Archives for July 2007
Andaz 7/28/07
31 July 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Andaz, Andaz, Andaz . . .
Almost 5 years. July is technically our five-year anniversary, since it was July of 2002 when we threw our first bhangra dance party at Lola’s Room. We celebrate our anniversaries in November, because that is when we started at the Fez Ballroom.
Anjali’s first set was a very atypical (for Andaz) [...]
Wikipedia learns me some Himesh Reshammiya
30 July 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
As long as you accept that everything is a fiction, wikipedia can be such a great tool for referencing lots of different information. I was talking out of my ass to Anjali about how Himesh Reshammiya came out of nowhere to rule Bollywood. Tonight I pull out 2002’s Humraaz and see Reshammiya’s name [...]
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Oregonian article
27 July 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
The wonderful Luciana Lopez of the Oregonian wrote a feature on us in the 7/27/07 edition of the A&E.
My Bloody Valentine and Me
24 July 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
7/24/07
I had been looking for a used copy of Mike McGonigal’s Loveless in the 33 and 1/3 series for a while, and I finally picked one up today. I had seen the manuscript in DJ Safi’s hands a year ago (which she raved about), but today was the first time I sat down with [...]
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Balkan Beat Box cancels, but we still have Joro-Boro!
20 July 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Balkan Beat Box were scheduled to play our September MusicfestNW edition of Atlas, but they have had to cancel. This is a bummer, but we still have Balkano Gitano DJ extraordinaire, Joro-Boro, coming from NYC to play our August 11th Atlas night at Holocene. Joro-Boro blew Anjali and I away when we [...]
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New Hip-hop history book travels a very different past
16 July 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Third Coast by Roni Sarig is a freaking great book. I picked it up primarily out of interest in the Virginia scene, Missy, Timbaland, Neptunes, etc., and got so much more than I bargained for. A very different history of hip-hop that asserts the primacy of the South, both from a hip-hop [...]
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atlas 7/14/07
16 July 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
7/16/07
Thanks to everyone who came out and danced and sweated with us on Saturday. We’ve got several exciting guests lined up for the next months’ Atlas events, so it will be a while before it is just the three of us DJing again. We’re very excited to have Joro-Boro in August, Ori from Balkan [...]
Eye Pillows
16 July 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
7/16/07
Growing up I found eye pillows weird and disturbing. I didn’t like how they looked on other people (especially with open eyes painted on them) and I didn’t like the feeling of the pillow pressing against my eyes when I would try one on. I never thought I would ever use them. One [...]
Our first gig at the knitting factory (NYC trip #2 in two weeks)
16 July 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
7/14/07
Flew out to NYC Friday night and flew back Monday morning. The Monday morning flight was so early that the earliest bus to Newark wouldn’t work, so we had to catch the latest, and then spend four hours at the airport in the middle of the night when everything is closed. I neeeeed [...]
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cheezy english lyrics
6 July 2007 | Uncategorized | No Comments
Despite alll my prior ragging on the English lyrics to “Dhoom Again” there are plenty of other songs with cheeezy English lyrics that I do play quite frequently in my sets. In fact, many of my favorite artists prominently feature dumb-ass lyrics in their work, such as my long-time favorites: The Jesus and [...]