Last week Eamon and Justin sat down with Little White Earbuds’ Chris Miller to have a chat. Their full conversation can be found HERE and the mix they contributed for the 108th edition of LWE’s podcast, is just below. Enjoy.
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Looking Back on 2011: Justin Carter
The year has ended, and my existence as a DJ requires me to supply my Top Ten list. This is it in no particular order.
The Blues – I took a trip through the south this year. In Mississippi, I stopped in Clarksdale (where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil, an occasion now marked by a sad, easy-to-miss sculpture and a Church’s Chicken), and I joined the generation of middle-aged white men before me in getting into the blues.
Lucky for me, that generation has started to sell their records, and I came upon a store where someone had just dumped their entire collection, allowing me to grow my fairly paltry stock of blues records back at home into something more substantial. I’ve particularly fallen in love with Son House, whose “Grinnin’ In Your Face” I posted on the blog in October.
Gospel and Diva House – The first parties that I ever went to in New York were Body and Soul and Shelter. I also grew up in church mesmerized by a gospel singer named Eunice Mayfield. That means, of course, that I am into gospel and diva house, which I have been more than pleased to see in resurgence over the past year, starting with Omar S’s set with us back in January. It was pretty much all he played.
Looking Back On 2011: Eamon Harkin
1. Caribou – Caribou stepped onto the dance floor in 2011, and his arrival was most welcome, for it brought us a refreshingly musical and superbly produced set of 12 inch singles. His remixes for Virgo 4 and Junior Boys raised the bar and were the staples of many a Mister Saturday Night set this year. But it’s this remix of a rare African jam produced under his Daphni guise and released on his own Jialong imprint which was the stand out for me. I first heard this when he played for us back in March. It’s been in my bag ever since.
2. Four Tet – In a similar vein, Four Tet has leaned into dance music culture extending himself as a DJ and continuing to push forward with his own vinyl only 12 inch label: Text Records (strangely missing from most year end polls on best labels). Again the result is a breath of fresh air. We were extremely happy to have Kieran play the opening Mister Sunday this year (he’s back playing with us in February at 12-turn-13).
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The Mister’s New Year’s Eve
Okay, so it’s almost 2012. But before Quetzalcoatl returns to earth on a raft of snakes, let’s talk 2011. It was a lot of fun. We threw parties at night, parties during the day, parties in the rain and at least one party in space. And as the culmination of a bunch of different kinds of parties, we’ve decided to close out 2011 with our favorite kind of all: the simple kind. Simple, of course, doesn’t mean anything less than great.
We’re taking over House of Yes for Mister Saturday Night’s New Year’s Eve. If you haven’t yet joined us at House of Yes, prepare to be positively pleased. It’s got all the trappings of a great secret party space: plenty of comfortable places to sit, a nice long bar, a perfectly sized dancefloor, and nooks and corners to get a little lost in.
We’ll be bringing in the big, blue soundsystem, which has recently been tuned just for the room; Jeffrey Ralston, who installed the amazing space station at our Halloween party, will be dressing up the place special for the evening; and Justin and Eamon will be playing records all night long.
Probably best of all, though, we’re going to keep it intimate. No waiting for a drink for an hour at the bar, no standing in crazy lines at the bathroom, and no coat check debacles. Just you, us, some friends and some dancing. And a champagne toast at midnight, of course.
The catch (if you wanna call it that) is that you’ll need advance tickets to ring in the New Year with us. That way we can make sure that just the right amount of folks are inside. If you can’t make it for the ball drop, we’ll be opening the doors for everyone else at 3am, so you can still come and get down on the late end without a ticket.
No matter when, we really hope to kick the year off with you.
See you there.
A Mister Saturday Night New Year’s Eve
with residents Justin Carter & Eamon Harkin
at House of Yes / 342 Maujer St between Waterbury and Morgan, Brooklyn / Saturday, December 31st / 9p-6a
TO MAKE SURE WE KEEP THE PARTY INTIMATE, YOU NEED AN ADVANCE TICKET TO GET IN / SADLY TICKETS ARE SOLD OUT / If you want to come on the late end, we’ll open the doors to non-ticket holders at 3am for $20 if space is available / map to venue / 21+*
*Although we absolutely love to play host to our underage friends, the operators of the space make the rules. When we can, we do it all-ages, but for House of Yes, we’ve gotta keep it twenty-one and over.
A Charm
After a blast-off of a Halloween party and an atmospheric come down on November 5, we’re once again flying solo for this edition of the Mister, our third installment at House of Yes. You know what they say about third times.
Party starts at 10 and goes till it can’t go no more; beer’s on the house for the first hour; and if you send an RSVP to mister@mistersaturdaynight.com, it’ll be $10 before midnight.
And that’s that. We’ll see you at the Yes.
Mister Saturday Night with residents Justin Carter & Eamon Harkin
at House of Yes / 342 Maujer St between Waterbury and Morgan, Brooklyn / Saturday, November 19th / 10p-6a / $10 before midnight with RSVP to mister@mistersaturdaynight.com / $15 otherwise / map to venue / 21+*
*Although we absolutely love to play host to our underage friends, the operators of the space make the rules. When we can, we do it all-ages, but for House of Yes, we’ve gotta keep it twenty-one and over.