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Flyers for events photographed in October 2006 appear below. A link to the associated photo album appears beneath that. 10.07.2006 Liquid Go! featuring Bassnectar, Alan Paul, CMC, Pappa Phymo, Clandestine Liquid Bar & Nightclub Lawrence, KS photos by todd & aaron 10.13.2006 phocas Disco featuring Frankie Bones, Plastic Motive, Solaris Grand Emporium Kansas City, MO photos by todd & aaron 10.14.2006 B&W Disco featuring Carl Cox Dante's Nightclub St Louis, MO photos by brian 10.21.2006 Booty Halloween IV - Pleasure and Pain featuring Heather Hart, Danny the Wildchild, Keith MacKenzie, Two Tone, Cypher, Ion, Karizma, Trevor Matthews, Shawn Harvick, Tim Clark, Ready, Nuhrii, Grant Walker, Dylan Thomas, Christopher Burdge Undisclosed Location St Louis, MO photos by brain 10.22.2006 Mr Boogety Afta Hours featuring DJ Kope On 9th between Warren & Benton St Louis, MO p

Hailing from Victoria, BC, by way of Toronto, ON, Canada, Jeff Harris aka Plastic Motive has been active in the electronic music scene for well over a decade. At the age of 27, Jeff has run 3 different production companies (Sourkee, NeXstep and Blunted By Choice), as well as two very successful weekly nights (Re-Form and Funk’N Fridaze), and has played a major role in the Canadian underground electronic music scene. Jeff began spinning under the alias Plastic Motive in 1998 and landed his first gig in little under a year. Before that he would mix cd’s and tapes at school dances and friends birthday parties. Like most DJ’s, Jeff took to music at a very young age and it was no surprise that he would aspire to share his passion with the world. From 1999 to 2005 Plastic Motive held down DJ residency spots with 6 additional production companies (ONdaFLY, Goodfellaz, Funkadelic, Impure, Embryon and 420 Pro) all in the Southern Ontario area. He describes his style as “Nu Skool Electron

Shelli Andranigian ~ Hollywood, CA - 15SEP06 - Southern California-based singer/dancer/performer Arnold G is set to release his debut CD DRIVEN: Straight to the Dance Floor, this week on A & G Records. The album covers a number of dance genres and also touches on social issues such as AIDS awareness, hate crimes and crystal meth. Arnold G has traveled much of the world, performing in Eastern Europe, the UK and Canada along with America. He started his career as a dancer and choreographer for various recording artists in Hollywood. After a decade as a dancer, he became a print-model but his love of music brought him to singing locally in nightclubs. There he found himself winning singing contests throughout California. As a performer he has been a part of shows at The White Party in Palm Springs, Knotts Berry Farm in Buena Park, California and The MGM Grand in Las Vegas. A special marketing campaign includes extensive promotion on MySpace, Internet distribution outlets and tr

Justin Kleinfeld ~ New York, NY - In the heavily male dominated DJ market, it’s rare to find a female DJ who can create a huge impact on the scene in a short amount of time. Miss Nine (AKA Kristin Schrot) has not only been able to outshine and make her presence known in such a world, but she has done so all within three years of picking up a record. With her eclectic taste in music, ranging from energetic grooves with plenty of vocals to a deeper, progressive sound, Miss Nine turns heads and moves feet any where she performs. With Yoshitoshi Ibiza, Miss Nine becomes the first female to mix a compilation for Washington-based Yoshitoshi Recordings, the world-renowned leader in all genres of dance music. Kristin Schrot began her career, not as a deejay, but as a model. At 16, she made it to the finals of one of the largest modeling pageants in Germany, and soon after secured a worldwide contract with Elite Model Management. Longing for more, her passion for music led Kristin to move

Brent Crampton ~ Omaha, Ne – A monthly dance event with world-beat music featuring DJ's Brent Crampton, Greg Jackson with live percussionist Shif-D and host, Jay Kline. Presenting an original concept in music and dance, the event is geared towards eclectic music while transcending demographics. loom will take place at Espana Tapas Bar (6064 Maple St.) on October 5, from 9 p.m. - 1 a.m., with a $5 cover charge. Community instruments will be available for dancers, and a special late-night tapas menu with drink specials. This month feature’s the loom residents on the mixing board all night long plus live Salsa and Rueda performances by Salserodalante Dancers. Salsa and Rueda? From the beat of an African drum and the summer sun-drenched landscape of Cuba came the Afro-Cuban seduction known as salsa. Much of the music at loom is directly inspired by the cultural explosion that followed in Cuba, the Barrio’s in New York, all Latin communities and eventually throughout the world.

Stacey East ~ Interview with Heather Heart ~  Heather Heart and I sat down for coffee. It was almost 4:20 and we began the interview. I was looking at a publisher, DJ, record store owner, label owner, producer, and mom. This small dynamo created the first static global forum for the underground to meet, through the only underground manual "UnderOneSky" or "UOS." "I put my entire being into the music to educate and give voice. Publishing grainy interviews from Underground Resistance to letters from Moby, UOS was the only "zine" of its kind. There was always some rage, people were very candid with me and I printed a lot of controversial letters. Record labels, DJ's and fans alike would battle on the pages of UOS. All the important record stores in England, Germany, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Holland, to name some, sold copies. The world was behind my effort. I mean this was when the scene first blossomed, just before all the politics came into

Nathan McWaters ~  Dallas, TX - 23SEPT06 - In the fickle and dynamic world that is house music, there are few who have missed the name Danny Howells in their foray into that particular genre of EDM. In fact, it could be argued that Danny Howells is a man with a penchant for redefining just what house is with every album he releases and every venue he spins at. He also has this nasty habit of being attractive to several different varieties of EDM fanatic: househeads sharing the dance floor with trancers, technoids, and prog-devils, all thrust into a veritable vortex of music that appeal to the masses on multiple levels. From his work with Bedrock, Global Underground, and Azuli, Danny has traveled the world and blown crowds away with mix sets that defy description into any particular genre, be it house, trance, or tribal. For all his work with others, he stands alone. As with what usually happens with me whenever the huge names come rolling within a 200-mile radius of Fort Hood, I h

Nathan McWaters ~ Austin, TX - 01Sep06 - Of course there would be an afterparty. In fact, there was an “Official Tiesto Afterparty” being advertised two weeks before the event itself. Anyone who is even remotely familiar with EDM’s breed of afterparty for major players in the industry should be able to smell right through that line: there was no way Tiesto was going to come off of a two-hour set in front of who-knew-how-many thousands of slavering Austinites to travel to another venue, just waiting to be jumped by those selfsame slavering throng. It simply would not do, so the promoters did the usual thing and threw up a false front for the location of the afterparty, and bait the trap with another headliner to give the screen a 3-dimensional aspect. It may have worked on some, but not everybody, and certainly not I. Fact was, I didn’t care if Tiesto showed up or not; it was the talent lineup they were already promising that caught my attention. Dave Molina and Bruce Gibbons drove

Nathan McWaters ~  Austin, TX - 01SEP06 - The heralds had proclaimed the coming of the thing long in advance: ‘Tiesto is playing in Austin’. Dutifully, I recycled that same news onto phocas.net’s forum, a sort of “Hey, guess who ELSE is coming to Texas in September?” aside note just because it’s not every day that the proclaimed #1 DJ In The World, a loaded sobriquet at the best of times, comes to visit; but then, this is also Texas, where nothing is considered to be a small affair, and whose internecine club warfare managed to book Paul van Dyk and John Digweed in two different cities on the same night in September, so perhaps it wasn’t too farfetched a thing to want to show off a bit on the phocas forum. I hadn’t actually intended to go to this, really. Tiesto, like I said, is something of a sinister name to rancorous EDMers in the States, some of it perhaps justified due to past experiences where certain expectations were not met, some of it attributed to his reputation of bei

Sometime in the mid-to-late 80s, I heard his name whispered, at times in unison with his soon to be popular Brooklyn brothers, The Beastie Boys. Word on the street was that his music held that same explosive energy and he could juggle tracks on a pair of records as if he were born for that sole purpose. Unknown then was just how far his influence would spread and how many people's lives he would touch and change forever. It began with Fourth Floor, Nugroove Records and the "Bonesbreaks Vinyls" that captured the imagination of the rapidly evolving European rave scene. Playing to 25,000 London ravers in 1989, he quickly exploded across most of Europe, reigniting a passion about dance music by adding his own unique fuel to the fire. Returning to the United States, through his series of parties in New York, Storm Rave, he unknowingly fathered a culture in this country that continues to be a source for new and innovative sounds and experiences for dance music worldwide.

As evidenced in this photo, I am quite certain that they are onto my intentions with this "photo with DJ", that I ultimately use for this column every month. Everyone jumped in on this one, and I am quite happy they did. It will always be a reminder of a good night spent with good friends in celebration of my birthday. Though John arrived late after a delay caused by United Airlines, he still played one of the best 45 minute sets that I have heard in a long time. The cover this month and the story that go with it are dedicated to a man who's reputation precedes him. The shot is actually one that I took about four years ago at a party down in the east bottoms called "Midnight Drive". Anyone that was there that night knows that Frankie can definitely lay it down and we definitely look forward to hosting him this coming Friday the 13th. In a couple of the other stories this month, we get glimpse of a very long night for our writer Nathan, down in Texa

october 2006 editor note frankie bones in KC in search of sunrise in austin kenneth thomas all night danny does dallas seven a five foot powerhouse october loom miss nine driven arnold g plastic motive on decks event photos oct.06