[Dynagroove] Secrets of the RAH-RAH sisterhood

[BadIYE at aol.com]

Hey all,
 
Since I saw almost no one from this list at The Good Life last Thursday, I  
figured I could give a little review, even if it is for my own club.   To meet 
the newly created "Rah-Rah" standard for reviews, i've made sure to add  as 
many personal anectodes as I could:
 
The day of the party started with a lot of uncertainty.   Having booked 
tech-house djs James Kay and Rebecca Sin, i assumed a  lot of dyna-peeps, deep and 
funky house fans would pass on the good life  this week for the oh so many 
other good Thursday possibilities.  I then got  word from Hoang Luu (The Blend) 
that he was stuck in Kansas on biz and could not  make it back for the gig.  
Almost instantly after I got word from Luu, I  heard from the owner of the 
Bungalow.  She cancelled the dj set up  downstairs for the downtempo part of our 
night (she felt it was a  "distraction"...huh?).  Gotta do what the owner wants, 
y'all know  that...Had to call Drew Sullivan and give him the bad news.  Drew 
is so  cool though, he showed up anyways and he and I had a great 
conversation as usual  about music and of course porn...hahaha.
 
Thankfully, I knew it was Mr. Buddah's B-day and I asked if he would be  
interested in  closing out the night.  Like a champ, he  acquiesced.  After 
setting up, at 9:30 PM, we still did not have a  bartender upstairs...owner had 
screwed up again.  they were bringing a  substitute bartender but won't open until 
10:00.  Good Life peeps that were  there already resorted to buying drinks 
downstairs, which meant I get no credit  for it....so be it, i said, let's just 
see if anyone even shows...In addition,  the venue turned on the AC oh a tad 
late, so it wasn't all that cool @ the  beginning.
 
You would think these were all omens for a bad party...Well, i  don't know 
what happened, but the party was Ssssslammmin!!!!  People  began to arrive quite 
early.  they got a dose of Howe Lin playing some  really funky slow BPM 
minimal tech, something he wanted me to hear as  a possible sound we can experiment 
with at GL sometime in the future...i really  liked it.  In doing so though, 
It got somewhat bangy a bit too early, but  Mike Magana came on and smoothed 
it out.  By 11:00 the place  was already quite busy.   To my great delight, I  
saw many new faces I hadn't seen before.  Then, a big group of  Brazilians 
from myspace showed up to celebrate a B-day.  Like  Cade said before, there is 
nothing like the festive vibe that Brazilians bring  to a party.  They dress and 
look nice, but they party widly and they  dance!  from there on the party 
played itself out nicely, as everyone was  smiling, dancing and seemingly 
enjoying themselves thoroughly.  James and  Rebecca switched off back and forth and 
were playing some  extremely danceable Tech-house music...I overheard a number 
of "i love  her!!" shouted about during Rebecca's portions, but it was James 
who  impressed me the most.  People should really give this type of music  more 
play...
 
For most of the night, the balcony was packed with people, smoking,  drinking 
and talking.  Sometimes I wish it wasn't there (i always  prefer seeing 
people on the dance floor) but I have to admit that I even went  out there for a 15 
minute pause and chat.  It's a very agreeable  space...Heard a bunch of not 
so successful pick up lines by some of my friends  (who chose to hit on the one 
Brazilian girl that was married...hahaha) lines  like:  "Hey, i know 
Imad...does that make me cool enough to talk to  you?"  hahahaha....No worries, i 
saved her from their clumsy  buffooneries...
 
I came back in to see that Rudy C (For Those Who Know) and a couple of  
friends were there hangin'.  Rudy and I shared a drink and some good  convo.  I was 
impressed that these guys were of such an open  mind as far as the music was 
concerned.  You could see they were  listening attentively and even 
appreciatively even though it was not their  cup of tea.  Tolerance is at the root of 
our scene, right?  We will  soon see a little "knowledge" thrown down at GL. 
 
As is now tradition, a bunch of Patron shots were consumed (where have you  
gone, PPG and CBC?).  The crowd did start to dissipate slowly around  1:00PM 
(there is work the next day after all)  By then, Buddah had taken  reign of the 
booth, jazzing and funkying the music up to the great delight of  the 
remaining dancers.  Buddah is a cool ass entertainer behind the  decks.  he gets INTO 
it, you know?  At 1:45, last call, I was to  mix in the last record of the 
night (Mike says it's our version of Russell  Simmons' coming out on Def Poetry 
and saying "thank you, good night and god  bless".  haha)   Mind you I had 4 
Patron shots and a  few beers, I was given a track that I had never heard 
before, and most  important of all, Buddah leaves me this incredibly difficult James 
Brown remix  track to mix out of.   Needless to say, I could barely hear what 
 I was doing....so I slammed the bass of the incoming track almost as soon  
as I opened up the channel and took out James Brown like an assassin.   We had 
a good laugh about it...and the night came to a happy end...
 
It was fun times...Missed some of you partiers that are dear to me (you  know 
who you are, you Patron guzzling freaks!!) but I will see you all soon at  
the going away party for someone special who is leaving us...
 
best,
 
imad
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