Hey folks,
I was pretty busy this weekend but did make it out on Friday night to
Centro-Fly to hear Mattias Heilbronn, Miguel Migs, and Neil Aline. Sunday
night I went to hear DJ Desmond Miller at the Leopard Lounge at Sin
Sin. Both great events- very different vibes.
Centro-Fly, for those who haven't had the chance, is one of NYC's larger
and more popular venues, home to the Subliminal Sessions DJs including Erik
Morillo and often Roger Sanchez and others. It's a medium-sized venue,
very trendy these days and with a not-so-diverse crowd (imho) for a place
known for house music. It's not the kind of place I'd go often without DJs
like Miguel Migs drawing me in.
The Centro-Fly soundsystem is decent but not great. Once you experience
the sound at Twilo, everything else doesn't really compare. I have to
admit that the bass wasn't as powerful as I thought it should be (it didn't
hit me inside my ribcage- it was more kind of external than internal) and
the way the speakers were set up, there was a definite break in the sound-
i.e. mids and highs were coming down from up top and the bass was coming up
from below. It sounded "broken" in a sense that the sound wasn't unifying.
Migs has the reputation of a producer who is a reluctant DJ. More and more
producers these days are having to DJ to help market their music to a wider
audience and I personally think it's great. I had heard that his mixing
wasn't that great but although I didn't stay for the whole night I heard at
least 3 hours of very good mixing, great tracks, and not many that I
recognized as being Naked Music music.
Sin Sin is a small 2 bar lounge on the corner of 5th and 2nd Ave. Upstairs
is the Leopard Lounge and Desmond Miller basically plays a set designed for
people coming out of Body&SOUL on Sunday evenings if they want to keep
hearing the beats. It's a very chill joint, small dancefloor, cheap drinks
etc.
Desmond started DJing a long time ago with Wink & King Britt in Philly back
when they all used to lug soundsystems to restaurants and set up after
dinner to do dance parties- way before they broke out of the
underground. His vinyl collection is disgustingly complete with respect to
dance music but he mostly spins new downtempo/Latin/Brazilian house. One
of his favorite tracks these days is Beanfield's "Catalpa" if you know that
one.
It's a great chill joint on a Sunday and I'm usually there shooting the
sh!t with Desmond by the decks so come by and say hi and do a little dance :)
Gen
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