Celebrating all things creative

I'm bringing back the monthly dance music forecasts I used to do on my old blog.  I can honestly say that each time I do this I remind myself of how good it is to be an electronic music fan in Miami...

Friday, July 3rd  -  Behrouz + Josh Wink  -  Shine

Friday, July 3rd  -  Justin Martin  -  The Electric Pickle

Saturday, July 4th  -  Danny Tenaglia + Victor Calderone  -  Surfcomber Pool (daytime)

Saturday, July 4th  -  Danny Tenaglia  -  Cameo

Saturday, July 4th  -  Dubfire + Matthias Tanzmann  -  Mansion

Saturday, July 4th  -  Erick Morillo  -  Space Terrace (sunday morning afterhours)

Friday, July 10th  -  Sunshine Jones + Pete Herbert + Benno Blome  -  The Electric Pickle

Thursday, July 11th  -  Little Louie Vega + Mr. V  -  The Vagabond

Thursday, July 16th  -  John Digweed  -  The Vagabond

Friday, July 24th  -  Matthew Dear aka Audion  -  The Electric Pickle

Saturday, July 25th  -  Misstress Barbara  -  Space

Friday, July 31st  -  Butane  -  The Electric Pickle

NO EXCUSES FOLKS!  Get out there and eat some music...

Heeeeee's Baaaaack... Justin Martin brings his dancefloor mastery back to Miami this Friday night, July 3rd, at The Electric Pickle.  I am Psyched with a capital P.  This will be my first time being able to enjoy one of his sets at a party that I'm not responsible for promoting or producing.  Not since the first time I ever saw Justin play (Cork Town Tavern in Detroit back in '07) have I been able to enjoy one of his sets stress-free.  So yeah... I'll be on the dancefloor from beginning to end this time.

The only Justin Martin mix I can find on my computer as I type this is a live Martin Brothers mix from back on 9/19/08. It's split into 2 parts and both are great.

Justin_And_Christian_Martin_Live_Mighty_9_19_08_part1.mp3

Justin_And_Christian_Martin_Live_Mighty_9_19_08_part2.mp3

Listen up and bring your asses to The Pickle this Friday night (2826 N. Miami Ave.)

The Home Project is a great example of creativity for a cause - the biggest cause known to man - Global Warming. What Al Gore so thoroughly argued in An Inconvenient Truth, is more vividly portrayed in Home. With cinematography on par with Disney's Earth and Discovery's Planet Earth series... Home hits deep with stunning visuals. But rather than leave its viewer with a sense of despair, Home stresses the power we still have to change our ways and yes... save the planet!

Rather than embed the video here, I prefer you watch the video on it's YouTube page becuase there is more information there.

PLEASE watch this movie and then tell your friends about it. Also click on View map and join the cause on The Home Project's YouTube channel page.

Here's another amazing manifestation of creativity produced as a senior project by a student at Savannah College of Art and Design. Bang-yao Liu says this about his opus titled "Deadline":

Check out the finished piece below followed by the-making-of video beneath it.

This Friday is sure to be another riot at The White Room. PLOT, Miami's top techno purveyors, will be putting Robert Dietz at the controls along with their very own Alejandro Sab and Basti. I can only hope this party is outside in the courtyard on the rented Dynacord like the last few White Room romps (and the weather cooperates).

I've only heard this guy's name through his association with the hot new label Cecille, but after hearing his Ibiza Voice podcast and watching this recent video, I'M PSYCHED!!  This guy is a house music master who will impress even the staunchest of "old shool" stalwarts despite his German cutting-edgedness. DO NOT miss this party!

This is just incredible and yet another great piece I got off the blog New Art. This guy Daito Manabe is a creative genius! Click his name for a jump to his site.

In keeping with my motto of "Celebrating all things creative"... I must post this music video I stumbled upon at this blog, New Art. The video is for a song called "Her Morning Elegance" by a very talented musician/director/artteest Oren Lavie off of his album, The Opposite Side Of The Sea. 

If you're too lazy to click, here are some noteworthy excerpts:

"He [Oren Lavie] loves animation but can’t draw a straight line to save his life.This video is his first venture into the Moving Pictures."

www.onewingfly.com - Website for Yuval & Merav Nathan, the husband-and-wife producers/creators of the video and several other masterpieces. Watch out, you can spend an hour on their site in no time.

www.eyalland.com - Website for Eyal Landseman, the photographer on the video.

And these "Fun Facts"...

* The video was shot all stills - roughly 3225 still photos for the entire video, using one camera, hanging from the ceiling for the main body of the movie.

* It took 4 weeks before shooting to create an animated computer generated storyboard for the video, with 3d dummies for the characters.

* It took only 2 days of shooting for the live actors on set to re-create the 3.5 minutes computer sequence, frame by frame.

* Some of the bed sheets used in the video were taken from Oren’s own bedroom and are now considered collectors items, worth at the moment not very much and therefore used as bed sheets.

* Each of the wonderfully talented people above have worked on the video for a fraction of their normal rates (except Oren who worked for his normal rate of zero).

As I stood there on the dancefloor soaking up the AMAZING tunes played by Francois K and Derrick May, I couldn't help but promise myself I would never show up to another party without a camera. As some of you might know, I lost my camera at the last Justin Martin party at White Room in January. And I have now let too many incredible moments slip by without a shred of evidence to share.

I walked into this party skeptical because Francois K has only impressed me 1 out of 3 times (the 1 was one of his Deep Space parties at Cielo about 3 years ago) and I had never heard Derrick May before. We got there at about 1:30am and found the Eden Terrace sparsely populated despite an excellent set by DJ Nova of pornograph fame and host of the party. I can honestly say he played a perfect warm up set and left FK on a solid note.

FK and D-May played one of those sets you just can't compare to anything else really. Saying it was the best ever is uncalled for. But saying I've never been more pleased with a night of music (save U2 and DM concerts) in my life is very called for. They played a great mix of vocal tracks, deep house, tribal beats, techno goodness, and gut-wrenching bass lines. It all went together so smoothly, like butter!

Unfortunately the crowd this party deserved never showed up. I mean the place should have been packed, but at the peak, there were just enough people to fill the dancefloor and that only lasted about 1.5 to 2 hours. I'm sure Adultnapper next door at Space probably hurt this party as well as James Zabiela at Mansion, but in my opinion, this was way more of rare opportunity I just couldn't miss.

Before I end this post, I'd like to take this opportunity to yell that JUSTIN MARTIN will be playing at THE ELECTRIC PICKLE on FRIDAY, JULY 3RD!!!! Mark it down. It's ALWAYS a guaranteed blast when Justin comes to town!