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How Much Is The Best Wedding DJ Vancouver Services | DJing.ca

If you’ve been invited to several weddings so far in your life, then you know how exciting they can be. They’re a celebration of new beginnings and a time to have fun with friends and family. However, if you have the bride or the groom, this can add pressure on top of the excitement. The wedding day is something that everyone involved will remember forever. So, it’s important to make sure that it’s everything that the bride wants it to be.

#Wedding DJ #DJ Services #DJ Vancouver

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Gallery: HYO @ Harbour Event & Convention Centre - Vancouver, BC Date: November 2, 2023 Photographed by: Timothy Nguyen

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#Timothy #Timothy Nguyen #PRmusic #PRphoto #HYO #Harbour Event & Convention Centre #Harbour Event Centre #Harbour Event and Convention Centre #Vancouver #yvr #Music #live music #Hyoyeon #Kim Hyo-yeon #dj hyo #Hyoyeon Kim #Girls' Generation #Girls Generation #Lion Heart #I Got a Boy #Forever 1 #Run Devil Run #효연 #F7 #F7 Entertainment

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Actor/Writer/Director James Roday Rodriguez sits down with DJ to talk about co-writing the series finale of A Million Little Things together. Hear these two friends talk about a five year collaboration that culminated in this very special episode. And a fart joke.

#a million little stories #james roday rodriguez #dj nash #The Finale Part 1 #podcast #audio #hmmm i wonder what that pilot was james ran the writers room for #also ofc James tried to run a show (probably in LA) and have a main acting gig in vancouver at the same time #unnamed pilot

[mcforwhatiam]

Beastie Boys at Lollapalooza in Vancouver, 1994, by Dustin Rabin, via Instagram

#beastie boys #mca #ad-rock #mike d #dj hurricane #lollapalooza #ill communication #1994 #dustin rabin #shared to stories #Vancouver

[losersroom]

the vancouver cucks. is this anything.

#disclaimer i like vancouver and want them to kill edmonton badly #dj at rogers place playing a dance remix of smoke on the water. most Hockey Music shit ive ever heard

[musicdailymix817]

Seven Lions feat. Vancouver Sleep Clinic - Call On Me

#seven lions #vancouver sleep clinic #call on me #music video #music #new music #top #dj #radio

[chronicxwanderlust]

“Is there, like, a specific wine you’d maybe recommend for an awkward family dinner?”

Judging by the look the liquor store cashier fixed Sawyer with, she was not the first to have asked. It offered some relief, at least. “Vodka.”

“Right, yup. Thought so.” Her head nodded, not needing directions towards the appropriate aisle. She didn’t think there’d be enough alcohol in the world to get her through tonight, the first time the entire family had been together in...God knows how long. Sawyer loved her family, she did--had missed them more than she thinks they realize, which she knows she’s partly to blame for, but there’s no denying that in recent years, there’d been some tension amongst them that didn’t exactly make this a happy family reunion.

What kind of vodka went best with that? Her head lifted from surveying her options to ask, only to find that she wasn’t alone in the aisle. The sudden presence startled her, but not as much as the realization of just who it was standing there in front of her. 

“...DJ?”

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#thread #sinsoakedsaints #muse: sawyer harris #opposite: dj thompson #sawyer + dj 001 #v: vancouver

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#vancouver dj #dj service #DJ hire #dj vancouver

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A Journey Through the Shadows: From Endtroducing….. to Action Adventure 

Exploring the evolution of DJ Shadow, his latest album and last months Vancouver show

Every artist follows a different journey in the pursuit of creativity but Josh Davis (aka DJ Shadow) has taken a truly unique and personal route by digging, editing and slowly crafting his way into focus in a way that had never been done before, using the work of others to create an entirely new sound. Having emerged from record store basements with sample-only bedroom productions and subtle but ear catching-ly emotive MPC edits, Davis defined a trip hop adjacent instrumental electronic hip hop sound as the flagship import and breakout artist for James Lavelle’s fledgling UK label Mo Wax. 

The track that caught Lavelle’s attention, a 1996 scratched up Shadow edit of Zimbabwe Legit encapsulates the sound he would go on to define with brash hip hop drums, eerie backing melodies, off key heart-string-tugging chords and comedy album sketches all mashed together in a pastiche of reference points that draw you in for a distinctive sensory ride.  

Since that release his output has seen a number of iterations and stylistic changes but grounded in an authenticity of spirit with Shadow refusing to be pigeonholed, choosing instead to define his own journey as an artist. 

Last month DJ Shadow returned to Vancouver for the first time in 7 years to showcase his latest offering, Action Adventure. In this piece I will explore his journey to this point, details of the show and delve into this latest release. 

'Endtroducing…..' expectations and the emerging from the shadows

There is often a hint of expectation from fans, myself included, when a DJ Shadow release is announced. Will he return to the deep, personal, introspective and sample cloaked 'Endtroducing.....' formula showcased on his seminal debut album that we all fell in love with? As time goes on I have come to accept that Davis is not somebody who looks backwards or feels that he is in service to the masses in that way. He once joking said ‘Fuck em’ when asked will the fans appreciate his stylistic changes post 'Endtroducing.....', but anyone who follows Shadow knows that he is deeply committed to searching for the most meaningful and truest expression of the culture, and sincerely and generously connecting with the fans who support his work. 

It may not be what we want, but it is who he is, and as time goes on it is what I am beginning to appreciate most about him and other artists who have followed this model (see Andre 3000’s recent left turn for example). It is this very approach that led to 'Endtroducing.....' after all, at a time when sampling was akin to stealing. A commitment to chasing what feels most true, new and innovative.  

On reflection, the nostalgia that surrounds 'Endtroducing.....' seems more like a longing for the feeling it evoked for any fan then a realistic outcome. The cords from 'Entroducing......' classics like ‘Building Steam with a Grain of Salt’ struck deeply. It felt like the album belonged to the introverts and night owls who longed for an emotional feeling or connection to music that can be found through the carefully selected samples, collaged to create a beautiful tapestry of sound. We were all experiencing ‘Midnight in a Perfect World’. 

Everyone has their own connection to the 'Endtroducing.....' record. For me it brings me back to the early Limewire and Myspace era, stumbling through Allmusic genres and file downloads in the wild west of the internet as downloading MP3’s became the new crate digging. My dormant, incubated appreciation for 'Endtroducing.....' was released a few years later when I heard it playing at a hostel in San Francisco and fell in love with it all over again and it has never really left my musical psyche since.  

UNKLE and authenticity

Post-Endtroducing, Davis continued to work from London and went on to collaborate with Mo Wax’s James Lavelle on the UNKLE project. The highly anticipated ‘Psyence Fiction’ album drew in a host of incredible names from Thom Yorke and Richard Ashcroft to Mike D from the Beastie Boys in a cartoonish, hip hop led, stylish, super group, hidden behind the two UNKLE characters and laying the blueprint for Gorillaz and other mythical groups. 

Shadow infamously left UNKLE shortly after the release with Lavelle requesting writing credits on the Shadow produced tracks and the two seeming to grow apart. Shadow preferred to concentrate on his own projects and collaborations with artists from his Quannum collective (affiliated with artists like Lateef the Truth Speaker, Blackalicious and Souls of Mischief who I recently profiled for their 30th anniversary Vancouver show) whom he felt he was neglecting by focusing on UNKLE. The story is covered well (albeit from Lavelle’s perspective) in The Man from Mo Wax documentary and the two have since buried the hatchet with Shadow performing at Lavelle's UNKLE Meltdown exhibition/festival in Southbank London.

Since leaving UNKLE, Shadow has gone on to release numerous solo albums primarily exploring the fusion of electronic and hip hop sounds, even splitting these genres across two albums on his 2020 release ‘Our Pathetic Age’. Until now I haven’t engaged deeply with his modern back catalogue, apart from a dip in and out for each new release and finding a standout track here and there. Having re-engaged with his work for a radio show celebrating his history I have found a golden thread and a new appreciation for the artist, music and man that is DJ Shadow. 

DJ Shadow returns to Vancouver Vogue 

Shadow’s live show has seen an evolution similar to that of his production career over my lifetime. My first Shadow experience, discounting a Shadow-less UNKLE show in 2007, was his incredible Shadowshepre Orb tour in a hotel function room in Galway back in 2011 where I was lucky to be handed one of a few mix CDs from Shadow himself (I hope it will turn up in a storage box some day!). I also attended the London ‘Mountain Will Fall’ tour in 2016 in service of the heavy electronic soundscape album of the same name which remains one of my favourite modern Shadow outputs.    

So on to this show. After a fast paced warm up from Holly which put the Vogue Theatre sound system through the motions, DJ Shadow took to the stage to a warm and appreciative reception. He gave a brief intro in which he thanked fans, asked people to be respectful of those looking for a phone free experience and acknowledged how privileged he was to be playing his first North American show in 7 years. 

Shadow opened with blade runner style graphics over his ‘Slingblade’ track from 2019’s ‘Our Pathetic Age’ double album. Track names were helpfully displayed over visuals throughout the show with a pre-set backing mix which Shadow scratched, and even drummed, over throughout using an electronic drum set that sat above his Pioneer DJ setup.

Shadow moved through a number of tracks from this era, dropping in some earlier edits such as an unrecognizable ‘Scale it Back’ production with Little Dragon, rarely tapping into 90’s or even early 00’s materials in keeping with his commitment to pushing things forward. There were some exceptions with UNKLE’s Richard Ashcroft collaboration ‘Lonely Soul’ receiving a strong reception and mixing nicely back to ‘C.O.N.F.O.R.M.’, a song featuring clever raps depicting the modern experience of technology and social media from a selection of Quannum artists. 

The standout moment for me was the dropping of the weighty ‘Juggernaut’ accompanied by striking visuals of dandelions and deserts in keeping with the deep, heavy drum patterns. Similar soundscapes and tracks were paired with some of Shadows' slower, high production value tracks such as ‘The Mountain Will Fall’ which followed an astronaut through a space of purple and dark red in keeping with the album cover for this title track.

Another section of the show went through some of Shadow’s more recent brash hip hop tracks with notable collaborations that keep some of the aforementioned depth of sound but with a contemporary hip hop outlook. Shadow rattled through songs like ‘Systematic’ featuring Nas, the fast paced ‘Rosie’, ‘Kings and Queens’ with Run the Jewels and Shadows ‘Holy Calamity’ production with Handsome Boy Modelling School, a project from one of DJ Shadows inspirations, sampling pioneer Prince Paul. 

Shadow gave a specific shout out to Todd Curry who he said may or may not have been in the crowd and had been another big influence on his work and his creative approach showing him the possibilities of sampling through his old mix tapes. He also called out the new single tracks ‘You Played Me’ and ‘Ozone Scraper’ on separate occasions. These tracks, among other singles from previous albums, were accompanied by their music video rather than curated visuals which took away from the incredible aesthetic of the first part of the show somewhat but not enough to affect the overall experience. 

The goose bump inducing keys of ‘Blood on the Motorway’ took us into an electronic interlude which brought a slight lull, and featured extended drumming from Shadow, but this pre-empted and set up a final lift with some big crowd favourites like ‘Nobody speak’, ‘This Time (I’m going to try things my way)’ and ‘Six Days’. 

For the encore Shadow announced it was time to ‘have some fun’ and launched into 'Endtroducing.....' classic ‘Organ Donor’ and recent hit ‘Rocket Fuel’ with De La Soul with Shadow mentioning it had been a dream come true to be able to work with such an iconic act before saying goodbye…until next time.

Action Adventure: A new direction inspired by forgotten cassettes 

Approaching Shadows latest release I had a certain amount of optimism but also the inherent and aforementioned expectations. The pre-released ‘Ozone Scraper’ was a big gear shift, even in spite of previous left turns, and sounded like a throwback to fast-paced, arcade-based, 80’s-inspired, retro video game soundtracks. Like the rest of the album it has grown on me but in my opinion this track is probably one of the hardest to warm to given its sheer pace and garishness. It seems an odd choice as the opening track but it could have been chosen as a statement of intent which it certainly is. 

The next track ‘All My’ is a standout, taking things down a notch but keeping some ‘in your face’ drum and vocal patterns with the repetition of the line ‘all my records and tapes’. A hint of softer keys comes in that really makes the track. It’s after this where I feel the album really shows itself. Time and space has a beautiful airy opening before bringing in some simple baselines and synths with hints of the arcade feel of ‘Ozone Scraper’ but with more depth and subtly that defines the overall feeling of the album. ‘Craig, Ingles and Wrightson’ follows a similar pattern and is equally hypnotic. 

Shadow was apparently inspired to make this album after buying a set of old radio station shows recorded on cassettes and there are nods to this throughout with the sound of tape decks and 80’s instrumentals. As Shadow describes in an interview on the ‘Q with Tom Power’ podcast, it’s nice to lean into the seduction of nostalgia for a while.

‘Witches and Warlocks’ is a strong track in a similar vein and ‘A Narrow Escape’ ups the tempo with break beat drums without veering too far from the albums aesthetic before the second single ‘You Played Me’. This song really sets out the new direction and sounds more like a familiar but forgotten single from an electro R&B group than a DJ Shadow edit. It has a beautiful balance and hook which Shadow apparently stumbled upon by playing the instrumental and vocal side by side by dropping the needle on each at the same time on his first listen, a technique he also used on one of his most commercially successful hits ‘Six Days’ from ‘The Private Press’ album in 2001.

‘Free For All’ opens with a cotton-eye-joe style country guitar riff and hip hop beats which has been a hallmark of Shadows post 'Endtroducing.....' work. It seems every album over the last decade has at least one song in this style and it is one which personally has been hard to engage with but works to a degree here, albeit a bit out of step with the overall theme of the album. Shadow has used a similar approach on past hit ‘Nobody Speak’ with Run the Jewels and ‘This Time’ where he states boldly ‘this time I'm going to do this my way’. I feel like somewhere in Shadow’s subconscious he has a desire to release a country album or song but isn’t quite ready to go there! 

‘The Prophecy’ slows things right down again with a haunting melody over deep bass and strings before opening up synths and tighter string arrangements. ‘Friend or Foe’ builds on that taking things back to the simple, video game villain motif. ‘Fleeting Youth’ and ‘Forever Changed’ are again really lovely and tender arrangements broken up by ‘Reflecting Pools’, a drum laden bubbler before ‘She's Evolving’ finishes things perfectly, incorporating lofty lyric less vocal patterns that interact well with the mid-level synths and and rougher broken beat. 

Overall it is a gorgeously produced album with just the right balance of nostalgia, weight and hip hop sentimentalities. I did wonder if the placement of tracks and ordering of the album would be better building slowly towards a peak and falling again rather than the quite swift shifts in momentum and blistering opening but who am I to question the master of texture and mood. This is an album that refines Shadow once again and clears the pallet after ‘Our Pathetic Age’s swipe at modern culture. A modern interpretation after a step backwards in time.  

End...tering a new era - the journey continues

During the recent live show Shadow mentioned that he thought about packing things in after the collapse of his ‘Our Pathetic Age’ tour due to Covid but it feels like he has been re-invigorated and has more to say and ways of saying it with this latest album and tour. All creativity comes with ebbs and flows but is lost when it ceases to be true to the artists intent and what they want to create for themselves. 

Shadows pursuit of his own sound whether through hip hop samples, 80’s instrumentals or ye-haw country riffs is his expression of what he holds most true and I think overall that to me is what matters most. I look forward to the next step in the journey. 

Download 'Deeper Grooves w/ Linchi: DJ Shadow special', a 90 minute mix exploring everything from Endtroducing..... to Action Adventure via the link below:

#music review #dj shadow #hip hop #vancouver

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Aired on B SIDE Radio on 3/11/22 in Vancouver bside.radio/

#reggaeton dj #reggaeton #perreo #chicago artist #chicago dj #chicago art #toronto #vancouver #caricias radio show #music #SoundCloud

[rickchung]

Hotel Belmont Vancouver MGallery x Granville Street.

Now a part of the MGallery Hotel Collection (the first in Canada), HB’s many entertainment offerings from The Living Room (cocktail bar) to the Basement (nightclub), the Kitchen (restaurant), and the Den (lounge) blend into each other’s spaces found in the heart of Downtown Vancouver.

“Smoking Gun”: Bulliet bourbon, Old Camp peach pecan liqueur, vanilla syrup, and orange bitters served in a cedar-smoked glass.

Grey Goose and Well cold-pressed juice cocktail station.

#rick chung #media #features #collage #downtown vancouver #vancouver #vancity #granville #granville street #hotel #party #lounge #bar #cocktail #cocktails #cocktail bar #cocktail culture #dj #grey goose #vodka #nightclub #club #drink #drinks #drinking #clubbing #boutique hotel #british columbia #lower mainland

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#SalaciousSaturday 🤤🔥🐻💦 Next up on our RUFF Military line up is powerhouse DJ from Seattle, Alfonso Tan! Alfonso is no stranger to the RUFF crowd and is ready to keep you movin' and groovin' all night long! 🎵🕺 Get tickets now! 🎟️ www.RUFFparty.com ..... @steamworksvancouver @rodrozendesignbuild @inkedkennyphoto @pint_vancouver @silverfoxpostering @instahim @boyspence @dandanielsonphotos @micheljanadeau

#ruff #ruffparty #vancouver #love #sexy #men #gay #pride #dance #bear #party #daddy #dj #housemusic

[rythyme]

ok many of us have heard that news that Supernatural actors DJ Qualls aka Garth and Ty Olsson aka Benny are getting gay married.

I listened to most of the podcast episode to verify — and yeah! they're full on getting married, planning to grow old together, etc. etc. however — the wild supernatural lore doesn't stop there.

ty and dj first met at a supernatural convention in the UK. they got close when they went on vacation to turkey together after maybe having spoken like 5 times.

there is in fact a big supernatural cast group chat

dj hasn't watched supernatural. "[supernatural] is a tv show I don't watch, i'm not a fan of, because I know everyone on it" and "the last thing i want to do is watch them play pretend in my spare time"

Party On Garth is his favorite episode because he got to drink / pretend to be drunk.

dj initially wasn't going to take the supernatural role. the producers sent him a script and a few episodes to convince him. his first impression of supernatural was, "it's two underwear models chasing monsters?"

dj got beat up really badly by a cop when he was in Vancouver for his first supernatural shoot. Someone else had to explain to the cops that he literally hadn't even done anything before they released him with no charges.

other than that the most memorable thing about his first supernatural shoots was the catering. "the best sandwiches I've ever had" and "they had two kinds of soup. I love soups."

#i don't follow the supernatural cast so maybe a lot of this is old news but i was losing ot #i had no intention of listening to anything other than the bit where he confirms they're engaged or whatever #but man does this guy have some wild stories #dj qualls #supernatural #ty olsson #theo.txt

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DJ BLKLUOS - CAN U DIG IT [PRODUCED BY YOUNG SIN BEATS] (OFFICIAL VIDEO)

#vancouver #van city hip hop #soundcloud #rap music #young sin #snak the ripper #dj blkluos #toronto #can you dig it #warriors movie #90s music #6ix #we are the north #piano beats #piano hip hop beats #datk beats #soul #piano #jazz #90s rap #old school rap #boom bap #90s boom bap #Youtube