Words and Video By: Lidia Vila
Pictures: Grace Cavarra

Flosstradamus

Thanks to a house party in Chicago over a year ago we have the DJ duo made up of J2K (Josh Young) and Autobott (Curt Cameruci) to form Flosstradamus.  According to their bio, the duo had a monthly party called “Get Outta The Hood” which turned a stagnant bar into the “place-to-be” with lines stretching down the block. Their live show lived up to that hype as they mixed with three turntables and two mixers. Toronto crowds are notorious for not dancing, however, this duo was able to get people moving, waving and cheering. Songs ranged from Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx, and other recognizable dance hits.

They certainly have a lot of fun playing and have a fine sense of what songs work. Nothing worse than DJ’s who clear the floor.  Not a surprise that in the coming year Flosstradamus will collaborate with The Cool Kids and go on an European tour with A-Track and Kid Sister.

Drop the Lime

Drop the Lime is New York City’s Luca Venezia who started DJ’ing just under ten years ago.  Within that time Venezia has flexed his triple threat skills as a producer, remixer and DJ producing approximately 150 tracks. His style ranges from house, rave, jungle and hardcore.

Venezia started and ended his set by singing over his beats, certainly was different to see a DJ sing. It was impossible to not notice his facial expressions along with his hand gestures during songs. At one point he was shaking his face like a dog shaking off slobber, electrified by his beats. The next minute he was pointing his fingers at the crowd as if shooting bullets with each beat. Entertaining to say the least.  Definitely energetic and different, he mixed songs with ease and his own kind of grace.  Highly recommend catching his set if you can. Drop the Lime will be at Coachella this year; a very lucky audience indeed.

MSTRKRFT

Due to delayed flights, Switch and SebastiAn were replaced by MSTRKRFT. The duo received cheers and excited yelps as they brought their laptops to the stage as Drop the Lime was finishing up. Jesse Keeler was visually upset, as there seemed to be something wrong with the set up. Drop the Lime kept his beats going until the issue was resolved. Upon completion, MSTRKRFT thanked Drop the Lime and seamlessly started their set, which consisted mainly of remixes, such as: Justice “D.A.N.C.E.”, a Daft Punk “Da Funk” and “One More Time” as well as Robin “Show Me Love.”

Vocalist Isis, from Thunderheist fame, was on stage and sang (minus a microphone) over her own vocals the duo during the duo’s new song “Bounce”, of which she is featured.

How Jesse and Al-P managed to drink an entire bottle of Jack Daniels, as if it was water, during their set it beyond me. Jesse also managed to smoke an entire pack during the set, busy hands and a great ability to multitask apparently.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, September 10th, 2008 at 4:17 pm.