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Saturday Night: KB!B DJ Explosion

nobody@vox.com(adampowell) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 15:48:58 -0500

KB!B DJ Explosion, this Saturday, 9:30-2:30
Mickey's
Free

We do this the first Saturday of each month. This time out it's EIGHTIES...EIGHTIES...EIGHTIES ~ SUBWOOFER EDITION

I am bringing Tones On Tail, Bryan Ferry, Madonna, Go-Gos, Arcadia, Specials, Missing Persons, Human League, Adam & The Ants, B-52s debut, Eurythmics, PiL, etc.

Three other DJs makes 4. I know Newlow will be slangin' LCD Soundsystem, Bloc Party and MIA along with the Madonna remixes, so there will be some relief from the 80s onslaught. Special guest this month is DJ Adam2.

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It's that DJ time again

nobody@vox.com(adampowell) — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:07:47 -0600

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DJ Setlist, 090206

nobody@vox.com(adampowell) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 15:39:54 -0500

The residency continues...

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Proceed (Part 3), The Roots

Loc'd After Dark, Tone Loc

It's My Thing, EPMD

I Ain't No Joke, Eric B. & Rakim

Keep Their Heads Ringin', Dr. Dre

It Was A Good Day, Ice Cube

Footsteps In The Dark, Isley Brothers

Greedy G, Greedy G

Breakbeat records >> (nice overlap here)

Radiation Ruling The Nation, Mad Professor vs. Massive Attack

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Dave Zero

nobody@vox.com(adampowell) — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 13:25:11 -0500

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DJ Explosion!

nobody@vox.com(adampowell) — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:33:48 -0500

Kbb-zero

It's that time again--our residency continues.

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Punk rock on vinyl - it's harder to mix when the songs are one minute long.

nobody@vox.com(adampowell) — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 15:04:39 -0500

KBB052006

So, we did the DJ Explosion! thing again on saturday night. It's a monthly residency at the hip tavern in our 'hood (the whole band lives within a six-block radius, which is great). Instead of playing as a band with instruments--that seems like an outmoded classification since one of the "instruments" in the band is a mixer + decks

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but anyway--all the band members have been showing up with vinyl and doing consecutive sets. We've done this 4 or 5 times now, and it's a blast.

This time out Bucky Pope was guest DJ.

The theme was PUNK ROCK!

I started off the night with a history lesson set, kicking things off right with with Bowie ("Rebel Rebel") and New York Dolls ("Personality Crisis.") If I remember correctly, the rest of the set was as follows:

Velvet Underground - 1966 bootleg with incredibly weird John Cale drone
The Clash, "Charlie Don't Surf"
Generation X - "Night of the Cadillacs"
Violent Femmes - "Hallowed Ground"
Replacements "My Favorite Thing"
Husker Du - "Crystal"
Sounds of History - 1981 newscast on degenerate youth
Black Flag - "Six Pack"
Mecht Mensch "Acceptance"
Blondie "Hangin' on the Telephone"
Tones On Tail, "Go!"
David Byrne/Brian Eno, "Regiment"

Robin Davies turned in an incredible set fed by his collection of punk and hardcore 45s and ...flexi-discs. I'd like to obtain his set list. There was a lot of Midwest hardcore--Killdozer and Imminent Attack. Killer.

Bucky's set was electic-o but very good, considering I was explaining to him how to get a headphone mix vs. a room mix five minutes before he went on.

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