Entry One Hundred Sixty-One.
Tuesday, 2012.12.04, 12:42 PM CST.
"The Great Gypsy Chillout 2" + Utopia "Retro Set" - recaps + setlists.
Current Mood:  Optimistic but fatigued.
Current Scent:  Ultraviolet Man by Paco Rabanne.

Hello, everyone.

Well, as usual, I'm more than a bit behind on the status updates.  Overall, things are going pretty well here.  I have so much going on... but I keep telling myself I need to add more to the site.  Hopefully soon.  Hopefully.

October was a busy month for me!  For the first time in over four years, I had two gigs, back-to-back, within the course of two weeks.

Granted, compared to my commerical mobile DJing days back in the 1990s, when I would sometimes perform on three nights in a row, this was not too bad.  Of course, that was back in the days before having a wife and kids...

Anyway, I ended up doing a gig on October 19th, followed by a gig on October 26th.  On the 19th was the heavily-publicized Great Gypsy Chillout 2, and on the 26th was a much-less-publicized retro set at Club Utopia, which had only been arranged around a couple of weeks before!

So, here's the rundown for each night:

THE GREAT GYPSY CHILLOUT 2.
Click here for the full setlist.

As many of you know, I had been looking forward to the Great Gypsy Chillout 2 for months.  I wanted to present a set very similar to the original 2010 Great Gypsy Chillout, but with enough major differences and surprises thrown in that nobody could say it was the exact same thing.

After my standard intro, "Psalm," I headed straight into one of my favourite tracks by Lendi Vexer, a trip-hop duo from Argentina.  "The Process of Disillusion" set the mood, with an intensely plaintive groove extremely reminiscent of trip-hop masters Portishead.  If you haven't experienced Lendi Vexer's music, I highly recommend that you check it out.

The rest of the gig went extremely well; it was successful not only for me, but also for the Gypsy.

RETRO SET AT UTOPIA.
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The Utopia gig was, like I mentioned earlier, planned very shortly before it happened - maybe two weeks or so.  There wasn't much publicity done for the gig, but I was very geeked about it, because I don't often get to do 80s/90s nights these days, and they're some of my favourite gigs.

Overall, it went quite well.  Even though the performance wasn't all that long, I had fun and I'm glad that I was able to perform there.  Plus, we got the opportunity to celebrate the birthday of Pennsy "Little Miss 80s" Richardson, and that was pretty cool, too.

Anyway...  I have much more to tell you, and I'll do so soon.  Thanks as always for the support!

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