The music, people and stupid moments that make up the nightlife
I can't even tell you how excited I am to be DJing in between sets from
Ectomorph and
Solvent. This is just the coolest show to hit L.A. in a long time. Now, a few of my friends were like, "but it's Father's Day." Yeah, but it's at night, late at night. Maybe your dad is like mine and falls asleep right after dinner, the effects of getting up at the butt-crack of dawn to make it Downtown by 8:00 a.m. or whatever. Plus, if you're family is anything like mine (and a lot of my friends), get togethers always mean fielding questions about when you are going to get married or when you're going to pop out your first kid. Yes, dear readers, you will need to go out Sunday night, crave it like Cold Stone ice cream. This is the place to be on Sunday.
So, why am I so ga-ga over this show? Here's the first reason:
Solvent "My Radio"
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I started playing this at Transmission after I heard an IDM DJ drop this at one of Carlos' gigs. It originally appeared on Ghostly's
Disco Nouveau compilation 12" series (later, also on CD). Then it turned up on Solvent's album,
Apples and Synthesizers.
Here's the second reason:
A Number of Names "Shari Vari" (Ectomorph Remix)
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This was another regular in my Transmission sets, an Ectomorphic (um, that's seriously cheesy, I can't believe I just wrote that) update of a Detroit techno classic. This is actually taken from Miss Kittin's Electroclash mixed CD that came with a copy of Muzik magazine back in 2002 or thereabouts. You can hear it being mixed into "Rippin Kittin" and "Frank Sinatra." This is because I am lame and have not figured out how to transfer vinyl to MP3s yet.