Subject: Faraday Review! To: (*) Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 18:09:54 -0600 (CST) From: "roger kumar" Last night in Rolla we threw a very nice house party, with live performances by Jayme Taylor (Milwaukee) and Xjn (Rolla); Memorex by Non (Colubmia); and DJ's Gene (St. Louis), Phase (Colubmia), Anji (Columbia), Mike (Rolla), PJ (Rolla), Xjn (Rolla), and myself. The party was at 1803, with a decent setup: downstairs all the live stuff and a pair of turntables were set up, along with cool lights and heavy fog. Upstairs was chill, with lots of candles, several TV's showing computer animation, and a monitor set in the fireplace so people could watch what was going on downstairs via a video camera (but once the fog set in, this didn't work). The coolest thing was that two sets of turntables were place upstairs, one on top of the other. PJ could spin hiphop and scratch and do crazy tricks with sideways turntables, and then when it was time to chill out, the upper layer of tables were removed to reveal another set of decks set low and ambient-style, for Phase, Anji, Non, and myself. Downstairs, Doug created a new room too, with a trippy slide projector, cool lighting, and a couch. The party was remunerative in several ways, and after paying for the sound, fog, steam cleaner, kegs, etc, we only lost four bucks...all thanks to my little brother Bob and Suz from Columbia (thanks for comming down, even though you did have to study!!), who both worked the door diligently. Many thanks to Anji and Matt Lee, who came and spun beautiful music. Maddest props to those who always drive to Rolla and support our parties. People like _Gene_, who always drives down from St. Louis to spin great house sets and hang out till the silly hours of the morning (even if he did have to be back at work at 8am!!!!!!!), _Non_, who always drive down from Colubmia, to play his hard/mindnumbing live sets and jam with Xjn, _Jayme_, who has answered the house party call numerous times with tight live house sets, _Brian_, who comes from Springfield for all our parties and brings a huge crew along.... the list goes on and now I feel bad I can't name everyone: Natalie (so hardcore she drives from school in Illinois every time), Ryan and Matt (who I forgot to mention earlier, and everyone else that comes down from St. Louis), the Waynesville crew (sooo many I don't have room to mention them all, but you guys are stellar, thanks for hanging out), Nathan (happy birthday, bud!), everyone who drives six hours from Cape Gerardiau (sp??), all you guys are always there for us, and we can never thank you enough. But we must thank the supportive rolla crew as well, who number too many to mention by name, but they are always there, dancing like mad downstairs, helping set up, tear down, clean, chilling to abstraction.. Andy, Doug, Todd - you guys are some of the promotors in the world, even if you might not know what a "promotor" is. Where would we be without 1803. I think we're doing it right. Although its not completely about electronic music at our parties, the calling of a community is there, regardless. The lead singer guy from MU330 was there, which confused some people :) The he said the party was one of the best. It was packed down there. I must mention that not everything was perfect... somehow the one person in the world who I'll never let touch the equipment, the deciple of Grayface himself, found out (how? we didn't pass out flyers..) and came, with his fuckin records and his ego, and we didn't let him spin, but we didn't kick him out, even if he was badmouthing us the whole time. And Jesus's roomate was there being dumb and rude to some friends, but that problem got squished pretty quick. We've got lots of video and stills, they'll go up mpeg/jpeg on the page. "I rock _every_ day, thats why my GPA is 1.1" -ege (those stickers were rad, q) -- pJou_| pgp fone and mail accepted rkumar@umr.edu rkumar@lbl.gov _l C9 C7 77 76 B3 C3 1A 1E 30 32 81 67 89 E6 9D 3B