MAJRmusic: January 2010

SHIFT: Slay Ride 2010 SET LIST

Posted by SHIFTdc at 12:46 PM Labels: set-list

Fixin to Thrill	Dragonette
Get a Reaction (Breakdown remix)	Flamboyant Bella
Youth & Vitality (Designer Drugs remix)	Tigersapien
Zero (N.A.S.A. remix)	Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Remedy (Buffetlibre vs. Sidechains remix)	Little Boots
Colourless Colour (The Subs Popup remix)	La Roux
What is Love? (Barletta remix)	Haddaway
Fresh Prince of Bel Air (Mustard Pimp remix)	Will Smith
Sexx Laws (Wiseguys remix)	Beck
Combination Pizza Hut + Taco Bell (Wallpaper remix)	Das Racist
Love Get Out of My Way (Designer Drugs remix)	Milke
Rocket	Goldfrapp
Mercy (Dunproofin's Thankful remix)	Duffy
Bad Romance (Chew Fu remix)	Lady Gaga
Here Comes the Rain Again	Eurythmics
I Like That	Richard Vission & Static Revenger ft. Luciana
In My Arms (Sebasitien Leger remix)	Kylie Minogue
I Wanna Go Crazy	David Guetta ft. Will.I.Am.
Stuck on Repeat (Fake Blood remix)	Little Boots
Tony The Beat (Rex the Dog Remix)	The Sounds
She Wolf (Calvin Harris remix)	Shakira
Worked Up So Sexual	The Faint
Meddle	Little Boots
Closer	Nine Inch Nails
Teeth	Lady Gaga
Crazy in Love	Beyonce
Shoop	Salt N Pepa
Are You Gonna Be My Girl?	JET
Evacuate the Dancefloor	Cascada
I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time (Designer Drugs remix)	Mariah Carey
Bulletproof (Iamxl remix)	La Roux
Love or Torture (Please Don't Stop)	Blake Lewis
Million Dollar Bill (Freemasons remix	Whitney Houston
Pump My Pumps	Dan Black
Boots & Boys	Ke$ha
I Want Everything	Sneaky Sound System
When I Grow Up	Pussycat Dolls
Fascinated by Gold	Company B. vs. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
1,2,3,4 (Sumpin' New)	Coolio
I Get Around	Dragonette
Dance in the Dark	Lady Gaga
Gold Digger	Dolly Rockers
New in Town (Fred Falke remix)	Little Boots
Nasty Girl	Inaya Day
Great DJ (Galaxy of the Dead remix)	The Ting Tings
Fascination	La Roux
Love Today	Mika
Tik Tok (Fred Falke remix)	Ke$ha
Under the Sheets (Kids at the Bar remix)	Ellie Goulding
Might Like Ghosts Better	Amanda Blank vs. Deadmau5
Orally Fixated	Roisin Murphy
Je Veux Te Voir	Yelle
Left My Heart in Tokyo	Mini Viva
Push It	Salt N Pepa
We Have Love	Hot Chip
3 (Dallas K remix)	Britney Spears
I Go Hard I Go Home	The Presets
Get Love (The Shoes remix)	Naïve New Beaters
Beat It (Blisters Boyz remix)	Michael jackson
All My Friends	Franz Ferdinand

SHIFT: Slay Ride 2010

Posted by SHIFTdc at 4:15 PM Labels: events

SHIFT is back at it with what is sure to be THE BEST ending to the first month of 2010! We welcome you back to the dark jaws of electro . indie . pop . and we're ready to sink our teeth in once again! We missed you!

WHO: You + All your friends + Poor life choices, 21+
WHAT: The best dancing of your life
WHEN: SATURDAY Jan. 30th, 10p-3a
WHERE: Cobalt (17th and R NW DC)
WHY: When you don't come, Satan cries... and we can't have that.

So, here's to a joyous round of senseless dancefloor debauchery and good f***ing music. The weather has been really EFFed in the A, so let's fend off another cold spell with what SHIFT does best:

1.) Escaping into the Disco Dungeon
2.) Dancing your face off
3.) Making your liver very angry
4.) Forgetting half the evening in a good way... what else is there?

oh... and
5.) We WILL NOT drink a bottle of Bain de Soleil, just because it smells like bananas!!

It's very simple, as always...
CHEAP BOOZE + GREAT MUSIC + ESCAPIST ATMOSPHERE = DANCE YOUR FACE OFF.

___________________________
*THE MUSIC*

CHECK OUT DJ MAJR's "COME.GET.LOVE" SHIFTeaserMix:http://shiftdc.blogspot.com/2010/01/comegetlove.html (27 min non-stop mix)

We are also VERY EXCITED to have DJ KEENAN playing the opening set 10p-12a! He's pretty awesome, so don't miss it! And, of course DJ MAJR will slam you with the best of dance music from 12-3a.

COME.GET.LOVE

Posted by SHIFTdc at 6:35 PM Labels: downloadables, teasermixes

Download the new SHIFTeaserMix and kick 2010 off the right way...

Come.Get.Love...

Tracklisting:

1. Get Love (The Shoes remix) - Naive New Beaters

2. I Ran (So Far Away) - Darude ft. Blake Lewis

3. Droplighting (Kylie Minogue vs. Designer Drugs) - DJ MAJR

4. Sick Muse (Adam Freeland remix) - Metric

5. Stuck on Repeat (Fake Blood remix) - Little Boots

6. Admiral Sloth (Trash Yourself remix) - El Paso Hot Button

7. Fixin to Thrill - Dragonette

8. What is Love (Barletta remix) - Haddaway

9. Fresh Prince of Bel Air (Mustard Pimp remix) - Will Smith

10. Sexx Laws (Wiseguys remix) - Beck

11. Mercy (Dunproofin's Thankful remix) - Duffy

12. My Love is Better - Annie

13. Monster (DJ Dark Intensity remix) - Lady Gaga

14. Maps (Elite Force remix) - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

15. Boots & Boys - Ke$ha

Bulletproof photers

Posted by SHIFTdc at 4:06 PM Labels: friends, photos

PHOTOS!!!

Check out the photos that BYT (Brightest Young Things) posted for DJ MAJR's event last weekend, Bulletproof.

Also, feel free to download the original TEASERMIX from the inaugural Bulletproof. It had an amazing 130 downloads!

The NEXT installation of Bulletproof: A night of electro bitches is TBA. I'm working on venue logistics as I type. Hooray!

All Photos by the amazing Cassidy DuHon.

homo/sonic on SHIFT-eve

Posted by SHIFTdc at 9:32 PM Labels: friends

So, the day before SHIFT (Jan 30), our friends at TNG are hosting their party at The Black Cat. It is always fun, and I hope you can make it! I will be there, and you should too! Here's the info, per TNG:

"January is an exciting month for people who like The New Gay , good music and meeting cool people. Our last Homo/Sonic queer dance party went so well that we're getting another one in the same month. Come join regular DJs Zack and Michael, and special returning guest Natty Boom (of the Anthology of Booty) for a night of ass-shaking.

As usual our parties are coed, trans-inclusive and straight friendly. See you there!

Black Cat, 1811 14th St., NW, All Ages, $10

And don't forget to RSVP on facebook"

WTF! - QEEF?

Posted by SHIFTdc at 3:25 PM Labels: rants/randoms

THE FOLLOWING OPINION EXPRESSED IS NOT OF SHIFT OR ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES; ONLY THAT OF SOMEONE WHO MAKES A GOOD POINT... AND IT DOESN'T REFLECT ANYONE TAGGED OR OTHERWISE:

"So, let's recap what happened: The talented Aaron Riggins created WTF ("What the Fuck?") last July, a night of mixed-up revelry at the nightclub TOWN. Being the promotional genius that he is, he had planned to mix up Sunday night's theme with the Spanish version: ¡Que es el fucko! Complete with the usual WTF-esque irreverent text, including a bondage clad pinata promo image, etc.

Just before the event, we all get the Facebook message that the theme is gone. Rather than modify the promotional material or the events of the evening, the shit was simply shut down. Here’s the statement from the douchenozzles at TOWN:

"Allow us to take a second to apologize for some of the wording that has been used to promote our WTF event this month...it was meant to be humorous and was clearly not received that way by everyone and we sincerely feel awful that we would ever offend anyone..."

Why am I this pissed off at the shutdown of a one-off theme? DJs/Promoters and all the creative people that support them (like me) are a tightly-knit cabal in this city. When TOWN chooses to completely shut down the theme of an event they have already paid to promote, it sends the message that edge is not welcome. People do notice this shit, TOWN, and it affects everyone's ability to have self-expression, art, and creative themes endorsed (aka: paid for) by other venues. The next person to pitch a great, edgy idea to a venue will likely be reminded that the assclowns at terribly successful TOWN caved on something as innocent and goofy as saying 'WTF' in Spanish, even after they had already spent money to promote it. Get behind Aaron, TOWN, and while you’re at it, support any creative people that bust their asses thinking of fun ways to get people in the door just so you can sell your shitty $7 watery snow-cones of vodka/soda.

I should say that this point that for the record, I generally love TOWN. Great sound system, great music, great atmosphere. But someone fucked up this time.

Mostly, I don’t want even a little of my nightlife overrun by the censorship of what is clearly only a handful of culturally devoid, ultra-PC pussies. It is this kind of crap that keeps fun and profitable events out of DC and in other cities/other countries.

And was the promotional material offensive? Given the audience, no. How dare a little funny Spanglish offend TOWN's delicate intelligensia of followers, all long since accustomed to the usual TOWN promo photo platter of naked porn stars, foul-mouthed drag queens, and barely legal headless stock torsos.

Had I, as a photographer who's shot promo imagery, been commissioned to advertise ¡Que es el fucko! With, say, a shot of a whitey-white model sprayed with sunless tanner, posing naked save poncho y sombrero y thin John Waters-esque mustache, shown in-scene stealing the hubcaps off a Honda Civic, Speedy Gonzales pistol in one hand, steam from a freshly baked coconut flan rising in the background of an east Los Angeles sunset... Well, that particular image might be oh, un poquito racist. Just, you know, slightly. But, we are talking about a little foul Spanglish and a bondage pinata that made me smile.

And let’s not forget the rusty old fucks that were offended: It must be so much easier to waved your gloved hand and attack the pseudo-problem of wacky nightclub themes than deal with any of the very real and present racism that exists in DC.

Yes, the event is still on. And yes, because I support Aaron, I'm coming. (And if I get banned at the door, it’ll only prove my point regarding censorship.) Aaron's amazing, and I know he'll make the event fun anyway... he just pulled off a gay happy hour at the International Spy Museum for Christ’s sake. Everything he touches turns to magic.

But in all respect, grow a pair, TOWN... ¿QEEF?

CASSIDY"