15/08/2022
โท Strict Face - Pavlovabar 038
Strict Face - Pavlovabar 038
โท https://soundcloud.com/houseofmince/strict-face-pavlovabar-038
"I remember my first Mince party - coincidentally, a Club Mince edition with False Witness headlining - like it was yesterday. I'd eaten at a Szechuan restaurant with my friend Kal and a friend of his, Akil, beforehand. The dishes we had were extremely spicy, which normally isn't a problem for me, except by the time we'd gotten to the Oxford Hotel basement, the acid reflux and post-spice sweats had struck me like a hammer. Compounded with how blisteringly balmy the dimly-lit basement felt and all-too-familiar scents (which I won't disclose in writing) wafting through the air, being in the space kind of felt like a fever dream.
Luckily, upon bumping into Marco and finding all my friends who were there that night, the time I spent dancing like a madman surrounded by said friends and several other sweat-christened people, whilst being left speechless at what Marco was unleashing behind the DJ booth, helped me ride out the reflux. But even in the midst of that fever dream, I felt a sense of ease being in the space that night: seeing the intersection of the Venn diagram where club music geeks, muscle-bound men in leather accoutrements and jubilant qu**rs collided into one unified world was an elusive paradise I wanted to stay in forever. I haven't had the blessing of getting to experience as many Mince or Pavs parties as I'd like to (being a non-Sydneysider), but I'm thankful for people like Peter making those rare oases become a tangible world, if even for just a few hours." - Strict Face