Re: (313) UR, Theo Parrish in New York
i pretty much danced by the dj booth the whole night, so i missed most of the tourist posse. also didn't buy any drinks - just got tap water at the bar. liked the sound system at the space (i really expected to have ringing in my ears afterwards (despite earplugs), but i didn't. either that or i just fell asleep so quickly i didn't notice!) however, the space overall seemed pretty corporate and controlled - waiting in line to show id, waiting some more to get a ticket, waiting again to give a ticket to the cashier... and no ins and outs. would love to hear theo play in detroit some time. it'll happen... --- Original Message --- From: JT Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Odeluga, Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) UR, Theo Parrish in New York It wasn't bad it was just meh. It wasn't that the music was bad it was the high-eq overdose, and at least for the first couple of hours the music selection was a bit safe...Apparently the music got much better later. And while there were good dancers and people into it there, I was right by the door and saw (and spoke to a few) tourists and other people who were really out of place streaming in the door, not to mention the Pakistani prep crew parked on the dancefloor, and the $5 water and the $10 beer blah blah. I'm glad I went, but it definitely left a lot to be desired, seeing Theo in Detroit was many many times better. On 8/15/07, Odeluga, Ken [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You must have fallen through a worm hole Monica and went to a Theo gig in a parallel universe in which everything was identical except it was actually a great night! It sounds like JT ended up in the other universe! ;-). Great to have your reports guys; thanks. Ken -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 14 August 2007 23:31 To: 313@hyperreal.org Subject: (313) UR, Theo Parrish in New York wow. i feel like i've had a mini-Detroit festival weekend here. this has been amazing. I was really impressed w/ Skurge, James Pennington and Dex. I danced up a storm at APT despite the frustrating logistical layout of the space and my exhaustion from flying in that day. closed that party...then Saturday at the Water Taxi Beach was really good, though not quite the sweet intimate vibe of Friday. Found myself unable to leave the dance floor, cursing those evil djs who wouldn't let me rest! But the biggest surprise of the weekend for me was Theo Parrish at Deep Space on Monday. I'd never heard him before outside of the Three Chairs, and had somewhat low expectations as (shhh!) I'm generally not really a big house music fan. But something brought me there, and I had felt like I really needed a deep and soulful night. I got there around midnight, pretty tired, when he started tech'ing it out, and again, I didn't get water, didn't settle in, just headed straight for the dance floor where I stayed most of the night, just riding the incredible energy of the music and the crowd. Some amazing dancers there. Again, I didn't know what to expect from Theo Parrish, but his tracked out funk, house, acid, chicago, techno had me enraptured. It was one of those utterly transformative nights, the best set I've heard all year (and I've heard a lot), maybe one of the best sets ever. wow. it was also really wonderful to meet so many 313ers who came up and introduced yourselves (Thomas, Mike, JT, Melody, Frank...sorry if I'm forgetting anyone...) i'm glad i'm on vacation as I really need some rest today! Monica p.s. er, does anyone else play like theo parrish, or is he one of a kind?
(313) UR, Theo Parrish in New York
wow. i feel like i've had a mini-Detroit festival weekend here. this has been amazing. I was really impressed w/ Skurge, James Pennington and Dex. I danced up a storm at APT despite the frustrating logistical layout of the space and my exhaustion from flying in that day. closed that party...then Saturday at the Water Taxi Beach was really good, though not quite the sweet intimate vibe of Friday. Found myself unable to leave the dance floor, cursing those evil djs who wouldn't let me rest! But the biggest surprise of the weekend for me was Theo Parrish at Deep Space on Monday. I'd never heard him before outside of the Three Chairs, and had somewhat low expectations as (shhh!) I'm generally not really a big house music fan. But something brought me there, and I had felt like I really needed a deep and soulful night. I got there around midnight, pretty tired, when he started tech'ing it out, and again, I didn't get water, didn't settle in, just headed straight for the dance floor where I stayed most of the night, just riding the incredible energy of the music and the crowd. Some amazing dancers there. Again, I didn't know what to expect from Theo Parrish, but his tracked out funk, house, acid, chicago, techno had me enraptured. It was one of those utterly transformative nights, the best set I've heard all year (and I've heard a lot), maybe one of the best sets ever. wow. it was also really wonderful to meet so many 313ers who came up and introduced yourselves (Thomas, Mike, JT, Melody, Frank...sorry if I'm forgetting anyone...) i'm glad i'm on vacation as I really need some rest today! Monica p.s. er, does anyone else play like theo parrish, or is he one of a kind?
Re: (313) UR in New York - anyone going?
well, i'm a geek, so i'll probably have on a UR shirt or listen to detroit techno shirt. Monica --- Original Message --- From: M Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael Kuszynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: JT Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ramon Crespo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Thomas D. Cox, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED], 313@hyperreal.org Subject: Re: (313) UR in New York - anyone going? Should we wear UR/ techno related tshirts to ID each other? just kidding. On 8/9/07, Michael Kuszynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will be at both. Call / text 630 886 3174 to meet up at/around either. Haven't done any sort of meet up via techno/rave/music mailing list/board for quite a few years. On 8/9/07, JT Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i'll be at the beach party sat night and at theo p monday night...and am gonna go check out dope jams at some point.. for lack of better ideas, if anybody wants to meet me my # is 919-923-4126 jt On 8/9/07, Michael Kuszynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sweeet! Been feeling very down about new york nightlife. Just tried to see Derrick Carter at Love last weekend, instead to find presumably some local poorly playing deeply uninspiring house. After charging 15 on prepaid tickets and $25 at the door after 11pm, I would have thought a better evening would be ahead. I get the feeling new york locals are a bit too into themselves instead of being into setting a proper night, or maybe I am just getting too old and having a headliner start after 3am sounds like a recipe for a hangover of hangovers and a ruined weekend of sleeping till 2am. I guess my raving days are over. On 8/9/07, Ramon Crespo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: seriously .. that looks to be amazing. although right now i'd settle to see theo anywhere. -ramon On Aug 8, 2007, at 4:24 PM, Thomas D. Cox, Jr. wrote: saw theo parrish is playing Deep Space again on monday night. man, i wish i could check him out there! tom On 8/8/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, so I'm visiting New York this weekend, and planning to catch Skurge, Suburban Knight and Nomadico at APT on Friday (aptwebsite.com) and the water taxi beach party on saturday. Hopefully I'll be able to drag some friends along, but I'd love to meet anyone else from this list who's going. Email me off-list if you're interested. take care, Monica -- --- Michael Kuszynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] New York, NY -- --- Michael Kuszynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] New York, NY
(313) UR in New York - anyone going?
Hey, so I'm visiting New York this weekend, and planning to catch Skurge, Suburban Knight and Nomadico at APT on Friday (aptwebsite.com) and the water taxi beach party on saturday. Hopefully I'll be able to drag some friends along, but I'd love to meet anyone else from this list who's going. Email me off-list if you're interested. take care, Monica
(313) for folks in the SF Bay Area...
looks interesting... oddly enough, the same night as the Hi-Tech Soul party w/ Derrick May. Interrogating Ideas: Mirror-Travel in the Motor City A conversation between Edgar Arceneaux and Julian Myers Friday, February 23, 2007 8 pm $10 general, $8 students and members Langtons new lecture series Interrogating Ideas presents Mirror-Travel in the Motor City, a conversation between Los Angeles-based artist Edgar Arceneaux and San Francisco-based writer Julian Myers. The artist and writer will put forward passages from their ongoing investigation of subterranean Detroit, including discussions of Michael Heizers 1971 earthwork Dragged Mass; the buried basement under a park on Clairmont and Rosa Parks Boulevard where the urban riots of 1967 began; Etta James and Sugar Pie DeSantos 1966 single In the Basement and the Submerged afro-futuristic worlds of Underground Resistance and Drexciya. The presenters will delve below the surface of Detroits ruined modernity in order to explore the grottos of its vibrant underground. The conversation will be followed by a reception with the special appearance of DJ Ian Zazueta spinning Detroit sounds. The DJs sound has been influenced by techno music that emerged in Detroit in the mid-1980s, when DJs produced tracks in their basements using analog synthesizers and drum machines. Literally underground, this music is distinguished by the use of repetitive metallic and machine noises that conjure the automotive plants of Detroit. Interrogating Ideas aims to expose the Bay Area art community to some of the most challenging discussions about contemporary art practice today. The invitees to these public conversations share a fascination for exploring ideas, and expanding their practice into a performative intellectual event. *** New Langton Arts 1246 Folsom Street San Francisco, CA 94103-3817 For further information: 415.626.5416 www.newlangtonarts.org
(313) DEMF line-up
I just want to see the rest of the line-up. I'm happy about some of the artists (hey, i like bleepy minimal, so long as it doesn't get too boring), less happy about others. I also want to see some more afterparties announced! like, any chance of a UR party this year
Re: RE: (313) Re: Galoppierende Zuversicht or Nobody Listens to Techno
so did anyone else think that galoppierende zuversicht live set was a waste of listening time? i thought it was a great set, actually. i was there for the show, which was great, so maybe i'm more partial to it for having been there. it was actually a good techno night here in San Francisco - lots of people packed into a small club, everybody dancing, people dancing on speakers, good, excited energy - we don't always get that at techno parties here. but i suppose musically it's a matter of taste, and i loved it. as for the article from the sf weekly (or weakly, as i like to think of it, since it's the more corporate of the 2 local alternative weeklies), i actually liked seeing it in the paper. yes, the author was off on the bpm counts and off on the history. but what i liked was that it was an article in a widely read paper for a general audience (people who aren't already techno fans) that was actually ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO GO TO TECHNO PARTIES. we need that pretty badly here, as sometimes it feels like there's only about 35 or so techno fans who go out dancing here.(i'm exagerrating - there are more than 35 of us. but the scene is small, compared to the number of people who go out partying/clubbing regularly .) i'm not so into techno being so underground here that there are hardly any parties and promoters can't afford to bring people out. luckily, this has been starting to change.
Re: RE: (313) Re: Galoppierende Zuversicht or Nobody Listens to Techno
so did anyone else think that galoppierende zuversicht live set was a waste of listening time? i thought it was a great set, actually. i was there for the show, which was great, so maybe i'm more partial to it for having been there. it was actually a good techno night here in San Francisco - lots of people packed into a small club, everybody dancing, people dancing on speakers, good, excited energy - we don't always get that at techno parties here. but i suppose musically it's a matter of taste, and i loved it. as for the article from the sf weekly (or weakly, as i like to think of it, since it's the more corporate of the 2 local alternative weeklies), i actually liked seeing it in the paper. yes, the author was off on the bpm counts and off on the history. but what i liked was that it was an article in a widely read paper for a general audience (people who aren't already techno fans) that was actually ENCOURAGING PEOPLE TO GO TO TECHNO PARTIES. we need that pretty badly here, as sometimes it feels like there's only about 35 or so techno fans who go out dancing here.(i'm exagerrating - there are more than 35 of us. but the scene is small, compared to the number of people who go out partying/clubbing regularly .) i'm not so into techno being so underground here that there are hardly any parties and promoters can't afford to bring people out. luckily, this has been starting to change.
(313) fuse-in detroit - please help calm me down, or something...
hey so i've been trying to buy an airline ticket for fuse-in in detroit and i'm feeling totally neurotic about it, since it appears, from my reading of various mailing lists, that we won't even know if the festival is in hart plaza or not depending on whether or not the organizers can charge for it there. anyway, i'm just not sure if i should wait for next week after the detroit city council meeting, or just go ahead and get a ticket and risk having to cancel it and lose $. money's pretty tight this year or i wouldn't sweat it. i know, i know, i should've gotten a ticket weeks ago/months ago so it wouldn't be so much of a loss if i had to cancel. anyway, the prices just keep going up rapidly, guess it's the oil prices, too. ugh. i'm already stoked about the electric avenue party w/ rob hood, t-1000, etc., but i just can't see jetting across the country for something in a football stadium, if that's where it winds up. if if if maybe i should've just decided to go to mutek this year instead, but detroit just keeps calling monikat
(313) ishi, aquaviva - thanks for the advice...
thanks for all the feedback. so i think it' s gonna be ken ishi, since it's been pointed out that he probably won't come back to SF anytime soon after this, and it's the first time he's played here. aquaviva, i'll probably get a chance to hear again someday. and i don't know about clubby house... not quite my style... anyway, i'm giddy because i get to hear both matthew dear, and ken ishi, and maybe christian bloch next week. i don't usually get multiple techno events in one week way out here on the far west coast of the u$a take care, monica
(313) john aquaviva or ken ishi?
so I'm in San Francisco and just found out that John Aquaviva and Ken Ishi are both playing on the same night. I've never seen either of them play and I need some advice. They'll both cost me the same, so that's not much of an issue. The club Ken Ishi's playing at really sucks, though I think there'll be a lot of techno-heads there, as it's the first time he's played in SF. In general, i tend to like techno more than housier stuff, but not banging techno that just sounds the same after a while. (well, a little bit of banging techno is ok...) I tend to prefer Detroit stuff and minimal. i'll try to find some mixes online to get an idea, but has anyone seen either Ishi or Aquaviva lately? Any recommendations? Nice to be getting some techno in town lately. We've had some good folks come through. Wish these folks weren't on the same night, but what can you do? Thanks, Monica
(313) new york record stores?
hey, so i forgot to ask about record stores to visit in new york in my earlier post about going there. any suggestions? i know about satellite, assuming that's still around, and then there was some small place nearby on an east-west street, but for the life of me i can't remember much else about it. anyway, any suggestions appreciated. thanks. monikat
(313) techno + in new york
hello! so i'm coming out to new york at the end of the month to do a bit of protesting and visit w/ friends and family and to eat some decent pizza, and i'd like to squeeze in some dancing while i'm there, too! does anyone know of any good websites w/ event listings? i've got rhythmism.com bookmarked, but are there others? i know i can pick up flyers when i get there, but i like to plan ahead as much as possible cuz i've got a lot to do while i'm there. also, does anyone know of any interesting events going on at the end of the month through the beginning of september? thanks, monikat
(313) todd sines dates in san francisco?
hey, if anyone has this info., could someone re-post todd sines' dates in san francisco this upcoming weekend? i seem to have lost the message, and i'd like to forward the info. to some friends. thanks, monikat
(313) thoughts, questions on moving...
noticed the thread on moving on this list... i'm currently in san francisco (well, ok, over the bay in bezerkeley), and for the past several years have been feeling the urge to leave the bay area. i'm just not happy here - i miss the seasons like back east (i'm from jersey), and i miss the summer (you know the coldest winter i ever spent was a summer in san francisco...) a move would be a big deal, though - i'm not as young as i once was, and my partner and i have accumulated a lot of stuff (well, he has A LOT of records he's not going to part with). anyway, since i don't see how either of us could make a living at this point in the uk or berlin or barcelona, i'm putting out feelers about other places in the u.s. so, is there anyone on this list in asheville, chapel hill, austin or ann arbor? (these are a few places i'm checking out.) what's the techno scene like there? uh, is there one? (excluding ann arbor from that question, since i know it's near detroit.) techno brings me so much joy and it's close to my heart and i don't want to give that up. i know a place can be what you make it, and i've done my share of diy stuff here in the bay, but i enjoy the freedom of going out and just dancing and not having to throw the party as well, so i'd like wherever i move to have at least something going on... or maybe i should just figure out a way to make a living in europe. (sigh).
(313) miss kittin in SF...
hey everyone.. thanks for whoever posted encouraging tomkat and i to change our plans and go hear miss kittin while she was in SF. we gave up a renegade free party in the woods w/ sound systems, but it was definitely worth it! she was amazing! i techno-touristed this year and went to both movement and sonar, and i actually think that miss kittin's set last friday was the best set i've heard all year. (it was similar to her set at sonar, but longer, and personally i think much better.) anyway, it was great and it was exactly what i needed. she threw in hawtin, mills, green velvet, dj rush, new order, hip hop, lots of acid (!) and tons of great stuff i couldn't trainspot because i was too tranced out dancing. anyway, thanks for the encouragement, monikat
(313) re: Todd Sines dates in SF
nice - techno in SF! yay - we need some more. anyway, i'm glad to see another event to look forward to, after miss kittin + on friday
(313) re: detroit and geography...
hmm.. moving from northern/central new jersey to San Francisco hasn't changed my taste in music, really. although i did discover that what i love is from detroit after i moved out here. your theory on geography could explain a bit, though, why techno isn't so popular in SF (but why would it be popular in ibiza, then, which is not exacltly industrialized? because folks from industrialized countries party there?) i did have a hell of a lot of frustration going from banging brooklyn techno parties (sonic groove stuff) to SF House when i moved out here, though. i worked w/ a women's collective that threw weeklies, and someone once wrote up a little thing about how we stayed away from aggressive music like techno. ugh. (we did actually have techno at the parties, though.) actually, if i hear any more SF house i think i'll puke. maybe you can just take the girl out of new jersey, but you can't take new jersey out of the girl. monikat p.s. i've rocked rolando driving down route 101 up in the redwoods, and it was amazing. but it's true - sometimes i do mellow out driving through the woods and mountains w/ some dark ambient. On Tue, 25 May 2004, sasha wrote: All this talk about where one is from has me thinking of something that has been nipping at me since I made the trek from East to West about 5 or 6 years ago; how the landscape has such an important effect on the impact of music. For those of you not familiar with the US, the Northeast, on the coast, in cities like Boston and NY (and Detroit) is very industrialized. Here on the West Coast, especially in the Bay Area (San Francisco - or should I say Pacifica, cause technically, I'm 5 miles south of the city?), the land is more open and people are generally more in touch with the environment around them. Some places, like LA, don't have a city center and seem like one endless suburb. So, the point is that the West Coast does not generally feel like an East Coast city. Anyways, upon moving from Boston to SF, I noticed that all the music I had previously been into, like UR, the more hard-hitting techno, etc, did not feel or sound the same to me. The impact was no longer there. Driving down the Pacific Coast Highway, and seeing the towering rocks and blue ocean and blasting UR's X101 makes no sense to me any longer. Hard to feel like a techno rebel with all this sunshine and blue skies around. Although I still can get into the jazzier UR stuff, I avoid the hard techno bin at the local shop now. House, funk, disco, environ, it all sounds better out here somehow. Not to imply that techno, especially Detroit techno, does not have a universal appeal on some level, but it's taken moving around to help me understand that music's appeal lies more than in just the art. The cultural milieu, and the environmental surroundings have an important impact as well. Anyone else experience this? - Sasha
(313) re: SONAR
Absolutely - part of the fun at Sonar is checking out all the acts=20 you've never heard of during the daytime, drinking beer in the sunshine=20 and just hanging out. The night-time events are fine if you like huge=20 cavernous aircraft-hangers and banging techno, but it can be a bit=20 much... thanks for the tips. yeah, i have a bit of trepidation about the overwhelm factor of it all, but hell - jeff mills and richie hawtin? i'm there. i've only gotten to see jeff mills once, at the demf last year. had to miss his set in l.a. this year due to other commitments (sob!). ...and don't forget to allot some time to check out Barcelona. It's an amazing city. Missing a trip up the Sagrada Familia would be criminal, to name but one of many unmissable things to see/do there. oh, hell yeah. i was in barcelona 12 years ago and went to sagrada familia, parc guell... actually, i had really bad blisters and so spent a lot of time hanging out in parc guell, resting my feet. this time i plan to see more of gaudi's buildings, and also head out to montserrat (again). that's one of the reasons i asked about daytime, actually, since i want to make sure i do some sightseeing while i'm there anyone ever been there for the bonfires for summer solstice? monikat
(313) movement lineup
yeah, i know, rolando's playing, that's good. and i've always wanted to see sean deason, and i'm interested in ellen alien (who i'm missing this week in sf). i'm just not overwhelmingly excited though. i'm hoping rolando's set isn't UR's greatest hits, which it felt like last year. i love UR (and am crossing my fingers about a submerge party this year! ) but i think i've been a bit overexposed to their tracks. i guess i was just hoping for rob hood or jay denham. i saw about 20 minutes of rob hood last year at an afterparty, which was amazing til it was shut down. arrghh and jay denham is just incredible, and i know i won't see him out here in SF again after the utterly poor attendance last time he was here. (he did at least give it up for all 25 of us) hell, i wonder if i'll ever see him in the states again... monikat
