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NCM Recommended New Music - Summer 2008

Booka Shade: The Sun  & The Neon Light - The Vinyl Mixes (Get Physical)
Jim Noir: Jim Noir (My Dad)
Tutty Moreno: Samba Jazz & Outras Bossas (Far Out UK)
M83: Saturdays = Youth (Mute U.S.)
The Cool Kids: Totally Flossed Out EP (iTunes)
VA: Body Language Six Mixed By Junior Boys (Get Physical)
Devotchka:    A Mad And Faithful Telling (Anti)
Kuniyuki Takahashi: All These Things (Mule Musiq)
Quiet Village: Silent Movie (!K7)
Santogold: Santogold (Downtown)
The Black Dog: Radio Scarecrow (Soma Records)
Diskjokke: Staying In (Smalltown Supersound)
Azymuth: Remastered & Remixes (Far Out)
Duffy: Rockferry (Mercury)
Flight Of The Conchords: Flight Of The Conchords (Sub Pop)
DJ Dealer: Joyride (Look At You)
Anders Ilar:  Sworn (Level Records)

NiteLite Re(up)loaded

A note to all the audiophiles; After a few listens, the compressed master of my Anniversary mix was a little bright and harsh on the high end for me so I've re-upped the original recording for anyone who wants a replacement. I know, ...I'm a freak. Anyways... click the pic to play or download the set HERE (right click and 'save as').

NiteLite returns on June 21st.

Samsung animated documentary on the Burj Dubai (Dubai Tower).

Utah Pride June 6th, 7th & 8th

Salt Lake's Gay Pride is coming up on June 6th, 7th & 8th. It's one of the few reasons we have to drink during the day. Come see the arts and crafts of my people! More info at UtahPride.org.

Jim Scott Matheson statue inside the Courthouse by my work is a tad on the spooky side. I'm yet to put my finger on why Salt Lake loves it's bronze statues.

The Weekly's Stephen Dark helps clear the smoke swirling around a falling out between local salon founder Matthew Landis of Landis Salon, fashion designer Jared Gold and financier Richard Surber of Nexia Holdings which controls his Black Chandelier brand.

Sisterhood Of The Traveling Genes

The Genographic Project is a DNA human history study funded by National Geographic Society, The Wiatt Family Foundation and IBM. Me and my signif other recently got the testing kit in the mail that allows every day people to plug into the findings and discover where their ancestors hail from. Ancestors as in 150,000 years ago - back to 'Mother Africa' ancestors. Geneticist Spencer Wells started the project in 1996 by sampling pure DNA from isolated cultures and tribes around the globe and using them to "chart the ancient human migrations from Africa across the continents." For those of us with Mormon backgrounds, where genealogy is a really big deal, this should definitely take the cake... assuming you believe in science, DNA and that the world is older than 2000 years old.

OMGHSM3!

Ambiguous Mutations

Muto is an animated graffiti movie that should leave your mouth wide open.

The Green Ant Turns 10

The Green Ant, everybody's favorite vintage modern furniture store in Sugar House is having a 10th anniversary sale this week! Get your butts up there to spend some stimuli and congratulate to Ron Green, one of SLC's most valued playaz.(2011 South 1100 East)

NeonWorldBangraGhettoGarbageTribalRaveHop

...great stuff for channeling your 'inner raver'. MIA killed it, on a Sunday no less!

Deeper Shades In SLC

I would like to thank Lars Behrenroth from Deeper Shades of House for being our guest at NiteLite last Saturday as well our amazing crew bringing the force. Lars read the crowd with amazing dexterity, played a variety of sounds and kept us with our hands in the air despite the escalating temps in the club. By the end of the night it was a hot, sweaty tranny love fest. One of us will make his set available to download this week so watch for that and we'll look forward to having him back someday soon! (Don't you love my new Regan/Romney hair do?)

NKOTB

The New Kids On The Block telephone came out in 1990. Someone was mentioning the other day that it was one of the first high profile 900 number rip off scams. The phone came preset with a hotline button that connected one hundred thousand unsuspecting little girls per week to recordings of the 'Kids' for 95 cents per minute. The service was advertised in newspapers and television as well.

AT&T has confirmed that the Hulk Hogan Hotline was the most lucrative 900 line in the United States from 1991 through 1993. Other early leaders in amassing huge volumes of revenue were the New Kids on the BlockDionne Warwick Psychic Network. – Wikipedia

Originally aired on BBC's Channel 4, "Pump Up The Volume" is a documentary that follows the evolution of house music from its birth in Chicago to the myriad of diverse music it has since spawned. It's one of the better quality productions so if you missed it check it out on the tubes here. (Thanks Cyrus)

Chinchilla Persian kittens.

Jared Gold's Czarina Runway Event comes to SLC

From JaredGold.com: High Tech Meets Haute Couture as Jared Gold hosts his Spring Runway Event at the all new presentation space and technical lab for Webb Audio and Visual. Webb will be unboxing their newest effects as well as experimental works in progress and cutting edge staging to present the Czarina collection in an event that is revolutionary to both industries. The collection is fresh from a wild success at Los Angeles fashion week and will be featured on models from W Talent as well as imported celebrity models. Also, don't miss the Parking Lot Pre-Show party at 6:00 pm!

Recently discovered footage of Bill O'Riley flipping out on the set of Inside Edition is getting remixed on YouTube.

NiteLite presents Lars Behrenroth Saturday May 17

Hot on the heels of our anniversary party, NCM is proud to present renowned Los Angeles DJ, Producer and XM Radio host Lars Behrenroth at the W. Lounge on May 17. Originally from Germany, Lars has moved and grooved crowds in clubs all over the world such as DEEP (LA), Club Five and Red (D.C.), Motorlounge (Detroit), ONE (Phoenix), Distillery (Leipzig, Germany), Queens (Paris, France) and more. His discography spans a variety of labels including Chez Music, Deep4Life, Compost, Sonar Kollektiv and most recently Liebe*Detail and Freerange UK. He has remixed The Rurals, Deep Swing, Dubtribe, MJ Cole, Slope, Arnold Jarvis, Kathy Brown and more!

I discovered Lars Behrenroth (pronounced Bear-en-roth) through his 'House Sound Of Hamburg' and 'Deeper Shades of House' internet radio shows, back when gas was cheap and internet radio was sheer novelty. His shows were a great connection to the worldwide house scene for people like us trapped in "red states". I've been trying to get him out here ever since but things just never worked out, until now. Finally the stars (and his busy schedule) have aligned to make this night of ear opening global house a reality. Lars will be bringing exclusive music from the recent Winter Music Conference as well as his own released and unreleased tunes. This is a one night only gig... at a ridiculous door price I might add, so COME EARLY, GET SWEATY and ENJOY the beautiful SUMMER night with us at the newly redecorated W. Lounge. Let's show Lars what SLC and NiteLite is all about and allow him take us on fantastic journey through sound.

Check out Lars Behrenroth's recent XM Radio shows:
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Visit the Deeper Shades website and myspace:
www.deepershades.net
www.myspace.com/larsbehrenroth

...and Lars's full bio was posted here.

Be there or be square. Jesse

Chicago's "Promoters' Ordinance" To Cripple Local Music

Tomorrow the Chicago City Council will vote on Chapter 4-157, the "Promoters' Ordinance" which will force independent promoters to become licensed, regulate the kinds of events that are allowed and change the face of independent Chicago music, arts, and culture. Many believe it's aimed at stomping out underground dance music. The Sun Times has more today.

The website "In opposition to Chapter 4-157" states the following:

What is Chapter 4-157? (from the Chicago Independent Radio Project)

The Chicago City Council has fast-tracked its new version of a measure first introduced last year to greatly impede independent promoters attempting to hold events in the city. Under the proposed law, independent promoters would have to acquire a promoter's license at a cost of up to $2000 every two years, obtain liability insurance for every event thrown, even if the presenting venue already has liability insurance, be fingerprinted and background checked, and maintain extensive records of each event. The ordinance allegedly is intended to prevent disasters like the one that occurred in the E2 nightclub several years ago, but really would just put many small indies (not to mention non-profits that rely on events for fundraising, like CHIRP) out of business.

Jim DeRogatis is on top of the story, so we'll link to him rather than paraphrase further.

FYI, the ordinance exempts non-profits from certain portions of the rules (although not the extensive record keeping), but requires a group to have been in existence for at least three years, or to have 501(c)3 status.

A Lot of Dirt and Sand

Stephanie Leitch, who you may remember from her dripping honey installation at TRASA gallery last year has a new work opening as part of a show called “Desert” at Westminster College this Friday. "Desert" is a year-long endeavor to heighten campus and public awareness of our endangered environment through dance, music, visual art and spoken word. Using the Bonneville Lake bed as her point of reference, Leitch will have a large-scale, multi-media installation taking up a large portions of the conservatory's lobby, using a lot of dirt and sand. Could be interesting.

Tickets are available by phone at (801) 450-8977 or at the door - $10 general admission, $8 students and seniors (Westminster Students $5 with ID).

Westminster College
Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory
1840 South 1300 East
Salt Lake City, UT

May 16 and 17, 2008
7: 30 p.m. - General opening
** Friday night only** 6 p.m. - Visual arts exhibition opens for Gallery Stroll