Bag Raiders
Sunday, January 4th, 2009
Trey just sent me this hot track from Bag Raiders, a band i’d never heard of until today.
As he said, we could definitely see this killing at dsc.
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Rest in Peace, Decatur Social Club [2004-2008]
Monday, June 30th, 2008
there’s still a part of me that doesn’t quite believe or grasp that i can never go to dsc again. some of my favorite moments in my post-college atlanta life were at dsc with many of my best friends. the first thing i’d do with out-of-town friends was go to dsc. i used to describe my fridays as three days: day 1 was when i’d work from 9-5; day 2 was dinner & hanging out with friends from 5-12; day 3 would be dsc from 12-4 and then breakfast or whatever from 4-6ish. how my body somehow got used to being awake for 21 hours or so every friday i’ll never know.
it was at dsc where i got my education in the indie and dance scenes. everything from clap your hands say yeah to hot chip to mia to ti to 36mafia to wahtever else in between. i learned to dance at mjq, but dsc was what i fell in love with. the best part was the sheer joy that people exhibited when dancing and singing aloud, on the floors, on the benches, on the speakers, wherever. kenny. rob. preston. sonny. biluxi. warren. dylan. black sunshine. i never really knew these guys, but they were inevitably at dsc come friday nite, rockin it out till the sun comes up.
when a loved one passes on, one likes to sit around with other close friends and family and remember the good times. one of my favorite highlights was opening nite of ‘snakes on a plane’ when preston laid out the uber-awesome yet so awfully poppy title track by cobra starship. with plastic snakes on our fingers, my friends & i hissed at each other and sang at the top of our lungs. whenever our beloved local band snowden came on via le castle vania’s cover of ‘black eyes’, you could count on the dancefloor being packed and everyone jumping up and down and up and down, loving every minute. when 3:45am rolled around and the bartenders had thrown the lights on, much to our dismay, the dj would spin some kryptonite, the floor would clear of the girls fearing for their lives, and the rest of us would turn azul into what some would call a hiphop mosh pit, as we attempted to stay vertical on the floor rather wet from hours of spilt beers.
i present to you a muxtape where you can explore the best of what i remember from those fantastic months/years at dsc. i’m sure i’ve left out great songs, but i’m limited to my memory and the 12-song limit of muxtape. i invite you to create your own muxtape and share it with us all.
saturday through thursday, azul was merely a good burrito joint. but on friday nites from midnite-4am, we turned that shit inside out.
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- Ray Charles + Kanye + Diplo – Gold Digger
- Purple Ribbon Allstars – Kryptonite
- The Rapture – House of Jealous Lovers
- TI – What you know
- Snowden – Black Eyes [le castle vania remix]
- Cobra Starship – Snakes on a plane
- Clap your hands say yeah – skin of my yellow country teeth
- Hot Chip – over & over
- Justin Timberlake – SexyBack
- Cansei de ser sexi – Let’s Make Love and Listen to Death From Above
- Outkast – Rosa Parks
- Junior Boys – in the morning
dsc, we’ll always love you.
