Club Reviews: The Cocoon Party In Association With MySpace - The Warehouse Project

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The Cocoon Party In Association With MySpace - The Warehouse Project
	Date: Friday 9th November 2007 Address: The Warehouse Project, Beneath Picadilly Train, Station Manchester, M1 2GH Occurrence: Monthly Hours: 9.30pm - 5am Ticket Price: £17.50 Adv Genre: House Dress Code: None Capacity: TBC
Line Up: Sven Vath, Hardfloor [ Live ], Marco Carola, Raresh

9th November; beneath the streets; beneath Picadilly train station; the masses of Manchester amounted under giant archways of brick and stone as their elders had done once years before evading the Nazi Blitz bombers. But this night the people were not here to hide, and there was but only one german raising a siren. Sven Vath’s Cocoon warehouse party was in full swing in Manchester’s air-raid shelter and the techno faced kids from far and wide united, star-painted in homage to the man of minimal. On arrival, ‘Hardfloor’ were well underway - live edgy acidic 4/4’s; performance techno was on stage. The mac’s apple glow saluted the dawn of this new style of set; synth-sequenced and very electric. The crowd was menacingly eager for more. Manchester’s Warehouse Project, now in it’s second year of success draws both artists and clubbers alike to it’s underground vibe, guaranteeing great names and almost always a sell-out night. I think a well organised, fantastically designed venue, with friendly door and security staff could not go wrong. And then there was Sven; his blonde head oozing über cool as he flirtily flaunted his minimal records to this needy fanatical crowd, it was a greatly strange experience to be raving it up in such peculiar a setting. Sven built up his set from a foundation of gradual building granular noise, to a plateau flow of techno. Minimal was the word, techno’s successor maybe, this sound seems to be dominating dance floors. Many a techno DJ have followed this minimal alliance, spreading in from the depths of Europe, stripping the harder fiercer techno down, to an almost sanitary regime. The kings is dead, but long live the king I say; the crowds of warehouse entranced in this idyllic form, fully embracing the music around. Marco Carola, a DJ and producer I grew up listening to, I had not heard much from the man in a few years. One alias of Marco’s being ‘Question,’ progressive and punchy techno, fast and effective, a big favourite of mine. I was amazed at such a dramatic change I was hearing, deep and retro sounding drum machines, layered on eerie strings, and odd jazz riffs. Perhaps experimental, perhaps I’m getting on a bit, perhaps the ‘new’ path of techno.
Venue: Music: Crowd: Sound System: Total: / 40 Rating:
Review written by: David Al Hilali	dhilali@uk-cl.co.uk

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