LTJ Bukem + MC Conrad - Fri Jun 18 @ Playtime

Posted: **1 Jun 2004, 9:54am**

blake wrote:

yo khem

this one hasnt been yet

yeah well youd think it had with the distinct lack of enthusiasm @ the mo ... whats up with you peeps? its BUKEM ... get rowdy damn it!!!

Posted: **1 Jun 2004, 2:29pm**

Damn straight Kimba!!!!!!

PSYCHE UP PEOPLE!!!!!!!

Cant Fucking Wait!!

Posted: **1 Jun 2004, 3:20pm**

Ya'll know I cant wait

Posted: **1 Jun 2004, 3:26pm**

you know what spanks?

im going to see him in melbs!!!

yah for me

Posted: **1 Jun 2004, 3:33pm**

Melbourne = teh

Edit- how can a guest post by the way?

Posted: **1 Jun 2004, 3:38pm**

my application for leave just got denied for this night and for hype - boooo

can come along but wont be out too late

Posted: **1 Jun 2004, 3:42pm**

soft!

not that i can talk but

softsoftsoftsoft
softsoftsoftsoft
softsoftsoftsoft
softsoftsoftsoft

(and i needed an excuse to use that turboghey emoticon

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Posted: **1 Jun 2004, 5:38pm**

looking forward to this one

Posted: **1 Jun 2004, 10:48pm**

Fritzgibbon wrote:

my application for leave just got denied for this night and for hype - boooo

can come along but wont be out too late

Its the last friday before my exams.....

GONNA BE HUGE!

Posted: **2 Jun 2004, 2:42pm**

is greg packer still playing at this?

Posted: **2 Jun 2004, 2:51pm**

Was Greg Packer ever playing at this?

I know he's at Winter Enchanted but he aint at this.

Posted: **2 Jun 2004, 2:56pm**

there was mention of it a while back...

Posted: **2 Jun 2004, 3:55pm**

blake mentioned it a while back in another thread.

Posted: **8 Jun 2004, 2:19pm**

i'm lookin forward to this

Posted: **8 Jun 2004, 3:00pm**

Ive been caining some PRogrsssions session cd's and eventhough this is very close to my exams, im thinkn im gonna have to make this one.
Especially after last years xmax show, should be one of the nights of the year for me..

Posted: **8 Jun 2004, 3:28pm**

not long now

Posted: **9 Jun 2004, 10:25am**

This is going to be mad... Only problem is the distinct lack of decent red wine available at Traffic... Quality red wine + quality spliffs + LTJ Bukem = dnb heaven...

Posted: **9 Jun 2004, 10:26am**

riposte wrote:

not long now

i know, sunday

4 sleeps

i LOVE bukem

Posted: **9 Jun 2004, 10:27am**

dj_hybred wrote:

This is going to be mad... Only problem is the distinct lack of decent red wine available at Traffic... Quality red wine + quality spliffs + LTJ Bukem = dnb heaven...

oh yeah ... that indeed is a beautiful combination ...

Posted: **9 Jun 2004, 11:22am**

dj_hybred wrote:

This is going to be mad... Only problem is the distinct lack of decent red wine available at Traffic... Quality red wine + quality spliffs + LTJ Bukem = dnb heaven...

im open to suggestion if you can recomend a decent preiced nice red

Posted: **9 Jun 2004, 11:42am**

Sounds good, might have to come to this...

Posted: **9 Jun 2004, 11:48am**

i doubt i will have the cash to go to this, unless there is a freak accidental overpaying into my account....

Posted: **9 Jun 2004, 12:41pm**

blake wrote:

dj_hybred wrote:

This is going to be mad... Only problem is the distinct lack of decent red wine available at Traffic... Quality red wine + quality spliffs + LTJ Bukem = dnb heaven...

im open to suggestion if you can recomend a decent preiced nice red

Hello! Wine? naaa dont know of any. Can give plenty of suggestions though.

Posted: **9 Jun 2004, 2:05pm**

so that's what it takes to get you out of the woodwork dan

Posted: **9 Jun 2004, 2:06pm**

aQuaTiC wrote:

riposte wrote:

not long now

i know, sunday

4 sleeps

i LOVE bukem

ummm kimba it's on friday the 18th which would mean 9 more sleeps

Posted: **9 Jun 2004, 2:08pm**

dubbd wrote:

aQuaTiC wrote:

riposte wrote:

not long now

i know, sunday

4 sleeps

i LOVE bukem

ummm kimba it's on friday the 18th which would mean 9 more sleeps

I think she is goin to see him in melbourne too mate.

Posted: **9 Jun 2004, 2:12pm**

schmoo wrote:

dubbd wrote:

aQuaTiC wrote:

riposte wrote:

not long now

i know, sunday

4 sleeps

i LOVE bukem

ummm kimba it's on friday the 18th which would mean 9 more sleeps

I think she is goin to see him in melbourne too mate.

ahhh lucky sod

Posted: **12 Jun 2004, 11:38am**

This is always one of my favourite sets of the year. I love to roll out the smooth bizness.

Posted: **12 Jun 2004, 12:08pm**

MPK wrote:

I love to roll out the smooth bizness.

If only it were done more often in this city...

Posted: **12 Jun 2004, 12:17pm**

Its done more often than people think.

Posted: **19 Jun 2004, 5:02pm**

Well there's a relief.

I'll take ur review Spanks cos then i feel better bout not going.

Posted: **19 Jun 2004, 5:21pm**

Noddy wrote:

Looks like Bukem is moving away from the atmospheric stuff and into more dancefloor friendly territory.

wicked...i've heard a couple of bukem sets recently and i agree that it's a refreshing change, bukem has always been a bad bad dj but good looking sound hasn't really done it for me for a long time...which is a pity because it used to be one of my favourite labels.

Posted: **19 Jun 2004, 9:51pm**

i find it disappointing that he's moving away from atmos because the sound of atmos now is really really good. wasnt too keen on the funkier/liquid stuff he was doing last night.. i mean he's always been doing that but also with a mix of atmos as well, but last night it seemed that there was no atmos and all funky.. which is the same as what he's be doing in other countries as well from what ive heard.

to me this is a bit of a let down. but for what it was, it WAS good (i guess) hehe..

got to pass our CD on to conrad who gave it to bukem so it'll be interesting to hear if he's still into the atmos/chilled sound..

Posted: **19 Jun 2004, 9:57pm**

i must say i was dissapointed, nice tunes but the sound was very shite imo
i was expecting more atmos/funky stuff than the dancefloor so i was alittle dissapointed by that to. the tunes were great its just that wasnt really what i came to hear.
conrad was good when you could hear him and the mic problems weren't fixed, it was still cranking out the feedback in the last 30mins of his set.

Posted: **19 Jun 2004, 10:00pm**

weird... the cones on the speakers were meant to be replaced a couple weeks back. we had some probs with the mic last week too...

how dancefloor are we talking? was he rocking the new bad company dubs or playing some fresh new twisted plates?

Posted: **19 Jun 2004, 10:11pm**

Noddy wrote:

and proved that he & Bukem are the best DJ/MC combo in the game.

you said the same thing a month ago about marky and stamina

Posted: **19 Jun 2004, 10:15pm**

rough&tumble wrote:

Noddy wrote:

Looks like Bukem is moving away from the atmospheric stuff and into more dancefloor friendly territory.

wicked...i've heard a couple of bukem sets recently and i agree that it's a refreshing change, bukem has always been a bad bad dj but good looking sound hasn't really done it for me for a long time...which is a pity because it used to be one of my favourite labels.

Good Looking stopped progressing for the last 8 years so its damn good to see he's broken out of that mold. He has some of the best skills in the business so to see that combined with more current sounds is so damn good.

I dont think people can be too disappointed about him not playing atmos because if that isnt where he's at anymore it would be a shame to hear him play it. I went to hear Bukem NOW, and if that isnt atmos so be it.

Yes, the sound wasnt as good as it has been but to me a night is what you make it. It also seems to be the usual suspects complaining every week which makes me wonder sometimes if its the individual nights that are bad or wether the scene isnt for them anymore.

I could be wrong but every single night cant possibly be that bad, especially when the general vibe from most punters is extremely positive.

Too much bass but Bukem still rocked!

Posted: **20 Jun 2004, 4:34pm**

Let me elaborate further.

I have absolutely no doubt that Bukem was good. Hell, Bukem IS good. LTJ & Conrad are the act I look forward to just about more than anyone else.

However..

The bass was oppressive. So much so that I could hardly pick out any other sounds in a lot of the tunes. The people that I came with, that are not over regular Traffic visitors said to me ' whats up with the speakers'.

I was hoping for some nice funky, melodic, moving music. I am really not even sure what was being played. It definitely was different, not necessarily bad, not what I was expecting though. I would love to hear those tunes at a level where I could appreciate the finer details, not just be walloped by the bassline.

Conrad was muffled for the first 45 minutes. I don't think many people could appreciate just how disappointing that was for me. Conrad is a genius to me, and after waiting 2 years since the last time I saw him (at Rush ) to not be able to hear exaxtly what was being said was pretty shattering.

Maybe it is the same people whinging, but we are also the same people who pay to get into events. I am the first to give praise where it is due but I am not alone in being disappointed in friday night as a whole.

Posted: **20 Jun 2004, 6:39pm**

Out of interest, what sound system is Traffic running and, what ever happened to the white Bose system at Minke that served the Bukem sound so well last time he came to town?

Posted: **20 Jun 2004, 7:03pm**

traffic has a jbl system of some description and the bose system is notw in garage

Posted: **20 Jun 2004, 7:05pm**

the bose system now lives at garage.

apparently the speaker cones in traffic were replaced a couple of weeks ago so its a bit weird to hear about these sound problems. with the bse show i sat in the booth for a bit and had to have the bass down a fair bit so it didnt over power the rest of the sound.

Posted: **20 Jun 2004, 7:18pm**

No shit, i always assumed that Bose system at Garage was a brand new one. How sad that all that quality sound system goes to those girlie house posers with thier peroxided euro-trash mullet hedgehod haircuts and $200 pink designer t-shirts Big Grin

Posted: **20 Jun 2004, 7:29pm**

well yeah thats i have been told anyway

Posted: **20 Jun 2004, 11:26pm**

i always find it hard to hear whats going on in the mid and upper ranges at traffic, sometimes vocals are completely drowned out by the bass and the tunes sound different than if you listen to them at home or elsewhere..

that aside, bukem's set was pretty good, definitely moving towards a 'harder' sound, some sweet tunes though. was good to hear the western 'live'.

Posted: **21 Jun 2004, 3:22am**

I never liked the Bose system at Minke but that was just me.

The Traffic system was completely sorted just before Marky and was wicked on that night. Maybe the Lyrics Born gig forced some changes that didnt suit the drum&bass Bukem was playing. I didnt notice the sound being that bad early on in the night so I have a sneaking suspicion Bukem had the bass running flat out because it did sound a lot more overpowering than any other night at Traffic.

Posted: **21 Jun 2004, 4:54am**

giving you what you like if you like bass?

Posted: **21 Jun 2004, 8:45am**

Noddy wrote:

I never liked the Bose system at Minke but that was just me.

yep, just you!

but then you never made it a secret that you didnt like minke!!

pity that that sound system is wasted on 'the garage'

Posted: **21 Jun 2004, 1:43pm**

I think most people didnt like that system as a general rule.

It was a horrible system to mix on at Minke and from all accounts is no better at Garage. It just never sounded good in Minke, well, at least for dnb nights.

Posted: **21 Jun 2004, 1:47pm**

well today has been the funniest day of work ever........

Thanks to the guy who passed out in the upstairs toilet who as it happens also works with me...... the best bit is i got to tell him at 7.30 this morning what happened. He's still hungover.

Posted: **21 Jun 2004, 5:23pm**

Noddy wrote:

I didnt notice the sound being that bad early on in the night.

was pretty bad at sum stages.

still had fun though.

Posted: **22 Jun 2004, 12:56pm**

Stryke wrote:

I thought it was shit so there you go.

Left after 45 mins.

he wasnt very good in melbourne, i found it rather boring, and i usually love bukem. conrads mcing annoyed me after a while too, sounds like he's whining with bass.

weird.

lyrics born was freakin cool tho!!!

Posted: **22 Jun 2004, 5:26pm**

i thought bukems tunes were fresh, rollin things , mixed wickedly and all dubs(no cds) what more do u want?

Posted: **22 Jun 2004, 5:31pm**

Khem wrote:

how dancefloor are we talking? was he rocking the new bad company dubs or playing some fresh new twisted plates?

anyone?

Posted: **22 Jun 2004, 5:34pm**

i enjoyed the tunes more than anything except that old skool bit at st paul's..

mad liquid style funk, rollin bass, i thought it was to see bukem evolving to newer sounds

the bass was a little over powering at times though

Posted: **22 Jun 2004, 5:44pm**

Khem wrote:

how dancefloor are we talking? was he rocking the new bad company dubs or playing some fresh new twisted plates?

anyone?

Think Matehematics, Makoto, Calibre, D-Kay, Intalex etc

Posted: **22 Jun 2004, 5:53pm**

Noddy wrote:

Think Matehematics, Makoto, Calibre, D-Kay, Intalex etc

sounds like what he played at minke last year... which i thought was fucking great!! may not be his old atmos style but he was playing that stuff last visit... i was a bit worried after what everyone had written here, but it sounds like i missed out on some quality tunage.

blake: keep the bass dials on the desk at about 9/10 o'clock, having them flat is too heavy and tends to drown out the high and mids - imo of course

seemed to clean things up at bse anyhoo...

Posted: **22 Jun 2004, 6:42pm**

It was quite similar to what he played at Minke but perhaps a little rollier still. Much better than the atmos stuff he was previously playing.

As for the sound Bukem went in early and tuned the system to how he wanted it. He gets the blame for the sound being dodgy.

Posted: **22 Jun 2004, 11:47pm**

Noddy wrote:

I think most people didnt like that system as a general rule.

It was a horrible system to mix on at Minke and from all accounts is no better at Garage. It just never sounded good in Minke, well, at least for dnb nights.

i reckon i played on it about a dozen times and it was by far the easiest sound system to play on all but two times, it was like mxing at home.
the last time i ever played on it was by far the worst of all system i have ever played on. someone who didnt know what they were doing mustve tuned it very very badly, you couldnt hear the foldback at all and had to play with the mixer eq bass on zero!
what a nightmare, no mixing basslines for me that night. Neutral

its by far a cleaner system, better compression and less ringing in your ears afterward. but bukem last year was fucking loud.

Posted: **23 Jun 2004, 8:00am**

fiction wrote:

i thought bukems tunes were fresh, rollin things , mixed wickedly and all dubs(no cds) what more do u want?

I agree completely. But like everyone the sound was probably the worst i'd heard it at traffic in quite some time. Unfortunate because we all know to make bukem and conrad appear their best the sound has to be on the money. Besides that it was a great night.

Posted: **29 Jun 2004, 2:43pm**

Bukem and conrad get my thumbs up..............
I thought it was a nice change ( apart from Marky an stamina) to hear some much missed funky ,soulful, rollin tunes that embrace the soul and leave footprints in ur heart i really enjoyed my nite an apart from the technical difficulties wouldn't change a thing! Was well worth the money!