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Lots of familiar names for this week’s update, and if you check the mixes you are going to hear a wide range of styles, some classics and some unreleased treats! And any drum’n’bass is going to be better than the stuff my co-worker is listening to right now. It sounds like cheap 80s porn soundtrack music.
A trio of Flashback Friday posts, this time looking at the weekly event Act Your Age (AYA), which ran for over a year and between two venues. Originally starting in 2000, in the basement of an Ethiopian restaurant in Adams Morgan, AYA eventually moved to a relatively new mega-club in DC called Insomnia, usually using the VIP-room for the weekly, but occasionally using a larger warehouse space on the top floor.
The line-ups were a nice blend of local, regional, national and international talent, often bringing through new talent from each of those categories, and also shaking up the sub-genres. The promotional material was originally a showcase of designs by several local designers, but over time Eve Communications became the full-time designer, and pushed very interesting designs.
One very memorable night was when DJ Addiction (Defunked - UK) headlined.
Here is part one of his set that night, recorded live on September 5, 2001.
Download: http://dnbshare.com/download/LiveatActYourAge_05-SEP-2001_-part1.mp3.html
So what has become of AYA’s old stomping grounds? Showboat, the original venue, is now a sushi restaurant called Saki. Insomnia was torn down for a parking garage, directly across the street from where Muse Lounge now sits. And DJ Addiction? He seemed to have disappeared, perhaps living out his BMX half-pipe obsession somewhere in the midlands of the U.K.
Look for part two of this mix in the near future!
Steve / DJ Deftil, one of the regular forum posters on Buzzlife and a reader of DCDNB’s blog has set up his own blog, focused on linking drum’n’bass fans to the latest mixes and tunes from the big guys. Be sure to check it out!
