Sala

sa·la: [sah-luh]- noun - large hall, living room, or reception room.

When you were younger, did you ever play your favorite songs of the time and put on a little dance show for your family in your living room? Songs that are played in moments like these often become our guilty pleasures in the future, and you're bound to hear some of them on occasion at 432 parties - since what we're ultimately about is making people feel good and dance.

Living rooms also make me think of house parties. You know, those times where you see your couches and chairs pushed up against the walls to make room for your friends and their friends and their friends' friends to dance and mingle. 432 parties are sort of like that too, since what we started with was hosting parties in bars for our friends and watched as everyone started inviting their friends, and our network just grew and grew.

This is why having our newest party in the basement of a place called Sala is perfect for us. You're meant to come out, feel at home, bring family and friends, and let loose to the music. The only difference this time, at least compared to my house, is that there will also be plenty of Sangria and Spanish decor.

PS - if you're looking for a place to eat that night, Sala's upstairs is a Tapas restaurant. Check out the review at New York Magazine.

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Kickoff summer the right way @ Sala on 5/30/08

Looks like the temp will be in the high 70s on Friday, which is the perfect Temperature for a party we have decided to call Summer Vacation kickoff. We'll be in the downstairs lounge all night playing feel good music. Come shake off the winter and rainy spring weather blues........

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Takin it to the next level - Sound Advice vinyl!!!!!!!!

This is major! My Dj partners from our monthly party Seamless have just dropped three of their productions on a 12" slab of vinyl. Whether you collect vinyl or not, you need to go and cop this. After all, what better way is there to immortalize the Sound Advice productions you've heard come through the speakers at 432 and Sound Advice parties over the past year or so.

I was playing the Bmore Eyed girl track out at gigs (i.e. Uncle Mings) before I even met these guys, so this is pretty exciting. I think they might even be the first DJs that i've ever worked with that have their own official vinyl out (???).

Check it out here:
http://www.turntablelab.com/vinyl/153/258/46010.html

Congratulations guys. Keep grinding.

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Craigslist DJ ads

A couple years ago, as a dj who was slightly more desperate to get gigs, I used to scout out postings on craigslist. While I had one or two successful tries at getting gigs there, it ended up actually being more valuable for a laugh, since most of the gigs posted there are either for fairly ridiculous situations or for practically negative compensation (i'm sure all you photographers and artists out there can relate to this notion).

I still happen to catch a doozy from time to time, via an RSS feed for DJ on the site, and today my eyes caught one of the best i've seen in a while:


Subject: I NEED A DJ ASAP FOR A 2 PERSON PARTY PLEASE READ HEADLINE (CHEAPEST GUY)
Text: I M HAVING PROBLEMS WITH MY LANDLORD AN THE OTHER TENANT EVERYTMORNING THEY LEAVE HE VACUUM RUNING FOR TWO HOURS SO I DECIDED TO FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE . IM LOOKIN TO HAVE A DJ COME BY AN PLAY LOUD MUSIC FOR ABOUT TWO HOURS SEND ME A PRICE

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Pictures from SEAMLESS, 5/10/08

Well, what can I say. Another successful installment of Seamless. Despite the absence of Elsewhere and most of Varghese's crew (big thanks to those that came out even though V wasn't there), K-ross and I still managed to turn up the heat and keep rumps shaking until 4am. With that level of energy at that time of night, its always so hard to hear the security guards telling us to shut down the music.

Here are a few picture highlights. More can be seen here.

See you next month.

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Where you from?

Bruce Springsteen was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame on May 4, 2008. Here's my favorite excerpt of his speech:

...........So let me finish with a Garden State benediction. Rise up my fellow New Jerseyans, for we are all members of a confused but noble race. We, of the state that will never get any respect. We, who bear the coolness of the forever uncool. The chip on our shoulders of those with forever something to prove. And even with this wonderful Hall of Fame, we know that there's another bad Jersey joke coming just around the corner.

But fear not. This is not our curse. It is our blessing. For this is what imbues us with our fighting spirit. That we may salute the world forever with the Jersey state bird [as he raised his middle finger], and that the fumes from our great northern industrial area to the ocean breezes of Cape May fill us with the raw hunger, the naked ambition and the desire not just to do our best, but to stick it in your face. Theory of relativity anybody? How about some electric light with your day? Or maybe a spin to the moon and back? And that is why our fellow Americans in the other 49 states know, when the announcer says "and now in this corner, from New Jersey...." they better keep their hands up and their heads down, because when that bell rings, we're coming out swinging.

God Bless the Garden State.

{star ledger}

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human giant

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5/10/08

It's Going Down!!!!!!!!!!

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