Mix | mona dec 2009 Nickv Carlos JasonW Gregblackjack Fantomette

mona carlos warm up
mona JasonW
mona Fantomette mix

mona Nickv mix

This date was supposed to be the big one. They (the big party promoters) always say that the weekend before the xmas holidays is the best for having a night as everyone is out to party before packing up and going home to open their presents. But this year it wasn’t to be, at least on the attendance side of things, as Paris was covered in snow and experiencing it’s first bout of sub zero temperatures on the night of the final mOna party of the year. It’s not Helsinki here, people aren’t used to it, so our expected attendance was down by a third I guess.

photo by Mat Cav

They missed out on yet another great night though as mOna has been getting better every month. We had four guests playing : Carlos (who isn’t really a guest being actually part of the mOna team), JasonW aka fist fusion (king of the def mix edits), Greg Blackjack (my mate since 1982!! so you can guess how much music we’ve been through together since then) and Fantomette (who will soon be in charge of programming Paris’s newest and most exciting club since Le Pulp closed a few years back).

photo by Mat Cav

Each played an hour and you can listen to all the sets above. I finished the last 2 and a half hours off at the end. It was a definite house party this time – except for Carlos who played a mix of kitsch world soul fusion at the start, in front of about two and half people, (why don’t people turn up earlier in clubs in Paris ?). It’s a great feeling to hear good house music in a club, when the vibe clicks I don’t think there’s anything better for a dancefloor. Feels like being suspended in time, beats flowing, bass rumbling, dark room, deep atmosphere … I really miss that vibe now, we don’t get it as much as before in clubs today sadly. Track of the night goes to André Lodeman ‘where are you now’ a superb piece of modern house music that encompasses many different atmospheres and an almost dissonant jazz touch too.

photo by Mathias Casado Castro for Têtu

The icing on the cake came thanks to Arnaud our very own light jockey, who built our new light show, and managed to persuade the club to allow us to use a smoke machine (it’s non smoking in Paris and there are alarms in clubs now). Lights look so much better when you have a smoke screen for them to beam through !

photo by Mat Cav

You know it’s been a good night when most people are still aound when the music stops. Check out our friend Mat Cav’s pictures from the night on facebook here and here too, some of them were taken at the end of the night with the bouncers inhaling the helium in the balloons and then squealing at people to leave. Here are other great photos taken by Mathias Casado Castro for Têtu.

Hope you enjoy the music and any feedback is always appreciated!