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Anyone checking out Dan Bell on Saturday night at Dover Bridge Studios...can't make it but hoping there'll be numbers there so he'll swing around another time

― Gutta_Funk, Thursday, 31 July 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)

dave stelfox is going, i'd like to go but dont think i can make it

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 1 August 2003 06:52 (twenty-two years ago)

oh go on, gareth!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

doesnt look possible at moment, but i am going to go to Lost on bank holiday sunday (if i dont go to scandinavia, that will be v.good

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

jeff mills, steve bicknell, plaid

― gareth (gareth), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:20 (twenty-two years ago)

bank hol sunday doing dancehall business, fraid - tanya stephens, assassin, merciless and spragga benz then carnival on the monday!

― Dave Stelfox (Dave Stelfox), Friday, 1 August 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

it is going to be fun. He plays for the heads.

― Mike Taylor (mjt), Friday, 1 August 2003 18:00 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

Dan Bell is playing in London on Friday at Sub Club if anyone fancies it.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Thursday, 27 April 2006 07:32 (twenty years ago)

Suit yourselves!

I wish 'minimal' went in more of a Dan Bell "soulful" direction, I'm starting to get a little bored with sleek European tech.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:00 (twenty years ago)

Yeah but doesn't Dan Bell just play fast blipping acid minimal stuff live? T'would be awesome if it was all instead like the Problem Kids track on The Button Down Mind.

Chewshabadoo I think there are actually some slight trends in a soulful direction in current minimal - I'm thinking of stuff like Firm Records, Jay Haze, Prosumer...

― Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

last time i heard Dan Bell play he sounded almost like a 2 step take on techno...was definitely not flat out banging tekno

― gus_mac (phonetically), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

I thought he was pretty soulful when i saw him, or at least soul-inflected. Or at least American, and not Canadian with it.

― Good Dog (Good Dog), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Yeah but doesn't Dan Bell just play fast blipping acid minimal stuff live?

I have to admit I've only seem him spin once before - a 4 hour set last year, with one of his arms in a sling, meaning he had to take records from their sleeves with his mouth! - he had a definite "garagey" skippy vibe to his rhythyms, and played plenty of gospelly vocally tracks which almost had a Todd Edwards-y sound. He did mix it in with stuff like Room 303 by DJ Koze, and electro-y Bpitch stuff too though.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

"-y"

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:28 (twenty years ago)

I saw Dan Bell last year and he was good, I think. The live sets I have from him do have a little bit of a soulful thing going which is beautiful not cheesey.

Will be interesting to see if Portable plays a propper warm-up set or just slams it out like he ususally does. Although I am not going. So someone please report back.

― rchinn (rchinn), Friday, 28 April 2006 14:58 (twenty years ago)

Had a good night, although I think I over indulged a bit too much at one point and didn't pay enough attention to Bell's set for proper discussion.

Anyway, from what I can remember he played it a lot more " fast blipping acid minimal" (I haven't been able to stop saying that all weekend when people asked what I was up to on Friday) than the last time I saw him. It was excellent, but he seemed to drop the tempo for the last half hour to mearly blipping minimal. Skippy rhythms were in evidence though, including one track which seemed to be going at 130bpm and 260bpm at the same time... making the floor go crazy.

He is such as smooth DJ though, the way his set was constructed sounded like he was using a laptop, but I think he was just using records; The transitions were seamless, but also seemed to come out on nowhere. He only played for two hours this time, rather than the 4 last year - but I think he played the same amount of records, just was able to change them quicker with the use of all his arms.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 08:43 (twenty years ago)

I've got a recording of a recent dan bell dj set he did here in Los Angeles. I'll see if I can get permission to post it.

― tylero (tylero), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 09:52 (twenty years ago)

Oooh! That would be fantastic.

― Chewshabadoo (Chewshabadoo), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 10:14 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

Tylero, I take it you never got permission then?

Never mind, here’s a superb 70 minute excerpt from a Dan Bell set from last year:

http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheBunkerPodcast/~5/276577577/20080423-DanielBell.mp3

00:00 Andrés - Moments In Life
01:00 Federico Molinari - Enerverende
05.50 Vera & Federico Molinari - It Ain’t Music
09:45 Cassy - For You (Real Raw Remix By Jus Ed)
13:00 Frank Denato - Get In Time
16:25 Moodymanc - Preacher (bum bum drum dub)
19:50
26:10
31:00 Peace Division - Voodoo
35:00 Rhadoo - Bau
40:00 Jichael Mackson - Hartchef
44:30 Rhadoo - Baisbe Alt Bass
50:00 Ido Oshkopun - Rangun
57:00 Rozzo - I Wish I Was A Black Cat
62:00 Brothers Vibe - Step Into It
68:45 Luna City Express - Seven (Agnès Dub)

― Chewshabadoo, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 14:59 (seventeen years ago)

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