“He used to be our YTS,” jokes Andy. “We
taught him everything he doesn’t know.”
Life is becoming a bit more diffi cult now. A
bit wobblier on our feet, there’s a big fat
handful of DJs and artists we wanna catch
all playing around the same wee small
hours in different arenas. Zipping over to
WHAT THE DJs SAY… Arena 2, Martin Buttrich — previously
HERNAN CATTANEO
only known as Timo Maas’s exceptional
ON CREAMFIELDS BA
studio rat — has thrown a comfort blanket
of warm techno around a locked-in crowd,
massaging the lobes and mind in prep for
“It’s always great when I’m back in DJmag’s Producer of the Year, Radio Slave.
Buenos Aires. I do just a few gigs in The “speaker music” keeps coming from
Argentina every year and Creamfi elds Matt Edwards but we can’t stick around
is one of my favourite shows. The and peg it across to Arena 4 for some
reception when I get on the decks sublime sonics from the M.A.N.D.Y boys
gives me goosebumps. Patrick Bodmer and Philipp Jung, and
“It makes me feel proud too, as I know then we’re on the move again, catching a
we were just a few people when it all snippet of main stage action from
Simian Mobile Disco started many years ago.” M.A.N.D.Y’s fellow Get Physical founders
Booka Shade.
where we fi nd local hero Hernan Cattaneo even pop elements swirled into Enough running around already! There’s a
hanging out before his set. Delighted at ‘electro-tango’, bringing the traditional danger we could keel over from
learning he’ll soon be a father for the sound strutting passionately into the tent-traversing exhaustion so we opt for
second time, we start chewing that bone clubland arena. the intensity of the Cream Arena once
that is ‘the state of London clubbing’, Picked at random from the crowd, a again. There we fi nd Viva boss Steve
gossiping about the closure of The End, bunch of kids rush the stage for the last Lawler in full effect. A familiar face on the
the success of The Gallery’s move to track and it’s hard not to be swept up in scene, Steve’s found creative sparkle of
Ministry and the arrival of matter, and all Bajofondo’s mad majesty with the late and it shows in his set. His tracks
the while the Cream arena is packing out overexcited clubbers dancing wildly in ‘21st Century Ketchup’ and ‘Femme
as Hernan’s set-time edges closer. amongst the double bass, violin and Fatale’ in particular captured the
And then it comes… that mighty roar of bandoneón. DJmag makes a mental note imagination of Dubfi re and Josh Wink,
approval as Hernan pops into general to check out more of their music, helping Steve cast off his long ill-fi tting
view, followed by the deafening pleasantly surprised by our unexpected progressive cloak. And the Brum is
football-like chants dedicated to their discovery. absolutely fl ying.
homeboy as he cues his fi rst track. Returning to Creamfi elds BA for the third
DJmag has been around the block but still In contrast to Bajofondo’s band set-up, time, Steve beams: “This is the best dance
feels the rush from Hernan’s welcome Deadmau5 draws an ever bigger crowd to festival in the world. Look at them… The
from the sidelines. God knows how the main stage with just his laptop and Argentinean crowd are so, so up for it.
Hernan must feel. Lemur input device and 808 State later They’re completely nuts — but in a good
“I guess they’re so loyal because I’ve take it back to the old school. way.”
always been loyal to them,” he smiles. “If you don’t know this one, you don’t And so they are. It’s staggering to see the
“They know that they are one of my know house music,” singer Darren 10,000 people rammed into the arena all
favourite crowds all over the world and Partington says into the mic as the crouch down in the break and then jump
they are also happy about how things instantly calming strains of ‘Pacifi c State’ in the air when Steve slams the kick back
David Guetta
have gone for me on an international wash out from the speakers. in.
level. But at the same time, they like the Beer in hand post-set, 808s State’s Andy “People will have seen this at DC10,”
fact that I’m still one of them.” is buzzing. “Yeah, that was good imparts Steve with a mile-wide grin. “But
party time’, and DJmag ventures over to actually,” he beams. “They seemed to get this is where it started. They’ve been
the second arena for a serious appetizer With Hernan’s prog-tinged ship set sail, it and they [the crowd] mostly stuck doing this crazy shit for years in
of Romina Cohn’s techno-fl ecked tunes. we skip over to the main stage and are around so all good.” Argentina.”
But we don’t wish to be sucked into instantly drawn in by Bajofondo. An Fellow Manc and lord of the big hair, And DJmag suspects that Argentineans do
Cohn’s vortex too soon, so after half an Argentine-Uruguayan collective of James Ford wanders over while the it better. LESLEY WRIGHT
hour we put our artist pass to the test by virtuoso musicians, theirs is an unlikely stagehands get to grips with Simian
breezing backstage at the Cream Arena, story of tango, trip-hop, drum & bass and Mobile Disco’s onstage set-up.
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