2014 May L'After was a Far Messier Affair

Picking up from where we left off..
After a very tame and somewhat bland FK set, I dropped a selection of funky house classics to get a few feet moving. The carefull scripted algorhytm was thrown out the window, I started soulful and strangely ended up in Tranceland.. the odd thing is.. It worked !!!
Someone I have a lot of respect for, Richard Vasquez (here on podomatic http://richardvasquez.podomatic.com) commented on the previous FK set and depicted it as cerebral.. A fitting description of what I can do.. What you are about to listen to is anything but.. It is .. primal! Although I had everything all set up, I had to deviate from the script and it ended messy...
This is an extract of the peaktime moments, the last 80 minutes. 
Proceedings got a tad messier as the night went on with the energy levels picking up. Far from being perfect and with some terrible quality files, what you are about to hear hopefully translates the vibe I was getting from the decks..
As my friends well know, I am definitively not a 'live" person but the feedback I was getting from them for an hour made this possible... It is repetitive (I looped and relooped, mashed and remashed) "cheap" but somehow in the heat of the moment I even got in the Frankie tune I had left out from the tribute set.
I am not even sure my friends picked up on it, all I know is that they did have "their hands up in the air"..
To sum it up " We had FUN"..
 
Playlist:
... is at best approximate. I am not quite sure what I dropped and when but the credits are correct.

1999 Big Love (Peter Heller’s Big Love) [Xtian Edit]. Peter Heller
2001 Guitara G (G Club Original Mix) [Xtian 4zeLove Edit]. Banda Sonora
2002 Diamond Life (Dance Ritual Mix). Louie Vega & Jay “Sinister” Sealee feat Julie McKnight
2005 Fade (Grant Nelson Big Room Vocal Mix). Solu Music feat. Kimblee
2013 Fade (Shane D’s Ode to GN Remix). Solu Music feat Kimblee, Grant Nelson, Shane D
2012 Fade in Your Love For the DJ (Shane D Private Edit). Solu Music, Frankie Knuckles, Candi Staton
2013 Your Love for the DJ (Grant Nelson’s Private Edit). Candi Staton, Frankie Knuckles, Grant Nelson
2012 Never Let the Sun Fade (Grant Nelson’s Private Edit).  Solu Music, Myomi, Grant Nelson
2005 Fade (Grant Nelson Big Room Vocal Mix) [Xtian Bridge Edit]. Solu Music feat. Kimblee
2011 You’ve Got the Love (Mark Knight Remix). Florence + The Machine
2012 You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (DJ Meme's Mix Of Epic Proportions). Frankie Knuckles pres. B. Slade
2010 Missing the Silence (Xtian Bacardi Edit). vs. Delirium Sarah McLachlan
2011 Finally (East & Young Remix). KOT feat Julie McKnight
2011 Finally (Rafa Carneiro Epic Bootleg). KOT feat Julie McKnight

 
Highlights:
Apart from the very low audio quality, Shane D and Grant Nelson work on "Fade" and I am a bit partial to Xtian's "Missing the Silence" mash-up ..
And the realization that "Strings of Life" is actually an anthem.. Had totally forgotten that one..
I will be back soon but I have no idea which direction I will fall onto.
P.S: I guess I have to mention the "Salsa Incident"... My only comment... As white men can't dance nor dunk, gay men can't throw..
 
 
Xtian
 
P.P.S.: to all our friends who were with us last Saturday.. Thank You!