Perth was lucky that the weather worked together with the Summerdayze crew to make it a perfect day to dance around at the Supreme Court gardens. A great day, great DJ’s and a great vibe- people where there to dance!

The slogan of the day at the Housedayze tent could well have been “Accept to Sweat”, I know I certainly lived by it. The dark tent, supporting some great international DJ’s, was adequately dim to provide a more mysterious clubby feeling, but unfortunately also trapping the heat. The heat was more manageable because of the hoses and pump crew spraying chilled water on everything and everyone.

The line up was very international at Housedayze, and really needs no introduction:
1200-1 John Carter
1-2 Micah
2-4 Mousse T
4-530 Darren Emmerson
530-7 Martin Solveig
7-830 Mylo
830-10 Tocadisco

The Dj’s all played a mix of current hits mixed with their own styles and singles where they could. Theme of the moment seems to be the mixing of old rock classics into club mixes, hearing the likes of the Clash, Blur, Pink Floyd and many others. The sets were all technically good and each DJ attracted their own crowd.

John Carter had a good sound using lots of samples and supporting a very loud Bass. Micah was a bit more soulful and a bit tamer. Mousse T turned it up a notch playing a bit of a heavier minimalistic style with more irregular beats and sound effects. Darren Emmerson played a lot of remixes and mixed in smoothly after Mousse T and before Martin Solveig.

I thought the music styles became cleaner towards the end of Mylo’s set and Tocadisco, they seemed to be playing more straight forward house in their own style as suppose to chucking in many of the remixes.

It seems the world of VJ’s has come up especially in Perth in the last two years and it was a bit unfortunate that the organisers at Summerdayze did not pay a little more attention to this phenomenon. Most Dj’s set were accompanied by standard visual stimulation in stead of more original footage (although a bit more creative at the main stage).

Around 4 O’clock the sound at the main stage got turned up and it was unfortunately affecting the sound in the tent if you were standing near the entrances (announcing Judge Jules on the main stage).

The crowd in the Housedayze Tent was up and down during the day, but the atmosphere was happy, relaxed and hot. It seemed that the thing attracting the people was not so much the actual Dj’s as much as certain songs. The winning crowd pleaser was definitely Fedde Le Grant’s Put your hands up for Detroit closely followed by Bob Sinclair’s Rock This Party. The DJ’s were all good, it was just unfortunate of the tent’s temperature as I found it hard to stay in there long periods of time, as well as the sound being somewhat overpowered some times.

Sorry to milk it;
“Computer games don’t affect kids. I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music”. – Kristian Wilson, Nintendo 1989