Sloan's Hot Carla fire sculpture in the "dirt room"
I think it’s fair to say Resonate 4.0 was an unqualified success. I’m still exhausted from the whole weekend!!
This event just keeps getting bigger, bassier, badder-ass, and better! At least 1400 people jammed 15,000 square feet of party mayhem. The familiar Dirt Room and Video Room were complemented by an impressive Gallery – complete with a small stage of its own, and several cool art installations and live painting booths. The Dirt Room featured a 25 foot rocket installation, a canvass-covered dome that put me right back at Burning Man, and a sound system the size of which impressed even a jaded-out old-schooler like yours truly. The Video Room had it’s own “Kosmic Krystal Palace” installed environment, live painting, and of course, the usual incredible video effects that have been the staple of Resonate for the last three years.
Can’t wait until next year – hopefully I’ll be caught up on my sleep and re-energized by then!
Last night’s Freakeasy 4.0 on Chicago’s near west side once again proved that illmeasures party people know how to do it, and could probably give you a lesson, if you need one.
Well over 200 people packed the joint, dancing all night, keeping the vibe overwhelmingly positive as usual, and of course delighting each other with kick-ass dance moves, special party favors, beautiful women and men to suit anyone’s flavor, and great music till the crack of dawn, natch.
Mad props to our partner and host radiohiro, our friends in Chicago’s Burning Man community, and of course, to YOU for bringin it once again!
Although you can give credit to Run DMC’s “Raising Hell”, my love of hip-hop can strongly be tied to the group known as A Tribe Called Quest. There is no mistaking the voice of Q-Tip and Phife over samples of such jazz giants as Ron Carter or Roy Ayers. Not only was I learning that hip-hop wasn’t all guns and thugs, but I was being introduced to the sounds of jazz. Thus, as a young DJ, I had to make a tribute mix. This really is one of my very first mixtapes (that I actually recorded onto a tape!) I think I did this one around 2000. Basically, if you don’t know, now you do.
Tracklist:
“A Tribe Called Quest…”
Like It Like That
The Pressure
Can I Kick It
Same Ol’ Thing
The Ummah Freestyle
Against The World
Bonita Applebum (12″ Why? Edit)
Phony Rappers
Mr. Muhammud Inst
It’s Yours Inst
Check The Rhyme
Electric Relaxation
Scenerio
Rhythm (Devoted To The Art Of Moving Butts)
Luck of Lucien
Da Booty
Peace, Prosperity & Paper
Buggin’ Out
Award Tour
1nce Again
Push It Along
We’ve Got The Jazz
Digging in the crates, I bring you one of my favorite mixes. This one was laid down at one of our legendary Halloween loft parties. I think this is one of my best party mixes so I hope you shake your ass while listening. Enjoy!
Part 1
Lauryn Hill- Lost Ones Acapella
Murs- Brotherly Love Inst
Black Star- Definition
J-Zone- The Commandments Inst
Disneyland- Haunted House
JB’s- Pass the Peas
Common- I Am Music
Mr. Bird- Brand New Plan
Black Eyed Peas- Weekends
DJ Paul- No Jumper Cables Remix Inst
Mos Def- Sex, Love, and Money
Run DMC- Jam Master Jay Inst
Run DMC- Is It Live
Prefuse 73- Point to b
DJ Shadow- Organ Donor Extended Overhaul
Part 2
DJ Shadow- Midnight in a Perfect World Gab Mix
Ohmega Watts- Request
DJ DSL- The One-Tel Remix
DJ DSL- Havana Club
Rob Swift- Interview with a Colored Man
Wagon Christ- Thick Stew
Digable Planets- Where I’m From Aural G Ride Mix
BDP- Duck Down Inst
Little Brother- “Support Your Own…”
Common- Chi-City
Jeru- Come Clean
KRS-One- MCs Act Like They Don’t Know
Ice-T- Somebody Gotta Do It Inst
Part 3
Rob Swift- Define Music
Visit Venus- Planet of the Breaks (Escape)
De La Soul- Roller Skate Jam Named Saturday 6:00am Mix
2 Live Crew- One and One
Jurassic 5- Monkey Bars
Deckwrecka- Catch Wrecka
J-Live- Don’t Play
J-Live- Play Inst
