Fierce Angels

jonny68

I've been at Fierce Angel in Ibiza and can confirm it's one of the most enjoyable and underated nights on the island, music is fantastic for a more mature clued up crowd;)

http://www.djmag.com/index.php?op=story&story_op=display&story_id=1948&status=Live&word=&page

seannash

isnt fierce angels run by the guy who used to run hed kandi.

its basically a carbon copy of hed kandi right?

right down to the stylin of the flyers,adverts,club

jtsuited

yup. but apparently hed kandi and all that crass rubbish is music for a clued up crowd. FFS.

BaZmO*

Before I even read the thread I noticed that JT was the last person to post on a Jonny thread and thought, "Here we go, another flame war!"

But with comments like, "for a more mature clued up crowd" I'm not surprised Jonny's threads tend to end up that way.

seannash

theres nothing wrong with liking this sort of stuff but to come on here claiming that its for a mature clued up crowd is even contradicting what fierce angels say about there own night.

its not even a case of lets all jump on a johnny thread and slag him,im sure if anyone posted this the response would be the same

BaZmO*

Sean I'm agreeing with you

seannash

BaZmO* wrote: »

Sean I'm agreeing with you

ha ha i know man,i was just making a point that theres no need to try and make it out to be anymore special than it is

jtsuited

spot on sean. this is what drives me nuts.

That night seems to be a reaction to the more dark techier sound that has 'taken over' in Ibiza (which I personally love). It's more about cheesy fun than anything else. Not my cup of tea (at all at all) but that's fine.

But what drives me nuts is certain people making it out to be some high quality, connoiseur music when it's really just going to be handbag heaven and music for hairdressers (not that there's necessarily anything wrong with that).

There's room for many styles of music in this world, but to misinterpret music that's meant to be a bit of fun as being as aesthetically significant and high art as beethoven's ninth is just delusional.

Moreover, methinks that this thread only exists because jonny is still licking his wounds from everybody laughing their asses off at his statements about how uplifting piano house is making a BIG comeback in Ibiza. But that's just my theory.

I really see no point to this thread other than that. Or maybe Jonny's trying to find favour with certain promoters to get on guest lists (the raindance thing was pretty funny). Either way it's a bit of a joke.

brianc27

jtsuited wrote: »

That night seems to be a reaction to the more dark techier sound that has 'taken over' in Ibiza (which I personally love)

i must have been on the wrong island this year, everywhere i went it was electro and funky house, every single bar i was in was playing electro house, ***** with stereos on balconys playing electro house, guido's driving by in their cars playing electro/funky house, hundreds of posters of david guetta, eric morillo, music in cocoon was pretty flowery aswel bar hawtin when he got goin

jtsuited

brianc27 wrote: »

i must have been on the wrong island this year, everywhere i went it was electro and funky house, every single bar i was in was playing electro house, ***** with stereos on balconys playing electro house, guido's driving by in their cars playing electro/funky house, hundreds of posters of david guetta, eric morillo, music in cocoon was pretty flowery aswel bar hawtin when he got goin

i was referring to something that was said in the article actually.

Scubadevils

Ah would yiz ever just learn to get along with each other... its all electronic.

That could be the wine talking...

Anima

I love electronic music and I think going to Ibiza would kill that love. Therefore I'll probably never go there, makes sense to me anyways.

DarkJager

Anima wrote: »

I love electronic music and I think going to Ibiza would kill that love. Therefore I'll probably never go there, makes sense to me anyways.

Once you've been exposed to the true horrors of funky house you'll never be right again. Took me 6 hours of Rotterdam Gabber to get it out of my head :mad:

Executive Steve

Anima wrote: »

I love electronic music and I think going to Ibiza would kill that love. Therefore I'll probably never go there, makes sense to me anyways.

Went there once in 97, never going back.

Táck

ive been 6 times. id only ever go now for a weekend and probably only if dc10 is open

Zascar

brianc27 wrote: »

i must have been on the wrong island this year, everywhere i went it was electro and funky house, every single bar i was in was playing electro house, ***** with stereos on balconys playing electro house, guido's driving by in their cars playing electro/funky house, hundreds of posters of david guetta, eric morillo, music in cocoon was pretty flowery aswel bar hawtin when he got goin

Really? Really??? I have never been to Ibiza - shame on me - but I will definitely go some time soon. I would kinda expect a little bit of cheese and electro etc in some places, but I would be horrified if that is all I got over there.

For the record, I actually like funky house - well, some of it, when the mood is right and the tunes are good quality (oxymoron I hear some of you thinking haha) but I definitely enjoy it at times. However if I went to Ibiza I'd mainly be seeking out Solid House & Techno. Electrohouse had its day but it is well passed now, one or two tunes thrown in here and there can be ok but all night long it would kill me.

acman

Fierce Angel Rock Ibiza!
As the cycles of dance music turn once more to the sexy sounds of house and the saturated minimal market licks it's funk inflicted wounds, Fierce Angel brings a welcome breath of fresh air to Ibiza's predominantly tech styled landscape.

Words: Simon Kelly
Mark Doyle, the brains, and workhorse behind the infamous Hed Kandi brand prior to its absorption into the expansive Ministry of Sound empire, has spent the last few years developing a new concept based on has fundamental love of all things house.

Fierce Angel is a return to the roots of nineties Ibiza clubbing. A flashback to the days when Ibiza floors rocked to soaring vocals, jacking Chicago beats and enlivening sax solos. But this is much more than a nostalgia trip, or a classics night. Fierce Angel sits on the premise that clubbing should be fun, not take itself too seriously. We can go with that!

This s**t is baffling...Blackout Crew Baffling! As if Hed Kandi wasn't bad enough, they now bring out a RETRO version of it

brianc27

Zascar wrote: »

Really? Really??? I have never been to Ibiza - shame on me - but I will definitely go some time soon. I would kinda expect a little bit of cheese and electro etc in some places, but I would be horrified if that is all I got over there.

For the record, I actually like funky house - well, some of it, when the mood is right and the tunes are good quality (oxymoron I hear some of you thinking haha) but I definitely enjoy it at times. However if I went to Ibiza I'd mainly be seeking out Solid House & Techno. Electrohouse had its day but it is well passed now, one or two tunes thrown in here and there can be ok but all night long it would kill me.

yep, full of cheese, my first time and i was shocked at how saturated the place was with this sh*te, if your into techno (not the minimal type) then theres nothing and even if you are into the minimally type techno then theres really just cocoon, but deffo all the bars down by the beaches just play all that electro/funky house tripe.

maybe we were missing something and there were plenty of savage techno clubs that we were missing (meganite doesnt count)

jtsuited

brianc27 wrote: »

yep, full of cheese, my first time and i was shocked at how saturated the place was with this sh*te, if your into techno (not the minimal type) then theres nothing and even if you are into the minimally type techno then theres really just cocoon, but deffo all the bars down by the beaches just play all that electro/funky house tripe.

maybe we were missing something and there were plenty of savage techno clubs that we were missing (meganite doesnt count)

hmmmm....not really what i experienced when i was there (although i didn't set foot in san antonio for fear of the above).

Mondays there was cocoon (which had probably THE best lineup this year if you're into that [which I am]),

thursday there is Monza at privilege (matthias tanzmann, matthew dear, etc., etc.,) and of course Be @ Space (Chris Liebing, Guy Gerber and the rest of them),

Friday there's that Made in Italy night at Amnesia which had some quality lineups this summer (Martin Buttrich, Ellen Allien).

And then Sundays at space, which if you can't find the type of stuff you want to listen to, then you're doing it wrong.

Doesn't seem like an island over-run with cheese to me. Then again I didn't go to san antonio thankfully.

brianc27

i didnt set foot in san antonio either and as i said if your into techno (which i am) then there isnt much on offer.

acman

jtsuited wrote: »

hmmmm....not really what i experienced when i was there (although i didn't set foot in san antonio for fear of the above).

Mondays there was cocoon (which had probably THE best lineup this year if you're into that [which I am]),

thursday there is Monza at privilege (matthias tanzmann, matthew dear, etc., etc.,) and of course Be @ Space (Chris Liebing, Guy Gerber and the rest of them),

Friday there's that Made in Italy night at Amnesia which had some quality lineups this summer (Martin Buttrich, Ellen Allien).

And then Sundays at space, which if you can't find the type of stuff you want to listen to, then you're doing it wrong.

Doesn't seem like an island over-run with cheese to me. Then again I didn't go to san antonio thankfully.

I was recently in Ibiza and experienced the same...plenty of quality music, and you don't need to look hard for it either! Even notoriously cheesy clubs like Pacha, home to tripe like David Guetta etc., had quality nights with Dubfire etc.

Maybe on the beaches and in San Antonio its harder to find, but the other hotspots in Ibiza have an abundance of Techno / Minimal / Tech House...it really is a clubbers paradise!

brianc27

i hate dubfire

jtsuited

brianc27 wrote: »

i didnt set foot in san antonio either and as i said if your into techno (which i am) then there isnt much on offer.

out of curiosity when you say techno are you referring to jeff mills/surgeon/derrick carter type techno?

acman

brianc27 wrote: »

i hate dubfire

brianc27

surgeon, oscar mulero, regis all that sort of dark techno stuff

now i didnt expect to find a whole lot of it over there but surgeon played a few times last year and mulero used to run a weekly night over there coupled with the fact that the spanish are usually into that sort of techno i hoped to find at least 1 night like that while i was there, not even in the big clubs, but nothing. my friends that had been to ibiza loads of times (but not in the last 2-3 years) said that years ago you would find techno night in some of the smaller unknown places around, not any more, but as i said maybe we werent lookin hard enough, we went over for a sun holiday more so then an out and out raving trip so we enjoyed ourself regardless but it was a general observation among nearly all of us that that the music on the island is ****e.

jtsuited

brianc27 wrote: »

surgeon, oscar mulero, regis all that sort of dark techno stuff

to be fair you're taking a very very very narrow and conservative view of what constitutes techno i think (but which is fair enough). If you're into that type of techno then yeah I doubt you're gonna have much luck in Ibiza.

FLYNN-DOG

brianc27 wrote: »

surgeon, oscar mulero, regis all that sort of dark techno stuff

meganite at privilege prob closest you'll get with adam beyer etc.

Táck

brianc27 wrote: »

i didnt set foot in san antonio either and as i said if your into the type of techno which i am, then there isnt much on offer.

fixed

brianc27

i guess what i was trying to say is that there is no good interesting underground techno in ibiza at all (imo).