Re: 21/10/10 MinimalWave301 - Das Ding LIVE & Veronica Vasicka - Amsterdam
Hello,
I organised the event on Thursday.
Thanks to all who came out and made it a great night. Thanks also to those who bought records, it was an idea to offer a something special to people who made the effort to leave the house, and also as a way of generating some cash to pay the band etc. You'll notice i kept a very low door fee considering the line-up. I’m glad you are enjoying it, 3 winners on there for sure.
To answer some questions and comments:
This 7" was cut and pressed at Record Industry in Holland.
It was a joint production between the event organiser, artist and the label. The covers were hand sprayed by the Minimal Wave artistic director herself just 1 hour before the doors opened.
A small number of copies are available. If you live in Amsterdam i can sell you one direct, if not then Minimal Wave will have some for sale when Veronica returns from her European travels. Rush Hour might have a few, and maybe some other Dutch stores.
YES! Das Ding WAS super! It was a pleasure to host him and i was really pleased with the audience response. The guys in the band had a fun time and it’s been a total pleasure working with Das Ding on this event.
Ok (deep breath), a few of you seem somewhat confused that you were going to be attending some kind of elitist spotters convention. If you’d have done your research (I thought you’d have been good at that) you’d have seen that it was actually special edition of PopWave301. I put POP in the name to dispel it being too closed and specialist….and it works. People dance on obscure stuff next to better known things - records are not dismissed for not being rare or unknown. You will as likely hear Shoc Corridor as you will the Cure or Cocteau. So, If you want to direct geek-beef at anybody regarding the music you heard, then you can do it to me, please. I booked Veronica Vasicka as DJ for the night, and I also briefed her that at the beginning we’d play some wave etc (quite diverse and stuff that the band like) to set the vibe. Then after she should come on and play any music she felt like. I also emphasised she did not HAVE to play Minimal Wave. A lot of people really loved it, the dancefloor was testament to that!
What a nice welcome to Europe this must be if Veronica is reading all this here. Of course she plays it careful at such an event (being ADE etc), but still there was no questioning how great the tunes were. Have you been to NYC lately? Do you know what’s working on dancefloors there right now? I don’t know why the fact IF or whoever was playing tracks years ago has anything to do with a selection of tracks from a DJ coming from a totally different angle. I care about taste and it’s obvious from her label she has a heap of that, she certainly expressed that in her set.
I am about the most un-hip person in this city (I simply do sporadic events when I feel like it) and I resent the comments here that imply some kind of contrived reasons for booking Minimal Wave. It’s are actually quite offensive to me. You should have asked me for a refund, I'd have enjoyed telling you where you could stick that along your nasty opinions and thermos flask. New people come into scenes all the times, and boring old dinasours die. Fact of life. Get over it and maybe stop going out / posting on forums as you look like bitter old farts with nothing better to do or say.
I won't be replying on this as i'm not into the forum chatting thing at all. But after being alerted to this thread by a friend, I felt should comment.
Cheers then
morthee@gmail.com
