alistair Nah, not really. Turned up 20 mins late (or rather, got Steve Parry to play for a bit longer in the hopes it would fill up a bit), first 90 mins were good including a couple of bobby dazzler tunes but the last hour was anthem town - Aviator and such like - he ended the set with that Ladytron remix and that ambient vocal thing he ended his Glastonbury set with three. months. ago. Unbelievable.
Sasha @ Ministry 12th Nov
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Cankles-McJeggings What I do know though is Sasha is playing boring as fuck uninspiring music that I don’t believe for a minute he likes. Been saying it for years too. His best sets are when you know he likes it. Like the first Luzo ones and the 6 mix.
What mixes are these exactly: “the first Luzo ones and the 6 mix”?
I’ve not heard any mixes from him that aren’t “boring as fuck” in over a decade.
Rolling out the red carpet for you.
Some cracking stuff knocking around on here.
Can anyone do me a favour and weave that special kind of magic which makes his Mixcloud Fabric sets into download links?
I asked the Microsoft Word paper click helper but he’s fucking useless.
DMs welcome :-)
Cheers.
Cankles-McJeggings you could well be right. At some point it must just become a job for these guys. I wonder how many sets they have played in their career now. 100 a year x 25 years (and that’s on the low side). Its got to get a bit mundane after a while
Cankles-McJeggings Rolling out the red carpet for you.
Huh?
If you’ve posted any links to those mixes then they’re not showing.
I’m preferring Sentre’s sets nowadays tbf.
Hursty I spoke to John that night (it wasn’t long after I pulled a benson in Beefa) and he said it would be really worth my while to actually stay that night.
If you look carefully in the second video on this page you can even see me 
https://dancingastronaut.com/2016/03/sasha-digweed-reunite-surpise-b2b-ministry-sound/
I think that was one of the last times I went out out
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Cankles-McJeggings The passion is dead. Each to their own what they see and believe, I’m all good with whatever. That’s just how I see it.
From what I saw of him a couple of months ago this take seems completely detached from reality, Dermo.
I don’t listen to many of his live mixes unless they come recommeneded, much prefer a studio one (6Mix like you said, the BulletProofBubble one was also great, albeit short) but he was brilliant the night I saw him and he was far from disinterested or going through the motions. He was bang into it and the tracks were superb. I’m guessing the Fabric night was great for those involved. I enjoyed the first hour or two of the housey stuff, ambivalent with the rest if I’m honest. I feel the same way with Digweed, I much prefer his early set stuff nowadays.
Gigs are so diverse nowadays for these big names (boat parties, dark clubs, festival stages and everything in between) that there’s defo a time and place now more than there was 25 years ago.
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All good vin like I said it’s just the feeling I get. Followed him for the duration of his career until recently and like to think I can tell when there’s passion in his music. I honestly dont think it’s coincidence his best mixes are when he’s playing the stuff he personally loves and given half a chance would be doing so all the time. (Luzo, 6 mix and as you said the bubble one) or in a studio doing scores.
The last times I went to see him which wasn’t too long back really it was just like a miserable middle aged bloke looking uninspired behind the decks and looking like he was going through the motions playing average music and couldn’t wait to get off and back home or to whatever he likes doing. That’s my experience and get it that he was having a good time when you saw him. Can only imagine the gear was top notch 
Sasha having a ‘record picker’ tells you everything you need to know.
Can still turn it on but defo going through the motions.
Valid point.
He’s had one for donkeys. With the amount of dirge there is on beatport would be nice to have a record picker. I look at it like having someone in the record shop that knows what you like and putting stuff your way. Miss that tbf.
It’s a good job that he made it as a DJ, because he would never have held a job down doing anything else, countless days off and questionable sickies. He would have been one of those employees that people would refer to as ‘sick note’
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Smallman1 He’s got a team of them, not just one. (A mate of mine has went through trying to get his tracks on LNOE and knows them)
That said, they all do. While I can see Dermo’s point about him going through the motions, I don’t think having a record picker is the stick to beat him with.
IIRC he said in an interview he still goes through 200 or so tunes a week himself. It’s impossible for him (and the rest of them) to find the time to go through everything they get sent.
