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DJ Falcon

Hopefully you managed to get some good dancing done yesterday and Thursday. If not, there are plenty of ways to hit the floor this Saturday (11/8) into next week, but first read about some dancefloor destruction that went down last Saturday:

A seemingly endless wait for the train coupled with friends' I.D. and car troubles had my Saturday night off to a shaky start. Things were not looking up as I arrived at a nearly empty yet very hot Le Poisson Rouge. Justin Miller and Jacques Renault were playing some very fine disco jams, but I was too thrown off by the stifling heat and sudden lack of dancefloor companions to enjoy it. I leaned against a pillar as the place gradually filled up, hoping the funk I was in would lift as quickly as it had descended.

When DJ Falcon got behind the decks a little after 1, it did...instantly. For the next two and a half hours Mr. Queme played one of the most uplifting, well-mixed, unexpected, dance-demanding, dj sets I've heard in a long time. He played/sampled a number of the great classic dance tracks for which he's known including "So Much Love To Give", "Together" (which you can view video of here), and his remix of the Cassius track "La Mouche". He also played a lot of great, old stuff including tons of Daft Punk (Too Long, Around the World, and Technologic among others), Green Velvet's "Percolator", "Music Sounds Better With You" by Stardust, "In Love With You" by Alan Braxe and Fred Falke (video here) and "Two Months Off" by Underworld, as well as some recent (but not brand new) stuff - "Hustler" by Simian Mobile Disco, "Shake It To the Ground" by Rye Rye, Crookers' Wow Mix of the Chemical Brothers' "Salmon Dance", and "& Down" by Boys Noize. There were also some really random, unexpected tracks that worked very well like the 24 Hours a Day mix of Phoenix's "Long Distance Call", "Uusi Fantasia" by Latialla Taas, and Justin Timberlake's "Sexy Back".

DJ Falcon dropped all of these tracks in some of the most unpredictable, creative ways. He would play a brilliant combination/sequence of tracks and after a while it would seem like he was moving into another little run of songs. But then, somehow, a track you had been totally shocked to hear him play 3 songs prior would magically be woven back into the set only to have everyone lose it, yet again! He did that quite a few times...yet every time, it was still just as shocking, incomprehensible, and awesome as the first.

It was such a feel-good, fun to get down to set that was made even better by the fact that you could tell DJ Falcon was enjoying himself. I'm pretty certain his set was supposed to be over sometime around 3 but it wasn't until close to 3:45, after several wind-downs that wound back up, and waves goodbye that weren't followed by him leaving, that DJ Falcon finally relinquished the decks to Alex English.

While last Saturday is going to be a hard to follow, hopefully some of these guys will be able to make you get down this weekend:

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