Since you’ll find that mentioned in the post down below, it had to come out BIG!-;

An iLight (pronounced the way French do:) of this new dance music melange thing hit Berlin one of those last weekends (finally I have some time for writing this…). But before we come to the real act of the night, the now in Brasil Circus Company label boss Sety played a nice warm-up set, upfront minimal but groovy. That is until he started to play some of the great classics of House music, including Jaydee’s ‘Plastic Dreams‘, hmmm…

Anyway, then NOZE rocked the Panoramabar even better and for real good. And in a manner rather untypical for an “electronic music” live act. And we don’t only mean the awesome manerisms of the show. For example the by now rather notorious half-strip of those gentlemen, but also the reactions of the audience. The thing felt like a mixture of a rock concert and a boygroup event. People just freeeeaked out and behaved like it. So it was not only packed to the max but the only thing actually lacking was a stage diving by the artists. But how do you stagedive over a huge, awe inspiring mixing desk in front of you? Well, at least here, Noze didn’t prove to be reeealy upfront.

Other than that, they are. It’s the hottest, sleaziest act, this town (yes, you hear me - Berlin!) saw for a long time. And we are talking music this time. Their ‘Kitchen’ track is not just the burner which Tom Waits sometimes came close, but never really made it to, but every single girl in the room seemed to know the, uhm, a bit adolescent boy-style lyrics (”come, come - and follow ME, we’ll have some FUN. I’ll make YOU come, ALL night looong” - all sung with a pretty charming french touch). Just another proof, that machism is dead (and feminism with it) - the girls liked it.

To come back to the music, Noze ironic, and full of clever references approach is just marvellous. Mainly because even if you think of Tom Waits’ voice sometimes while the singer yells hoarsely into his mic, lots of other influences can be heard, namely, Chanson, Reggae, Gypsy music, Pierre Schaeffer and… humor. But the point is, you never really think of those genres or of citations, but all this does, is to melt into an ingenious blend that can only be called “Pop” (in a very advanced sense of the word). Plus the state-of-the-art minimal beats (i.e. ‘Piano’). It’s all just becomes completely ‘nozy’, even if you wonder about that carnival piano sound in the background sometimes. Finally “House” that doesn’t take itself too seriously - what a refreshing feeling in my, uhm, noze.

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