It’s been over three months since the infamous ‘The Likes Of You’ brand anchored itself at Villa nightclub on a Saturday night, only this time bringing Stephan Bodzin and Hugo to the party, along with some cold weather and rain.
Despite the miserable weather we have been facing this winter season, it didn’t put off too many techno fans from missing this event. Then again, with a line up like this, why would you want to miss it?
It was a case of dejavu, with Aarin F opening the party once again for round two. This time, I only managed to catch the last few parts of his set, but I was enjoying the tunes he was playing and the way he was catering to the opening time slot. Following on from Aarin, Hugo came on stage to take over for the next two hours til 2am.
Hugo’s set consisted of warm, bumpy and funky tech-house grooves with nice rolling basslines to keep everybody on the dancefloor bopping, whilst sharing a few drinks and some laughs with fellow punters. The numbers inside the club were slowly increasing as the minutes went by, and so was the dancefloor.
From the two parties I have been two, I really enjoy the way The Likes Of You brings high calibre artists who are there to not only play the peak time slot, but to also warm up the crowd and set the mood – last time it was Seth Troxler, this time it was Hugo.
When Hugo’s set came to an end, the man that everybody was jumping out of their skins to see, Stephan Bodzin, stepped on stage to give a round of applause to the perfect warm-up set that was played by Hugo, before stepping into his live set up.
The start of Bodzin’s set flowed off the end of Hugo’s quite flawlessly, but with only 1.5 hours to impress the Perth crowd, as opposed to Hugo’s 2 hours, he was sure not to waste any time. Starting off nice and smooth, playing a more techno sound, track after track, Bodzin was building up his set to the sound that we all know him by. It wasn’t long til he was pumping out the techno, giving the crowd what they have been expecting for a long time.
In Bodzin’s live set up, he had camera placed on a tripod, overseeing his 3 Jazzmutant Lemur midi controllers. It was certainly impressive to not only listen to the music he was sharing, but to also see a visual of what he was doing with his controllers, which of course I had no idea, but it was certainly very cool.
With only two internationals headlining this time, as opposed to three the last, the closing set was handed to the Progress Inn boys to finish the night off in style.
Progress Inn is well known for their progressive and techno influenced sounds, where I thought this was a perfect time slot suited to their style of music and to finish the event off. I did not get to stay for much of their set, however I was liking what I was hearing, and I’m sure plenty of other people were too.
All in all, the best thing about The Likes Of You to me, is their fine selection of local and international talent all to warm up and follow on from each other, all while keeping the nice flow of music throughout the night, giving everybody a taste of what they like.
The thought we all have to ponder on now is – when is the next one?!
It’s been over three months since the infamous ‘The Likes Of You’ brand anchored itself at Villa nightclub on a Saturday night, only this time bringing Stephan Bodzin and Hugo to the party, along with some cold weather and rain.
