Final fling for 2011 before JHB empies into the sea

Catch our final 2011 party on Sat 10 December from 9pm at KITCHENERS cnr Juta & De Beer strs in Braamfontein.

Our 2nd Birthday bash in November with its name & minor format change went down really well. We had our busiest night in our two year history...so busy
that they had to stop people from coming in at one point!

I'm busy editing 3 hours worth of mixes we recorded at the last old REFORM! party in October. I only realised a few days ago that
I left the flash disc in the mixer on record on the night. There are two of my sets and one of Charles. The cool thing is that it's straight out of the
desk so it's excatly what we played, when we played it. I edit out the start and end tracks that are incomplete, split the mix into three and save the files
into a smaller MP3s so they are a bit more managable (it's almost 2 Gigs in its raw .WAV state)
I'll post to MIXCLOUD tomorrow and make the links available here.

A few months ago Charles migrated to his M-AUDIO DJ set-up on the mac with a controller. It's been going well. I've stubbornly stuck to the ol CDJ workhorses
and my trusted DJ bag and orginal CDs.
Last week I purchased an app for the iPad (and special splitter cable) that I'm seriously considering trying out in a live enviroment this Saturday.
It's pretty much a touch screen DJ set-up and works on the two turntable principle. The feel of it is amazing! I was mixing and using the effects
immediatley. It does all the things a pair of regular SL1200s can do right down to the power off effect but with so much more...
My only reservation is choosing songs from a library rather than trawling through CDs. My DJ bag is carefully catalogued and arranged. This sort
of organisation is not possible in the iPad library. One can, however, sort by artist or song (or just search...) I'm also pretty particular about
my file quality and always import or purchase at the highest bit rate available, so at least sound quality won't be compromised.

I can't imagine pitching up to a DJ gig with an iPad, cable and a pair of headphones...it certianly beats my early days of a record box and two milk crates of CDs all
on the back of motorbike with those stretchy cable things and a bunch of black bags as back-up in case of rain.

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Reform Sound System

It's been sometime since I drew a flyer. This one was particularly tricky as it involved drawing myself and Charles.

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REFORM 2nd birthday flyer

Pencil, fine liner, scan and colour in paint (with some help from fi on FH5)

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MONSTER HOSPITAL

I'm really excited about playing alongside all of these cool bands and DJs/VJs on Saturday.

The flyer is my hands down winner for FLYER OF THE YEAR category!

Herewith the official blah blah on the event:

It's almost upon us! Enter Haloween 2011 from the deepest darkest heart of Johannesburg's horrific CBD as Broaden A New Sound and So Many Animal calls join forces for a night of unmatched mayhem. With an undead army of bands and DJs, we're taking the underground and raising it up (19 stories into the sky), invading the rooftop of The Lister Medical Building for MONSTER HOSPITAL.

 

Starring:

EYES LIKE MIRRORS

VAMPIRE9000

MAKE OVERS

MARC LATILLA

NATHAN SCOTT PHILLIPS

PLAAT JAPIE

VJ SASSQUATCH

 

Plus:

Goodie bags for the first 50 trick or treaters through the door

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Haunted Elevators and demented décor from

DOKTRINE

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Live lighting wizardry from

TURN YOUR LIGHTS UP HIGH vs THE PIXEL PIRATES

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Unholy visuals from

CHINXXX & COOL YOUR JETS

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Mutant music and merch giveaways from

KRNGY & SMACM

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Tie-in screening of "Shaun of the Dead" around the corner at

THE BIOSCOPE

Starts 9:30PM, Cover: R40

Monster Hospital + Shaun of The Dead ticket - R70!

Buy tix here: https://tickets.tixsa.co.za/TheBioscope/BuyTickets.aspx?EID=67491

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Phantom Photobooth by

SANGOMA REPUBLIC

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Free "Day of the Dead" mixes from

PLAAT JAPIE

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Monsterous prizes for the best dressed boy, girl and couple!

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Cover: R50.

No costume: (we cut you up with a chainsaw and then you pay) R100.

 

➲ Directions:

 

GPS Co-ordinates for Bree st. entrance:

 

S 26° 12. 022’

E 28° 02. 740’

 

Coming down Bree St. from Nelson Mandela bridge/Queen Elizabeth

highway etc, just after Kruis, turn right into right hand side of

driveway under blue Lister Medical Parking sign. Park anywhere on 1st or 2nd floor...

 

► R15 parking

It's going to be a busy day on Saturday what with the area cricket match in the morning, tiki afternoon at the school, halloween manouvres at the JHB ZOO until 9pm finishing

off with MONSTER HOSPITAL

01 colours.mp3 Listen on Posterous

18 Vampire.m4a Listen on Posterous

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The final REFORM! party

Not the actual final final really final REFORM! party but the just the last in it's current format
*recited in pitched voice way too quick for ear to pick up like in them dodgy ads*

There are changes ahead for REFORM!
With our 2nd birthday coming up on Saturday the 12th November coupled with our new monthly week-end slot,
we decided on a bit of a facelift both visually and musically.
We'll never stray far from our roots but will incorporate a whole bunch of new music to cater for the busy and late partying
week-end crowd. More on that later...but the two tracks below will give you an inkling. Quirky indie of CULTS vs. FLIRTATIONS northern soul stomper

Join us for the final REFORM! on Friday 7th October 2011 @ Kitcheners in Braamfontein 9pm with R20 cover

The FB event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=282387828445869&ref=tck

Abducted by Cults Listen on Posterous

Nothing But A Heartache by The Flirtations Listen on Posterous

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