Test Patterns number three. We knew something was missing from the first two in our eternally-running monthly party series when we went down to Don Pedro's basement to smoke a cigarette or shoot a couple pool balls: more noise, and more people. So we added a DJ party down there, curated by DJ Cowboy Mark. That meant that on top of the upstairs rock show, Kim Ann Foxman of Hercules and Love Affair et al spun the under-floor party into a woozy dance party with, as Mandy Graves, (a.k.a. Dirty Jeans) defined it quite nicely: "feel good 90s Chicago house classics, and just enough dub edits to remind you of what things used to be like when these basement parties were not so hard to come by."
We've spent some time raving about Air Waves, who more and more sound like Neil Young channelled through Nicole Schneit's anti-quavering vocal delivery and her confident bass drum backing dudes. Meanwhile, German Measles took up the Dadaist branch of the local garage rock circuit, replete with fake 'staches, trench coats, blistering decibels, and flannel... turtle necks, while the Golden Triangle side project Xray Eyeballs, took the messy, fuzzy recorded material recently released on Night People and made it messier and fuzzier. Animal opened with their guitar-drums rampage that tumbles as comfortably along avant-jazz atonality as it does through blissed-out post-rock loops and heavy stoner metal.
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On the contrary, Im glad no pictures were taken of me otherwise the East Williamsburg real estate market would drop even deeper in the shitter.
— jay diamond on April 20, 2009
this party is what brooklyn needs
— uhuhhhh on April 20, 2009
I didn't mind waiting in line while the couple had sex in the bathroom. Also, the upstairs dj was spinning really good post-punk stuff.
— Steve on April 20, 2009
That was a really fun time.
— (Cowboy) Mark Straiton on April 20, 2009
Oh yippie, look how cool and good looking everybody in Brooklyn is.
— the general on April 20, 2009
wow guys, I feeling some serious peanut butter and jealousy. this party makes me want to fly to brooklyn and kick it with the Impose family.
— blake on April 20, 2009
hooked on air waves!!!!
— jill on April 20, 2009
what these pictures fail to show was the high ratio of hot chicks packed in the basement
— ka on April 20, 2009