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!
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?
Yeah, this is how we're trying to get down tonight:
James Brown: "Papa Don't Take No Mess" live on Soul Train
Biz Markie - The Vapors (samples "Papa Don't Take No Mess")
Happy holidays everyone! If i don't see you tomorrow at Uncle Mings, then i'll see you in the New Year. I'm off to Switzerland and France for a little vacation.
HALLA!
PS - sorry if this post is a little non-sensical, but i had just been reading an article that mentioned Soprano (artist in video above), remembered liking his video on my last trip to France, and thought about my upcoming trip to France.......
As you may or may not know, Prof. Rockwell will be blessing us with his DJ talent at our party on 12/20 at Uncle Mings. As a preview of what's to come, check out this mix he did of early 90s hip hop (set originally played at Blow Your Horn party at Hope Lounge in June).
Prof. Rockwell - Blow Your Horn Mix
I'll be DJing at Sugar Lounge in Brooklyn for one Saturday per month from now on. Hopefully by next month we'll have it locked down to a specific Saturday, i.e. first or second. But in the meantime, come check it out tomorrow.
It's a nice low-key vibe where you can enjoy some good food and drinks while hearing me play a slightly different type of set than at other parties (you know, more for lounging than dancing and partying).
This is what they're saying about us..........
NYPress says:
Another Long Weekend
You're still trying to wash off all that wholesome family goodness? This Thursday doesn't involve fowl play, just dancing. 432 Promotions presents its monthly dance event, The Long Weekend, complete with cheap drinks and music from DJ OP! and DJ Knomad. Uncle Mings, 225 Avenue B, 2nd Fl. (betw. 13th & 14th Sts.), 212-979-8506; 9, free.
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TimeOut NY Says:
It will be a long weekend indeed if you start it off tonight at East Village hideaway Uncle Ming's, where Suite 903's OP! and 432 Promotions' DJ Knowmad hit the decks for a night of hip-hop, reggae, disco, soul and classics. For more info, go to myspace.com/432thursdays.
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FREENYC Says:
On the last Thursday of each month 432 Promotions has been dancing the night away at Uncle Mings. Free entry, cheap drinks, and good music all night long at what was formerly illegal after-hours spot in the East Village. Music from OP! and DJ Knomad keep ya movin'.
(Link)
If the mood hits me right and the people on the dancefloor are feeling it right, I might just start dropping joints like this on Thursday:
The Supremes - I'm Gonna Let My Heart Do The Walking
This Thursday I'll be joined on the turntables by OP! at our monthly Uncle Mings event. In preparation for that, here is a mix that he recently did for the Heineken Red Star Soul Tour. This mix is one of about 20 DJ mixes made for the tour, and each mix was done by a different DJ. It's great to see OP! on a list of such high profile DJs!
OP! - Suite 903 # 14
Also, check out OP!'s myspace here.
This Thursday is going to be real fun.
Last Saturday we joined forces with Sound Advice at Supreme Trading and had a blast. Well one half of Sound Advice, K-Ross, is also part of a group called Ninjasonik that is starting to take the NYC live show world by storm. I can't quite describe it - somewhere between electro, punk, and crunk is the first thing that comes to mind.
Either way, i laughed out loud several times watching this video from their Knitting factory show on October, 23rd.
They want me to start it off with the 80s and then work from there until i get up to present hits. It will almost be like your whole life in music flashing by you. Should be fun:
On behalf of 432, I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who came out to Supreme Trading on Saturday. I personally had a blast, and based on the dancefloor, it seems like everyone else did too.
An extra special thanks goes out to K-Ross, Elsewhere, and the Supreme Trading staff. We hope you'll have us back again soon!
If anybody has pictures, please send them our way. And if you get a chance, give the event a review and rate it over on Going.com.
I personally rated it 5 stars.
From Varghese:
To all those who shook for us, I offer this:
We've been talking about this for awhile, but now it's official. For 432 as a team, this is our FIRST BROOKLYN JAM as well as being our FIRST PARTY ON A SATURDAY. It was only a matter of time till we blew up BK considering that we, along with most of our friends, live here. We got love for our manhattanites, but we've been itching to do this for a minute.
...and what better people to help us rock the boro than our boys from Sound Advice. For anyone that was at Uncle Mings on 9/27, you saw how K-Ross and Knomad got the floor jumpin with their tag team dj set. Take that vibe, add in 2 other ill DJs, put us at a bigger spot in Williamsburg with its own solid crowd, throw in the 432 crew, and you've got one crazy ass party on your hands. For those of you that haven't been to Supreme Trading, check out their space. It's pimp.
So to keep you fiending, there's a mix below that the Sound Advice DJ's put together a while back. Check it out and then head over to their website for more beats.
Sound Advice - Play Anything Mix
Knomad Edit: I don't speak about myself in the third person. Varghese edited my post!
I hope some of you were able to get them while they were free.
Triple Crown, one of the best lounges in BK is on the verge of shutting its doors; if the local community board in the area would allow it that is. Seems they are intent on driving the owners into bankruptcy, rather than allowing them to sell and move on. Click below to find out what you can do to lend a hand.
Can I Live?! A Benefit for Triple Crown
@ Triple Crown (108 Bedford Avenue at N. 11th Street, Williamsburg)
1:00PM - 9:00PM
Sunday, October 28th
FREE admission
DJs
Alec D (Grayv)
DJ Chino
Cosmo Baker & DJ Ayres (The Rub)
Duane & DJ Lindsey (Negroclash)
DJ Jaclyn (The Bangers)
Large Professor (Main Source)
DJ Myles (Triple Crown)
Queen Majesty (Deadly Dragon)
Thanksgiving Brown (Female Fun Records)
Uncle Mike (Garden Seeker Productions)
Video and Photos by The New Pop
Sponsored by: SHQ, The New Pop, Soundgirl, Breathe Inn, Good Peoples. Kilo Goods, Ladies Lotto, Surface 2 Air, Zoo York & Worship Worthy
Here’s the abridged version of the Triple Crown story:
Triple Crown bar in Williamsburg has been plagued with sound issues due to neighbor complaints since we opened our doors on August 6, 2004. Due to an overwhelming amount of police and task force visits and fines we decided to shut our doors and sell the business. We are on our second buyer and for the second time the community board has voted against the sale of the bar despite complaints about noise. We have reached a deadlock situation since we cannot open without receiving fines and we have another 6 years (with a 5 year option) left on our lease but no money left to run the business. All of the owners work elsewhere to pay our own rent and the rent of the bar because the community board and police have bullied us to close with the exception of a sporadic event or two. The few neighbors who complain and the non elected community board voters are spitefully pushing Triple Crown out of business. It of course was never our intention to upset anyone and now after putting, an additional $40k into reconfiguring the sound/soundproofing and our own wedding gift money just to pay bills, we just want out. The New York City Department of Small Business Services have recommended we have a petition ready to give to the state liquor authority. This event is to get people out to sign a petition in support of Triple Crown and our character as owners of this business. Please come out and show your support to us as we only opened Triple Crown as a venue for good music in the city. Community Board 1, CAN WE LIVE?!
We will be there doing what we do best, we’ve received a great amount of support from our family and friends and we have some pretty great things to raffle off, things to eat and drink and of course DJs and good music.
And then here’s the long one, full-on pity extravaganza:
I am a small-business owner in Williamsburg, I co-own a bar called Triple Crown with two other young men, Kit Tipley and Michael Pappalardo. The bar was our joint dream and first hopeful business venture, into which we collectively invested all of our own hard-earned money into. Sadly, however, our dreams and vision for our bar have gone awry, due to conflicts with our local community board with whom we seem to be in a deadlock for resolution. To appease everyone and save ourselves from total financial demise, we have decided to close shop and sell the business. The community board, however, refuses to allow us to sell the space and seems to discourage potential buyers from continuing with its purchase. I am writing to entreat you to please help us by stopping by the bar on Sunday to sign the petition, so that we can all get on with our lives and bring an end to any more conflicts.
The sound issues with Triple Crown led to us spend an additional $40,000 to improve the sound issues by; hiring a sound engineer to set the sound system so that all of the adjacent apartments were under the decibel level that the DEP has set as the legal limit, installed additional quiet rock to the walls of the bar, offered to put all of the neighbors in the adjacent apartments in hotels while quiet rock was installed in their individual units (this offer was declined), replaced the entire sound system with a new quieter system with a limiter that DJs could not touch, hired a door man to keep smoking patrons quiet and away from the property. We even closed the business every day except for Wednesday – Saturday to try to minimize the amount of nights that we made noise. For a while that seemed to appease the neighbors, but even then that wasn’t enough.
We found our first buyer fall 2006, a reputable businessman who owns a few other local businesses. He wanted to open a quiet café/bar. The sale of the bar and the transfer of the liquor license had to be approved by the community board and we attended the meeting to see the outcome of the vote. To our surprise one woman (who doesn’t live in the community but whose father lives next door to the bar) had rallied up a petition and a large number of people in the neighborhood to fight against the sale of the bar. They even made up “no Triple Crown” t-shirts. Before CB1 could even vote on the sale that night, the buyer— who was very afraid of making these people angry at him due to his other businesses in the neighborhood—pulled out of the sale publicly in the middle of the meeting.
We found another buyer December 2007 and the same thing is happening again. We have been in contract and everything else has been approved for over 8 months. CB1 met Wednesday 10/10 to vote on this point and 7 voted no and 6 voted yes the others did not vote at all. They said they would possibly re-vote next month if the new buyer agrees to certain terms. On September 28, 2007 there was a story in the Williamsburg Courier about this issue. They interviewed a member of the community board and she openly admitted that they want to drive us out of business out of spite. She admitted to knowing that the first buyers have good reputations but because of the bar’s loud “hip hop music” and us being unwilling to quiet down his association with us made the sale “dubious.” They have known about this pending sale for months now and if they had any terms for this new buyer they most certainly could have made them clear before this month’s meeting. This was a cleanly run business by very honest people who stand to lose EVERYTHING. It’s not a matter of starting over if the bar doesn’t get sold; it’s a matter of digging ourselves out of a massive hole due to this harassment from the community.
The bar is now closed with the exception of one or two nights a month to help pay the rent. The rest of the rent is coming out of our own pockets, we are all working double shifts to make this happen and after 8 months of this and our wedding in August we are barely making it. I am just confused as to how denying the sale and driving us out of business and setting us back years financially is the answer to a noisy bar issue. If they were unhappy with the noise then it would seem that they would approve of the sale and everyone could move on with their lives. The next possible community board meeting is November 8. We are in need of your assistance before that date. We are having a party at the bar to gather names from the community and friends for the state liquor authority. Please show your support for us and come by on Sunday, October 28th to sign the petition.
CB1, CAN WE LIVE!?
We have also listed some of our local representatives, if you feel strongly about this issue please take a minute and them an email or write them a letter. It would make a huge difference for us and our families.
NYC Council District - 33
Council Member: David Yassky
114 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
yassky@council.nyc.ny.us
NY Senate District - 17
Senator: Martin Malave Dilan
786 Knickerbocker Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11207
dilan@senate.state.ny.us
US House District - 12
Representative: Nydia M. Velazquez
266 Broadway, Suite 201
Brooklyn, NY 11211
(718) 599 - 3658
US Senator: Charles E. Schumer
757 3rd Avenue, Suite 17-02
New York, NY 10017
web email form: link
NY City Mayor: Michael R. Bloomberg
City Hall
New York, NY 10007
web email form:
link
Thank You,
Myles Tipley
Kit Tipley, Mike Pappalardo, & Lindsey Caldwell-Tipley
Even though there are only three contributors listed on this blog, it often takes more than the three of us to pull off all of the work that is required from month to month to do what we do. One example of work that goes beyond our scope is the flyers that we use to promote our events.
For example, this month's flyer was designed by an artist who goes by Paper Monster. He normally does stencil and graffiti art, but he decided to take a stab at flyer design this month by using one of his own images and adding the text of the party. The images in this post include that flyer and other examples of his work.
If you like what you see, check him out at http://www.papermonster.org or http://papermonster.wordpress.com/
