Green Velvet teaches a history lesson in Brooklyn

Green Velvet teaches a history lesson in Brooklyn

25 June, 2008 | 12.54PM

• Written by: Amanda Connon-Unda
• Filed under: Music News: cajmere, green velvet, relief records

Green Velvet is renowned amongst most electronic music fans because of his hit track, ‘La La Land’ from his 2001 album “Whatever” on Relief Records.

But prior to that release, Green Velvet had already released several albums and important tracks that are now also recognizable to many Chicago house music fans.

At Studio B he played his celebrated tracks ‘Percolator’, and ‘Flash’, in addition to his newer hits like Shake and Pop (which has been fabulously remixed by Mark Grant, DJ Sneak, Gantman, and Green Velvet).

This event was promoted by Flawless Media, who had also booked pioneering Detroit techno producer, Juan Atkins and local New York DJ, Tim Sweeney on the bill.

The booking of Green Velvet at Studio B (a notorious hipster hang-out) was great, since many of the other bookings there are for flavour-of-the-day groups performing to a more indie rock crowd.

The venue featured excellent lighting and sound, with a good amount of powerful bass, a sunken dance floor, and a bar on each wall.

Upstairs, an impressive, well-lit and spacious open-air rooftop patio was open for the first time.

Replete with all varieties of greenery in addition to stones and little pools of water, the patio was a proper oasis from the busy, loud and dark first floor of the club.

Warm reviews were overheard in snippets of conversations people were having on the roof, about how great the patio addition was.

Juan Atkins‘ set was on point, playing classic Detroit sounds and getting the crowd geared up for Green Velvet’s DJ set, which stole the show.

With precision and ease, Green Velvet played classic Chicago house plus a host of other artists’ tracks, such as the techno sounds of Richie Hawtin, and the electro house sounds of Vitalic and Alter Ego.

He even dropped some minimal hits like Dubfire’s ‘Ribcage’.

Green Velvet proved he still has a D.I.Y. flair when he picked up his headphones and began singing live into them, rather than using a microphone, over his tracks.

His set was truly a trip through techno that has withstood the test of time.

The lesson was simple for those in attendance: Good music is danceable at anytime, regardless of how new it is, or how hip it may be.

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