Thu 30 Dec – NAPT

Thanks to Justin Majors for bringing an acrylic contact juggling ball and dancing with it; Carissa (if I'm spelling her name right) for rocking out with her hoop; DJ Mark Yurm, MJ, and Brian (Bryan?) of Household Management for an amazing night I just can't describe. Halo is such a cosy venue for such an intimate gathering of breaks aficianados.

I only regret that I didn't know I was coming until the last minute, and was nowhere near my flowlights. Both Justin and I reckoned it would be too crowded in Halo to spin poi,…

These 65 photos make me so sentimental for the Yard Dogs Road Show and their amazing performances. This photographer is quite talented and captured the spirit of their shows adeptly.

http://paintdragon.smugmug.com/Entertainment/Yard-Dogs-Road-Show/14888958_hMr9c#1111356792_wMknL

Nasty dance music. NASTY, I say!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiTgM_obVnU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO5nTwo0Y2c

Mr Scruff, Alex Metric, Frank Zappa, the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and others perform John Cage's "silent" piece 4'33". I think someone should organise a compilation of these. No doubt Diplo, Rusko, Venetian Snares, Autechre, Downliners Sekt, and Aphex Twin would have some great contributions to it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12021661

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Fri 20 Aug – Felix da Housecat, Dallas Austin

People, if you go to shows like this for the music, there are two Atlanta nightlife venues I don't highly recommend. One is Opera. The only place I've been to that is worse was this venue, Gold Room. If you actually show up to dance, it is Not For You. They don't want you there. They think you're bad for their image. Which can be summed up as follows:

"Oh, you didn't roll up in a Lamborghini, step out in a Prada suit, and didn't order a bottle of Bollinger the…

Find out the number of listeners for your top 20 artists. Here are mine:

1. Hybrid = 206,894
2. Skinny Puppy = 219,849
3. Nine Inch Nails = 1,325,671
4. Soft Ballet = 3,469
5. Ladytron = 674,450
6. Basement Jaxx = 779,978
7. Autechre = 331,212
8. Émilie Simon = 317,340
9. Delerium = 493,292
10. Björk = 1,351,640
11. M.I.A. = 851,379
12. Depeche Mode = 1,596,512
13. Dead Can Dance = 271,798
14. ILS = 83,171
15. Evil Nine = 111,600
16. Bent = 405,192
17. The Smiths = 1,184,799
18. The Presets = 368,972
19. Armin…

I really hate disembodied poi videos, so I took this one just for the music. It was an amazing set. If Matt Darey or Opera happened to record it and put it up somewhere, I would really love to have the whole thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eqjm5rZwNc

Why is it, do you suppose, that Adam Freeland did a remix of Kelis's Trick Me, but it's not even up on youtube?

Anyway, I happened this wonderful remix of the track that claims to be a work of Basement Jaxx. It's suspicious though, since it claims some affliliation with the site nhacdj.com. "Nhac" is, if I recall correctly, the Vietnamese word for "music." Yeah, only I would know this, right? Usually half or whole Vietnamese people like me listen to trance or hip hop, so I reckon they never imagined anyone would guess. *looks at the…

Sat 13 Mar – Infected Mushroom

As per usual, I took spinning videos. The lighting in the venue changed out here and there so you can clearly see some of the people doing it at times. There were some very talented movement artists present. They were a joy to watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRrzrlqMGDU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIMCxA_3riQ