There's nothing sadder than talking to the one DJ you'd get naked with at the drop of a needle and finding out that the manic and virile way he spins has nothing to do with his personality. And on the same night - the second time you've seen him play that week but also the second time in two and a half years you realize that he's got no spunk.
There's nothing better, though, than ending up at his Wednesday-night residency three years after having your heart broken and hearing the same inspiring and rousing music spun in that same macho manner that you first heard o so long ago and you can relive the very first time you saw him and how you jumped all around him, after his set, like a puppy that had to pee yelping 'IDOLO, IDOLO and him totally ignoring you because that's the kind of man he is.
Going to Bahrein last Wednesday was one of the best things I could have done in this lifetime. I so wanted to believe that the two boring times I saw him in Barcelona in the summer of 2003 were not truly representative of this fine piece of Argentine meat that first introduced me to electro in 2001.
Diego Ro-K played some fine electro at Wacha (at Bahrein). Most was techy, some progressive, a couple melodic but none rockerish (phewf!). His mixing was so... so... natural. The man knows how to mix. He was born to mix. The way he touches the equipment, flips the record, flexes those gorgeous biceps - it's obvious that Diego Ro-K was born to be a DJ.
Ro-K played for about two hours whipping the dance floor into gooey and ecstatic mess. People were so inspired that there was barely anything going on beside dancing. No one walked, no one chatted, there was barely anyone making out; just dancing.
Besides Club 69 (at Niceto Club on Thursdays) I decree Wacha at Bahrein the best party in Buenos Aires. Besides El 10 Tommy Jacobs is also resident and on the day I showed up Dario (de Neuquen) did the warm-up. Tommy didn't enthrall me like I was hoping he would. He played more radio-style techno that didn't go anywhere. The mixing was good but I'd rather trainwrecks with feeling than cookie-cutter beats. Dario was better than good but not great.
The crowd at Bahrein was super. The fact that most of the dance floor was actually dancing really made an impression on me. And at 08.00 on a Thursday morning there were still people busting out.
But everything besides Ro-K is secondary. Diego is why I went and Diego won my heart back that night. Instead of lazily playing fashion runway music he played track to make the crowd pogo and holler. He held us firmly until he decided to bow out and take a model-type home. Definitely one of the highlights of my trip to Buenos Aires.
DJViBE Interview w/ Ro-K:
http://www.djvibe.com/news/news_details.php?topicid=234
Diego Ro-K's site:
http://www.djdiegoro-k.com
