dfa'd
went to the dfa dj tour last night when it came through seattle, and caught james murphy and john maclean aka the juan maclean spinning for three hours or so. it was pretty damn awesome, i danced my ass of for the better part of the night. they played a more straight-up disco/house/techno set than i was expecting, which was great 'cause i wanted to dance and i love that stuff, but i think some of the people where kind of dissapointed that there was no ke-razy punkfunk action.
but the shit they played was fantasic and had me grinning like a fool, it was basically all the "warm" (ie non-clicky/microedited) dance music that i like, from moroder to loose joints to the paradise garage to roller-skate electro to acid house to the get physical and more recent stuff (btw mandarine girl KILLS on a big system, i finally apreciate why this was so massively popular). i actualy was able to recognize maybe 2/3 of the tracks, which i though was pretty good, but it was all the more frustrating because my favorite things of what i heard were completely new to me and i was not in a state to be remembering lyrics for future research.
the highlight of the night definitely came after their set was done, when my roommate asked them if they had a setlist or something that he could look at, and though the answer was no (they seemed to be playing records off the top of their head), james murphy invited us to look though their record crates and ask about stuff we didn't recognize ("and he was actually really, really nice"). so i got to pester him for ten minutes with inane desciptions of the stuff i liked: "um, you know, it had a chorus, and it was good..." and he very good-naturedly suggested records and just seemed interested in nerding out about that records to a receptive audience. managed to remember a few of the records he recommended, and even had my roommate write down some. so i'll probably post those when i get a chance to listen to them. in the meantime, here's the track that he was finally able to id from my incohenrent desricptions, definitely a new favorite:
so yeah, lot's of fun. go catch them when they're in town (owen, i'm looking in your direction).
but the shit they played was fantasic and had me grinning like a fool, it was basically all the "warm" (ie non-clicky/microedited) dance music that i like, from moroder to loose joints to the paradise garage to roller-skate electro to acid house to the get physical and more recent stuff (btw mandarine girl KILLS on a big system, i finally apreciate why this was so massively popular). i actualy was able to recognize maybe 2/3 of the tracks, which i though was pretty good, but it was all the more frustrating because my favorite things of what i heard were completely new to me and i was not in a state to be remembering lyrics for future research.
the highlight of the night definitely came after their set was done, when my roommate asked them if they had a setlist or something that he could look at, and though the answer was no (they seemed to be playing records off the top of their head), james murphy invited us to look though their record crates and ask about stuff we didn't recognize ("and he was actually really, really nice"). so i got to pester him for ten minutes with inane desciptions of the stuff i liked: "um, you know, it had a chorus, and it was good..." and he very good-naturedly suggested records and just seemed interested in nerding out about that records to a receptive audience. managed to remember a few of the records he recommended, and even had my roommate write down some. so i'll probably post those when i get a chance to listen to them. in the meantime, here's the track that he was finally able to id from my incohenrent desricptions, definitely a new favorite:
so yeah, lot's of fun. go catch them when they're in town (owen, i'm looking in your direction).
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said: they were here wednesday night... after my test... i could barely stand up by 9pm and was in no condition to dance, although it sounded really awesome.... if only it were tonight...
did you tell him about pyf?
haha just remembered this:
http://www.rocketgrande.com/050805.html
said: i didn't, as i do have some modicum of self respect left.
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