After all that intense music and dancing last night, i'm definitely in the mood for some more mellow vibes this morning.
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/event/clubs/300888/the-long-weekend
IT'S MY BIRTHDAY SO NO EXCUSES ON THIS ONE!
Dwine says he wants house music. Is the 432 crowd ready for it? I personally think so. At the last couple parties i've used the latter portion of the night to "test" records that i don't get to play at a lot of other gigs, including house music and various other types of dance music. These have been those moments where people stayed on the dancefloor until after 4am.
Up until now our parties have definitely had a hip hop focus, and i never want to completely get away from that. But we do want the party to represent good music from all genres.
Dwine's video posting of a House music band reminded me to post up a video of one of the hottest current disco bands based out of Brooklyn named Escort. They've really been doing their thing and this is a cool video featuring the Muppets. Check it out and look to hear sounds like this at 432 parties in the near future:
On this day 19 years ago, high on PCP and brandishing a shotgun, James Brown interrupts an insurance seminar next door to his business office in Augusta, Georgia and accuses the attendees of using his private restroom. The resulting 90-minute interstate pursuit ends only after police shoot out his truck tires. The Godfather of Soul ends up serving two years in prison. I briefly uploaded a live mix the other day, but i decided to take it down and do a new one. Below is the result:
DJ Knomad - Live at Home 9-15
This will most likely be included in some random promotional bags at DCTV on Wednesday, but I wanted to give the 432 readers a sneak preview.
Jackson Jones - I Feel Good (Pilooski edit)
Pilooski - Can't There be Love
Marco Polo - Nostalgia feat. Masta Ace
Jazzy Jeff - Brand New FUnk feat. Peedi Peedi
Red Astaire - Move Yo Ass
Beatconductor - Rocksteady Skank
20th Century Steel Band - Heaven and Hell (Knomad live edit)
Eli Escobar - Heavenly Break
Dj Cash Money and Marvaless - Ugly People Be Quiet
Treacherous Three - New Rap Language
Roy Ayers - Love Will Bring Us Back Together Again
Prince - Hot Thing
Gwen Guthrie - Hopscotch
Poets of Rhythm - Ham Gallery
Wale - Good Girl (Cousin Cole Remix)
Escort - Starlight
Stevie Wonder - All I DO (U-Tern disco edit)
This has been moved from Thursday 9/20 to Friday 9/21, 7pm - 9pm.
It is a benefit for The Building Fund which is a non-profit organization founded in 2005 that works to create and sustain global opportunities in education. Currently, the organization is dedicated to funding the capital and operating expenses of The Tuskegee International School of Ghana, West Africa.
Please join us for drink specials, hor d'oeurves, special guest DJ Knomad and silent auction prizes including a year membership to MoMA, New York theater tickets, a week stay in Las Vegas, and more!
Venue:
Retreat Lounge
37 W 17th St
New York, NY
RSVP: Please visit http://www.tbf.eventbrite.com
$20 at the door, $15 for students
(100% OF PROCEEDS DO DIRECTLY TO THE BUILDING FUND)
For more info on the organization visit: http://thebuildingfund.org/index.shtml
This isn't a 432 Promotions event, but i have a lot of connections at this agency PLUS i'm DJing the after party, so i thought that that was worthy enough for a blog posting.
Anyway - all NYC area based film and video heads should come through and check out the DCTV Open House on Wednesday 9/19. Details are here. They'll have presentations, workshops, equipment tests, plus free food and drinks to go along with it. After 9pm i'll be hitting the decks and we'll turn it into a party.
Just don't party too hard because you'll have to save some energy for Retreat Lounge the next day and Uncle Mings the next week (see our event links up top).
Venue:
DCTV
87 Lafayette St. (b/w walker and white) in Manhattan.
PS - I met my wife at one of their events. There might be magic in the air for you too.
PPS - Those dj hands in the flyer are not mine.
Did you know that one of our frequent DJ collaborators ESE produced a track for them on his compilation "The Bedford Files?"
Check it out:
Zion I - Building Blocks
Also, to check out more of ESE's music and artists like Zion I, see the Embedded website here.
These guys are my favorite hip hop crew hands down. And they rip it live tho they unfortunately were not on the Rock the Bells lineup in their home city. San Francisco Rock the Bells review coming soon....
A lot of people are complaining about the state of hip hop these days (myself included), but there IS good hip hop music being made. You just have to look for it.
Below are two videos that my boy Theo worked on (check his name in the credits!). These are just two examples of some good hip hop joints that have come out in the past few months. Check them out and then go buy the albums.
I dug up a mix i did back in the summer of 05, which at that point was one of my favorite recorded "practice mixes" yet. It ended up being used as a demo for a few places and was right around the time that i organized a party at the now closed Star 64/Starfoods. Due to the nature of the business, the owner of the bar probably never listened to the mix - he was more concerned with numbers of people and how much they spent - but i still associate it with that time anyway.
I'll post up a new mix sometime soon, i swear.
DJ Knomad - Summer 05 mix
The flyer:
This past Thursday wasn't as crowded as our usual parties(Labor Day vacations?), but the people that came were ready to party and dance the night away. Thanks for bringing that good energy everyone! Below are some pictures that were taken on my camera by some friends/family of mine:
A couple more here
