Ben Cromack @ Velvet Sat Nite 5/6/04

After a successful opening nite last saturday , this week VELVET will bring you Australias leading techno dj " BEN CROMACK."

Ben will be giving you a good dose of tribal tech, with a dash of minimal and detroit techno. Velvet also has our residents "JORGE WATTS, JUDE and DEVIOUS". Plus one of Adelaides up and coming techno djs "HALYCON"

Entry is $10 which includes a free drink voucher.

So if you want to hear something different this sat nite make sure you check out VELVET.

VELVET = "SENSUOS MUSIC FOR SENSUAL PEOPLE"

oh you guys are sure in for a treat.

our cromack and your devious.

sure sounds like a good recipe.

Ben Cromack will be mixing as smooth as Velvet!

Let's bring it on...

the underground sounds are making a resurgence!

cheers for the kind words , i will be in melb on june 19th at the factory , if you are ever in adelaide pop into velvet i had so much fun mixing that night cant hardly wait til sat
I AM EXCITED and im not big KEV !!!!!

I so wanna go to this with Ben finally in Adelaide but I have my daughter this weekend ... so will not be able to make it.

I have seen Ben in Melbourne 5 times in the past 18 months - he is fuckin' awesome!

If you don't go you will regret missing this nite!

Nice to see you on the Adelaide forum bigblue - when are you coming to party with us?

Check your PM's Deevs

... but it would be all the better for it Psyentist!

Can someone please post the djs times for this night ?

word to that. looking forward to seeing cromack, read some reviews of the guy, he sounds phenomenal.

Hey HDP & other interested party crew: I spoke to Jude this afternoon and he confirmed DJ times as follows:

Saturday 5th June

1000-1100 Simon Booth (surprise guest appearance)
1100-1200 Halcyon
1200-0100 Jude Alexander
0100-0230 Jorge Watts
0230-0430 BEN CROMACK [MELB - 3 DECKS]
0430-0600 DeViouS

So come on down and get your groove on!

Boothy's return isn't such a surprise after that, Jamrock! lol

Either way, gives me another excuse to come down

3 decks !!! sick

Hotdog pete in the flesh !!!!!!
I am excited
you be the guy with the duffle coat and the wig

i be the guy with the really big ears

not long to go now kids... c ya's there

sweet night, i thought cromack absolutely killed it, deevs' set was banging too. hopefully there'll be more sweet acts on the way too, cheers deepbox.

p.s. anyone know the last track ben dropped?

velvet.... a wickid nite!
ben cromack was farkin superb & excellent sets from watto & deevs...

Had a top night !!!

Jude played a nice funky set , not too hard which built up nicely to george watts who in my opinion played the best set of the night .
George also didn't go as hard as he usually plays which left room for ben cromack .

Ben Cromack was probably the worst techno dj i have ever seen .
he didn't have a clue what to do with his tracks , everytime it seemed like a mix was going somewhere he cut it off straight into the next track , i don't actually think he ever got the 3 decks together once . I looked at my watch at about 3.20 and was thinking fuck he still has over an hour to go whats he gonna do??? I think he needs to master 2 decks before playing 3 . No way is this guy anywhere near 'australias best techno dj' status!!!
Everyone has bad nights , but this was shocking .

Was a pleasure to hear deevs take over an play a more mature set than i have heard him play in the past , without so much crossfader overkill . We really do have some talent here , had our djs toured interstate more and our population been bigger one of our djs could of easily picked up the best techno votes .

Overally was a wicked night , i have always liked that room at st pauls........

wish i was in town for this one.... not happy i missed it.

Ben must've had an off night.

And I wouldn't go making calls about best DJs here or there blah blah, because everyone thinks people from their own town are the best. I've seen interstate DJs before and thought they were totally woeful.... and had people from that state tote them as the best on the planet.

Ben can sometimes be a bit off, but to say he's the worst is an obvious over-exaggeration and I'm sure you are only saying that because you expected him to blow you away....

I hope he gets to go back over there and show you what he can do, because there have been times when I've seen him and been totally impressed by his skills.

Ok i suppose the worst may be a slight exageration but far from the best is the truth . Watts did smoke him and yes i did expect Ben to blow me away . I really don't like all this chopping up style its just a cop out cause the mix isn't lined up properly . Gee i will just cut straight into the next track hopefully noone will notice.
At least when mill cuts it up he has a track layered underneath for you to focus on .

Really enjoyed my self< Velvet has proved to give me two really good weekends back to back. Ben set was really good, and with the caliber of dj's playing, if you have minor slip ups i guess it will shows (yet to see it).

Looking foward to next weekend<

Love to see more live acts like Amoeba, Fenetik, Cycloid?, Fatal dose live set with his Yamaha thingy and other out there.

if velvet keeps going Adelaide Techno has a very good future

Sounds like a good night. I had a ball when Sam and myself came a couple of weeks back for the opening night.
It's a shame that Ben wasn't up to some of your standards especially because I spent most of the time telling everyone how awesome he is.
In the end someone can be a good d.j. but not your cup of tea. I suggest before making the call that Ben Cromack is the worst d.j ever to maybe look at some d.j.s that don't play techno. I guarantee you that you won't have to look far.
Jorge was the best the opening night too. Highly underrated D.J.

I personally thought that Ben nailed it !
Definately played 3 for the majority of his set , wicked track selection .........what more can i say i really enjoyed it .
I am glad you enjoyed my set Hotdogpete , still not sure by what you mean when you say cross fader over kill but i guess when you aspire to be like HMC touching the cross fader at all would be over kill .
I prefer when a dj cuts up ,scratches , and does tricks but that is just my style so eh !
Any way i thought velvet was really good and i will be there sat .

you dont enjoy Bens sets or you think he is not good .
Or you love him Van s your man right

I have not seen Ben play a bad set yet ... I am sure he would not have been anything other than fuckin' amazing, just pissed I couldn't be there!

Biggbeat , we must have been the only people there with our ears open !! we should hook up , obviously we agree on some things .......... do you mix ? if so under what name ?

Hot dog pete is the alter ego for whom?