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A LovEvolution Gallery: The Party

So this is the final gallery from our visit to San Francisco to cover LovEvolution. The sheer number of people at the party made it really tough to get close to a lot of the floats, so I ended up sticking around the listed float for most of the time. Besides, they had the best sound system of any float; an old Turbosound rig (dating from before the Funktion One split I think), which sounded unbelievably warm and clear with eye shaking bass. Loud is an understatement!
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A San Francisco LovEvolution Preview: How to Get listed

listed Productions float | 2008 LoveFest | Resonant VibesIt’s that time of year again. The long summer days are officially behind us, and as we make an almost ceremonial descent into the winter months there’s time for one last summer fling. What’s more it’s a free fling full of “Love” and it’s set in the heart of San Francisco. It’s a fling where music, sun, good people and good times can all get it on one last time.
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That’s right, it’s time for San Francisco’s annual Love “Something” parade. This year it’s called “LovEvolution” and for more information on why it’s name keeps changing you can visit the organizers’ site HERE.
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Regular readers of this blog will know that rv has a soft-spot for the fine people over at listed Productions. We’ve been involved in several of their past events and they put on ridiculously good parties while understanding what’s involved to make them a success. They know that it takes the right combination of world-class talent, mind-blowing sound systems and quirky themed productions to bring out the exhibitionist in us all. The result is an experience you’ll keep talking about. It’s even a little piece of history in the making if you’re lucky.
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For this year’s LovEvolution weekend listed are setting the bar high with an insane schedule of 4 parties in 3 days. Each of their parties is unique and worthy of it’s own blog post, but I’ve condensed them all into one. I will say is that if you’re planing to be anywhere remotely close to the Bay Area over the LovEvolution weekend you OWE it to yourself to attend one of their parties. It’s that simple.
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Tyrant | Resonant VibesFriday: Tyrant featuring Lee Burridge and Craig Richards
The Scoop: Wow, what a way to start! This is the first time Lee and Craig have played together Stateside as Tyrant in almost 10 years. Tyrant built a reputation as the residents of London’s Fabric nightclub by providing the backbone to the clubs musical direction. Together they understand music in a way that’s truly mind-expanding and they have a constant focus on keeping the vibe going. Combine that with a slew of unforgettable Tyrant tunes and you start to get an idea of what to expect. listed resident Mike Khoury has established himself as Burridge’s opening DJ of choice in North America, so he should provide the perfect start to a very special night of music.
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Plenty of additional production is being trucked in to transform Club 525 into something a bit special for the night so we think you’d be a fool to miss out on it. What’s more, we’ll be there taking photos and video for the blog, so you should really come along for the bonus of making it into one of our galleries or videos! (more…)


rv_cast 004 Mixed by Hac Le Live at Forecastle Festival

rv_cast_004_blogEpisode 004 of our rv_cast has arrived! Hac Le is our first guest DJ with a stellar live mix from this years Forecastle Festival for your listening pleasure.
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Hac got his start into DJing with a residency at Kontrol Factory in LA in 1993, although it wasn’t until moving to Chicago in 2000 that he rekindled his romance with the decks. In 2002 he met Jason Short at Gramaphone Records—the Chicago record store—and soon they started to DJ produce together under the Kyaro moniker.
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A tour around Mexico in 2003 saw him open up for the likes of Deep Dish and Hernan Cataneo, and later in the year he formed Play Co. with Chris Caliendo and Sasha Navarro back in Chicago.
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2004 could be considered a turning point in Hac’s career seeing him play gigs along side Kazell and Lee Burridge in Mexico, and more notably catching the ear of John Digweed who named him the winner of the Future Music “Next Big Thing” DJ contest.
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In 2005 Hac got the chance to play for the first time in Miami at the Winter Music Conference, and also at the Love Parade in San Francisco, which is where I met him and Jason Short for the first time at FunkyCozy afterhours party in the basement of a Mexican restaurant! (We launched RV 1.0 at the Love Parade in San Francisco back in 2005.)
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Since ’05 it’s been onward and upward for Hac, as a partner in the San Francisco based record label Auralism and gigs in New York, Detroit, Louisville and London along the way. In 2007 he became a listed Productions resident, and was cemented into the legacy of the listed Tikki parties in Miami. That year also saw James Zabiela naming him as the DJ Mag “Breakout DJ of 2008″.
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I had a chance to catch up with Hac to ask him a few questions for his rv_cast which I’m pleased to share with you here.
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Gallery: The Ocean Stage | Forecastle Festival

Better a little late than never; here are the photos I took at Forecastle. A big thanks to all the DJs and other people that helped at the Ocean Stage over the weekend. The band shown on the main stage is Pretty Lights who also rocked it.
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Exclusive Video – RV Forecastle Festivities

If you made it out this past Saturday to the Forecastle Ocean Stage or to the RV Afterparty, then you already know we had an incredible time! Over the course of the day and night, we experienced stellar performances from Ben Alan, Brian Neckel, Deepak Sharma, DJ Three, Dory, Hac Le, Paul Dailey, and our own Sam Gracie.
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Fortunately, we got some video footage to give you a glimpse of the festivities. We don’t have video for every DJ’s set, but we’ll be posting some audio recordings for you soon on our blog.
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Enjoy the video…
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RV Forecastle Festivities 7-11-09 from Resonant Vibes on Vimeo.

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RV’s Forecastle Festivities – Great Times Guaranteed

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If you live in Louisville, then you probably already know that the 8th annual Forecastle Festival is going down this weekend (July 10th – 12th) at the Riverfront Belvedere. Each year, thousands of people turn out for this event that aims to fuse music and art with activism. In addition to performances by the likes of Widespread Panic and The Black Crowes, this year we have an RV-endorsed stage dedicated to electronic music on Saturday (the 11th).

The lineup for this Saturday is nothing short of superb! We’ve got our own Sam Gracie opening up with local DJ Ben Alan, followed by sets from Deepak Sharma, Hac Le, Paul Dailey, Dory, Three, and Brian Neckel! Obviously, this is not an event you want to miss if there’s any way you can be there. For more information or to buy tickets, just go to forecastlefest.com.

After we’ve finished listening to great music and dancing all day, we’re going to make our way over to the RV Forecastle Afterparty…which also promises to be super hot! The party will take place from 11pm to 4am at one of my favorite spots in Louisville, called Asiatique. This venue is an elegant, upscale Asian fusion restaurant/lounge. It has a sophisticated, modern decor that really lends itself to a quality electronic music event, and they have a bar that serves outstanding drinks.

We’ve arranged to bring our own sound system in for the event, and we’re asking our Forecastle DJs to get on the decks again. Three is going to headline the afterparty, with help from Dory, Hac Le, Deepak Sharma, Paul Dailey, Ben Alan, and Sam Gracie.

If you’re anywhere near Louisville, I would highly recommend that you make it out to this afterparty! For more details or to RSVP, go to our Facebook events page at http://snipurl.com/mdc56.

I hope to see you out this Saturday!

Eddie B


Video Time! — Resonant Vibes Presents: The Chi-Town Excursion

On June 30, I wrote a post to briefly tell our blog readers about the RV team’s trip to Chicago. As you may recall, we worked with AMP Productions to sponsor a fun-filled night on June 29th at Vision Nightclub. In my previous post, I promised to show some video footage of our trip, and now it’s time to deliver ;)

The clip I’ve posted here was taken in the downstairs area at Vision called “The Lair.” I’m on camera duty, and we’ve got a cameo appearance by none other than Mr. Hac Le. We’ve also got some footage of RV’s own Sam Gracie (aka Bigalo) getting down on the decks with the uber-nasty tech house vibes (from the RV store of course!).

Enjoy!