Mascara - Wed Aug 2nd
@ Columbia City Theatre
Jen Woolfe, Julia & Naha
Natural Mystic - Sat Aug 5
@ Camping spot only 1 hour from Seattle
only $10 for camping & over 14 hours of music
visit this link for directions:
For directions, visit:
http://nwtekno.org/vb/showthread.php?threadid=102572
featuring dj's
Love Virus, Bumble Bee, Jen Woolfe, Sun Tzu, Tekgnosis,
Ramiro & Jeromy Nail, J-Sun & Kadeejah Streets,
Nordic Soul & Kristina Childs, Manos, Mark F-R...
Monday, July 31, 2006
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Send a Kid to Bumbershoot
There’s certain tastes that remind you of childhood… and boogers are definitely one of them.
Lets teach kids good tastes early... send a kid to Bumbershoot!
Thu Jul 27 - Osiris Indriya, Nick Tornetta w/ Residents @ Contour
Fri Jul 28 - Plane Site @ Rendevous, Justin Martin, Sol Caldreon, Eric Allen @ War Room, Space Virgin Burning Man Party @ ConWorks
Sat Jul 29 - Uniting Souls reunion @ Baltic
Lets teach kids good tastes early... send a kid to Bumbershoot!
Thu Jul 27 - Osiris Indriya, Nick Tornetta w/ Residents @ Contour
Fri Jul 28 - Plane Site @ Rendevous, Justin Martin, Sol Caldreon, Eric Allen @ War Room, Space Virgin Burning Man Party @ ConWorks
Sat Jul 29 - Uniting Souls reunion @ Baltic
Monday, July 24, 2006
NEXT GIG: Tue July 25 @ SeeSound Lounge
NEXT GIG: Tue July 25th @ SeeSound Lounge
Event for ArtReach Seattle!
w/ Vudu & Jeromy
See Sound Lounge
115 Blanchard St
7pm
Event for ArtReach Seattle!
w/ Vudu & Jeromy
See Sound Lounge
115 Blanchard St
7pm
Friday, July 21, 2006
Hot Weekend
It's one of those weekends where every corner of Seattle is hosting incredible house music. Get out your tanning lotion and sun shades... this weekend's gunna be HOT!
Fri Jul 21 - Warm up with a high of 94°F
The Femurs @ The Comet
LA Kendall's bday w/ Dickey Doo, Chocha Fresca @ War Room
Recess & Sensory Effect @ Tost
Lu Rob, Karl Kamakahi & Ramiro @ SeeSound Lounge
And one of my FAVORITE DJ's of ALL TIME...
James Zabiela w/ Miguel Alvarado & Colby B @ Chop Suey
This is James' first appearance in Seattle. I saw him up in Vancouver BC a few years ago where he blew my mind with a pair of CD-J's and an effects processor. I missed him by only hours when I left Ibiza ... he was playing the day I was set to leave the island... and I will miss this appearance, too, as I will be in Eastern Washington for a family gathering, frying in a sweltering 106°F. Please see James Zabiela for me at Chop Suey. He is indeed a genius. This show might sell out, but you can purchase tix here.
Sat Jul 22 - Get set to sizzle with a high of 92°F
Pre-funk with Vudu @ The Chapel
Miles Maeda @ Des Amis
Jacob London, Colby B, Lu Rob & Innerflight @ Lo-Fi
Hybrid & Eva @ Element
Revival Afterhours w/ Chronus & Scott Keith @ Trinity
Fri Jul 21 - Warm up with a high of 94°F
The Femurs @ The Comet
LA Kendall's bday w/ Dickey Doo, Chocha Fresca @ War Room
Recess & Sensory Effect @ Tost
Lu Rob, Karl Kamakahi & Ramiro @ SeeSound Lounge
And one of my FAVORITE DJ's of ALL TIME...
James Zabiela w/ Miguel Alvarado & Colby B @ Chop Suey
This is James' first appearance in Seattle. I saw him up in Vancouver BC a few years ago where he blew my mind with a pair of CD-J's and an effects processor. I missed him by only hours when I left Ibiza ... he was playing the day I was set to leave the island... and I will miss this appearance, too, as I will be in Eastern Washington for a family gathering, frying in a sweltering 106°F. Please see James Zabiela for me at Chop Suey. He is indeed a genius. This show might sell out, but you can purchase tix here.
Sat Jul 22 - Get set to sizzle with a high of 92°F
Pre-funk with Vudu @ The Chapel
Miles Maeda @ Des Amis
Jacob London, Colby B, Lu Rob & Innerflight @ Lo-Fi
Hybrid & Eva @ Element
Revival Afterhours w/ Chronus & Scott Keith @ Trinity
Monday, July 17, 2006
Unleash the House
The Leschi House loves to party. I don’t mean the residents of the house or the friends of the residents, tho, they DO love to party. I mean the House itself. The House at Leschi loves to party. We aren’t the first inhabitants to realize this fact. Before us, University residents brought the wildness of campus parties to the front porch. Our neighbors have told us about their rambunctious brew ha-ha’s that left pee stains on their fences and beer cans on roof tops. When they saw that 4 career-oriented musician/artists were taking up the Rent in the home, I think they were relieved. But we produce a different kind of party line.
Our finding the House was fate. After realizing that 4 of us needed a place to live at the same time, Mel Sky and I had searched north and south for the perfect pad. Exhausted, we found a few places that were tempting, but didn’t completely fit. A few days later, she and Fishlure set out again. They were excited to check out the new places, but decided they wouldn’t get too excited about the first one if it was good. However, the House, built in the early 1900's, had its own agenda, and once the girls stepped through the front door, it had already pulled them in.
Sixteen months later, the living room would be one of the most delightful dance floors in the city.
I guess I never really thought about the differences between a House party and a Club party. Tho, I did notice the few times where I had entered a club and felt like I was walking into someone’s home. Something about the vibration of the air, the softness of people’s smiles. The idea that even if they didn’t know you at that moment, by the end of the night they would. It’s few and far between that club nights are found like that in Seattle. And yet, I know that it’s an energy that promoters throughout the city are trying to achieve. We leap between liquor laws and strict permits, noise ordinances and neighbor’s complaints. They make it just so damn hard to have a party.
But the force of the Leschi House is hard to resist. It knows nothing of laws. It thrives on people’s conversations and countenance, joining citizens of different cultures to share thoughts on politics, love and art. And the arms of the home at Leschi are reaching further than this beautiful city, drawing artists from the city’s sister on the Bay, San Francisco.
I blame Robb Green.
He moved to the Bay area last year. But before he left, behind the decks on the dance floor of the Leschi Lounge, he named genre that is composed from the core Seattle's character. We call it, Punk Rock Disco. A fusion of rock and dance. What better blend to bring together a city that grew up on Grunge? It has woken up, stretched it’s arms, smoked a bowl, and knocked on our neighbor’s door. And the neighbor has come over to our house to play.
Early Saturday afternoon, I received a text message that I could hardly believe. DJ Garth, a San Franciso House music legend, was staying in town after his previous gig at Trinity Nightclub, and wanted to come to our 13 month-old afterparty to play. I texted back Ramiro, promter and DJ for Uniting Souls, ‘hell yes!’.
It is no coincidence that this happened on exactly the 6-year anniversary weekend of one of the most monumental organizations for House music in Seattle. Uniting Souls has been doing just that for six long years. They have consistently created the energy of a house party and implanted it into clubs throughout the city. Despite all the difficulties of business and bars, they have always been able to bring the love of the music called House into a room and made it thrive. And at 5 o’clock in the morning on Sunday, they were uniting souls in the House in Leschi. And DJ Garth was the glue.
I got pretty bitched out from our neighbor that morning. He and his (pregnant) wife were sleeping soundly on a Saturday night until they were awoken at 2am to the sounds of people walking to and fro a line of cars filling up our street and the next. We’ve reinforced the sound proofing of our windows. You can’t hear the thump of the bass from the street. And we try our best to keep people from talking on their way up the road, but we can only do so much. Those particular neighbors hadn’t complained until they recently cut the hedges in their front yard. I suspect they were wanting to improve their amazing view of Lake Washington & Mount Raineer, but (I) got an earful instead. He spoke with me early the next morning and encouraged us to ‘become part of the community’ if we want to stay in the area and ‘go back to Capital Hill’ if we want to party. I understood his position and listened intently. But all I could think about was, ‘DJ Garth is in my living room’.
And our fair neighbor has no understanding of the implications of this. He has no knowledge of the House music community or the force that the uniting of such an artistic community creates. They want social change and yet they vote time and again on things that keep those that consummate the change apart. I suppose that’s why it’s called an ‘Underground’ community. Maybe he should learn about us and what we stand for and why we open up our home and spend our evenings and weekends creating a space for people who care about our country and our future and the human race as a global community that encompasses every human being on Earth. Maybe we, through voice and art and music, should encourage him and all of our neighbors to ‘become part of the community’ if they want peace and ‘go back to the suburbs’ if they want quiet. Let’s dig ourselves up from the ‘Underground’ and allow each and every person who enters our domain, wherever that may be, feel welcome to join in on what we love – each other.
The House at Leschi has been around longer than any of our neighbors or their homes. It has breathed the air of the Lake where Garth and our guests swam in the early warmth of the sun that morning, waited for Mount Raineer to peak now-and-again above the clouds, and watched families move their lives in and out of our neighborhood for over 100 years. The House brought us here to build our community. And the House, like its inhabitants, has a very strong will.
Long live the House party, my friends. And long live the House.
Our finding the House was fate. After realizing that 4 of us needed a place to live at the same time, Mel Sky and I had searched north and south for the perfect pad. Exhausted, we found a few places that were tempting, but didn’t completely fit. A few days later, she and Fishlure set out again. They were excited to check out the new places, but decided they wouldn’t get too excited about the first one if it was good. However, the House, built in the early 1900's, had its own agenda, and once the girls stepped through the front door, it had already pulled them in.
Sixteen months later, the living room would be one of the most delightful dance floors in the city.
I guess I never really thought about the differences between a House party and a Club party. Tho, I did notice the few times where I had entered a club and felt like I was walking into someone’s home. Something about the vibration of the air, the softness of people’s smiles. The idea that even if they didn’t know you at that moment, by the end of the night they would. It’s few and far between that club nights are found like that in Seattle. And yet, I know that it’s an energy that promoters throughout the city are trying to achieve. We leap between liquor laws and strict permits, noise ordinances and neighbor’s complaints. They make it just so damn hard to have a party.
But the force of the Leschi House is hard to resist. It knows nothing of laws. It thrives on people’s conversations and countenance, joining citizens of different cultures to share thoughts on politics, love and art. And the arms of the home at Leschi are reaching further than this beautiful city, drawing artists from the city’s sister on the Bay, San Francisco.
I blame Robb Green.
He moved to the Bay area last year. But before he left, behind the decks on the dance floor of the Leschi Lounge, he named genre that is composed from the core Seattle's character. We call it, Punk Rock Disco. A fusion of rock and dance. What better blend to bring together a city that grew up on Grunge? It has woken up, stretched it’s arms, smoked a bowl, and knocked on our neighbor’s door. And the neighbor has come over to our house to play.
Early Saturday afternoon, I received a text message that I could hardly believe. DJ Garth, a San Franciso House music legend, was staying in town after his previous gig at Trinity Nightclub, and wanted to come to our 13 month-old afterparty to play. I texted back Ramiro, promter and DJ for Uniting Souls, ‘hell yes!’.
It is no coincidence that this happened on exactly the 6-year anniversary weekend of one of the most monumental organizations for House music in Seattle. Uniting Souls has been doing just that for six long years. They have consistently created the energy of a house party and implanted it into clubs throughout the city. Despite all the difficulties of business and bars, they have always been able to bring the love of the music called House into a room and made it thrive. And at 5 o’clock in the morning on Sunday, they were uniting souls in the House in Leschi. And DJ Garth was the glue.
I got pretty bitched out from our neighbor that morning. He and his (pregnant) wife were sleeping soundly on a Saturday night until they were awoken at 2am to the sounds of people walking to and fro a line of cars filling up our street and the next. We’ve reinforced the sound proofing of our windows. You can’t hear the thump of the bass from the street. And we try our best to keep people from talking on their way up the road, but we can only do so much. Those particular neighbors hadn’t complained until they recently cut the hedges in their front yard. I suspect they were wanting to improve their amazing view of Lake Washington & Mount Raineer, but (I) got an earful instead. He spoke with me early the next morning and encouraged us to ‘become part of the community’ if we want to stay in the area and ‘go back to Capital Hill’ if we want to party. I understood his position and listened intently. But all I could think about was, ‘DJ Garth is in my living room’.
And our fair neighbor has no understanding of the implications of this. He has no knowledge of the House music community or the force that the uniting of such an artistic community creates. They want social change and yet they vote time and again on things that keep those that consummate the change apart. I suppose that’s why it’s called an ‘Underground’ community. Maybe he should learn about us and what we stand for and why we open up our home and spend our evenings and weekends creating a space for people who care about our country and our future and the human race as a global community that encompasses every human being on Earth. Maybe we, through voice and art and music, should encourage him and all of our neighbors to ‘become part of the community’ if they want peace and ‘go back to the suburbs’ if they want quiet. Let’s dig ourselves up from the ‘Underground’ and allow each and every person who enters our domain, wherever that may be, feel welcome to join in on what we love – each other.
The House at Leschi has been around longer than any of our neighbors or their homes. It has breathed the air of the Lake where Garth and our guests swam in the early warmth of the sun that morning, waited for Mount Raineer to peak now-and-again above the clouds, and watched families move their lives in and out of our neighborhood for over 100 years. The House brought us here to build our community. And the House, like its inhabitants, has a very strong will.
Long live the House party, my friends. And long live the House.
Friday, July 14, 2006
NEXT GIG: Sat July 14
The walls at the Leschi Lounge afterparty have been
bumpin' every 3rd Saturday for over a year
and we've decided after this weekend
to take a 2 month hiatus.
So THIS MONTH ...
WE'RE STARTING THE PARTY EARLY!
L'Shy Productions, Viva Recordings team up for --
~Leschi Lounge's Creme @ Des Amis Saturdays~
Trevor (Abstract Earth Project)
Jen Woolfe (Leschi Lounge, Session)
Akoma (Our dj and drummer now based in SF!)
21+ , 10pm - 2am, $5
Des Amis (in the cozy basement)
1013 E Pike St. Seattle
Also this weekend!
Fri Jul 14 – DJ Garth w/ Jon Lemmon, Jeromy Nail, Ramiro @ Trinity
Innerflight Music @ Tost
Cherry @ War Room
Sat Jul 15 – Tyler Stadius @ SeeSound Lounge
Sun Jul 16 – Submerge & Innerflight @ Golden Gardens 1p
bumpin' every 3rd Saturday for over a year
and we've decided after this weekend
to take a 2 month hiatus.
So THIS MONTH ...
WE'RE STARTING THE PARTY EARLY!
L'Shy Productions, Viva Recordings team up for --
~Leschi Lounge's Creme @ Des Amis Saturdays~
Trevor (Abstract Earth Project)
Jen Woolfe (Leschi Lounge, Session)
Akoma (Our dj and drummer now based in SF!)
21+ , 10pm - 2am, $5
Des Amis (in the cozy basement)
1013 E Pike St. Seattle
Also this weekend!
Fri Jul 14 – DJ Garth w/ Jon Lemmon, Jeromy Nail, Ramiro @ Trinity
Innerflight Music @ Tost
Cherry @ War Room
Sat Jul 15 – Tyler Stadius @ SeeSound Lounge
Sun Jul 16 – Submerge & Innerflight @ Golden Gardens 1p
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
NEXT GIG: Jacks, Queens & Kings
What I do at a job during the hours of 9-5 doesn't do anything to change people's lives. But what I do after 5pm every day does.
Come see why.
Thursday, July 13
Jacks, Queens & Kings
in the Card Room @ Trinity
DJs Adlib, Vudu & Jen Woolfe
No Cover. Only Cards
See what other people have to say about
us up on nwtekno!
Come see why.
Thursday, July 13
Jacks, Queens & Kings
in the Card Room @ Trinity
DJs Adlib, Vudu & Jen Woolfe
No Cover. Only Cards
See what other people have to say about
us up on nwtekno!
Monday, July 10, 2006
vote 4 me on nwsource
Vote for me on the NWSource People's Choice awards for best blog (or best DJ if you like). There's lots of other great choices to vote on. You can vote one a day till the end of July!
NW Source Best Blog
NW Source Best Blog
Thursday, July 06, 2006
9 out of 10 doctors agree...
In the last few days I’ve noticed a lot of ads for local Hospitals on billboards and busses. My question, though, is why would a Hospital have to spend money on Advertising?
Fri Jul 7
Polyphonic w/ Squid Leader, dj Eddie, Manos @ CHAC
The Femurs & DJ Fishlure @ Skylark Club in West Seattle
Sat Jul 8
Red Dress Extravaganza Burlesque @ Noc Noc
Gene Hunt(Chicago) Loki, DJ Cass (PDX) @ Des Amis
Two NEW Saturday events start this weekend!
- FREE Electronic Saturdays @ ToST ... Seattle & NW Talent
- Afterhours @ Trinity every Saturday ...
Residents Chronus, Eva, Scott Keith, Bryce
Fri Jul 7
Polyphonic w/ Squid Leader, dj Eddie, Manos @ CHAC
The Femurs & DJ Fishlure @ Skylark Club in West Seattle
Sat Jul 8
Red Dress Extravaganza Burlesque @ Noc Noc
Gene Hunt(Chicago) Loki, DJ Cass (PDX) @ Des Amis
Two NEW Saturday events start this weekend!
- FREE Electronic Saturdays @ ToST ... Seattle & NW Talent
- Afterhours @ Trinity every Saturday ...
Residents Chronus, Eva, Scott Keith, Bryce
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