if New York can die so can London

[shakahislop]

do you work in a bar shaka?

2pm! guy called gerald was on 10am - 3pm on sunday

 

[shakahislop]

Nonstop: A Guy Called Gerald, Aaron J, Danny Tenaglia, Juana, Marie Montexier, Sybil, .VRIL at Nowadays, New York City ⟋ RA

We’re diving straight into the deep end with this one. Aaron J tests the waters with his hyper-heady take on contemporary techno. A seasoned DJ, he has...

ra.co

this is a standard nowadays nonstop schedule, they do one every saturday to sunday

 

[luka]

do you work in a bar shaka?

he does now the boys have cancelled USAID yes

 

[dilbert1]

i ended up working until 2 and by that point it was almost over. thought about swinging by coz i was in bushwick anyway but didn't. people are saying that he didn't play much jungle anyway

Got there for the last half of his set. I wonder if he did play jungle in the beginning and then shifted gears to suit the crowd because it was full of ‘club kid’ lookatme’s and people dancing way too enthusiastically to very mediocre old school house our old hero diddled around with on his iPad. Not to mention the sound was wildly inconsistent, mostly quiet and muffled, jumping levels and even cutting out completely a couple times. A handful of acid jams and my girlfriend’s ever-glowing presence kept me dancing with her but overall I did not like being at Nowadays. The crowd pissed me off and I could feel all sorts of prejudices (against drug users, sexual deviants, musical illiterates and mesh wearers of all stripes) welling up inside me.

 

[yyaldrin]

Got there for the last half of his set. I wonder if he did play jungle in the beginning and then shifted gears to suit the crowd because it was full of ‘club kid’ lookatme’s and people dancing way too enthusiastically to very mediocre old school house our old hero diddled around with on his iPad. Not to mention the sound was wildly inconsistent, mostly quiet and muffled, jumping levels and even cutting out completely a couple times. A handful of acid jams and my girlfriend’s ever-glowing presence kept me dancing with her but overall I did not like being at Nowadays. The crowd pissed me off and I could feel all sorts of prejudices (against drug users, sexual deviants, musical illiterates and mesh wearers of all stripes) welling up inside me.

was he realling playing from an ipad?

 

[dilbert1]

Yeah, with a little controller

 

[shakahislop]

Got there for the last half of his set. I wonder if he did play jungle in the beginning and then shifted gears to suit the crowd because it was full of ‘club kid’ lookatme’s and people dancing way too enthusiastically to very mediocre old school house our old hero diddled around with on his iPad. Not to mention the sound was wildly inconsistent, mostly quiet and muffled, jumping levels and even cutting out completely a couple times. A handful of acid jams and my girlfriend’s ever-glowing presence kept me dancing with her but overall I did not like being at Nowadays. The crowd pissed me off and I could feel all sorts of prejudices (against drug users, sexual deviants, musical illiterates and mesh wearers of all stripes) welling up inside me.

fuck it's my worst nightmare you've undermined me in front of the whole of dissensus.

 

[shakahislop]

it's weird with the crowd there coz it varies. i've been there a couple of times when the crowd has been totally off. but it's more that it's people who are there to do what they would normally do in an LES club. i know what you mean about essentially there are a lot of people there who think they're cool. i think tbh if it was the equivalent people in england i would have total contempt for the whole thing. none of that makes me bristle in america though idk why

 

[shakahislop]

the first time i went was on a friday night, i stood in the dark and the fog listening to lychee play wave after wave of almost beatless bass, total transportation, total conversion

 

[IdleRich]

I read that as "beatless brass" for a sec, I thought, that... doesn't sound good.

 

[shakahislop]

from the discord:

Doing 2cb for Gerald had me making life resolutions and theorizing about propaganda via stickers
Only to find out later that it's called "marketing"

 

[The King of Pussy Gettin]

Has s/he got foetus on her breath?

I do not wish to think about that at this particular moment in tiem

 

[IdleRich]

The album I mean. Obviously.

 

[version]

Met object to opening of Soho jazz club claiming it will 'cause uptick in crime'

Exclusive: Famous Blue Note Jazz club wants to open late-night venue in Covent Garden - but police say ‘vulnerable’ club-goers could become victims of crime

www.standard.co.uk

 

[version]

The "concerned resident" quoted is hilarious...

The concern was echoed by a resident who asked councillors to limit the venue’s hours to 11pm to protect “vulnerable” jazz enthusiasts from criminals operating in the West End.​

​

The unnamed resident wrote: “It is suggested that it is extremely likely that some of the dispersing jazz lovers may be inebriated to a greater or lesser extent or perhaps slightly disorientated by their emergence into the cool night air."​

 

[luka]

Poetry!

 

[version]

Birth of the Cool Night Air.

 

[0bleak]

people concerned about jazz venues... It's like someone rewound the clock 100 years.

 

[shakahislop]

at the bleeker street subway someone had a massive amp and was playing guitar ambient pedals loops so loud you could hear it from up the stairs people were covering their ears it was echoing all across the platforms and through the tunnels

 

[william_kent]

at the bleeker street subway someone had a massive amp and was playing guitar ambient pedals loops so loud you could hear it from up the stairs people were covering their ears it was echoing all across the platforms and through the tunnels

video or it never happened

that's what the cool kids told me in 2010