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Life’s @riot with filthy house for dirty stopouts: RIOT! INTERCONTINENTAL! Reported by littlemissgenki / Submitted 25-11-03 13:23 That’s right, this is the end, the end my friend, a road in London’s WC1 to nowhere but hell on earth for weary Gilligan’s travelers and anyone caught up in the mix that was this huge weekend: an out of this world antiworld festival followed by a sold out ram jammed tight HHA from the frantic team to this, nukleuz’s saviour sunday service, with the man himself from hell house records, Yoji Biomehanika. Ed Real and his team don’t have much time to play around with a pain stakingly slow build up nor fill time with almost-there DJs. If you like it hard and don’t sleep of a weekend then this is one event you will find yourself at monthly. In October, clubbers had already been treated to a double helping of filthy hard house to celebrate BK’s birthday. Now we were back for more hi NRG kicking beats from Japan’s emperor of the twilight, Yoji Biomehanika and his fabulous band of hanikers. the end: that’s right, the end to over-bassed sound systems, dead floor space and the odd out of place suit at the bar—if you like your sounds crisp, it’s definitely the venue to hear your top djs at. With a sound system to die for, just enough room to groove elbow to elbow and as if that wasn’t enough, a house full of funked up dance music addicts. I just love a club you have to descend stairs to get to, it just gives it that feeling that you’re doing wrong and have to seek the sinners in the basement. That, coupled, with the end’s door policy, you find your self being squeezed down the stairs like adrenaline from a syringe. Nick Sentience’s remix of 'we come one' (progression recs) was injected straight into my ears as I plunged though the double doors. Take them couple of steps from the entrance hall to the main dance floor and the wall of sound that hits you is a real joy to the ears, one of the 7 wonders of the clubbing world (just don’t asked me what the other 6 are just now, I’ll get back to that at some later date). Looking round, there was the usual end crossover of Hoxton mullets, schmoosers, handbags, and those who were there for the great crowd and music. A chilled out sunday feel, a nice long bar to lean on, and the choice of very comforting sunday fodder: just like tvnz when I was a kid, there was the dilemma of the sunday feel-good happy ending movie on the one hand with our funky Ignition Crew cowboys, and the hard core sunday horror in the main room on the other. Now I’ve always enjoyed a bit of the dark side… As we entered the funky room, Matt Williams and new mixmag man of the moment Tom Neville had a good-sized crowd getting down and jiggy with it, and a just as good sized crowd chilling with their drinks and appreciating the warm funky sounds and kind lighting. Meanwhile, the hard room was dark and ultra-pumpin hi NRG. The dj booth at the end is no normal dj booth. Aside from controlling a device akin to a space ship (theoretically, the thunder ridge sound system actually works out its levels depending on the number of people in this room), the dj booth splits the crowd in two, so the dj has to work all sides of the room. It also makes it much easier to be way up close to the dj who you can see from all angles, adding to an intimate feel. Yes I wondered lonely as a cloud until the hard filthy beats that Danny Gilligan was playing dragged me back from a Wordsworthian dreamlike state only to find Danny was filling the place the strangely named Alex Calver track ‘papa new guinea’ and looking up at this bronzed lookers huge smile made me feel like I was on some far flung pacific island drinking from a coconut shell. Yes, Riot Intercontinental indeed. But hold on, this is london late october so the only real thing was the smile across his face: he’s a real charmer but really put pay to my wonderland by dropping in his our Halloween howler, his very own track ‘kill bill’, and from then on in it was a classic hard ass set with hostile trimmings—what a way to get my evening started. Gilligan is a dj that will surprise you every time you hear him play—he can’t be pigeon-holed, he’ll play his set to suit his mood. Yes the smile was real this was a happy Danny and he infected the rest of the room. It was time to wash my ears out so I slipped out though all the crazied hard stompers into the Riot bar, where I found a happy bunch of handbag swinging funkstars shaking ass to a brixton party legend Tayo, who made his name throwing parties with the help of his rooty sound system in the seedier part of town but with an almost 70s pornflick lighting effect whirling around the room and strippy tops bopping away it was more ghetto chic than gutter disco. It was all a bit too hip for me so it was back to the main room to find Danny hitting top gear he had hyped it up ready for the arrival of Yoji—but found him nowhere to be found. So all pitched up and ready for hi NRG techno Danny kept the heart beats pumping and blood boiling like a true hard nut pumped us full of wax--it’s nice to see a dj work that little bit harder off script he kick us all in the head with a brand new test press from tidy girl Tara Reynolds ‘mercy’ which had most begging for more. Danny Gilligan loves a djing challenge and playing this set tinted with a house/techno feel but still staying true to his love of hard house was a feat he relished in the end's much loved booth. Then, he finally handed over to Yoji, hell house records' head man, and it was time to get the screwdriver out. Even though the trains work in Japan and you can even get to an interview on time (it makes headlines if a train is a couple of minutes late . . .) Yoji wins even more respect by always being that little bit late, that tad cutting edge. As the gouls gathering around the world’s top dance djs to cast their spell of rankings many eyes will be watching Yogi Biomehanika, as this is one of those djs you can’t keep your eyes off, from his visual presences to his pin-pointed timing of an in tune scratch. Love him or hate him, you can’t get away with being in the same room as him as he starts his sets and feel the energy he brings with him--never mind black magic and witch crafts, this man has all the power ceremony of a modern day samurai and if you’re not careful, he’ll take your head clean off its shoulders with razor sharp mixing ability and harsh european techno cuts. Well, that's what his new track 'samurai' felt like it was doing to me anyways... It was time to get us all in the mood for some ultra pumpin techno stomping. Not only does Yoji play with the number of beats per minute in the craziest of ways, he uses his record selection in a fantastic way of making you feel a real integral part of his set, with prying piercing prime evil eyes holds your glare enters your mind then with a flick of a switch and a diamond smile that brings you to dance climax like a human bottle of champagne he’s popped your cork and you’ve broke out in volcanic larva of laughter and dance. Well there were a good few euphoric trance rifts indispersed with hard driving techno anyways. The first time I saw Yoji play was after LAB4 at Bayside Jenny in May 2000, at one of his legendary ultra pumpin parties. Not only was this one of the best raves I’d been to in my life, but the combination of perfectly mixed hard driving beats, Yoji’s incredible high NRG DJ style and the costumes and makeup of my fellow raving hanikers (as Yoji’s fans are known) completely blew me away. For the rest of my time in Japan I saw Yoji whenever I could, and didn’t miss a single one of his infamous ultrapumpin parties. By some bizarre coincidence, 18 months later after I’d first seen Yoji play, I’m at my first rave in london, and who should be headlining HHA than LAB4 and the man himself. Watching Yoji electrify the crowd below me from the balcony of Brixton Academy, I am again blown away by his intense stage presence and musical genius. Bizarrely enough, the first harderfaster review I ever wrote was of LAB4 and Yoji and a good few others at Fevah's fifth birthday. So, when I heard Yoji was returning to london town for his only set of 2003, I knew I wanted to meet him. By yet another coincidence, within hours of putting the wheels in motion for an interview for upfront, I win tickets to creamfields and get to see LAB4 and Yoji blow the roof off the frantic/nucleuz tent. Despite problems with the decks—for those who don’t know, Yoji overpitches his decks so he can play as hard and as fast as he chooses—or perhaps because of them, he gives one of the most intense and high-NRG performances I’ve ever seen. In Japan all this is easy as Yoji carries his own plates around, but of course an outdoor festival in Liverpool ain’t quite so simple. Possibly to overcompensate for this, Yoji is on fire and once again, I’m blown away, and now more than a little nervous about the forthcoming interview, but the coronet goes off in fantastic form--can't wait til you get the balcony sorted guys! 20 years as a dj shows: it was indeed a pleasure to watch Yoji-sama the master at work behind the decks of the end’s sound system as he scratched, bang on the beat, made a spin back sound like a master stroke, then danced on the edge of the dj booth. Now some so-called hard dance fans criticize hard dirty techno (which to me is all you can call some of this wonderous stuff), you say that you have to take too many drugs to enjoy it, there’s too many k-out drugged up junkies in the crowd to fully enjoy such an experience—cos let’s face it, you have to be well smashed to enjoy something that hard eh?!? I say, if that’s the case, f*ck off home and watch Eastender’s omnibus: I was straight and it was indeed a pleasure to see once of the best djs in the world go loose on the end’s sound system. But this was indeed Riot’s sunday shake down service and Yoji made most feel like they were on a higher plain. in a blatant sunday service of all things good, hard and perfectly pitched Yoji was indeed very hard—but for this lover of hard trance, dance and all things in between, that was indeed unmissable. One of my magic moments of the evening was seeing the crowd mobbing the dj booth at the end of Yoji's set for autographs--something I've never seen before in my two years clubbing in London! All too soon the great 1 had left the building, but still there were over 400 strong mashing it to wave upon wave of deep distorted trance. Most were dead on their feet by the time BK’s set hit, he took no prisoners and KO-ed this weekend into touch. Having come back from the almost dead then being sent to Oz for a coupla weeks punishment, BK looked remarkably tanned and healthy. ‘Don’t f*ck with me’ left nowhere left to go for the Sunday service, as BK hammered the last nails into us to close the weekend coffin. Thanks to the Riot boys for making this Sunday service so very special Yoji-sama to Mika-chan — aka-chan hontou ni omideto! And a very happy birthday to Sweet Kelly and Ino--cheers for a wicked party! 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