Bands: Oskie Grey, Godtastic God Sauce, Me and DJ Demchuk
Price: $5
Things I missed to be there: Fuck the Cold party in Lakeview; DJ Falcon at Zentra; Mary Tyler Morphine at Cal's; DJ Rupture and The Ex at Empty Bottle; Eske, Pkdores, and Eat It Raw in NotChicago
Reason I went: Spinning, probably would have shown up anyway
At the end of the night, when Sam was driving me home with my equipment, he told me, "I really wanted to have a real art show, and not a party."
"Yeah, well, it's hard to throw parties and concerts all year round and then tell everybody 'Wait, this time it's different!'"
Oskie Grey at Quennect Four
I think Sam was a little sour because a lot of the crowd didn't get his set. As Oskie Grey, he plays ambient music and some dubby downtempo shit. It was tight but nobody in the room was there to appreciate shit, they just wanted to dance, and they weren't high enough to catch onto the mellow vibe and start working it to that.
I was asked to spin at what was essentially an art show at the undercover East Humbolt space, and when I got there there was some real good art on the walls but not much of it, and when I left I still had no idea who did what, which was fine by me cause the music was awesome.
Me and Dan traded off on dance-y rock shit: Les George Leningrad, Carpet of Sexy, Munich Machine, MIA, Tracy + the Plastics, The Soft Pink Truth, Anavan, et cetera. The track of the night was one of Dan's, a mash up of Nine Inch Nails' "Closer" with 50 Cent's "In Da Club".
We weren't the awesome part, but we were pretty good. The awesomeness came from the first band, Godtastic God Sauce (two myspace pages?). Despite the fact that they have the worst name of any band I've liked this year, they rocked my ass. Their music was all synth, beats and guitar, like live-band electro and hard-trance.
Godtastic God Sauce at Quennect Four
As a gallery show it was kinda lacking but as a party it had some real potential. There must have been a changing of the guard over the last year because I didn't know half of the hip kids runnin around (maybe I just fell off) but they were all pretty low-key. Unfortunatly the timing was off. Just as we were getting a lot of people going, and the drunks started requesting bangers they would've been too embarassed for sobere, it was Oskie's time to play and before he could finish, the cops had entered and told everyone to leave. Maybe the party had too much potential. I must say I was impressed though, at the evacuation. The Quennect Four boys have been doing this kinda shit for years so for them, clearing the place was old hat, but this was the first time in a long time that I've seen a sizeable chunk of sixteen-to-twentyone year olds evacuate a party without freaking out, yelling, running and making matters worth. Whoever this new crop of kids is, more power to em.
You can download mp3s of the entire Godtastic God Sauce album Victims of Manhood in mp3 here.
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