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Local Love Homeless House in Boystown? No Sea-Sickness Here The album includes several classics such as "Don't You Want My Love" by Rosabel featuring Debbie Jacobs; "Above The Clouds" and "Sexual," both by Amber; "Believe" by Murk; and "I Feel For You" by Bob Sinclar. Also found on the album are current floor-fillers "Looking For Men," another Rosabel track featuring Tamara Wallace; "Twisted" and "Automatic" by Ultra Naté; "Never" by Kristine W; and "Bleeding Love" sung not by Leona Lewis but by Jamie Knight. My fave track amidst this exceptional dance music compilation is the Twisted Dee Mix of "Chasing Cars" by Fawni. It is absolutely brilliant! While yes, these mixes will surely serve as pleasant reminders to the 3,700 passengers who were on the cruise, MOVE: Atlantis Dance 2009 will also undoubtedly please legions of dance music fans that weren't on the ship. The album is available now via online retailers and will be in stores everywhere on February 17th. |
I'm
not sure if my exhortations here this column last year had anything
to do with it, but it's nice to see the headlining DJ slots for
the monthly Nitro parties at Circuit
Night Club getting more of
a local flavor to them. DJ
Hugo got the nod back in
October, Matthew Harvat programmed the beats just last month,
and long-time Windy City favorite Teri
Bristol is set to guide the
4th Annual Ice Ball at the end of this month. I love seeing
powerhouse DJing names such as Rauhofer, Vasquez, and Moran come
to town for Nitro, but there are plenty of Chicagoans who are
just as worthy of steering this signature on-going event. Kudos
to the powers that be at Circuit for showcasing local talent.
Now it's up to the clubbers and party people in the city to
come out and support their DJing homeboys and homegirls who get
tapped for Nitro duty. 
Knuckles Halsted Street DJ residency
is a distant, and short-lived, memory. The current iterations
of Berlin and Spin can kinda help scratch that house music
itch, but dancing to "house music all night long!"
you won't experience. At this point in time, if you're in Boystown
and in dire need of the steady 4/4 beat of real house music,
your closest and best outlet is the 
mostly straight Smart Bar
on Clark Street, a long-time house haven. The line-up of DJs
here really is impressive and some of those "straight"
boys are prone to straying as both the lateness of the hour,
and total number of beers they consume, grows. <wink, wink>
As
you read this, I'll be walking around the city with a fresh tan
thanks to a week just completed on an Atlantis Events Caribbean
cruise. In conjunction with that cruise, the folks at Atlantis,
with an assist from Silver Label, produced a 2-CD continuous
mix. Called MOVE:
Atlantis Dance 2009, it is an impressive effort mixed by
London DJ Wayne G. A follow-up to last year's impressive
series debut by DJ Manny Lehman, this 2009 mix is even better
in my estimation. 
Wayne G has expertly captured the diversity
of music that is played at the various parties on the ship: Disc
1-Sunset with its cocktail sipping, T-Dance vibe; and Disc 2-
Peak Hour simmering with energy and hard tribal heat. 