DJ Stylus – The Vibe Conductor

I’m playing two gigs for new year’s eve. One early, one late. Both quite different.

Skip the shit show this New Years Eve. Carnaval de Trahison (Carnival of Treachery) is a limited attendance celebration at The Dunes to bid farewell to 2011 and say ‘sup to 2012.

Saturday, December 31st
8:30 pm – 4:00 am
$20
The Dunes
1402 Meridian Place NW, WDC 20010
150 tickets only
Cash/Credit Bar & Food

DJ SETS BY:

- Sam “The Man” Burns
- Soul Call Paul
- DJ Stylus

LIVE MUSIC BY:

- Jonny Grave & The Tombstones
- Alex Vans Band (Ben Tufts killing the drums)

FEATURING:

- Craft cocktails
- Indoor food truck by Tarsier Post-Modern Filipino & American cuisine.
- Huge, projected arcade games on the awful vacant building across the street.

And then later on, ’round 12:30 I’ll be spinning at this joint. Just found out tix are sold out. D’oh! This is just an FYI then…

Saturday, December 31st
8:30 pm – 3:00 am
BYT’s DJs & Beer & Books New Year’s Eve
1800 L St NW, WDC 20036

OPEN BAR (beer and liquor), a best of FotoWeek DC exhibit, giant hamster balls, lasers, and more.

DJs:

Animal Collective
Le Tigre / MEN, JD Samson
Lightwaves
DJ Stylus
The Metaphysical (GKYK)

LIVE BANDS: (playing guilty pleasure cover songs)

The Dance Party
The State Department & Friends Supergroup
(featuring members of Ra Ra Rasputin, Imperial China, Vita Ruins, Lightfoot, & Jeremy Teter)
Sunwolf
Silver Liners
Beyond Modern
Shark Week
The Plural Nouns Supergroup
(featuring members of Loose Lips, Last Tide, Mittenfields, and Lightfoot)
Hiding Places
Dance For the Dying
META

Finally liberated an important SD card from Jamil‘s clutches. Now we can reminisce on the first minutes of 2009.

Part 1

The warm-up.

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Part 2

The clock striking midnight with maximum room capacity then busting the lightweights upside the head for about an hour.

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Part 3

Going deep and hitting a few peaks.

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Part 4

A little more head crack and then dénouement.

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Tonight.

Me and Jahsonic back at it again, FOR DE FREE!

No dress code
No cover charge
No bullshit music

Soul Controllers New Year’s Eve 2008

Marvin
2007 14th St NW, WDC
9′ish until they kick us out

Book was on WPGC duty and I didn’t really have any options. In a stroke of fate, New Year’s Eve fell on a Monday, which is Jamil‘s regular residency at Marvin. That was a good look because he’s been slogging through some soul-sucking gigs as of late. “Full creative control” on New Year’s Eve had him giddy like Geoffrey Holder in Boomerang. I was just going to show up, chill and watch the homie black out on the decks but he proposed we make it a Soul Controller throwdown. Didn’t have to ask me twice.

Crowd was mixed, nobody paid a dime to get through the door, folks were partying and looking nice without having to be instructed to do so by a dress code. Isn’t that what a NYE party should be? My only regret is not having a mic to catch the roar of the dancefloor, makes the track mutes in the recordings sound silly. One women told us that “it’s time for you to play some mainstream hip-hop now.” We declined gracefully.

Part 1:
Setting the mood for the jump-off. “Champion Requiem” at a New Year’s Eve party? Whoa. Marvin Gaye makes the first of several appearances… ‘cuz we at Marvin.

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Part 2:
Jamil drops Cee-Lo’s “I’ll Be Around” right at midnight. Booties start shaking and moving all around. Somehow we get to “Sounds Like” and “Golpe Duro Calinda“. No mercy and no prisoners. Can you feel it?!

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Part 3:
More from the Soulful Party Peoples’ Holy Trinity of Jackson progeny, Prince and Stevie. The latin diaspora gets more love along with the Black President.

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Part 4:
Tryna slow it down but bammas ain’t tryna stop partying. That’s cool. 4am ain’t no thing.
Now you know that Soul Controllers have a podcast too. You should check it out.

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