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Good party nights for dancing in DC?

Doctor Doom
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Re: Good party nights for dancing in DC? June 28, 2005 at 04:45 PM UTC #
yikes, why not just stay home and listen to your stereo if you can only handle music you know?

Heh… I bet one of you wrote this in the Bliss guest book!

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DJStrange
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Re: Good party nights for dancing in DC? June 28, 2005 at 04:46 PM UTC #
Originally posted by novadancer:
I'm thinking that the RR UP, might be in that same vein. Not to diss saccharine, though. The problem with that is no one ever dances in the times that I've been there. Maybe I go too early, but I've been there for 2 + hrs and nothing. And kudos to Strange, I always love your sets! :D
ND,

Thank you for the compliments on the sets. I'll try to keep mixing it up for everyone, and if anyone has any suggestions on how to encourage people to dance more I'd love to hear it. (besides finding a different venue of course, since that is not easy in DC)

People do dance at Saccharine, but I agree it isn't as often as I would like. In the beginning we used to get a great little dance crowd and Avalanche(even Bags can attest to this) as well as the Depeche Mode Party had some good dance crowds going.

:D

This is the DM remix of Sea of sin(Sea of Denim) :cool:

DJ Strange
kristinash
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Re: Good party nights for dancing in DC? June 28, 2005 at 07:26 PM UTC #
Sorry Doom. Never even saw a guest book. And were you there on Saturday??? Or are you just making presumptions. :D
xneverwherex
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Re: Good party nights for dancing in DC? June 28, 2005 at 09:31 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
yikes, why not just stay home and listen to your stereo if you can only handle music you know?

Heh… I bet one of you wrote this in the Bliss guest book!

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YIKES! who mentioned saying anything about only music they know. why not read the message in its entirety. if you went to a club expecting hip-hop or rap, and got some new wave 80's or indie stuff, wouldn't you be a bit pissed off. i went in expecting a certain genre, got something completely different. yeah, danced to it nonetheless. and no i dont have time to write in guestbooks about someone not playing what i wanna hear. i speak with my wallet or attendance. if i dont like it, i just wont go back.

on that note, Novadancer and i will be in attendance at Smiths night! if i go to morrissey/smiths night and get some gangsta rap, yes i will be pissed and you can all read about it here. but DJ strange plays awesome sets, and it gets me dancing everytime.

perhaps we'll all share more shots together next time. i have no clue what that green liquid was, but my god it was good!
Jaguär
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Re: Good party nights for dancing in DC? June 29, 2005 at 03:19 AM UTC #
Originally posted by xneverwherex:
…its not necessarily knowing every song, although some would be nice. its just when you go into a club expecting a "certain" type of music, based on emails you receive, mail, etc. and get the exact opposite. I went in hoping to hear "indie" music. When you get Madonna mash-ups and a whole bunch of other dance type stuff, its a bit disappointing to know you wasted your money. at least if i choose to go to a club based on what they play, i hope they are going to play that style of music.
Not so much personal but a general comment stating my opinion. And certainly not in the attack mode towards you at all. In fact, based on how I had interpreted it, I thought that it was a little odd coming from you as I know that you too are another cool music freak. :D

Now that you state your points this way, I'm in full agreement with you. In essence, that's false advertising. At very least, very misleading, to say the least. Not the kind I'd take to court or even demand my money back for but certainly would probably not return or spread good words around town about them.

Mind Cage, I'm glad to hear that those strips are already being used that way by some DJs. Hopefully, more clubs will put them up and properly utilize them for we obsessives. Just think about all of the times that someone has asked what some song was and no one was able to give a definitive answer. Seems to me that some record label or liquor company could sponsor one with a small and tasteful logo if money is an issue. I'm not sure how that stuff works though.
DJStrange
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Re: Good party nights for dancing in DC? June 29, 2005 at 12:08 PM UTC #
One other possible place to dance. This is a small restaurant by day and a club on saturday nights. The event is called Midnight. It is booked as a goth/industrial night, but it gets pretty random sometimes depending on the guest DJ and even the mood of the resident DJs. Expect an 80's set at some point during the evening. I've even heard Franz Ferdinand once. This week though they have an awesome guest DJ, DJ Medusa. :)

DJ Strange
Doctor Doom
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Re: Good party nights for dancing in DC? June 29, 2005 at 02:24 PM UTC #
Originally posted by DJ Strange:

See people dancing at Zucchabar. :D

DJ Strange
heh… most of those people look familiar. ;)
Doctor Doom
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Re: Good party nights for dancing in DC? June 29, 2005 at 02:41 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Jaguär:

Now that you state your points this way, I'm in full agreement with you. In essence, that's false advertising. At very least, very misleading, to say the least. Not the kind I'd take to court or even demand my money back for but certainly would probably not return or spread good words around town about them.
This is ridiculous… Bliss is not guilty of false advertising. They just define "indie" a little more broadly than "music made exclusively by non-funky white people."
suede
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Re: Good party nights for dancing in DC? June 29, 2005 at 02:48 PM UTC #
How can no have mentioned Mousetrap, which certainly plays the songs everyone knows and is the most well known and longest DJ night on the scene? I no longer attend religously anymore, but Mark Z still packs them in at Black Cat mainstage for this. And its fun to watch all the kids dance.
Jaguär
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Re: Good party nights for dancing in DC? June 30, 2005 at 03:21 AM UTC #
Originally posted by Doctor Doom:
Originally posted by Jaguär:

Now that you state your points this way, I'm in full agreement with you. In essence, that's false advertising. At very least, very misleading, to say the least. Not the kind I'd take to court or even demand my money back for but certainly would probably not return or spread good words around town about them.
This is ridiculous… Bliss is not guilty of false advertising. They just define "indie" a little more broadly than "music made exclusively by non-funky white people."
Go back and read xneverwherex's description with the Mondonna crap. For me, it's not a Bliss comment but I'm agreeing with her for the particular night in question. Sounds like it was utter shite, as the British would say. I wasn't there so I can only go by her report. In the past, I've usually liked Will's nights but if he's going to play that kind of music, I'm out of there. I can't handle the Hip Hop, or Rap, or whatever you want to call it either. You can like it all you want and that's fine but it will cause me to leave. It's not what I personally want to hear with my other music. In fact, that's one of the reasons that I'm not too impressed with some of the mixes at DC9. That's my right to have my own taste and I'm sticking with it. I don't have to like it in the very least just because you or someone else does.
xneverwherex
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Re: Good party nights for dancing in DC? July 08, 2005 at 11:10 PM UTC #
Originally posted by Jaguär:
Originally posted by xneverwherex:
…its not necessarily knowing every song, although some would be nice. its just when you go into a club expecting a "certain" type of music, based on emails you receive, mail, etc. and get the exact opposite. I went in hoping to hear "indie" music. When you get Madonna mash-ups and a whole bunch of other dance type stuff, its a bit disappointing to know you wasted your money. at least if i choose to go to a club based on what they play, i hope they are going to play that style of music.
Not so much personal but a general comment stating my opinion. And certainly not in the attack mode towards you at all. In fact, based on how I had interpreted it, I thought that it was a little odd coming from you as I know that you too are another cool music freak. :) i like to think im a cool music freak. :)
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