Claude VonStroke, Carl Craig, Robert Hood, Dennis Ferrer - THE BEACH PARTY in LIC!

The Beach Party, LIC is back for its fourth year at Water Taxi Beach in Long Island City. What initially started as a low-key, Saturday night hang at the sandy East River outpost has turned into one of the biggest parties New York has to offer.

But while luminaries of dance music like Prins Thomas and Grandmaster Flash have performed, and while the residents are New York all-stars DJ Probus, Justin Carter and Eamon Harkin (making my Water Taxi debut this summer!), the party still maintains a casual spirit and remains a great vibe. Big or small, there’s nothing like sipping a beer, having a hamburger and checking out the amazing view of the skyline in between dancing to great music.

Our special guests for 2009:

6/27 Claude VonStroke
7/4 Robert Hood
7/11 Demon Days with Carl Craig and Gamall
7/18 Lopazz Live
7/25 Andres and Kai Alce
8/1 Abe Duque
8/8 Dublex Inc.
8/15 Bobbito Garcia aka Kool Bob Love
8/22 Soundstream Live
8/29 Raoul K and Jerome Derradji
9/5 Dennis Ferrer


Water Taxi Beach
Long Island City
2nd St and Borden Ave, LIC, Queens
8PM-3AM
$5 with flyer // $10 without

www.watertaxibeach.com
www.newreleasenewyork.net/beachparty


WATER TAXI BEACH DIRECTIONS

Water Taxi: FREE Water Taxis depart from E. 34th St in midtown on a varied schedule from 9pm - 3am. Go here to check it: http://www.nywatertaxi.com
Subway: 7 train to Vernon Avenue/Jackson. Walk along Vernon Avenue to Borden Avenue, turn right. Look for signs for Water Taxi Beach.
Bus: B61 and Q103.
From PS1: Walk south on Jackson from PS1 (Take a right with the museum to your back). Right on 51st Ave. Left at 2nd St. Look for signs for Water Taxi beach on your left.

Live Set From Sunday Best

Sunday Best earned quite a reputation last year for hosting live mixes of its guests on this website. This summer we're continuing that tradition starting with a live mix from myself from last Sunday. This mix was recorded from 4.30 to 6 just as the dance floor mingle was becoming a dance floor proper and it's a suitable mix of disco and deep cuts to get the party going.

Eamon Harkin Live from Sunday Best May 24 '09

Track List
Night Flight - The Revenge
Stronger - Bim Marx
Arpeggio - Amplified Orchestra
No Way Back - Black Cock Records
Pastrami Machine - Pastrami Boys
MaBakes - C.O.M.B.I
Cadillac - The Revenge
Wax The Van (Yam Who Rework) - Arthur Russell
This Is A Lonely Beat - John Daly
Raw Cuts #3 - Motor City Drum Ensemble
Baby, Baby Baby, Aw Shucks - Ron Hardy Edits
Who Is He? (Henrik Schwarz Edit) - Bill Withers
Think Twice - The Detroit Experiment
Sliding Away (Johnny D Dub mix) - 2020 Sound System
I Exist Because Of You (Dixon's Stripped Down Mix) - Henrik Schwarz & Amamp Ondo
I Was On My Way To Hell - Guillaume & The Coutu Dumonts
I'm For Real - The Untouchables
Some Like Dream - Danny Wang
Manhassett (Foncett Vocal) - Club Ice
Let's All Chant - Michael Zager Band

Credit To The Edit - Pilooski

There's been more than a hint of backlash of late about the surge in popularity of disco edits flooding record shelves and blogs in the past year. And it can't be denied that some of the criticism is deserved. For sure it's a lot easier to knock out a quick edit now that a reel-to-reel and razor blade are not essential entry requirements and when the original track is a rare find on vinyl the motivation seems less about the reinterpretation of an old track and more about just plain old boot-legging.

When re-interpretation is properly achieved, though, the edit remains a valid art form and the true craftsmen will continue to prosper beyond the current trend as the quality of the end product holds up. And this brings me neatly on to a man called Pilooski, the special guest at the next installment of Mister Saturday Night. The Frenchman has released a consistent output of top class reinventions of everyone from the Pointer Sisters to Elvis Presley and his D-I-R-T-Y soundsystem crew (whose party I was lucky enough to play in Paris last year) released a killer compliation of wonderful cosmic, chuggy off the wall edits last year.

This coming Saturday (May 30th) Mister Saturday Night presents Pilooski at a secret loft location in Williamsburg. Full details on how to get to the party are on the flyer above. But before that here's a few words I shared with the man himself...

Its been a while since you've played in New York. What can we expect from your gig at Mister Saturday Night?

i'll be down with "the funk....", i'll play for the ladies as usual...

There's been an explosion of disco re-edits over the past couple of years. What's your thoughts and feelings on this development and do you have a view on where its going to go next?

I've been lucky enough to travel a lot lately, & people give me edits from everywhere, Lately, i've been really into the arabic, lebanese disco edits, but i've never seen the edit culture as just being disco only anyway, i mean as long as it enables you to discover new cool songs, who cares about the music genre?

Which artists or producers are doing exciting things for you in dance music right now?

There's actually a lot out there...I quite like Siriusmo from Germany, he does clever electronic music, he's very "musical", i just heard the new Joakim lp yesterday, & it's great! I also really like Yvan Smagghe & Tim Paris new project called "it's a fine line", they sent me some fantastic tracks, it's very motivating...

What have you got planned for the rest of '09?

I did a few remixes, that should be out soon, for people like Jarvis Cocker, LCD soundsystem, and a few others, some new edits will be out soon, i just finished the Discodeine lp with my friend as well as remixes to be out in september, & i'm preparing a comp for Strut in the UK...

SUNDAY BEST OPENING DAY WITH QUENTIN HARRIS THIS SUNDAY MAY 24TH

It's the opening day of Sunday Best at BKLYN Yard.

Tacos, sangria, little kids running around, trees, water, and good, good music.

Residents Doug Singer, Justin Carter, and Eamon Harkin are playing alongside soulful house maestro Quentin Harris.

If you're coming down don't forget to rsvp for $8 admission (before 4pm) to rsvp@sundaybestnyc.com or get your pre-sale tickets (also $8) at residentadvisor.net/sundaybest.

And so just so have them right in front of you, here are the vital details again.

It's good to be back!

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The Vitals
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venue BKLYN Yard, outdoors by the Gowanus Canal
address 400 Carroll St between Bond and Nevins, Brooklyn
if it rains (lets hope it doesn't!) The Bell House (around the corner)
dates Every Sunday from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend
food Tacos, Huaraches and other Latin American delicacies
booze You have to be 21 to drink it, but we’ll be selling it at the bar
ages All ages
time 3p – 9p
cover $10 // $8 before 4pm with rsvp OR $8 in advance
RSVP mailto:rsvp@sundaynestnyc.com

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Directions
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Take the F or G trains to Carroll St. South on Smith. Left on President. Right on Hoyt. Left on Carroll. Take the N, R trains to Union. West on Union. Left on Nevins. Right on Carroll. Just over the bridge. Here's a map.

TREVOR JACKSON LIVE AT PRIME TIME

I've been pestering Trevor to allow me to unleash this recording of his set at Prime Time at Studio B in February of this year. So naturally I was very excited when he gave the green light late last week and I couldn't wait to get this post up.

The mix is a typical melting pot of top drawer classic and contemporary underground cuts featuring Moodymann, Runaway, Still Going, Revenge, Soundstream, Yazoo, Throbbing Gristle amongst others. Just what you'd expect from the man.

Hope you enjoy!

Trevor Jackson Live at Prime Time vs. FIXED - Studio B February 20th 2009

SUNDAY BEST IS BACK!

We're back!!! Read all about the return of Sunday Best....

Gussie up to get down. Sunday Best—the easy-going, late afternoon, backyard barbecue cum dance party—is back for the summer of 2009. Every Sunday from May 24 to September 6 at BKLYN Yard, a leafy waterside lot on the Gowanus Canal, we’re serving up tacos on fresh-made tortillas (via the Red Hook Ballfields) with cold sangria and beers while resident DJs JUSTIN CARTER, EAMON HARKIN and DOUG SINGER play alongside some of the finest DJs to ever take on a back yard.

Our special guests...

May 24 - QUENTIN HARRIS, the master of soulful house
May 31 - MR. SCRUFF, a UK-based illustrator, tea vendor and eclectic DJ
June 7 - LUKE SOLOMON, Rekids and Cajual producer
June 14 - JUS-ED, Bridgeport, Connecticut’s finest
June 21 - RUB N TUG, crazy but true
June 28 - JUSTIN MARTIN, the dirtiest Dirtybird of them all
July 5 - LOSOUL, maker of European dance music with big nods to soul and jazz
July 12 - KYLE HALL, the 17-year-old, Detroit-based producer who's never played New York
July 19 - I:CUBE, a forefather of French house and one half of Chateau Flight
July 26 - OMAR S blows our minds every time
August 2 - MAURICE FULTON, the funkiest DJ we've ever heard
August 9 - MOTOR CITY DRUM ENSEMBLE, a young German paying homage to Detroit
August 16 - TIM SWEENEY, the ever-eclectic Beats In Space man
August 23 - THEO PARRISH, a true master playing a long set
August 30 - JUSTUS KOHNCKE, a Kompakt artist playing a live set
September 6 - DJ HARVEY, closing it out crazily and properly


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About the Residents
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EAMON HARKIN and JUSTIN CARTER are the resident DJs and masterminds of Mister Saturday Night, a big party with live music and DJs that happens at nice places to party in New York City. They also collaborate on New Release, an entity that editorializes and produces music events in New York. DOUG SINGER, one half of the brothers’brothers duo, introduced New York party people to the Water Taxi Beach some years ago with Rebound, the first post-PS1 jam to happen at the now popular summertime spot.

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The Vitals
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venue BKLYN Yard, outdoors by the Gowanus Canal
address 400 Carroll St between Bond and Nevins, Brooklyn
if it rains (lets hope it doesn't!) The Bell House (around the corner)
dates Every Sunday from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend
food Tacos, Huaraches and other Latin American delicacies
booze You have to be 21 to drink it, but we’ll be selling it at the bar
ages All ages
time 3p – 9p
cover $10 // $8 before 4pm with rsvp OR $8 in advance
RSVP rsvp@sundaynestnyc.com

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Directions
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Take the F or G trains to Carroll St. South on Smith. Left on President. Right on Hoyt. Left on Carroll. Take the N, R trains to Union. West on Union. Left on Nevins. Right on Carroll. Just over the bridge. Here's a map.