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Flyers for events photographed in September 2006 appear below. A link to the associated photo album appears beneath that. 09.01.2006 A Special Night at the Grand Emporium featuring DJ True, Amjanda, Mr Nuro Grand Emporium Kansas City, MO photos by aaron 09.01.2006 Enlightenment - The Sudan Project featuring Sexy If You're Maladjusted, Fire for Effect, Drew 6, Blackout Gorgeous, Anvil Chorus, Solaris, Bucho, phocas, c-Vaughn Balanca's Kansas City, MO photos by aaron 09.01.2006 In Search of Sunrise 5 CD Release Tour featuring Tiësto, Kenneth Thomas, Sean Carnahan Austin Music Hall Austin, TX photos by nathan 09.02.2006 The Official Tiësto After-Party & 10-10s Birthday Bash featuring Kenneth Thomas Location Unknown Austin, TX photos by nathan 09.02.2006 Saturday Inferno featuring unknown Dante's St Louis, MO photos by brian 09.03.2006 La Bonne Musique Lounge

Welcome to the new world of Mid-Evil beginning here on phocas.net with the arrival of Aldrin The Great's New original Progressive Drum & Bass ALbum entitled Imagination. In this his 3rd Album He pulls upon his life long experiance as a musician and his years of DJ skills to combine them with his love for electronic music and drum & bass creating a new sound all his own. When asked why he changed his stage name he replied "I found out there was annother DJ out there with the name DJ Aldrin. I thought I had come up with an original name when I took it on back in 2000 but I guess not. So now since I perform Live PA I wanted to have a new name for that anyway. So, I asked a few friends what I should change my name to and ended up going with Aldrin the Great. I still get the name recognition I worked so hard to achieve and dont have to worry about using some other DJs name." To co-enicde with the launch of his new album here his website, MidEvilRecords.com has als

Brent Crampton ~ Omaha, Ne – Notorious for being one of the best events of the summer, catch the Labor Day-Eve annual boat party: SoundWaves 7. Happening on September 3, the pre-dock party begins at 8 p.m., and the boat sails from 10 p.m. – 2 a.m. on the River City Star boat, at 151 Freedom Park Road. Tickets for sale online at www.ultramusique.com. Buy now because this will be a sold-out event! This year features three levels of music with three distinct atmospheres. The top deck features deep house, organic vibes, star-lit skyscapes and breeze-blowing from the troposphere. The line-up includes the Summer Drum duo in their last summer performance – Brent Crampton and Shif-D the percussionist, a rare CD release performance by LJ with free mix CD give-aways, and guest appearance by New Mexico’s top DJ – Chrystalline. The Main floor features big-room vibes and big-booming sounds with Lincoln’s top break beat DJ – Chief, a Progressive House set by KC promoter – Nology – a tricked-

Justin Kleinfeld ~ With the recent release of critically acclaimed artist albums from lostep, Sissy and The Remote and a fabulous ten year anniversary compilation, Global Underground is on a role. Capitalizing on this momentum, the next release for Global Underground’s fledgling GU Music artist imprint is Dark Globe’s much anticipated artist album Nostalgia For The Future. This eclectic release features collaborations with Amanda Ghost, Boy George, Television’s Tom Verlaine, Julie Thompson, Imogen Andrews, and more. Much like the previous releases on the GU Music, Dark Globe carves out a style that doesn’t sound like what anyone else is currently doing musically. While the base is centered on a blend of downtempo, breaks and pop, the thing that really sets Dark Globe apart from other electronic based acts is their songwriting. These songs aren’t to be considered beats and rhythms made for the dance floor – that doesn’t do this album any justice. Rather, the songs are structured t

Nathan McWaters ~ photos by joe & todd ~ Let me see your booty bounce! If any single sentence sums up the evening of the 11th of August at the Grand Emporium in Kansas City, Missouri, I think that one covers it. This was the first club, first set, and first event I’ve ever attended in the Midwest. Up on leave from Fort Hood and visiting “yon olde pal” David McGlothlin before my next tour in Iraq, it seemed the thing to do to not blow off phocas bringing in DJ Monk as the headliner for what was promised to be an evening of eclecticism the likes of which are seen by few yet spoken of often. I had very few expectations for this, since I knew little to nothing about Monk except for the work he’d done with Rabbit In The Moon, so I decided on the outset to throw out any kind of preconceived notion of how this might go down and just roll with it as it came. That was probably wishful thinking on my part, because while I may not have had expectations, I most certainly had desires. I

Mike Zelezak ~ The split-level Club Hide warehouse at Seventh and Folsom on Saturday venue is usually a no-frills, rock and punk venue, but the booking agents embrace variety a few nights per month. On July 29, drum and bass artists bucked their typical back/side-room status to take over the club’s cavernous main room. The freeform interpreters of the woofer-dependent genre were fenced off from the audience by equipment in a restricted petting-zoo of lyricists. MC Child visibly struggled with the stage layout and was meek compared to his more experienced peers who sung later in the evening. This initial disconnect with the audience was unusual for such a small venue, but chivalrous DJs assisted ladies to mount the amps post-medianoche. Not unnoticed, a mostly female contingent dominated the club thus kicking the stereotype of a male-dominated jungle night. One of the night’s attendees, Debbie, appreciated the steady build of MC-vigor throughout the night as the venue reached fir

Kansas City - Friday, September 8, 2006 - ~phocas~ and Disco Productions proudly present the third installment in their concert series featuring some of best acts in the Dance Music Industry! Following the huge success of Nigel Richards and Monk of Rabbit in the Moon, this third event will be a very special engagement with internationally acclaimed West Coast Breaks pioneer, John Kelley! Last appearing at the first Chaos Theory party, the dance floor swelled with thousands of dancers, all grooovin to his signature "Desert Breaks". Breaking out of the Desert, he will be coming immediately following his performance at this year's Burning Man Festival in Nevada. In the more intimate setting of the Kansas City's First House of Music, the Grand Emporium this will be a rare opportunity for Kansas City to witness a true legend up close and personal. For those that love to dance, this will be a night of musical beauty and genius that will be remembered for a very l

For the cover this month, I dipped back into the archives for a shot that I got of John Kelley over three years ago at Chaos Theory. Of course, I had to play with it a little in Photoshop because it really wasn't all that fabulous. It really wasn't all that clear either, but it was the best I had and it actually turned out interesting enough. I really am looking forward to his return next week as I know many others are too! An event that also heralds another birthday for me, it has been entirely too long since he was in Kansas City. As well, it had been for Monk, pictured here with me. Aaron grabbed this shot at the end of the night last month, while we stopped to talk for a minute and caught our breath after his fantastic performance which kept people dancing for hours! Elsewhere in Kansas City this month, Kyle Pound made a special appearance to a disappointingly thin crowd, much the same as it was for big-name DJ Steve Porter just last week at the Voodoo Lounge. Eve

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