House Is A Feeling

You know you’re DJing in Dublin when somebody beside the booth repeatedly shouts “you dirty cunt!” and it’s a compliment.

Last night was the first monthly HIAF night at Pygmalion on South William Street in my home city, and it couldn’t have gone much better even if I say so myself. The place is being turned around a bit and so early on there were some ghosts of the previous venue about, but by midnight or so there was a full dancefloor in the main room (or main cavern let’s say.)

The style of the venue really suits a housey sound and you can play pretty steady without the usual Irish pressure to peak the whole night to 3am. Personally, I actually hadn’t DJed out for quite a while, it was my first time playing since I took a break from techno/this blog, and I got a huge kick out of it. It’s funny how refreshing a break can be.

I played back to back with Pyg resident Aidano for most of the night, and by the end the place had that really loose atmosphere, just a buzzing dancefloor and a real sense of fun around. It was a really enthusiastic crowd and if you can reinfuse some meaning into the word “intimate” then that’s how the vibe was.

Obviously I’m involved in the night so feel free to call me biased, but I wouldn’t bother doing a blog post about last night’s gig if it was crap. (Cos I’m hungover.) The place is still being built up and it’s early days, but there’s the nucleus of a really good venue there, with a great soundsystem. (It also has speakers in the toilets.)

I’ll be playing again on Saturday June 13th and in the coming months the Pyg guys have Livio and Roby/2000 and One which should be a great night. Thanks to those of you who came down.

As for the tunes. Anonym’s “Roots Muziel” completely blew the place up last night. I think this record shows a huge leap forward for him. It’s 11 red hot minutes of real dynamism, 11 minutes you’ll want to play all of, and the sort of track that blows a room up after a few hours of stoking things. Check a stream of it below.