CMNDer reporting from LA for your weekly local party update.
Saturday I checked out the epic club venue Avalon. Pretty good besides some ape man douchbag bouncers who decided that I was a professional photographer trying to shoot w/o a wrist band even tho there were about 1000 sweaty ppl holding up cameras to film Sander van Doorn play some uninspiring progressive house while showing us his armpits for about 90% of his set. Yea…once that was resolved…. the better music was in the “Honey room” where my friend DJ Cody Lee dropped a smooth tech-house set that went late night.
The weekday party seems to be the ticket in this town. Wednesday night we checked out a club called Voyeur which was definitely the best all around club/dj experience I’ve had here so far. The music was a pretty hard mix of Dutch house and the dj was actually doing some pretty decent mixing…first ive heard out here. Lavelle Dupree was on the decks.
Drai’s on Hollywood blvd seems to be the ticket with a Tuesday Dim Mak party. The weekends are a bit sceney..but it looks like this is where the party’s at.
-CMNDer
August 25, 2010
LA beat
August 14, 2010
I’m on a BOAT
The first Friday after relocating to the UK I managed to find a novelty event – the Chew the Fat Boat Party – with a not so novelty line-up. Serious talent was on deck, with DJ sets from A-1 Bassline, Last Japan, and Warrior One, among other London-based artists.
The commandeered tour boat cruised down the Thames like a Pirate-ship turned Ghetto-Blaster and massive bangers were dropped, leaving landlubbers and tourists on the London Bridge confused and entertained. Sorry for interrupting your sunset Guv-na! – but this mobile disco is taking anyone within an earshot to electro-school, with legit summer jams like Congorock’s remix of ‘One’
Keep an eye out for more reports from the UK, Chew the Fat is a party/label/blog definitely worth keeping up with.
Note: Unfortunately Foamo (the expected headliner) was unable to attend due to a death in the family. We send our condolences.
July 20, 2010
My First Sloppy Seconds
There’s no reason to fake it: I’ve had a crush on Kid Sister since the Control EP. Skin like mocha, voice like honey butter. Kanye gave her some love on her track, Pro Nails (which I felt was underrated by and large). Unfortunately, her full length Album, Ultraviolet, got ripped apart by Pitchfork, but you know what? I still love her. And yes, I still drop this touch up of Control by LA Riots. Don’t judge me. Or fuck it: do.
Kid Sister – Control (LA Riots Remix) by ScionAV
So, of course when I heard she was playing at Sloppy Seconds in ATL last weekend, I had to tag along with my homie, DJ Salinger, and see how people get down at MJQ.
The venue definitely reminded me of the late 90s/early 00s grimy rave-esque warehouse parties that made me fall in love with electronic music: dim lights, cheap ass drinks, and industrial looking furniture you could just hose off at the end of the night. The main difference was that all those 60″ leg parachute pants were replaced with skinny jeans. Oh, and the glowsticks were replaced with guns, but that’s probably just ATL for you. Either way, I felt at home. Kid Sister was amazing. Great stage presence and execution despite some apparent problems with the stage monitors. Truthfully, I was quite happy just to be in the same room with Kid Sis. A-Trak, how did you mess things up with this girl, by the way? Damn. One thing that really cracked me up was looking around the room during the show and seeing all these tough looking dudes staring up at Kid Sister longingly and mouthing the words to her songs. My heart goes out to you, my dudes.
Huge ups to Caleb with OVERTHROW for delivering the goods. The party was fun, and I didn’t even get shot at. Congrats on 4 years of Sloppy Seconds, homie. DJ Megan Foxxx and Cobra Corps were quite entertaining throughout the night, as well. I <3 ATL.
