I haven’t posted much music-related in awhile so I figured I’d get back into it with a free download.
Of the 4 people who read this blog, probably none of them know that I was in an electronic much project named E.V.A.C. The “group” consisted of me and Jeremy Goldstein. We released a few records (vinyl!) and played quite a few shows locally and nationally. Towards the end of my stint, we gladly sold our soul to some ad agencies. Hey, gotta pay the bills.
The mixset I’m posting today is from a show we played with Tipper and Salim Rafiq (DJ Wreck) when they were on their Fuel Records tour in 2002. Tipper is one of the producers we admired since Day 1, so playing alongside him was pretty outstanding. We decided that since we were playing with some fairly uncompromising musicians, that’d we’d bring The Thunder. Generally when we DJ’d a club, we would hold back somewhat when choosing which tracks to play. We definitely favored the dark, difficult and warped…and that’s not always what people want to hear after 3 Appletinis. This time though, we basically went all out.
Disclaimer: This isn’t the best DJ work we’ve done. To shorten a potentially long story, we were scolded by the promoter about 10 minutes into our set with him yelling “You guys better stop playing all that dark shit or you’ll never play here again!”. So instead of bowing to his asinine request, we decided to milk the open tab we had at the bar (that’s all we got “paid” that night) and continue to play what we planned on playing. That said, we got pretty tipsy during the set. As fun as it was, some of the mixes definitely show signs of intoxication.
At any rate, hopefully you can appreciate the music even if the technically mastery wasn’t all there.
Download the mix
Tracklisting
- Andrea Parker - The Swamp
- Carl Finlow - Hardwired
- Electronic Corporation - Elektronimechanik
- Scuba Z - Hip Bounce (BLIM rmx)
- Cause for Concern - Shiver (@33 RPM)
- Tipper - SuperSport (Barge Charge’s Super Rollers rmx)
- Subphonic - Vega Beach Party (Tipper rmx)
- Wayward Soul - Electric Man
- B.L.I.M. - Earth Man
- A.S.A.P - Heavy Water
- Adam Beyer - Remainings III (DK remix)
- Dobrag - The Counterattack Part 2 (Jaws of Mylor) Groundloop remix
