A new site is up and a new decade is coming up, so we just had to do something new. We are going to branch out and are start up our own digital label. Discobelle Records will try to give you the best things you didn't know you loved.
Here are the releases from Discobelle Records so far:
DBR005: Femme En Fourrure - Dirty Blond II
[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/discobelle/sets/dbr005-femme-en-fourrure-dirty-blond-ii[[/soundcloud]
Support Discobelle Records and Femme En Fourrure, go buy the release over on Beatport, Juno, or Boomkat
DBR004: Turned On: Vol. 1 Compiled by Neoteric
[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/discobelle/sets/turned-on-vol-1-compiled-by-neoteric[/soundcloud]
Support Discobelle Records, go buy the release over on Juno Amazon or Boomkat.
DBR003: Femme En Fourrure - Dirty Blonde
[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/discobelle/sets/dbr003a-femme-en-fourrure-dirty-blonde-1[/soundcloud]
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DBR002: Jamtech Foundation - Too Fast
[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/discobelle/sets/dbr002-jamtech-foundation-too-fast[/soundcloud]
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DBR001: MVSEVM - French Jeans
[soundcloud]http://soundcloud.com/discobelle/sets/dbr001-mvsevm-french-jeans[/soundcloud]
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The Hippies
****Let’s take a second to talk about a current phenomenon going on in America. Back in the day the hippies would all follow the Grateful Dead. Then when Jerry Garcia died there was a giant void that was filled by jam bands like Phish. Never before in this evolution has electronic music been a part of the hippie equation. But recently somehow a new breed of hippie has risen up. The burning man folks have taken over the reigns and dubstep has emerged as the music of choice. This seems like a very unusual combination but take it from me, i have seen it with my own eyes. 4,000 hippies going insane to UK dubstep in Yosemite national park at a festival called “Symbiosis.” The even crazier part of this is that an American guy called Bassnectar is the Dj of choice for this sound. He draws the biggest crowds and is the most sought after and he never leaves the states. This is incredible to me that an American Dj is playing UK dance music and making 10’s of thousands every gig and never setting foot outside of the USA.
Portland on Friday had a little bit of that vibe going on which made me want to comment on this phenomenon. My sets at Symbiosis and at Rain dance on Halloween this year showed me the possibilities in America for my brand of tech house as well as Dubstep. The hippie’s are actually the most enthusiastic, creative crowds in the USA. I will be pursuing gigs to play at these shows because the crowds are crazy, fun, and there are always a lot of naked people running around. In Portland i felt like there would have been some nakeds if it hadn’t been for the freezing cold temperature in the outdoor tent. The lines between jam bands and electronic music are definitely getting blurrier because I was the last show as part of a 3 day Reggae festival! I may not look like or be an actual Hippie but i do get a free pass because my home address is on Haight St. San Francisco. (an automatic hippie club qualification.)
Week 6 - San Francisco - Wednesday night - surprise Drum n Bass vinyl set
Track of the night. Everything Drum n Bass
SF
This wasn’t really a tour date but I was booked to play an all vinyl set in San Francisco around the holidays. The guy who booked me owns Tweekin records down on Haight st. where I bought all my very first house records. dirtybird have been selling our records there since the start of the label. Back in the day this was the place where you would see every big SF and international DJ on any weekday. The current owner, Manny (M3) is a long time SF DJ who is part of one of SF’s longest running house crews called Green Gorilla.
My very first vinyl had about 10 test pressings total. i gave them away to people but maybe 3 of them were for sale in Tweekin. You can hear that my production wasn’t quite there yet, but this is the very first thing i ever had on wax as “Barclay Crenshaw.” (about 2 years before dirtybird 001. You can see that the original record label name was supposed to be Rook Records (Rook is now the name of my publishing company.) dirtybird was just a better name for a label so i changed it before the first record. If anyone could find a copy of that vinyl i would be really impressed.
Barclay Crenshaw - Banana Phone - Rook Records 
A spattering of the records i played. 
Christian Martin says:
December 23, 2009 at 23:58
I wish I could take credit for the yo gabba gabba but it’s actually how the original song sounds: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQiJbnGiNI8
jordan says:
December 24, 2009 at 15:38
thanks for explaining the ‘hippie’ phenomenon to the masses, a lot of people who are not from the west coast would have no idea of the strange vibe going on around this part of the woods. as one of my friends mentioned, it seems a curious coincidence that fick came out after skream played shambhala (another outdoor hippie rave) for the first time haha
Ri Caragol says:
December 24, 2009 at 17:37
Awesome blog post, particularly the part about the new socio-musical phenomena going on in the northwest. I’m always interested in cultures and subcultures specially when music is part of the equation and this neohippie phenomena sounds quite unusual. To be honest, and correct me if I am wrong because I have never been to the northwest, I think this has been going on for a while. I used to have a hippie roommate while studying at Indiana University and he was really into goa trance back in 2000, he has recently taken a huge interest in dubstep and is now spinning it at hippie festivals all over the US.
As you may know goa trance is characterized by very trippy sounds as well as acid lines and intricate breakdowns so it is not surprising that hippies have found a new home in the wooble nest created by dubstep producers. After all dubstep, like goa trance, is also hypnotizing but has that reggae roots / ambient reference that hippies like so much.
All in all I am glad people are dancing all over the place North East South and West!
good job Claude!
-ri
Kyle says:
December 27, 2009 at 19:17
This tour blog thing is a great idea.
ridwanzero says:
December 30, 2009 at 08:18
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