Getting Down @ The Red Room
Choppin up the decks with Hot Rod and Michelle
The show at The Red Room was a blast and such a dope venue, loved the mugshots on the wall and the sound man had it hooked up right.
Much love to Flowmatik, Lessin, Cleen, Daniel Blak and Lumis for letting us shut it down and allowing me to tear up the turntables on their Portland stop. Oh yeah and can’t forget DJ Ozroc One, dude was killin it. Scope out the new myspace page for Hollywood Africans, Daniel dropped the bug and convinced Hot Rod to set it up and I’ll work with him to get new beats and tracks laced up on there, gotta get stuff cooking in the studio. Check back here within the next week and I’ll be posting some new beats and probably another mix, it’s been too many months since I last decided to record but I snagged some choice tracks and have a few ideas floating around for what to drop.
Post party wrap-up
Thanks again to the folks at the halfway house for letting me come out and rock the party, it was fun. Another party another late night till about 5am with lots of good tunes, good people, and most everybody did alright. One or two people might have had too good of a time and I’m sure were regretting it Saturday but all in all I’m pretty glad I came out, it set the tone for the rest of my weekend.
Saturday was awesome, caught the new Star Trek movie at the Roseway Theater and I’m surprised how much I liked it, then went over to Eric’s house to play with his new Roland TD-12 digital drum kit and man oh man I’m glad I moved within walking distance of his place cause I’m going to be over playing with that kit on a regular basis I’m sure.
Mother’s day was nice, cooked brunch over at my old house with my brother and his girlfriend and watched Planet Earth on blu-ray which is always pretty. I then packed up more stuff and a decent amount of the studio equipment and got it moved into the new place, going to set it up tonight after work.
Great news for me too, today is my last day in Clackamas and I’m starting out full time at SEI starting wednesday. I’m super glad to be going back there, I’ve always enjoyed working at SEI and think it’s probably the best fit for me and the added bonus of DJ OG-One works there and I’ll be dropping by to say whats up to him from time to time and maybe get his opinion on some mixtapes and beats that I’m working on. Alright time to get back to work, 4 hours and counting till the day is done.
Rocked so hard it took me 2 days to recover
Yeah the roots were something amazing, it takes some serious skill to make playing the tuba seem cool. I don’t even know where to start, the night was too much fun and the show was just off the hook crazy. I’m still too tired to put it all together in my head, I just know the night started with drinks at Rogue Brewpub, my friends and I got to the Roots show just as they were taking stage, and well the afterparty at Someday Lounge was too crazy busy so we hit up ground kontrol for some good ol arcade action, and ended up with a brief visit to Mary’s Club.
In the famous words of Jerry Blank “Good times, gooooooood times.”
Halfway House post party wrap up
The house party was a blast, I was setup by 9pm and didn’t end up leaving until 5 in the morning. I blazed all sorts of crazy tracks, started out with some hip hop for a couple hours then around midnight I really busted out the dance music and people were shaking their booties hard for a little over an hour before I let it cool back down and moved onto a mix of 80’s and more hip hop. It was the sort of party where I got to play Mahna, Mahna and this wack michael jackson impersonator covering the rawhide theme song and I got nothing but love from the crowd. Thanks to everyone who was able to make it to the party, contact me anytime and I’m down to do it again and next time I’ll see if we can keep it shaking till the sun comes up.
