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Hi all!
Tonight, our little buddies Mike/Darkenetiks and Ali/Hitoi are gonna be opening up for Fabio. Its 18 and up, free before 10:30 PM, and its gonna be held at Andalu (1214 18th St NW, Washington DC 20036).
You can have the official schpeal after the break…
I have some gigs coming up, and I do not like playing to empty floors or people just standing around:
02/10/2008 at Sin @ Modern _DC - big event this night with Black Sun Empire (NL) headlining, and I am playing drum’n'bass alongside Hyx & Houston.
03/08/2008 at Meditations @ Rock & Roll Hotel _DC - drum’n'bass set, think I am opening up for two hours, with Telemetrik and Mayhem both headlining.
03/22/2008 at Expansion Broadcast Allstars @ Shorty’s _Baltimore - you see that? ALLSTARS: IllEffect, Ransom, Ricky Ricardo and Whighzeguy plus guests Eternal and Blanco. We’re starting at 130-ish BPM and ramping it up to 175+ by the end of the night.
04/03/2008 at RADAR @ Shorty’s _Baltimore - breakbeat set at Wickity and Stryder’s new breakbeat-oriented weekly.
That covers all of my upcoming bookings, at least that I know of. I will be down in Miami during the WMC, but doubt I am playing any events and probably only going to make it to one or two anyways. And this may leave some listeners wondering about the other EXBC members… where are they playing in the next month or two? Well:
02/15/2008 at Wickity! Wickity! @ Shorty’s _Baltimore - Hitoi is playing a rare Baltimore appearance.
02/20/2008 at DnB Sessions @ Five _DC - Darkenetiks & Hitoi a.k.a. Dark & Lovely will be opening up for Fabio (Creative Source / Radio One _UK). And it’s 18+ to get in now!
We will update as we get word of more bookings for the crew. Keep checking out the podcasts and coming out to the events we are playing at.
Yes, you heard me, JOURNEY!!! (Just listen all the way to the end)
By the way, I’m reposting my set that I posted yesterday right now. The sound quality came out kinda crappy so I redid it as well as this podcast. (I’m still getting used to Audacity.)
Sure, we still have these guys playing Rock & Roll Hotel this Friday night, and then show patriarch IllEffect at Five on Wednesday the 24th, but now we have two more events we think you all should know about:
10/26 - Ransom at Buzz @ Fur: wearing the same suit that I wear to Jungle Jessie & James Jukata’s wedding earlier that night, I will be opening up for Breakage, who will be playing a 3-hour set of whatever he wants. I want to play drum’n'bass, so that’s what is played during my two hour set. Carl Cox is in the main room, and Mike & Ali are wearing costumes.
11/21 - Ransom and Darkenetiks @ Pho-Real Thanksgiving @ Five: Playing separate sets, I know I am playing classic drum’n'bass on the roof, and Mike is going to play vinyl records of some sort. Plus Matt Nordstrom and Dave Nada in the main room, and who knows who else is on this line up. The next day is Thanksgiving, so come out this night!
And in non-club event news, Renaissance Festival this past Saturday was super super fun, and next weekend a bunch of us are hitting the NoVA beer festival, which is going to be tasty.
EXBC staking its claim on club events. Come out, support, say “hello,” dance a little and check out some music. Here is a list of when and where:
10/07/2007 - Ransom on Dirtbox Radio (www.dirtboxradio.com) from 7PM ET to 8PM ET
10/07/2007 - Hitoi at Sin @ Modern _Georgetown, DC : www.sindc.com for details, plus our friends Houston & Hyx are playing too
10/10/2007 - Ransom at Transit @ Bridges _Fairfax, DC : www.myspace.com/giveproductions for details, all drum’n'bass that night, and Ransom is on from 10PM until about 11:30PM
10/10/2007 - IllEffect at Deuce @ Sonar _Baltimore, MD : www.sonarbaltimore.com for details, and Jungle Drummer & Dj FU headlining the event
10/19/2007 - Darkenetiks & Ransom B2B @ Drum Ritual @ Rock & Roll Hotel _DC : http://www.buzzlife.com/forums/showthread.php?t=97399 for details and forum banter. Going to be a big local dnb line-up, lots of fun for sure. Yarly.
10/24/2007 - IllEffect at 5 DnB Sessions @ Five _DC : www.upfrontdc.com for details, big big BIG night with Chase & Status and Commix headlining
More events TBA, plus you should have caught Deinfamous the other week at Buzz (www.buzzlife.com), which has recently reopened at new venue.
Happy Birthday to Mr. Darkenetiks!!!
Have to plug some events I am playing in the next few weeks:
09/23/2007 - Sin @ Modern _DC
Eric and I played here last month, really nice space, but they need some bodies in the venue to really get things moving. They recently decided on a name for this new dnb weekly, and it is Sin. The past few weeks have seen J Smooth, Telemetrik and Relapse play, and next week it is myself and Jae Kennedy from Philly, along with Illy MC and residents Jaybird (he’s new to the DC area) and Inflictz.
09/29/2007 - Throttle Like A Rock Star @ Element Lounge _Richmond, VA
So who wants to road trip? Because I am going to be playing down in the RVA for the first time in about three or four years, and it’s a two room event with Dara headlining the dnb room, plus myself and Jungle Jessi coming down from DC, and then some local support (I believe Sabertooth? Cool name, he’s part of the Konkrete Jungle even down there), and the second room has Bassbin Twins headlining. R A V E.
10/19/2007 - Drum Ritual @ Rock & Roll Hotel _DC
Mike and I are playing B2B. That is big time. We’re also sharing a 1.5 hour slot. That’s big too. First ever Darkenetiks & Ransom tag team of greatness. Plus a lot of our local friends are playing this night too. EXBC gettin’ tipsy.
So I can’t quite remember (as you might have gathered from the title) whether or not Ali/Hitoi played as well Mikenetiks. So um, yeah. I do know that things got downright silly drunk towards the end of his/their set.
Expansion Podcast 36 Part 4: Dark and (possibly) Lovely live at Strangeland [67:51m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadEXBC Takeover at Strangeland = IllEffect + Shade + Deinfamous + Hitoi + Darkenetiks + Ransom. We’re all there (’cept Harry) and its gonna be wiiiiiiiiiiiild. That’s wild with 12 i’s. Count ‘em. I just did.
So yes as you probably deciphered by now, we’re doing another takeover at Strangeland Records. It’s gonna be this Saturday, June 2nd starting at 8 PM. It’s free. They got records. We got records. You got ears. We got music. Somehow this makes you want to come. I know it does. So come.
Darktoieffect, aka Darkenetiks, Hitoi, and myself, kept it running across the board. We started the set off smooth and went every which way from there. You really can’t go wrong with this set.
