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The WMC '07 Miami Guide gives an insider's peek at this year's Winter Music Conference, serving up daily event previews, DJ profiles, insider reports, and audio/video clips.
WMC Day 2: disco meltdown
Like Grandma always told us, sometimes you have to dig a little deeper to find those diamonds. Of course, Grams was talking about marriage and discount pudding mix, but the same holds true for WMC. The biggest party to go down last night, Get Physical's showcase at Studio A, seemed like a no-brainer with its incredible lineup — we showed up to catch tight, bass-crazy sets from Heidi, Claude VonStroke, Dixon, Jesse Rose, Booka Shade, and M.A.N.D.Y., and came away satisfied that that is how proper house music should sound. But while Booka Shade's set was undeniably banging, we couldn't help but notice that the bulk of the tracks were from their Movements LP, which knocked WMC on its ass… last year.
As it turned out, the most newfangled thing we saw last night came when we slipped off to a small, semi-ignored party happening around the corner. At the Thunder Finger Records launch event at PS14, a freak five-minute downpour caused a mad scramble from the patio outside. With the DJ equipment under tarps and the patio rave effectively shut down, a modest crowd straggled inside, just in time to witness the extraordinary phenomenon that is Steed Lord. Sure, the band worked a gimmick like a cheekful of Big League Chew: the day-glo threads, the intentionally crappy keyboards, the synchronized dance routines… you get the drift. But damn, that little, platinum-blonde, Icelandic frontwoman was belting those tunes like a Chicago disco diva from a bygone era. For the 50 people there to watch, it was like they started playing funky house at a Vanilla Ice karaoke contest — and, on a night when the tunes had been nothing if not dependable, it was strangely satisfying to watch their high-spirited meltdown.
March 23, 2007, 05:31 PM
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