aka avant garde musical water cooler conversation.
1. If you missed DC’s Blisspop party, you missed out the continuation of an ongoing peaceful regime welcoming brewing on the DC DJ scene.
Pictured are DJs Phil Real and DJvsWild. This past Saturday night, with the aid of 20,000 watts of seemingly subatomic bass at the U Street Music Hall during Will Eastman’s Blisspop, these two young men arrived alongside the Pacemaker duo of Sami Y and DJTJ alongside Bmore’s DJ Pierre and Murder Mark as top representatives of the young generation of East coast DJs.
Real is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, and regularly spins the “Nuh Uh” parties with DJs Shuttle (Nate from Passion Pit), Simon Phoenix from Baltimore’s TaxLo parties and assorted guests. The parties are held in both DC and Baltimore, and are a lightly regarded yet ultimately fun time on the DC and Baltimore party calendar. I first became aware of Real as he spun a now legendary series of parties in the summer of 2009 with other Maryland student DJ Soohan and Bmore club notables Jonny Blaze and TGRI Stamped artist James Nasty. Real has improved by leaps and bounds from also being the opening DJ at TGRI’s second All Killer No Filler party, and is truly starting to come into his own as a selector and gaining in technical skills as a DJ.
DJvsWild comes from Richmond, where he, alongside the Audio Ammo crew, are quickly gaining a reputation for throwing some of the more ridiculous parties in the area as of late. Their “Brain Drain” and “Head Hunters” parties have recently hosted names including Stretch Armstrong, Tittsworth, Drop the Lime and Nadastrom, as well as DJ Stereo Faith, and they count as a friend DC’s young dubstep obsessed spinner Billfold. The entire crew, from the aforementioned DJvsWild to Long Jawns, DJ Doddie and Bobby LaBeat are doing big things in the dirty urban college town, and are absolutely worth the press.
Come see Phil Real on June 2nd and 3rd in Baltimore at Sonar and DC at the Velvet Lounge respectively, for another edition of Nuh Uh featuring all the usual suspects listed above. For the Audio Ammo crew, come to Durkl’s block party this Sunday from 11-7 at 901 5th St. NW!
2. Gramophonedzie – “Why Don’t You” (High Rankin and Evolve or Die Remix)
Out of many tracks that slayed at Blisspop, it was this particular dubstep interpretation of one of my favorite house tracks of 2009 that REALLY took the cake. Props to the UK’s drum and bass and dubstep DJ High Rankin on the top notch work, and do check for his new label Suicide Dub. From taking a listen, absolutely expecting big things.
If of the fervent belief as I am that The Roots have evolved from Philly’s most wanted into first ballot Rock and Roll Hall of Fame candidates and true musical legends, don’t let me convince you, let their leaked first single from How I Got Over do the heavy work. Pure excellence, and with their uber success as Jimmy Fallon’s late night band, this will absolutely be their largest selling and most mainstream leaning album of all time. For a band that routinely rocks the most ardent hip hop head with Nrvana covers, this isn’t a bad thing, it’s just another day at the office for the ultimate rap band.
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