Re: Sasha - Live @ Sky Club (Malta) 20-12-2008
[quote=Zen Master;712765]IMHO Digweed was, is and always will be just a good Sasha's apprentice and nothing more. Sasha always want to go further, to be one and only above anybody else, Digweed is simply and clearly a copycat DJ ( always steal other's ideas ) :roll:[/quote]
Dunno where you get the copycat thing from ... generally they play different tracks and styles, which is why they compliment each other so well as S & D. Diggers has a much darker sound (which you could even say Sasha copied between parts of 2000 & 2001).
Much as I love Sasha (and I've put my money on the table seeing him across the UK/Europe more times than I care to remember), he has has at times played some embarassing rubbish, and some real dud sets ... which Diggers (2005 electro-phase aside) hasn't.
Digweed at Matter last year took dj'ing to another level .. blending old & new, without one dud during 10 x hours of seemless immense darkly beautiful music - I'm afraid Sasha has been no-where near that same level for years.
The big shame is that if Sasha motivated himself and worked through his back catalogue then he'd be able to create something truly special. His sets seem to drift, with elements of true genius, but these days an inability to sustain things ... I'd say because much of the new music that's out there lets him down.
On his day he can be the messiah ... but I think he needs Digweeds work ethic and passion to do this. Sometimes he lacks motivation.
The nice thing about this set is that he isn't striving to play new new music .. the set is based on the quality of the tracks and not that they aren't available/easily identifiable.
Hope he brings his A-game to Sankeys tonight !