Friday night: I dropped into Warehouse Project at Depot Mayfield (my first visit to this venue) to see Eric Prydz, whose 2004 track Call on Me sampled Steve Winwood’s Valerie and came with this aerobics-based music video.
Pjanoo is another track a lot of people would recognise.
Depot Mayfield is a huge, down-and-dirty, former railway station, then a parcel depot, and is now perfect for a contemporary rave. Imagine their former owners’ bewilderment at finding their venue still standing, 122 years later, a bar in the corner and a couple of huge sound systems installed blaring out what they would be later told was tech house? The owners themselves would also be standing, in bewilderment and possibly amazement.
Anyway, I’ve been clubbing since around 2000, and I’ve done a lot of dancing in these clubs. Sadly, there’s a lot of standing around happening these days. As much as the music and visuals were great, the younger generations have no footwork. Great music though. No mainstream dance, as you might expect from a pop chart name like Prydz, as evidenced here in these high-quality professional videos I shot on my phone. Cough.
See also the Insta story highlights.
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