PROSUMER at Club 120, Friday, December 26. Rating: NNNN
Box of Kittens and Breakandenter’s Boxing Day party at Club 120 hit capacity long before Edinburgh-via-Berlin DJ/producer Prosumer stepped onstage – a sign that either his new DJ mix for the Fabric series is expanding his audience, or that a lot of Torontonians really wanted to dance off their holiday meals. Either way, the room was clearly receptive to his eclectic selections, which bounced from techno to disco to house, and spanned many eras of underground dance music.
Prosumer (aka Achim Brandenburg) is known for preferring to play vinyl. While many DJs of the laptop generation might view that as limiting, he makes a strong case for the medium by shifting the focus back to track selections and smooth, unobtrusive mixing (even if there were a couple needle skips here and there). His ability to drastically shift moods without it feeling jarring made it hard to leave the dance floor, as he kept finding new ways to connect genres and keep the audience on their toes (both literally and figuratively).
