Another DoubleMasters takeover….

Usurping Royale w/ Vikas

Fuzzy distortions (i.e. Indie Rock & Electro) upstairs

Silky Smooth (i.e. Soul, House, Disco & Hip-Hop) downstairs

http://leroyaleclub.com/

21 7th ave South

Join me this Friday, March 20, 2009 as I DJ/host “House of Confession Fridays” @ The Church Lounge in the Tribeca Grand Hotel! I’m playing from 11:00-1:30 and then heading over to hang with AK at The Skinny (Orchard and Stanton)

*No cover, just mention Vikas @ the door.
*The Tribeca Grand Hotel is located @ 2 Avenue of the Americas @ White & Walker

For more info, guestlist or table reservations, email: bookings@vikassapra.com

Disclaimer: I did not come up with the name for the party!

The obvious tunes for this post would be party bangers you’d expect on Friday. Instead I’m leaving you with really mellow, merry indie rock:

Bon Iver – Blood Bank

Kings of Leon – Closer

David E. Sugar – although you may laugh

Noah and the Whale – 5 years time

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – hysteric

See you at the party(ies)!

If you’re down and hanging to the right (err…..east) come check me at the Skinny…..

if you’re midway down peep Vikas at Aspen….

Better yet, come out for the aspen, stay for the skinny…(I’ll be there incredibly late into the wee morning ‘before, during and after’-hours…)

Party on.

Aaron and I put together a new promo mixtape spanning 24 songs in 16 minutes.  I recommend playing it at full blast before you go out – side effects may include aggressive hip thrusting, uncontrollable fist pumps, and spontaneous makeouts on the dancefloor.

Download the mix here: The Quick and Dirty Mixtape

Tracklist:
1.  Passion Pit – Sleepyhead (Bo Flex Remix feat. Giantess)
2.  Ghostland Observatory – Sad Sad City
3.  MGMT – Electric Feel (Justice Remix)
4.  Stardust vs The Rapture – People don’t dance
5.  DJ Pataassa – Sweat Gunz
6.  Digitalism vs M.I.A. – Zdarlight vs Bucky Done Gone (Joachim Garraud Bootleg)
7.  The Presets – This Boy’s in Love (Life Like Remix)
8.  Primal Scream – Rocks
9.  Basement Jaxx – Where’s your head at
10.DJ Fashen – Bam Bam
11. Sammy Bananas – Work Me
12. Kanye vs Yelle – A Cause de Kanye
13. DJ Bling – Party Like A Rockstar
14. The Killers – Mr. Brightside
15. Bloc Party – Banquet (Phones Disco Edit)
16. The White Stripes – Blue Orchid
17. T.I. – Whatever you like (Discotech Remix)
18. Collie Buddz – Come Around
19. Jay-Z – Brooklyn go hard (feat. Santogold)
20.Red Hot Chili Peppers – Can’t Stop
21. DJ Fashen – Can’t stop getting high
22. Joey Swass – Fat Bottom Girls remix
23. Jay-Z – Just wanna dance
24. Outkast – Da Art of Storytellin

Just wanted to put up a quick post about a common observation. Single ladies – there is a direct correlation between the number of times you request Beyonce and how much you suck. The end!

Squeeze in around 11ish, Dance hard and all that.  The crates have been restructured, so I’m with a grip of lovely new tracks we never new I had…..Then it gets Fancy.

In other news, Jit and I (with the help of Meno) finished the Unofficial Music video for l’equipe fantastique du musique eletronique, also know as Drownsoda.   Enjoy:

Come early, see Vikas at Royale late……

to see performances from both sides of my life, come to a presentation I’m giving for the Fordham Philosphical Society (4:30 in Duane Commons) on being reasonable in a disagreement (‘epistemology of disagreement’ for the uber-squares), and yes it involves clips from Family Guy and includes free food and wine….

This week I’ll be taking a short hiatus from The Inn to play a set at Le Royale with Kele, lead singer of Bloc Party, and New York mainstay Roxy Cottontail.  Roxy does the jump off, then Kele bangs it out, and I finally take the crowd in for a landing.  A part of me really wants to open my set with this song:

Katy Perry vs Bloc Party – I kissed a banquet

What do you think?

In other news, I’m closing on a new condo in Williamsburg next week…Brooklyn beware.  More on that later.

Double Masters is in two places on Halloween…scary, isn’t it?

Aaron’s at Arlo with Fancy and  a grip of other DJs, flying in at prime time to rock a superhypermegaspecialscary set (11-12:30ish), then the whole squad is rushing over to Cabanas to dance with the newly deceased slain by me……Horrifying….

Entry to Cabanas is free before midnight on my list…$15 afterwards.  Costumes highly encouraged!  Here are some tunes to get you in the mood:

Halloween Theme

Yvonne Gage – Doin it in a haunted house

Rockwell – somebody’s watching me

I’m DJing some killer CMJ events this week at Le Royale (my favorite venue in NYC).  On Thursday I’m playing with CSS, and if you’ve been to any of my gigs, you know how hard I sweat this band, and its remixes. On Saturday I’ll be playing with Andy Rourke of The Smiths (although not with so much as opening for).  What I’m most excited for is Friday night, when I get to be on the other side of the DJ booth and rock out to some of my favorite DJs.  I’ve caught most of them before, but I’ve always wanted to see Treasure Fingers. His remix of Snowden’s Anti-Anti is still one of the top 25 tracks played in my itunes.

CSS – Alala

The Wombats – Kill the director (CSS Remix)

Treasure Fingers – Come true tonight (dub mix)

And one of my favorite Smiths tracks: Last of the Famous International Playboys