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Saturday

Jan212012

Dance it Up! Upcoming Boston Events For January 2012 (Updated 1.28)

Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 1:54PM

Upcoming Events

Past Events

Did I miss anything? Email nminieri@yahoo.com if you want me to include your event, as long as it’s in the general Boston area and is catered towards dance/electronic music. I will be updating the list on Sundays and Wednesdays.

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Tuesday

Jan172012

Backyard: Quam Rocks That Juke Tip, Plus Phoenix Landing Party 1.17.12

Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 1:10AM

Watch out Boston! The Elecsonic crew is back in full force at the Phoenix Landing tomorrow. Not only are Quam, Chadley, Austin Stone, and Earthtones all laying down full DJ and/or live sets, but this will also be Time Wharp’s last performance in town for…in his words….”a while yo”.

Time Wharp is going to be a name to be on the lookout for in the near future; his lo-fi synthetic sounds are original and, more importantly, very musical. Have a listen to a recent live set he laid down on You’llsoonknow Radio to get a taste:

Also, many thanks to Quam for sending a brand new original of his to share with you guys. “On My Mind” is a perfect juke-and-bass combination of soulful pads, dancehall overtones, and a vocal riff so infectious by the end of the track you will know it well, and think about it all the time! Check out more originals from Quam on his own Soundcloud page.

Quam-On My Mind (Local Producer Showcase) by beantownboogiedown

As for the event at the Phoenix tomorrow (512 Mass Ave, Cambridge), it’s $5 after 11pm, 19+, and $2 drafts available. Facebook event invite

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Saturday

Jan142012

Sweet Shop 6- Garage, Juke, House, and R&B at Goodlife, Featuring Brenmar. 1.14.12

Saturday, January 14, 2012 at 1:54PM

You know those signs at Goodlife by the DJ booth that say “We love you! But please, no requests” in big bold letters? If you’re one to always remind whoever is playing it’s your birthday, tonight you might be in for a bit of relief. Yes, you technically won’t be able to ask headliner Brenmar to play anything specific, I know. But what you’re dealing with here is a producer who has a knack writing songs with very catchy vocal hooks, set on top of those swinging beats you deserve to dance to after working your tail off all week. CreateSpace is back, and Brenmar is the sonic keynote speaker laying down the soundtrack of their first Sweet Shop of 2012.

A newer producer, Brenmar gained traction last year with a unique sound that borrows anthmic R&B vocals, chopped-up and edited in a format reminiscent of 2-step garage, along with house-and-bass grooves on the low end of the spectrum, even fragments of juke to let the heads know he was born in Chicago. (Although he has since migrated to L.A.) His biggest release came last summer- a four-track EP on Sinden’s Grizzly stable, which showcases tracks like “Let Me Know”, “So High”, and a Dubble Dutch rework of the latter.

Of course this is Goodlife we’re talking about here, and since life is ALWAYS good there, specifically on Saturday nights, it will be worth your while to get there very early as per usual. It’s cold outside, don’t be one of those guys who gets stuck out there instead of inside the building, where you will be able to hear the likes of General Motor, Mr. McNeill, and Paul Foley (who will be laying down a four-hour megamix upstairs!)

Goodlife, 28 Kingston St., Boston. $5 before 11, $10 after. 21+
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Thursday

Jan052012

House at Bass Oasis, 1.5.12: Chas Bronz, Walter Jones & More. An Tain

Thursday, January 5, 2012 at 12:18PM

Returning to form after the holiday break, Bass Oasis is switching things up a little bit with an all-house night at An Tain. Expect to hear those four on the floor beats range from the nu-disco and indie sounds of Bronz and Jones, all the way to the deep and soulful sounds of the supporting acts. All of these guys produce as well as DJ (Bronz and Jones are both signed to DFA), and four-fifths hail from the Connecticut/New York area. You only need to read their bios on the Facebook event page to see there will be no slouches behind the decks tonight.

But you don’t have to even take my word for it! Just check the links below to some of their work.
31 India Street, Boston. $7 Cover, 21+

Groundhopper at Sullivan Hall, NYE 2011 by groundhopper

Winter Grooves Mix (Tech House- House- Booty Tech) by RKADE

Degenerate Abduction Mix 2: Exiting the Atmosphere by Matty_Funkhouser

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Friday

Dec092011

Bassic Presents Joe Nice, Moldy & Scotch 1 at Goodlife, Tonight 12.9.11

Friday, December 9, 2011 at 1:22PM

BASSIC is proud to bring back America’s original dubstep allstars JOE NICE & Selector Moldy! It’s been over a year since these two beasts have set foot in the bassment of the Goodlife bar to bring you the sounds of bass that rattles our skulls like no other!

JOE NICE (DUBWAR NYC, Gourmetbeats.com, Dataset Clothing) Baltimore
Representing Baltimore, JoeNice is universally recognized as the ambassador of the dubstep sound in North America and has been instrumental in the growth and success of dubstep for nearly a decade. In other words, he’s been playing dubstep before it was called dubstep. Joe’s monthly radio show on GourmetBeats.com was the first to feature dubstep in the states and his worldwide fan base continues to grow with his enthusiastic stage presence & live performance, upfront selection and skillful mixing. Joe’s record bag is a who’s who of dubstep… If you’ve never heard it before, chances are, you’ll hear it from Joe Nice. He is the first American-based DJ to play on London pirate radio, Rinse FM, the first American-based DJ to play the legendary DMZ bi-monthly bash and the first American-based DJ to play FWD>> @ Plastic People. A member of Electric SoundStage Radio, DataSet Clothing and resident & co-founder of the most successful dubstep party in North America, DubWar (New York City) and selected as one of URB’s NEXT 100 (in 2007), JoeNice is continually taking dubstep to the next level and beyond.

MOLDY (Heavy Pressure, Embassy Recordings)
A native of Portland, ME and seasoned inhabitant of Boston, MA and New York, NY, Moldy is widely known for his mind-bending DJ sets and deep, dark, weighty bass music productions. A “veteran of American dubstep” (flavorwire.com, 4/19/10) and “New York City dubstep pioneer” (thekronicle.com, 3/3/10) Moldy has been “quietly leading the charge of US dubstep producers since day one” (dubwarnyc.com, 5/29/10).

Scotch1 (BASSIC)
Scotch1 grew up on mix tapes ranging from Dj Hype to DJ Dan. He began playing records in 1998, and has since played shows from Boston to Bali, with countless venues and parties in between. His main rule when playing: crowd control. From low-profile mood setters, to in your face smashers, Scotch1 can keep any dance floor filled.

Good Life Bar, 28 Kingston St, Boston, Ma 21+ $5 for flight & fee

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Wednesday

Dec072011

Matt And Kim Ticket Giveaway Contest For House of Blues Show (12.9.11)

Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 9:07AM

All right guys, any Matt and Kim fans out there? If you are, then today’s your lucky day. I’m giving away one pair of tix; all you need to do is leave a comment below with your name and email addy. This is a 24-hour drawing, it will close at 9am sharp tomorrow. Show is on Friday at the House of Blues with Mutemath and Mean Creek opening. Good luck! If you don’t win, you can still buy tix by following the link below.

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Saturday

Nov262011

Sweet Shop V Tonight at Goodlife Feat. Dev.Null, Entropy & Obeyah

Saturday, November 26, 2011 at 6:05PM

Sweet Shop returns with its fifth installment. This month we give thanks with two great friends and awesome DJs:

Saturday’s line up includes rave legend Entropy, DC’s own Obeyah and our friend Dev Null

Joining them with opening duties are Mr. McNeill with a departure from his normal sound as a techno and house DJ. He continues to show why he is one of the most sought after newcomers in the Boston dance music scene, winning himself residencies at the W Hotel and talks of some west coast bookings sometime next year. Opening with McNeill is regular upstairs collaborator, Kat Fyte. While he regularly assists us with hip hop and reggae in the lounge, Max heard that Shuttle was playing and insisted on opening. We look forward to his mix of bass, moombahton and dancehall to help get the evening going.

45house-meets-jungle-meets-??? mix June 2011 by DevNull-DJ

DJ Entropy - Hardcore Sound 2011 by djentropy

Upstairs, Obeyah returns after his much lauded appearance for us back at Intersection with Tevo Howard. Obeyah, a native of the D.C. Metro area, shares his geographic and musical roots with Shuttle. Hailing from an area known for its deep underground dance music scene, Obeyah brings it with a ferocious blend of break beats littered with peaks and valleys that will keep you on your feet all evening long.

Marvins Room - OBEYAH RMX/ Rise of Moombahton by obeyah

HectorFR - Espera // Obeyah remix by obeyah

Opening duties to be performed by recent collaborators, NE Tempo bringing their own blend of hip hop and dance music to start your night off right.

It’s all sweet and it’s all 5$, all night long. See you on the floor!

Sweet Shop 5 with Entropy, Dev Null and Obeyah,
Saturday November 26th 2011 (Thanksgiving Weekend)
930pm-2am
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Good Life Boston

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Saturday

Nov192011

Stretch Armstrong Spins Fresh Produce Tonight, Goodlife, 11.19.11

Saturday, November 19, 2011 at 3:42PM

Fresh Produce, our infamous monthly hip hop and reggae party, returns Saturday Nov. 19 with special guest, the legendary DJ Stretch Armstrong!!

Hosted by Boston-based web sites’ undergroundhiphop.com and jumptheturnstyle.com, in conjunction with Frank 151 magazine, Fresh Produce combines forces each month, inviting DJs and producers from across the country.

The music is a mixture of new and old hip hop, reggae and party jams, with plenty of scratching, beat juggling and near flawless mixing. It’s held down by resident and founding DJs Tommee and Knife and this month, another local guest DJ Dolo.

Plus our friends from start-up blog and clothing company La Parca will be on hand selling t-shirts, talking shit and drinking beer.

Last month was great! Let’s keep it going. No dress code, no cover, 21 +. VIP passes to skip any sort of line are available through Knife, Trees or Jeremy. So hit those fools up.

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DJ Funk :: Circus :: An Tua Nua :: 11.11.11
.:THERAPY Closing Party :: Providence, RI :: 11.12.11

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Monday

Nov142011

DJ Funk @ An Tua Nua, Therapy Closing Party & Make It New Pics Posted

Monday, November 14, 2011 at 9:07AM

Busy weekend!! Link to the pics below.

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Friday

Nov112011

Circus and DJ Funk Return To Boston, Tonight at An Tua Nua, 11.11.11

Friday, November 11, 2011 at 3:30PM

First off- Apologies for lack of updates on here the last few days. I just bought a new desktop, and it took a couple days to get all my stuff migrated from my old Mac to the new one. That went pretty smooth and now I’m back at it again.

That being said, we have the return of both the Circus night, as well as DJ Funk, tonight at An Tua Nua (near Kenmore square). If you missed Funk when he played Goodlife this past summer…well, you missed out. Funk does his booty house and chicago juke thing, and does it well. You can expect the same tonight, along with plenty of on-the-mic jokes (he’s his own emcee you know), and Cajmere’s “Perculator” played at least 3 or 4 times. Totally game for that.

Circus was the night Jeff Gil and Casey used to run over at Privus on Saturdays in Allston (circa 2008-09). It’s been on hiatus since their last party at the Great Scott in 2010, so good to see the return of one of Boston’s most popular nights.

Repeat Offenderz, Fantastadon, Eli Wilkie, and Voltran opening shop.

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Thursday

Nov032011

WeNo Brings Tech House Producer Nic Fanciulli to Boston, Felt, 11.3.11

Thursday, November 3, 2011 at 12:10PM

The WeNo guys have been on a bit of a roll lately, holding the responsibility for bringing a tasteful and well-refined selection of tech house and minimal producers to Boston over the past two months. They’re not slowing down either; after a great turnout last week with Martin Buttrich at 131 Broad St., they turn their attention towards Felt (533 Washington St, Downtown Crossing) this week with Nic Fanciulli in tow. Co-sponsored with BonTon Productions, this is going to be another great event.

Fanciulli comes from the “quality over quantity” fraternity, generating just a few records each year, but every single one being a game changer. He is particularly renowned his collaborations, the most recent of which have included Loco Dice, Josh Wink, Stacey Pullen, Gary Beck and U.N.K.L.E. “Hear Me Out” with Beck has been hammered by DJ’s worldwide for months now, as has his track “Together”, with Joris Voorn. Soundcloud embeds of these below.

Nic Fanciulli & Gary Beck - Hear Me Out by Nic Fanciulli

NIC FANCIULLI & JORIS VOORN - TOGETHER [REJECTED] by Nic Fanciulli

PLEASE NOTE: You need to RSVP on the Facebook event invite in order to get in! There are no pre-sale tickets either, only at the door ($20 with RSVP before midnight). Get your RSVP on now, and be sure to get there early to check out local tastemakers Sergio Santos and Tamer Malki, two of the people behind making these nights possible.

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Thursday

Oct202011

Retro-Themed Mirrorshades Party Kicks Off @ Goodlife, Sound Designer Mark Fell Plays MiN, 10.20.11

Thursday, October 20, 2011 at 8:58AM

New party launches tonight at everyone favorite dance-friendly watering hole, the Goodlife (28 Kingston St., Boston). A once-a-month thing on Thursdays, Mirrorshades is a throwback to everything that was hip about the 80s. (And probably not the things people want to forget from the 80s, sorry hair metal fans) Expect to hear a ton of the stuff you remember from those rollerskating parties when you were in elementary school…or for the younger crowd, before you were born! In fact, in their own words, here’s what Mirrorshades is about:

Big empty houses on the hill, Arcades, Rollerskating, Carousels, The Lost Boys, The Future, Waves crashing, pools lit at night, driving to the desert, being in love, making it on your own, Saturday morning detention, Friday nights at the drive in, breakdance battles, ditching school, coast Highways, L.A. at night, neon lights, futuristic dashboards, being deaf to teachers and preachers and fast cars.

Resident DJ’s Gemini Caezar, Dusty Digital, and Kurt Sloan are all on deck tonight. Plus VJ Jay Medina, and yours truly on photo duty. FREE!

And if you’re looking for something a little more edgy and experimental, why not check out Make It New over at the Middlesex tonight. Sound Designer Mark Fell is playing there. He isn’t your average verse-chorus-verse songwriter; his style is very organic, non-linear, and loves to take a sounds and tweak the hell out of them. Take a listen to his Multistability album above to get an idea.

For Fell, the final product is more the journey that goes into creating it, rather than the end result! Expect this to be anything but your average record-spinning DJ set.

Composer and percussionist Ricardo Donso and Die Young are also playing. $10 cover, Middlesex Lounge, 315 Mass Ave, Cambridge.

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Wednesday

Oct122011

SubTropix: Moombahton & Tropical Make Their Way To Jamaica Plain, 10.12.11

Wednesday, October 12, 2011 at 12:15PM

Looking for something low-key to do tonight? Ted Petsas from Snake Soundsystem is launching a new tropical-themed night over Jamaica Plain. It’s been a minute since there’s been any dance-related parties at the Milky Way (284 Armory St, JP) so come on down and party like it’s 2008 all over again (sans bowling alley of course).

Summer might be over, but the warm overtones of the bass-driven sound of moombahton and tropical will keep the masses moving long into the winter. Expect to hear a LOT about moombahton-oriented parties over the upcoming months, this stuff is catching on with a lot of people at the moment. Fuzzy Fotch and Tedthousand on deck duty. Oh yeah, it’s FREE. Stop by!

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Saturday

Sep102011

Createspace Sweet Shop IV: Dirtybird's J.Phlip Brings the Sugar to Goodlife

Saturday, September 10, 2011 at 12:15PM

Sweet Shop is back with yet another treat. Hailing from the legendary Dirtybird Records, J. Phlip is a savant of all things bass. Her DJ sets are a mix of house and breakbeats with samples from the traditional to the downright nasty. As part of her Barbary Coast EP tour (which dropped on August 17th 2011), Phlip will be crafting up her special blend of mixology just as thousands of students return.

Claude VonStroke recently wrote about Phlip: “Lots of people think they know about SF basslines but only a few actually can pull it off. Jessica is one of those people. She is one of my favorite DJs on earth and her new EP shows why she fits in so well with at dirtybird. Big basslines, quirky ideas, and a general sense of mischief make this EP stick out from all the matchy matchy tracks out there.”

J.PHLIP - ARE YOU EATING HEALTHY by j.phlip

We really can’t wait to get this party started!

We will be celebrating the birthdays of Nanci Ikejimba, Kenan Alsarabi and Daniel Hogan! Expect goodie bags and other mysterious treats!

Opening downstairs are Doctor Jeep and Elkid, representing from the Banana Peel camp. Upstairs, Fens and Mzungu hold it down with regular friend, Max Pearl to quench your dancehall/hip hop/reggae thirst.

Saturday September 10th, 9:30p-2a, 5$ before 11/7$ after
Good Life Bar, 28 Kingston St, Boston, MA

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