Vitalic at Coalition, Brighton

In case you've never heard of Vitalic, think somewhere between Justice, Daft Punk and Etienne de Crecy with a pure electronic sound. We were a little late on the bandwagon with Vitalic's latest album, Flashmob really exciting us.

Coalition on Brighton's beachfront was a good venue though the early performance time of 9:15pm to 10:30pm was moaned about by a few who didn't have to work the next day.

Pascal Arbez, the guy behind Vitalic came on to the stage with his ready setup of laptop, sequencer and other technical gadgets. His set started off quite ordinary with only a couple of monster tunes to spice things up. The diversity of sounds was preferred by a section of the crowd, where as the pure dance-heads like myself and Kerry were used to the techno rhytmns. The second half had a lot more of the throbbing, hands-in-the-air classics like Flashmob to really rock the place. There were a couple of places where he made a mistake like miscounting the right point for the next track. Towards the end he put on perhaps his best tune heard previously at the 2ManyDJs gig in Brixton, La Rock 01. Expecting to be entranced with a full-on workout he suddenly dropped Chemical Brothers' Galvanize which almost stopped the crowd dancing and certainly got a lot of confused looks from everyone. The set returned back to La Rock then after a mini-encore put on a rock-guitar based track that still got us jumping and larking about for fun. Great gig, just WTF was the Galvanize bit.

Haven't got round to uploading the video I took of the gig but here's a taster of his tunage below:

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