House Party, Upcoming DNB, and Desktop Blather

So I usually post a bunch of cool stuff when I go to shows, but last night’s house party show wasn’t quite everything I was hoping for. My friend Matt and I got there way early, so we did a lot of hanging around and meeting of the people before the music even got kicking. There was quite an unexpected lineup of breaks DJ’s that spun before Scottfro’s “12:00” show came on at about 2:30. Unfortunately, Matt and I were exhausted by then, and only stayed for about 30 mins of Scott’s set before it came to my attention that I had a parking ticket. Oh nice.

Some of the breaks were pretty good, but I was really there to hear Scott & Chris’s set. The main disappointment was how long it took for them to get on. And when they did, technical difficulties made getting started a challange… But anyway, alongside Scott, Chris had a laptop and some midi controllers sync’d up with Scott’s. (They use Ableton Live!) Chris also used a turntable to spin some beats and do some scratching over Scott’s sound. It was pretty neat to see some live collaboration from those guys.

In other news, I’m planning to go to The World of DNB II in Chicago on April 1 with my good friend Aren and his girl. Looks like a dope lineup… can’t wait to hear the sounds.

In yet other news, because I feel like it, I’m going to post a screenshot today. It’s the fresh gnome 2.10 (man, those nautilus windows pop up faster than ever now) with the torsmo system monitor. It’s pretty neat… I just know you wanted to see it.

(Yes, I’m running dual screens, but I cropped out the other one since you don’t need to see it. Also, a neat script lets me see what’s playing in mpd in the torsmo. In this case, it’s the almighty dnbradio.com! whOOt!)

Update, Noon on Monday: Well, the ticket only cost me $7. I paid it on the phone… better luck next time…