Sydney's Originators and Dominators

Gang bang in the Bang Gang tent at We Love Sounds. Looks more like Arq Bar.

A few weeks ago I had a Saturday night that ended up in a full blown gay club, Arq Bar, near Taylor Square at 7.30 in the morning with a friend and a strange but really tough French-Fijian girl who kept shouting ‘Bula!’ at every Islander security guard we passed. Despite the fact the gay community really know how to party, albeit incredibly shirtless, my friend and I got the hell out of there when we got scared by the seemingly infinite supply of Filipino trannies outside smoking, and the realisation that the morning sunlight was beaming down on us and we were still going at a gay club at Taylor Square at 7.30 in the morning. Turn the clock back 12 hours though, and I was still at work, given the honour of fueling two members of my favourite Sydney dancefloor killing crew, theee Bang Gang DeeJays, with the nutritional sustenance they needed for the night to slay dance floors, and presumably women; the dynamic and dicksmokin’ duo Jaime Doom and Gus Da Hoodrat!



Doom and Hoodrat dicksmokin'.


Gus Da Hoodrat.


Jaime Doom. (Bekay he has your MJ shirt! That's a collectors item now I bet huh?)

They came in at separate times, and I only briefly smoke to Jaime, who told me he and Gus were clowning and krunking at the Arthouse that night, but he was nice. I bet you’re thinking, ‘Wow I don’t give a shit dickhead!’, or something to that effect. However, to me it was special. See, it was the Bang Gang DeeJays who introduced me to dance music back in 2007 when I was 16 and very ripe.

Hoodrat crabwalking.

France has Ed Banger, Kitsune, and Institubes, North America has Fool’s Gold, Dim Mak and Mad Decent, Germany has Boys Noize Records, and us filthy convicts here in Aussieland are proudly home to our very own world-famous dance music academy, Bang Gang. Them Bang Ganging bastards of course being Ajax, Doom, Hoodrat and Dangerous Dan. I discovered their first album mix, 2007’s LSD: Light Sound Dance weirdly enough in my old town’s Big W, which along with finding the second Libertines album there, was like coming across porn in your Dad’s draw; kind of disgusting to find such a strangely beautiful thing in such a place, but nonetheless intriguing. I knew nothing about them, just that the mix had an incredible tracklisting, with Crystal Castles, Klaxons, Rapture, and DeathSet, for example. Before that, dance music played by DJ’s was TECHNO (oh no!) to me, something unholy that perished long ago with the 90s. The Venga Boys at the primary school disco was about as raving as it got for me in those days, so I really knew nothing about dance music. But when I went home and unleashed that aural beast in my room, with the opening track a remix of Wolfmother’s Woman, I finally grasped dance music within the first 2 minutes. Dance is simply about being the soundtrack to good times. Nuff said.

What a dreamboat.

Dangerous Dan holding his own at some exclusive looking party probably in Bondi.

At the end of that year, my ridiculously fake ID and I were able to witness the Bang Gang fellas live in action in Sydney in support of the robotic demi-Gods that are Daft Punk. It was like I was at a brothel for the first time, because it was one of the most awesome things I had felt and seen with my two underage eyes. A lot has changed since then, namely that festivals have been completely overrun by meathead douchebags, and that the Bang Gang boys aren’t the only dudes dominating the Sydney scene, seeing as there is so much variety these days. Though in the past month I’ve seen Ajax twice, once at ‘We Love Sounds’ and the other at the ‘Save FBi: Do The Dance All Nighter’ at the Forum, and both times proved that he can throw down a better party than most, if not all, of Sydney’s dance family. When he opened up at the FBi fundraiser with the Law and Order theme, my mind melted out of my ears, due to a serotonin overload. I really can’t wait to see him with Bekay tomorrow night when he supports the Bloody Beetroots at the Metro.

AJAX

Earlier on that Saturday night I mentioned earlier (before the gay clubs and French-Fijian girls, but after work… around 4am) my friend and I were walking the infamous journey from the Cross you are probably familiar with. We hadn’t talked about where we were going but we both had made an unspoken agreement that the night wasn’t over yet, the looming city lights were simply guiding us. We were wading through the tranny hookers showing off their moist goods to the thirsty old truckies, and other party people making their way along the treacherous road home, in particular a group of guys that had stolen a heap of cushions from a hotel room. And guess who was walking towards us from their gig, girlfriend and gear in tow. I can’t remember the brief words Jamie Doom and I exchanged again, something about him looking forward to sleep, but words don’t matter. The fact that twice in the same night I talked to one of my first favourite DJs put a smile on my face.

ONE MILLION VOLTS OF TECHNO

Tracklisting:
1. Para One - Passion
2. Hey Today! - Kicktro
3. Samantha Fu - Theme to Discotheque
4. Mr Oizo - Error Jeun (Arvenee and Misk Remix)
5. Lowbrows - Dream In The Desert (Hystereo Revision)
6. Autodidakt - Shit Your Rack (Proxy Remix)
7. Dance Area - AA24/7
8. Kevin Saunderson - Bassline
9. Roberta Flack - Steve Silk Hurley Remix (dubbed by Us)
10. Shadow Dancer - Landline
11. Doom & Hoodrat - Join In (A Version)
12. Mr Oizo - Hun
13. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Erol Alkan Rework
14. Alex Gopher - Bingo
15. Solo - Congaloid
16. Jessie Rose - Touch My Horn
17. Teenagers - Scarlet Johannsen (Rory Phillips Dub)
18. Zombie Nation - Worth It
19. Sonny J - Enfant (Riton Remix)
20. Phonique - Where's The Party At?
21. DJ Tonka - Freeze
22. Circle Children - Zulu
23. Modeselektor - Suckerpin (Feadz Remix)
24. Plaid - Kiddie Castle (Para One Remix)
25. Tiga - Shoes (A Bang Gang Hot Shoe Re Shuffle)
26. Woolfy - Oh Missy (In Flagranti Xenon Remix)
27. Shazam - Luckier (Hey Today! Remix)
28. His Majesty Andre - NRG 555
29. Douster - For Weirdos (Das Glow's Doustin Hoffman Remix)
30. Feadz - Flashin
31. Noze - You Have to Dance (Mathias Kaden's Mouthacapellapolka Remix)
32. Daniel Haaksmen - Kid Conga
33. Juan Maclean - One Day (Surkin Remix)
34. Smith n Hack - Rodeo
35. Hey Today! - If I Was Wonderman (Van She Tech Remix)
36. Beni - Maximus (Black Version)
37. Masters at Work - Sensational Beats
38. Bag Raiders - Turbo Love (Spruce Lee Remix)
39. Metronomy - Radio Ladio (Radioclit Swedish Remix)
40. The Mole - Gracias
41. Rodion - Franziskanner
42. Les Petit Pilous - Joile Fille
43. CLP - Hoemcourt (CLP's Double Dutch Remix)
44. Mike Mind - Acid Machine
45. Van She - Sex City (Vemixed)
46. Boys Noize - Gezahit
47. David Rubato - Institubes Express 999 (Bobmo Remix)
48. Creative Use - Are You Jeff Vader?
49. Higamos Hogamos - Major Blitzkrieg (Mickey Moonlight Remix)
50. Knightlife - Crusader
51. Bag Raiders - Shooting Stars (Shazam Dub)
52. Williams Fairy Brass Band - Cubik

I was able to get my greasy hands on a hardcopy of Doom and Hoodrat’s new mix One Million Volts of Techno (the irony just kills me), for free at We Love Sounds, but I put it down the back of my pants and lost in somewhere during the day. Probably in the toilets with me poo. That doesn’t matter, because it is killer kool, in invisible mp3 form, and totally for free so your broke ass can save some skrilla and party at home!

Bang Gangers partying with DJ Mehdi from Ed Banger in OZ in 2007. Who is that chubby asian guy?!

Read DJ Mehdi’s kind words on them Bang Ganging bastards HERE at the Coolcats blog.

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