Guest Stranger Suggests watchdog for the month Nadia Abdelrhman went to see Chilean-born Kompakt records party starter Matias Aguayo at Nectar last night—her review:
I forgot how to read and wasn’t expecting a DJ when I got to Nectar. I kept thinking someone else was going to come on stage until it finally set in that we were watching the main event. So, whoopsies.Perched upstairs, I had a birds eye view of the stage. Folks slowly followed their feet to the dance floor. One by one they stepped out to the mellow groove. It took a while; people weren’t drunk enough and the music could have been louder.
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Around 11:30 I decided it was prudent to depart as the party was failing to coalesce. Hopefully I didn’t miss anything. Suggests denied.
Dave Segal was at the show as well, and he offers a slightly different take:
Aguayo came on about 30 minutes later than scheduled (Nadia, you missed almost all of his set, which was a shame), and then gradually increased the tempo and energy level with a performance that seemed to combine his own tracks and other artists' (I heard Yello's hectic chestnut "Bostich" at one point and possibly some classic Chicago house from the Trax label).A warm-hearted Chilean, Aguayo is a natural entertainer and much livelier onstage compared to most techno artists. He shook maracas, sang in his limited but endearing soul-hombre voice, blew into a wacky whistle, struck a cowbell, hit an electronic drum pad, danced, and wore a stretched-out, faded tanktop while looking like Marc Bolan's long-lost South American brother.