Whats wrong wit ooooo???(Velvet puntas)

This is a short note of concern about the lack of support for Adelaides newest techno night Velvet.The opening week was a success id say judging by the turnout,but the later weeks were plagued by dwindling numbers and lack of general support.
I would really hate to see this venture fail-not just because the organisers are good mates of mine,but coz where else are you gonna go to hear good noise week in week out?!!
I think everyone who cares should pull their finger out and also not expect to get in for free...without profit the organisers will pull out and think twice about doing similar events in the future.

ill be poping in this weekend, and then we will see about every week.

after jz, techno has just grown on me

I came to the first velvet, but havent been since, from my point of view, I didnt stay cause when i got there they were playing house music, not that i dont like house music i actually like house music, but you can go to a number of other pubs/clubs in adelaide and hear house music, where as being into techno i would have preffered to start with funky electro like aux 88 and that would get people dancing and its more mainstream friendly for earlier on.

The other problem is getting mates to come telling them they gotta come, theres a techno night on its gonna be something different, then when youse get there there like 'oh no not another house music night' and you gotta say oh lets wait another half an hour and see if it picks up and you wait and wait. And i wouldnt come by myself and stand in the corner and chin stroke. But if they were playing like detroit stuff i rekon people would come back out of the shadows cause this is the best techno ever.

Really i would like to see this work, but to be honest i havent really been to interested in coming since the first one.

dude if they were playing house and then left, you musta been there before 12 coz i got there about at 1230 and they were playing techno.

after the opening night they decided to start playing techno earlier.

ive been all 3 weeks but i do admit the last 2 weeks ive been a very late arriver due to prior commitments (birthdays etc.)

clubs never seem to do well on long weekends unless theyve got a big show on.

Velvets rockin everyone come and get their groove on!


*plus there's a lot more to techno than detroit. fair enough its had its fair share of good tracks and good DJs, but theres good techno from all over the world. Why limit yourself to one style of techno. Technos meant to be about being openminded and hearing new sounds.

plus most UR stuff ive heard in like the last 5 years has been heller av.

even with my open mind id hardly call anything ive heard on their label techno.

most of could best be described as abstract-underwater-electro

isnt hawtin is from canada?

As i said in other posts , i wouldn't go out every week even if cam was a resident dj . I am just over late nights all the time and enjoy spending the weekends doing normal activities with my girlfriend . I will however try and get to velvet at least once a month to get my techno fix !!! Give it time , it could take 6 months to build up a following . Wait till summer at least , thats the party season , alot of people stay home in winter and others are busy studying at uni . I bet ya by new years the place will be going off!!!

godamn it, i thought it might have been sunday night, was too cold and wet on sat night anyway for me, mightn't have stayed long if i did go ( saT )
i didnt even go to the Goa gig down south or Mile High, on sat night/sun mornin it was shitty weather, not even to hear those chunkified, electroey, housey, grimey tek house tunes upstairs

the 10 clam entry @ velvet with free drink pass rocks, thats a wickid deal, i dont rekon people are stayin away cause they want free entry, as that works out to $3.50, you'd have to be pretty cheap ass to stay away for that reason! would be cool if different parts of st pills were used to mix things up a bit, loved those couches, couches rock

I have my daughter every second weekend and my g/f has her son pretty much all the time - so any going out is now restricted to those rare occasions when we can get a night to ourselves - the first Velvet was the last time we came out next will be Winter Enchanted!

We will definitely be there if and when the opportunity arises!

excuses excuses.

so just read on Resident Advisor

Richie Hawtin is touring later in the year, and so is Jeff Mills


either of them gonna be @ velvet?

one can only hope they are!

Wait till summer at least , thats the party season , alot of people stay home in winter and others are busy studying at uni . I bet ya by new years the place will be going off!!! [/B][/QUOTE]
Right on the money

I read back on what i wrote, and i probably was ignorant in writing detroit is the best techno, cause really i guess there is no best, just different directions. Thats the only techno i really get into though, apart from some of the windsor, candada stuff too. In my 'opinion' i find a lot of the other stuff really fast, but yeah everyone to there own. I was just trying to get across that maybe theres some other people here too who listen to detroit stuff and thats not catered for in adelaide, but i see how my comment could have pissed off a few people.

But for the record i dont only listen to detroit music, i listen to european electro and ebm too, its just the detroit techno is the only style of techno im into.

yeah drexciya , detoit ain't the best , english techno is the best !!
Seriously detroit ,new york , canadian , swedish , english . Its all good!!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Drexciya
[B] I was just trying to get across that maybe theres some other people here too who listen to detroit stuff and thats not catered for in adelaide,


This is too true.I love the Detroit sound so soulful and deep,yet rarely hear it out(remember Mills @Heaven anyone??) needs to be cranked out regularly.Some people argue that new sounds should be played if you venture out,but if you've never heard it before,isnt that classed as new sound??