Just a few bits, don’t have a lot coherent to offer this week, been preparing for some amazing travels that I’ll blog about when they happen.

Been listening to the Coolie High instrumental on repeat for about three hours straight. Best thing to hypnosis out to. Here’s the video of the actual song, classic ’93 Til Infinity style beat.

Martin gives his thoughts on visiting a former home town of mine. Awesome to read his interpretation. Yup, American’s are obsessed with money.

Durrty Goodz’s “Keep Up” continues to wow me a month after I heard it on Mary Anne Hobbs’s show. It’s the first song in his myspace player. Grime with humor, go figure.

danah reflects a month later on the dust up/broohaha around her earlier posts. Required reading if you followed the first round. In ya corner.

Bouncement 2 is happening in Boston, as Riddimmethod/Beat Research wages continual war against Boston’s conservative club scene. Wayne writes about it and rupture will be there along with other cool cats!

This Saturday is just nutty in SF, there’s a huge laughing squid party, Guru, an XLR8R party at 111 Minna, M.I.A., Incite at RX (if it happens), and numerous other wine tastings, private parties, and the like. It’s sometimes hard for those of us at Surya Dub to compete, so any bodies in the room tomorrow are especially welcomed, and I’m sure that Juju, Sharmaji, and Irie Dole will bring the fire. I’m on first downstairs, from 10:45-11:35, so if you come to see me, you’ll get in for just $7!

Also, I’m playing on Western Addition Radio from 9-11 tomorrow with DJ Audio1, bringing a mixture of Grime, Dubstep, and B-more!!!! Can’t wait, got some gems, and it’ll be nice to jam with Audio1 for the first time. Subtek will be there too as usual. Tune in if you’re in the city on 93.7 or via the web.

And, in honor of Ripley posting a photo about a bug (not The Bug, although he’ll be in the states soon), I thought I’d post one of my own. Dopest license plate of the year as far as I’m concerned, and I saw this after just having reading a lot of post-Gramsci thinkers.

PS – Check out Antonio on Myspace!

Sad events. Following the heals of his partner Theresa Duncan’s suicide, Jeremy Blake, the video artist, seems to have killed himself by walking into the ocean. He is still listed as missing but his found wallet and a suicide note seem to confirm that he’s gone. I had met Jeremy a couple times, most significantly when he came to Wesleyan to give a talk as part of a lecture series my adviser at the time organized. I was totally dazzled by his work and personality, large and small scale digital creations, morphing panels of light and color. I remember thinking at the time “Wow, this is like the stereotype of art that you might see in cheesy sci-fi films, and yet it’s a) happening right now in real life and b) not cheesy at all and in fact completely hypnotic.” While I never went on to make physical art like I thought I might at that time, Blake’s stuff stuck with me forever. Now he’s gone, and I’m reminded of finite nature of our existence again, something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently in light of a recent birthday. That is, “wow, that year past, that’s the only year I get to be 27.” Now I have to adjust that and think “that’s all the Jeremy Blake the world gets, and all the love in the world didn’t save him.” Finite lives, too finite. He’ll be missed by someone he doesn’t even probably remember meeting, but on whom he had meaningful impact.

In less sad news, I’m working on my first significant genre bending mix in a year, closest in spirit to Absolutely and Even More Shocking. It’ll be released as a Shotgun Wedding, paired with the awesome Maga Bo. I’m trying to push my style to the logical extreme, something happening every minute of the mix, since the series is the place that welcomes extremes. Hyphy, Breakcore and Rock form the foundation, but a little bit of other stuff is in there as well. More news as it comes on that, although other mixes will probably be out before that one.

Got some e-mail from the organizers of Pop Montreal, looks like the first round of announcements has been made about line up, and it looks dope. The line up includes much of the gang from Soot Records (dj/rupture, Filastine, and Maga Bo)… and maybe Kid Kameleon too? To be seen…

My friends Incite are in SF from Hamburg, doing video and live sound, and they’ve got three shows here, the first being at a spot called Three Pieces on Sutter and Larkin. Check ‘em out!

Totally jonzing for it. Plastician AKA Plasticman was what got me into dubstep AND grime for real, and I think he remains my favorite producer in the scene, for the combination of three reasons: 1) Because he kind of falls in both and at the same time neither scene and 2) His stuff is genuinely weird, it goes all over the place, mashes up strange samples, makes use of crazy synths and patches that no one else does and 3) is totally geared around making people DANCE. He and Mark One rolled through the now defunct Volume in Brooklyn in March of 2004 and blew my mind with 2 1.5 hour tag team sets. 3 hours of beats I’d NEVER heard which made one of the diversest crews I’ve seen at a show dance dance dance. AND AND!!!! NO MCs for almost the entire night, except when Joe Nice‘s friend got up on the mic for a bit. Not too many rewinds either, so a very solid flow established. Just perfect. It’s stayed with me ever since. ’04 and ’05 had me buying everything and loving what Chris put out, and for the last 18 months there really hasn’t been much, just the great EP on N19 (check Boomkat for samples) and a whisper of an album now for over a year. Apparently it’s called “Beg to Differ” and there’s been an album release party already. Mark One’s already two albums in, Chris if you read this, you’re biggest fan is waiting patiently! If anyone has info, please post it in the comments. Terrorhythm, his label and website, is down ATM, so don’t go looking there for answers. But he does have a recent podcast from his radio show up here though, grab it!

UPDATE: The Man himself sets the record straight in the comments, and boy is it ever a long involved story. Check it, and check the album out soon!

Picking up on the rock theme…

It’s fun being 28, in the sense that now people I know from highschool and college create things that that have … maybe not impact in a way, although there’s some of that too, but tangible results. My friend Bex, always kind of a powerhouse, has been linked up with VH1 since she graduated, and I recently came across her page and in turn the video she directed for The Long Winters (above). The Long Winters aren’t really the kind of band I’d find in my day to day musical travels, and yet I love stuff like this. I must have listened to this song 200 times since I got it. It’s pure, fun, awesomely satisfying pop, something that could have been made 10 years ago or yesterday, and I feel like I listen to it in a different way than lots of the other stuff I’m into. Like, as in singing along. Plus the video is fun, and except for one shot uses entirely members of the band, which is totally a situation I’ve been around before, everyone does everything on the shoot.

More “people out of my past who know do interesting things in the music/art/film world” to come (although I’m still taking in fullly that my bandmate guitarist Nick Rowe is now in what seemes like a pretty big deal metal band. Freakin’ rawk!!!!!

I’ve been reinvestigating my rock side recently. Perhaps it was the odd majesty of seeing Steely Dan in Boston a month ago.

From the show:

Yes, I did pay more money to see this concert than any in the last 5 years. It was worth it it, but I’m not sure if it was REALLY worth it. I felt this time like I was slightly laughing AT them instead of WITH them. They’re a bunch of sexist old coots. Their songs live just don’t sound as good as they do recorded (which is why they never toured when they were in their prime.) The one thing I liked and that has improved with age is that Fagen’s voice has gotten more and more … whatever it is that his voice is… that crazy flat whine that that sounds like cloth scraping across an 80 year old leather couch. The notes that he never hits and gets even further from now, and yet sound all the better because of it. Perhaps thinking about Steely Dan threw me back to my youth, to the last time I saw them, when I drove an hour and half from Winston-Salem to Raleigh on July 6th, 1996 (my 16th birthday) to see them at Walnut Creek (not the California one), meeting up with members of my band Nick and Victor to revel in the beautiful multi-layered ironic wankery. It was all magical and vaguely subversive to be into them at the time, when everyone was listening to The Lemonheads and Sonic Youth. I was into electronic music then, but rock was still important, and I think somehow I’m gaining that back. I find myself as likely to listen to Ratatat or The Coral Sea these days for fun as I am to anyone’s mixtape.

But who know’s if I’ll feel the same next week. Only a fool would say that.

UPDATE:
I had forgotten that this existed, but someone kept a tour diary for Steely Dan for that tour. Here’s everything you might ever want to know (ha) about that particular show, down to what amp everyone played their instruments through. Oh, and it looks like I was wrong, it was July 7th, the day after my birthday, and I was 17, which makes sense, I didn’t remember driving an hour and a half on the day I would have gotten my lisence.

Here’s the set list (I remember “Green Earings” being particularly, surprisingly good):

Set One:
Do It Again, Bad Sneakers, Everyone’s Gone to the Movies, Peg, Jack of Speed, Any Major Dude, Green Earrings, My Waterloo, Green Flower Street

Set Two:
East St. Louis Toodle-Oo, Glamour Profession, Wetside Story, Cash Only Island, Midnight Cruiser, Black Cow, Home At Last, Kid Charlemagne

Encore:
IGY, Rikki Don’t Lose that Number

If anyone has the setlist for the 1st Boston show (May 07), let me know

A mess of shows coming up. Best to consolidate all the information here where it can be festooned with pretty pictures.

MAY 23RD, 2007 (Wednesday)

Pole LIVE
with DJ sets by Kode 9 and Kid Kameleon
Wednesday May 23, 10pm
San Francisco
$12 presale $15 door

Tickets and more info available here:
http://sensory-perception.net

MAY 24TH, 2007 (Thursday)

Kode 9 LIVE & DJ
with Badawi LIVE
Thursday May 24, 10pm
San Francisco
$12 presale $15 door

for more info and tickets visit:
http://sensory-perception.net

MAY 25TH, 2007 (Friday) – NOT PLAYING, DEFINITELY GOING

FULL MELT
The return of two of Dubstep’s most respected producers…
“if your chest ain’t rattlin’, it ain’t happenin’ !”

DISTANCE (Planet Mu, Boka, Hotflush, Rinse FM – UK)
PINCH (Tectonic, Planet Mu, Subloaded – UK)
JUJU (NacoHz)
ATOMIKDOG (Full Melt) Live Set
RIPPLE (Full Melt)
THE ANTISERUM (Viral, Full Melt)
With special guest MC JUAKALI
KUSH ARORA (KushArora.com) Live Dub Set
ZAPPER (Full Melt, Ooze System) Live Set
MR ROGERS (Full Melt, Ooze System)
BERTZERKER (Ataraxia, Full Melt)
LUD DUB (NetAmp Radio, Cosmic Vibe)

@ JELLY’S NIGHTCLUB PIER 50
295 Terry Francois Blvd – San Francisco
$10 Before 11 PM, $15 After
Sound by ADDICTECH & SUBSCIENCE
Visuals by VJ Science and EYE & EYE

MAY 26TH, 2007 (Saturday) – WON’T BE IN SF, BUT IF *YOU* ARE, COME OUT!

SURYA DUB @ Club Six
Global Dubwize Vibes & Dread Bass Culture

This month Surya Dub celebrates the CD Release of resident Kush Arora’s 3rd Album “From Brooklyn to SF”! Also appearing alongside Kush is New York MC Juakali!

And to round out the night are Special Guests Raz Mesinai (aka Badawi/Sub Dub) as well as Lady Ra (Beats Without Borders, Vancouver )!

Sub Hz Den
Dubstep, Dread Bass Breaks & D’n'B, Ragga.
KUSH ARORA CD Release Party featuring Juakali (Dub War, Sub Swara)
RAZ MESINAI (Asphodel, ROIR, the Agriculture)
Plus Residents:
Maneesh the Twister (Dhamaal, Dub Mission), & Ripley (havoc sound)

Video DJ Ohashi

Inna Yard
Special Guest: LADY RA (Beats Without Borders)
plus Residents:
DJ Amar (Electric Vardo)
Ross Hogg & DJ Neta (Ital Selection Hi-Fi)

Club Six
Saturday, May 26th, 2007
60 6th St between Mission & Market
21 + : $7 before 11pm/ $10 after: 10:00pm-3:00am
415.863.1221

MAY 26TH, 2007 (Saturday) – WILL BE AT THIS ONE

Imagine a world where people of all races cannot dance in synch to the same
song…a world where people of all creeds cannot do the grapevine….a world
where people of all sexual orientations cannot rock forward and rock
back….a world where parents cannot left forward with a 1/4 turn with their
young.

No, we’re not referring to New York’s cabaret laws, we’re talking about the
Electric Slide [copyright]. in abuse of the Digital Millennium Copyright
Act, the inventor of the electric slide restricted the right to dance this
resplendent combination of steps, arm movements and 1/4 turns to those who
could pay up.

But Thanks to the lovely people at www.creativecommons.org, we no longer
have to pay those sky-high royalty fees to do our favorite dance, the
Electric Slide! Come celebrate with us at The Lucky Cat!

It’s also Jacky’s birthday! Come eat cake and buy her a drink!

ELECTRIC SLIDE
Saturday, May 26th
at The Lucky Cat
245 Grand Street, Williamsburg
(J train to Marcy, L to Lorimer or Bedford)

DJs Back2back All Night Long:

Kid Kameleon (Mashit, XLR8R) – Playing dubstepgrimeyhyphymashedupstuff
Jess Jubilee (Ladecadanse) – Playing crunkmiamibassbootyhipsterfabulousness
Jesse Mann (No Selector) – Playing
discotasticassshakingbrokenafrolatinhousemusicallnightlong
Mike Dextro (Heroine Chic) – Playing edbangingretrorockingtechnotronicshit

11pm-????
FREE ENTRY
ALL AGES ADMITTED!!! PLUR!!!!!

MAY 27TH, 2007 (Sunday)

No Selector Sundays
Every Sunday at BEMBE

81 South 6th Street (corner of S. 6th and Berry)
L train to Bedford, J train to Marcy
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, USA, Earth, Milky Way

FREE ENTRY
9pm-3am
Live sets at 10-ish and 12-ish
SPECIAL GUEST MAY 27TH – Kid Kameleon

Resident disc jockey Jesse Mann plays funk remakes of techno classics,
electro-disco remakes of future house, breakbeat re-edits of
latin/afro/jazz standards, and all kinds of other forward, backward,
and sideways thinking music for your booty.

He is joined weekly by an eclectic mix of talented live musicians and
DJs from the NYC area and abroad.

check http://myspace.com/noselector for updates and more info
send an email to noselector [at] gmail [dot] com to join our weekly mailing list

MAY 28TH, 2007 (Monday)

Mondays at the Enormous Room with residents DJ C and DJ Flack
567 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA
9pm to 1am, 21 plus, Free
617.491.5550

DJ C‘s Goodbye party.
with special guest Kid Kameleon
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Yes its actually true, the inventer of Boston Bounce is moving away from his beloved city to start a new third-coast chapter of Beat Research in Chicago. He has done so much for the musical fabric of Boston that its hard to imagine the city without him. As a co-founder of the infamous TONEBURST collective he helped bridge the gap between art-event and dance party and opened the ears of this rock based town to the sounds of Jungle and instrumental hip-hop. Since then he has released his own tracks on record labels around the world including his own acclaimed Mashit, done remixes for artists like M.I.A. and Gregory Isaacs and toured the U.S. and Europe many times over. He’s got a number of releases coming soon, including a debut full length full of his patented ragga-bounce, grime-hall stylings.

Come wish him a bon voyage and experience his masterful mixing style while you still can.

We’re also psyched to have Kid Kameleon joining us for this special event. The Kid’s like our guardian angel. He rocked the house for the debut Beat Research at the Enormous Room back in March of ’04, and then he stormed the decks one year later at BR’s first b-day party. It’s only appropriate that he’ll be on hand to usher DJ C out in style while he blends, chops, restructures and generally smashes rhythms from across the sonic spectrum.

MAY 30th-JUNE 3RD – AT MUTEK!!

JUNE 2ND, 2007 (Saturday)

THE LAST LAST LAST… BOUNCE LE GROS V.16 w/ Kid Kameleon
5390, St-Laurent, Montreal, Quebec
Cost : 10$

DERNIER, oui DERNIER BOUNCE LE GROS ! Avec Kid Kameleon (USA) qui va jouer pour la première fois à Montréal et aussi Khiasma de Masala. Et aussi Ghislain Poirier!!! On va ainsi clore un cycle de 2 ans de Bounce le Gros.

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Looking for shows around the following dates:
June 3rd, 2007 (Sunday) – Toronto
June 4th/5th, 2007 (Monday/Tuesday) – Chicago
June 7th-10th, 2007 (Thursday-Sunday) – British Columbia, Washington, Oregon
If you’re interested in booking me, holla!
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SAVE CLUB SIX!!!

Greets all. The short note that should have gone up a long time ago. It’s 6 months to the day since I posted my last update. I haven’t disappeared from the world or even the cyberworld, but I have been pulled in a bunch of directions all at once, and the free form writing has gotten shoved into a dark corner, along with a lot of my mixing… but, as DJ Die once said to me of Dope Dragon “It’s coming back, the Dragon is asleep right now but it will return”. He was right (that was 2001 and 2004 saw a rerelease on that fabled label … although too bad it sucked … but my return won’t suck). Hopefully I’ll be able to put some real time and thought back in to this by the end of march. Here’s hoping. In the mean time, the important things to note/where I HAVE been spending my time.

1. My Myspace account. Hit me there.
2. XLR8R Magazine and my column for them, Basic Needs. The big announcement is that every one of the last 30 issues, including the current one, is available for free online. Everything I’ve ever written for them is there.
3. Riddim Method and Local Oaf, two other blogs that I occasionally contribute too. Like kidkameleon.com, Riddimmethod will hopefully see more time and care in the near future.
4. Undone mixes. I have 15+ full mixes laid out and ready to make, all styles represented. I just need time/energy to lay them to tape (and to fight against my desire to make them increasingly complex and yet as tight as they can be). Again, an upcoming project. I will be distributing them across the next over the late spring and summer.
5. I will be working with Naut Human and others of Recombinant Media Labs to bring shows to the Bay Area in upcoming months.
6. I am involved, with Maneesh the Twister, Kush Arora, Ross Hogg, DJ Neta, Jimmy Love, DJ Ripley, MC Daddy Frank, Sitar, VJ Ohashi and Ajesh in the best monthly at one of the best clubs in San Francisco, Surya Dub, the 4th Saturday of every month
7. I should have two mixes out on CD by the end of the year. More info on that as it comes.
8. Here’s a mix I did for The Perennial Philosophy on KZSU, Stanford’s Radio Station. The hour long birthday hangover cure. Download it as a podcast from the Apple Itunes store here, or direct from Cikee C’s site Perfilo here (click on the the document with the down arrow just under Kid Kameleon for the mp3.) Track list is below. Ripley did one too, check that out as well.

Not drowning, waving.

The Birthday Hangover Mix – Live on The Perennial Philosophy, 02.18.07

Strategy ~ Future Rock ~ Unreleased
Kranky Mikkle Metal ~ Untitled (Dub Surgeon remix) ~ Rmx EP Part 3 ~ Echocord
Hey-o-Hansen ~ Jojogogo ~ Hey-O-Hansen ’06 Singles ~ Hey Rec
David Last ~ Buzz How Fe Rock ~ Unreleased
Frikstailers ~ Foonkie Boogie ~ Unreleased
Bacalao ~ The Robots (Die Roboter) ~ 8 Bit Operators ~ Astralwerks
Eats Tapes ~ Lemon Drop ~ Dos Mutantes ~ Tigerbeat 6
Stereotyp feat. Joice Muniz ~ Uepa ~ Funk Mundial 1 ~ Man Recordings
DJ C and Zulu ~ Animal Attraction ~ 7″ ~ Community Library
Disrupt ~ The Edge of Destruction ~ Unreleased ~ jahtari.org
Tittsworth ~ Georgia ~ Unreleased ~ tittsworth.com
Bass Clef ~ Clapton Deep ~ A Smile Is A Curve That Straightens Most Things
Grievous Angel ~ Billy Preston Dub ~ Unreleased
Maga Bo ~ Nakhil feat. K-Libre ~ Confusion of Tongues EP ~ Soot
Ruf ~ My Love Remix ~ Unreleased
Tinhead ~ Stuntin 60s ~ Unreleased
Tes La Rok ~ Cold Blooded ~ Unreleased
Skynet ~ Time on Earth ~ Argon 10 ~ Argon
Dhruva ~ Koli Stance ~ Upcoming Agriculture Project ~ The Agriculture
Skream ~ Ruttan (CD Mix) ~ Skream! ~ Tempa
Benga ~ Electro Music ~ Tempa 25 ~ Tempa
East Star All-Stars ~ Electioneering (feat Morgan Heritage) ~ Radiodread
Rustie ~ Harpy ~ Unreleased
Sileni ~ Twitchy Droid Leg (Vex’d Remix) ~ TDL Remixes Part 2 ~ Offshore
Exillon ~ Moonshiner Remix ~ Unreleased
Moving Ninja ~ Alien ~ Unreleased
True Tiger ~ Bare Faced What ~ Upcoming Ammunition Release ~ Ammunition

Concerned with container at the moment. Content coming. Till then…

Little things that didn’t get mentioned over the last few months that probably should have.

1. THE END OF DUB is now dubloadable…

Thanks so much to Some Jerk (not kidding, that’s his web handle), I have a home for the full End of Dub Mix. Link is below, and the track list is here.

The End of Dub Mix for Straight Up Radio

2. RIDDIM RED mix

Riddim Method did a mix for Lemon Red that we posted about here. I just wanted to repost it, and say that it’s now down but if you missed downloading it you can hit me up for a direct link.

3. Started but not finished mixes…

There’s a couple half done mixes hanging around that Ripley and I were rushing to finish before we left for Berlin, one a Hyphy-Breakcore Mashup mix and one from me, a two CD, 90 track thing that I’m working on for Trouble and Bass. Both are quality ideas but could have been executed better, so we decided to hold off on posting them. Hopefully they’ll get done over the summer, in a session somewhere in Berlin. Be on the look out

Sure there’s other stuff, I’ll post as I think of it…

Old Time is New Time…. follow on post. That last rant was written a week ago, but still seems good … It’s now Monday the 12th and I’m on a bus returning returning from Hamburg back to our flat in Berlin. There was a bit of a mix up with our DSL, leaving me use most of my online time to sort out tour details (the positive upside is that we’re definitely playing in Finland a few weeks after the Solstice).

Germany has definitely come down with a fever … football fever. Almost all our friends are adminently against it … there’s a phrase that roughly translates as “get out as soon as possible…”, a hope that Germany will loose all its games so that the madness will end … I think it’s tied up in the a real uneasiness with the open displays of nationalism… but it’s unlikely the tourists will leave before the July 9th final.

It’s been great to arrive and connect with a lot of folks, Sher Khan, Hallama, RQM, Frede, and to meet some new folks as well like Christian and Heidi from Grimetime. To make it to both 103 and to the DJ Pinch show put on by Freak Camp. That was a wikkid show, ’bout 50 people in the outer room of an old bank vault, proper DIY style. Pinch played a ton of good tracks, really a chance for me to catch up sonically with what’s coming from the dubstep scene… Techtonic 7, the Mark 1 tune, is truly great! Lots of good Loefah mixes and remixes in there. And just as things were getting started, Matt Shadetek and DJ Sheen showed up with Ears, Knuckles, and third MC who’s name I forget! Jammer was too tired and stayed at home, but the youngins spit something fierce on the mic.

Our U-Bahn stop.

Look who’s in Berlin! Ribbity is a well known site around San Francisco.

The vault at the Pinch show.

Another shot of the vault.

Pinch on the decks

Pinch. Prober kind of venue for the music, just a big croncrete box with some heavy heavy sound

I forget the name of the guy on Mic, but Knuckles is next to him and Ears next to Knuckles.

Head to Head

Frede from Republish and Christian from Grimetime.

Alexanderplatz, catching the last train to go to the 103 party with RQM … Berlin is a LATE partying city.

The breakcore section in Neurotitan! Good to see Chris‘s records there.

We spent the last two days in Hamburg with the Hoch10 crew… It was a lovely show, Hamburg’s first warm night so many of the 1000′s of people standing around on the street didn’t come inside, but still there were 400-500 people there over the course of the evening. Real ragga-centric crowd … Ragga Jungle seemed to the be the thing that everyone wanted to hear, and that was fun since I have tons of that stuff that is both familiar and yet unheard… did a lovely 2 hour tag with Ripley, which it’s been a long time since I’ve done that. Also played an all-over the map set that confused some people, especially the dubstep stuff. BUT!! those that stayed were really into it, and I had that totally gratifying moment in that situation, where a guy came up to me in total wonderment asked me what it was I was playing “Like you took drum and bass and then took out all the beats and then slowed it down! Where can I hear more of this stuff” Played till 5:30 AM and then played some Flashbulb, Vytear and Cardopusher to scare people off, but a few stuck around and begged for more.

The street outside Rote Flora was totally mobbed … Football fans in actions

Anti-Fascist painting over the dancefloor with Soren opening up the show.

Happy People Dancing.

So, there you are … more thoughts tomorrow, the only thing I’ll leave with is that the light here is truely amazing, especially if you american, especially now around the Solstice… The last glimmer of sunset leaves the sky at 10:45, and we saw the first glimmer of dawn at 2:30 when we were walking back from 103… trippy stuff that will only intensify as we go north. Tschuss for now, and here’s the flyer for the Electric Renaissance festival that we’re playing on Friday.