slieker
Bluelighter
Just wanted to clearly and definitively address all of you who have been issuing forth tremendous support. Obviously I'm no longer at Teriyaki and I'm aware people have been wondering what the hell's going on, and where, if not there, I'm going. Well let me just say I love Teriyaki and will always enjoy playing there. You don't spend that amount of time (4 1/2 years) with a crew and not feel as though a part of you is still there, even if you are not in any corporeal sense.
All I knew in returning to melb was that I had a desire to do something more, to extend myself beyond being a resident at one club. Granted it's the strongest, biggest, toughest etc... techno club probably in the country; but even so, limiting myself to the role of resident no longer felt comfortable.
Even so I had not made a decision to leave Teriyaki. I had to augment my career and do something more; but this for me did not in and of itself mean I had to leave Teriyaki. That call was made by Dee Dee and Slack; the reasoning behind which is clear: they want a resident who will offer them absolute loyalty and whilst I was happy to do that before, I knew that to be true to myself now, I could not.
As a result, and as Dee Dee has already said elsewhere on this site I am no longer a resident. They will obviously still ask me back as a guest, and I will obviously acquiesce. As for the rest, well Pixie is the obvious replacement.
So what then am I doing? Playing a bloody hell of a lot of guest spots at present...check your local guides...
I have also agreed to head up a new saturday night called Protozoa on Duckboard Lane (off Flinders Lne) in the city. Well I'll be there for the first month anyway and we'll see how it goes. the emphasis for Protozoa is deep, driving and funky music played with poise and direction. Well that's what I;ll be doing anyway.
I've also agreed to a partial residency at Centriphugal (friday nights @ Deep 11) of course another tasty example of powerfully deep sound. I'll be there once a fortnight. Other than that I've still not ruled out starting my own club; but on that I'll keep you posted.
Now I've got all that out of the way, I'm brought to my mian purpose for posting this. Since I left Melb for Byron and during my time away and now since being back many of you have taken the time to post messages of, well everything from encouragement, regret, excitement, enthusiasm, support... all of it support; and, well it hasn't gone un-noticed. Dee Dee sent me link to this site not long after I left (for Byron) and I was staggered at the amount of feeling people had unveiled at my departure. And again last week another friend told me to check some of the opinion posted once it became public I was no longer at Teriyaki. Again I was humbled and deeply touched.
there was a reason why i came back to melbourne. you people get it; you understand the music, you feel it and you distinguish yourselves with your unabashed love of it. There is no greater pleasure as a DJ than to play to people such as you; and I couldn't deprive myself of this any longer.
Again thankyou to all of you who have responded to me; variously on the floor, backstage, on line, on the phone, on paper, on Bluelight; and let me say now that contrary to what many of you think, every smile, every word, every nuance of appreciation that any of you ever offer makes a huge amount of difference to me. i do what I do for the love of it and because I believe this culture offers a cohesive positive benefit to our society. We can use the glimpse we get into our ancient nature via dance to penetrate the stifling homogeny of contemporary western society. Believe it people, its true. everytime you walk out onto the pavement at 7.15am and challenge the desesitized stare of the beaurocrats filing into work, you are bucking the system, you are pushing upstream, you are going against the grain. together we issue forth the challenge. Together. And for that reason, everytime someone has something to offer me, i am eager to hear it. Anything less is not good enough. Everytime I hear that what i do on stage has a primary affect off stage, I am touched and I am humbled. What better in life than feeling that you are contributing to making a difference? Nothing. And it couldn't be done if not together.
With the greatest love and respect,
Simon Slieker
All I knew in returning to melb was that I had a desire to do something more, to extend myself beyond being a resident at one club. Granted it's the strongest, biggest, toughest etc... techno club probably in the country; but even so, limiting myself to the role of resident no longer felt comfortable.
Even so I had not made a decision to leave Teriyaki. I had to augment my career and do something more; but this for me did not in and of itself mean I had to leave Teriyaki. That call was made by Dee Dee and Slack; the reasoning behind which is clear: they want a resident who will offer them absolute loyalty and whilst I was happy to do that before, I knew that to be true to myself now, I could not.
As a result, and as Dee Dee has already said elsewhere on this site I am no longer a resident. They will obviously still ask me back as a guest, and I will obviously acquiesce. As for the rest, well Pixie is the obvious replacement.
So what then am I doing? Playing a bloody hell of a lot of guest spots at present...check your local guides...
I've also agreed to a partial residency at Centriphugal (friday nights @ Deep 11) of course another tasty example of powerfully deep sound. I'll be there once a fortnight. Other than that I've still not ruled out starting my own club; but on that I'll keep you posted.
Now I've got all that out of the way, I'm brought to my mian purpose for posting this. Since I left Melb for Byron and during my time away and now since being back many of you have taken the time to post messages of, well everything from encouragement, regret, excitement, enthusiasm, support... all of it support; and, well it hasn't gone un-noticed. Dee Dee sent me link to this site not long after I left (for Byron) and I was staggered at the amount of feeling people had unveiled at my departure. And again last week another friend told me to check some of the opinion posted once it became public I was no longer at Teriyaki. Again I was humbled and deeply touched.
there was a reason why i came back to melbourne. you people get it; you understand the music, you feel it and you distinguish yourselves with your unabashed love of it. There is no greater pleasure as a DJ than to play to people such as you; and I couldn't deprive myself of this any longer.
Again thankyou to all of you who have responded to me; variously on the floor, backstage, on line, on the phone, on paper, on Bluelight; and let me say now that contrary to what many of you think, every smile, every word, every nuance of appreciation that any of you ever offer makes a huge amount of difference to me. i do what I do for the love of it and because I believe this culture offers a cohesive positive benefit to our society. We can use the glimpse we get into our ancient nature via dance to penetrate the stifling homogeny of contemporary western society. Believe it people, its true. everytime you walk out onto the pavement at 7.15am and challenge the desesitized stare of the beaurocrats filing into work, you are bucking the system, you are pushing upstream, you are going against the grain. together we issue forth the challenge. Together. And for that reason, everytime someone has something to offer me, i am eager to hear it. Anything less is not good enough. Everytime I hear that what i do on stage has a primary affect off stage, I am touched and I am humbled. What better in life than feeling that you are contributing to making a difference? Nothing. And it couldn't be done if not together.
With the greatest love and respect,
Simon Slieker
