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Deadmau5 in ABQ Nov. 3 The Aftermath
Get Loose Productions in partnership with California based Insomniac productions brought Deadmau5's “For a Lack of a Better Name” tour to the Sunshine Theater in Albuquerque, N.M. on the evening of November 3rd, 2009. Without a doubt, Deadmau5's first event in New Mexico was a huge success, with the line stretching all the way around the corner of Central and far south on Second street. Ticket sales prior to the show exceeded 700 and with more tickets sold at the door, the venue was packing a full house on a Tuesday night.
Sinseven and Burns on stage for Deadmau5 at Sunshine Theater
Local DJ Sinseven opened the show with a set that was nothing short of excellent and electrifying. Burns, who is currently on tour with Deadmau5, followed with another body-shaking session. As Burns ended his set, a moment silence fell over the theater. Anxious fans, ranging from teenagers on the dance floor to adults at the bar, watched as the stage exploded with bursts of fog and bright lights. Bright LED panels lit up and started to configure the iconic mouse head. At the completion of the configuration, Deadmau5 jumped on stage full of energy. He played an out-of-this-world two hour set, with songs mainly from his new album “ For Lack of a Better Name”.
Marisa's winning entry
GrooveNM's contest winner, Marisa, and her friend ,Sera, were both able to meet and greet Deadmau5 himself backstage after the show. Along with the meet and greet they both received tank tops, valued at thirty dollars each, from the tour. Marisa won the “Most Deadmau5 Inspired” contest with her Deadmau5 pumpkin carving.
Sera, Deadmau5 & Marisa
GrooveNM would like to thank everyone who not only participated in the contest but attended the show as well. Also, a big round of applause to Get Loose Productions- with recent shows such as Paul Van Dyk and Mark Farina, they never disappoint! Stay tuned for more contests and exciting news. Also, be sure to check out our galleries for photos from this show and others.
Evolving and mutating
Evolving and Mutating, Dubstep Splits Cells and Gives Life to Dance Floors
D1, the dubstep producer and D.J., right, appeared at the club Love on Friday for the monthly Dub War, along with the M.C. Juakali.
You could tell this wasn’t a normal dance party because the music kept doing something strange: stopping. The record would spin backward, the dancers would cheer, the D.J. would pause, and then the song would start again, from the top. This crowd-teasing technique — the rewind — has long been a major element of reggae concerts and parties. And as a few hundred dancers were reminded on Friday night, it also lives on in the reggae-influenced electronic genre known as dubstep, which has sprouted around London over the last few years.
The location was Love, a subterranean nightclub in Greenwich Village. The party was Dub War, a monthly get-together for the obsessed and the curious. And Friday’s headliner was D1, a dubstep producer and D.J. from Fulham, in West London; the gig was billed as his American debut.
On paper the labyrinth of British dance genres and microgenres can seem hopelessly complicated. But at Love D1 emphasized the basics, and he got a big cheer every time he dropped one of the monstrous bass lines that dubstep is known for. Although “bass line” scarcely seems like the right term: the timbres are scrambled and the tones are obliterated; instead of a melodic groove, you get a huge, serrated blob.
Dubstep is one more aftershock of an explosion that happened in the early 1990s, when British producers drew from electronic dance music and dance-hall reggae to create a furiously syncopated genre called jungle — and, later, drum and bass. Since then the sound has been mutating, spinning off new genres as producers and D.J.s change their priorities: hot declaration versus cool abstraction; voices versus beats; fits and starts versus nonstop dancing.
Earlier this decade grime emerged, with dirty bass lines and sparse beats that left plenty of room for rappers. Dubstep is nimbler and lighter, with skittering beats that hint at 1990s-era syncopation without sounding busy. One dubstep producer, Burial, has converted some American listeners with an excellent pair of murky, melancholy albums that seem designed for bedroom (or iPod) listening.
By contrast, the party on Friday showed off the genre’s gregarious side, thanks partly to those frequent rewinds. The party’s hosts were a pair of D.J.s, Joe Nice and Dave Q, and an M.C., Juakali, who stayed in the booth during D1’s set, providing public-service announcements (“Bass line!”) and hospitable encouragement (“D1!”).
D1 specializes in moody, bittersweet tracks that sometimes emphasize dubstep’s debt to house music. Last year he released “Trial Run” (Tempa), a six-track EP that included “Mind and Soul,” which already feels like a dubstep classic. It’s based on pitched-up snippets of “Give It Back,” by the Atlanta-based R&B singer Gaelle, with brisk drums that keep switching in and out of half-time. (Like many dubstep tracks, this one makes it difficult to say which is the true tempo.)
“Mind and Soul” is light and sublime and (thanks to those sped-up vocals) girly, but on Friday night, D1 mainly stuck to heavier, tougher tracks, which seemed to please the crowd. Often the warped bass lines pulled the tracks toward hard techno, even as Juakali’s patter underscored the link to dancehall reggae. And by the end of the set, the term dubstep was starting to seem too big, or too vague. This is cellular music, and it grows by dividing. How long will dubstep stay whole?
By KELEFA SANNEH
UNM's Daily Lobo on Mark Farina
Listening to Mark Farina is like taking the melody train all over the city of sound.
Farina said his style fuses house beats with hip-hop and acid jazz — and he calls it “mushroom jazz.”
“Acid Jazz started as a kind of English style of funk and hip-hop type of thing in the early 90s and was popular in San Francisco in the mid 90s,” Farina said. “I thought I would take a more organic approach.”
Farina is the headlining act at Sound Therapy, a show this Saturday at the Moonlight Lounge.
Farina said the genre’s popularity in San Francisco gave him gigs with packed crowds on a weekly basis.
He released the first of a series of six albums titled Mushroom Jazz in 1996.
“Mushroom Jazz became a popular mix tape, as opposed to being more clubby music, it became music to chill out to after the party or before,” Farina said.
Local funky house disc jockey Timm Reynolds, aka Reverend Mitton, said Farina’s style is phenomenal and brings in a diverse crowd of music listeners.
“A lot of people get into the Mushroom Jazz series, come to his show, find out that they are also checking out house music, and discover that they are both really similar to each other,” he said. “There are a lot of people that really like him for down-tempo and get into house music later, people that would not normally like house.”
Local DJ John Bowra said Farina appeals to both the hip-hop and house scenes.
“I have a lot of hip-hop friends that know just as much about Mark Farina as my friends who like house,” Bowra said. “He is definitely respected in both cultures.”
DJ Eldon, a local soulful house DJ, said Farina is unique because he has a variety of influences.
“Mushroom jazz is based on real instrumentation and has an organic feel to the music, as well as an updated version of tri p-hop,” Eldon said. “It utilizes jazz and scat, along with trip-hop and new jazz,” he said.
Farina said when he plays a live show he feels out whether a crowd wants pure house, pure mushroom jazz, or a combination of the two.
“Some cities are more into tempo changes, some like Chicago want straight house all night,” Farina said. “In places like Albuquerque or Portland, people expect a half an hour or so of a change of tempo with some down-tempo,” Farina said he enjoys spinning for several hours at a time.
“I like playing long sets. When I started DJ-ing, I played all night in Chicago, from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m.,” he said. “After playing long sets for six years or so, it was harder for me to reverse to two hour sets.”
Farina said he is getting ready for a digital/vinyl record label that will be up and running next month. His next installment of the Mushroom Jazz series, Mushroom Jazz 7, will be released in the spring of 2010.
*Sound Therapy with Mark Farina
Sunshine Theater’s Moonlight Lounge
Saturday, Oct. 10
9 p.m. – 2 a.m.
16 and up
$20 at the door or on TicketMaster.com *
Article from the Daily Lobo can be found here:
http://www.dailylobo.com/index.php/article/2009/10/djs_mushroom_jazz_brings_down_the_house_
Valencia County trying to pass Anti-Rave Ordinance
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Written by Julia M. Dendinger/News-Bulletin |
| Saturday, 12 September 2009 07:00 |
| After hearing a plea from a southern Valencia County resident last month, the county commission discussed the possibility of implementing a county anti-rave ordinance.
"This request is based on comments from a woman a few meetings ago," Commissioner Ron Gentry said. "(Commissioner) Georgia (Otero-Kirkham) and I asked legal staff to look into it." Gentry asked if the matter had to be addressed by ordinance. County attorney David Pato said that in order to have criminal penalties, there would have to be an ordinance passed. "When the commission asked us to look into the matter, we knew a lot of the activities that were cause for concern were already outlawed by New Mexico statute," Pato said. "But that is not to say that the county can't track all those statutes under one ordinance." Pato said state statutes already prohibit such things as disorderly conduct, and trespassing and the county has a public nuisance ordinance that addresses matters such as noise and lights. "We have to be cautious that what we do isn't prohibited by the First Amendment," the attorney said. "We did find an anti-rave ordinance that was struck down for that reason in Utah." Gentry said that is what he was asking for. "After this last one happened, I learned that the behavior that goes on at these raves is more risque than I thought," he said. "That's why we asked this be brought forward." Otero-Kirkham agreed, saying she wanted to "give the sheriff something to hang his hat on, give it some teeth." Commissioner David Medina said after the last rave earlier this year, he received calls, and went to visit the site of the gathering. "We need to get a grip on this legally," he said. "And give the sheriff something to enforce." Commission chair Pedro Rael asked if the county could pass something that was more restrictive than state statutes. "Can we outlaw these totally, or say you can have them under certain specifications?" he asked. Pato said the county could not make an ordinance that was more restrictive. "People have a right to gather, and legally gather," he said. "But they don't have the right to disorderly conduct. I think this ordinance could be one easy place for the sheriff's department to reference." Commissioner Don Holliday pointed out that the resident who had asked the commission to consider the ordinance had reported that Bernalillo County had an anti-rave ordinance. Albuquerque doesn't, Pato said, but they do have noise and trespassing ordinances. Rael asked if Pato had found an anti-rave ordinance that had withstood the judicial scrutiny in matters of the First Amendment. The attorney said that after nearly two hours of searching online, he had not found one. "The only one we could find the language of was the one that was struck down in Utah," he said. "That doesn't mean there isn't one — not all counties put their ordinances online." Sheriff Rene Rivera said until someone underage begins consuming alcohol or doing illegal drugs, there really isn't anything law enforcement can do about these types of parties. "Very often they rent the property or have the owner's permission," he said. "We've visited several of these, and they are very well organized. They know what they are doing, and can take in $10,000 to $60,000 a night." Rael asked if the activities Rivera had seen were "definitely illegal." Rivera referenced a rave call a few years ago in the southern part of the county near the foot of the Manzano Mountains. "We were advised there was alcohol and possible drug use. We had the state police assisting us, Belen (Police Department) and the sheriff's department — close to 20 units going out there," he said. "As soon as they saw us, cars started leaving. They knew they were doing wrong. There were several accidents as people tried to leave, and many individuals were cited." With nearly 1,000 people at that particular gathering, Rivera again said very often nothing becomes illegal until minors begin drinking or there is drug use. "We've responded to about four of these parties. We go out, but if we don't see anything being done wrong, there's really nothing we can do," he said. "We have had an organizer from Albuquerque wanting to do an event here, and he welcomed us. He offered to pay overtime for officers, let undercover officers into the event and have us patrol. If they are doing these right, the county could make some money." Otero-Kirkham said the people running these events in a proper and safe manner weren't her main concern. "This ordinance is to give the sheriff something he can use to stop the ones that are harmful," she said. Rivera agreed, nodding and adding, "Absolutely." Rael said if the ordinance was written correctly, it could help tighten up enforcement of existing laws and keep the county safe. Gentry made a motion to develop and publish notice of the county's intent to adopt an anti-rave ordinance. Otero-Kirkham seconded and the motion passed 5-0. |
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