1200 Lounge
1200 Lounge tonight in the city, after Chinese dinner with Steve. I watched Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000) earlier. One thing I noticed, and I’m sure you have as well, is how hard it is to drive normally after watching a movie like that. It’s like playing Cruisin’ World, or some similar game and remembering that your own car won’t go 225 miles an hour.
I arrived at Sutter and Polk about 10:15, slipped in, noticed Kevin working behind the bar (he gave me a CD at Activate a couple of weeks ago). DJ Szyzyg was on the decks, spinning some trance. It was cool. Szyzyg is a brilliant software engineer/astronomer from Scotland, who just happens to know everything about music.
DJ Chill got on the decks about 10:30. He conjured up an alchemy of very sweet deep house music that nudged and even crossed the line into tech house. I was astonished at the lushness of the music coming out of the loudspeakers. Sweet.
DJ Blest took over at 12:30, putting a little more chunky edge on Chill’s mix, going off on a rowdy tech tangent. It was hard not to get down, despite the 110 degree heat in the little sideroom. I cannot wait for next month.