I have already recommended Lux to any Lisbon visitor in this blog. This Friday was a perfect example of a great night at luxxx. Every time I have an excellent night at Lux I call it a "Luxada"; every time i go to Lisbon I go to Lux. Every time I go to Lux, I have a Luxada.
Its fairly simple, they like to throw great parties.
Sonic Culture, a pair of portuguese classics, (Expander & Manu) were celebrating their nineth year toghether, with an incredible set. This would eventually become a warm up for the following two presents lux had prepared for us.
First a man whom we must respect, for managing the label of love music. Void, alongside with Burger played an awesome set giving us a bit of everything; beauty, intensity, bounce, fun and interaction. He showed is his love for elongated sounds, little smooth and discrete rhythms in the background and potent breaks. I wasn't expecting to bounce so much for this concert, specially knowing what was coming next...
...From this German lovemusic addict we were sent straight to the underground, 500 metres under the usrface with a dark, dark, dark start, of the Minimal woman who won her way into my heart back in 2003, and now is just the genious of Darkmusik. Mrs, Magdalena Chojnacka, MAGDA.
It seems like she cant take it any darker than her new tracks "Doom Disco" and "48h crack in your base", but she does, she can always get meaner, stronger, trippier, heavier, darker and louder; keeping it ongoing for more than 3h, letting us leave lux with the 9:00 sunshine apearing behing the lisbon bridge.
The Night looked good before we got into the club; the best of the best were coming, and they surprised us with better than what is expected from the best of the best; so it was better than what i could imagine a the best night from the best dj's. Void, Vasserman, Wolfgang Voigt is very special to me, with the foundation of kompakt alongside with Michael Mayer; he represents to me all the beauty in his label; all the Gui Boratto's, kiki's and superpitchers, while michael mayer is the strong side of kompakt in my eyes; his Audion, Koze, of Wrume. First the best of Kompakt, to best of M_nus. Magda is M_nus minus M_nus to me; she is the person who can take a double negative and make a super positive. She needs so little, such short, discrete sounds to make complete masterpieces; it's the total representastion of abstract art in Minimal music. A collection of little uncombined sounds placed off beat, off place, to combine with strong pounding bases of Magda's unique interpretation of tru base Chicago music, and building up to a complete track, with a perfecto flow from trippiness, to darkness, to strength, to power. This Hip-hoppy natural instrument influence she has adopted over the years my Queen of Dark Bounce.
