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Were there any chairs at Axis, DJ John Digweed would have had the audience out of them last week. Bringing his successful Bedrock club night across the Atlantic from Britain (where it takes place in both London and the small seaside town of Hastings) and transplanting it into the familiar environs of Lansdowne Street, Digweed, a reticent performer, kept his eyes on his equipment even as he worked his young, 20-something crowd into frenzy of worshipful, happy hysterics...
...recently remodeled Axis space was arranged to privilege the DJ; he stood at the center of a row of equipment at the focal point of the new, terraced dance floor...
...DJ, Digweed spins above-average progressive house music, full of rhythm, body and the occasional trance-like zephyr. His style, like many other house DJs, is continuous: only one or two segments stood out as pieces with at least a vague beginning and end, while the rest was a heavily overlapped stream distinguishable only to the attentive ear. Fellow DJ superstar and frequent collaborator Sasha calls Digweed "the best DJ on the planet," but if this is true it is more for Digweed's craftsmanship (evinced by his smooth layering) than for brazen originality or nerve. Still, he does have...
...That a DJ of such global stature as Digweed attracted only this fairly average crowd is indicative of the difficulties of DJ stardom. He may have flown here to promote his latest double mix album, Bedrock (and indeed, quite a few songs from the night found their way onto his playlist), but listening to the album is nowhere near as fun as hearing him live, even if it's a good recording. Perhaps what the night proved was that DJs--more than any other kind of musician, perhaps--are not suitable to export by compact disc. Lucky thing they...
According to DJ Schmeejay's research, six things are guaranteed to make people laugh, regardless of race or gender: 1) watching someone get kicked in the genitals, 2) a hapless person falling down stairs, 3-5) two people beating on each other in form or another, and 6) adults dressed as twins...