OK, so I’ve been running around quite a bit lately, what with various job interviews to attend, many emails to answer, new records to listen to, flea markets to find, furniture to customize (photos coming soon!) and sporting events to participate in (that’s right!).
On top of all that I have acquired some old turntables that need fixing, my trusty Optio camera seems to have passed away, my wife is planning a trip to Hong Kong and my friends here in Singapore are always planning something fun.
Anyway, here is the recording (Yay, I finally found a way to properly record live sets without having the sound go bad after a couple of minutes!) of the live set I did for my friend Christy’s monthly flea market event at HOME Club, Flea Fly Flo Fun.
I was supposed to show up, play some tunes with other people, record the whole thing, and have time to browse through some of the many cool products that were on sale. But other participants never showed up, so I ended up playing for 5 hours straight, which is why the playlist is pretty much comprised of my all-time favourite tunes as well as some newer ones I’ve recently discovered.
All in all, a great Saturday afternoon! I played my favourite tunes in front of people with good taste, really loud with a good sound system, and for 5 hours straight without anyone asking me if I have some Madonna or Lady Gaga.
Enjoy!
* Note : As the set is way too big to upload as a single file I’ve cut it into two parts.
** Re-note : As I said, my camera died, so all photos courtesy of the various people attending the event over the years. They can all be found here.
Posted on 22 September '10 by gOnzO, under Podcast. No Comments.
So, I haven’t been able to write or upload anything for a while, I’ve been extremely busy with many different activities.
First of all, I got married last June! Laurence and I had a simple but nice ceremony in the 19th arrondissement of Paris. Our families came to Paris from their respective places of study/work (Israel and Malaysia on my side and Bordeaux/Mont-de-Marsan on Laurence’s side).
The civil ceremony was held at the Mairie du 19ème, where we lived for the past 4 years, and from there we went to the Pavillon Puebla restaurant with a very nice terrace inside the Buttes Chaumont parc. We had a hearty Mexican buffet (mole, tortillas, guacamole, alambre, frijoles refritos, salsa verde) with excellent red wine from Laurence’s family.
The preparation and execution of this humble yet important event took us about 2 months, which was the deadline we had before flying off to Singapore on August 4th. I’m actually writing this from our brand new apartment in Singapore, where Laurence found a teaching job for at least three years.
I’ll give more details in an upcoming post, but basically we got hitched, we did all of our paperwork in France and in Singapore, I dropped my job back in Paris, we sold most of our belongings in Paris, we flew off to Singapore, we found an apartment, we moved in, we went to Malaysia for a week, we came back to Singapore, we went to flea markets, garage sales and second hand stores to furnish our apartment, Laurence started work, we finally got Internet at home, and now I’m in between sending resumes to find a new job and taking pictures/buying records/decorating the apartment/listening to music.
Anyway, here are a few of my favorite wedding pictures. As I was the groom I wasn’t able to have cameras on me, so the pictures are credited to : my mother, her friends (Magda, Alain and Mireille), Nico, Maelle, Seb, Bubu, Andy, John, Audrey, Jean-Yves. All I did was collect them, select them, and rework them to give them a retro-vintage effect.
I’m also posting the recording (again, sorry for the bad quality, I have now found out the problem with my laptop’s sound recording device) of the after-party. Props to Olibusta, Time is Music, and Andy Vortex for playing it loud and hard all night long!
Enjoy!
Posted on 21 September '10 by gOnzO, under photos, Podcast. No Comments.
