This week Chupacabras 5-6 hour set

So this week Chupacabras will be playing records with a 5-6 hour set. Sometimes there's so many records you wanted to play in a night or whatever, but tonight those records WILL be played. Soul 7"'s? Probably. Disco and Boogie? Perhaps, but regardless this is quite a few hours to stretch out musically. Expect to hear all types of music. Someone once said "There's only 2 types of music. Good and bad." Well tonight I rather spend more time in the "grey" area. Songs you're not quite sure about the first time around. Some songs you do like right away and others have to grow on you. Those usually become your favorites. Let's see what happens. 

Lauri Soini + Beg To Differ this week!

So this week we have a special guest from Finland as well as some friends from right here. Speculator will be on the left coast for a few weeks working on his tan and sipping coctails by the pool while fighting off the paparazzii. I'll be holding down the fort in the meantime. Now a little bit about our guests...

Besides touring with Hannulelauri, Lauri Soini also runs events at two venues (Nolla and Adams) in Helsinki with past guests such as Soft Rocks, Tim Sweeney, In Flagranti, Matias Aguayo, Daniel Wang, Wolfram, Todd Terje, Woolfy, Hugo Capablanca, Ray Mang, Prince Language, My Cousin Roy, Jacques Renault, Baris K, Cosmo Vitelli, Andrew Weatherall, Hunee, Veronica Vasicka, Robag Wruhme, Trevor Jackson, Shit Robot, Joakim, Jennifer Cardini, Tiago, Nick Höppner, Rebolledo, Patrice Bäumel, Seuil, Ata (Robert Johnson), Mudd, Rune Lindbaek, Ivan Smagghe, Kim Ann Foxman, Chloé, Maurice Fulton, DJ Kaos, Headman, Serge Clone, Benoit & Sergio, Kelley Polar, Joakim, Kasper Bjorke, Superpitcher, Masomenos, Discodeine, Blawan, Roman Lindau, Alex Boman, Andy Butler etc.

http://soundcloud.com/hannulelauri/tom-tom-beat-mix

http://soundcloud.com/hannulelauri

Beg to Differ is a never-ending arm wrestling match of a musical marriage. Comprised of New Yorkers Roy Dank and Nick Chacona, the duo - both individually and together - has played the finest discotheques the world over, evangelizing their distinct brand of boom-chk to all comers. While Roy heads up cult label Wurst and Nick is a bonafide house music hero, together they form like a boogie-fied Voltron whose music has been championed by discerning DJs such as Holy Ghost!, Wolf + Lamb, Aeroplane, Mark E and Tim Sweeney to name but a few.

"Spring Has Sprung" for Odin:
http://www.odinnewyork.com/blog.asp?id=167

Beats in Space:
http://www.beatsinspace.net/playlists/596

Soundcloud:
http://soundcloud.com/begtodiffernyc

Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/begtodiffernyc

May 3rd JDH (Fixed)

This week we got a whole gang of Texans in the house.

Josh has been doing his Fixed party with Dave P all over for some years. His party has been in Miami, NY and he's played with the likes of Erol Alkan, 2 Many Dj's and Simian Mobile Disco. Come check him out in our neighborhood hangout Thursday night. Spec and Chupa will be there too as always. Maybe they'll serve chips and salsa instead of pretzels with mustard...

James Friedman and Mark Verbos (Live Acid Set)

Our old friend James has been busy with his label Throne of Blood for awhile now and has been dj-ing for quite some time. He's played all over and knows how to get the party goin. Let's see what he brings for us this night. Mark Verbos has been makin stuff for a long time and does some legendary live sets with a lot of Roland xox boxes (Tb 303, Tr 909, Tr 707, Mc 202). I haven't seen Mark in a long time and it'll be pretty fun to see him play live. Of course Dj's Chupacabras & Speculator will be there too.  We do this every Thursday and it's always free. Come out if you can go to work hungover on Friday!

Justin V this week joins us!

Justin Vandervolgen has a history spanning the last 13 years in the dance/disco community. Being one of the founding members and producer of the bands !!! and Outhud as well as remixing for labels such as Warp, EMI and Output. In 2003 Justin produced the !!! record “Me and Guliani down by the schoolyard” which became a UK dance chart hit and helped to bring the emerging early 2000’s sound of NY dance music to the rest of the world. It was in 2001 when Justin moved to NY that he started dj’ing more and playing some of the best parties and after hours spots in the city. Early 2008 saw Justin leaving !!!, (Outhud disbanded in 2005) to focus on producing, remixing and dj’ing. 2009 saw the release of 2 projects one with Lee Douglas called TBD which produced the massive hit What is This?, in 2010 he dropped a solo release Sheebooya/Clapping Song for acclaimed the Golf Channel imprint as well as his own now classic Try to find Me edit series also on Golf Channel Recordings. 2011 will bring the release of more of his own solo productions, various remixes for labels like Internajonal and many more edits for Golf Channel and He and Lee's own TBD Classics..

No guests Tonight, Just Me and Spec

Kim Ann Foxman + Andrew Populette