i ain???t got no shoes on....its always reassuring to see a dj who dances as he plays, and gramatik...
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REPORTING LIVE: TOGETHER 2012 PART IIPosted on April 13, 2012 by LAUREN METTER Email
Needless to say, things get a little crazy in Part II of the Reporting Live series fromTogether 2012.
Friday Night. Brighton Music Hall. Together 2012.
I???m in the club, Wheez-ies in the mix and???
I ain???t got no shoes on.
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Wheezie is literally destroying the place.?? Leaning back, gangster-style behind his setup, hisfingers are straight whipping back from vinyl, shoulders bumpin???. Track after track of thepurest dope.
???Wheez-ie is very serious about startingthe party,???
David Day says to me. And all I can think is goddamn, guy can check that off the list tonight.The place is jam packed w ith kicks hitting hips all around me. The crowd is loving it and goingwild as I run in,
the center of gravity in the room is aboutthree feet lower than usual.
All I can say is look out for Wheez-ie, man. Christ, Diplo dropped two of his tracks lastweekend on the BBC ??? he throws in Berklee-trained sounds that are almost impossible todescribe (I once tried to say a sound he used was akin to a very small wood pecker jacked upon speed), and expertly placed to make you move its like stuff a norm producer would make,but in 3-D.
Wheez-ie has successfully built up the energy to the highest point possible when he handsover the stage to reigning Queen Diva of New Orleans Bounce Music, Big Freedia. She walks tothe edge of the stage w ith major attitude, her team of scantily clad big-booty dancers in toe.
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There???s no turning back now. Five minutes later,
???There???s simply azz everywhere.???30 audience members, some pulled by Freedia???s own hand, are now on stage, and I canhonestly say that I have never seen a place turn into such a booty-shakin???, butt-quakin???,ass-droppin???-then-lockin??? party rap extravanganza.
Brighton music hall is literally bouncing.Dressed in huge, dangly blingin??? earrings to match her sparkle-encrusted belt, which clashesfabulously w ith a skin-tight leopard cheetah print top, she starts the booty dance-a-thon toend all booty-dance-a-thons. One dancer bends low in front of her, the top of her headtouching the stage. Bent at her exposed belly button, her ass is straight up in the air, shakingand wobbling at wharp speed, in perfect position to be slapped by Big Freedia as she sings,???I love the way you wobble wobble for me.???
???Get it, girl!??? one especially gifted booty dancer in the crowd says to me when I catch hereye. And goddamnit, when we bounce our booties back to back against each other, it???s likeI???m experiencing some sort of azz epiphany.
One show chocked full of energy releasedout the azz.
Love it.???Hahaha!!??? David Day laughs triumphantly as we drive through the deafening silenceoutside Brighton Music Hall to the Middle East, ???LET ME SEE YOU SHAKE THAT AZZZ!??? still
ringing in my ears.
???Only at Together can you go from BigFreedia to Oneohtrix Point Never right
across the city.???
With each step down the stairs to the basement of the Middle East, I feel like I???m diving intoan ocean of rippling sonic atmospheres, instantly transformed into a surfer of totally newsound-waves ??? our guides are expert technicians of the most experimental, playful sort.
It???s necessary to cool down after all that booty-shakin??? and bouncin??? w ith Freedia w iththese soothing sounds that lift me into another dimension ???
then I look down from the side bar andcrack up at the couple right next to me who
are just full-on making out.Sonnymoon???s music is lush, bubbling, floating ??? all of the above, having a ripple effect onthe crowd. It???s magical, really, to hear the vocalist???s soothing voice fill the air as hersparkly dress shines gold in the pitch dark.
Then Oneohtrix Point Never (listen above) is the perfect ending to a night of Wheez-ie andFreedia???s crazy dance parties. It???s like going from total sensory overload to a moody,imaginative feel, where you hear sounds and you???re like, ???I can???t even fathom how hemade that,??? all pieced together expertly in the dark, live, w ith no distractions. It???s someepically experimental shit.
The two shows tonight were like day andnight ??? or AZZ and JASS, perhaps?
The same thought strikes me on Thursday night???how satisfied my musical cravings havebeen of late. I???ve been feasting on a cornucopia of styles, Together is an electronic musicThanksgiving. Exploring new lands and reaping the shit out of them (minus the mass slaughterof Native Americans).
I mean, come on, Percussion Lab and Ninja
Tune Showcase at Great Scott? Legends inthe making coming to a venue near you.
Music floats outover the trash-filledstreets of Allston as
we pull the dooropen.
Nooka Jones is up when we enter. Andhe???s in trouble??? because he???scrossed the line. The musical genre line.
Joining Percussion Lab at only 23-years-old, Jones is a shining example of theridunkulous talent of young producers,hitting us w ith a beat milk shake madefresh from blending straight fire house likeCatz n Dogs, some techno, and some SoulClap-funky-esque. But I realize it???s notimportant.
What???s importantis that from the minute I walk in, I???m
dancing.The same way Jones??? moves forward connecting strings of beats together, I find myself andmy friend Sydney driving to the Dise to catch a part of Gramatik???s set. Thinking of Gramatikand his Street Bangerz Volumes 1 & 2 (so fresh, so clean, SO GOOD), I???m annoyed. BecauseI???ve somehow managed to miss him both at Electric Zoo and when he came to Boston in thefall.
???I w ill be damned if I miss him again!??? I say as we slip down Comm. Ave. and into thevenue, packed to bursting once again w ith beats and bodies. When I say beats, I???m beingvery serious. Guy???s been making chill-out classics since he was 13 in Slovania ??? and uh,has 100,000+ tracks on Beatport.com.
Lonely & Cold -- Gramatik by morenamarazzi
???Damn, yo this is tight!???Some kid screams to his friend as I again bury myself in the crowd in order to get the full effectof the soulful-hip-hop cocktail that is Gramatik.
Its always reassuring to see a DJ who dances as he plays, and Gramatik breaks it down,hands grooving and fingers snapping as he mans his mixing board and laptop beside hisguitarist jamming live. Meanwhile, not one, but TWO girls grab me from behind and press theirhips against mine, replying w ith only a laugh and a far-off look in their eyes when I give them
hips against mine, replying w ith only a laugh and a far-off look in their eyes when I give thema WTF look. Then I once again forget everything and surrender to the tight snare and killer kickdrum.
The scene is something of this sort:
I want to be sure to make it back to Great Scott in time for Falty DL (The MAN!), so about 15confusing-as-all-hell texts later I???m sprinting across Comm Ave w ith Sydney to our car andspeeding off into the night.
???Falty DL, you sly, sly dog,??? I think upon re-entering Great Scott, my eyes drawn righttowards the DubSpot logo: ???REDEFINING MUSIC EDUCATION??? the only thing glow ing redin the dark room. Fitting.
Holy cowbell, Falty ??? you think you can just come right in here and drop three killer Boddikatracks, AND Four Tet???s recently released ???Nova??? which currently happens to be one of
tracks, AND Four Tet???s recently released ???Nova??? which currently happens to be one ofmy Soundcloud favorites??!
So that???s what you???ve been hiding upthat tattoo, sleeve, eh, Falty?
Burial + Four Tet -- Nova by Four Tet
Well, fair enough.We have apparently become fully submersed in the dark outer reaches of unexplored bassspace ??? the Ninjatune Showcase. I had really high expectations for this (and brought abunch of Vitamin Water) ever since Bonobo???s DJ set at the Dise a couple months ago (heand the likes of Amon Tobin are also on the Ninja Tune label ??? OH MUH GAWW). Theseexpectations, where in fact, met, thanks to Falty and Starkey, who create two totally differentatmospheres while both bend low over nobs and sw itches, sweat gathering like tempos andpitches.
After the aforementioned killer dance tracks of Falty DL???s set, Starkey hits us w ith a sloweddown, deeper bass, several tracks w ith siren-like vocalists taking over between and atopsome ill hip-hop and mainstream rap.
A Philly-based producer and co-founder of the Seclusias empire, Starkey moves before us onstage as fast as his bookings are rising lately. Like Gramatik, it???s awesome to see how intohis own music he gets, jumping back from his turntables to pump his arms to the beats w ith usand jumping back again in a flash, his eyes just visible behind his fingers flashing from nob tonob on his mixer as he fux w ith da beats.
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He???s feelin??? it, and when he drops Ludacris??? ???Let???s Stay Together,??? I thinkthat???s his thank you for playing for the crowd at Together fest??? he later told me he couldfeel our energy. He cranks up the line ???everybody???s breaking up?????? which floats slow lyover a sea of waving arms, the beat hitting us hard in the hips.
And it gets me thinking, a lot of shit has been going on lately. Serious shit, like w ith Occupy,clashes w ith the police, pepper spray, people losing their jobs and their homes, taxes weekmy life in general sometimes it feels like everything around me is just falling apart.
Which is why its important to take a breakfor breaks and beats.
Theres a science to it: its called madness. Music festival madness. Its escaping together unitedunder one beat you know. Oh, take it away, Starkey:
Everybodys breaking, breaking up,Lets stay togetherLets stay together
United we Stand, div ided we fall.
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