Luke Morrison, who resides in Edmonton, has been virtually running shit out west and in the process has developed a sound that he can truly call his own. I learned tonight that not only is he only 25 years of age, but he’s also knee deep in his academics… law school at that. Apparently him and Brad Copeland have had some pretty insane nights together both in Alberta and Ontario, and tonight held true to that trend.

I was slotted to play the opening role and I couldn’t have been happier. There’s nothing more rewarding than to lay down a set and have the headliner thank me for setting the table for him/her to do their thing. I had picked up a lot of nice groovy tech gems, and just wanted to set a constant pace to build some momentum for Luke and Brad to take over and deliver the goods. At around 12:30, I dropped my last track, and the boys took over to unleash a solid back to back session.

Brad started things out as he usually does - steady, pumping Progressive, that instantly got the crowd moving. No longer than two tracks in, Luke plugs in his headphones and drops two of his own. This continued for a good hour or so, just constantly feeding off of each others tracks while maintaining a constant flow throughout. They had the crowd drooling the entire time.

The thing I liked best about the chemistry between these two was the fact that they played the crowd to a tee. When it seemed the crowd was slowing down, a melodic track would be dropped. When the crowd was ready for something a bit more pumping - one of them would answer the call. This back to back set was the most consistent display of tag team DJing I have ever seen live… seriously.

As the place thinned out towards the end of the night it left a really wicked group of ‘heads’ to rip up the floor. Luke played a beautiful encore and the crowd responded with a warm, sincere applause of approval.

A lot of people said it reminded them of Sonic. There were also quite a few people who said it reminded them of System. It reminded me that there is still a large demand for the Progressive genre in the city, and that this will be the type of quality night people will come to expect at The Mod Club on Fridays.

Review by Jeff Button

Download (left-click and unzip):
Jeff Button - EXPOSED.live - September 7, 2007

Download the event’s promo mix (left-click and unzip):
Luke Morrison - EXPOSED - August 2007

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