Le DGAF

Remember this guy? Kavinsky is finally back in LA tonight along with Sebastien Tellier and others at the second annual Ooh La L.A. (aka FRENCHFEST 2010). Hope to see you lovely DGAF betches there tonight at the El Rey.


the french national bird is the cock.
We had a blast at last year's Ooh La L.A. festival and are super stoked that they've brought back Tellier and added Kavinsky. I don't know too much about Acid Washed or Turzi, and I'm lazy so i haven't researched them, but i hope i'll be pleasantly surprised.

Last year's Ooh La L.A. fest

Jamaica (formerly Poney Poney) at Ooh La L.A. 2009



check out the rest of the festival and tickets and lineups and other crap here:
www.oohlalafestival.com

Part of DGAF never dies

Need we say more? photo: JKatan

The best thing about LA is its ability to have outdoor music festivals without humidity or a big chance of rain. And the best thing about outdoor festivals is definitely the fresh air. It can get hot, nasty, and stuffy as hell inside a packed indoor venue. I mean nothing against indoor venues of course, but it's definitely way more comfortable being in the middle of a sweaty crowd when you're outside.

Not a bummer in sight. photo: JKatan

HARD Summer had the right idea of moving to the Los Angeles State Historic Park. It was the same quality, just a different vibe. Instead of an all-night rave style party, it felt way more like a regular daytime music festival.

This is not EDC, people. photo: JKatan

The security was not messing around... we'd already witnessed an arrest before we'd even got in. We then had to remove our shoes at the gates, airport style. Police were patrolling the streets, drug dogs were walking around, bouncers were everywhere. Nobody was fucking around.

HARD gets it right again. photo: JKatan

We arrived just in time for Breakbot, who warmed up his set with clean funky disco-tastic house, surprised everyone when he decided kick into harder gear. We were left so flabbergasted by the transition from Snoop Dogg to Mr. Oizo that we did a synchronized jaw-drop that no one could even imagine choreographing.

The breakdown with Breakbot. photo: JKatan

We headed to the Harder Stage for Switch, who was dropping all kinds of baile funk fun, and witnessed a pretty intense 2-hour tag team set from Benga and Skream. It was wobbly, energetic dubstep madness. They know how to work a crowd.

This is how we roll (no pun intended). photo: JKatan

We listened to the always dope sounds of Diplo as we headed toward the food trucks. The only thing security couldn't stop were the red ants that were crawling on my shoes and biting my feet while we were in line. We finished our sandwiches and made our way back to see Flying Lotus, who was playing a good but very mellow set. Apparently I missed him drop some heavy ass shit just as I left to check out Crystal Castles, who were assaulting the senses with their controlled, noisy chaos. If they're not punk as fuck, I don't know what is. Hell, even Alice Glass rhymes with badass.

Is that steam? photo: JKatan

But we could not bear to miss Tiga, who was tearing it the fuck up. He probably played the most undeniably danceable set all day. Proxy kept the party going... but we had to head over to at least catch the end of Major Lazer. There was a Chinese dragon and a ton of people dancing on stage, and we knew we'd missed some ridiculous antics. Leave it up to Major Lazer to take the party to the next level.

video: JKatan

But nobody brings the party like Soulwax. Yay Belgium! If you also know about 2ManyDJs, you know that the Dewaele brothers have so much musical talent it's disgusting. They've evolved from a really cute, catchy, and interesting pop band to this nonstop dance machine. It amazes me how they make live instruments sound electronic and analog equipment sound digital... you get the energy of a live band with the sound of a DJ set. It's totally legit.

video: JKatan

My only complaint? That they didn't play for like 2 hours. They were the perfect closer to HARD Summer. I don't think you can really follow Soulwax; I think it worked out to not have other DJ's on til 4am after the headliner.

But I forgot to mention one of the highlights of the day, and it was seeing the lineup for this:

Part of the weekend never dies.

Baba O'Beetroots

Happy Tardy Tuesday! Our Mixin' Monday track this week is a mashup of The Who and The Bloody Beetroots: "Baba O'Beetroots."

BABA O'BEETROOTS by cmykdgaf

HAPPY NATIONAL BELGIAN DAY!

We've been celebrating by releasing a remix of GRTONIC's "Sucker Punch" with our #1 DGAFriend Van Aerial.

Meron Gumi - "Sucker Punch (Belgian ROFL Remix)" by cmykdgaf

Club UnderGAF

adorable bands edition

UPDATED 7/21

A while back, we took a DJing class and our teachers were these really cool cats who happen to run a weekly music event on Fridays at The Echo called Club Underground. CMYK made a trip out on Friday night and (despite getting in a bit late because SOMEONE (Shimosh) forgot their wallet at home) had a blast. The vibes are good, and the music is great. Sweater Girls won us over with their absolutely adorable indie pop sound. 

Sweater Girls

Sweater Girls

Sweater Girls

The Secret History

The Secret History

The Secret History

Djs Diana and Larry

Check out Club Underground every Friday night at The Echo, on Sunset. They'll keep you dancing all night with everything from M.I.A. to Daft Punk to Yelle to Dee-Lite to of course a healthy dose of Britpop. And with delicious $4 pizza slices from Two Boots actually served in the venue, you've got a winning combination!

DonGAF

"stupidest-post-ever" edition

Happy ONE YEAR DGAF-VERSARY. we've kept this blog going for a year already. wow. To celebrate, we want to share something very stupid and dear to us. That would be one of our good friends, Don.

Don was our DGAFriend of the year of '09 and things definitely would not have been so DGAF without him in '09 or '10. He often comes to events with us and there's never a dull moment between his witty commentary and his willingness to mess with the drunks and druggies. Not to mention this kid has major talent in the music production department. See this post for more deets.

Don with a drunk

Don with another drunk

Don drunk (not really)

Fun times with Nabil Linus and Don.

BreakDon

what even...

Don doesn't approve of such rude behaviour, Suz.

I think we already have a winner for DGAFriend 2010...

So for all the stupid times and stupid pictures, we salute you, Don. One year of DGAF and counting.

HARD LA goes M.I.A.

But it's not over yet, because we still have HARD Summer with its expanded lineup AND WE CAN'T WAIT:



See you August 7th!!! It's gonna be a DGAF Summer... so let's keep on dancing!