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10 Days Off 2002 - Day 4: Room 02 - How do you say 'Detroit' in French?

Expectations were high for Day 4 [or was it 5?] in Ghent, with the F Communications label night on the menu.
07 februari 2020, Vooruit, Gent (B)

Tekst: Dave Roozendaal

Publicatiedatum: 24 juli 2002

Expectations were high for Day 4 (or was it 5?) in Ghent, with the F Communications label night on the menu: Frédéric Galliano, Llorca, and The Youngsters on the first floor; Fabrice Lig and head honcho Laurent Garnier in the main room; Ultrasonic (a 4T4 project) turning on the heat in Room 01; and Belgian Movida resident Cosy Mozzy closing in Room 02.

The first disappointment came with the news about Llorca cancelling his gig due to heavy back problems. However, his buddy David Duriez, with whom he runs the Brique Rouge label, would come to the rescue.

We came in late, but thought we could still listen to Galliano's last hour-and-a-half. After all, he was supposed to be playing between 10 p.m. and 1 a.m. Room 02 was virtually empty. Clearly (and understandably, for that matter) bored out of his head, Galliano played one beautiful track after the other, none of which was able to lure any more people into the chilly hall. Such a pity.

At midnight, a bald guy took over, dropping a fierce four-to-the-floor beat and turning up the volume considerably. It was Monsieur Duriez, according to the screens on which the visuals were shown. Well, actually it said, "Now playing: David Durieuz," but hey, who's watching the screens, right? Duriez didn't slow down one bit. It was as if he was trying to make the few people who had been in the room during Frédéric Galliano's set forget about the lush soundscapes the man had been creating, and prepare them for what was coming: The Youngsters' banging live set. And he succeeded. People started coming in, and they stayed; some even started dancing. It made the hall a warmer place, that's for sure. But where did Galliano's third hour go, I kept asking myself, slightly annoyed at not having heard his full set (. . . of course, I could have been there at 10 p.m.).

When Duriez finished after about an hour, only halfway through Carl Craig's fantastic remix of Recloose's Ain't Changing, The Youngsters came on for their live set. Gil le Gamin and Olivier M. started nice and slow (well, sort of slow, compared to the rest of their set), and the crowd, ever-growing in spite of Garnier starting at the same time downstairs, was enthusiastic. Then the two Frenchmen kicked right into fifth gear, speeding up to 150 bpm, no prisoners taken. Their sound is clearly influenced by Detroit techno: fast and minimal at times, but always funky. The people loved it, and Room 02 was grooving like nobody's business. 10 Days Off rocked for the fifth day in a row, on to Day 6! 5! Whatever!

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