Outdoor Multimedia Event to Benefit Disadvantaged After-School Program
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February 7, 2009
9 PM - Close
The Daily Dose
1622 Highland Ave, Charleston, SC
James Island, SC 29412
$5 Door Charge goes to the Boys & Girls Club of the Trident Area – Shaw Unit. On the first Saturday of every month for the last year, Charleston's only video turntablist crew "The Spaced Invaders" has broken out some big toys to draw crowds to their monthly party, "The Stone Groove." Setting up 15 foot projection screens and massive sound systems powered by turntable controlled laptops has drawn both good and bad attention to the party, easily visible (and audible) from Folly Road. With the new positive energy flowing through the country, they've decided for 2009 its time to use their fan base and unique geek-chic style to benefit a different charity every month – beginning this month with The Trident Area Shaw Unit Boys & Girls Club of America, who has been receiving a lack of funds do to the current financial state of the economy. Attendees are treated to something very special, a wild visual display of classic music videos, remixed and scratched movies with just plain silly antics combined with the 60's and 70's soul songs that were used to create the 90's hip hop sound that is so rarely heard today. "I looked up to see 50 people staring at the huge screen, nodding their heads with the music" states VJ Scrunchyface Flatbroke, one of the Spaced Invaders. "It was the same mesmerizing look you see when you put a toddler in front of a TV!" “The Stone Groove party at the Daily Dose is like partying with your closest friends in another friends’ back yard…Just with giant video screens and some good mood food,” says, VJ Sonar, another member of the Spaced Invaders. “Now teaming up with local charities, we have something people can look forward to going to, have a good time, and feel good about giving back to the community. It’s really a party with a purpose.” For more information please contact:
The Spaced Invaders
843-263-3714
get@spacedinvaders.net
Daily Dose
843-225-3367
To donate to the Shaw Unit Boys & Girls Club: 843-577-5545 www.bgclubta.org
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Ableton to release Live 8...This will flip the digital music realm on it's head once again.
Original Post: http://spacedinvaders.net/index.php/2009/01/ableton-to-release-live-8this-will-flip-the-digital-music-realm-on-its-head-once-again/All the things I never thought possible with MIDI or digital production are coming together with the new release of Live 8 from Ableton. It's going to flip the music world on it's head once again. They are dropping so many great features, improvements and new instruments that you need to take some time out of your day to watch the videos. And the APC40 is dropping also. Anyway, I copied this from their site just in case you stumbled to this page before actually seeing it on Ableton's site. New in Ableton Live 8Version 8 enhances the Ableton vision of creative, real-time digital music with a wealth of new techniques, effects and most-wanted workflow improvements.       New in Ableton Suite 8Ableton Suite 8 is a package which gives you a rich world of sound, perfectly complementing the tools and features in Live 8. Suite 8 provides all the instruments a musician could hope for, including a wide range of synths, a powerful sampler, electric and acoustic drums, mallets, numerous sampled instruments: 10 instruments in all. Here's what's new in Suite 8.      AvailabilityAbleton Live 8 and Suite 8 are expected to ship in the second quarter of 2009. Collision and Latin Percussion will be available with the Live 8 release. To find out about beta testing for Ableton Live 8, click here. PricingNew to Ableton Live?Ableton Suite 8 will be available for EUR 549/USD 699 (download). The boxed version will be priced at EUR 699/USD 849. Ableton Live 8 will be EUR 349/USD 449 (download). The boxed version, including the Essential Instrument Collection 2, will sell at EUR 449/USD 549. Already own a version of Ableton Live?Upgrades to Live 8/Suite 8 vary in price, depending on the Ableton products you already own. To find out your prices, click here. Collision and Latin PercussionCollision will cost EUR 129/USD 159 and Latin Percussion will be EUR 79/USD 99.
Ceillia - Nissan (Truckin')(12" Single) (1985)
Original Post: http://spacedinvaders.net/index.php/2009/01/ceillia-nissan-truckin12-single-1985/ Quite possibly the worst, if not one in the top 5 worst rap songs of all time. In fact it is so bad, that if you were to Google it. It doesn’t even come up. Take a listen if you dare. Yes it's about a Nissan truck. It's terrible I'm done talking about it. P.S. The flip side has an instrumental version for all those who want to remix it out there.
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The Cool Kids - Bake Sale (2008)
Original Post: http://spacedinvaders.net/index.php/2009/01/the-cool-kids-bake-sale-2008/
I picked up this while browsing through the turntable lab website. I have to admit that this has been my guilty pleasure listen of 2008. I would sneak tracks of “The Bake Sale” into my sets and watch the crowd go nuts. Most of them didn’t know who it was, which made it even better! I have to admit that I did not hear a single radio station around the area drop a single track from this album, nor did any City Paper review. This album seems to me that it was one of the more over-looked albums of last year. From day to day it gets more and more difficult to find real hip hop elements in today’s rap music. For the most part lyrics help. While there are plenty of artists that won’t rap about bitches, bling, guns, and violence many of them don’t have the means to. With bitches, bling, guns and violence off the list many of them rap about how they’re never going to rap about bitches, bling, guns and violence. As if they deserve some sort of metal for not killing anyone. The Cool Kids take a different approach to that and seemingly sum themselves up in the first few minutes of the album by stating, “Come check the noise, it’s the new black version of the Beastie Boys.” Now hearing that lyric, and being a huge Beastie Boys fan, I guess I should be thinking. “How dare they have the gonads to say something like that.” Actually, that lyric got me to pay attention to the rest of the album. I am very happy that I did. These guys really are paying homage to the golden days of rap and do a good job at making the ideas of that time relevant with today’s music scene. Each tune is relatively catchy with good party rhymes. No lyrics about bling, no lyrics about Bentleys, none of that stuff. After listening to the intros to tracks on the album I feel like getting my white ass on the dance floor. However, I do have to be a purist and say that there is very little funk and soul sampling in this album and that they have no DJs that they are rhyming for. Which stops this album from being a 10 for me. The reason for this is that they are paying homage to the golden age of rap in nearly every track on this album, but they excluded a main element of Hip Hop. So it’s almost like they are talking the talk but not walking the walk. Don’t let that stop you from adding this album to your collection though. If you want a good party album, this is a good choice. DJs if you aren’t dropping tracks from this already, you need to be up on this level. The tracks are solid. Track Listing:1. What Up Man 2. One Two 3. Mikey Rocks 4. 88 5. What It Is 6. Black Mags 7. A Little Bit Cooler 8. Gold And A Pager 9. Bassment Party 10. Jingling
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B'Zar is shutting its doors :(
Original Post: http://spacedinvaders.net/index.php/2009/01/bzar-is-shutting-its-doors/ I did hear this from the owner before it hit the papers, but it still saddens me to hear that B’Zar is shutting its doors. B’zar was a lot more than just a clothing store. I’m not entirely sure what I’m going to miss the most. Maybe it’s the chic styles they had and the attitudes that it embraced, maybe it was owners Gustavo and Andrea Serrano’s way they made you feel when you entered the store, maybe it’s the way that B’Zar stood out from many shops in Charleston. I’m not entirely sure. But what I do know is we need more shops like this in town. As stated above and from my point of view B’Zar was not just a clothing store. B’Zar was a place that you could go to get a different taste of something not entirely Charleston. It was a place that you could go there and really find out when and where all the great parties and shows were taken place. You could pick up the latest mixtapes from local bedroom DJs or underground DJs. (Thanks to them doing that for me I made some really good friends out of it and met some great new people.) Local visual artists hung out there. Gustavo let his dog Roxy run free in there. New under the radar music was always a topic of discussion. And in the end it just so happens that they sold clothing there as well. I got a different feeling when I walked into B’Zar. It was personal, unlike places like American Apparel where you were always greeted with the same cookie cutter store greeting. With rows and rows of the same cookie cutter merchandise that tried to portray originality with its overstock of designs with plentiful quantities hanging from the racks. B’Zar was the first place that I ever brought a pair of designer Nikes or even spent $65 for a shirt to dress up in. I still get complimented on all the clothes I bought from there. What can I say, chicks dig clothes from B’Zar. I hope that with B’Zar closing down, that it’s not the end of all the great things that came from the owners of B’Zar. I’m talking about fashion shows, Kulture Klash, and the like. Gustavo and Andrea had their hands in a lot of Charleston happenings. They are even a sponsor of our Stone Groove events. Well I am sad to see them go and I will still rock my B’Zar shirt when I’m doing shows. I hope this is not the last we see from Gustavo and Andrea Serrano.
Sonar'z 2008 nostalgic review
Original Post: http://spacedinvaders.net/index.php/2009/01/sonarz-2008-nostalgic-review/I’m going to get kind of nostalgic with this post but it’s the New Year once again. Time for everyone to start their resolutions for the year only to forget them in about three weeks. Time for everyone to reflect on the last year and see how they can make themselves better in 2009. Well in retrospect, I’d say 2008 was a great year for the Spaced Invaders and me as a DJ. First off 2008 had a lot of great shows for the Spaced Invaders. The College of Charleston Red Event (Which started it all), Kulture Klash 2, The Future Sound of Breaks World Tour Stop in Charleston, The Side Show Fashion Show, Dr. King’s Skinful Halloween and certainly last but not least, our Stone Groove events. All the shows that we did last year just totally blow my mind away. Already in the first year that the Spaced Invaders formed we have performed in front of thousands. I can’t be more thankful than that. In addition to the shows we made a lot of good friends along the way and have met some really great people as well. People who are really helping us out and believe in what we do. Mad thanks to the folks at Camel and Redbull for hooking us up with shows and calling us back for more. Same thing to CofC Radio. Also, another thanks to Torch for letting me have a weekly gig at your place, and most of all letting me be free to play what I feel. There’s just so many people to thank that I’ll have to spend all day writing. So please don’t be upset that I don’t get to you in this. (After all this is just a blog post) I also am going to market the Stone Groove podcast and live show very hard this year. Flatbroke and I moved the party to the Daily Dose on James Island and the party within two months have become a huge hit. Most of all, it became very Charlestonian in doing this. Somehow moving the party out of downtown into this very chill, vibey spot just seems right. Our friends are out there and each show we make new ones. It’s really just turned into this great time. I think this year the Stone Groove will be so huge in when the weather warms up and more people spread the word. Duffy, you have been great about helping us out in that way. Lastly, this brings up the Stone Groove as a whole. I just can’t believe this. In November the podcast had over 8000 listens. Speaking of that, the Spaced Invaders are still the only DJs in Charleston with mixtapes on iTunes. (At least at the time of this posting. And that I know of.) The Stone Groove and the ideas behind it have really brought out a new aspect of DJing in me. I’m back to digging again. You know trying to find those tunes that are just great. I’m back to practicing on the decks. I’m back to producing music and beats once again. And I’m back to sticking to my guns and not selling out to the Top 40 BS. And I owe a great deal of this to Flatbroke, he just keeps upping his skills and just his keeps digging and digging and digging. Throughout day one he’s been a sort of mentor in all of this just sort of fine tuning the direction of the Stone Groove and making sure it never loses steam. I couldn’t ask for somebody better to work with on this Stone Groove funk mothership. Anyway, I have to run and make it look like I do something for a living. I leave you with this parting shot from the last Stone Groove event. It is a picture of Duffy’s son Boogie Down (Yep that’s his real name) as our guest DJ at the Stone Groove. 
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