On Friday the boyfriend and I went with our friend J down to Mighty to check out Kompakt boy darlings and superhero dj team Michael Mayer and Superpitcher, who, with their powers combined, fight against the forces of boring dance music as SuperMayer. It was a fun night of watching the two of them bop around behind the decks, reminding us after the rather heavy set laid down by local boy Nikola Baytala that techno can have some funk and humor in it as well.
The thing about Mighty that continues to drive me crazy is that the sound system, which I’ve been told originally came from 177 Townsend, it just too big for that space. I like a system that’s crisp and lets me really feel the bass, but too often I leave Mighty feeling like I’ve lost yet more of my remaining hearing. When we arrived on the upside of 11 there weren’t yet enough bodies on the dancefloor to dampen the sound, and the tracks Nikola Baytala was playing seemed just too heavy and dark for me at that point, though this may have just been a side-effect of the system being so loud that I couldn’t stay out on the dancefloor. Gradually I was able to ease myself into closer proximity to the speakers, and by midnight Baytala had gotten into more of a progressive groove that had the dance floor nicely populated. At times I thought Baytala’s set was something of a riff on the techno version of an End Up deep house set, very smooth, with one foray off into vocal territory, but with a pretty consistent set of dynamics that focused mainly on a steady bass thump.
Supermayer came on at 12.30 with a track that completely changed the mood of the space, and for most of the first hour the heavy bass that I had gotten used to in Baytala’s set was replaced with more of the “schaffel” sound so closely associated with Kompakt. There was a lot more motion in the mid-range, and occasional forays into what felt like funk, though when they went for techno they had no qualms about bringing in sounds and structures that were buzzy, glitchy, and just plain weird. Mayer and Superpitcher alternated roughly every three tracks and were having an obvious good time behind the decks, though at times their set did feel a little disjointed. One time as Mayer was coming in after Superpitcher, for example, he completely mis-timed the very long intro on the track he was mixing in, so everything just slowed down to a halt for a minute or two. My only complaint about their set was that it was a bit breakdpwn heavy; at times this felt like they were going for a progressive feel, with big buildups, climaxes, and breakdowns, and sometimes it felt like they just didn’t match the measures of the tracks they were mixing. Around 2 they played their big recent release, “Two of Us,” which is all tension and lack of resolution, and at that point I was ready to check out for the night. The dancefloor was packed, though, and I’m sure the party kept going well into the wee hours.
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Monday, September 29, 2008
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Upcoming Event: Mr. at Mighty, SF Pride Opening Party, Friday, June 27
Okay kids, here's all the info for Mr., the big San Francisco Pride Opening Party we're doing with the guys from Fag Fridays, Big Top, and Beatbox Events. We'll have two rooms of music inside and a chill lounge outside. Here's the line-up:
Plus go-go boys (and one fierce tranny) and a Levi's 501 giveaway for the first folks showing up wearing a mustache and 501s (yep, that's right, FREE JEANS!)
$10 advance tix are going fast at Ticketweb; it's $10 at the door until 11PM, and then goes up to $20.
Mighty is at 119 Utah Street x 15th
- Omar (Popscene) and DJ Zax (Cockblock) spinning pop in the side room
- Kidd Sysko (Hot Mess), David Harness (Manifesto, Big Booty Productions) and Lord Kook (FSLD) in the main room
- Neco D (FSLD) and DJ Mak (FSLD) spinning in the MIGHTYBUS outside
Plus go-go boys (and one fierce tranny) and a Levi's 501 giveaway for the first folks showing up wearing a mustache and 501s (yep, that's right, FREE JEANS!)
$10 advance tix are going fast at Ticketweb; it's $10 at the door until 11PM, and then goes up to $20.
Mighty is at 119 Utah Street x 15th
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Upcoming Event: Steve Lawler at Mighty, Thursday June 19, 2008
Lawler's "Courses for Horses" has been one of my fave tracks lately, so it might well be worth being up late on a school night to hear some fun techno.
Steve Lawler at Mighty
With Alain Octavo and Hoj.
$10
10PM - ?
Mighty, 119 Utah Street x 15th
Steve Lawler at Mighty
With Alain Octavo and Hoj.
$10
10PM - ?
Mighty, 119 Utah Street x 15th
Friday, April 18, 2008
That's Mr. Pride to You!
So the "official" word won't be out for a couple more weeks, but here's a little teaser for you: FSLD, Fag Fridays, Big Top, and Beatbox Events are teaming up to bring you Mr. at Mighty on Pride Friday, June 27. Yes, that's right, Mighty. And even better, Lord Kook in the main room at Mighty from 3-6AM. Can you say "faggot techno awesomeness?" Good, I thought you could. I'll let you know about the other DJs as soon as we have confirmation, but I can tell you that Lord Kook will be following David Harness in dark and dirty mode.
Though this is a different kind of event for us to be involved with - I don't think any party I've done in the past few years has had more than 200 peeps in the same space at the same time, and often they've all already known each other - I'm really excited about it. We all agree that we want this to be an event that is distinctly "San Francisco," and we hope that it will have appeal for all queer boys and girls. More info to come soon, but I highly recommend that you go get your fake mustache now.
Though this is a different kind of event for us to be involved with - I don't think any party I've done in the past few years has had more than 200 peeps in the same space at the same time, and often they've all already known each other - I'm really excited about it. We all agree that we want this to be an event that is distinctly "San Francisco," and we hope that it will have appeal for all queer boys and girls. More info to come soon, but I highly recommend that you go get your fake mustache now.
Monday, March 10, 2008
Event Review: Dirty Bird 3rd Anniversary at Mighty
On Saturday myself, the boyfriend, Kitty, and our friend Matt G went out to Mighty for the Dirty Bird label 3rd Anniversary party, where we were looking forward to hearing what the producers behind one of our most up-and-coming techno/tech-house labels would put forth as representative of their sound. We got a pretty broad cross-section of music, from lush and deep to tribal and almost full-on trance, but then Christian Martin dropped the one track that will make me leave the dancefloor, if not the club, every time, and that, combined with the generally schizophrenic vibe from the crowd, convinced us to head over to Sparky’s for burgers before Claude vonStroke, the label’s founder, ever came on.
We arrived around 10.30 as Justin Martin was just getting into his set, playing what, for me, was the best music all night. He started out with a deep, very lush house sound and gradually built in more techy elements as he went along. As the boyfriend remarked, you can tell he has a background in production, as he was constantly fiddling with knobs and effects to push the sonic elements of his tracks around. There was a complaint that he was perhaps too oriented around breakdowns, but his mixes were tight and kept everyone moving along quite nicely.
After Justin, Worthy took to the decks with a tribal house sound that eventually worked its way up into what almost sounded like hard trance – there was a moment toward the end of his set when I could have sworn that I was back at a candy rave, and there were plenty of hands in the air to help with that impression. Unfortunately, by this time the dance floor, and the entire club, was so packed that the best I could manage was to hang out toward the back of the dancefloor and nod along – if Dirtybird has a 4th anniversary party next year, I hope they’ll take it to a larger venue, like Mezzanine.
And then Christian Martin came on and dropped a remix the one track that I absolutely cannot stand as his opener, Khia’s “My Neck, My Back.” For me, no matter how smart, innovative, and fun the music has been before this track, once it gets dropped it turns the entire club into a strip joint and lowers the IQ of every person present by ten points. I’ve walked off the dancefloor when it got dropped at gay nights, I left the dancefloor when Joakim dropped it, and my thought this time was, if this is Christian Martin’s indication of where he plans to take the mood of the night, I’m going elsewhere. At the time that simply meant a trip to the loo, but when I got in there I walked into the middle of some shout-down between two guys, and that was enough to convince me that it was time to leave.
A word about the crowd: I have yet to figure out who these people are that come to Mighty. I see more button-down shirts, black cocktail dresses, and expensive handbags than any club outside of North Beach here, and nobody really struck me as being that much of a music head (but, I will say, they do dance, which is far better than a bunch of people standing around looking vaguely ill-at-ease, which you find at so many gay nights). I did see some folks there representing the club freaks, which was great, but every time I go there I get this vibe of white collar professional guys taking their girlfriends out to this dance club that they think is kind of edgy, trying to impress them that they know about places other than North Beach and the Marina. There’s also a seriously ugly undercurrent to the vibe here, perhaps because so many people get packed into a small space with bad traffic flow, inadequate bathroom facilities, and no place to sit down. While standing outside waiting for Kitty to fetch his coat I saw two other guys get into a shouting match, with one calling out to the other “yeah, yeah, what’s your name, where do you live?” Even the bouncers get into it here; standing in the smoking area out front I saw a guy hop the barricade, only to have a security guard grab him by the throat and essentially force him back over the barricade. Hey, you know, sometimes talking to people works too.
So, having heard Claude vonStroke last week at The End Up, where there was plenty of room to dance, a much more congenial atmosphere, and a better sound system (seriously, unless you’re right at the focal point of that big new 7-way system at Mighty, it sounds like crap, and too loud crap at that), getting burgers at Sparky’s before the 2AM rush sounded like an excellent way to end the evening. I like a lot of the stuff Dirtybird is putting out, and they certainly demonstrated that, both individually and collectively, they’ve got serious chops and a mastery of a wide variety of genres; I just hope that, next year, they’ll be partying in a better venue, with a crowd that’s a bit less B&T.
We arrived around 10.30 as Justin Martin was just getting into his set, playing what, for me, was the best music all night. He started out with a deep, very lush house sound and gradually built in more techy elements as he went along. As the boyfriend remarked, you can tell he has a background in production, as he was constantly fiddling with knobs and effects to push the sonic elements of his tracks around. There was a complaint that he was perhaps too oriented around breakdowns, but his mixes were tight and kept everyone moving along quite nicely.
After Justin, Worthy took to the decks with a tribal house sound that eventually worked its way up into what almost sounded like hard trance – there was a moment toward the end of his set when I could have sworn that I was back at a candy rave, and there were plenty of hands in the air to help with that impression. Unfortunately, by this time the dance floor, and the entire club, was so packed that the best I could manage was to hang out toward the back of the dancefloor and nod along – if Dirtybird has a 4th anniversary party next year, I hope they’ll take it to a larger venue, like Mezzanine.
And then Christian Martin came on and dropped a remix the one track that I absolutely cannot stand as his opener, Khia’s “My Neck, My Back.” For me, no matter how smart, innovative, and fun the music has been before this track, once it gets dropped it turns the entire club into a strip joint and lowers the IQ of every person present by ten points. I’ve walked off the dancefloor when it got dropped at gay nights, I left the dancefloor when Joakim dropped it, and my thought this time was, if this is Christian Martin’s indication of where he plans to take the mood of the night, I’m going elsewhere. At the time that simply meant a trip to the loo, but when I got in there I walked into the middle of some shout-down between two guys, and that was enough to convince me that it was time to leave.
A word about the crowd: I have yet to figure out who these people are that come to Mighty. I see more button-down shirts, black cocktail dresses, and expensive handbags than any club outside of North Beach here, and nobody really struck me as being that much of a music head (but, I will say, they do dance, which is far better than a bunch of people standing around looking vaguely ill-at-ease, which you find at so many gay nights). I did see some folks there representing the club freaks, which was great, but every time I go there I get this vibe of white collar professional guys taking their girlfriends out to this dance club that they think is kind of edgy, trying to impress them that they know about places other than North Beach and the Marina. There’s also a seriously ugly undercurrent to the vibe here, perhaps because so many people get packed into a small space with bad traffic flow, inadequate bathroom facilities, and no place to sit down. While standing outside waiting for Kitty to fetch his coat I saw two other guys get into a shouting match, with one calling out to the other “yeah, yeah, what’s your name, where do you live?” Even the bouncers get into it here; standing in the smoking area out front I saw a guy hop the barricade, only to have a security guard grab him by the throat and essentially force him back over the barricade. Hey, you know, sometimes talking to people works too.
So, having heard Claude vonStroke last week at The End Up, where there was plenty of room to dance, a much more congenial atmosphere, and a better sound system (seriously, unless you’re right at the focal point of that big new 7-way system at Mighty, it sounds like crap, and too loud crap at that), getting burgers at Sparky’s before the 2AM rush sounded like an excellent way to end the evening. I like a lot of the stuff Dirtybird is putting out, and they certainly demonstrated that, both individually and collectively, they’ve got serious chops and a mastery of a wide variety of genres; I just hope that, next year, they’ll be partying in a better venue, with a crowd that’s a bit less B&T.
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Upcoming Event: Dirty Bird 3rd Anniversary at Mighty, Saturday March 8
This Saturday Dirtybird will be celebrating its 3rd Anniversary with a blow-out party featuring Claude vonStroke, Justin Martin, Christian Martin, and Worthy at Mighty!
10PM - 4AM
$10, free before 11 with RSVP, $5 before 1AM with RSVP
Mighty, 119 Utah x 15th
10PM - 4AM
$10, free before 11 with RSVP, $5 before 1AM with RSVP
Mighty, 119 Utah x 15th
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Upcoming Event: Solid, a Fundraiser for Otto Schutt, Thursday Nov 8
Just found out about this totally at the last minute, a superstar line-up to benefit local scenester Otto Schutt, who was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. Otto has no insurance and treatment is expected to exceed $100K, so come down and shake your butt for a good cause.
With:
Mighty, 119 Utah Street
Contributions can also be made via www.ottoschutt.com
With:
- Claude vonStroke
- Fred Everything
- M3
- Solar
- Galen
- Anthony
- Lance Desardi
- Worthy
- DJ Fluid
- Alland Byallo
- Craig Kuna
Mighty, 119 Utah Street
Contributions can also be made via www.ottoschutt.com
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
Upcoming Event: Roller Disco at Mighty, Thursday September 27
Not much (or anything, really) on the details about this, but on Mighty's website it lists Roller Disco! for this coming Thursday. When I'm on rollerskates is just about the only time I'm capable of enjoying disco, and I've had a great time at all the events like this I've attended (I'm betting that these are the Black Rock Roller Disco kids).
Here's what I've got for a link: Roller Disco at Mighty!
Here's what I've got for a link: Roller Disco at Mighty!
Monday, July 2, 2007
Upcoming Event: Dyn-O-Might! at Mighty, Tuesday July 3rd
Evil Breaks, Sister SF, In Deep, and the Ambient Mafia, team up to bring you a 4th of July party you're not going to forget. Since everyone has the following day off, why not come and spend your Tuesday night in debaucherous style with us at one of the best venues in the city? Many of us know and love the music of our headliner, Carbon Community, but no one has seen him do his live show in SF since we brought him out waaaay back in December of 2005. Carbon Community Live has been constantly compared to Uberzone's Live show, and with the addition of the hanging, light-up drums, it just might be taking it one step further.
Line-Ups
Carbon Community - Live!
Evil Breaks (djs: Aaron Jae, Bam, M.O.D., Athena)
In Deep (djs: Clark Hamon, Shooey, Zach Moore)
Sister SF (djs: Forest Green vs Seraphim, Samira vs Icon, Melyss vs Amber)
Ambient Mafia (djs: Sixty4k vs Redstickman, Peek vs Speakeasy Ray, Squelchy vs
Olde Nasty, Cubik vs Rafiq (Live!), The Captain)
$10 Pre-Sales at www.evilbreaks.com
$10, $15 at the door
10PM - 4AM
Mighty, 119 Utah Street
Line-Ups
Carbon Community - Live!
Evil Breaks (djs: Aaron Jae, Bam, M.O.D., Athena)
In Deep (djs: Clark Hamon, Shooey, Zach Moore)
Sister SF (djs: Forest Green vs Seraphim, Samira vs Icon, Melyss vs Amber)
Ambient Mafia (djs: Sixty4k vs Redstickman, Peek vs Speakeasy Ray, Squelchy vs
Olde Nasty, Cubik vs Rafiq (Live!), The Captain)
$10 Pre-Sales at www.evilbreaks.com
$10, $15 at the door
10PM - 4AM
Mighty, 119 Utah Street
Friday, June 8, 2007
Upcoming Event: Prepare for the Playa, Sunday June 10
Okay, so whether you want to prepare for the playa or just make sure you have some togs that will get you off the cover charge when it says "playafied," you should definitely check out this playa fashions sale at Mighty (especially gear from my friends Jovino and Mermaid at Bunnywarez). DJs, fire, fashion, essential playa gear, dancing, all at Mighty (119 Utah Street) from noon until 7PM. Hit the link for full details: Prepare for the Playa!
Monday, June 4, 2007
Event Review: Ritchie Hawtin at Mighty vs. Koinonea "2012"
Sometimes life presents us with perfect compare-and-contrast moments. In the case of this past weekend those moments were Ritchie Hawtin at Mighty and Koinonea's 2012. At the first: great music, lousy crowd, miserable party experience. At the second: great crowd, so-so music, okay party experience.
J and I arrived at Mighty around 11PM on Friday, just in time to catch most of Magda's set. Magda is a great example of what I think of as a classic Berlin techno DJ who sets a slow, steady burn for the duration of the night. None of her tracks were particularly dynamic or progressive, and at times I found them a bit too abstract to really engage me on the dance floor, but they had that steady thump that eventually weaves a spell over you and brings you into the space. Around midnight we became aware that it was getting mighty crowded in Mighty, and had I not known one of the bartenders from previous party experiences I suspect it would have been a maddening wait to get drinks. As it was it was only maddening to walk through the club, to try and get on the dance floor, or to dance. During the first part of Magda's set it was possible to get into the middle of the dancefloor, but by the time that Ritchie Hawtin came on at 1.15 it was impossible. Well, it was possible to get onto the dancefloor, but dancing itself was right out of the question, since every time I was able to get somewhat into the groove, I had some guy playing linebacker for his girlfriend push his way past me. This became such a problem that, after rolling my eyes as the third person within the span of about a minute knocked me aside with their elbows, a girl actually apologized to me. Finally J and I retreated to stand next to a speaker stack. Ritchie Hawtin is an awesome performer, and I found much in his set that was inspiring; for once I was able to listen to a DJ and not know what it was that he was doing. The tracks were all great, the flow was phenomenally smooth, and I came away thinking that techno is starting to incorporate all the psychedlic elements that I once associated with trance without that genre's bombast and cliche. We hung out for about an hour of Ritchie's set, and over that passage of time the crowd became absolutely ridiculous. I went into the bathroom and encountered much messiness, and when a guy burst in saying "Detroit Techno sucks" at the top of his lungs, I decided I had had enough. It seems pretty clear that Blasthaus oversold this event, or at least went for full capacity, without much consideration of what that would be like for people in the club (when I checked on tickets on Friday, all the pre-sales were gone, but they announced that they had an additional 300 at the door for $30 each). I'm sure they made crazy money off this event, but why they booked Ritchie Hawtin into a venue this small is beyond me. I hope that the next time I get to hear him I will actually be able to enjoy his amazing talent, and dance to his music, without having to deal with an ugly, aggressive crowd made even more so by the constant need to push your way past everyone else to move around in the club. And girls, here's a fashion tip for you: black cocktail dresses belong in the Marina, not at a techno party.
Saturday night Kitty and I went to Koinonea's "2012" party. Back during the height of psy-trance's reign in 1999-2000 we had been regulars at almost every weekend party, and for us this was a chance to re-connect with some folks we hadn't seen in a long time. I even had an auspicious moment on Saturday when I went to Warakabune for a quick sushi meal, something that had been a staple of our going-out days: two candy raver kids, complete with mighty gauntlets of pony beads to ward off the attacks of bad vibes, came in and sat by me at the sushi bar. It was a total blast from the past and set my mind reaching back to all that I had loved about those days. We arrived at the party around 11 and my first reaction was "Oh my god, hippies and dub-step." The Koinonea crew is an off-shoot of the Santa Cruz Koinonea commune, and the Santa Cruz hippie vibe was in full effect. There were many older folk there who I expect were part of the actual commune, and we even had a full-on grounding ceremony to start the event at midnight. So, instead of feeling alienated and aggressive toward one another as at Mighty on the previous evening, everyone here was encouraged to look at one another as new friends. The fact that the party had a very limited number of tickets also kept it from being stupidly overcrowded - for the first time in weeks I was able to really get down on the dance floor because there was plenty of room, and that experience alone was completely worth the price of a ticket. Unfortunately, the music at the beginning, mostly dub-step, caused considerable grumbling among the attendees. Around 12.30, after the ceremony, the DJ finally moved into psytrance, and at 1.30 Psynthetic, a DJ buddy of mine from way back, came on with some good uplifting psy. His set was a bit uneven, and I enjoyed the progressive tracks more than I did the full-on 150 BPM aerobic workout tracks, but it was really very enjoyable. Kitty, who rarely dances and is not that much of a party boy to start with, told me that I could write in this blog that "Kitty was not bored." That's a high achievement right there. We split around 3.00, being pretty pooped from the night before.
So there's your compare-and-contrast essay for this week. One party that had commerce and commercial success as its highest goal, another that was about creating a space where people could be nice to one another. If I could have squeezed them together, sifted out the bad elements from each and combined the good ones, I think I would have had the best party weekend ever.
J and I arrived at Mighty around 11PM on Friday, just in time to catch most of Magda's set. Magda is a great example of what I think of as a classic Berlin techno DJ who sets a slow, steady burn for the duration of the night. None of her tracks were particularly dynamic or progressive, and at times I found them a bit too abstract to really engage me on the dance floor, but they had that steady thump that eventually weaves a spell over you and brings you into the space. Around midnight we became aware that it was getting mighty crowded in Mighty, and had I not known one of the bartenders from previous party experiences I suspect it would have been a maddening wait to get drinks. As it was it was only maddening to walk through the club, to try and get on the dance floor, or to dance. During the first part of Magda's set it was possible to get into the middle of the dancefloor, but by the time that Ritchie Hawtin came on at 1.15 it was impossible. Well, it was possible to get onto the dancefloor, but dancing itself was right out of the question, since every time I was able to get somewhat into the groove, I had some guy playing linebacker for his girlfriend push his way past me. This became such a problem that, after rolling my eyes as the third person within the span of about a minute knocked me aside with their elbows, a girl actually apologized to me. Finally J and I retreated to stand next to a speaker stack. Ritchie Hawtin is an awesome performer, and I found much in his set that was inspiring; for once I was able to listen to a DJ and not know what it was that he was doing. The tracks were all great, the flow was phenomenally smooth, and I came away thinking that techno is starting to incorporate all the psychedlic elements that I once associated with trance without that genre's bombast and cliche. We hung out for about an hour of Ritchie's set, and over that passage of time the crowd became absolutely ridiculous. I went into the bathroom and encountered much messiness, and when a guy burst in saying "Detroit Techno sucks" at the top of his lungs, I decided I had had enough. It seems pretty clear that Blasthaus oversold this event, or at least went for full capacity, without much consideration of what that would be like for people in the club (when I checked on tickets on Friday, all the pre-sales were gone, but they announced that they had an additional 300 at the door for $30 each). I'm sure they made crazy money off this event, but why they booked Ritchie Hawtin into a venue this small is beyond me. I hope that the next time I get to hear him I will actually be able to enjoy his amazing talent, and dance to his music, without having to deal with an ugly, aggressive crowd made even more so by the constant need to push your way past everyone else to move around in the club. And girls, here's a fashion tip for you: black cocktail dresses belong in the Marina, not at a techno party.
Saturday night Kitty and I went to Koinonea's "2012" party. Back during the height of psy-trance's reign in 1999-2000 we had been regulars at almost every weekend party, and for us this was a chance to re-connect with some folks we hadn't seen in a long time. I even had an auspicious moment on Saturday when I went to Warakabune for a quick sushi meal, something that had been a staple of our going-out days: two candy raver kids, complete with mighty gauntlets of pony beads to ward off the attacks of bad vibes, came in and sat by me at the sushi bar. It was a total blast from the past and set my mind reaching back to all that I had loved about those days. We arrived at the party around 11 and my first reaction was "Oh my god, hippies and dub-step." The Koinonea crew is an off-shoot of the Santa Cruz Koinonea commune, and the Santa Cruz hippie vibe was in full effect. There were many older folk there who I expect were part of the actual commune, and we even had a full-on grounding ceremony to start the event at midnight. So, instead of feeling alienated and aggressive toward one another as at Mighty on the previous evening, everyone here was encouraged to look at one another as new friends. The fact that the party had a very limited number of tickets also kept it from being stupidly overcrowded - for the first time in weeks I was able to really get down on the dance floor because there was plenty of room, and that experience alone was completely worth the price of a ticket. Unfortunately, the music at the beginning, mostly dub-step, caused considerable grumbling among the attendees. Around 12.30, after the ceremony, the DJ finally moved into psytrance, and at 1.30 Psynthetic, a DJ buddy of mine from way back, came on with some good uplifting psy. His set was a bit uneven, and I enjoyed the progressive tracks more than I did the full-on 150 BPM aerobic workout tracks, but it was really very enjoyable. Kitty, who rarely dances and is not that much of a party boy to start with, told me that I could write in this blog that "Kitty was not bored." That's a high achievement right there. We split around 3.00, being pretty pooped from the night before.
So there's your compare-and-contrast essay for this week. One party that had commerce and commercial success as its highest goal, another that was about creating a space where people could be nice to one another. If I could have squeezed them together, sifted out the bad elements from each and combined the good ones, I think I would have had the best party weekend ever.
Tuesday, May 29, 2007
Upcoming Event: Ritchie Hawtin at Mighty, Friday June 1
The master of minimal techno, the man with the rockinest' asymmetrical haircut since, well, ever, will be laying down the tracks with Magda of BPitch Control at Mighty, this Friday, June 1. Get your tickets now, because I can guarantee that everbody who didn't go to Michael Mayer last week will be going to hear Ritchie. $25 is steep, but you'll definitely get your money's worth from a man who usually plays venues twice the size in Europe.
Monday, April 23, 2007
Upcoming Event: Ritchie Hawtin at Mighty, June 1st
This must have just been announced over the weekend because I looked at the Blasthaus site on Friday and this wasn't listed, but here it is: Ritchie Hawtin and Magda (BPitch Control) at Mighty on Friday, June 1st. Get your tickets now because they will sell out!
Monday, March 26, 2007
Upcoming: Battling Breaks on Friday!
Two big breaks parties coming up this Friday, one at Mighty, the other at Wish. Note that the Evil Breaks kids will be putting on a Matt Jakes ghetto-tech tribute as part of their party at Wish.
Evil Breaks 3 Year Anniversary Bash!!!!! Friday, March 30th, 2007
FREE before 1130 w/Guestlist & only $10 after
door is $15 if you didn't make the guest list
Located @ Whisper (535 Florida st @ Mariposa)
10pm - 4am
21+ w/ID
Guest List: http://www.evilbreaks.com
Line-up:
Deekline with MC Ivory (UK) - headliner
Aaron Jae
Bam
M.O.D.
Athena
Mozaic
Kapt'n Kirk vs Evinrude
Melyss
Komega - Live PA
Redstickman vs Actual Rafiq (Matt Jakes Ghetto-tech Tribute)
Jay Vigor vs Influence
Sunset Promotions presents
Kraak and Smaak Live (a full six-piece live band set)
at Mighty (119 Utah Street at Alameda)
with lotsa Space Cowboys and others providing support
Evil Breaks 3 Year Anniversary Bash!!!!! Friday, March 30th, 2007
FREE before 1130 w/Guestlist & only $10 after
door is $15 if you didn't make the guest list
Located @ Whisper (535 Florida st @ Mariposa)
10pm - 4am
21+ w/ID
Guest List: http://www.evilbreaks.com
Line-up:
Deekline with MC Ivory (UK) - headliner
Aaron Jae
Bam
M.O.D.
Athena
Mozaic
Kapt'n Kirk vs Evinrude
Melyss
Komega - Live PA
Redstickman vs Actual Rafiq (Matt Jakes Ghetto-tech Tribute)
Jay Vigor vs Influence
Sunset Promotions presents
Kraak and Smaak Live (a full six-piece live band set)
at Mighty (119 Utah Street at Alameda)
with lotsa Space Cowboys and others providing support
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