2005.10.31.1019 :: time keeps on slippin

flying to a different time zone for one night and having daylight savings time switch while you're there and partying all night makes your body confused. it's like i flew to louisville and lost an hour, then came home and gained two.

anyway, louisville was awesome. i was expecting to have fun just because my friends were throwing the show, i'd talked jes into coming with and i was playing with derek, but it turned out even better than that. about 500 people showed up and it was a total party all night. the place was full by like 11 and they had to yell for about twenty minutes to get everybody out of there at 5. it's always nice when a crowd is in it for the long haul and just partying and having fun.

i played breakcore for the first time since april when i did my little miami->new york->chicago breakcore stint and it was super fun. i started my set off around 140 and threw in vex'd, some of my grime/dubstep stuff, autechre, etc.. totally fun to play hard but not so fast. having said that, i think i'd worked myself up to 210bpm by the end, but people were still, surprisingly, feeling it— dancing and screaming and all that. sometimes i assume that i'm going to lose a crowd with certain things and they end up being the part that people get most into, but of course sometimes the exact opposite happens too.

friday night in chicago turned out to be a lot of fun too. i'd heard that dj marlboro was in town playing at the mca but that it was the night i was playing in louisville, so i was kind of bummed about that. somehow, nobody mentioned to me until 8pm on friday that he and diplo were playing sonotheque friday night as well. marlboro had stacks and stacks of CD-Rs full of tracks i've never heard before and probably will never hear again and they were all awesome.

it's weird thinking that this is another genre where probably 70% (93% of statistics are made up on the spot) of the tracks will never be properly cataloged and might honestly be lost forever in a few years. i was talking with jes about dubstep last night on the flight home and about how it's one of the most charming/interesting things about the genre and at times also the most frustrating. if you want to hear the newest tracks, you basically have to stay on it every day, checking all the blogs and forums. most tracks are posted only as part of mixes and most mixes are posted to sites like yousendit where they only last for seven days or a certain number of downloads. you either have to live in london so that you can hear a mix on the radio or download it within a week of it being uploaded. so many tracks will never see the light of day, even as a limited 12" release.

after the diplo/marlboro show, i stopped by soundbar for a bit to check out richie hawtin. after such a fun and exciting show, it was kind of hard to get into the hawtin set that much. he was playing a lot of great records and actually mixing better than the last few times i saw him, but it probably didn't help that the place was packed to the point that you had to move every 30 seconds to let somebody by and also that the people working the door were total asshats, as usual. anyway, i still had fun, i probably would've just liked it more if i hadn't just come from marlboro.

oh, and the white sox rally on friday was awesome.