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Todd and Michael pulled of a hot video set to match the frenetic nature of the tracks that Cervus chose for his set opening for Justin Robertson. Heavy doses of camera feedback and kaleidoscopes were in effect.

Stereo Total emerged onstage just after 1:00am. Michael had loaded their logo into Videodelic and had it swirling around while the musical acts changed. A snippet of Orange Mechanique played while Brezel introduced Françoise. Over the course of the next hour the band whipped through Cinemania, Supergirl, Nationale 7, Musique Automatique, Vive Le Week-End, Do the Bambi, Push It, Hunger, Holiday Inn, L'Amour á 3, Wir Tanzen Im 4 Eck, Ich Bin Nackt, along with a few covers. Todd had prepared a bunch of new content during the afternoon. The footage from Bambi Café and clips from the Disney Bambi animated film went along with several of the songs as well as excerpts from The Night Watchman. Hunger was accompanied with excellent footage from a short film entitled Okénka.

Tufan Demir opened the evening with a solid set that included some exceptionally good tracks. Michael jumped right on a rendition of Benny Benassi's Satisfaction with snippets from the music video that accompanied the original. The rest of Tufan's set was graced with output from the latest build of 3L, the real-time 3D VJ application that Pascal, Michael and Todd have been working on since the middle of September.

AE were interviewed about their VJ Workshop for fihrİST. The program aired fifteen times throughout the last half of October on s'nek TV.

The fifth night at indigo brough with it a short sweet set of dark live electro from Johannes Heil from Kanzleramt Records in Frankfurt, who has worked with Dave Clarke, Sven Vath, and Legowelt. After starting real late, his live set was about 50 minutes that kept the house moving to his fat electro minimal funk traxx. Opening for Johannes was Fuchs, one of the owners of Dinamo FM. As always, he grooved the house (Ali Fuchs is one of the first DJs michael met when he came to istanbul, and also the promoter of the John Digweed show earlier in the year) with up to date trax that crossed genres and kept everyone dancing till the early morning hours. Ali was also the first local DJ to come up to the booth at the end of the night and thank us for the visuals. One of the nicest guys there are in the business.

We have 2 and a half minutes of the gig with sound...the opening images from the set, which are a combination of original material Michael got from Johnny DeKam mixed with Todd's input of classic material from Oskar Fischinger.

Todd and Michael hit their stride on the 4th night of their residency at Indigo with Mathias Schaffhäuser from Multicolor Recordings in Berlin, who has remixed artists such as Goldfrapp ("Twist") and plays a high-energy Electro mix for labels like Tic Tac Toe, Vakant, Anorak and Palette. Mathias was bouncing around on stage bopping his arms around to his tunes in front of a full house in a good mood and wanting to dance. The VJ mix hit a real japanese style for most of the evening - all green and purple with animated motion graphics as well as some poignant 60's flower power stuff, all done in ping pong in GridPro with Michael and Todd challenging each other with dancing robots, dancing godzillas, flowers, hippie busses and waving grasses and such. Unfortunately, Michael forgot the DVD recorder, so we only have some live cam footage of the show.

One of Indigo's resident DJs, Batu, opened the evening. He played a slick set of minimal techno, which we accompanied with materal created in Modul8 and Touch, a well as VDMX 4.2 for the second half of his set.

Michael and Todd started their second weekend at Indigo with more set up fun. A different rental beamer was waiting for them on the stage. The club electrician, Ali, had gotten a mounting system jerry-rigged together, but it took he and Michael a good half hour of fiddling around at the top of a ladder to get it all set and working.

Batu, one of Indigo's residents started of the evening with a fairly peppy minimal techno set. Todd worked a set of clips based on Takashi Ito's 'Spacy' short film. Michael's counterpoint included a number of portrait clips.

Play Paul, one of the International Deejay Gigolo crew, did about an hours worth of material as a live set. Paul was on the mic signing songs such as his current hit "LALALAND" with a DJ accompanying him. Michael and Todd switched up their look for a set of green dots and circles.

On saturday, the second beamer for the side wall was still not installed when Todd and Michael arrived at Indigo. After Michael fiddled around with the connections to the two plasma screens in the barns to no avail, time had run short so we set up the second projector to project on one of the pillars and the side wall, by placing it in our booth. Cihan from Indigo was a bit distressed over the projection not being centered on the architecturally integrated screen on the side wall, but acceded to our artistic license. The solo night with Onur, who had opened the previous night for DJ HELL was sparsely attended, and he complained at the end of the night that the crowd didn't understand what he was doing, and that he was off to berlin to do a couple of successive gigs in Germany, and would be back in a couple of weeks to open for Carl Craig in Indigo on the 21st of October. Todd ran Touch using synths designed by his friend Jim Ellis for most of the evening, while Michael fiddled around with an alpha version of 3L (pronounced "thrill"), the 3D app which Pascal is writing, Using the 3D font module animating the word INDIGO, and a bit of the particle system to map onto Todd's ambient backgrounds, We were quite happy to discover a fresh new appearance to some worn-out material which we will explore more over the next weeks. Vadi, Cihan's partner at Indigo, was quite excited to see the club"s name integrated into the ambient visuals in 3D synch. One of the bartenders at the end of the night came over and was very curious about which programs we were using, so we pressed a Workshop Flyer in his hand and encouraged him to join the seminar.

The AE residency at Indigo got off to an interesting start with DJ HELL. After finally getting our projectors hung at the last minute before the doors opened, Todd and Michael began the night with some ambient visuals of red, blue, and green squares created live in cosmic painter for the opening DJ, Onur Özer, who was playing a set of minimal techno and IDM (intelligent dance music). By the time that HELL came on at 1 AM, the club was packed to the rafters, and Todd and Michael were geared up to rock a set of trashy electroclash visuals comprised of cult films and downmarket strippers from a NYC cable channel, which they had selected carefully to go with HELL's "gigolo" schtick. The crowd went crazy with each new clip up on the screens, and the vibe seemed like it would be a rocking gig.

20 minutes into the set, one of Indigo's managers showed up in the booth to say that HELL was complaining that the stage was too bright, and didnt want any more visuals, so Michael put up a black screen, and one could noticeably feel the dissapointment in the crowd when the screen behind HELL went dark. It became clear at that moment why fALk had refused to play the opening gig with HELL, who he has studiously avoided in Germany. If we had had the second projector hung in time for the side wall, we could have continued, but since there was only the one beamer on stage, it didnt leave us with much choice, So we packed up the gear and spent the rest of the night hanging out with friends in the booth.The managers of Indigo were good natured about the hassle and didnt give out any bad vibes. Todd took the opportunity to shoot some closeup flash photos of the star DJ to grace the blog.

We recorded a live dvd of the 20 minute set as well as some live camera footage and edited it together, so you too can be "blinded by the light." Make sure you turn the brightness down on your monitor, and the sound way up.