Club review: Eric Prydz and John Digweed @ The Warehouse Project

Date: 5th November

Words: Dominic Citarella

Photos: Joseph T Denyer

Saturday 5th November brought two of the heaviest heavy weights of dance music – particularly in prog house – to the Warehouse Project. Eric Prydz and John Digweed are so established that although there was a stellar line up featuring the likes of Warehouse residents Greg Lord and Krysko, as well as the widely tipped for the top Prydz protégé Jeremy Olander there was no doubting who this crowd was coming out to see.

Being tipped to be the next big thing to come out of Sweden not only by his mentor Eric Prydz but by countless amounts of critics, must carry some what of a burden. This is not evident when we enter the club to find Jeremy Olander at the helm. Olander does a perfect job warming up for the big boys so as not to steal the show, but keeping the restless crowd happy by playing such gems as his own ‘Love Flight’ and what I think was his own edit of Golden Girls ‘Kinetic’.

John Digweed steps up next, keeping things progressing from where Olander left off. I have never seen Digweed before and wish my first Digweed experience was under different circumstances, as although he did play a blinding set I was somewhat distracted by the excitement of my first Prydz
experience coming up.

Nevertheless, Diggers proves impressive as he keeps the crowd stewing and simmering, turning the Warehouse into a cauldron of deep progressive house. Things really heated up when he dropped Mark Knight ‘Arena’, which went down an absolute treat.

There is such an air of anticipation around the club when Prydz walks out in his trademark black beanie. He is in my opinion the best producer out there at the minute; evidenced by how much his sets are peppered with his own tracks, remixes and edits (Eric Prydz, Pryda and Cirez D). The first hour or so steadily builds up, with occasional tempo changes to get the crowd ready for what is to come. And then into the final hour and a half, where he brings out some of the big guns by dropping ‘Mirage’, his new track ‘2night’ and his explosive remix of Depeche Mode ‘Personal Jesus’.

He ends with his stunning Eric Prydz private edit of 'Pjanoo', leaving the crowd to go home happy. All anticipation has been fulfilled.

The only qualm I can raise with Pyrdz’ set is that it was slightly predictable, being very similar to his essential mix set at Creamfields earlier this year. However having never seen him before I was more than happy.

We're off to London this weekend, to do it all again at Ally Pally for his EPIC show. Let’s hope he mixes things up with a fresh set.

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