I'm am totally worn out. I doubled the workout routine...wow, I actually have abs!
AND....
Finally, I thought the Winter weather was gone....but now the weather Pimp is hollerrrin' for a chance of snow. Argggg g g g !
In spite of this (hopefully) last cold flurry for the Denver Metro I am eagerly anticipating Jacksons Evolution. The Evolution is a new approach to the worn out club environment. It incorporates music, acting, special effects and of course tons of fun.
Apparently we're doing guest list and VIP only. Soooo, if you're planning on being in Downtown Denver anytime this Summer go to JacksonsEVOLUTION.com and sign up for the free list. More on this exciting promotion later....
For now, check out this sweet Electro track from
Aaren San - Osc Low Nyzz (Blende RMX)
Wednesday, April 30, 2008
Monday, April 21, 2008
I can feel my legs again
Apparently the workout isn't hardcore enough. I can feel my legs again today, and they told me I need to work harder!
Day 3, to look Rico Suave for the rad chic: Stair sprints! I talked to this cool bartender I work with, who is also a super workout star. She told me to do sprints to boost the metabolism. I have a ton of stairs at home, so I made a nice little routine of cardio exercise I learned in elementary school and coupled them with stair sprints....
In other new DJ Emir talked me into going to see DJ Green Lantern at Bash last night. I've always been busy when the Lantern has come through, so I tossed on the bullet proof vest and headed down to 19th and Market. I submit the following:
1. I didn't feel as threatened as I have in the past at Bash....and much to their credit, no one shot up the club last night.
2. Obviously I didn't stand in the crowd, rather, I simply made my way to the DJ booth to watch the action up close. There were good and bad aspects to my close proximity to Green Lantern.
First, I got to watch the light jock in action and learned a few things. Second, I realized that Green Lantern is a total ..emmmm...mean person. I lost total respect (I didn't really follow him before anyway) for this guy.
Green Lantern is decent on the mic, but everything he does is substandard to most local resident DJ's. He played the same set twice in less than two hours, and Lollipop by Lil Wayne four, FOUR, 4, friggin' times! To top it all off he was very egotistic and just downright mean to anyone that talked to him!
Why would a club continue to bring such a self centered idiot that can barely draw a crowd of MAYBE 150 in for $7,000 a night? It was pathetic to see how much was accommodated. A huge limo dropped him off and picked him up, plus the club had to pay for two of his homies to fly out with him....I'm not done!
The club manager was trying to be as accommodating as possible. Lantern asked for a bottle of Hennessey, and they brought bottle service to the booth. After it arrived, he started yelling at everyone about how it could spill. So, they took the bottle away, then he started yelling about not having a drink. Still trying to please the Lantern (who was already loosing most of his crowd) they brought him a full cup of Henny. After he got a bit drunk it seemed like he calmed down a bit, or not.
Nearly halfway through his performance he started yelling at me. "These chics suck, I only want bad ass chics on the stage!" He barked. I simply gave him a disapproving glare.
Upon concluding his set there were quite a few fans hanging around to shake his hand, take a picture blah blah blah...Rather than being chill he continued his ego trip all the way to his limo.
My view on touring is simple. People pay you to rock the party. Show up, be nice to everyone, do it big, let everyone know you're on their level and the nicest person in the world, get the money, go home. It doesn't matter if your fan base is ghetto, or influential, poverty stricken, or affluent TREAT THEM LIKE FAMILY.
Green Lantern is a great example of someone who doesn't have roots, or who forgot where they came from. His remixes aren't that great either (although his production work on Money Maker by Luda was impressive). Next time you want to hire Green Lantern, just give me $50 bucks. I'll make a mix TAPE that will rock the party harder!
On a lighter note, Steve Aoki is coming to Denver on May 24th. Steve is a great example of someone who battled through obstacles to get where he's at. His dad started the Benihana restaurant chain but never really gave Steve any money. Aoki ended up living a lower middle class lifestyle and was somewhat of an outcast. He eventually broke free and became a trend setter for the indie, punk, urban, electro crossover demographic.
I have to play the night Steve Aoki comes to town, but if you're a REAL music fan of indie to mainstream swing by Bar Standard and check out his set.....of course he won't go on until 12:30, so you can always come to Jacksons and listen to my set first :)
P.S. Thanks to Emir and the Bash staff for being cool last night.
Here are some tracks I play quite frequently, and that appear on the Steve Aoki mix cd:
Scanners - Low Life (LA Riots RMX w/uffie guest drop)
Green Velvet - Shake & Pop (w/Kid Sister Guest Drop)
and one more DIM MAK records track...this is one of my favorites and was a monster track last year!
Klaxons - Gravitys Rainbow (Soulwax Remix)
Day 3, to look Rico Suave for the rad chic: Stair sprints! I talked to this cool bartender I work with, who is also a super workout star. She told me to do sprints to boost the metabolism. I have a ton of stairs at home, so I made a nice little routine of cardio exercise I learned in elementary school and coupled them with stair sprints....
In other new DJ Emir talked me into going to see DJ Green Lantern at Bash last night. I've always been busy when the Lantern has come through, so I tossed on the bullet proof vest and headed down to 19th and Market. I submit the following:
1. I didn't feel as threatened as I have in the past at Bash....and much to their credit, no one shot up the club last night.
2. Obviously I didn't stand in the crowd, rather, I simply made my way to the DJ booth to watch the action up close. There were good and bad aspects to my close proximity to Green Lantern.
First, I got to watch the light jock in action and learned a few things. Second, I realized that Green Lantern is a total ..emmmm...mean person. I lost total respect (I didn't really follow him before anyway) for this guy.
Green Lantern is decent on the mic, but everything he does is substandard to most local resident DJ's. He played the same set twice in less than two hours, and Lollipop by Lil Wayne four, FOUR, 4, friggin' times! To top it all off he was very egotistic and just downright mean to anyone that talked to him!
Why would a club continue to bring such a self centered idiot that can barely draw a crowd of MAYBE 150 in for $7,000 a night? It was pathetic to see how much was accommodated. A huge limo dropped him off and picked him up, plus the club had to pay for two of his homies to fly out with him....I'm not done!
The club manager was trying to be as accommodating as possible. Lantern asked for a bottle of Hennessey, and they brought bottle service to the booth. After it arrived, he started yelling at everyone about how it could spill. So, they took the bottle away, then he started yelling about not having a drink. Still trying to please the Lantern (who was already loosing most of his crowd) they brought him a full cup of Henny. After he got a bit drunk it seemed like he calmed down a bit, or not.
Nearly halfway through his performance he started yelling at me. "These chics suck, I only want bad ass chics on the stage!" He barked. I simply gave him a disapproving glare.
Upon concluding his set there were quite a few fans hanging around to shake his hand, take a picture blah blah blah...Rather than being chill he continued his ego trip all the way to his limo.
My view on touring is simple. People pay you to rock the party. Show up, be nice to everyone, do it big, let everyone know you're on their level and the nicest person in the world, get the money, go home. It doesn't matter if your fan base is ghetto, or influential, poverty stricken, or affluent TREAT THEM LIKE FAMILY.
Green Lantern is a great example of someone who doesn't have roots, or who forgot where they came from. His remixes aren't that great either (although his production work on Money Maker by Luda was impressive). Next time you want to hire Green Lantern, just give me $50 bucks. I'll make a mix TAPE that will rock the party harder!
On a lighter note, Steve Aoki is coming to Denver on May 24th. Steve is a great example of someone who battled through obstacles to get where he's at. His dad started the Benihana restaurant chain but never really gave Steve any money. Aoki ended up living a lower middle class lifestyle and was somewhat of an outcast. He eventually broke free and became a trend setter for the indie, punk, urban, electro crossover demographic.
I have to play the night Steve Aoki comes to town, but if you're a REAL music fan of indie to mainstream swing by Bar Standard and check out his set.....of course he won't go on until 12:30, so you can always come to Jacksons and listen to my set first :)
P.S. Thanks to Emir and the Bash staff for being cool last night.
Here are some tracks I play quite frequently, and that appear on the Steve Aoki mix cd:
Scanners - Low Life (LA Riots RMX w/uffie guest drop)
Green Velvet - Shake & Pop (w/Kid Sister Guest Drop)
and one more DIM MAK records track...this is one of my favorites and was a monster track last year!
Klaxons - Gravitys Rainbow (Soulwax Remix)
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Push it to the Limit
Sunday, day two of the hardcore exercise to look Rico Suave for the rad chic!
I ran about 2 miles today in sprints, and walked an additional mile and a half. Now, I can't feel my legs. I think tomorrow I'll rest. Then get back to the routine Tuesday!
PUSH IT TO THE LIMIT....
Here are a few other good workout tunes (and they work well in the club too!):
Services - Element of Danger (MSTRKRFT Remix)
Bloc Party - Banquet
Bob Sinclair - Gym Tonic
Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You (DJ Dupri Rework)
Saturday, April 19, 2008
For the B'More Peoples
So people keep asking me to post B'more...
I'm rather fond of this up and coming (and very annoying to sober people) type of music. Baltimore House Music incorporates the very basics of house and dance music with just about any song sliced and diced...all tossed into an 8/4 structure.
Here are a few selections for the greater population
MLK - I Have A Bmore
The Count of Monte Cristal - B-more Forward
Not even close to Bmore, but a cool track anyway is
The Virgins - Rich Girls (Tyler Fedchuk's 1/2ALIVE Easy Disco Edit)
I'll put up a few more later. I need to dig a bit into the vault of 1,000,000 songs.
Mongolians and Blind Peeps
Wow, I blink and its already Saturday again!
Today started bright and early at 3 PM with a fun Two-way conversation with a really rad chic. By 5 PM it was breakfast time so I grabbed Terencio and headed down to B.G.'s Mongolian Bar-bee-que (Thats how we say it in the sticks). I got my fill X at least 100. Oddly, its interesting how many comments I get when I pile my bowl 9 inches above the rim with delicious food....
Remember, when visiting a Mongolian Barbeque, they charge you by the amount of bowls you have em grill. I save money by stacking 3 bowls into one. I know it looks funny when I depress the raw meat and veggies deep into the bowl, but I'm simply making more room. Geeee!
Owwww, almost forgot...
I started my workout routine today. 50 pushups, 50 situps, 50 minutes of running, and 5 minutes of stair running. I also decided I'm going to attempt the Boulder, Boulder, which might kill me. Seems like everyone else around me is doing the same, so why not do it big like the Cool Kids?
Speaking of Cool Kids..... Check out this track, its one of my favorites.
Cool Kids - I'm Mikey
Lastly, I saw a parade of 8 blind people walk into traffic downtown and almost cause a wreck. No one got hurt so it is classified as funny.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Coors Field
Wow, long night tonight. A bit of a cold flurry flew through Denver and kept people from coming out to get their drink on...errr...kept the normal people at home.
I saw a ton of really cool stuff due to weird drunk people, but thats part of the fun of life I suppose..
After things wound down Kenny "the crazy man" bouncer, Megan "the awesome" waitress and I got to yackin' with some balla that rolled over from Coors Field across the street. After talking for a bit, two really cool things then happened:
1. I got to see one of the NL Championship rings the Colorado Rockies recieved
2. The three of us got a VIP tour of Coors Field
Lots of pictures to post....its weird how quiet a huge baseball stadium is at 3 in the morning.
I'll leave you with a great song to celebrate baseball season...GO ROCKIES!
JOHN FOGERTY - CENTER FIELD
Friday, April 11, 2008
Managing the Kids
Electro-pop has developed quite a bit the last few years. Incorporating experimental elements and some learned from other genres its really a fun classification of music.
One group thats popularity has grown significantly over the past year is MGMT (The Management). The story goes like this.....two kids from the other side of the ocean end up at NYU, some other kids start pushin' the EP like crack in the ghetto, MGMT gets signed to Columbia and make more cool music.
Here's to the growth of Electro-pop!
MGMT - KIDS
MGMT - ELECTRIC FEEL
...and a Mashup for ya!
MGMT vs Daft Punk vs The Doors - "One More Time to Pretend"
Doin' It Big
I suppose we shall jump right to things. Lets kick it off with a good buddy of mine...
DJ Bert is an O.G./kool cat/ with some deep musical roots. I was fortunate enough to spend a few hours with Bert discussing the current state of mashups at Bootie Denver last night. He mentioned his mash of Webbie's Independent (I know you're already singin'.. I.N.D.E.P.E.N.D.E.N.T) vs Coldplay's Yellow (or Yeller depending on where yer frum). Apparently the mash is becoming a strong club banger with more than 5,000 downloads in the last week!
I can't wait for the next DJ Bert track...maybe he could do "Little Mellow Yellow" vs the Caramello (stretch it out out out) song from the 80s....or not..
DJ BERT - INDEPENDENT YELLOW
DJ Bert is an O.G./kool cat/ with some deep musical roots. I was fortunate enough to spend a few hours with Bert discussing the current state of mashups at Bootie Denver last night. He mentioned his mash of Webbie's Independent (I know you're already singin'.. I.N.D.E.P.E.N.D.E.N.T) vs Coldplay's Yellow (or Yeller depending on where yer frum). Apparently the mash is becoming a strong club banger with more than 5,000 downloads in the last week!
I can't wait for the next DJ Bert track...maybe he could do "Little Mellow Yellow" vs the Caramello (stretch it out out out) song from the 80s....or not..
DJ BERT - INDEPENDENT YELLOW
Random Ramblin' Rockin' N' Rollin'
Hello,
So here I am, seemingly 5 years behind the hype of blogs, but just in time to save the world from weak music. Dangerous Dan Worldwide reporting for duty, here to bring you latest, greatest, and some throwback classics too!
Now might be a great time to slap a good ol' bookmark on this page, because you WILL want to come back again and again and maybe even a third time for jollies.....
Wait! What the heck is this blog all about anyway? Well, since I don't really have time to discuss political tensions in third world countries, I suppose I'll be posting some really dynamic, hard to find remixes....
Yata yata yata, I'm bored now. Check back tomorrow for coolness.
1
DDW
So here I am, seemingly 5 years behind the hype of blogs, but just in time to save the world from weak music. Dangerous Dan Worldwide reporting for duty, here to bring you latest, greatest, and some throwback classics too!
Now might be a great time to slap a good ol' bookmark on this page, because you WILL want to come back again and again and maybe even a third time for jollies.....
Wait! What the heck is this blog all about anyway? Well, since I don't really have time to discuss political tensions in third world countries, I suppose I'll be posting some really dynamic, hard to find remixes....
Yata yata yata, I'm bored now. Check back tomorrow for coolness.
1
DDW
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