Wowwwwwww...........
This week has been intense! It started off with Darude and I playing a set in Clearwater, Florida. The atmosphere was cool, lade back vibe. Started off the set with some Electro Breaks, then went into some straight up bangers! I was a lil pissed, because some one bumped into my pedal board and F*d it up, so I wasn't able to do any of my songs over my beats, but it turned out regardless.
From Tampa, I went straight to Miami for the Winter Music Conference. 2nd year now. And I couldn't believe all the people that came out this year. It was up 60 percent. Man I love hearing that. More and more people are getting into Dance Music. We are blessed!!! BT and Christian Burns (formally of BBMac) met up with me and this is when things got crazy. 3 single guys in Miami!! It was like a scene out of Girls Gone Wild. HAhahah. Total frat party, playing pranks on eachother, seeing who would do the craziest thing. We started a boy band called The Jaundice Brothers.... give the face that us total white boys got seriously burned in the sun, the moment we went out. haha. Watch out Jonas Brothers we're gonna take over your teeny boppers and show them what real music is like.
Everything led up to Friday night. ULTRA!!! I was sooooo freaking stoked I couldn't take it. Got there around 4 and linked up with Shiny Toy Guns. Met them a while back, when KJ and I did a show in Tennessee. I recently became friend with Sisely, so It was great to see her f'ing own the stage and catch up on life. She pumped me up so much, I knew when we played after them, we we're gonna rip it.
Are set went OFF!!! All new music from BT. The crowd couldn't handle it. There was about 10,000 people there in the first song and as soon as the sun set a track later, there was 20,000. Insane! This year I was Flaver Flave..hahaha. Hype man extraordinaire. I beatboxed, sang a lil diddy called Simply Being Loved and did some vocal production.
This was the stupid thang... The second song from the end was cut short. The shitty monitor man. Cut off Jess in the middle of her and Brians song and after that Shiny Toy Guns, were coming back on stage to do Flaming June with us, It was going to be epic. He screwed us. But in the end, it didn't matter. The fans had there faces blown off and we had a great time. Festival gigs, never have there shit together. Oh well, maybe next year we'll just sit on stage with lap tops.... hahaha doubt it.
The whole week was crazy. Went to see some Dub step, A Sides for some Drum N Bass, Hung with Sasha and Digweed at Mansion. Met up with my friend Emily to go See my brotha DJ Dan and Quiver. Ended up running into some old raver friends from 97. This year was amazing. Miami I will see you again!
I landed in Vegas around 8pm last night to play Paul Oakenfolds - Planet Perfecto with Darude. I can't even explain to you how excited I was to play Vegas. I was on at 1am. This place went off. I get a lil nervous, because I haven't DJ'd since around 99, but I've been working my ass off and last night was the time to prove to myself, that I still had it.
Bam!!! Slayed um. I'm not one to brag, but last night was EPIC!! I might get a residency in Vegas. Fingers Crossed. Blending, singing, beatboxing and some sick electro, got me so hyped. Pictures and Video, coming soon.
Hope you are all liking the new Layout my friend Chip made. He is an amazing graphic artist and a good friend.
Oh... and I also just got into Twitter, cause BT is a freak about it. Come say hi and chat.
www.twitter.com/BlakeLewis its case sensitive.
www.facebook.com/blakelewis
I have a new track up on DJ Dan's Myspace page. Please click on him, in my top friends or head to www.myspace.com/djdanmusic old skool funky breaks.
Peace for now.
Blake