Hey Everybody,

I scored myself another DJ Gig with our Persian friends, Hypernova, next week, Tuesday July 14th at the Chelsea Art Museum in NYC for the Iran Inside Out exhibition.

With all the craziness going on in Iran at the moment with the botched election and all, somebody figured that they should put on some crazy art show with artists from Iran. Well, the show at the Chelsea Art Museuem was already on the way, just so happened that the timing was a co-incidence. Anyways, I’ll be DJ’ing on the rooftop (i’m like the new U2) with open bar, once you get past the admission bits. There’ll be a panel with the artists involved in the exhibit taking place early on, or, you can just come for the party portion. Something tells me that I’ll have to creatively work in Flock Of Seagulls given the title of the event.

The Deets:
“IRAN SO FAR AWAY”
at the Chelsea Arts Museum
Tuesday July 14th
Open bar reception @ 6 pm
Panel Discusssion with exhibiting artists @ 7 pm
Private Gallery Tour @ 8 pm
Live Performances on the rooftop by: Hypernova, The Freedom Glory Project & DJ Benny Blanco® @ 9 pm on….

Tickets available at the Chelsea Arts Musueum:
$30 (all access)
$25 (rooftop jams only)
$8 (panel discussion & gallery tour only)

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Here’s Part 2 of this Episode’s Mix.

Benny Blanco®
AOL Radio 21 February 08 : Taking It Back But Not Too Far Back Pt.2
Title | Artist | Release | Label | Country
15 Peggy Sussed (Peter Heller Vocal) Underworld Peggy Sussed [UnderworldLive.com] UK
16 Break Da 80′s – Original Mix Armand Van Helden Armand Van Helden EP [Feel The Rhythm FTR 3857-6] France
17 Number One – Original Mix Chaz Jankel Best Of Tirk
18 B2 – Alma Del Mundo (Clear Perception Edit) AN-2 Alma Del Mundo [Theomatic THEOM 003] Russia
19 Street Beats (Original) benny blanco® unreleased track [blancodisco] US
20 Loose (Original Mix) Sascha Mueller [Night Drive Music] Germany
21 Gypsy Woman – Teddy Douglas Edit Crystal Waters Anthology [Basement Boys Records BBRCD006] US
22 3,000,000 Synths – Original Mix Chaz Jankel To Woo Lady Kong [Tirk 023] UK
23 Zweap Amplified Orchestra Satellites Are Spinning Vinyl [Amplified AO-3] US
24 Collarbone Fujiya & Miyagi Transparent Things [Tirk TIRK 017CD] UK
25 Point to the Joint 40 Thieves [Smash Hit Music Co SHMEP07] US
26 Polyesterday (Bix & Ottar Mix) Gus Gus Polyesterday 4AD BAD 8002 CD] UK
27 (B1) Pump, Pump (Let It Flow Mix) Jazzie Joint Give A Little Love [Nervous Recorsd NER20011] US
28 Dominion Advertisement The Future and The Human League The Golden Hour of the Future [Black Melody MELCD 4] UK

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Benny Blanco® plays Naima once again with Buddy Mark Flynn
over on the west side of town.
Thursday February 28th, 2008
Anima @ Naima Thursdays with No Cover
Music at 9:30pm
Italian Food and Wine
513 W 27th St Between 10th & 11th Aves – Club Row
New York, NY 10001

Be playing a host of tracks from this month’s mix and I have new Miss Kitten Album, Bjork & Dave Gahan remixes that I may be able to drop a few of.

Got a gig coming up in a week in New York’s East Village. I’ll be dropping some beats via some un-eco-friendly plastic otherwise known as Vinyl. I‚Äôm leaving the laptop at home to drop the Industry‚Äôs best copy protection scheme devised yet.

I’ll be joining buddies Eric EQ and Tim Carter doing 45 minute sets/rounds all night long starting at 8 PM. Of most interest to you aside from supporting my vinyl addiction… Will be the 2 for 1 drink specials served up til 10 pm. Woot!

The vibe will be groovy funky deep retro and the trippier sounding, the better. No 80′s New Wave tonite folks, sorry.

Keybar located in the friendly East Village at:
E. 13th (btwn 1st Ave & Ave A)

1) Friday March 10th
Benny Blanco® & Joeski
Guest DJ set for Subkulture Crew @ Sin Sin / Leopard Lounge in the east village this coming Friday.
10 pm – 4 am
No Cover

(just mention benny blanco for subkulture party to get in)
Sin Sin located @ 85 2nd Avenue @ E. 5th St.

I’m ditching the laptop this evening to go “old school” for just one night. I’ve picked up loads of new vinyl overseas these past few months. See what’s been playing on my work’s iTunes share.

2) AOL RADIO

Top User Rated DJ Sets from February 2006

1. Benny Blanco®

2. Mike Rizzo

3. Diplo

4. Victor Dinaire

5. Roger-M

look at those stats! I can’t believe it  myself, granted, Diplo was only the real name I surpassed, but, still, a nice thing to see. March will prove to be much tougher to land a spot in the top 5, unless you can tune in and rate my set favorably, if you like it.

This months acid techy vocal minimal house mix is titled:
Headphones At Night
Name • Artist • Label

Jack2Jack (Jesper Dahlback Remix) • Panash • [Turbo Recordings]
Forsberg Loves the Acid (Original) • John Dahlback / Jesper Dahlback • [Turbo Recordings 023]
Chronic Acidtosis (Original) • Wyatt Earp / Jonas Tempel • [Casa Del Soul CDSR020]
Venom (Original Mix) • Bobby Peru • [20:20 Vision VIS106]
For My Bleeps (Original) • Bobby Peru • [20:20 Vision VIS106]
I Got Rhythm (Nathan Coles Remix) • Will Saul • 10 Kilo 10 KG 038]
Revelations (Circulation Remix) • Hughes & Spier • [Elementary Group]
Reflex (Fiasco Remix) • Johnny Fiasco • [Doubledown Records]
In The Sunshine (Dub Mix) • Danny Chetcuti • [Dopamine Recordings]‘
Monogobonix (From Beneath The Earth’s Crust) • Mondo Grosso • [Nite Grooves]
Freedom (Beatport Exclusive Mix) • Joi Cardwell • [No-Mad Indsutries]
Soul Modulation (Original Mix) • Patrick Turner / Chris J • [Grayhound]
In-Troit (Original Mix) • Deliciound • [Raw42]
Hard Drama (Original Mix) • Eloi Brunelle • [Night Drive Music]

March 2006 DJ Sets

• Angel Moraes

• Benny Blanco®

• Coldcut

• Carl Cox

• Carlos D.

• Chuck Love

• Dennis Rodgers

• Deepak Sharma

• Exacta

• Global Communication

• Joe Bermudez

• Justin Testa

• Mike Rizzo

• Mike Spinella

• Mark Knight

• Ohzee And The Butcha

• Paul Oakenfold

• Paul Van Dyk

• Peter Hook

• Roger-M

• Satoshi Tomiie

• Tommy Nappi

• Thievery Corporation

• VHS or Beta

• Victor Dinaire

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If anyone’s interested, i can pass on a hi-rez mp3 of this month’s mix, just hit me back. and.. thank you AOL.

here’s a backup link:
http://www.ktu.com/pages/listenlive_faqs.html” target=”_blank”>http://www.ktu.com/pages/listenlive_faqs.html

My Mix will air between 1 am and 3 am this Friday night, but technically, it’s saturday morning. (11.11.05 friday night / 11.12.05 saturday morning)

This is HUGE for me. A nice bit of exposure across the lands here in the Tri-State area.
SO, THANK YOU Todd for hooking this opportunity up for me.

I think I only have one overlapping track from the mix I created for AOLRadio last month in this Newer Mix. With less “LIVE” gigs these days, this Radio outlet with many more listeners, is very cool in its own right. Harkens me back to the days aboard the Bridge of the QE2 on WZBC.

Below is the Tracklisting:

1
Out Hud
Pit It Away, Put It Away, Put It Away Dad
12″
One Life To Leave
Electronic / Rock / Vocal

2
The Popular People’s Front
It’s Alright
Back 2 Back
House / Funky
[The Popular People's Front PPF003] UK

3
The Funky Lowlives
AA1 Sail Into The Sun (King Unique Remix)
Sail Into The Sun
House / Techno / Deep
[Outer Recordings Outer02] UK

4
BGB
A A Crack In The Glass
A Crack in the Glass
Electro / Deep House
[Label: Dessous Recordings Catalog#: dessous 51] Germany

5
Eli Bingham
A1 Bonus Beats in F Minor
Fresh Meat Volume 2
House
[Gourmet Recordings GOUR 026] UK / Chicago

6
The Groove feat. Wendy Lewis
B1 Glory J (Ivan Iacobucci Vocal Mix)
Glory 12″
House / Vocal
[Rx 045] Italy

7
Harold Heath
A Long Relationships (Original Mix)
Long Relationships
Tech House
[Urbantorque Urtr 017] UK

8
Freeform Five
What Do I Want From You? (Paul Woolford Dub)
House / Electro / Vocal

9
Inland Knights
A1 Over Night
Sleep Train Vinyl
House

10
Gene Farris
Visions of the Future (remix by Roy Davis Jr. & DJ Skull)
The Deb Project Vol.2 (Force I)

11
Portabella
Freakin In Stereo (Michaell Gray Club Mix)
12″
House / Pumpin’ / Vocal

12
La Griffe
Make it Shine
Make it Shine Vinyl
House / Bumpin’

13
Jerome Sydenham & Dennis Ferrer
Sandcastles (Onionz Remix)
Sandcastles Remixes
Progressive House
[Defected DFTD097R] UK

14
Onionz Featuring Benny Blanco on 303′s
Give To Live
12″
Acid House / Techno
[MiCasa Records 015] US

15
DibS
I’m The Mac (original)
I’m the Mac 12″
Nu School Breaks / House
(Vinylholic Recordings VHC01)

16
Herbert
The Audience vs. Jamie Lidell and the Mysterious Szizlas
!K7 150 Cd2

so… turn it up.

was working at a small agency called Creative Priority since the beginning of the year. But, as the summer wained on, business started to move to a crawl and i was growing a lil grumpier day by day. Two weeks ago, i go into work on a monday morning expecting business as usual, and i was called to go into the conference room to have a lil talk. I was informed that I had to be let go.

I wasn’t too fazed about it.

20 minutes later, when I was out on the streets a free man, I called up my buddy, Merv, who had informed me of a freelance gig at the company he works for, Dennis Publishing. The makers of such fine newstand mags like Maxim, Blender & Stuff. By 11 am, I had an interview and by 1 pm of the same day i was let go from CP, i was informed that i’d start work on Wednesday at Stuff Magazine! word! Well, i’m still there for the time being. Hoping to max out the gig as best i can. I’ve never worked at a magazine before and i must say, it’s pretty damn cool to work Pop Culture Content for a change.
Next week, i’ll see if i can leverage some work on the interactive side. *crossin’ fingers* So, thanks again Mervert for the hooksups. Even if don’t last, the experience here is way cool and useful and another thing to add to my list of, done thats.

Check out the masthead for October’s issue:

So, aside from the day gig thingy.. i’ve been regularly dj’in up a storm as you most likely already know if yer subscribed to Blancospam. Depth Charge Thursdays & Moving Fridays I run with my partner and friend, Mark Flynn .
here are some of the images for this week’s events:

I also have been semi regularly playing at an Irish pub on the Upper West Side of Manhattan called the Parlour. Not so much my scene, but, the staff there is wicked and oddly enough, i’ve had my best AND worst gigs in NYC there. We’re suppose to start a regular Saturday gig there, Goin’ Down, where I offered to make a full color flyer, but then, they cut back to just makin some cheapo black and whites ones. Whatever, we’ll see if this gig EVER really gets going. For now, I’m good for their purposes when they need a dj for private parties. They Pay well.

Last night at Mr. Dennehy’s for the weekly Moving Fridays Party, we tried something a little different.

We changed the location of where we put the dj rig. We setup in one of the booths where people normally sit to eat meals. it’s a little pearch in the back part of the ground level floor. You can peer all the way to the front of the bar now. It’s pretty cool I must say.

Now, a little review for last night, I started dj’in around 10:15 pm and rolled out the 80′s remixes and singles to ease the transition from satellite radio to house/techno jammin later on. Around 11 pm, i had transitioned over to the housier grooves and allowed one of the guest dj’s for the evening, Markus Mehta, get warmed up on the decks. My girlfriend, Sheri, showed up with her dinner posse already pre-sauced and hung out til 1 am or so. Markus played til around 12:30 am and after a brief catch up with Dylan Drazen, placed Dylan on the throne to take control of things. Eva and Co. came down to hang out and converse and consume, just hangin’ out for Dylan and Markus’ sets. Around 2:30 am, Dylan ran out of easier listening house and had to stop. His boy fans were starting to cramp in on him anyway. One interesting notable is that this one Fan of Dylan’s, Amid, traveled all the way from Boston to hear Dylan play. He’s never met him either. Just a fan… wanted to come down to see him play! ‘ardcore! love it. i bought him a Blanco Blammo as a very small token of appreciation. I think his day was really made when he finally met Dylan and Dylan ended up hooking up with a free Mix CD. Amid was talking so fanatically about dylan and how he had downloaded all of his online mixes. Props.

So, Dylan packed up and rolled on home and Markus and I were instructed to keep the party rolling, even though there were very few remaining real customers still around. Redboy and lady friend, Connie, showed up as the transition was taking place and fell into a drinking session of shots and beers and megamixed concotions that i have no idea what they were. Manager Victor and Bartender Sean were ready to party and blow off some steam themselves. Redboy cued up a few tracks on iTunes’ party shuffle mode while I made wisecrack and Markus laughin it up. Eventually, Markus and I got back up on the decks and traded tunes back and forth on Miss Pinky unitl 4:15 or so. The lights came up and we sent Redboy & Connie home while the rest of the crew packed things up to call it a night.

Great Party.

next week, we got some nice Guiness giveaways and Betsy the Housekeeper joining me on the decks.

Since DJ’s are the out thing like Models it seems these days,
I thought I’d flavor the weekly promo of Depth Charge
with some of the best of what Pop has to offer.
A lil vocal and some good ol’ fashioned Gee-tar.

with out further ado, Mark and I will be…

we’ll be wankin it’ at mixx lounge in the west village this evening.
The cold air continues and so do we.
Come in for the drink specials offered weekly.
Have a sit down. A bite to eat. or even shake yer booty if yer so inclined.
Zone out to cool visuals on the venue’s plasma screen.

mixx lounge
84 Seventh Avenue (between Grove & Bleeker and across from Sushi Samba)
Christopher St./Sheridan Sq. subway stop.
8 PM
No COVER.
Truly Kick Ass Music
Depth Charge Thursdays

resident wankers
Mark Flynn & Benny Blanco®

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This Friday 13th, I’m dropping a set on the upper west side for a friend of mine.
It’s at an irish pub called The Parlour.
W.86th and Broadway on 86th. Downstairs.
No cover. 10 pm.
If you happen to stumble into the neighborhood.
Save me from Argyle and Khaki.

To those boston friends of mine who may remember that I played at the Phoenix Landing last Super Bowl Sunday when the Patriots beat the Rams in 2002, I recorded the events that took place at the END of the night.

Some of you that were there have been hounding me to digitize the Immortal words of owner Kevin Trainer and of course Blake Courtney (sonic solutions). DJ’s Mike Walsh, Dave Skye and myself provided the soundtrack to a winning night. the link that proceeds contains some profanity… so, if you easily offend, DO NOT DOWNLOAD. for those of you that remember this historic night in Phoenix Landing history, check this funny shit out.

THE PATRIOTS ARE THE SUPERBOWL CHAMPIONS OF THE WORLD

the recording is about 20 minutes in length and 34 MB or so in size.
I take no responsibility for what was said. I just happen to capture the mood of a fantastic evening.

We found out this week about some drink specials. 2 for 1 Cosmopolitans and $3 Bud Lights if yer into that sorta thing. This past thursday, i got really stinkin drunk, cause the previous owner of the bar came in and reconized Mark and I from eating at our favorite west village Korean restaurant, Doh Wa and said to the bartenders… “make sure you get these guys fuuuucked up”… so… needless to say. 4 shots were downed. and a heavy hangover for me on friday to trudge my way through at work. not fun…… the night before. fun, HELLS yea.

Bottom line. DEPTH CHARGE looks like it will shape up to BE the place to go for a thursday evening. we roll out the tunes circa 8:30 and blend on through the evening til it’s past yer bedtime. This next thursday, February 5th, we’ll have REDBOY as our guest, cause, Mark Flynn will be up in Boston. We haven’t officially made it official that we’ll be having guest dj’s for Depth Charge, but we want to see if the night picks up and then book accordingly.

Coming up in February… the kind people at Earthprogram have invited my hard drive and laptop to their new monthly event at the ever oh so eclectic.. Open Air bar in the East Village on FEBRUARY 20TH. the event is called RAZORS. The event will also feature pal.. REDBOY as well as ALLEN KEY, NICK CAIN & JOEL T. should be a hoot with these group of Nuttahs.

i’m psyched.

i just hope it will help secure me a good new job soon. i would like to have some dough again.
once i’m fully launched, i had set a personal restriction on myself for months about not loggin on into chat apps.

i will soon return to the real world… and be social again. and even more so when that new job comes in too.

as an aside: i’ll be dj’ing this friday with “MOVING” partner, mark flynn, for another edition of cathode ray tunes over at remote lounge.

Downloaded the new Ableton 3 Public Beta to check out out.. haven’t installed yet, cause, i’m suppose to be working on my online portfolio now…

dj’d again at Remote Lounge with buddy Mark Flynn friday night. Had one of my better sets in a long time, last one being my set for Vinylholic in august at B3, but, that was a slow turnout nite… but last night i had mad mad fun playing some funky breakbeats, to a lil electro, sorta got a lil rockish and then transitioned over to some classic and not so classic industrial dance… not one complaint from the musically inept crowd that caters more towards getting digits than what’s going on around them sonically. i’ll try to get Mark to get me the set list off of final scratch to post on here. damn, i wish i recorded it. I haven’t recorded any new sets while dj’ing out this year (aside from the last few radio QE2 shows)… kinda sad. perhaps i should make a return in 2004. can we make the iPods record anytime soon?

Anyway, after the gig, Redboy and I headed up into my hood and i introduced him to the local after hours hot spot. Again, it was mad chill and good vibe going on in the MarkCafe. I think I need to get a chill night goin’ there. I bailed around 6 am and took a few photos outside on 3rd Avenue…. the lighting was just really cool and New York was so serene.

yea man.

now playing: 01 Wandering Star from the album “Wandering Star” by Portishead

on top of that, some friends of mine (sassan & messica aka jessica) are coming down for a wedding from boston this weekend out on long island that i’m also going too. they were gettin into town tonite, but i haven’t heard from them yet either, i reckon they’re beat from the drive down and are kickin’ it at their crash space on the upper west side.

Tomorrow, it’s PS1 final warmup with Afrika Bambatta and a dude from DFA (electroclash stuff). Papa & Mama Massif (gabe & charisse) are bringin’ lil Fallon out for da fun outside. should be cool.

i’m so awake after going to bed at 6 am this morning and waking up at noon.

man. unemployed in nyc.
it can be kinda cool.
but, havin’ flow is cooler.

i feel like dj’ing now….

foto courtesy of redboy