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nice pix !!!

dateng jam emm... mungkin sekitar jam 8-an.
karena per dj hanya spin sekitar 1 jam-an , jadi flow-nya berbelok2 unexpectedly 
but who cares, DJ2 yang main keliatan were having a bit of fun, dan karena ini after-party buat gw, jadi atmosphere after-partynya kerasa. lampu background kerennn... !!
pulang jam 2-an lebih ditengah badai hujan.

Selamat Ulang Tahun, Romy !

Joachim Garraud di 66 mainnya keren !
buka set-nya kalo gak salah dg "The Wall", flow-nya very even, and not only a good dj, but he was also an entertainer.

Bone dan Riri juga mainnya top ! Gw hampir gak berhenti jogedan dari menit pertama masuk 66 sampai pulang pas udah terang.

oh, kayaknya gw missed "The JazzyMike Show" malem itu ya ?
pas gw dateng, dia udah duduk nangkring di stage dj booth aja gitu.  

cheers, Mike !  elo cool banget !

eh semalem itu ada IAANNN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
gila kangen paraaaahhhh..... bentar doang sih dia beneran mampir doang
emang deh master kita yang satu itu, sibug kesana kemariii...
cerita" apa ya kita?? oohh taun baru yaaa... mau di GWK bali kan?
trus cerita apa lagi? sapi lupa...

Pi, percakapan kita malem itu kebanyakan kayak gini :

Ian  :  eh, gw dari bla..bla... si anu bla bla bla..dj siapa blah blah blah...  (satu paragraf tamat)
Sapi :  ....... ?........?.........?...... ???  (dengan pandangan muka err..sebaiknya tidak usah dideskripsikan disini.. )
Ian  :  Oh, nggak penting juga kok tik. kita ngomong lagi aja besok ya.....  

   

terus pertanyaan favorit Sapi buat gw semalem (yang ditanyakan paling sedikit 3 kali) :

Sapi  :  Yan, muka gue ble'e banget ya ?
Ian   :  (berusaha untuk tidak terlalu melihat langsung ke muka sapi)  ermm... iya dikit.. tapi kan sini gelap, jadi mudah-mudahan tidak ada yang liat kali yaa....

Gue senang bagnget bisa ketemu lo lagi Tik  (beserta abang tersayangmu),... gila udah lama bener ya. Mudah2an next time nggak selama yg kemaren.  

Sayang nggak bisa ke Retro lebih awal lagi. Dan nyesel banget nggak bisa juga ke WB abis itu. Padahal pengen joged bareng lagi sama Dweetha, Dimsky, Ija, Dhanty, dll.

Keliatannya acaranya sukses (well, paling nggak paman kelihatan cukup 'sukses' malem itu ...  )

Selamat !

and Thanks for the really good time on saturday night  (or rather, sunday morning) !!!

Have a very Merry Xmas, everyone !


NOW... let's carve out the damn bird !

Kayaknya bakal lanjut kesini secara baru tutup jam 3 sore.
..terusss.. paling asik lanjut lagi ke  ku de ta biar pas 24 hour party people (pun seriously intended by truly yours)

mudah2an masih ada dj entar malem yg sempet baca thread ini dan bersedia memutar :
Chocolate Puma - I Wanna Be You (White Lable Mix)

that song, imo and please excuse my overly biased enthusiasm for this track, is the definitive meaning of what I rather crudely called as "UPLIFTING HOUSE"

many thanks in advance to mr. DJ, whoever you are.

Gw rencana dateng.

tapi masih bingung, apa ada syarat2 khusus buat dapet RVLX memberships card ?

BALITherapy di GWK

mana PT icon PLN katanya mau launching internet via kabel listrik ??
katanya taun 2004 mau launching buat public, ni udah mau 2007 kok
gak ada kabar ?? katanya di komplek PLN tanjung duren dah dicoba
setiap rumah dipasangin koneksi ini dgn tarif hanya itungan bayar listrik
yg digunakan via modem itu, tp tetep maksimum speednya aja masih 4mbps....
tp buat di indo speed sgitu udah canggih bgt......
13mbps, damn harddisk 250gb bisa penuh dalam sebulan itu mah...

internet connection di tempat tinggal gue (apartmen di daerah casablanca) memakai jaringan listrik.
gw gak tahu pasti berapa mbps, yg pasti lebih cepat dibanding speedy, dan lagi  JAUUUUUUHHHHHHH lebih murah (200 ribu FLAT fee per bulan)

Sis......     

PSB !

imo, the term "Intelligent Dance Music" (IDM) is pretty stupid (no pun intended).
First off, How can music be 'intelligent' ?  Well Ok, I do know that the term may have been partly invented in referenced to Warp Records' Intelligent Series in the 90s. Even Aphex Twin himself refused to call the types of music he made 'intelligent'. I also personally don't like the term as it sounds elitist.
Second, most IDM is hardly danceable if not at all. If my memory still serves me well ( god knows what kind of damage those substances have done to my grey cells ), in another thread about lounge music, Gober excluded Buddha Bar music from what count as EDM because you don't really dance to Buddha Bar music, hence by definition Buddha Bar is not EDM. Putting the same logic to use,  the word "dance" for IDM is almost meaningless if not a misnomer.

Don't get me wrong, I don't hate all IDM indiscriminately ( hate is too strong a word, 'dislike immensely'..maybe ), but sometimes a lot of random glitchy, whoopy, noize sound just can be a bit too much.


imho,  minimal/micro house and minimal techno is NOT IDM, as they have 4/4 beats/ kick drum in them.  So please, do NOT lump them together as sub-genre of brain aneurysm-inducing IDM. I personally like many minimal house/techno songs, but my favourite has to be those produced by Richard Villalobos, as they have really booming basslines and some pretty sequence of clicks and pops. Oh, and Villalobos' music are highly danceable compared to other minimal house tracks ( hey, I Love dancing ! )

Soulseekerz   - Party for the Weekend
Bob Sinclair   - The Beat goes On (Roger Sanchez mix)
Fedde Le Grand - Put Your Hands up for Detroit
Dirty Old Ann - Turn Me On

*in the mood for joged2 centil*

gw suka dengan cara DJ2 yang udah 'top' banget dlm nanggepin opini waywedance (seperti naro, dafkaf, romi, innerlight, dll). It clearly shows their maturity and provides proof that they rose to fame through hard work and preserverence (on top of big talents, obviously)

imo, daripada mencela2 dan ngata2in waywedance, mungkin yang lain bisa juga memberi opini, pendapat, kritikan, saran (atau apalah namanya) buat DJ2 di Indonesia jadi mereka bisa improve. Kan kalo DJ2 improved, kita2 juga para clubbers yg bakal diuntungkan.

Gw sendiri mungkin juga punya opini yg gw nggak berani tulis di forum terbuka seperti ini (nggak terlalu penting juga sih). Misalnya, DJ X yg dianggap ngetop banget mainnya masih sering berantakan, atau DJ Z yg lumayan laris karena selalu spin lagu2 'kenceng' tapi mixing skill-nya hanya sedikit lebih bagus drpd cd player.

Opini waywedance adalah valid, tapi apakah bisa diterima oleh majority ? di forum ini sih kelihatannya tidak. Jadi (seperti yg sudah disebut2 diatas), waywedance mungkin perlu memperbaiki content dan cara penyampaiannya kalo argument-nya ingin diterima majority.
Atau mungkin juga waywedance sendiri nggak peduli apakah orang lain mau menerima pendapatnya ?
(in other words, he was just letting off steam)

Selamat buat Romi, Riri, dan Agrikulutur (dan Seto itu yg mana ya)

just a little note : kalo speech yg kena (alias catchy) - satu atau dua joke, dalem tapi singkat. Kalo terlalu lama malah yg nonton bosen dan nggak suka

waktu gw tinggal di NY, kenalan with a total stranger di sebuah event, we were chatting up to the point that he asked where I came from, and when I said 'Jakarta, Indonesia', he mentioned that he'd heard about a club called ' STADIUM' even when he'd never been anywhere near Indonesia !!!

Seorang teman yg tinggal di London juga pernah penglaman serupa: waktu clubbing di Fabric, ngobrol sama orang yg ternyata pernah ke Stadium waktu liburan ke Indonesia !

waliwali LOL.
nice musings though !

gw pakai Windows Live OneCare yg lengkap (anti virus/spyware, phishing filter, tune up, back up dan restore). 
sejauh ini lumayan banget. laptop gw yg kemaren2 rada2 melambat sekarang jadi lebih cepat lagi.

kalau kita dance intensive, paling bagus sih minum air atau fruit juice dan sekali2 minuman isotonik (seperti pocari, powerade, gatorade) setiap 15-30 menit sekali atau dua kali tegukan.

SAYANGNYA, jarang sekali clubs atau dance parties disini yg menyediakan fruit juice dalam botol dan minuman isotonik.

Sebaliknya, terlalu banyak minum air dalam waktu pendek juga bisa menyebabkan kematian (paling terkenal adalah kematian Leah Betts karena terlalu banyak minum air dan menyebabkan "hyponatremia"

dari http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDMA :
"Acute dehydration is a risk among users who are highly physically active and forget to drink water, as the drug may mask one's normal sense of exhaustion and thirst. Also the opposite, "water intoxication," resulting in acute hyponatremia, has been reported as a consequence of use."

dari http://www.dmt123.com/general-health-care/1456-dmt123.html  :
" Is it true that someone died because he drank too much water and flushed out all the essential minerals?
Yes. The condition that occurs is called water intoxication. It can cause another condition called hyponatremia,. It occurs when the amount of liquid you are ingesting dilutes the liquids in your body and your sodium levels drop to a dangerously low level.

"Drinking excess water in the absence of dietary sodium results in hyponatremia, an overdilution of sodium in the blood plasma, which in turn causes an osmotic shift of water from the blood plasma into brain cells. The brain cells swell as result of osmotic pressure, and will ultimately cease to function."

dari http://www.mdma.net/ecstasy/excess.html :

"Panicking users, fearing they are overdosing, drink too much water and provoke hyponaetraemia (water-poisoning). Leah Betts died after drinking 14 pints in just 90 minutes. The recommended amount of water to drink per hour is one pint"

the worst yg pernah gw alamin selama rave di indonesia adalah pas Heineken Thirst 2005.
susahnya beli minum dan bottled water udah abis jam 1-2 an. terpaksa temen2 gw jalan jauh keluar dan beli air dari luar.
That was borderline criminal act by the EO. Coba kalo ada yg mati karena heatstroke.
Kalo nggak salah EO-nya Nepathya, dan seharusnya kan mereka udah pengalaman banget.