So the last week of our class, I ended up in Seattle twice:
The first time was Monday the 6th, my friends who used to live in Olympia just started a bi-monthly event in South Seattle at this bar Maxim’s. They’re in a rap duo called Garlic Man and Chikn and are my favorite friends to play shows with, as they are always so entertaining, right up to their matching outfits and choreographed dance moves. I opened the first night of the event with an hour long DJ set, which I was treating like a practice for the upcoming show in San Francisco that I will be playing at the end of the month.
Then I headed up to Seattle again for a show put on by Soulection, one of my favorite labels from Los Angeles. One of my favorite producers was playing and although I usually dislike when a producer does a DJ set rather than play their own music, he (ESTA) nailed it, and there was not a dull moment in the entire set. I was at the front and seriously thought I might melt from the heat of the room. There was a breakdance circle going on near the back of the crowd, which I got a great view of when my friends and I accidentally walked right through it. Everyone was smiling though, so no harm!
Unfortunately I got sick coming back to town the following day, and have been fighting off a cough for the better part of the week now. Because of my work schedule and being sick I might have to wait till I get back from the Bay to go check out Portland, but in the meantime I will be reading my books. So far I dove into Pink Noises, and have been loving reading all the interviews with everyone from DJ’s to renowned experimental musician Pauline Oliveros, who currently is a professor at Mills College where a couple of my friends go!
Right now I’m working on two different DJ sets: one for a radio show in Canada, and the other for my show in San Francisco, so I think I’ll get back to that before I run out of time!