I attended the fair last year and it was absolutely wicked! Division St. between Damen & Hermitage in Wicker Park close to traffic and fill up with 250 booths and over 300 indie artists selling their hipster, hand-crafted, arts-wares. This year it’s Saturday and Sunday, September 13 + 14, Noon - 10pm each day.
There will also be at least one other music stage (last year there were 2 DJ stages and one band stage) featuring some great bands like Northern State, Califone, Mahjongg, and a bunch more.
So swing on down and stop by the CHIRP stage on Sunday evening between 7:30 and 10 (yes you can drink beer and dance in the street!) to hear some o that bass for your waist.
Our boy DJ Flack has been organizing a set of 2/dub/bass-step slammers for to rock the house at The Good Life in Boston on Wed:
In the past year and a half, there’s been a small explosion of club nights in Boston devoted to bass-centric genres first spawned in the clubs of London: bassline, 2-step, and (most famously) dubstep…
…This Wednesday, Operation Underground kicks off its ‘Home Grown Sessions,’ a series of parties spotlighting DJs and producers from the thriving local scene. The first of these features DJ FLACK (Tony Flackett), who runs the Beat Research weekly at Enormous Room.
It’s been just about a year since we re-launched Mashit.com as a blog, online shop, podcast, and all around place for fiends. Over that year Mashit boss DJ C has produced and released a whole slew of bastard-pop-style mashups and remixes, many of which have been available as part of our Free Tunes series.
Now we’ve decided to release those mashups all together as a free download album, along with a few secret bonus tracks. The album, entitled “Mas Hits”, is out now. This is the teaser, in the form of a mini-mix (leaked here by Time Out Chicago), and music video.
DJ C “Mas Hits” Mini-Mix (’80s Cartoon Music Video Version)
Meanwhile, If this post over at Mad Decent is any indication, DJ mini-mixes are hot right now. Check the Bang Gang DJ’s mini-teaser for their upcoming mix album on Modular which features the DJ C and MC Jorge Stylo track “Juce”; forthcoming on Man Recordings.
The Bang Gang Deejays “D is for Disco, E is for Dancing!” Minimegamatronicmix Download here ->
Time Out Chicago / Issue 183 : Aug 28–Sep 3, 2008
Fall Preview 2008 | Clubs Vital man C
With an online label, global mashing mentality and futuristic dancehall album, DJ C’s got the sonic nutrition you need.
At the crossroads of the genre-blending, digital-remix and bouncing-bass–obsessed international DJ scene, DJ C and Mashit.com have a rep for pushing underground dance culture forward, both online and off. Radio One legend John Peel picked Mashit as his label of the month in October 2004 when the then-Boston-based producer was releasing tracks by DJ C and others with a jungle bent. More recently, DJ C, who relocated to the Chicago area from Boston a year ago, has turned the vinyl label into a download site, podcast and blog that serves as an outlet for his (and his friends’) mixes, mash-ups, original tracks—even full albums—that don’t tuck neatly into any genre. He’s a DJ expanding his curatorial role online and a Chicago producer of growing influence.
Micada and I will be back in the house tonight, Monday, Sept. 8 for our bi-weekly Chicagoland radio series; Joystyxx Radio.
Every other Monday evening from 8 to 10 pm we’re kickin’ it old-school, new-school, and everything in between-school over the airwaves of Loyola University’s WLUW, 88.7 FM in Chicago and on the web at www.wluw.org.
3 years and 3 days ago John McCain and George W. Bush ate cake to celebrate McCain’s 69th birthday. At that very moment hurricane Katrina was bringing devastation to the gulf coast.
Now it’s election season, and almost exactly 3 years later the Republican National Convention was due to begin today, but another monster hurricane has disrupted the plan. I hope that Gustav is a more benevolent beast then Katrina was, but this new storm does bring a silver lining. It reminds us of Katrina and the way she was handled. Gustav shines a light once again on the Bush administration’s horrible bungling of the disaster. Not only before, during, and immediately after the event, but the continuing botches that have left FEMA-trailer-park refugee camps spread across the region to this day. And now those camps themselves have been evacuated as Gustav begins to bear down on the coast.
Coincidently my friend, filmmaker Lucia Small, was here in Chicago this weekend for the debut theatrical run of her new documentary “The Axe in the Attic”, a film about Katrina.
But that said, and with a big shout-out to my hometown Boston, MA, I still often say that my favorite city in the world is Berlin. After a number of years of touring there and hanging out with peeps like Aaron Spectre, DJ Donna Summer, and so many more, I’m a convert to Berlin’s laid back creative spirit. It’s affordable enough that artists like Jamie Lidel and Fiest, who had moved there to be able to make their art, sprung from it’s loins to become international stars.
Meanwhile, so many more in Berlin continue to develop their craft day-to-day, unknown to the greater world outside. One such music production trio who I’ve been feeling, and playing in almost every set over the past year is Schlachthofbronx. Though their Myspace says their from Berlin, rumor has it that their actually from Munich, Bavaria.
In the end this post isn’t about a city, but is about the international breed of bassline-influenced, mashup club-hop and dancehall-infused dubstep that Schlachthofbronx is crafting. Wherever they happen to live, I’d like to emphasize the comm0n-ground between us by highlighting a couple of tracks they’ve made:
I’ll be DJing at the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago on Sunday (7:30 - 10pm) on the Chicago Independent Radio Project (CHIRP) stage, along with others like Whoa-B (6pm) and Micada (noon).
There will also be at least one other music stage (last year there were 2 DJ stages and one band stage) featuring some great bands like Northern State, Califone, Mahjongg, and a bunch more.
Time Out Chicago / Issue 183 : Aug 28–Sep 3, 2008
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