WMC's first night packs clubs
By EVELYN McDONNELL, MICHAEL HAMERSLY and BRETT O'BOURKE
emcdonnell@herald.com
Around 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, EST, the grass on a grave in Macclesfield, England, suddenly rippled as Ian Curtis's dead body rolled over. Far away at that moment, Peter Hook, Curtis's former mate in the band Joy Division, was manning the turntables at the club Mansion in South Beach.
DJ Hooky, as the once well-respected New Order bassist was calling himself for this Return to New York party, opened with Captain & Tennille's poisonously sweet pop hit, Love Will Keep Us Together, mixed with its antidote, Joy Division's Love Will Tear Us Apart. Ha ha.
But he didn't stop there. Hooky then played a horrendously screechy industrial cover of Curtis's breakdown love song, She Lost Control. Raising the decades-old question about whether DJs killed the music star, it was not an auspicious start for Winter Music Conference week.
Hook has a battery of New Order hits he could have cannibalized for this soiree, thrown by New Order producer Arthur Baker. And maybe he did later. But when that sorry Miami staple, a skinny would-be pole dancer, clamored in front of the DJ booth to 'interpret' these seminal goth anthems, this reporter left.
Earlier, eyewitnesses said, the scene from the movie 24 Hour Party People in which Curtis hangs himself was showing on the club's video screens.
Even though local punk-method band Awesome New Republic tried to purge the bad air in the club lobby, the 'party' made it abundantly clear why Curtis committed suicide.
Only the weak survive.
DEEP HOUSE
Fortunately there were signs of life elsewhere: State was a sweaty delirious mess as house DJs Marques Wyatt, King Britt, Mark Farina and DJ Deep worked bodies for the Deep Miami and Aquabooty party. Spotted: Everything But the Girl's Ben Watt. Buck15 was so packed for its weekly Takeout Tuesdays that not even Phoenecia's Romulo del Castillo could get in. Skybar was low-key early in the evening, but later, according to the club's publicist, party host and wicked rapper Mos Def took to the mike.
DOWN UNDER VIBE
Electronic music fans filled the dance floor of Club Spin in Miami Beach Tuesday for a midnight performance by Infusion, an Australian trio of musicians whose instruments include lap top computers, synthesizers and drum machines.
Awash in a sea of electronic beats that could be felt within 10 feet of the club's monumental speakers, the audience of several hundred gyrated and pumped their hands to the rhythm of the popular remix group, which closes its 'Around the World in 30 Days' international tour with several performances during the weeklong Winter Music Conference.
The performance, part of the independent Miami Music Conference, featured hits from Infusion's album, Six Feet Above Yesterday, selected as one of the Top 50 of 2004 by Rolling Stone magazine.
SPRING BREAKERS VS. PARTY PROS
The confluence of spring break and winter music conference seems to be giving a few clubs trouble. Early Wednesday morning, a large crowd collected in front of State's velvet rope divided into two distinct camps: the spring breakers and the pros.
The spring breakers, living pages from the Abercrombie catalog, leaned in against the rope, not sure what to make of the fact that the woman running the door, standing not more than three feet from them, wouldn't so much as acknowledge their existence.
''I've been standing here for 15 minutes. I know she can see me,' said Dan Krykowski, a spring breaker from Michigan, clearly getting agitated. ``I'm not the freaking invisible man.'
The pros -- mostly record label owners, public relations flacks and media types -- were more or less lined up neatly in queue, showing their M3 badges or checking their name against the guest list.
Inside, Mark Farina showered the dance floor in his deep house sound. Farina must be the hardest working DJ in town. Seems the DJ roster of every third party this week has his name on it somewhere. That's a lot parties.
The crowd loved Farina though, including Krykowski, who finally made it in the club.
'I had to wait half an hour for the honor of dropping 60 bucks, just to get us in the door,' he says. ``We better have fun tonight. We may not be able to afford go out again all week.'
FAILURE MERITS FORGIVENESS
Bedrock DJ Nic Fanciulli opened and survived a faulty system that failed no less than seven times on the first major night of Winter Music Conference madness.
The enthusiastic crowd was forgiving however and cheered everytime the main speakers were restored. Then the legendary John Digweed took over around 1 a.m. and all was well. His beats were clearly a cut above the average DJ -- immediately the room was injected with an energy only hinted at before.
And when the doors were finally opened to the outdoor patio, the night took on its promised magic with Digweed's beats providing a soundtrack for the clouds racing across the moon.
FRESH BEATS FROM TENAGLIA
The whoops and cheers for Danny Tenaglia, one of the world's most respected DJs were constant at his annual Be Yourself Party, which began around midnight and ended Wednesday afternoon.
The clubbers, who packed The Warehouse, knew exactly what to expect -- the freshest beats and the most deep dark tracks around, but still they weren't able to keep from jumping up and down deliriously.
Tenaglia delivered, to the delight of the throngs of hardcore partiers not ready to call it a night at the usual closing time of 5 a.m.
And they still had four nights of hard-core partying left to go
Watch an exclusive video from one of our members: Hooky in Miami
The clip is courtesey of facseven 
wanker,wasnt even there,and made something up about eyewitneses seeing it after he left,hooky will twat him,or should sue the tosser at least.dickhead.
