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16 surviving posts · 16 Aug 2002 – 23 Aug 2002 · archived copy

16 Aug 2002, 7:53pm

Punter

ZEST! Progressive mania hits the riverland!

Saturday nights @ the Barmera Hotel(oasis room) has delicious servings of progressive chewns delivered by djs Diesel(aka UZI) & triple x. Entry is free so u Riverlandians support ur underground & check it out!
Adelaidians why not take a 2+1/2 hour drive & do something different with ur weekend, plenty of cheap accomodation available too! Time to close the Gap & unite!

Saturday 24/8/02 i'm heading up to spin a set on the darker side
hope to see ya's there...

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this new hour,holds new chances for new beginings....the horizon moves forward.... offering space to place new steps of change

16 Aug 2002, 11:08pm

Chrysoula

Nu Skool

It is good to see that the Riverland is finally getting it's shit together. I am a born and bred Riverlander and am always finding myself along with a heap of others continually making the trek to Adelaide.

The Riverland dance scene is slowly but surely starting to make a name for itself with events such as "Full Circle" held usually every 2-3 months which is a mix of both talented local dj's and Dj's such as JosH, Run-Tough, Kontol, Justin Carey, Jase( just to mention a few) who have made appearences, make the voyage to the Riverland to put on a very well recieved night.

The Loxton Club too puts on their own night where they too have a blend of locals and city boys RMac, Souli, Justice, Jules, Minix who play frequently also. These nights are always well recieved.

The Riverland has a hell of alot of talented Dj's ( Riveralnd's own Dj Sarez winner of 2001 chemistry Dj Comp) and MC Moore of Heaven is an ex local boy too. Not only are these nights supported by the locals we have people coming from Adelaide and Mildura too. The Dj's like the opportunity to play here too.

For events to be sucessfull full support is needed by everyone, plus the Riverland is a pretty funky place. I will be checking out the Barmera Hotel this weekend to have a suss. I think they really need to advertise a little more but should be a good night out. I'll Let you know how things pan out..

17 Aug 2002, 10:03am	#3
Syk Syd Punter	Hey Chrysoula! Maybe we should bang some heads 2gether & turn next week into some kinda riverland ITMers meet or the unofficial pre ITM meet bush bash & make a HUGE night of it! this new hour,holds new chances for new beginings....the horizon moves forward.... offering space to place new steps of change

17 Aug 2002, 7:50pm	#4
Chrysoula Nu Skool	Yeah sounds like a plan.. I don't have anything planned at this stage ( that I know about) PM me if you want...

18 Aug 2002, 8:12pm

AndrewWilson

Nu Skool

quote:
Originally posted by Chrysoula
It is good to see that the Riverland is finally getting it's shit together. I am a born and bred Riverlander and am always finding myself along with a heap of others continually making the trek to Adelaide.

The riverland scene has been going for a while now, UZI is an old barmera boy from my understanding,(i'm pretty sure his parents still live there and he has other family in Renmark.)
Dj Adam from SAFM, planet, sanity etc was from moorok

the first parties i heard of were run by a guy called george out at cobdogla/loveday with the likes of gtb and uzi coming up to play he then did another at the berri town hall with bof and bad man.

then myself mark and daniel ran a couple of parties at the glossop hall with the likes evn and pab coming to those. Then andrew and jimme got involved in djing and they have done alot more work getting the music out there.

before a couple of years ago when i organised the first full circle party at berri with Noddy, Pab and moore. And then andrew and jimme organised the heaven parties at the galaxy whilst joey was running the planet parties at loxton.

but it's good to see there seems to be alot more interest in the music down there

haven't been back since moving back to adelaide last year but am looking forward to the waterski/wakeboard showcase in renmark in november.

andrew

18 Aug 2002, 8:52pm

Chrysoula

Nu Skool

Some good points there Andrew. I am a born and bred Riverland girl and I still do live here. I am not saying that the Riverland dance scene are a total failure and that they havent suceeded in anything, I just think that there is still a long way to go for them.

The only real events that are held in the Riverland are the Full Circle events (which if you check the archives I reviewed and photographed for itm) as did I for the Loxton Club. The Galaxy has totaly died in the arse and realy that doesnt surprise me. The more the merrier I say. The more things they have here in the Riverland the less we have to go to Adelaide.

The problem with the Riverland though is that there is not a real lot of support behind these events and advertising too is vital. Apart from that they are pretty good nights. I help both Joe and Sarez with their events along with alot of the other dj's round here, all they have to do is ask. I just think that they need to be put on alot more frequent, be advertised sufficiently and keep both the local boys and city boys coming...

I know George too, he is related to me...

19 Aug 2002, 8:15am

Syk Syd

Punter

quote:
Originally posted by AndrewWilson

haven't been back since moving back to adelaide last year but am looking forward to the waterski/wakeboard showcase in renmark in november.

andrew

Hey Andrew,
why not get a few friends together & head up for the night(we are!) it should be a great night.

this new hour,holds new chances for new beginings....the horizon moves forward.... offering space to place new steps of change

19 Aug 2002, 2:45pm	#8
PaulHamon ITM Staffer	Re: ZEST! Progressive mania hits the riverland! quote: Originally posted by Syk Syd Saturday nights @ the Barmera Hotel (oasis room) I hope you have put a what's on entry online... http://www.inthemix.com.au/whatson/addevent.php Paul Engage!

19 Aug 2002, 9:28pm

AndrewWilson

Nu Skool

quote:
Originally posted by Syk Syd

Hey Andrew,
why not get a few friends together & head up for the night(we are!) it should be a great night.

i sold my house there when i left and most of the guys i know are living in adelaide. plus as a deep house and techno fan i don't think i'm going to get the fix of music i want to make three hours worth the travel.
as i said i'll be there in november with the nomoss crew doing their thing for the waterski show case so for those living there look for the info coming out some time soon

andrew

19 Aug 2002, 9:37pm

#10

AndrewWilson

Nu Skool

quote:
Originally posted by Chrysoula
Some good points there Andrew. I am a born and bred Riverland girl and I still do live here. I am not saying that the Riverland dance scene are a total failure and that they havent suceeded in anything, I just think that there is still a long way to go for them.

The only real events that are held in the Riverland are the Full Circle events (which if you check the archives I reviewed and photographed for itm) as did I for the Loxton Club. The Galaxy has totaly died in the arse and realy that doesnt surprise me. The more the merrier I say. The more things they have here in the Riverland the less we have to go to Adelaide.

The problem with the Riverland though is that there is not a real lot of support behind these events and advertising too is vital. Apart from that they are pretty good nights. I help both Joe and Sarez with their events along with alot of the other dj's round here, all they have to do is ask. I just think that they need to be put on alot more frequent, be advertised sufficiently and keep both the local boys and city boys coming...

I know George too, he is related to me...

Funny as it was only the fact that you reviewed it that i realised the name had been used again. The last one i did was a while ago so was surprised to hear they had had another one. I'm presuming sarez put it on??

i only moved up there in 1996 to work for the council. I managed to sell a few mixtapes for bof via we sell music and i think they still have some copies of the spacefold cd put together by paul via the core there. It was at the end of 1996 that we ran our first party for free and it cost us about $500, not very good business but with our mixing back then it would have been pretty rude to charge

say hi to george for me i only met him a few times but he seemed like a pretty cool guy and he certailny made some big efforts trying to put on good parties.

andrew

20 Aug 2002, 2:16pm

#11

Chrysoula

Nu Skool

There have actually been a few Full Circles now and yes they are put on my Sarez, but the past few have featured the same Dj's. Not slagging off at all, but you can only see Josh play oh so many times before you want a change. I think it's a great night out though for all the locals as most of them have no idea and are way too slack to ever go to Adelaide (My god they have no idea what they are missing). Also its a good opportunity for all the up and coming dj's to have a shot.... but there are sometimes just too many...

Mark still gets up there and mixes a bit ( though you can tell he really can't be stuffed) then theres Halogen, Jimm-e, Sarez then the 2 the gets from Adelaide (Josh and Run-Tough) and James MC's for him.... they pull a full house but I think the format needs to be changed a little bit. Otherwise I might have to start my own night.....

If you want I can let you know when the next full circle is on- at this stage I'm pretty sure it's saturday 28th September. Come have a suss for yourself...

20 Aug 2002, 7:09pm

#12

AndrewWilson

Nu Skool

quote:
Originally posted by Chrysoula
There have actually been a few Full Circles now and yes they are put on my Sarez, but the past few have featured the same Dj's. Not slagging off at all, but you can only see Josh play oh so many times before you want a change. I think it's a great night out though for all the locals as most of them have no idea and are way too slack to ever go to Adelaide (My god they have no idea what they are missing). Also its a good opportunity for all the up and coming dj's to have a shot.... but there are sometimes just too many...

Mark still gets up there and mixes a bit ( though you can tell he really can't be stuffed) then theres Halogen, Jimm-e, Sarez then the 2 the gets from Adelaide (Josh and Run-Tough) and James MC's for him.... they pull a full house but I think the format needs to be changed a little bit. Otherwise I might have to start my own night.....

If you want I can let you know when the next full circle is on- at this stage I'm pretty sure it's saturday 28th September. Come have a suss for yourself...

thanks for the offer but the guys that play now don't play my sort of music.
the first three full circles were run by me and had a few diiferent guys play at them apart from locals we had: noddy, pab, patch, justin carey and moore.

the big problem with the riverland is the fact that the locals have been brought up on a diet of 5rm and magic and those that are different have generally left the area by the time they are 20.

also everyone seems to drive around in their vl's and valiants with the same tape from dj karma in 1992. there is no real progression in the music anyone wants to hear.

this is not helped when the likes of the younger guys like sarez spend lots of money buying old rave records instead of investing in new tunes.

It was really dissapointing to hear him play all those sorts of records throughout the chemistry comp. I can only hope ging on a previous post that he has now begun to find his own sound that is different to others.

as i said watchout for late november, i'm pretty sure it will be one of the first times the riverland will see a live electronic act with dj's who have never been there before and also get to check out night time water skiing

now that will be worth driving the 300kms

20 Aug 2002, 10:34pm

#13

Chrysoula

Nu Skool

quote:
Originally posted by AndrewWilson
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the big problem with the riverland is the fact that the locals have been brought up on a diet of 5rm and magic and those that are different have generally left the area by the time they are 20.

also everyone seems to drive around in their vl's and valiants with the same tape from dj karma in 1992. there is no real progression in the music anyone wants to hear.
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21 Aug 2002, 10:17am

#14

AndrewWilson

Nu Skool

Ok there is some truth in that.. I am part of that "younger" generation and have managed to turn out alright... as have many others. I think that you have stereotyped all of us with something that doesnt suit us all. I live/work in Renmark and don't listen to either station and get to Adelaide quite frequently for a good time out( too much I may as well move there). I know alot of people that are Riverlanders that too are a minority and appreciate their music..

okay sorry didn't mean to be offensive, if you notice i did cover it by writing generally, and as you pointed out even you are thinking of moving to adelaide

As for the locals- there are alot of guy that arent getting the recognition that they deserv. Sarez is really the only one in the "lime-light" because he only looks out for his best interests.

unfortunately this happens everywhere. it helps if you believe in karma

However we could be here all day slagging off the Riverland, but regardless of who run whats and when it's on, for anyone to put on a sucessfull night and people to obtain maximum satisfaction both as punters and promoters everyone should support the scene....

wasn't really trying to slag of the riverland i enjoyed my 5 or so years there, I just realised that i would never hear the music i wanted to hear at the pubs and clubs and tried to make the best of it, with a skin full of alcohol even oh mickey can seem like a great song

Andrew looks like you have something in store for November?? Do tell....

not me but friends
there is a planned waterski showcase by barton and jacqui from foot feva in late novemebr similar to one they did last year however this time i believe they are organising music all day and night.
i'm not really sure of who will be playing but i've been asked along with Nomoss and Andy Thomas, i know there will be others but that is all i know at the moment

22 Aug 2002, 12:19am	#15
Syk Syd Punter	Re: Re: ZEST! Progressive mania hits the riverland! quote: Originally posted by PaulHamon I hope you have put a what's on entry online... http://www.inthemix.com.au/whatson/addevent.php Paul yep done that Paul..... this new hour,holds new chances for new beginings....the horizon moves forward.... offering space to place new steps of change

23 Aug 2002, 8:56pm	#16
Syk Syd Punter	shit! due to mechanical probs & now work commitments i am unable to head to Barmera tomorrow.....so hopefully in a fortnight or so i'll get to mix a Syk set 4 ya's......have a good one guys and remember moderation! this new hour,holds new chances for new beginings....the horizon moves forward.... offering space to place new steps of change