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City Loud with DJ Roger Sanchez and DJ CJ Mackintosh

A review of Sanchez's 6hr set @ City Loud.
20 april 2002, Turnmills, London (UK)

Tekst: Werner Kranenburg

Publicatiedatum: 10 mei 2002

Comments, outside a club: "You can't come in." A dumb stare, then "Why not?" "Your heart is too big." Know this scene, or at least the tunes that go with it? Yes I do, and so did all or most clubbers at City Loud last Saturday, as Roger Sanchez was on the decks and played this hit song at 4.43 a.m. to a loud public response of recognition. For ya'll who don't know, the scene is from the video of Sanchez' Another Chance, the one with the girl and big heart on the streets of New York. He only played a snippet of it though, but that was enough. This night was all about Roger, lock, stock, and barrel. Two names on the flyer, his name bigger on top, the other being Turnmills' resident CJ Mackintosh.

Packed to the brim, the main room was the domain of the man with the trademark cap, shades, and beard. He pumped up some funky vocal house and had all the time in the world, from doors-open, to build his set to a pumping end, at five. The atmosphere was excellent: people dancing and grooving in the dark and having a good time. "Excellent vibe in the room. Amazing! I enjoyed it," he says after he's finished playing the six hours-plus, shaking hands and handing out autographs on multiple requests, to the sound of compliments on his set. An A-lister. "Big venues are cool, but this size is much better." Ah, that's got a nice ring to it, innit? — even though Turnmills, with all due respect of course, is simply a big black box with music pumping through it. The flyer had promised a spectacular decor. Who noticed or came for the decor? Sanchez, apparently not the praisehunter ad infinitum, was hidden behind a dark, half-open booth facing the room, and every musical whim and move effortlessly registered and processed into moves of the punter's own. He let his music do the talking, literally sometimes, although undeniably the reactions to some spins were in usual Superstar DJ-is-God worship mode.

Attention to CJ now, who did a very nice job indeed keeping the crowd moving in the smaller second room. On the flyer this event was billed as Sanchez vs. CJ (with the nationalities of the pair underscored by Union Jack and Stars-and-Stripes outfits of two illustrated ladies), as if it was a boxing match, but how much of a match can it be with such a difference in rooms to play to? Kudos to him: CJ did his thing in his familiar surroundings, and it was an alternative on musical par with the Sanchez spectacle. For one, the moving graphics on the walls there were very nice — much nicer than the blue and white drapes in the main room.

Asked to name the three songs that represented his set that night and he felt should be mentioned here, Sanchez says, "my remix of Alicia Keys' Butterfly, Dave Lee 's Fascinated, and Temptation by Vibe Residents." Again confirming that he loved playing here, has he got anything else to add? Smiling, "I'll be back." And Turnmills will be there to greet him.

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