So Delicious

It’s my birthday again, and while not as monumental as my big 3-0, it’s not going to keep me from giving you a great show and stuffing your mouth with cheddar bay biscuits from Red Lobster on Sunday, December 4th at The Old Miami.

I chose to bring back Tunde Olaniran this year, who has been working on some solo work that is absolutely phenomenal. I got a chance to see him recently at Trumbullplex and he put on an amazing show. The bold conscious lyrics, feet-friendly Casio beats, futuristic chic wardrobe, sensual dancers and feeling-inducing choreography, are all Tunde’s creation. He is a visionary with a distinct purpose of rocking your soul.

A small preview of Tunde’s show.

Genettic

Opening up for Tunde will be a great friend of mine who is a really dope DJ that goes by Genettic. I told him he could play whatever he wants, and he said he wants to keep it on the deep house/minimal techno tip. Which, ironically, is what I would play if someone told me to play whatever I wanted.

I will be finishing up the night with my new live set which I call, Bronies Eating Bass. It starts with an eight minute tribute to My Litte Pony: Friendship is Magic and then makes love to your earhole for the next hour. It is a mix of bass music with a lot of glitchy electro house and a little wub wub wub.

Be prepared to dance and save some room for biscuits. It’s going to be hot fire at the Old Miami. Doors at 8pm. $4 cover, veterans free as always at the Old Miami.

First and foremost, is my new website, Detroit Underground. I have been actively writing and producing videos about many of Detroit’s independent artists, musicians and other things that are going on around the area. It has been a fun new adventure, that has taken me to new places I have never been before. So please, if you love Detroit, and you want to stay in touch with everything that goes on in the underground scene, support Detroit Underground so we can continue to build and support the local people who represent the city so well.

Aside from all of that, I have also been getting a lot of free stuff lately, mostly through my relationship with the online technology and gaming community, Icrontic. I recently received a CD crate from SLAPPA, which I reviewed at Icrontic. I also received a fully-loaded HP Envy 14 Beats Edition for DJing, making music and producing video. That has been an amazing experience, which I will also be chronicling at Icrontic. The unboxing video is done and will be posted soon, as well as many future discussions and journals of my life as a DJ and producer.

Naturally, I’d like more free stuff! I may be a broke ass DJ, but I’m starting to get a lot of recognition for all my hard work. Together with Icrontic we are building a community of technology-oriented home studio enthusiasts and it’s really starting to take off. Icrontic is a very well established community that sees an average of 250,000 visitors per month. We can provide exposure for electronics, cases, software and more, and apply them to our everyday lives so that our readers can get a true understanding of what benefits the product will have to them.

As for my DJing career, I have been blessed to play some amazing shows at even more amazing venues over the summer, including my performance at The Fillmore for Ignite Great Lakes with DJ Rachael P. I also got a chance to spin at the iSpy Magazine stage at the Ann Arbor Art Fair, and returned to play a set at the i3Detroit Hackerspace afterparty for Maker Faire Detroit.

In the beginning of September I will be visiting Charlotte, North Carolina and playing a few shows there as well. One show has been secured already, which will be at Crown Station on Wednesday, September 7th. I will be re-uniting with my good friend Boof, and we will be performing a Rocktronic-style set. If you live in Charlotte and you can’t make it to that show, stay tuned because more shows will be announced soon.

I have also written my first piece for a new blog called intoDetroit, which should be posted soon. intoDetroit is a community-based website based on a few of us suburban types that are interested in moving to Detroit. I’m very looking forward to getting involved with this project, and I am planning on moving to the city very soon.

Last, but certainly not least, after searching for the past ten months, I think I may have finally found a job. I can’t give away too much about it, but I can say that it’s a startup, based in Detroit, with a community orientation and purposed to bring vital resources to professionals in the Detroit area. Wish us luck as we go through our final stages of finding funding.

Thanks to everyone for your support in what has been a difficult time in my life. Without these challenges, my life would be boring and meaningless. Without great friends, I would have no one to share the good times with. Keep doing what you’re doing, Detroit. I will be coming home soon.

Ferris J Haddad – It’s Just Me

We were young, we were dumb, but we knew how to throw a party. Fortunately, even though the group has been split up all over the country now, I still maintain contact with most of them and keep up with their music endeavors, as they support mine. This week’s Mixtape Monday’s artists goes by Cuvs, and he was our resident house DJ. His influence had a big impact on me in my post-CORADOR days, and I’m glad to be able to share this mix with you.

This eclectic yet indisputably heavy mix has a range of tunes spanning 15 years, from major labels to unsigned indie artists, and covers a wide variety of junglist styles, taking the listener on a journey exploring everything from Jump Up to the most extreme edges of Darkside and beyond. The common threads in the mix are killer beats, killer bass and the fact that every track is, to me, a prime example in its genre, from Darkstep to Chipcore to Dubstep to Breakcore.