so it sounds like i had the typical LX experience all round, as well. he arrived looking quite weary and a bit out of sorts (lord knows the man's been on a plane almost every day for a few weeks) so i introduced myself and we went in the back and proceeded to amass a crowd of smokers - i am truly impressed with the quantity he's able to consume and then go right out and do a clean set! according to LX, we got a "pretty natural" set - a lot of the tracks everyone's mentioned before. seems to be a lot of mash-ups happening these days (and i just saw Strictly Kev the night before, who went all out on that front). LX played the Toxygene/Eminem thing, which was pretty damn hot, and a few other tracks AHEGPB mixed with something, another Eminem track perhaps? it was a pretty bumpin set and then towards the end he went into some real dubby stuff, pulling a lot of samples from the Tino Corp Halloween album (which he just received before the show). all said and done, it was about 2 hours of tunes. he did mention he likes to keep his dj thing separate from Orb projects. it was a decent enough set (and his skills were up to par, which is sometimes a gamble) but truthfully, my favourite tracks were all the Orb stuff - *not* that i'd like him to dj only orb stuff, but, well, i'd rather have live Orb then dj LX. and this may be my misunderstanding of how djing happens, or maybe its just becuase he travels with limited records, but i'd prefer to hear different sets from gig to gig, and from the reports, they're all sounding quite similar. as expected, there was maybe only 60 people there, max, so it was a nice intimate setting for the fans that were there, and plenty of room to groove. this is the second time that's happened... maybe the promoters would like to, oh, i don't know, actually *promote* the event. (in contrast to Toby Marks, who was at a different club that night, and was seriously advertised, flyered, and whatnot) anyways, i didn't ply him for info on anything - just sat and had a very silly time smoking and talking about nothing in particular. (a few decorative bats which he named "fuck off" and "fuck it" - a source of hilarity for the rest of the night.) it was fun! =) rachel ______________________ Rachel's Orb Discography: http://www.migoto.com/orb