For Mirth Only

Birthday Party Tonight!

I’m DJing my birthday party tonight at Legion in East Williamsburg. I’m bored to death of all these old school house and disco revival parties, so I will be playing stuff that actually sounds like it was produced in the last decade (and not just mimicking previous ones). Hooray! Get with it, Jay. Act your age already.

Fbook Invite

BASS 2 DARK

between instra:mental’s (well, boddika’s, whichever half of the duo it is) increasingly darkening electro direction (holy SHIT, that album’s gonna be huge), loefah’s gritty electro championing, bok bok’s occasional plummets into electro chasms, and ramadanman’s dry snares + bitter chords formula, i guess 2011 might be the year for this stuff? HELL, YESSS!!!

this blawan mix, on behalf of FACT, runs at a slightly slower tempo than the one usually represented by the crowd mentioned above, but it ups the black hole-level drone, dearth, and darkness. BLAWAN!!! oh, and there’s no tracklist. wanna know what these deadly tracks are? too bad… you’ll be in the DARK!!! har har har.

get it get it

Saturday Night Slugging at Club Infinity 3/12 – CHECK UPDATE BELOW

FINAL UPDATE 3/10: The new lineup for Saturday’s Club Infinity is all-American talent: Brick City’s DJ Tameil, who’ll be serving up raw Baltimore; LA’s Total Freedom; Baltimore’s Schwarz; and residents.

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UPDATE via Twitter on March 4: bok_bok unfortunately and due to unforeseen circumstances, myself and @girlunit will not be coming to the US in March : ( BUT WE WILL MAKE IT UP 2 U

@thecolonelmc visa problems, we both applied for ours at the same time and the us gov are delaying it

You already know what it is. Nothing says future club music like a night with Bok Bok, GIRL UNIT, Kingdom & Dre Skull. Subs, dubs, and bub – let’s get it poppin’.

$5 w/RSVP
@ drom, NYC

A Salute to Jamie XX’s DJing

Saw Jamie XX DJ last night at Le Poisson Rouge. To quote a text to a friend, “Yo, kid just went AT IT.” And so in an attempt to relive some of the greatness, I collected some of his mixes that have been posted online.

Guest Selection for Benji B’s Deviation Jan 2011
Boiler Room (Live) Nov 2010
Mix for Colette May 2010
Live at Elevate Festival 2010
BBC 6 Mix Feb 2011

What impressed most was his quality & diversity in selection, which I find to be rare and lacking in dance music in general but particularly within the confines of the latest UK subgenres that spring up, mature, and die every 6 months. And then of course the shear low-end of the songs – not to mention they’re so much fun to dance to!

Big Week Coming Up

This week is gonna be HUGE. Starting Tuesday, Jamie XX is doing a DJ set at Le Poisson Rouge, which I hope will be contain a lot of old school grime (like the sets that have been posted online).

$5 Tix

Then on Friday, two of my favorite DJs are double billing Cameo Gallery. The last time Tim Sweeney played NYC, the crowd was bathed in green lasers and really bright strobe lighting, the timing of the breakdown sent everyone straight into a state of euphoria, and then the cops broke the party up. Mike played Le Bain a couple weeks ago and killed that shit. Total no brainer for Friday.

$10 Tix

Saturday is DJ Harvey all night at Santos, and when it’s Harvey it’s literally all night.

Facebook ($20 at the door)

God this is going to be an expensive week.

2010 = 2009

Things haven’t changed much here, xpt mebs my taste in fashion. Sad face. Also this list is kinda late, so it includes January/some of now.

eBay. recent discovery, hahah.

Housing Works. It’s for a good cause: my wardrobe.

My So-Called Life. Claire Danes was in the media for something, and…yeah. Also Enrique sorta became my style icon. The school dance scene with Sunscreem’s Pressure is genius.

Sylvain Quement – Fish lightnings for milk riots. Really wish there was a club for music like this. Not sure who would show up, but wouldn’t it be nice to walk into a bar and hear ridiculous esoteric dance music (REDM)?

Enter The Void. Took ages for this movie to be released stateside and it did not disappoint. Got a bit I.K.U. towards the end, but overall had me mindtripping.

The Other Guys. pure stupidity. pretty much the perfect movie for me.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Kingdom + Dre Skull’s Club Infinity. An NYC essential.

I-F’s The Bottomless Pit Radio Shows. some shows are better than others, some shows are longer than others, some shows have guests, some shows have wine involved or weed, and some have terribly cheesy italo. But I still listen every week for gems like Boys On Hollywood Blvd.

Oh, and I highly recommend his No Order Without Authority tape, whose ID3 tag reads: “First in the No Order Series. A statement against mindless submission to those put above us and ignorance of the human species in general.” Whatever that’s supposed to mean. I’ve come to know it as the ideal naptime music. Stay tuned for parts 2 & 3 coming soon on robotdj.net!

Spanish Harlem Orchestra @ S.O.B.s

Girl UNIT. Bravo on his US tour. Wut. I.R.L.

Afrika Bambaataa @ Good Units. Was totally shit until the end when ¾ of the crowd had left. The remaining dancers were spread out on the floor having a ball. He played Shirley Ellis’ The Name Game, which I’ve only heard on a Fred Deakin mixtape, and followed it up with some major soul towards the end.

And that segues nicely into all of Luke Howard‘s mixes, one of which features a truly sublime remake of What About My Love.

Henny Moan – Lurv Tapes Vol. 1 & 2. Don’t know much about this guy, except that he lives in London and goes by the name of a retired norwegian actress. There’s a lot of pitched down soul, pitched down bass weight techno, and a wide variety of pitched down dubby instrumental dance music in these.

James Dela Cruz – Incu Podcast #11. Such a special mix. It doesn’t get as crazy as his previous tapes, but it still gets me there. Tracklist

All of the Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and Science Channel programs on astronomy/cosmology/planetary science (available on eztv.it). It looks like they’re just pumping these out because N.A.S.A.’s return-to-the-moon funding got cut. You know, so they’re like trying to reach the next generation…which is kind of a shame now that I’m too old to dream. Been voraciously gobbling these up and supplementing with Stephen Hawking’s The Grand Design and A Brief History of Time.

Things I’m Looking Forward To This Year
13th Annual Scelero Silentium Bouquat (missed the 12th annual in 2010, and last saturday managed to live up to insanely high expectations – so much fun!).
Mike Simonetti DJing New York again. (2 more gigs coming too! yes!)
The Avalanches’ new album + new mixes. (don’t know why I bother)
The rest of Archer season 2
A site facelift!

The Year of the Rabbit

So yeah. Even though I’m half chinese, I didn’t know what the chinese new year was until a few years ago. So like, whatever. Come down to k&m in Williamsburg on wednesday feb. 2nd for $3 lychee martinis and ginger tonics.

Facebook Event

My friend Phil is going as Wooden Rabbit because it’s the year of the rabbit (duh), and I’m going by Double Happiness cause my roommate said it’d be a good name.

Hopefully it’ll be fun and end something like this:

KEYS OF DEATH

new mix!!!

TRACKLIST:

starkey – miracles (jamie vex’d remix)
rustie – dragonfly
s-x – woooo
emalkay – when i look at you
gil scott-heron – ny is killing me (jamie xx remix)
fat freddy’s drop – cay’s crays (digital mystikz remix)
silkk the shocker ft. mya – somebody like me
mandy vs. booka shade – body language
annie – heartbeat
eli escobar ft. amanda blank – love thing pt.3 (only you)
kim ann foxman – creature
m.i.a. ft. jay-z – xxxo
lorna – papi chulo
grim dubs vol. 2 – untitled a
tc – where’s my money (caspa remix, munchi’s kinda aggressive edit)
south rakkas crew – mad again (diplo edit)
cassie – must be love (jacques greene’s marriage proposal mix)

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The Bottomless Pit

Back when I was in college, I-F announced his retirement from DJing. I was crushed. I thought I would never get the chance to hear him play. And though he returned to the decks soon after, he’s remained elusive. Several years on and I still haven’t seen I-F in the flesh (apparently he hasn’t been to the states since 2001, tisk tisk). Anywho, this year he started a weekly radio show on his own Intergalactic FM (formerly the Cybernetic Broadcasting System or C-B-S), titled The Bottomless Pit.

Discover which song makes Ferenc want to apply black eyeliner, which record sounds like a dirty porn soundtrack (to him), all of his public secret fanboyisms, his theory on where producers like Kano are from, but most importantly…

Find out what The Daily Struggle really means