adam @ 404

Matticus Stern and I successfully dual-djed last night at the Elbow Room. We played about 30 songs, lasting an hour and a half. I’ll have to post the listing, we covered a good amount of ground and I like the style of playing a few songs then the other guy will have some ideas about how to follow a song and go for a few songs. The whole thing felt pretty dynamic, even though were not “wicka wicka” beat-matching djs (for now). Over the past couple months of djing almost every week ive gotten a pretty good hang of the flow of djing and expanded alot
of my musical selection. Who said hanging out in a bar couldn’t be productive?!

I deserve and A+ in title continuity!

Go to the shows im organizing at State Control. They’ll be some of the last.

It’s true. Krysta came out to the Elbow Room last evening, where matt and I played
music with the long-time music man Chuck Damage. She had gone out to a birthday dinner with some friends before and they asked where I
was. After telling them, one friend asked if I was a DJ and Krysta said ’sortof’ or something like that. So I gave her a shitload of shit about
it. I’m not really serious, cos I don’t take any of it seriously and I don’t consider myself a real dj either. I prefer “dood playing mp3s” instead.

Maybe when I do it again in a couple weeks, I’ll be matching beats and scratching. Oh man, that would be totally awesome. And kids will
be breakin, and tagging. It will be such an urban affair.

I humbly submit my playlist (shortened because I realized most of the bargoers didnt want to hear dance music into my set) from last
evening:
0. Enon - Rubber Car
1. Ladytron - Playgirl
2. Human League - Love Action
3. Depeche Mode - Master and Servant
4. Duran Duran - Hold Back The Rain
5. Felix the Housecat - Glitz Rock
6. Adult. - Don’t You Stop
7. Devo - Jerkin’ Back and Forth
8. Spandau Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short
9. Flin Flon - Floods
10. Joy Division - Transmission
11. The Rogers Sisters - I Dig a Hole
12. Kanda - In The Flesh
13. The Faint - Worked up so sexual
14. Soviet - Breakdown

Matt had the idea of doing a dance night focusing on early 80s synth and goth stuff so I added my similar musical
“dance” interests and were having a small dance night at the end of the month. I say small because its at the
record store and the place can hold about 50 people comfortably.
If you’re in Ann Arbor Feb. 28th, stop on by State Control. Yes,
very stately , indeed.