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.
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]
New mixes created and ready to be broadcast via AOL Radio for February 2006. This batch was originally taken from a 4 hour 23 minute mix session recorded in the pristine home studio conditions. With nothing on my mind but mixing. I had all afternoon alone to dedicate myself to mixin’ it up for 4 plus hours. liner notes:
I pulled together a mass of mostly techno and electro styled tracks over a week. My previous sets for AOL Radio had been more upbeat, more dance floor friendly style mixes with the exception of one being more mellow chillout one (The Bells).
This time, I really wanted to focus on a deeper, more techno oriented sound which I’ve been neglecting for quite some time. Some of the cuts are more peek and aggressive and the next moment, flip to the deeper side of things.
Here are the results….
Tracklisting:
Benny Blanco® AOL Radio :
When Dogs Attack Part 1
February 2006 Mix
1
Quick Fix
Cherry Bomb
127.07
12″
Techno / Tech House
[Music Man MM 068]
2
Just Married
SCSI-9
127.13
Digital Russian
Techno / Tech House
Force Tracks FT57
3
Intuition
Oxia
127.94
24 Heures
Techno
[GoodLife GLP04] France
4
Serious Like Plague (A)
Alex Smoke
127.67
Shwingnut EP
Minimal
[Vakant VA 006.1] Germany
5
Mindmachine
Terry Brookes
127.22
12″ / Breaking Cycles
Electro
[Deepart DEEP 07]
6
Seconds (A2)
Steve Stoll
129.97
El Dopa EP
Techno / Chill
[Proper NYC PROPS 026]
7
Urges 3 (Ecstatic Dub)
Urges 3
130.00
Primitive Translations
Electro
[Primitive Urges PRIM 008) UK
8
Pumpin’ (remix)
Novy vs. Eniac
130.00
12″
Electro
[Kosmo Records KOS032]
9
What We Sell
Comtron
131.00
12″ / What We Sell EP
Electro
[black label bl003]
Yes Yes. Ol’ Ol’ Boston Radio DJ, Liquid Todd (NYC), has invited me to submit a mix for his weekly Mix show titled Altered State on “The Beat of New York”, WKTU. Found on 103.5 on yer Terrestrial Radio Dial or… those of you not locally situated, can stream or even possibly, Record the Live Stream to your PC’s via this link: http://go.eonstreams.com?u=14482473
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
okay, so what have i been doin over the past couple months. with not a blog entry in site?
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.
