End of Disco @ Mylk, Sydney (26/08/06)

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Yes. Mad party. It was sweaty. And lots of girls. With a very bumpin dancefloor. Cool trash art-shit on the walls. I was transfixed on fluoro Simon LeBon. AND there was an actual 80s housewife there.

Well she reeaaally looked as if she had left her beige non-electric roller hoover in the cloak room for a while so she could get dooowwn in her sheer stark blue dress which was more than flattering the way it fell on her curves. Her hair stood out too. Big curls which sat up alllmost like an afro but not. Dancing. Gorgeous, and so carefree!

The party atmosphere in that club was great. It was totally the music. Tekneex and Hooli were crunching out an eclectic mix of clash electro with some wicked booty bass. Then again, it was also the crowd’s attitude that made it go off, cos everyone was dancing in some form whether they were in the less crowded parts of the lounge, hitting on people at the bar, grinding on the couches or thrashing on the dancefloor. Infectious. This is how a club should be!!

Jaime Doom and Dangerous Dan are prime examples of what it’s like to be a hot DJ. You have first access to the absolute freshest tunes and rarest bootlegs, and this set them apart at least stylistically from the other boys, although it would not have been easy to carry the atmosphere that Tekneex and Hooli had setup. Highlights, aaah… walking in to the pumping club, and this wicked tune early on which had a quick synth bass line and really made everyone move. Jamie Doom dropped a remix of Doomsnight by Azzido Da Bass which was particularly cool!

Obligatory blown up photocopies of art/pop pop-art icons decorated with pink and yellow fluoro coloured the walls… One of the posters had “Elvis DiFazio” written on it, so I’m assuming he’s the guy who decked out the room, google him. So it set the scene pretty well. I think this is a great venue for messy parties, but apparently the club transforms into an R&B hangout or something similar at other times… In which case, yeah, I spose it’d be pretty cool for that too. Mylk has a flow about it that makes you feel comfortable whether you want to chill, go nuts or even talk to people, and the layout really contributes in the way the bars feed the dance floor and vice versa, and the way the dance floor blends into the lounges.

I mean, yeah we’re kinda past the peak of this style electroclash clubbing a la Bang Gang, and yeah we’ve almost had enough of fluoro shit and analogue synths and remade 80s tunes and Tiga and saying how cool New Kids On The Block are (actually ewww I’m way over that one) but werd to the promoters for pulling it off. Cos we know we love it. And we still want more. It caaan’t die yeeet!

It’s like… ok, you have to see this movie about the dying days of the disco scene in America set in the sort of late 70s early 80s, it’s got Chloe Sevigny in it, made in 1998, and some really great dialogue… But get this though the movie is called The Last Days of Disco!! It is seriously almost exactly what’s happening here ( plus drama). I wonder if the dudes putting on this night have seen the movie, surely they have! Go to the next one.

Nobody has hearted this, be the first Be the first!

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