[Dynagroove] weekend review

[Jason]

This ended up being a pretty nice holiday weekend. Plenty of good people
& good music to go around.  Saturday I arrived at JAM On It to some
technical nightmares.  The floor boards were way too bouncy & the
needles would have skipped all night.  A quick run to the store for some
duct tape & rubber bands & all was okay.  Thanks to Zack Hill on that
one, otherwise there would have been some very upset people.  After the
short delay while we got it ready, Joplin started off the night nice &
funky, dropping some great tracks, pretty cleanly mixed.  A lot of
energy in the room.  I could only stay a few minutes into Emi's set as I
had to work, but from what I'm told, the VinylTribe room rocked it all
night long.  The holiday Monday meant there were some nice options for
Sunday.  At the recommendation of my roommate, we headed over to a place
I never would have guessed I'd set foot in.  The atlas club for beat
it.. Its an 80s club and it was just fun to hear some of those great
tracks that just get ya singin along.  From there we left for Deep to
see Timmy Regisford.  When we got there, he was laying it down real
nice, but after a few mixes started dropping the bass out for awhile at
a time, messing with the volume, etc. Took away the energy from the set,
for me anyway.  But the night was not over.  We made it to Studio 56 for
"In Love."  Sound always ends up nice at that venue, and last night was
no exception.  We arrived in time to see Wally play.   Now normally
Wally is a pretty sure thing.  Something was wrong though.  No mixing
whatsoever,  He'd simply mix in for between 4-16 beats, not even always
matched well, and just force the next track in by slamming the lows over
it..  He played some slammin cuts, but it wasn't enough to make me
forget the apparent  apathy for mixing.  Fester was up next &
immediately brought up the level of play.  His mixing & track selection
were on-point, dropping some nice funky breaks for about an hour of his
set.  Then he finished us off with about a half hour of house.. Special
thanks for dropping Funkatarium.  
 
Its been a long fun weekend & I'm just about worn out, just the way it
should be..
 
 
jason
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