The Dubstep Circus, 12/12: Reeeeecap!

Holy Mackerel!!!

We in the Detroit Dubstep Labs cannot express our deep appreciation and respect for all those who came out to support our wild circus extravaganza.

Many thanks to the gorgeous Leland Ballroom, Larry Love, Johnny5, Source Audio, Burners Without Borders, Detroit Fire Guild, Rick Falck, Evan Fitzgerald, Michael Abernathy, Aaron Helisek (POPSH!T), Detroit Exposure, Joe Le & Kristi Radbourne, Photastic Images, and most importantly: YOU YOU AND YOOOOU, OUR INSANELY BEAUTIFUL LIL' COMMUNITY OF TOTAL FREAKS!!!

(Do you know how genuinely beautiful you guys are? Ahhh...)

Thanks for jammin' with us!

Hi- I'm Angela. I was "stuck" at the door all night. Did you say hi to me? Hug me? See me? Well, at the time I was stressin' because I thought I was really missing out (which I was!)

Am I yelling? Naw, I'm not yelling.

But after much rest and mulling over the word "stuck," I realize that the door was the absolute best spot in tha HOUSE cuz I got to see all of your beautifully adorned faces and bodies and costumes and smiles and ohhhh my, was it friggin SAWEET to meet all of you people!

See me in tha purple with tha hat on? Do I look like I know what I'm doing? (photo credit to kristi radbourne)
I also got to experience loads of lovin' for my girl Doxie's Homeless Project. Warm kudos & special spanks to:

Burners Without Borders

Follow the Detroit Chapter on FB here: http://www.facebook.com/#/pages/Burners-without-Borders-Detroit/139544484100?ref=ts. Truly an awesome initiative always looking to reach out and inspire the community. Proud to be working with them.

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Moving on to the madness which ensued on 12/12: We were fresh out of a hip-hop DJ and had to scrammmble last minute for some sort of noise to play as ya'll were walking in. How did we do? That's what I thought. Can I seriouslyyyy get a HELL YEAH for... K@Tdog & POPSH!T:

Concentrating harrrrd for you freaks. Aren't they kinda cute?

Between the two of them they played for like uhhhh...SEVEN HOURS...how did that work out for you fine-lookin' folks? I know I was certainly shaking my sweet booty in that lobby for the entire eve.

Another HELL YEAH YEAH for Mister Scott Sutterfield, the magic man with the lights and the mongo computer monitor and the visual enhancements and YESSS he is still rocking the PC Tower watchu' know about dat!

Seriously focused- the beautious Scott! Who loves this geeky guy- we do.

The next morning was a remarkable mix of serious euporia, deilirium, and frenzy.Scott, Angela, and K@tDOG (are we keeping him unnamed or something? lemme know) were awakened by a very professional Leland Hotel phone call at 12:15 pm. "Hello will you be extending your stay with us today sir?" And Sir Scott is all "No, we shall be departing shortly." Then it was to the lobby where I almossssst forgot about our grand pile of donations- that huuuuuge cardboard box (do you remember it, big red thing w a shiny bow?) Anyway, the donations box had a whole side ripped open from our overflow of lovin. AWWWWW, SHUCKS GUYS!

I know the glare is blocking zee eyes, but Angela is a very happy girl here. This is generally good for everybody.

Together we raised over 200 items for the homeless in Detroit. Doxie hugged me nice and big, it felt fuzzy, teehee. We are gonna put some backpacks together after the new year, and your donations will be used in this process.

Gratitude, gratitude, gratitude, forreal.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU EVERYBODY. We are about to help soooo many people on the cold, wet, streets, makes me so happy and I wanna do MORE when we can...hint hint 12/26 hint hint...

After loading up my baller status van, it 'twas back to my pad for some serious hunger control. I fed the boys (we ate like kings-- eh hem-- AND QUEENS) and we rambled on about how silly, fun and utterly inspiring the previous night was...

Mz. Antha is bringin sexy back. In a VERY non-lame, totally neat way!

The Beautiful Baker ;)

That's mah girl doin' her thing! Ain't she purty?

Rick Falck- this guy is badass! Bonkersss!

Evan Fitzgerald- love him! FB friend this guy, he vows to work out any ole' kink of yours.
Flec Mindscape- anyone else spellbound??

Ya'll look wicked! Rockin it :)

To be totally honest, we still can't believe we pulled the thing off- HA!

We have major things in store for 12/26- Dubstep Circus #2.

Four DJs, no scramblin' this time (we hope, tah-dah, ya never know, tha show must go on!)

Get ready for another Burners Without Borders drive. This time we'll be collecting GLOVES ONLY, so take note immediate and come prepared! We have mad amounts of *love* for you guys and we are truly blessed to have been able to form such kickass community of kids so quickly. Makin' friends has never been so fun!

THANKS FOR HANGING OUT WITH US.
Until next time, be Good.

Love,

Detroit Dubstep

The Dubstep Circus = Bizerkness!

Yowzers! The Detroit Dubstep Circus is coming your way on 12/12/09 at The Leland Ballroom. We invite you to participate in any way you can! Are you a performer? Artist? Community Organizer? Musician? Total Freak?

Check out the dope scenario we are creating special for you:

-Detroit Fire Guild Performance

-UV & Fire Hula Hoopers

-Burlesque Dancers

-Interpretive Live Painters

-Two story visual & lights

-Sound by Source Audio (6 subwoof woofers)

**Currently searching for stilt-walkers, body-painters, & B-boys / B-Girls**

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Da' Music:

1. DJ Commerce spinnin' old school hip hop. 10-12

2. POSH!T spinnin electro dance. 12-1:30am.

3. DJ K@td0g spinning tha dirty dub. 1:30 - 4:30 am.

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VIVA LA BASS

VIVA LA BASS

Dubstep Circus: Community Outreach Aspect!

(Angela's favorite part, duh)

We (hmmm..."we" don't have a name really yet- "Detroit Dubstep" I guess for now- any suggestions?) worked harrrrd to keep the event free, but unfortunately we were unable to do so. In result, we have come up with a donation system and awesome community outreach opportunity thanks to Doxie from Detroit's Burners Without Borders (BWB) :

$7 for 18 & up.

$5 for those who bring a 3+ item donation of: gloves, socks, or canned protein (ie beans, sardines, meat only)

Just in time for the holiday season, we are super uber duper stoked to be able to come together as a youth culture, and use this dubstep circus event as a vehicle to channel an inspiration for positive social change. Very grateful to be collaborating with BWB- an awesome local initiative (also a nationwide org)!

PS- Cheers to the Freaks!

****Interested in performing or getting active? Contact "Angela Pal" on Facebook, or email me at angelaoohlahlah@gmail.com for more details.***

Free Detroit Dubstep In Review...

What a wild night in Detroit! We knew ya'll would git down with us, but we had no idea how many were truly down with our git ta git down!

All apologies for the limited space & access at Studio 54 on Saturday night. Thank you for bringing some key things to our attention- we are excited to improve this event with each opportunity and we love your feedback.

The early shut down was not cool, and some fellow dub-lovers were unable to get into the venue, which is even more uncool. W.T.F. WE ARE SO SORRY! We wanted to play with you, bad, like really bad. Joe Le was crying about it for a good 20 minutes on the couch by the live painter. And then somewhere around 3am (a good hour before expected curfew) I get a burly man next to me and he's all "there too many kids here, we gotta cut this party off." And I'm all smiles like "woah man, we wanna stay, what do we hafta' do for ya, you're not having fun with us?" And he's all puffing his chest out and maybe it was supposed to be hot and distracting. He must not have fully understood the power of dub. So I was all "Come look at this sweet live painting over here" And he's all "Baby, we gots to start gettin people out." No budge, huh...Rawr. So then the pout face went on and I'm all "You guys want me to leave?" And he's all "No baby, we want you to stay, you guys are awesome, let's get this proper next time." And I'm like "Oh, word. Thanks for the compliment, I know we are sweet, look at all this blacklight paint on me, let us stay" cough cough and all that. And he's all "It's time, we're filled over capacity, we gotta' shut down." Eventually, I just hugged him and said thanks for being so understanding, and kinda' walked away with a grin because that lil' negotiation shredded us another half hour of dirty dubstepping. I'm smart. Tee Hee.

Next event on 12/12 is in The Leland Ballroom and we will have MORE THAN ENOUGH SPACE & TIME to hoop, bounce, paint, massage, play, and rage.

Big ups to the baddest man DJ Commerce who brought that raw Wu-Tang style ruckus to start the night off proper. His set repped hard: Gang Starr, Big L, Nas, and on and on and on. Hafta' ask- did that boy blow a speaker super early? Or was it just the tripped out kid by the speaker who claimed he couldn't feel his ears? Anywho, just after 1 in tha mornin' DJ KatDog took to the booth and got bodies sexy swaying to Portishead's "Numb" dubstep remix -- some Saul Williams sampling there was also treating us right. The night ended with a beautiful sing along moment of Bob Marley's "Is This Love" dub remix. The whole crowd was huggin' and holdin' hands and aw shucks, even I was singin' -- I wanna love ya and treat ya right!

Lights by Scott "Synjektion" ... He did some major work to get this event together for ya'll. Thanks to him and http://www.highervibes.net/ for throwing all that spectacularnastyness down and for keepin' it FREE FREE FREE. Mongoooo loads of love to the freshest female artist I know- ALI MANION. Check her work out here. If you are a performer of any kind, we welcome you. Contact us if you want to participate and perform at our next event!

Oh yeah, almost forgot. This was happening too, at 8 in the morn, Room 1654:

Did anybody else get this delirious in the Leland Manor?

Muahahaha...


We are stoked to play with ya'll again on 12/12, and do it all proper. Expect awesome gothic looking ballroom venue with mad space, steady lights & sound, late curfew, and loads more performances. And bring about the feedback, we love to hear from you because you rock. Duh.

Consider this past Saturday an "advertisement."

Peace & Love to You Freaks.

Up and Coming

Grimey Detroit will attending Boombox, at the Crofoot in Ponatic, MI. on November 21st. Detroit's own Inkface and The Digital Dream will be opening. There is also be a FREE dubstep after party in south west Detroit. Check back in next week for photos

Joe Le

Detroit Grime is proud to have Angela Palaian contributing. Stay tuned for articles, interviews and photos, as we bring whats happening to you

-Joe Le-

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