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This Thursday in SF: Deepchild
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This Thursday, March 11th, the Revival crew is taking a trip to Phonic at San Francisco’s legendary End Up to party with our friend Deepchild. Many of you were here when Revival Nightlife and Mixture brought you Deepchild @ Faces last March and, because no Sacramento club will be bringing him back this time around, we’re going to travel to the storied SF nightclub for a night of proper clubbing with Deepchild and a capable supporting cast featuring Worthy and J Philp.
The End Up (for those that don’t know) is located at the corner of 6th and Harrison in San Francisco, CA.
Italian “MASTER” Marco Carola plays Vessel, San Francisco
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Hailing from Naopli, master of all things dope in the world of dance music Marco Carola visits San Francisco for the first time in a decade! We’d love it if Sacramento could get a piece of Marco while he’s in Cali but I don’t see it happening at any of the clubs in Sac. So we make the trek to Vessel, not our favorite club in SF but easily one of the best sound systems in SF (which kind of makes it one of our favorites by default).
Yes, it is a Thursday night, and that might be rough for some Sac heads to travel to the city, party with Marco till 3 or 4 AM, and then work the next day but if there ever was a day to attempt it, Match 18th would be the day! Marco is really that good at what he does.
Thursday, March 18, 2010 ~ 10PM – 3AM
Vessel – 85 Campton Pl, San Francisco, CA
The Native Instruments Audio Kontrol 1: February’s Studio/DJ Gear Of The Month!
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Native Instruments, one of the top producers of studio gear and usable deejay-friendly club gear in the world, has released it’s newest device geared straight towards competition with EVERYONE. The Audio Kontrol 1. This sexy little unit is a complete audio & MIDI interface and doubles as a (limited) software control surface. NI also gave users the 24/192 ability (max 24 bit audio/192 khz sampling rate) for pristine audio and it comes bundled with free “lite” versions of NI’s award winning software Cubase and Traktor.
Here’s a wonderful review from Electronic Musician: NI Audio Kontrol 1
Why the early exist for Sacramento party-goers?
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Proper dance music requires proper sound. There is no way around it. It doesn’t have the be extremely loud, it has to be extremely good! The sound system is what brings quality dance music to life. It’s such an important aspect but almost entirely overlooked at 95% of clubs in Sacramento.
When the sound system is not up to par is has a defeating purpose. It sucks the life right out of the deejay, the 
dancefloor, and the party as a whole before too long. Dancefloors get lethargic and people start to leave. This may not happen with hip hop and top 40 for some reason (that’s an entirely different discussion), but it’s going to happen with house and techno if the sound system blows.
I’m tired of people blaming Sacramento, saying Sacramento sucks, and things like that. Sacramento hasn’t had a chance. There hasn’t been ONE decent Sacramento club in a decent Sacramento location, with a quality sound system to try and grow a house or techno event on a Friday or Saturday night in the last decade. Not one. And when you look around at the parties that some promoters are trying on weekends today you’ll see the same Sacramento people you’ll see at 4AM leaving Ruby Skye or 6AM at the End Up, but they are leaving the Sacramento party at 1AM. How’s that make any sense? They obviously aren’t having a good enough time at the party. There are many reasons for that and the catalyst for many of those reasons is the sound system. It is as important as any element of a good party.
These shitty Sacramento sound systems are sucking the life out of the deejays and the dancefloors and it’s really too bad. The good news is things seem to be changing. Clubs like MiX Downtown, Blush Ultralounge, and The Press Club now have fantastic sounds systems and are doing proper dance music events on Thursdays AND weekends!
Sat 2/6/10, Dirtybird SF Rising Star J Phlip Plays Sacramento with Revival Nitelife
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Making her return to Sacramento will be Miss Dirtybird J. Phlip. Some of you were fortunate enough to see her back in October at Lounge On20 when she was literally knocking the bottles off the wall!!! You definately don’t want to miss her this time around. This event will be the day after the Dirtybird 5 Year Anniversary Party so let’s help Jess celebrate Sacramento style!!!
Opening set by Gavin Varitech
(Revival Nightlife)
Since we last posted this you’ve helped Gavin get almost 50 more votes! Yet he still needs more. In order to qualify the DJ needs a minimum of 200 ratings (and then then top 100 entrants with the highest average rating go to the next round), Gavin is sitting at 189, we need to get him at least 11 more 5 star ratings by Sunday!!!
It is very easy to vote. Takes 10 seconds and doesn’t require registration. All you have to do is click the link and then the 5 STARS. Add your e-mail address and you are done. You’ve never spent 5 seconds that was so valuable to someone else in your life! LOL
DJ Mag Pool party at the Shelbourne in Miami (help a Sac boy get the gig)…
Posted by: | CommentsRecession Session part 2, the DJ Mag pool party at the Shelbourne going down during the Winter Music Conference in Miami. Local techouse DJ, Gavin Varitech, has a chance to be there and play along side of superstar club idols like Dubfire, Jooris Voorn, Steve Lawler, James Zabiela, Nic Fanciulli, and Dennise Ferrer. Here is the link to the party info.
To help Sacramento REPRESENT in Miami this March check this link to give Mr Varitech 5 stars in the contest. It’s real easy, only takes about 10 seconds to vote. But feel free to give the mix a listen too. It’s a real party rokcer!!!
CLICK HERE TO VOTE!!!
Fri Jan 22nd, Blue Collar Ent 5 Year Anniversary Party
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If there is a reason to be in San Francisco this weekend this is it! Check out the Blue Collar Entertainment 5 Year Anniversary Party @ Mighty! Robag Wrhume (Wignomy Brothers), Diz, Nikola, [a]ppendix shuffle, Worthy, & Sammy D at the same event??? Yes please.
Jan 22nd, 2010 @ Mighty – 119 Utah St – San Francisco, CA 94103
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J Phlip in Sacramento
Posted by: | CommentsOn Feb 6th Sukh Banwait and Revival Nitelife present San Francisco’s rising star J Phlip from Dirtybird Records! Here is all the info on the event and J Phlip herself…
Sukh Banwait Presents:
J Phlip
J Phlip on Resident Advisor
Event page on Facebook
We hope to see all of your smiling faces there and to make things even sweeter Revival Nitelife has a 100% FREE guestlist for this night as well.
LIMITED GUEST LIST ENTRY BEFORE 11:00PM EMAIL:
jphliplist@revivalnitelife.com
Please include the full names of each person attending
(you will receive a confirmation email)
Guest List entries must be in by 3PM Saturday
Limited guestlist available or $10 at the door
Vote for a Sacramento artist to represent in the Let’s Mix NGDJ Competition!!!!
Posted by: | CommentsOur friend and Sacramento party rocker Gavin Varitech needs your help to acquire at least 200 votes in the Next Generation DJ contest being sponsored by Pioneer DJ, DJ Magazine, Beatport.com, and Letsmix.com. Part one of the competition is to record a mix and promote it to the best of your ability through social media, e-mail marketing, ect.
So far fans and friends of Mr Varitech have given him 127 votes since he entered the contest just three weeks ago. But he needs more. The qualify an entrant needs at least 200 ratings (and then then top 100 entrants with the highest average rating go to the next round) so we need to help him get 73 more votes by the January 31st.
Luckily it’s REEEAAALLLLLLLLYYYYYYYY easy to vote. It takes all but a few seconds and doesn’t require registering or signing up for the website. All you have to do is click the link and click on the 5 STARS. Then put in your e-mail address and you’re done. No confirmation e-mails are sent. No e-mails are sent to you at all actually. We think they just ask for the address to curb cheating. The info and the mix is below. Please help make sure Sacramento is represented in this contest. Our friend Gavin has a real chance of winning if we send him to the final round!!!
VOTE HERE!!!!
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