Imagine a sweaty Sunday nightclub dance floor, a seemingly interconnected sea of prolonged party people, electronica enthusiasts and the odd curious body. Add an international DJ whose name can be found on the best music compilations of the modern-day house, and it gets even sweatier. That DJ was Scottish-born pressure man himself, Mylo. Though not a man of many hits, his biggest – Drop the Pressure – remains a lasting classic in the dance world and has earned Mylo a reputation that perhaps precedes the man himself.
Arriving almost an hour late to the decks, the crowd was more than ready for his beats. Standing back to admire his lathering brow from afar, Mylo had them in the palm of his hand as he swiftly (and a little roughly) sliced from track to track.
It wasn’t until the crowd’s interest waned that there was a chance to move in and check out the famous guy in action. And what a disappointment it was. Pre-produced to the tee, his fingers flailed above unmoving levels and his laptop… it wouldn’t surprise me if he was just tapping it out of the screen saver. Now this isn’t to say his music was bad – it was just disappointing that a man of his reputation would have been flown in to play a pre-recorded mix. Daft Punk, sure, but this guy?
Maybe it proves that at the end of the day, Mylo’s strengths really lay as a producer rather than a DJ. Maybe he’s not trying to be anything else. If that’s the case, then why bother appearing at a club like this in the first place? Every other DJ in there was mixing live, it seems a shame that the most famous, the most allegedly talented, couldn’t deliver the same.
All pre-recorded gripes aside, what he did deliver were some well-thought-out house mixes incorporating acid house in amongst the likes of Talking Heads and Yellow. And of course Drop the Pressure, which although not as excitedly received as one would imagine, was certainly a highlight in the midst of his set.
BY JEN WILSON
Loved: Ticking Drop the Pressure live off my list.
Hated: Realising it wasn’t live after all .
Drank: Too much for a Sunday night.
