Terrence Parker and Stacey Pullen will be at the Nove Lounge in Ferndale this Friday night.
and also…..
Jul 132009
This is the second week in a row I have to apologize for the lack of weekend photographs, but I have a much better excuse this week; I lost my camera in a drunken blur at a birthday shindig for a good friend on Friday. So needless to say, if I don’t end up finding it, the quality of pictures on this blog may improve, because I may be forced to buy a new camera. Anyway, Saturday we finally shook off the hangover and made it down to the D. I imagine it would have been cool to see Robert Hood on Friday, but damn, we are straight cashed out on going to the Works every weekend. Dirty Disco at the Bohemian seemed like a good spot for the evening, but this was where shit got a little interesting. As soon as I got on Tillman, there were thug ass dude’s posted all over the street, looked like a scene from New Jack City. I don’t know if shit was poppin‘ off at the Bohemian or what, but shit was lookin‘ hood enough that I didn’t feel like sticking around to find out. We decided the next logical option was to head up to THC and see what was going on there for the night, Brian Cage is always awesome anyway. I was kind of surprised when we got there to hear no 4on4 bangin‘, actually no music at all. I asked the bartender, and he said the DJ’s weren’t playing until after the UFC fight. What the fuck? Since when do you need to hear what’s going on in a UFC fight. Oh well, Red Hook is some delicious beer, and we got to catch a bit of Neil V’s set, big ups on playing some decent acid tracks. Not a great night, but definitely interesting none the less.
First off, sorry about the lack of pics this week, I forgot the camera, and the low light was giving the cameras on our phones no love at all. Not a huge crowd (never really seems to be anymore), but when we got there around midnight, Danny the Wildchild was bringing his signature energy to the back room of the Works. I’ve probably seen this dude spin more times than I can recall, and he never disappoints. I like that he always throws the turntablist trickery into the drum and bass, and keeps that shit real as hell. He was definitely playing some tracks that were really heavy on the wobble bass, which I thought was awesome, and the hardcore drum and bass kids were dancing their asses off the whole set. Good job ending it out with a slow jam like “Summertime” too, great close to the set. I was quite excited to see Greenkeepers DJ set, but I have to say it was kind of a let down for me personally. After all the energy from Danny the Wildchild, dude kind of started his set off slow, and although he did play some bangin’ vocal house tracks, more than a few were gaudy, clubby shit you should never play in Detroit. Oh yeah, next time your at the works, if your a Redbull-and-whatever drinker, try their bootleg energy drink, Thizz Juice, the picture on the can is priceless, and it’s much less expensive than the ‘Bull.
So we here at DTH blog are pretty nuts about anything UR, or even anything associated with UR. Thanks be that we have Detroit Threads to give me my fix for my Underground Resistance vinyl addiction. This track is one of my personal favorites, but I feel like it’s kind of a sleeper hit, I never hear to many people play it. Mad Mike is awesome, seems like anything dude touches is straight gold. I remember what first got me on this album was the artwork on the A/B labels, what a true statement to the reality that Detroit has seen in the last quarter century. On the A side is “High Tech Dreams”, a dope piece of broken beat techno mastery. Complete with spacey chopped up vocals, and a tight little synth hook, this track is straight Detroit techno, and it’s trippy how the tempo keeps changing up. On the B side are 2 tracks. “Hold My Own” is a bit slower, almost hip-hop beat with weird guitar samples and aliens vocal samples. This track would go awesome in a downtempo set. “Lo Tech Reality” pairs haunting vocals with a slowly rising, hypnotic synth, this track is a straight banger in my book. If you like your techno vinyl, definitely swoop a copy of this, and support local musicians!
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