listen.com party
For the first time in nearly a month, I headed out to Into the Sound, where I found a listen.com party. The cover was ten bucks, to benefit Horizons Unlimited, an organization seeking to teach mission district youth to spin and “work for positive change in their community.” I asked who was playing at the door. “Astral Matrix.” Since I know him from Spacebar, I decided to stick around.
The music was cool, although a little faster BPM-wise than I’m used to at the Rawhide. Astral Matrix got on his synths and played a very nice trance set of his original work for an hour, which simply kicked ass. The very analoguish bass lines and acidic synths drove the music, which created quite a frenzy on the dancefloor. After his set, a Detroit techno guy spun for the rest of the night.
It was cool to meet Andrew, who threatened to introduce me to Booty and other Spacebar people. The only down part about the evening was my invisibility. Mugs love to shove violently through people, particularly those of us who look Republican. While I’m most certainly not one, I look it and I felt like I was taking alot of punishment in a crowd with more bad attitude than the one we usually have at the Rawhide.
The highlight, however, was hanging with some members of the listen.com team, who handed me a T-shirt. So, now I have shirts from listen.com, myplay, Inktomi, eMusic, Apple, and, of course, Las Vegas. Whee!