Halloween is the 5th anniversary of White Girl Lust. Since Clay and I are sentimental little girls, we thought we would recount the start of WGL in all it’s self indulgent eloquence in the weeks leading up to the date. White Girl Lust will be DJing as a duo at Beta in Denver, Friday October 30th. If you are in the 303 area come celebrate!
As proven with the last post, it took a while for White Girl Lust to find it’s sound as producers. Making the transition from drum & bass DJ to 2003/04 WGL style DJ sets was easy though. I was bored stiff with my 6 year residency at one of the main DNB nights in the country and was ready for anything. That anything became very possible with two gifts from the brand new Denver based company – Beatport. Shawn (our soon to be retired co-producer) had taken a real job there after years of making basslines in his underwear all day. He was marketing manager at this revolutionary new company and he was getting promo music toys daily. One day he brought home Final Scratch & Ableton. Wow. Both were in their infancy and kinda sucked. But the idea behind them was AWESOME.
We had been working on doing a whole mixtape of crazy rock, acid, and electroclash jams – all custom edited in Logic – which would then be mixed on CDJs. Doing a project like this in Logic was awful. Although these tools later became the curse of bedroom DJs making awful mash ups and everyone being a DJ, it was really fun to be able to easily loop and draw out intros to old songs. In retrospect some of our selection was pretty intense but it worked back then. Sure it’s a bit dated but I honestly think it is more interesting than most mixes nowadays.
We made a couple hundred CDs, with a elaborate handmade package and started up a gorilla campaign. All this was to promote the first WGL party at a very unassuming haunted speakeasy in a very bizarre area of town on Halloween night!
Part 1 of the Debut White Girl Lust Mix CD (Era 2004)
Cheree Intro
Date With the Night – Yeah, Yeah, Yeah’s
Be Yourself (Laurent Garnier Remix) – Avril
PDA – Interpol
La La Love You (Break Interlude) – Pixies
Walking With Thee – The Clinic
Waiting for Cars – Felix thee Housecat
I Want to Tell You Something – Mu
NY, What is Funky – White Girl Lust
Business With Leather – Beck
Shake Your Coconuts (DFA Mix) – Junior Senior
Hashpipe – Weezer
I Am – Moving Units
* Note the original mix was track split on CDs so there may be a few jags from the import.
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