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Argentineans do it better…
A wind of change might be blowing through Creamfi elds
Buenos Aires, but the crowd remains the craziest on earth
ow that’s dedication. And DJmag informs Andy when he raises a today’s event seems to have more force showmanship of new house über-lord
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in this heat too. Two lads quizzical eyebrow in our direction. behind it. The line-up in particular is David Guetta; and the lush new-age
are down the front “Canadian dude. Has made a huge impact pin-prick sharp, casting its net far and luxurious techno of Brazilian Gui Boratto
sporting white in the past 18 months. Went straight into wide and capturing the best DJs and and Berliner Apparat complement Detroit
Creamfi elds boiler suits our Top 100 DJs poll at No.11. Highest artists from a broad spectrum of dance masters Carl Craig and Derrick May. And
with giant red mouse heads — that look new entry. Ever.” genres — and generations. that’s just scratching the surface.
as cumbersome and uncomfortable as old “Good for him,” deadpans Andy. “But he’s So new is married with old, cutting-edge
diving helmets — perched precariously still out there wearing a mouse head. with traditional and veterans with Our Buenos Aires adventure begins with a
on their shoulders, while up on the main “Mind you,” he adds, casting a nervous new-on-the-scene upstarts. The trendy ride from our glamorous dockside hotel to
stage the real Deadmau5 bobs behind his glance at the young faces in the crowd, zeitgeist have strength in numbers, while the Autodromo, which sits on the edge of
laptop as his glistening future tech surges “half these people have probably never the festival also pays homage to the past. one of the city’s most notorious barrios.
across the sea of faces. heard of us.’” It’s far removed from the often Slipping off the dual carriageway and with
In the side wings, 808 State keyboardist “We were at it before half of this lot were predictable prog-fests often found in this the dilapidated and depressing ‘scheme’
and acid house veteran Andy Barker looks even born,” he refl ects of the Manchester part of the world — and all the better for on our right, there’s a commotion up
slightly bemused as Joel Zimmerman group’s 20-year history. it. ahead. Rubbernecking, we spot police
continues to fi ddle with his laptop, bonce “We thought we should present a wider cars and vans with lights blazing, a
encased in that now very familiar mouse But therein lies the beauty of this year’s music spectrum at our show,” explains serious looking crew of cops, a dude face
head. Creamfi elds Buenos Aires. It’s 12 months promoter Martin Gontad. “We want to be down on the road and a gathering crowd
“The phenomenon that is Deadmau5,” since DJmag’s cherry-busting visit and more compatible with the current on the opposite street corner.
diversity that exists within electronic But then we’ve had scarier experiences on
pics:
Deadmau5
music. We know which styles work best for the No.55 night bus through Hackney in
here as we’ve been developing local London, and the fl ipside is that, within
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artists for years, but the time is also right the confi nes of the nearby Autodromo,
to present a more cutting-edge proposal trouble is the furthest thing from the
too.” minds of this 60,000-strong crowd.
It’s as safe as houses here and before long
‘Diversity’ is the buzzword for today’s DJmag is happily engaged in some
festival, which sees the glitchy 8-bit rave random banter with friendly strangers as
racket of Crystal Castles and the raw the evening sun hangs low in the sky. And
industrial electro-tech of Boys Noize maybe we didn’t notice last year because
soothed by the laidback vibes of George we arrived after dark, but today’s festival
Evelyn’s Nightmares On Wax; old school punters are super cool. Amongst the lads
acid house ravers 808 State compete with alone, a Noel Fielding lookalike is never
Deadmau5’s genre-straddling, hotter out of our sight line with more Hoxtonite
than lava tuneage and Simian Mobile haircuts here than in Hoxton itself.
Disco’s full-on club wig-outs; the solid
house grooves of stalwarts Erick Morillo With the onset of dusk, the Argentineans
and Roger Sanchez take on the frenetic seem to fl ick the switch marked ‘serious
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