Golden Cage presents Guti at Tone’s Last Weekend

There was no more fitting way for the short lived but beautifully cultured venue Tone to celebrate its last hurrah than to have a pioneer of Latino American house music; Guti, pump up his fusion of soulful samples and hard beats to make us move. And oh boy did we move.
The venue, known for its additions of international flavour into Sydney’s night life offered beautiful and creative visual spaces and a darkened free dance floor for Robbie Lowe to experiment on decks. Honestly his set was one of the most fluid moving, immediately intoxicating, gyration inducing and just purely beautiful sounding house music that has been played around in a fair amount of time. It was a fair match for the next set and he looked like he was having a ball.
Despite a few fairly embarrassing technical difficulties for the club and Guti’s entourage once the man was comfortable behind his decks it was so good to see how naturally he flicked across the board from lines infused with old south american rhythms to completely artificial but melodic over dubs that really drove the sound. Guti has a talent for making sound dance across so many usually mismatched music spectrum’s within a track without breaking a sweat. The Latino fusions really shone through and having house music that makes you move your hips is a perfect Saturday night aphrodisiac.
The whole night had a feeling of ease and motion that is not offered at many other places around and Golden Cage managed to pull off a completely non judgmental atmosphere with a basis of people who just loved to hear good, interesting house.

By Alex McIntyre