“Twas the night of ¡Club Queso! and all through the club /
All the creatures were dancing to the housey hubbub”
Suddenly another year of ¡Club Queso! is coming to a close and thus we celebrate with our special holiday edition: ¡La Navidad Es Para Los Luchadores! – this Friday, December 4 – at The Peacock Room.
Join your jolly hosts Q-Burns Abstract Message, Atnarko, and Sleazy McQueen as they fire up the mistletoe and DJ funky sets of gift-wrapped beats guaranteed to make you shake your jingle bells. Lola B supplies the holiday spirit décor to the Peacock Room and Show Source Productions make things sound extra-juicy. Santa-wrestling super-villians and luchadores have been invited.
This all takes place this Friday, December 4 – at The Peacock Room, located near downtown Orlando by the corner of Mills and Virginia. Click HERE for a map or directions. There’s a $5 cover, it’s 21 and up, and the first 50 people will get a free cheesy mix CD.
We’ll see you there!
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This Friday night (September 11) I, Mr. Q-Burns Abstract Message, will be playing up at Sky60 on their brand new and seriously improved sound system, which is exciting on its own. But, for added excitement, I’ll be joined by one of Brazil’s finest DJs: Marcelo Medeiros. Marcelo is visiting all the way from Curitiba, Brazil and is known there for his impeccable deep house sound. DJ’ing on multiple Brazilian radio programs as well as in clubs all over the country, his sound is a sultry mix of vocal house, funky rhythms, and a touch of South American influence. (more…)
This Saturday night (September 5) there’s a super-cool party happening at The Peacock Room in Orlando. Local deep house label Chillin Music is having its 5 year anniversary party and to mark the occasion they’re flying recent collaborator Pezzner in from Seattle. I’m not sure if you know about Pezzner, one half of eccentric house music duo Jacob London, but he’s one of my favorite working producers. His recent efforts for labels like Om Records, Freerange, and Urban Torque are inspirational, making him one of the few that I’ll always check when seeing his name attached to a track. Rest assured you will hear some fantastic, forward-thinking house music playing in his set this Saturday … sounds that should please the brain as well as the feet. I’m psyched. (more…)
On Friday, August 7: Dastardly Disco Debutantes & Brazenly Boisterous Boogie-Boys will unite for a thrilling evening of “getting down to the funky sound” as our heroes present the annual ¡Club Queso! extravaganza DISCO LIBRE!
Forged in collaboration with the fabulous Hoochie Productions DISCO LIBRE promises to be a night of obscure disco-influenced fun mixed with a bit of that luchador flavor you’ve grown to expect from a Queso party. Resident mischief-makers Q-Burns Abstract Message, Atnarko, and Sleazy McQueen will be on hand to provide the groovy tunes along with our very special guest Phat N’ Jazzy’s DJ BMF. Lola B will making everything look all disco-fabulous while Show Source Productions will be bringing in their boogie-sonic sound system. Let the good times roll.
This event takes place on Friday, August 7 at The Peacock Room, located at 1321 N. Mills Avenue in Orlando, right by the corner of Mills and Virginia. There’s a $5 cover, it’s 21 and up, and the first 50 people get awarded a copy of an exclusive ¡Club Queso! cheesy mix CD.
Disco dress, wrestling gear, or both (!) is encouraged. We’ll see you at the Peacock Room for DISCO LIBRE!
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Here’s a quick note to let everyone know I’m heading to Houston this Saturday, June 20 for some spectacular DJ mischief at Block 21 (located at 2420 Washington, 77007, click HERE for a map). This should be a bit of a wild night as there will be three areas of music and it seems it’s a FREE event. I believe I’m slated to play a bit of an extended set and will also make a pre-gig appearance on the Soular Grooves radio show.
I’m really looking forward to this … I’ve learned over the years that Texas likes to get down and dirty with the house music. If you’re in the area then I hope you’ll make it by. (more…)
It’s sort of amazing that fifteen years ago I gathered with a small group of people I met at the then relatively new Phat N’ Jazzy club night to plot the formation of the Eighth Dimension “collective”. The idea was to help each other out, working towards the common goal of some sort of success in the music industry. Since then Eighth Dimension has evolved into a record label, a music publishing company, a management/consulting team, and, most recently, an independent publicist helping other labels get their music out there. As the cliché goes, it’s been a long, wild ride.
It was Jon (Pimp Daddy Nash) who had the realization that we’ve hit fifteen years as a business and, certainly, as friends and it was his feeling that a party was in order. I’m really not one for celebrations such as these but I’ve gotten a bit more excited about it as the date closes in. This party will be a nice excuse to hang with all these great people who helped make my last fifteen years navigating the music landscape a fun, exciting, and much less complicated endeavor. I’m also expecting many of the fans and friends who have come in and out of our sphere in this decade and a half as well as the newer faces who are just there to hear some great tunes. (more…)
I’m packing my bags and getting ready for the long jet plane ride across the watery divide … I’m heading to Europe for a few gigs, mostly concentrated in my ancestral realm of Scotland. I’m doing a “wee” festival, some pub action in Edinburgh, a return to two of my favorite joints (Club Snafu in Aberdeen and the Studio Warehouse in Glasgow), and then I make a Scottish exception to play the Remote Festival in Geneva, Switzerland. Here’s the schedule, with links:
Fri May 29 – Edinburgh, Scotland at Hawke & Hunter
Sat May 30 – Glasgow, Scotland at The Wee Chill
Fri June 5 – Glasgow, Scotland at SWG3 Studio Warehouse
Sat June 6 – Aberdeen, Scotland at Club Snafu (with Pat Mahoney of LCD Soundsystem)
Sun June 7 – Geneva, Switzerland at The Remote Festival
Anyone about? I hope to see some familiar faces once I’m over. I’m primed and ready for some especially down & dirty DJ action as my Scottish friends tend to demand. Fun times ahead.
Here’s a quick message to let you know that I’ll be in Boston tomorrow night (Friday, May 22) playing the after-hours party at Rise. Even wilder, I’ll be joined by my rambunctious friend Mr. Sleazy McQueen, known for his dastardly disco deeds and misdemeanors. We’ll be starting the tunes at 2 AM and this crazy thing will keep rocking until well after 6. There goes my beauty sleep.
It’s been a few years since I’ve set down my record crate in Boston so, if you’re in the area, I’m really hoping you’ll make it out. I’ll see you at Rise! (more…)
Here’s a quick note to let you know that I’ll be making the trek up to Jacksonville, FL this weekend to play at a new night called Oui Disco. Thus, this Saturday May 9 I’ll be lugging my record bag (filled with magic platters) to Café 331, located at 331 W. Forsyth Street (click HERE for map). Also part of the line-up will be Dan D’Mantra, Kevin M, and Justin Franklin. It’s a night of house music and future funk. The doors at at 9 PM, it’s 18 and up, and the cover is a mere $5.00.
I hope to see you there for Oui Disco! (more…)
Right on, everybody … you may remember a time when a little party called Holy Frijoles! (the precursor to another little party called ¡Club Queso!) was hosted in downtown Orlando at a curious upstairs spot named AKA Lounge. It’s a cool club right by the corner of Pine and Magnolia, with steps leading up to a roomy, dark space tailor-made for dancing and drinking and the sorts of activities one does in nightclubs when funky tunes are playing.
And thus it’s been a while since I’ve played there myself … but this Saturday I’m revving up the wayback machine and returning to AKA Lounge to help launch a new regular night of house music mayhem titled Solid. I’ll be joined by a trio of associates, Rob Slac, Edson Xavier, and John Stuart, as we load up the tunes and fling aural goodness out onto the floor for all dancing feet to behold. (more…)