HempFest 2006

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This was the view from the DJ Tent. This between sets -- unfortunately for DJ Jimmini Cricket, it was a bit hot. She was playing in direct sunlight, and her records were warping badly.
Michael Manahan moved the table in a bit, so i could play in the shade.

wow....

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I just played my best event in close to three years -- Flowmotion's 6th Annual Summer Meltdown. It is a *huge* hippie hoe-down, to the tune of nearly 50 Jam Bands. Erik Moore, founder and head of Boogie Universal, brought a dance dome last year, and was invited back to program and run a dance tent.
Not just a tent, THE tent: 9,000 sq ft, holding over 600 people.

Here's some pics:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dj_diem/sets/72157594237108139/

The pic above is my aforementioned set--this was my view. Erik booked me for the 4:30 am slot, but as chance would have it all dj's by the name of Brandon failed to show (ha!) and Alex's (Ursula 1000) plane was late. Erik came over, and asked me if I was willing to play early. I said "Let me get this straight: You want to have the March 4th Marching band lead in close to 600 people in this tent direct from the headline hippie band of the night, play right after KJ Sawka's live drum and bass set, with a full tent? Umm.....sure *grin* "
Erik smiled back, and the night begun. Later the security guy said he counted over 600 people, with close to another 100 outside who couldn't get in.

The set went flawlessly, and was nothing short of insane. The next morning I saw the roof of the tent, and it was wet. I asked Erik what it was, and he said it was condensation -- from dancing.

Yeow.

I got to meet and camp with Etienne (Rithma from OM records), who is a funny guy. Check out his ass in my pics...Anywho, I am playing Hempfest this Saturday (thank to Michael Manahan).

Escape from werk!

A quick escape to get coffee, aka the nectar of the gods.

This past weekend in Bellingham

Heres the girlfriend and i at a friends house this past weekend. The times were golden.

The beginning...or the end?

So the time has come, and this is just the beginning. For years I swore off blogging, but now I bought a phone (european sony ericcson, because American models of euro phones are weakened for some reason) that has a 2MP camera *in it*, and can email directly from the phone both pics and text. So now that technology has caught up.....I will begin.

So I've been resistant to blogs for years, but this one won't be one of those lame whiney journals of life, where people can backstab and mention initials (OMG! Like did you see what T.F. was wearing? She looked like such a ho!). I'm a rather positive person, and this will be my journey. That and i'm gigging a lot, and after 13 years of dj'ing I think a nice record of all these gigs might be a nice idea -- lest I forget how much fun I was having ;-).

I am in progress of doing a HUGE revamp of my website, with the fabulous Clara Todd (www.claratodd.com) as the back end developer. Part of the will be this site revamp wil be this blog. Yay...and shit.