dunno about cream, but crasher aint formulaic at the moment. its going thru a rough patch (its just gone monthly cos its weekely events were half full) and this is down to one mand : mauro picotto. half the crasher kids love him, half dont, whici is why they were getting half full.
picotto plays evil dark techno, a million miles away from the happy floaty trance that made crasher popular. he mixes this in with samples from films, other music tunes, south park, warner brothers samples, nasa transcripts, anything he can get his hands on. no one is anywhere close to him, because he doesnt play hardly any tunes by anyone else: they are mostly all made by him or his label, or re working s by him, no one else has access to them, so no one else can play the same set as him. he is an absolute genius, and i am so glad to see techno getting a wider audience. he has a tune that proper frekas me out, yo can just hear children whispering, but you cant hear what they are saying, proper does my head in.
other good dj's (non old skool) are eddie halliwell: scratching and stuff over hard house and hardcore, proper proper mental, and shan, who drops accapellas, film samples and all kinds of crazy shit in and out of his sets (pixie has the cd, and she will tell u it is wellllllll good.)
that is all.
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