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I’m not able to log into my other blog from my hotel, so I thought I’d let all the Scenestars posse know what I’m up to. I’m in Miami for Winter Music Conference 2006, a massive international confab of DJs, producers, promoters, record labels and assorted party people. Besides the chance to network and get some interviews with movers and shakers, I thought this would be a great opportunity to get some sun and heat, what with temperatures in Memphis about 20 degrees below normal. No dice: It’s about 65 degrees and overcast, and tonight’s low will be an unheard-of-for-spring 50 degrees. Beach and pool time will be curtailed accordingly, I hate to say.
Fortunately for me, though, it was about 150 degrees in the club last night for the Jazzanova vs. Bugz in the Attic party, featuring two of my favorite crews of DJs and producers in mortal combat. Opening the proceedings was Seattle-based Sun Tzu Sound System, seamlessly mixing glitchy house with more organic, percussive jazzy business as the room filled up. Then it was on to Bugz members Daz-I-Kue and Orin ‘Afronaught’ Walters, who dropped broken-beat favorites from over the years in true West London fashion: reloads galore, Motet bigging up the crowd, divas Bembe Segue and Eska Mtungwazi sitting in on the mic — a feast for the ears. Next up was Jurgen Knoblauch from Berlin-based Jazzanova with a more eclectic and technically impressive mix, incorporating everything from jazz-dance to downtempo to more of the broken stuff. The Bugz boys returned to close things out, including a three-rewind caning of recent single “Sounds Like”, a two-rewind presentation of Daz-I-Kue’s mind-bending rework of Lil Kim’s “Lighters Up” and a hands-in-the-air broken remix of John Legend’s “Ordinary People.”
I’m about to head down to the conference hotel to register and start schmoozing. I hope to hit the Stones Throw 10th anniversary party later this evening, and maybe catch a party called “The NY Tradition of Dance Music,” featuring former Paradise Garage resident Joey Llanos and famed NY club promoter Richard Vasquez (who founded The Choice, which followed legendary club The Loft) along with DJ/producer Dennis Ferrer and a host of others. Soulful ish, no doubt.
Fortunately for me, though, it was about 150 degrees in the club last night for the Jazzanova vs. Bugz in the Attic party, featuring two of my favorite crews of DJs and producers in mortal combat. Opening the proceedings was Seattle-based Sun Tzu Sound System, seamlessly mixing glitchy house with more organic, percussive jazzy business as the room filled up. Then it was on to Bugz members Daz-I-Kue and Orin ‘Afronaught’ Walters, who dropped broken-beat favorites from over the years in true West London fashion: reloads galore, Motet bigging up the crowd, divas Bembe Segue and Eska Mtungwazi sitting in on the mic — a feast for the ears. Next up was Jurgen Knoblauch from Berlin-based Jazzanova with a more eclectic and technically impressive mix, incorporating everything from jazz-dance to downtempo to more of the broken stuff. The Bugz boys returned to close things out, including a three-rewind caning of recent single “Sounds Like”, a two-rewind presentation of Daz-I-Kue’s mind-bending rework of Lil Kim’s “Lighters Up” and a hands-in-the-air broken remix of John Legend’s “Ordinary People.”
I’m about to head down to the conference hotel to register and start schmoozing. I hope to hit the Stones Throw 10th anniversary party later this evening, and maybe catch a party called “The NY Tradition of Dance Music,” featuring former Paradise Garage resident Joey Llanos and famed NY club promoter Richard Vasquez (who founded The Choice, which followed legendary club The Loft) along with DJ/producer Dennis Ferrer and a host of others. Soulful ish, no doubt.
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