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THe 20 bucks at the door is a lil steep for my pockets..

shit, I think that is a mistake. It says they are $12 at the door.....

http://www.highlineballroom.com/presents.php

fixing.t thx

^^^^^

THanks for fixing that up .
I'm def going to check it out now ...

Last year for CMJ , A-trak played some of the best mixed music i've heard.. Really sick ..

daniel bell plays a seven-hour set at the bunker this weekend, which is something anyone who cares about house or techno will dig.

françois k celebrates five years of deep space at cielo on monday (yeah, not the greatest club in the world, but still, it's françcois k).

I still don't understand why techno, house, etc that isn't at Hiro or Studio B or the like gets no love around here.

Daniel Bell is fantastic and I will definitely be there tonight. Mark Farina played an unbelievably cool jazzy west coast set at Sullivan Room last Saturday, something you never ever hear in NYC. Gui Boratto (from Kompakt!) is at Studio B tomorrow and he doesn't get a mention even playing at the epicenter of hipster dance music.

I will be interested to see whether Ellen Allien is mentioned when she comes in May or whether DEMF gets 1/1000th of the press that SXSW generated for about 3 weeks straight. Actually Moby is playing this year so maybe it will.

Don't get me wrong guys, it's refreshing to hear *anything* about techno on here but I just don't get the disparity. At first I thought it was a dj/musician disparity (hence the love for DFA, etc) but that doesn't seem to be it either.

"I still don't understand why techno, house, etc that isn't at Hiro or Studio B or the like gets no love around here."

Which part of "this post only contains Thursday night events" did you miss?

I didn't miss the implication, not that the words you quoted were actually written anywhere.

I wasn't saying this based on one post, more of the overall trend that has been going on for months. If anything, this was the most DJ-friendly posting I've seen on here and it was still only about 2 more thursday's at hiro's. At least there was one tiny line about 205 Club, which doesn't get enough press either.

I am not particularly fond of Studio B or Hiro at this point, deejays and bands that I like just keep getting booked at those venues. And if you go through the past few weeks in dance there have been events at other venues posted (APT, Galapagos, 205, Love, Luna Lounge).

There are countless deejays and bands in New York performing every night. I could just post a list of everything happening this weekend but that wouldn't do much good. Instead I try to post informed suggestions. Most events I post about here include deejays/bands I have seen before and would recommend. I haven't seen Daniel Bell or Mark Farina before so I didn't post about their events.

If there is an event that I realize a lot of people might be interested in I will research it and post about it even if it is someone whose music I do not like.

I can tell you for a fact that Ellen Allien will be mentioned when she comes to town because I realize the role she has played in dance music, even though I personally am not a fan of her work. I can't say the same for DEMF because I am not going there, making it difficult to cover.

Gui Boratto is included in tomorrow's post.

Hey showtrotta - thanks for your response. (I'm the anon who first mentioned the Daniel Bell show up above.) I totally understand your perspective, but I agree with Rob; some of the omissions in the Week in Dance going back over the past year or more (indeed, before you were doing the column) are really rather glaring. The upshot seems to be that DFA, Diplo and Ed Banger (and related) are the only "dance music" that Brooklyn Vegan deems worthwhile. Which is cool, if that's the website's perspective, but come out and say it. And if not, given how deeply BV reaches into every possible corner of rock music, even including hardcore bands that I would have thought had broken up 10 years ago (which is rad, btw -- I love finding out about stuff like that), well, it would be great if someone at BV were doing a little more research into other corners of the dance scene, whether it's François K, the Martinez Brothers and others in the soulful house crowd; the minimal techno/house scene gathered around the Bunker, Porch, Minimoo etc; and still other niches.

It's totally your right to emphasize the music that moves you. But given how comprehensive BV is in almost every other aspect, its dance coverage comes off as almost woefully skewed.