not dancing:
I’ve proved once again that I can kill a dancefloor faster than anyone ever imagined. What I don’t understand is as follows: I play Joy Division and everyone just stares, then the DJ after me, his first track is some current band that sounds _just_ like Joy Division, and it packs the floor. There’s some wannabe goths out there, I just want to warn you.
For a complete playlist of the evening click for
Dementia playlists from 09/03/05
Artist/Song
* – Specific request
** – Artist request
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Atomica “Metropolitan” from 9:00pm-10:00pm
Dj Carrion:
01. Monstrum Sepsis – Trojan Horse
02. Spies – t:d:r:o:s
03. Pressure Control – Biogod
04. Terrorfakt – Hate Like This(Displacer remix)
05. Skorbut – Paradise Parasites
06. Framework – Kill Switch
07. Stromkern – Televised
08. Necro Facility – Methane View
09. Suicide Commando – Dead Call
10. Gridlock – Wound
11. *Christian Death – Cervix Couch(Spahn Ranch remix)
12. Die Form – Rain of Blood
13. **Coil – Love’s Secret Domain
14. *Broken Fabiola – Japanese Callgirl(Manufactura remix)
Dj Chris Randall:
15. Einsturzende Neubauten – Installation
16. Beautiful Assasins – Hellbent
17. KMFDM – Liebesleid
18. ARF – Sonda
19. Siouxsie & The Banshees – Monitor
20. Atomica – Larsen
21. Bauhaus – Third Uncle
22. Eco-Head – Land of The Free
23. Joy Division – Digital
24. Manufactura – I’ll Tear Your Fucking Head Off
Dj Uberlush:
25. Christian Death – Romeo’s Distress
26. Coil – Windowpane
27. Ministry – The Land of Rape & Honey
28. Thrill Kill Kult – A Daisy Chain 4 Satan
29. Oil 10 – Lost In Metropolis
30. Kraftwerk – The Robots
31. Covenant – Tension
32. Benny Benassi – Satisfaction
33. Berlin – Sex(I’m A)
34. P.T.P. – Rubber Glove Seduction
Dj Carrion:
35. *Snog – Corporate Slave
36. Front 242 – Rhythm of Time
37. Pop Will Eat Itself – Ich Bin Ein Auslander
38. *Feindflug – Stukas Im Viser
39. **Death In June – Leopard Flowers
40. **QNTAL – Name Der Rose
41. **Depeche Mode – Stripped
42. Wolfsheim – Touch
43. Camouflage – Close(We Stroke The Flame)
44. **Tactical Sekt – VX
45. *Psyclon Nine – Behind A Serrated Grin
46. Agonoize – Sick
47. Stromkern – Slow Cascade
48. *Battery Cage – Statemachine(Stromkern remix)
49. *Red Cell – Related Skin
50. Centhron – Tanz Im Strernen Feuer
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