Oh My Dear!

I, quite happily I might add, have a pretty fantastic group of friends.  As a line in one of my previous posts suggests, "I don't want the party to become my life... I have other interests too".  So after a pretty astonishing weekend of great dance music, I spent this Sunday with my good friends Cameron & Robin taking in a little Shakespeare in the Park... which was a pretty fantastic interpretation of A Mid Summer Night's Dream. It's open Sunday through Thursday in High Park, Toronto @ 8pm, and it was a superbly acted and well produced production of a story most of us have probably seen or heard of before. It does close next Sunday so if you haven't yet I definitely advise checking it out.  It is a PWYC event with a suggested minimum donation of $20, I definitely decree it worthy of that at the very least.

Now back to the subject at hand... MUSIC. I'm finding it a little bit hard to move on past my last post.  Still hopelessly in love with Crazy P's Eruption.  HOPELESSLY.  But I was also privy to some pretty sweet sets courtesy of the likes of the incomparable Matthew Dear, Lee Foss, Pat Mahoney and Soul Clap this weekend at a pretty damn stupendous beach party here in TO at Sugar Beach. After which I went to Footwork for the after party featuring Mr. Dear, Lee Foss and an (incredibly forgettable set from Soul Clap...R n B people....R n B.... at an after hours).  Sufficed to say, I will not over exert myself for Soul Clap ever again. You really ought to have an idea of where you've been booked to play... but to some extent when it got as bad as it got, people actually left the club: see here.  For those unaccustomed to the Toronto scene ... FW usually hosts premium.. top of the line House/ Tech-House and Techno. When a packed club of people spend 5 minutes standing around looking at each other, maybe someone ought to intervene.  INSIJS.

Luckily Lee Foss was on next and it got better from his first track.  Steadily progressing to a nice bit of thunder before Mr. Matthew Dear took over, and as you might expect, DESTROYED it.   The following is a collection of stuff I heard this weekend.  Well the stuff I was actually able to Shazaam, as a lot of the tracks were probably unreleased at this point so I'm having  little bit pf a hard time tracing them down.  Hope you enjoy it.  I most certainly did.

To start things off I'll start with Matthew Dear's last track of the evening, before moving onto FootWork.  As much of a music geek I am...there are still certain thing that I'm not sure what they're doing up there.  I kinda like it that way.  Matthew Dear's final track at the WKD Beach Party....

Marie Madeleine - Swimming Pool (Jacques Renault Remix)

Next up: Definitely no stranger to the Moonboots blog... Maetrik(a.k.a Maceo Plex, a.k.a Eric Estornell) who just keeps on, keepin' on with his pretty flawless production values and steady beats with poetry samples:

Maetrik - The Poem (Original Mix)
 
And lastly ... I ended my journey of the weekend at CZ.  If you follow the blog you already know how I feel about this place so I won't bore you with that.    I'm not typically a big pop music fan, but the Beyonce ft.Jay-Z track Crazy in Love has for some reason always got me.  Part of it may be this funky disco sample that I'm sure has existed for 30+ years but sadly I only know it from that track.   Anyways short story long.... I'm having a happy birthday chat with a buddy of mine and I hear it come in.  You'll know what I'm talkin' bout!  And if by chance you happen to know where that original sample came from please use the "contact me" buttons on the blog site to let me know, cuz I'm always in search of new sample sources.  Oh... and PS... this sucka' ain't out for another 2 weeks.

Nick Corline - Kiss Me (Nick Corline Club Mix)