Wanted to do a little recap on the Surya Dub 2 year. It was truly incredible, one of the best shows I’ve ever been involved with. By the numbers it was probably between 450 and 500 people, so one of our best turnouts … but in addition to that it was solidly packed from the beginning to the end. There was still a solid crowd of 50 when we kicked everyone out at 3AM. As always the crowd was super diverse, dreads, hipsters, hommies, style-y latina women, burners, dudes with money, dudes with nothing, and lots and lots of people who we see at many of our events, and many more that we don’t.

Particular highlights were playing a 1/2 hour roots set upstairs to kick things off, getting into a lot of my Horace Andy and White Mice… Hearing Collage be the best damn MC out there… Watching Gaslamp Killer go absolutely bizerk, and then hearing people musing “hmmm, I really didn’t expect him to play so much dubstep…” … Maneesh smiling (since he’s often the stress ball of the crew) … All of 2562′s solid solid set, which included the awesome Untold track “Just for You”, my musical highlight of the night … getting to play Menta’s “Sounds of the Future” for a late night crowd … and of course a lot of very nice compliments from people like DJ G, Sitar, Shockman, Eskmo, Iris, and many many others.

There are some videos and pics below, the first shot by a professional who is friends with our VJs Contact, the second of GLK’s performance, and the 3rd (only slightly embarrassingly) of the transition between GLK and 2562 (with me talking). And as for the next Surya Dub? It’s a bit up in the air at the moment … it’s not going to be for a little while, Surya Dub crew is actually meeting tomorrow to determine the fate of the event… but watch this space for info, and in the mean time the crew will do stuff on the road and as individuals. Thanks though to all who have supported the diverse sound so far, we’ll definitely keep it live!

All the following photos are courtesy of Kelly Koehler, our in house photographer, who is the bee’s knees.