My Tracklisting
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I must say that our household picked quite the perfect night for our first party of the year.
Cinco de Mayo. Celebration of the Mexican army being victorious over the invading French. Celebration of a new member of the household. Celebration of the beautiful fucking weather we've been having.
After a day of rushing around for last minute preparation, dinner was served at eight-thirty. Jes made burritos from scratch; pulled chicken, fresh vegetables, herbs and spices, spanish rice and black beans were topped with guacamole and starr's homemade salsa. Delicious!!!!
Guests began arriving around nine-thiry as Starr, Randy, JD Disclexic and I were tossing around plates to warm up the upstairs decks for our openers, Tad and Nile. As an added surprise Paul came along as well and the three of them tagged a bouncy blend of sounds from lounge to dnb. Tad stayed along to play with JD at twelve-thirty, as they dropped from dnb down to breaks.
Simultaneously, in the basement Zyler had just finished setting up the visual gear and Skunk began dropping dubstep on the chillers down below ground. Phil's decorations, along with a wall for a projection screen, kept a mellow vibe for those who wanted to relax or lay out on the shag. However, up two floors was far from relaxation.
Cosmos had fists pumping and people dancing to some old hard house. The vibe was great and the last trickle of new guests came in the door. After some quick and easy sound dampening adjustments (windows shut, fans on), the remaining guests began the subconscious game of who can last the longest.
I took over upstairs while Sir Kibbles hooked up his computer to the setup. I kept in the vein of Cosmos and brought it harder and harder.
Here are the tracks I played between three and three-thirty.Hughes & Gamble - Twisted Synth Hard Mix
Yves de Ruyter - Psycho String
The Alien Thing feat Mark Bongwah - Ride the Pony
Yoji Biomehanika - Peace Out - Yoji's 21st Century remix
Vicious - Turkish Bazaar
CM - Psychopath
Mo-dem - Bits and Bytes (The Final Mission Mix) *see note
Span Thang EP - Span Trak
Digital Science - Digital Edge
A9
*after I mixed out of Bits and Bytes, which I had to turn the bass down a bit on while playing it, I noticed that the bass kill switch for that channel had been on for some unknown amount of time! The actual bass in that track was ridiculous.
Sir Kibbles finally found a workaround for his computer, and so tagged with JD on trance, hard dance, breaks and whatever else to close out the night til five am. While Nora chilled the basement crowd down til five-thirty. And with sunlight breaching the cloth-covered windows, the sleeping arise and say goodbyes. Gear is packed up, and finally to bed....room...to edit pictures from the night.
And here you are.
The DJs
Upstairs
Starr C.
Nile
Tad
Paul
JD Disclexic
JD and Tad working it together
Cosmos
Sir Kibbles
JD and Sir Kibbles rockin out
Downstairs
Skunk
Alex
Nora
Zyler on visuals
The Crowd
Thanks to everyone who came out, I hope you all had a wonderful time and can't wait for the next one!
Special thanks to Mike for working the door, Peeps Jess for providing decorations, Stas and Skunk for providing sound, and Zyler and Phil for visuals and decorations.
And as always LOVE to my housemates, Jes, Shawn and Starr, you're unbelieveable!
