In honor of the closest a brown has gotten to the white house

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Long Weekend / Gordon Gatrell Radio

Well, its Monday morning and i'm going on about 10-12 hours of sleep for the entire weekend combined. Other than that, I had a good time and want to say thanks to everyone for coming out to the parties I was playing at - especially Sala this past Friday.

I managed to take a few pictures the other night, so i'll try to get some of them uploaded soon.

Also, big thanks to Brainchild for coming down and guest spinning with me. For those that liked his style, check him out on his new internet radio show called Gordon Gatrell radio that he's doing with Phonte from the group Little Brother. Its bound to be a nice mix of good music and funny banter:

Gordon Gartrell Radio

Up next in the wacky world of DJing, i'll be playing at a High School Prom this week. Then next week, it will be already time for Seamless again!

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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.

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human giant

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5/10/08

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

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lostpig@coachella.com

Organizers of a major California music festival are offering a $10,000 reward and four festival tickets for life in exchange for ex-Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters' two-story inflatable pig, which was lost on Sunday night.

The giant flying pig, part of Pink Floyd's stage show since their 1977 album "Animals" featuring the song "Pigs on the Wing," broke free from its tethers above the Coachella crowd and drifted off.

It's not the first time Waters has lost his flying pig. Back in 1977, it floated away on the second day of a photo shoot at the Battersea Power Station in London and was later recovered and used for an album cover.

Anyone with information on the lost pig, should email lostpig@coachella.com.

{reuters}

UPDATE:

The pig was found by a couple who thought it was trash on their driveway and threw it out only to hear the news reports and let festy organizers know that they had it.

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Smell it

From my one of the maestros at Seamless, Elsewhere:

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4/12/08

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Prohibition & Dylan

April 7 marks the day that in 1933 the US government repealed the 18th amendent to allow the sale of alcohol. Also.....


Today Bob Dylan became the 1st ever rock musician to be awarded a Pulitzer Prize. The 66-year-old Dylan won the special music citation for his "profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power." In 1999, the Pulitzer board gave a posthumous citation to jazz great Duke Ellington "in recognition of his musical genius," while another special posthumous citation went to jazzman Thelonious Monk in 2006. Two other jazz artists won regular Pulitzers in music, Wynton Marsalis for a jazz oratorio in 1997 and Ornette Coleman last year.

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Feel the Funk

Seamless isn't until next weekend (be ready!), but there's plenty to do this weekend as well.......

Saturday 4/5

I'll be DJing at Sugar Lounge this Saturday night (for the 2nd Saturday in a row) starting at 10pm. Come check out this spot in the tucked away Columbia Street waterfront neighborhood in Brooklyn. I'll be playing a little of everything but current hip hop, so come out and relax in the nice atmosphere. If the weather is warm, this place also has an amazing back garden area.

Directions: F train to Carroll St., then walk west down Union until you hit Columbia St. At Columbia make a right and walk to 147 Columbia St.

Sunday 4/6

On Sunday night, head down to Bembe in Williamsburg to check out my good friend Eric's funk band Out of Pockets. They'll be putting on a free show starting at 9. Check out their myspace for details and some music samples. The flyer is below:

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Single-ish

A friend of mine has just become the male blogger for Glamour magazines dating blog. Check out his page for what he describes as "embarrassing stories, brutal honesty, and gratuitous personal revelations."

Seriously, its guaranteed to be a good read. And ladies, if you ever see him out at a 432 event, ask him out on a date and become famous as the story is relived on the Glamour magazine website!

Here's the pic he chose for his first post (its really his halloween outfit):

Here's him surveying potential dates at a 432 event in January:

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Party shots from Seamless, 03/08/08

Thanks to everyone who came out for another successful installment of Seamless. We had a great turnout and a real fun night, in spite of the crazy weather earlier in the day. If only that spring forward didn't cause us to shut down early. We could have kept rocking for hours.

Shout out to DJ Herbert and E-Rock for passing through. Nice to meet you guys.

Check out some pictures below:




A lot more pictures here.

PS - I promise to make another post (or more) before the next event picture post. It's been too long.

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March 8 @ Supreme Trading

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432 and Sound Advice on 1/12/08

Wow, Saturday night was a blast at Supreme Trading in Williamsburg. Thanks to everyone who came out, regulars and new folks alike. There were definitely a lot of crazy dancefloor moments, and luckily, for the first time in a longtime, we had some cameras flashing. Here's a few pictures. If you want to check out even more, look at the event's going.com page here.

What a good way to kick off our new monthly party!

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I am Wonder Mike Nutter, and i'd like to say hello

Check out this video of Mayor Michael Nutter of Philly performing Rapper's Delight. He really gets down starting at the one minute mark!



Use this as inspiration to get down at our next event this Saturday.

PS - is that ?uestlove on the wheels?

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