Bloke: “Man, it’s so nice to see someone spinning actual records for a change.”

Other bloke: “Yeah man, I saw Amon Tobin the other night do a laptop set … it’s just not relevant anymore.”

Lindstrøm on the ones-and-twos? Nope, that was during the vinyl set of one “Beat Broker,” a best-kept Bay Area secret who spins heavy vocal house, italo, and funky-as-a-sweaty-jockstrap-disco cuts. 

Indeed, it was Technics versus Macbooks all night, and wax won out by a TKO. By the time Hans-Peter Lindstrøm stepped up to the booth, the hometown crowd was so soggy with good vibes from Beat Broker that they were ready to lap up anything. The Norwegian took his time setting up his Apple and plugging in, and when he eased into the first beaming bars of the first title track of “Where You Go I Go Too,” he had the tiny-clothes crowd at San Francisco’s intimate Paradise Lounge practically jumping out of their painted-on jeans. Hands were raised, lasers bounced off the disco ball and all was right in the universe. (You know those swooning synth pads come in at 7:24? Well, he built the bookends of his set around them and it was orgiastic.)

Until he went unplugged, that is.

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