A round-up of sorts from the world of dance music today:
Ultra Nate's Deep Sugar was picked the "Best Dance Party" in Baltimore by the local Baltimore City Paper.
Ultra Naté's legendary Deep Sugar party keeps on trucking over baby-powder-coated dance floors every month in its adopted home of Paradox. From big names in house like producer Louie Vega to turntablist DJ Spinna to choice locals like KW Griff and the Unruly Records crew--which takes over the club's back room every month with its powerful DJ roster--Deep Sugar delivers again and again.
Fabric, the UK label/venue/blob taking over every aspect of music one step at a time, is celebrating their 10 year anniversary with a 4 day party featuring Ricardo Villalobos, Steve Bug, Kenny Larkin, Halo, Fred Everything, Doc Martin and more. Full line-up from the press release here.
Some fun facts about Fabric:
- Number of hours of music = 18,000, based on about 35 hours a week average.
- Number of fabric couples = That we know of... 3 couples that met at fabric and married, countless couples that have hooked up and not remembered the next day.
- Number of people through the doors = over 4,186,029
- Number of slipmatts used = 65
- Number of broken needles = about 1600, roughly 3 a week.
- Number of microphones broken by MCs = 53
- Number of cases of beer = about 160,000
- Number of bottles of wine = about 50,000
- Number of shots necked = over 1,300,000 pure shots
- Number of glasses = 312,000
- Number of limes/lemons = 350,000
- Number of tonnes of ice = 1 x glacier
- Number of rewinds = not enough yet.
- Number of tunes played = loads
- Number of bartenders hired = 600
- Number of toilet flushes (rank) = 8,299,200 flushes!!
- Number of people that have got lost in fabric = everyone
- Number of flyers given out = 30,000,000 (yes, thirty million) flyers
- Number of artists = over 20,800 acts between Friday and Saturday night
- Furthest cab ride home = Cardiff
- Number of Joe Beades = 1. Our handyman extraordinaire - the only reason fabric is still standing today.
Smart Bar's website was included in this design mag's Showcase of Music Night Clubs Web Designs. Some of these are utterly gorgeous:
Practically a one-page website, with buttons only for extra info, the Smart Bar website sports a few digital sticky notes with a very a fresh look.
Here's an interesting interview with Daniel Mnookin from Chicago's Siteholder label on the Cacophonous Bling blog. Quite a bit quoteworthy here if you can manage to tell the questions and answers apart. Formatting!
And two hot releases that have been rocking my socks: Getting a Rise, the second release from Jay-J's album Love Alive (that was fast); and the Fall EP from Franck Roger, who seems to release more great music with less fanfare than anyone I know of.
Photo from myspace.com/ultranatemusic.
