DJ AM playing Sydney for free
By admin | May 30, 2008
inthemix | News | DJ AM playing Sydney for free
One of the most recognisable faces on the US celebrity party circuit, DJ AM (aka Adam Goldstein) is as famous for his private life as he is for his DJ work. Having been engaged to reality TV star Nicole Richie at one point, and also linked to Mandy Moore and Canadian super-model Jessica Stam in more recent memory, he’s a man that’s grown accustomed to being in the spotlight.
In June he’s heading to Australia for a promotional tour to support Serato’s 10th anniversary, and it’s been announced he’ll have time to squeeze in an exclusive Sydney club show on Tuesday June 3rd. What’s more the party is free, so you’ve got no excuse to miss it! Presented by PhDJ and Kato, the party also features Tha Fizz, Sleater Brockman, Vivienne Kingswood and Bad Ezzy, and it goes down at Club 77 from 8pm.
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DJ Trashy brings electronic beat to Phoenix Underground
By admin | May 30, 2008
DJ Trashy brings electronic beat to Phoenix Underground | ShreveportTimes | The Times
DJ Trashy brings electronic beat to Phoenix Underground
May 29, 2008
Seasoned writer, producer and performer DJ Trashy will get the crowd moving with his electronic music Thursday at Phoenix Underground.
DJ Trashy, whose real name is David Landry, is a Louisiana native who enjoys performing for local fans. In his 12-year career, he’s been signed with eight record labels and released nine full-length albums.
His name may leave many guessing, but his performances are noted for their professionalism and ability to move the crowd.
Landry will perform with Mr. Cooley, of Dallas, and Shreveport music makers DJ Solo and Aeon Flex
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Windy City Times - DJ Scotty Thomson: Native New Yorker hits Chicago
By admin | May 30, 2008
Windy City Times - DJ Scotty Thomson: Native New Yorker hits Chicago
DJ Scotty Thomson: Native New Yorker hits Chicago
by Ross Forman
2008-05-28
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When Scotty Thomson strolls in to spin at the nightspot known as Hydrate, 3458 N. Halsted, May 31, he will be sans Speedo.
“That’s the old Scott, when I wasn’t a full-time DJ, and it really was something that my publicist liked to latch on to,” Thomson said, laughing.
Yep, the muscled 33-year-old previously would offer his eclectic music wearing, well, nothing but a Speedo—oh, and maybe flip-flops.
But that’s not the case anymore. He’s now clothed, usually, with an occasional shirtless evening.
“I like to show up with a smile on my face and I’m excited to play music for people, and I think that kind of comes through in my sets,” said Thomson, a New York native. “I always had a huge CD book in college and people always told me to bring my CDs to parties because I always had a lot of fun music; I was always buying upbeat stuff that people like to hear when they’re drinking or having house parties. I didn’t even think of it as DJ’ing then, but I guess I was a DJ in the making.”
Thomson, who lives in New York, is now a full-time DJ who has had gigs at Avalon, XL, SBNY, HK Lounge and elsewhere in his home state. He also has been hired to DJ in nightspots in Chicago, Los Angeles and other cities.
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Another Dj Shooting What a shame
By admin | May 30, 2008
West Volusia News - newsjournalonline.com
Deltona musician killed in nightclub shooting
By ROSA RAMIREZ
Staff Writer
Jamaica native Kevin Jordache Webster drove from his Deltona home to Polk County last week to promote his first reggae CD in a scene known for its Caribbean sounds.
But he never got a chance.
Early Saturday morning, Webster, 29, and two Tampa hip-hop/reggae DJs were gunned down at an Auburndale bar, Donna Wood, a spokeswoman for the Polk County Sheriff’s Office said. Police on Wednesday named a suspect, Davion Parson, 19, of Tampa and said they were working with Jamaican authorities, as they believe he flew to Montego Bay sometime Sunday.
Webster, who went by the stage name “Bumma Blaze,” was meeting two DJs, Antone Geargo Neely , 29, who went by “Tony Montana,” and Michael S. Rattigan, who was known as “Chris Rock,” at a show at the Thunderbird Inn, where Neely and Rattigan had a regular gig.
“He was going to get promoted and get his name out,” Rickardo Rhoden,, a friend from Tampa, said this week. But gunshots rang out before Webster’s music ever got played.
Another friend of the DJs said the shooting was likely the result of an earlier scuffle with a partygoer who had been cut off from the microphone weeks earlier at a birthday party.
Neely and Rattigan were part of Tampa Bay DJ group called “Poison Dart,” authorities said.
Richard “Kirky-C” Salmon, owner of Poison Dart, said that on May 9 a friend of the suspected shooter was at a birthday party and had asked one of the DJs to let him sing.
“They allowed him to sing but maybe he was taking too long, so they took the microphone away from him,” Salmon said. A fight broke out.
Parson was involved in that fight and told people prior to the shootings he was going to kill Rattigan and others, Polk County investigators said in a news release.
Salmon said Webster was not involved in May 9 fight. He was just “at the wrong place at the wrong time.”
Of the other two DJs, Salmon said: “These guys are very popular in Tampa and around the world. They’ve traveled all around from Miami, the Caribbean, England and Germany. A lot of people are hurting right now.”
Rhoden, who knew Webster for 13 years, said his friend grew up in Connecticut, where he graduated from high school and attended college. Webster is the father of three young children and had moved to Florida within the past two years, Rhoden said.
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Protopunker Ginn does a rare tour
By admin | May 30, 2008
newsobserver.com | Protopunker Ginn does a rare tour
By Ed Condran, Correspondent
Whenever Greg Ginn tours it’s notable, because the punk rock icon hits the road about as often as Halley’s comet can be witnessed by the human eye.
Well, it just seems that long. Ginn hasn’t zipped across the country as a performer in 14 years, which is an eternity in rock.
“I think having a band touring can detract from the music,” Ginn says, calling from his Taylor, Texas, home. “But it’s about time I get back out there.”
Ginn, best known as the leader and primary songwriter of seminal punk rockers Black Flag and owner of the independent label SST Records, is doing double duty. He’s out with two of his bands, Jambang and the Taylor Texas Corrugators. Each group, which will perform Wednesday at the Pour House Music Hall, is supporting an album.
The former’s release, “Connecting,” is an electronic dance disc, which will be synced up to a video featuring abstract images at the Pour House.
The latter is supporting “Goof Off Experts & the Taylor Texas Corrugators,” which is an avant jazzy rocking album filled with upbeat songs, that includes some nice jams. Only two of the 10 tracks check in under five minutes.
“I like throwing a lot of different stuff to the audience,” Ginn says. “Hopefully it’ll be entertaining.”
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Armin Van Buuren LIVE
By admin | May 30, 2008
Armin Van Buuren - Gig Reviews - Music - Entertainment - smh.com.au
The hullabaloo surrounding trance DJ Armin Van Buuren’s eighth visit to Sydney may just rival World Youth Day. For starters, Van Buuren’s entourage is rumoured to be on par with the Pope’s, while details about his oddly named Armin Only show are as enigmatic as some of the Vatican’s doctrines.
Some might think they’re signing up for a spiritual retreat as publicity material asks them to “imagine a world without touch … without love … without emotion …”
As hard as that may be to imagine, the more difficult thing to contemplate is nine hours of trance. It’s a repetitive style of euphoric dance music that could make even the most resolutely lapsed Catholic opt for a nine-hour final damnation sermon instead.
Not so, says 31-year old Dutchman Van Buuren, DJ Mag’s newly crowned world No.1 DJ.
“One of my big frustrations with playing a two- or three-hour set is that people expect me to play the hits. There’s so much good music out there that’s not necessarily peak-time music, so when I do a longer set I have the time to actually incorporate those slower records, the more build-up records.”
Van Buuren likens his extensive sets to family Christmas dinners spread over numerous courses and hours of feasting. He prefers these to the short “hamburger at McDonald’s” sets that festivals sometimes contract him to do.
Somewhere in that food analogy is the promise of variety. That is not a quality trance is revered for - and even if he wanted to, Van Buuren would be hard-pressed to shake the “trance DJ” tag.
“I’m not running away from the fact that I’m a trance DJ,” Van Buuren says. “The cool thing about the genre trance is that you can get away with playing any kind of music, even house music.”
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House Music
By admin | May 30, 2008
News & Star
As Lil Devious, Mark Baker and Gary Little have created dancefloor anthems for more than a decade, having hits around the world and featuring on huge-selling Ministry of Sound compilation albums.
In 2001 Come Home was number one in the UK’s dance, house and DJ charts and a hit in Italy, Spain, Japan and Australia. Now Mark and Gary have been joined by fellow Carlisle lads Gareth Milburn (bass), Lee Smith (guitar) and Dave Oliver (drums) to form Burn the Negative. The band have signed with Gung-Ho! Recordings, their first gig is just around the corner, and Mark is set to sing live for the first time in his career.
“We decided on a new name because the Lil Devious name didn’t work with this material,” Mark tells Nightlife.
“Lil Devious was a little bit more house music. This is house music pared down. It’s a little bit more song-based. It’s shown more of our songwriting skills, which you can’t necessarily do with house.”
Burn the Negative’s introduction to the world comes at Spirit on Crosby Street in Carlisle on Saturday, June 7. The band also play the Beat-Herder Festival in Lancashire in July.
The Spirit gig will be the first time Mark has performed with a full band, and the first time he has sung in front of an audience. He describes himself as an accidental vocalist.
“I used to do the guide vocals when we sent the Lil Devious records off to other artists to do the vocals. On a new track, You Control Me,
“I did the guide vocal with a view to giving it to another artist but everyone who heard it said it should stay.
“I was reluctant. We’ve been playing for 15 years and I’d always managed to avoid singing. It’s the first time I’ll be in front of the synths rather than me and Gary hiding behind a rack of synthesisers and using various different vocalists.
“Half of me feels a little bit anxious about it. On the other hand I’m really confident that the material’s everything we want it to be.”
The material is described as “epic keys, huge guitar licks, and percussion to drive nails into floorboards”.
About 80 per cent of the album has been recorded, at home studios in Carlisle, and hopes are high that it will be released this summer. While many of the tracks were written on keyboards several were created by guitar. “I think we have moved forward,” says Mark. “I think we have got a lot of credibility by the way we create a piece of music through the contrast of house music and songwriting.”
Burn the Negative: what does the name mean? “I like the double meaning. It could mean burn the photographic evidence or burn the negative feelings.
“That sounds good to me
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We Love Sounds
By admin | May 30, 2008
We Love Sounds - Gig Reviews - Music - Entertainment - smh.com.au
It was 1992’s most memorable battle cry, in clubs and charts alike: “YOU-TAH SAINTS, YOU- YOU- YOU- YOU-TAH SAINTS!” To this day it remains the irresistible response to the mere mention of the one-time dance-pop superstars’ name. Surely that must drive Utah Saints’
Jez Willis and Tim Garbutt nuts?
“We’re at ease with it now,” Willis says, laughing. “That was like 10 seconds on the first two singles [What Can You Do For Me? and Something Good]. To have it still hanging around 15, 16 years later is, I guess, a flattering thing.
“The thing about that chant was, we were a pair of underground DJs and we didn’t really have much money or anything. We thought, ‘If it’s on the radio we might as well advertise the name of the band.’ We nicked the idea off the KLF.”
To Australians, there are reasons other than idea theft for why the duo - from Yorkshire, England, rather than Utah, US - seem like the laziest band on the planet. After the 1992 success of their exuberant eponymous debut, they released one more album, 2000’s Two, which barely registered on most people’s musical radar. And they’re “back” thanks to Something Good 08, a scorching remix by rising Sydney band Van She’s potent DJing arm, Van She Tech. In England, though, Utah Saints never went away.
“To condense it,” Willis says, “in our whole career we’ve had two albums out, [made] nearly three albums that have kind of ended up stuck in contract oblivion and the rest of the time we’ve been promoting and DJing. Since the last sorta seven years we’ve done our own night called SugarBeat at the Elbow Room in Leeds.
“Everyone in Leeds at the time was just playing house music - well, most were playing house. We kind of went up the breaks, drum’n'bass [route].”
At the We Love Sounds shindig, Willis and Garbutt will be DJing, doing “a decks-and-FX kinda thing”. It’s an exciting time for Utah Saints - obviously, given the success of the Van She Tech remix - but also, they believe, for clubbers everywhere.
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