Re: Roger Sanchez @ Queen, Paris, 04.06.2005
I was never really a fan of Roger Sanchez. I saw him at Bugged Out at Cream in 2000, he was doing some dark tribal shit. Then in 2002 I saw he was doing the Essential Mix so me and my mate stayed up to record it and give it a listen. We where hoping for more of the dark tribal shit. We didn't get it. But funny enough we both enjoyed it. It was uplifting without being cheesy, and he played loads of great tracks, really happy music, I imagine some of you would disagree. I've listened to that EM more times than the EM of the year which was Sasha & Digweed's Delta Heavy EM
I saw him live a few times that year purely off the back of that Essential Mix, once at Turnmills, he played for 12 hours. A month after that gig we saw Digweed at Fabric, Digweed finished at 8am, we had parked the car outside Turnmills. Sanchez was still playing. I don't listen to him very often but that EM and his first Release Yourself CD are both great.