It’s Monday morning, I have a big week in front of me, a final rush is waiting to finish all the last details of the artwork of my new mix CD entitled “COME WITH ME…” which is coming out in February, and instead of working I am sitting here reading the nice comments about my night at Stereo and just remembering the whole experience, and dreaming… I am trying to remember every moment but as always I forget. So by reading people’s comments I can live some moments of the night again. Friday night was a really sensational night for me. More than for the celebration of my 30th birthday, which I was trying not to think of too much as 30 sounds way too big for me, it was sensational for what the music I love to play the most sounded in there. I was totally impressed! In so many clubs the sound is good in the room but not amazing in the DJ booth, and club owners don’t really spend their time fixing those problems because by thinking that they have an excellent sound in the room they don’t hear any other comments as constructive comments anymore, and they just leave their booth as it is. I actually took a minute to realize that on Friday, when I was playing at Stereo. I really did think, Oh My God, it’s such an orgasm to play in here! I know Sarah wrote the comment on the guestbook that no other club sound system would have done those records justice, and she was right. Of course the sound at Stereo was going to be good, I mean we all know Stereo has the reputation of having such a great sound in the room, but what most people don’t know is how orgasmic it is to be DJing in there! People don’t know this right??? Or do they? Well, I didn’t!!!!! Did anyone ever say this before? Because every time I had to mix a record in I had goose-bumps!!!!!!!!!!! I could feel every little sound of the music I was playing SO WELL! From bass to mids to highs, it was sounding just incredible! Plus, another thing that I read in my guestbook is about the music I play, that I don’t play hard and what have I done with Misstress Barbara, blabla. Well, this is maybe the right chance for me to explain what’s going on. Misstress B is still alive, more than ever. Misstress B has been playing records for 10 years and has now acquired a certain maturity, musically speaking, which allowed her to evolve. You can still hear techno out of her, even the hardest of the hardest, but not just always and anywhere, not just because the name Misstress B appears on a flyer. She knows when to pull it out, and she knows it’s a risk not doing it. And trust me, she risks a lot these days!!! Because so many fans of her are simply disgusted that she doesn’t play as hard so often anymore, but so many others are delighted to hear all this new, deep stuff, coming out of her. Stereo was not the right place to play hard techno, and even though they’ve had some hard DJ’s in the past, just think for a minute and you’ll understand why Misstress B has chosen to play her birthday set at Stereo instead of choosing any other after-hours club. And it’s not because she was not going to play hard that they should have announced Barbara Brown on the flyer. Barbara Brown is asleep right now. I am NOT into house at the moment. I do not like the house music that’s being produced at the moment, as much as I am not into the hard loopy techno that’s being produced at the moment either. It’s not over, please know that, it’ll come back I’m sure, at least when it becomes interesting again for me, but right now it is just not doing it for me! And FYI, the music I play right now, is not house. A part from some electro, it is just pure techno. It’s just not the fucking hard and fast techno that you’re used to with me, but if you know music, you’ll know it is techno what I play. It’s just that it’s deep, full, round and, especially, very intelligent. The ones who can’t follow that, they are welcome to leave. The ones who can’t understand evolution, they are welcome to stay in the past, but not beside me as they wouldn’t feel very satisfied right now. The ones who want to see me playing super hard techno, they are welcome to jump on a plane and come to hear me play at next summer Monegros Festival in Spain, where I enjoy playing so hard and so fast, because there it fits well with the environment, the place, the people, the party… But not in Montreal, at Stereo!!!! That said, I would like to thank all my fans who were there, who were true to me and who are still true to me by letting me be who I want to be when I want to be it!!! I had an unforgettable night at Stereo, and I certainly hope to go visit that place again soon, among all of you, my sweet Montrealers!! PS: I consider all my fans who don’t live in Montreal but who visit Montreal for all of my sets Montrealers too, so no discrimination! You know I know who you are! 🙂
