I'm telling you, that record's going to destroy the dancefloor!

At a certain point in the mid 2000's, I was doing a somewhat weekly residency at a fantastic dive bar in North Denver that was reputedly haunted. The scene was thick, the bartenders poured stiffed drinks, and then it all came crashing down when the owner of the building put a padlock out front as the bar manager wasn't keeping up on payments or something. (I dodged a bullet on that one, because just a week before this I'd been seriously considering leaving my turntables and equipment at the bar as I was tired of hauling them down every week.) A few months later, some of the crowd threw a Halloween party down at another dive bar off Colfax Avenue in the mile high city. They brought back the entire party crew from the north denver spot, and asked me to come back and DJ. Everyone was getting lit, it was one of those parties, where everything was perfect: the music, crowd-DJ connection, just a full on smash on party. The kind that DJs live for. My partner-in-crime Lex Luthor was there helping to assist on the turntable duties, and he kept swearing up and down I needed to play this one record. "Wax, I'm telling you this crowd is going to eat it up" I wasn't buying it, because the crowd, as cool as they were, were not the type to be down for electro or harder dance records. I kept putting him off. Finally, after the tenth time of him bugging the s--t out of me, I said "Ok my dude, you do it" and I wandered off to get a drink. I fully expected to see the packed floor empty out, but much to my surprise, I was wrong and couldn't have been MORE wrong. They all went at it harder, that funky ass bassline knocked them the eff out, and Lex moved the set into electro land. Thanks Lex, you son of a b--tch. And don't forget homie, even though I was wrong, I'm better than you, no doubt. Viva la France! Related: How I learned to mix out of Aphex Twin records. The hard way ; She really thought it was an exclusive white label City of Bass: blogging daily about the electro music scene.