So, a couple of days and many hours of thoughts later, I am ready to share my views of the evening. Leading up to this party I was certain that its reception would be with discomfort at best, and at worst absolute rejection. As it turns out, the result was somewhere in between.
There was a bit of a problem with ravers not being sure what was being handed to them. This event, while very raveish to coin a term, was not an ACTUAL rave. It took elements of rave, industrial, IDM, and other cultures and mashed them all together with live acts to become the show it was. Ravers in Phoenix are VERY resistant to change, and if you’re not giving them the same party with the same DJs playing the same tracks in the same sort of venue week after week, they’ll turn their backs on you quickly. I like to, with the events I throw, or my partners and I throw, try to introduce the ravers to new concepts or new music that can eventually become part of their weekly intake. The decision to do this for the entire duration of an event without any of “the usual suspects” to fall back on, in retrospect, may have been a poor one. It was my honest hope that the party kids out here would be willing to expand their minds a little bit and try something new. A few people have agreed with me when I said, “I am disappointed in our ravers.” Please take into account, this is ONLY in regard to the INTEREST in the event. The older and more seasoned EDM crowd showed GREAT interest in the idea and its execution. The actual attendance needs to be addressed with 2 factors in mind.
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I’m posting this from foursome, Cik’s birthday party at area phoenix. So far things are shaping up towards awesomeness. I took delivery of 5000 flyers yesterday for no fucking records… major problem though… the printing company printed the wrong resolution file. The front is a lil grainy and the color is off a tad, and the back while still legible in most parts is kinda atrocious. They’re going to reprint them for free and let me keep the screwed up batch which means theres going to be almost 10,000 flyers in the wild for this event. Here’s hoping that kind of promotion will fill a lot of space. I’m honestly a lil nervous. The party itself is going to rock with the insane interactive visuals and lasers but a lot of the ravers in phoenix don’t know the names on the lineup and may not show because the usual gang of djs aren’t booked for it. I’ve heard promoters say it over and over that you try to give the kids something awesome and new and they leave you out to dry for it…. I really hope I can prove them wrong with this event. Ill have more event details posted shortly as well as a review of foursome which has gotten more awesome as I’ve been writing this. oh yeah by the way, atomic babies are going to tear it up so bring some extra underpants because you may just poop yourself.
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So for a long time ClixBagofTricks has been a one man operation. I have the group of helpers and stuff I’ve thanked in the other post but I’ve pretty much done things solo. Anyways, I’ve had a rather ecclectic group of talent I’ve booked for my events and some other promoters have expressed interest in booking them. I’ve arranged a few in and out of state bookings for a few of my pals and I figure if I’m going to continue to do so I may as well form an affiliation sort of thing. Any ideas? good or bad plan? fill me in.
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