Apart from all the blogging, we DJ quite a lot. We play the same sort of music that we post, so if you like the blog – you’re going to have a good time on our dancefloor as well. Also, the blog reaches out to a lot of people and attracts a crowd that likes what we’re about. That’s the sort of crowd you want as well, we promise.
We’ve shared the dj booth/stage with a wide assortment of artists/dj’s including the likes of Simian Mobile Disco, SebastiAn, Fluokids, Nadastrom, Tittsworth, Risky Bizniz, Thunderheist, Krazy Fiesta, Oxy Cottontail, The Glass, Dan M, DJ Suijinho, Audioporno, Kornel Kovacs, Fagget Fairys, DJ Dainja, Boody B, AC Slater, Sir Nenis, Sharkslayer, Pets On Prozac, Jamtech Foundation, Cousin Cole, Pocketknife, Casper C, Jess Jubilee, DJ Wool, Mumdance, Cobra Krames, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, Ben Mono, Niyi, Renaissance Man, Sekta, Arveene, Solo, Spoek Mathambo, Bok Bok, WooBanger, Hot Pink Delorean, Femme En Fourrure, Solo, Tane Lee, Zebra & Snake etc.
Tanner Ross and Sergio Santos are the latest signing to Mothership. Tanner you may know from Voodeux or from early appearances on Dirtybird. Sergio you may know from Wolf+Lamb and Airdrop. They are roommates so they got the smelly socks 116 bpm funk goin on. Check their “G. Things EP” out next week, but for now here’s the free mix DL so u can hear what’s up. (yes, the new EP is in the mix)
Week 23??
U may have been wondering where I’ve been but you probably never missed me at all. I don’t really know what happened besides the fact that writing “I just played a great party” 20 weeks in a row can be quite boring to write AND to read. But some really standout gigs have happened since my last entry including one of the best DJ weekends of my life in Dublin, Leeds, and London. Basically my “bread and butter” as my agent would call them. I love these three towns. I connect with the people there in a way that makes me smile and love my job more than anything in the world. Big up to T-Bar, Back to Basics, Plan B, Osaka, Chibuku, Denver and all the good shows over the last few weeks.
One of my favorite nights in the world is called Back to Basics in Leeds. Check out this BBC video about it (the longest running club night in the UK – over 18 yrs!) with footage of yours truly and a clip of “Who’s Afraid of Detroit”?
Dirtybird B-Day
Also – our 5 year dirtybird B-Day party was in SF since my last blog entry and it was amazing. Everyone played great and we packed that place with over 1200 heads. There’s nothing like seeing something like this develop over 5 years and finally hit it’s stride. The hometown vibe was bouncin’ 100%. Here is a video one of our people made for us. It’s hard to see sometimes, but you get the picture. I can’t wait for this 5 year cd set to come out in April!
But no one really reads this to find out how much fun i’m having do they? It’s more about the mishaps and blunders on the road that make life interesting. So let’s revisit the second to last day of my 10 day trip to Asia. I have played Tokyo and about 5 other cities and I am burnt. It’s 7am on Saturday morning and I am sitting down next to a snack stand at the the Kuala Lampor airport throwing away all of the clothes I don’t absolutely “need.” I pick out my 8 favorite t-shirts and jam them into my DJ bag. All the rest like dirty underwear, socks, running shoes, jacket, shirts — will all be casualties of this purge.
What gives? Turns out the last day of my Asia tour had a little snag. I had to fly all the way from Kuala Lampor to Osaka Japan for the very last show of a 10 day trip. But in order to make it to Osaka i have to stop in “Guangzhou” China. And Guangzhou China is one of the only places on earth you cannot check your bag through. I have a 45 minute connection which would be difficult to make even if i didn’t have any luggage checked in. So the only way to make it to Osaka is to trash my “check in” luggage completely.
It might sound crazy but it is a very simple (and ridiculous) math equation.
Play the gig – Bag = get paid more than the price of the bag
OR
Keep Bag + miss the gig AND the flight home the next morning.
For me, it’s an easy choice. I ditch the dirty underwear in the garbage can and sacrifice the bag.
I go back upstairs and the Malaysian Air check-in guy recognizes me from my first encounter when he told me the crazy rules in China. He smiles and checks me into the flight. He’s kind of a goofy guy and I’ll never forget his last sentence to me..
“Your seat is 5C, the lounge is to the left after security, and thanks for the nice bag.” giggle…
Then he takes my $400 luggage as a gift because I can’t check it through!!
Wow, that is almost as funny as the night before when i walked on stage in front of 1500+ and the owner of the club came up to me and said…
“You can play a couple of your own things and then you need to play commercial.”
Followed by me saying…”Don’t stand anywhere near me. Don’t talk to me. You make me sick. I’m going to pretend you don’t exist.”
Followed by me Dj-ing with a forced grin and the promoters getting on the mic all throughout my set and shouting “Who’s Afraid of Detroit mothefuckers!! This is how we do it it the KL!!!” (that’s Kuala Lampor fyi)
Interesting night AND morning… can’t wait to go back and do it all again.
Tanner Ross & Sergio Santos – G.Things Ep Promo Mix
1. Martin Buttrich – L2 [ Desolate ]
2. Tanner Ross & Sergio Santos – Sedara [ Mothership ]
3. Seth Troxler – Love Never Sleeps ( Gadi Mizrahi Mix )
4. Franck Roger – The Wolfman [ Real Tone Records ]
5. Dachshund – V2e [ Sthlmaudio Recordings ]
6. Voodeux – Heebie Jeebiez ( Soul Clap mix ) CDR
7. Kenny Larkin – GLOB (Claude VonStroke 71 Remix) [Planet E]
8. Martyn – Seventy Four ( Redshape Remix ) [ 3024 ]
9. Tanner Ross & Sergio Santos – G.Things [ Mothership ]
10. Second-Hand Satellites – Orbit 1.4 [ Hallucination ]
11. Scuba – Flesh Is Weak [ Hot Flush ]
12. SECT – SECTsy [ Culprit ]
French outfit Jamaica was formerly known as Poney Poney. They’ve now transformed into a duo and are currently finishing their first album with Xavier de Rosnay (of Justice fame) and Peter Franco. Their first single “I Think I Like U 2″ is a fine piece of electropop which is featured on the newest Kitsuné Maison compilation and the video was directed by So Me.
Joker just launched his new website, and to celebrate, is launching a competition to win 15 signed Test Pressings of his upcoming single “Tron”. It’s an e-mail raffle, you enter your email address either in the widget at the bottom of this post or over at kapsize.com, winners will all be notified by March 29th and the prices will be posted to the winners so don’t forget to include that mailing address.
“All eyes are on Joker for his next move, having created havoc on dancefloors all over the world last year with huge remixes for numerous major labels/acts and anthems such as “Digidesign”, “Do It” and “Purple City”. He has defined the colourful synth-led melodic style within dubstep that’s become known as ‘Purple w0w’. “Tron” is his biggest tune yet and is available here with an exclusive VIP version just for the digital package. It’s a rare piece of music that can unite a diverse range of DJs such as Diplo, Kode 9, Shy FX, Flying Lotus, TC, Caspa, Pinch, Skream, Roska, Martyn, Ginz, J Da Flex, Baobinga, 2nd II None, Reso, Oris J, Cosmin TRG, Appleblim, I.D, Guido, Mike Paradinas, Gemmy, Atki2, Tomb Crew, Bok Bok, Moshi Moshi DJs…. just to name a few.”
Just got an e-mail from Mustard Pimp who are doing a North American tour right now and celebrated that they turned two years yesterday. They sent me the first edition of their new mixtape series, “Burn Paris Burn Mixtape”, that they just started up. There will be a new one every month from now on.
Douster hit up the blogs with three tracks/edits that’s guaranteed to keep you excited until his new remixes for Crookers and Yelle, Kid Sister, Bobmo, French band The Cheerz, Ghanaian rapper X-Pensive Nframa and Savage Skulls drops.
First we have a VIP version of his mega dancefloor slaying track “King Of Africa” which takes the jungle track to house territory, second we have a little take Untold’s track “Anaconda” (“shit makes you dagger like a robot!”) and lastly something for those that have been intrigued by South African internet phenomena Die Antwoord where Douster blended Windows Movie Maker and a YouTube audio rip for a bubblin’ style rework of “Enter The Ninja”
Time to give away the first clue for the Mystery mix here on Discobelle (you can find a couple of more clues if you go to Neoteric‘s page). But to make it more interesting we are also adding a prize for the winner. Now you will not only get a Pacemaker if you win, you are also going to look fly in three pairs of sunglasses from fabolous Italian brand Super.
The clue is hidden in the tracklist of Neoteric’s new guest mix for Crookers.net. So check it out.
