Do you think we'll ever meet Stevie?
Last Tuesday I went out to 330 Ritch for the relaunch of Sake One's PST party, which had been packing the Levende Lounge on Thursday nights for the past few years. I guess Sake felt like the party was getting away from what he wanted it to be, so he took the brave step of uprooting it and starting all over again clean.
Sake did it big with guest DJ Spinna and a live performance by Goapele. There were some great moments, like seeing Chuy Gomez dancing to Moodymann, meeting SF house legend David Harness and seeing a lot of folks I don't generally see out.
I took a whole bunch of photos, although for photos that are actually good, you should probably go see Fred at Suckafreeze.
D-Sharp prowls, Chuy does the robot
Willie Maze poses with Sake One and his pants of many colors
Spinna's smile is bright, but Hakobo's shoes are electrical
Like every other time I've seen him, Spinna was great-- the guy is a master of all trades, playing breaks, house, afrobeat and even rocking a "not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good" routine in the middle of a rap classics set.
When Spinna played this, I just about ran from one end of the room to another to find out what it was:
Gichy Dan's Beachwood #9: "On a Day Like This" (Anonymous Simple & Plain edit) (www.djanonymous.fi/, 2008)
Gichy Dan was a protégé of Kid Creole who cut one LP, 1979's Gichy Dan's Beachwood #9. The original version of this song also appears on Strut's recent compilation of Kid Creole's productions. The version I've posted (which I think is the one Spinna played) is a re-edit by Finland's DJ Anonymous. I grabbed it from his excellent blog, DJ's Delight.
Anyhow, back to PST, my only gripe, which isn't really a gripe, was that a special invited guest who was in town that night and who was rumored maybe possibly hopefully to be coming didn't in fact make it through. Here's an aural love note from Rahiem to him:
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5: "Dreamin'" (Sugarhill, 1982)
It's an insanely goofy rap moment, even if it doesn't involve actual rapping.
Sake did it big with guest DJ Spinna and a live performance by Goapele. There were some great moments, like seeing Chuy Gomez dancing to Moodymann, meeting SF house legend David Harness and seeing a lot of folks I don't generally see out.
I took a whole bunch of photos, although for photos that are actually good, you should probably go see Fred at Suckafreeze.
D-Sharp prowls, Chuy does the robot
Willie Maze poses with Sake One and his pants of many colors
Spinna's smile is bright, but Hakobo's shoes are electrical
Like every other time I've seen him, Spinna was great-- the guy is a master of all trades, playing breaks, house, afrobeat and even rocking a "not bad meaning bad but bad meaning good" routine in the middle of a rap classics set.
When Spinna played this, I just about ran from one end of the room to another to find out what it was:
Gichy Dan's Beachwood #9: "On a Day Like This" (Anonymous Simple & Plain edit) (www.djanonymous.fi/, 2008)
Gichy Dan was a protégé of Kid Creole who cut one LP, 1979's Gichy Dan's Beachwood #9. The original version of this song also appears on Strut's recent compilation of Kid Creole's productions. The version I've posted (which I think is the one Spinna played) is a re-edit by Finland's DJ Anonymous. I grabbed it from his excellent blog, DJ's Delight.
Anyhow, back to PST, my only gripe, which isn't really a gripe, was that a special invited guest who was in town that night and who was rumored maybe possibly hopefully to be coming didn't in fact make it through. Here's an aural love note from Rahiem to him:
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious 5: "Dreamin'" (Sugarhill, 1982)
It's an insanely goofy rap moment, even if it doesn't involve actual rapping.
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