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Bay Area DJ News Headlines: SF DJs head to WMC
Bay Area DJ gets $20,000 for one set
Foxxee Brown brings back a San Francisco legend
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"Your Mama's
House" to Pete Avila's Thrive this week only
Mighty voted best new club across USA in new
poll published in URB
Golden Chyld drops the bomb with new CD "Ear
Infection"
• New Bay Area DJ Profiles: David Harness, 4AM, & Dead
Seal
• Bay Area Mix CD History; Page Hodel
• New SFDJ T-shirt design now available
• Bay Area DJ random collage of SF flyers Feb 2005 compiled
by Gary Graphic
BAY AREA DJ DOT ORG NEWS HEADLINES
by Victor Vinyl
This year's Winter Music Conference (WMC) March
22 - 26th at the Wyndham Resort in Miami Beach - has more
registrants from the Bay Area than in any previous year - most
of them DJs who don't want to miss out on this notoriously fun
annual global DJ gathering that attracts electronic music fanatics
from all over, especially from the Bay Area. In Miami each year
there are always plenty of "San Francisco parties" to
attend. Meantime back home the streets of San Francisco are noticably
devoid of DJs for once. But before all the DJs split for Miami
there will be parties all over the city including Sound
Palette's WMC 2005 Send Off Party at Sno-Drift
on March 19th with Miami bound DJs Chris Lum, M3,
LadyHouse and others spinning. And then after Miami there
will be several post-WMC parties around SF including Taboo
@ Pink on March 29th at which host Mama Leslie promises
"Goodies From The Winter Music Conference" on hand....
SF Love Parade came in second after Coachalla
as the Best One Off Event in URB magazine's 2004
Massv Poll in which contributors weighed in with their
DJ related picks of the past year. Mark Farina got voted
Best Dance DJ while Mix Master Mike was voted Best
Turntablist and San Francisco club with da killer sound system
Mighty was voted Best New Club...
Recommended Bay Area produced CD of the week is San Jose's Finger
Bangerz crew DJ "Sir" Golden
Chyld's
Ear
Infections which has no song titles
(only numbers) and is a rich multi-layered produced mix that incorporates
funk breaks and weird breaks with bits of battle records and alongside
such artists chopped up and mixed in as Enigma and Bjork.
Bay Area DJ/producer and Stones Throw mainman Peanut
Butter Wolf reportedly got paid a whopping $20,000 to spin
a set during Usher's post-Grammys party in
LA last month. Now that kind of pay would cover the cost of a
lot of new records.....Meanwhile on the other end of the Bay Area
DJ scale are such hardworking but hella broke DJs as Soren, who spins round town & cranks
out killer CD mixes (such as his funky breakbeat driven "Body
Rock" mix CD) at an impressive rate, says he always ends
up spending more on music than he ever makes from it But then
that's his passion he admits. "I always spend more on records
than I ever make DJ'ing in a week," he said.
More than any other group of artists, it was Bay Area DJs who
united the most to demonstrate their unbridled support for victims
of the devastating Tsunami in Asia by throwing countless successful
DJ benefit parties around the Bay Area. DJ Vanka along
with a ton of other DJs threw one at Bruno's...Another,
called Fresh, was at Club Verdi with Doc
Fu, Snayk Eyez, and many other Bay Area DJs all spinning
for the love......
Thrive, Pete Avila's nice new deep house
weekly at the Paradise Lounge, where guest DJs have included
Neon Leon, Ruben Mancias, and Chris Serrano, had
an open bar on a recent Thursday. They will genereously do so
again on March 17th (St. Patrick's Day!) from 9PM-10PM. But this
Thursday (March 10th) Avila will be bringing back a San Francisco
house tradition - Your Mama's House with Foxxee Brown
back up from LA. Also in the house will be Lenny Fontana
and residents Avila and David Harness....
David Harness'
new CD Heartbeat (Loveslap) has been getting positive
reviews all over the place including in the latest issue of XLR8R
which described the mix as "made for a night filled with
velvet lounge chairs, quality dancefloors, and flickering candles.....
made for movement." To find out more about the history of
this legendary Bay Area house DJ, such as what was the first record
he bought, check out Harness' newly added Bay
Area DJ Profile to this website...
At Suede this Saturday, Mar 12th, guest DJs Mike Frugaletti
and Deron from Good Family and Stompy join
resident DJ Seven
[Lo-Rise] to deliver "funky house and techy business in
the upstairs house room" while downstairs in the main hip-hop
room Rascue and DJ
Sol spin old school jams alongside new school slumpers
at a nice full volume on the club's massive EAW sound-system that's
bound to move U and nicely compliment the purple you burnt en-route
da club. 9pm-2am, $15. SUEDE, 383 Bay St. at Mason St. near Fisherman's
Wharf. RSVP for $10 guest list by emailing: djseven2004
New SF club Moonstone (icuproductions.com), every 2nd and 4th
Wednesday at Milk, kicked off its opening nite recently
with DJs Derrick D, Icewater, Swiftrock,
and Nytkrawler. March 9th and 26th will have more guest
DJs spinning hip-hop. Another brand new SF club nite is Zsa
Zsa Inc's new monthly Revive at Element Lounge
first Fridays. March 4th, with residents Sake-1
and Rascue, was a well attended fun night...so plan on
getting there early on April 1st when joining the DJs will be
vocalist Jennifer Johns...
Other happening SF club nites include Taboo hosted
by Mama Leslie with DJs Sam Nassar and David Harness
@ Pink on Tuesdays, Mixed Elements weekly
@ the EndUp on Thursdays, and Just Because
at Sublounge first Saturdays with rotating DJs inc. Ms.
Blu, Mattese, and Theo Logan......
BAY AREA DJ MIX CD HISTORY
by Tanya Turntable
"Who You Calling A Bitch?" by legendary poineering
SF woman DJ Page Hodel - The mix CD that celebrated another
local legend - San Francisco long running Stud Bar's 38th year
anniversary party on June 24th, 2004 during which Page Hodel spun
at. This funky dance flavored hip-hop and RnB mix includes lots
of female artists including Queen Latifah's "U.N.I.T.Y."
with those infamous lyrics: "Who You Calling A Bitch?"
IT'S 4AM AND HE'S FIGHTING THUGS
WITH HUGS
by Billy Jam
Shit happens! Its a part of everyone's life - especially a DJ's
life. So often DJ's will spend all their money on records - only
to get screwed over by some shady promoter. Or else maybe some
drunk fool at da club stumbles and spills all his/her sticky drink
all over the DJ's records or equipment. Or maybe, as in the case
of San Francisco club DJ 4AM,
the records they spin (even one by Right Said Fred) will
cause a bloody fight to erupt on their dancefloor. This very thing
happened twice recently in two different clubs to DJ 4AM. And
so disgusted was he that he formed a new movement to combat this
thug lifestyle, a movement he calls HUG LIFE.
"Hug life started from a combination of me working retail
in a record store and servicing weekend thugs with no sense of
balance," 4AM (aka Jason Chavez) told BayAreaDJ.org. "I
like gangsta shit as much as the next wannabe, but you need a
balance... too much of one thing will change the way you live
and think," he said. "And the other factor was a series
of two different brawls that happened within one week. One involved
a bunch of triple size gangstas tearing up my Tuesday night club
(which has since moved) and I'm still hearing details about what
went down that night. All i know is that we got a request for
Mac Dre's "Get Stoopid" and then hella fools
got fucked up while obeying the song. Some girl got tackled and
hammered upon and some dude caught a holy candle to the face.
The second fight happened at my Saturday gig when someone went
upside a tourist's head with a bottle while i was playing "I'm
Too Sexy" (how can you brawl to "I'm Too Sexy?... Jesus!")
Then the next day when Jason was at work at the record store
he noticed on the shelf the cover for the album "Thug Life"
and thought to himself. "Hmmmm..... I decided to turn my
frustration into an art project, mixtape and promotion for my
new website... Hug Life... www.nightmaresoul.com And then he made
up stickers that are really cool and he will give you if you ask
nice - provided he has some. To find out more about 4AM check
out his newly added Bay
Area DJ Profile to this site.
"BAY AREA DJ" DESIGNER
LAUNCHES NEW T-SHIRT FASHION LINE
Following hot on the heels of his ever-popular "Bay
Area DJ" T-shirt line, French born, Marin-based designer
Jean Paul Cleshai has just unveiled his newest designer
T-shirt line: S.F.D.J.:
Swervin' Our City tops - which come in NAVY blue shirts
only in sizes Sm, Med, L, XL, and XXL and are manufactured by
Gildan Activewear and are made of 100% cotton, and
they are priced at only $18 online.
BAY AREA FEBRUARY 2005 DJ/CLUB RANDOM
FLYER COLLAGE
by Gary Graphic
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