Staple
Dan Bell and John Tejada at Staple this week. I hit it pretty early compared with recent weeks and arrived at Staple at about ten. The club was virtually empty when I got there, but I conversed for a while with the Idahoan at the door and Inhuman. Tejada was on the decks making waves.
John‘s set was very smooth, very funky, very compelling. I got on the dancefloor about 11, after conversing upstairs with some regulars, and stayed there throughout most of the night. Soon, John started to tweak some drum breaks and start fooling around with mixer effects and turntablism, weaving a fragmented and disjointed tapestry of sound and rhythm. It was crazily dope.
Dan Bell took the decks at midnight and started out fairly noisy with some experimental sound and relaxed into a tight and very tasty deep house groove. I didn’t get as soaked down as I usually do, but only because the place was packed and alot of knuckleheads had to walk through every time I started to step. Incredible numbers of very beautiful natives. Gotta keep myself focused, though.