[Dynagroove] my weekend .02

[Danielle D]

Interesting to hear how everyone was excited about havin fans at 
Propaganda... I'm all about fresh air.

Friday nite I rushed home to shower and change in time to go see Ben Watt & 
Jay Hannan on their Lazy Dog tour.  I've been a fan of Ben's work for years 
now, I love the stuff he produces and figured that his club is probably 
good.

**I was wrong** It sucked.  Once again, I'm glad I'm a "raver" and not a 
clubber. I spent the entire evening (we got there at 10 and left around 1) 
analzing everything that was wrong with the night, and kind of comparing the 
differences between what I like and what this was. Also the differences 
between producers and DJs.

First of all, the guys did a tag-team set. I've heard a few tag-team sets, 
and they're usually pretty good. However, I realized that I want to hear 
what my DJ can do for me. I want to be able to listen to the music, and have 
it take me somewhere, not just move my body and make me dance. Not that 
there's anything wrong with being high-energy, but having the tempo change 
every 3 minutes because someone else was throwing a different record on 
without really mxing it was totally turning me off.

I guess the people I know (I'll call them the "ravers") are more interested 
in hearing what our dj can do. We want to hear things mixed... I know 
programming is equally as important as mixing. These guys were just throwing 
track after track on, changin tempo all the time. It was almost arrogant, 
the way Ben was standing up there gloating... "look what I've brought you." 
They were more interested in showing off their own stuff, rather than 
showing us how good they could make it sound. So despite the fact that I did 
get to hear some of my fave remixes (ie Jay spun Cada Vez by negrocan and 
Ben spun "by your side"), they weren't really mixed very well. The crowd 
didn't seem to mind, they were there to have their bodies jacked and indeed 
they did.

Anyhow, the fact that the music wasn't impressing me wasn't the biggest 
thing I had to gripe about, I was really concerned with the fact that it was 
WAAY packed, there was only 1 bartender at the bar (how rediculous is 
that?!) and there was NO ventilation at all. argh. I'm hard core, and I left 
early because it was just too hot.

Honestly guys... how friggin expensive is it to turn on the AC for 3 hours? 
It's not. Fuck promoters who won't turn on a fan.

I'm gonna start brining my own fan. Seriously, it's a major issue. The 
reason people pass out at clubs n such is because they're packed in like 
sardines, it gets too hot and they can't cool down. Not to mention if 
they've been taking drugs, the likelihood for heat exhaustion rises about 
85%.

*gets off soapbox*

So anyhow, after a shower and some rest my boys came n picked me up to see 
Jonene at wonderbar at 2:30 am.

Jonene didn't show, so we paid $5 for naught. Well not really, the sound was 
pretty good and the deejay (I can't recall his name now) was kickin some 
nice jazzy tunes down. We danced til about 4 (I camped out in front of the 
fan near the bathrooms for a while) then went home to sleep.

Hit up a few house parties sat nite, played a lil Soul Calibur (projectors 
are cool!) and slept. Did the sunday BBQ thing yesterday, had some steak n 
futurama with some friends. I was planning on hittin up King Britt @ Revival 
but alas, my friend flaked on me n I didn't feel like walking over there 
alone.

overall, not a bad weekend.

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