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10 Days Off 2002 - Day 3: From legend to newcomer

Fourth evening of 10 Days Off and time to go back to the roots. The main hall of the festival formely known as Ten Days Off Techno features nothing but stomping four-to-the floor techno beats, brought to us by a Belgian DJ, a Swiss newcomer and a Detroit legend.
07 februari 2020, Vooruit, Gent (B)

Tekst: Koen Mariën

Publicatiedatum: 23 juli 2002

Fourth evening of 10 Days Off and time to go back to the roots. The main hall of the festival formely known as Ten Days Off Techno featured nothing but stomping four-to-the-floor techno beats, brought to us by a Belgian DJ, a Swiss newcomer, and a Detroit legend.

First up in the main hall was local hero Tomaz, very popular with the new generation of techno kids. His style: banging. Just check his club hit from last year Los Hijos Del Sol (4 Sun). As a DJ, Tomaz reduces techno to its basics: merciless beats and percussion. A good way to get the relatively young crowd jumping, but it made me flee upstairs for some soothing, chill-out tunes.

At 2 a.m. it was back to the main hall, because it was time for Deetron. The Swiss DJ, who started as a hip-hop DJ in the early nineties, is a relatively new name in the international techno scene. His three-deck mixing skills have already created such a Deetron got the skillz to cause thrillz buzz that he's definitely a name to remember. And Deetron didn't disappoint us. He gave a demonstration that would make even Jeff Mills blush. Mills is probably the fastest DJ on three decks, but Deetron must be the most accurate one I have ever heard. The mixing was flawless and at any given moment of the set you were listening to at least two records at the same time. Sometimes it sounded like he was remixing tracks on the spot, adding extra stomping beats to beauties like BFC's Galaxy, Aril Brikha's Groove La Chord, or Black Water by Octave One. It was a relentless set, but definitely the highlight of the evening in the main hall. And the crowd loved it.

At 4 a.m. Robert 'Noise' Hood took over. Expectations were high because Hood doesn't cross the Atlantic that often and he has a new album due out soon. With his M-plant label, he is one of the true pioneers of minimal techno and as a producer and a Mister Morr on the wheels of steel DJ, he has his own sound. But instead of treating us with shifting minimal techno we got rave-like mayhem. The crowd loved it, but compared to his last appearance at Fuse last year, this sounded like a routine job to me. First disappointment of what is turning out to be an excellent edition of 10 Days Off. I guess you can't have it all.

While the techno kids were jumping their heads off downstairs, the second room on the ground floor was reserved for chill-out tunes from German label Morr Music. Four live performances and a DJ-set by mister Morr himself introduced Ghent to the sound of Morr.

It wasn't purely a showcase of Morr Music talent. Former Chain Reaction artist Monolake was asked to join forces with Herrmann & Kleine, Manual, and Opiate. It meant a lot of artists bent over Apple Powerbooks. Maybe not the most exciting thing to watch, but with the excellent visuals in the room and a nice crowd of connoisseurs it turned out to be an interesting exploration of the melancholy sound of Morr.

In-between the live performances, mister Morr played leftfield tunes to keep the melancholic atmosphere going. He spun lots of Morr test pressings, weird shit from Warp and Plug Research, some old-fashioned indie stuff from 4AD, and of course, The Notwist, the guitar band that's closely related to the Morr crew.

Styrophoam doing that leftfield hiphop thang The most impressive performances came from Herrmann & Kleine, and Monolake. Thaddeus Herrmann and Christian Kleine released the excellent album Our Noise earlier this year, and a large part of their performance consisted of tracks from that album. Herrmann and Kleine each worked their own Powerbook, and together they created a very deep and multi-layered soundscape. Melancholic sounds were accompanied by complicated beats, making the small but enthusiastic crowd move their feet.

After an intermezzo by DJ Thomas Morr, it was time for Monolake. With excellent albums like Hongkong on Chain Reaction, and Interstate on their own label, expectations were high. Monolake started out as a duo, but with Gerhard Behles almost completely leaving the project, it was solely up to Robert Henke to create the dubby soundscapes with crackling beats. The ground floor made a perfect location for his rather dark sound and the music sounded great on the massive 10 Days Off sound system. After that, Belgian artist Styrophoam ended this adventurous musical evening on the decks, spinning some leftfield hip-hop tunes.

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