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Flyers for events photographed in November 2005 appear below.   A link to the associated photo album appears beneath that. 11.01.2005 True Tuesdays featuring J Fortune, Jon NuSkool, phocas, dj oe Balanca's Kansas City, MO photos by joe 11.02.2005 Wednesday Perk featuring  Miss Michaela, Sara, Lee, Arrhythmia, and resident cQuence Cup & Saucer Kansas City,MO photos by joe 11.04.2005 Frisky featuring Jeff Bloom, Trevor Matthews, and residents ...  Kabal Restaurant & Nightclub Kansas City, MO 11.05.2005 Essential Saturdays featuring David McGlothlin, and residents Steve Thorell & Eric Sheridan Grand Emporium Kansas City, MO photos by shaun 11.05.2005 u:Move Saturdays featuring Micro & Tony Markham Kabal Restaurant & Nightclub Kansas City, MO 11.07.2005 Music, Sex, & Cookies featuring DJ oe & resident Jon NuSkool News Room Kansas C...

on decks w/ Jack & Jill One of the newest sounds in Kansas City is coming from the house duo, Jack & Jill. This tag team knows how to pack a house. "We met on the dance floor and moved it to the decks." Jack & Jill started their adventures together in November 2004. The clever name was formed around the two members; Brent Higginbotham (Mr. Nuro) and Amanda Pate (AmJanda). Currently, they hold a residency at one of the hottest Friday House nights in Kansas City, Propaganda @ Jilly's on Broadway. Brent (Jack) started playing records in 2000 and within a year was playing at various events around town. He has held down a few other residencies and has opened for many big names. Most recently, he placed 1st in the phocas DJ Battle - House Night and took 3rd overall in the Finals. Brent's sound started with bass-driven deep house and has progressed over the years. Now you can catch him throwin' down classic Chicago cuts blended with the newest acid hou...

by Justin Kleinfeld If you dig deep enough in some underground videotape trading circles you can find a tape from back in 1999 of William Flegal aka Stunt Rock performing in a band called "Meat." He can be seen slashing himself with razor blades, urinating in cups and drinking them, smashing computer monitors on his head, all while a band plays mediocre Black Sabbath covers and Dan Doormouse shoves meat up his bum. Perhaps the tape was just a product of Midwest boredom and youthful ambition, but whatever the case, let us introduce you to the confusing and zany world of Stunt Rock, the most legendary, reclusive, and talked about artist to rise from the ashes of the Midwest-USA Breakcore scene. Stunt Rock built his career on countless spray-painted CDR's given away at shows in a drunken stupor. A total disregard for sequencing and obsession with samples gave way to a reputation as the new "punk rock" of the electronic scene in the Midwest. Addressing the ...

by Justin Kleinfeld ~ On November 15, 2005 Star 69 Records presents Saeed Younan’s debut artist production album, Saeed Younan Re-Mixed. As a top international DJ and producer, Saeed Younan has developed into a true artist of the global dance scene. Carving a sound all his own, Younan seamlessly blends house, techno, tribal, and percussive grooves with building momentum, making him a favorite among club goers as well as promoters. Much more than just another house music compilation, Saeed Younan Re-Mixed features every tool in this talented DJ / producer / remixers repertoire. Not only is the disc packed to the hilt with Younan’s in demand original productions and remixes, but it also displays his skills behind the decks. The track selection here is impeccable, including such standouts remixes of BPT’s “Moody,” Star 69 Records’ release of Saeed’s remixes of Club 69 “Warm Leatherette” and Suzanne Palmer “Sound Of The Drums,” Saeed’s brand new 2005 remix of CELEDA “The Underground” ...

by Betty Kang ~  The next project from one of electronic music’s most prolific artists, Richie Hawtin, is due out November 1 via novamute/Minus. Titled DE9: Transitions, it’s part of his DE9 series that started with Decks, EFX & 909 (1999) and was followed by DE9: Closer to the Edit (2001). With the use of new recording advances and automation techniques, Hawtin uses his new-found freedom to expose a new area of the mix--that of the "transition." Realized in 5.1 surround sound and using the latest recording technology to create an immersive sonic experience, DE9: Transitions encompasses 95 minutes of altered perception. Hawtin has used Abelton Live and ProTools software to strip apart, and then reassemble, his component tracks to make completely new pieces of music, combining multiple elements simultaneously into a constantly shifting collage of sound. Technique aside, DE9: Transitions is a powerful and compelling trip. To fully maximize the apprehension of this con...

by Troy Gilmore ~ San Francisco legendary pioneer DJ DRC is taking the Electronic Music Industry by storm. With her Mixed Album "Undefined" in the works and a list of releases on IMIX, Vision Music, Off World, Merge, Twin Soul, Ovum and her own label Undefined Musik, DRC equivocates the expeditious pace of her new stomping grounds. Her original music is also featured in two movies, “Vision of Vibe” with Carl Cox and “Intellect” featuring Paul Van Dyk and many others. DRC’s latest blockbuster single "Seeker" can be heard on the Spankee clothing line web site. Currently DRC is undertaking a whirlwind tour supporting this recent blockbuster release. With all this under her belt and more, it is obvious DRC has already had her finger on the pulse of the Worlds Dance music scene. DRC strives to interpret the diversity of our world through her music. It is hard to believe that such groundbreaking talent was spawned in a small town, in a state famous for it’s potatoes....

by Shelli Andranigian ~ Los Angeles, CA - Remix Hotel, a technology and music driven event courtesy of Northern California-based Remix Magazine, will make it's first Southern California appearance when Musicians Institute (MI) in Hollywood plays host November 4 - 6, 2005. A pre-registration event and DJ set on Friday kicks off the three days of free access to total technology immersion. Numerous sponsors have already signed up for Remix Hotel Los Angeles, including Akai, Alesis, Allen & Heath, Apple, Digidesign, Edirol, Line 6, Mackie, M-Audio, Music Marketing, Numark, Pioneer Pro DJ, Propellerhead, Obedia, Rane, Serato, Stanton and Universal Audio. "Los Angeles is a key market for young and up-and-coming music producers, DJs and musicians," said Remix Magazine's Associate Publisher Joanne Zola. "We are excited to bring the Remix Hotel to their backyard! In addition to Musician Institute's 1300 active students plus alumni, we are expecting record c...

by Betty Kang ~ photo by Misha Vladimirskiy ~  San Francisco, CA - Love was in the air on Saturday, September 24th for the second annual Loveparade San Francisco. On this day, 89,000 participants joined together in an alliance of music and diversity. The spectacular weather provided an ideal setting for Loveparade San Francisco. Twenty four floats paraded down Market Street, the city’s main thoroughfare, for the procession. The marching line-up was comprised of large floats, art cars, dancers, performers and costumed participants, all championed by crowds stretching through the heart of downtown San Francisco. The parade culminated in an all day festival at Civic Center Plaza where more than 200 DJs performed. Participants gathered to observe, dance and listen to the diverse spectacle of electronic music and creative pageantry. “This year’s Loveparade far exceeded our expectations in terms of the enthusiastic crowd, orderly conduct and cooperation with the City of S...

by Chris Milbourn ~  photo courtesy of MinaCapa Productions ~  As one of the most anticipated DJ's in the Midwest, Lady Espina has the curious and investigative nature that breeds new and perhaps foreign concepts behind the decks. A youthful zing allows her to genuinely enjoy perfrming live and in stere-ere-o. And to you ladies who aspire to spin records...listen up. Lady Espina is a dreamer, and I draw the notion that she's not completely content, which is a good thing. Taken from her own web site, Espina says "Never stop believing." She has aspirations to record a new studio mix with the integration of Final Scratch, MP3's and vinyl before the new year. Bogged down at the moment with work and more work, she relishes the looming new year in which she will be able to "experiment with production here and there, and this area of my life will grow soon as well," and she adds "I hope to DJ and produce more in the spring when my work and school sch...

by Chris Milbourn ~  photo by todd ~  DJ Adam Jay’s musical tastes have evolved in a way that some can agree with, but not all. Growing up with DJ’s and musicians in his own family spurred his passion for music at a young age. At just 16, he spun at the world-famous East Town Theatre in Detroit and never looked back. Since then, record labels Primate and Primevil have allowed him to flourish as a DJ and highly regarded producer among the techno massive from coast to coast and across a couple oceans. Even when Carl Cox plays he almost always lays down some of Adam’s original wax. So tell me, how did you get into DJing and producing? Well my sister was a college radio DJ when I was a young teenager. She played a lot of industrial stuff and that kind of spurred me onto listening to industrial - which lead me onto techno. Djing was a natural evolution, as that’s the most common way to perform, but also to hear the new stuff you needed a turntable as it was all vinyl. And I...

story & photos by todd ~ graphic art by Chrissy Laing ~ This is a fictional account, based on the facts of the disaster at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Facility. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. :P USSR - Officials stated in a report today, that at roughly midnight, in preparation for testing, power levels on a reactor at one of their Nuclear Power Facilities had been decreased to 720 MW(t) and continued to be reduced to 500 MW(t) over 30 minutes. Control was transferred from the local regulating system to the automatic regulating system, but either the operator failed to give the signal to hold power at required levels or the regulating system failed to respond to this signal, leading to an unexpectedly rapid decrease in power to 30 MW(t). Spokesman for the plant indicated that in response, the operator retracted a number of control rods in an attempt to restore the power level. Within 30 minutes, the reactor power had risen to 200 MW(t) and, as part o...