sonar 2006 roll call

i'd also potentially be interested in rooming with people, as well, so i guess we can talk about that here too.

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laurent garnier + bugge wesseltoft and sasha

http://www.sufmart.com/index.php/archivos/noticias/sasha-y-laurent-garnier-live-con-bugge-wesseltoft-en-sonar-2006/

bodycode (and i think portable during the day)
matthew dear
ryan elliot
ryoji ikeda
tiga

would rather go to Berlin.

Unintentional rhyme. Date-entry has rotted my mind.

i love barcelona

and im going to berlin too

ill have my cake and eat it

the lineup looks sort of eh to me--i'm more excited about mutek to be honest.

and are liars the one rock band it's ok to like if you're into house/techno?

since I am the only person I know who didn't like Barcelona when I stayed there I will plan a different holiday I guess!

This is the kind of insider knowledge I'm looking for! Like, is that Neng guy still on TV?

I also have problems dancing on beaches for some reason. No bounce!

has mutek been announced?

weekend
maria
watergate
panoramabar
club de visionaire
etc
etc
every
fucking
week
week in
week out
omg

(i don't want to go to benicassim either y'see: i don't do tents and really won't be able to afford a hotel.)

There are always many a japanese 'crapola' act, I dunno why though.

Also Sonar day is quality, I dunno why so many people skip it. Chilling in the sun with smuggled alcohol and food(and i by smuggled, i mean just walking in with it in your bag.), quality. Also there's many a gem to uncover. Hot chip have exploded since last march, though where's 'General Electrics' gone? Cliquety Klick is a brilliant album and he's a nutter live...

come for the last weekend in June - that's when I'll be there!

xp!

THEY HAD BETTER NOT FUCK AROUND WITH THE WIMBLEDON TV SCHEDULE FOR THE SAKE OF THIS FOOTBALL NONSENSE.

o lor i just remembered, the love parade! that's mid-july, innit?

slim chance...

http://www.sonar.es/portal/es/news.cfm?id_noticia=283

dj oloof = olof from the knife

http://www.krass.com/wiki/S%C3%B3nar_2006/Calendar

http://www.krass.com/wiki/S%C3%B3nar_2006/Calendar

http://www.residentadvisor.net/events.asp?ai=20

apparently there's an Output party on Saturday but can't find that listed...interested in how easy its going to be to check out more than one event in an evening

it's on valldoncella street

after flat nightmares, think ive got somewhere a million miles out way past placa espanya....hopefully it'll be near montjuic and in the hills at least.

There are some vinyl emporiums on a little street whose name I forget that runs parallel to the top end of Rambla del Raval or whatever it's called. Erratic opening hours due to smoking commitments, I think.

Are you pulling our leg, RJG?

http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/info_practica/mapa_recinto/img/mapa01.jpg

?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvxjazSAslg

michael mayer @ c/o pop chiringuito, playa nova mar bella
heidi from phonica @ playa mar bella (at the same time)
italo dude who played after her
roman flugel (or maybe someone else) @ la paloma
someone from mobilee @ raum

missed:

magda @ city hall
luciano @ maremagnum
audion @ sonar
isolee @ sonar
mat jonson @ raum
superpitcher, m mayer, etc @ nitsa ("cerrado completo" @ 3.30 am)
no good:

matias aguayo (i think)

best day: sunday

best venue: the beach. couldnt be bothered goign to anywhere with a roof and walls after dancing on the beach.

photos being uploaded now

managed to fail to meet cozen for the second year running. one day it will happen!

overall, it was good, but sonar is unnecessary, and spending all day sleeping and buying ham, catchign the bus, etc is more than sufficient activity in 30'c

damn sinuses, maybe next year.

who was the someone? ralf kollmann from mobilee is a really good dj.

kompakt party @ nitsa was good, gui boratto especially. freude am tanzen room really good; krause duo killed me, and soren w/o robag was still banging, if less loco.

bpitch @ nitsa was even better than kompakt party; ellen/apparat in fine (live) form, and when paul kalkbrenner played his closing live set, i thought i might throw myself off the balcony from sheer pleasure. now that's what i call trance!

c/o pop beach party featuring mayer, koze, thomas was fucking insane. actually no, it was totally sane - super mellow and beautiful. nothing like swimming in the ocean with a pair of speakers blasting mayer at you. downside: wolfgang never played, despite rumors (confirmed by him) that he would. did ricardo actually put on the last record? someone told me he did but i couldn't see him up there.

bummed i missed luciano, and bummed i missed sonar by night saturday, but there was no doing both. wish i could have caught the minus beach party (all of 100 meters down from kompakt) but i was too damned happy to be stationary for a while, on my beach blanket with my 2-euro cans of estrella (inflation! they used to be 1.50, and before that 1) and copious porro.

in fact, i think i'll go back to the beach tomorrow. no mayer, but i'll still have water/beer/porro. i hit the trifecta!

the knife
scissor sisters
vitalic
mayer, matias aguayo, superpitcher, whoever was after s.pitcher (who was AMAZING)
the freude am tanzen room downstairs @ nitsa, dancing come so easy

disappointing

the knife (slightly)
tunng
james holden (wtf)

I can't remember who else I saw, despite being almost completely sober the whole weekend

managed to have my bad stolen and miss the bus for my plane too : )))))

mobilee party - really dug the chardronnet set and the infectious enthusiasm of the hosts.

ryan elliot at Sonar by night - played about 8 crystal clear + beautiful tunes i now really need on an amazing sound system

lying round on the sand at the Kompakt party to Koze and Mayer.
lying round on the sand at the Get Physical party to an unknown DJ

hearing matt jonson play typerope

telling a certain producer how good I think he is and seeing his face really light up with delight!

lows: missing luciano + loco dice, missing everything at Nitsa, catching a fucking bus back from Marbella while Audio Werner and Mike Shannon were playing and missing that, Matthew Jonson's new breakbeat direction, Richie + Ricardo at Sonar by night, wandering into the Miss Kitten room by mistake

overall A++WOULDSONARAGAIN

Trevor Jackson & Ozkar Melzer @ Output @ Hotel Diagonal - lush rooftop hotel pool party with fun summer tunes. good crowd and nice to mix up the beach parties with something semi-civilised

Patrick Chardronnet @ Mobilee @ Raum - some great tunes, especially Eve by Day. was also pleasantly drunk at that point and enjoyed the party atmosphere.

*GOOD
Matias Aguayo @ Kompakt @ Nitsa - works better in smaller venues but still fun, rapping it out with Max Turner was cool

Heidi @ Get Physical beach party - proper its sunday, everyones a bit sleep deprived and loose beach tunes, her new track with Riton is dope

Gaiser & Magda @ Minus @ City Hall - some big tunes, just a bit too tired at 5am on Monday morning to go next level

Kiki and Funke @ BPitch beach party - good value

OK
The Knife @ Sonar by Day - not as strong as their London show, probably because of the crowd not getting it to their weirdness as much

Koze @ Kompakt @ Nitsa - Still loving Loco Dice - Seeing Through Shadows and that Thomas Schumaker tune

Kompakt & Minus beach partys - Some good vibes, but stayed longer at the Get Physical bash. Liked Koze dropping the french pop 7inch though.

Ambrose - we often seem to be in the same place, this and the London thread, do I know you?

most heard tunes at Sonar - Inner City "Good Life" (3 times) and Ame's "Future Bound" (3)

thawas my main beef with the kompakt one. i dug the isolee (?) mix of "what you say...." but couldnt really hear it, and thought that what i assumed to be aguayos set (ie the one with "slow" in it) was kinda at the wrongg time...like people were wanting to get a bit fresher. really crowded small/cramped space doesnt go with a monged out sexy slow set. maybe it was just too busy and too difficult to get beers.

the mobilee party was weird... went straight into the top room and stayed there for an hour thinking "this is a bit shit, why are there only 20 people ghere?" until i chanced on the insane underground sweat box donstairs...like moog but bigger.

gutted about missing a get physical beach party!!!! but its pointless to be gutted really.

you cant really see it too well but here richie having an orgasm @ 7am.

http://static.flickr.com/69/172137277_cd7627b527.jpg