Choosing The Right Nightclub!!!

So I am on a mission to find a hot nightclub to go clubbing to on Friday with my girl friends.  I heard some good reviews about Pacha and Webster in NYC.  I also was given suggestions about checking out Deko Lounge and Pure in Sayreville, NJ.  Two other clubs I was told about are 46 Lounge in Totowa, NJ and 4sixty6 in West Orange, NJ.

46 Lounge seems like a really enticing club to check out Friday due to this advertisement on their facebook:

Plus we are trying to stay in NJ this time.

Haunted Asylum Halloween Party Broadcasting Live on 92.3 NOW FM w/ DJ TORO FRIDAY @46 LOUNGE

$3,000 Costume Contest for the sexiest, funniest, most original & best couple
Hosted by TY Bentli
VIP line privilege for everyone in costume
For ladies free & guys reduced till 11pm text "FRIDAY" to 545454 

What Makes A Club Good:

A great variety of music, mainly house music

Friendly DJ, Bartenders, and Bouncers

Decently Priced Beverages

Good atmosphere of people

Cleanliness

No Creepers lol

When the majority of the crowd is relatively your age

When there is a time range where ladies can get in for FREE

When the decorations, the lighting, and the set up of the venue is hot and awesome looking! :)

Hopefully I pick the right club to venture to! If anyone reads this, feel free to give me any input or suggestions.

Experiencing The Nightclub Life Through the Senses

I can hear the music blasting.  I can feel the bass vibrating as if the speakers are about to burst.  There are tons of other warm, sweaty bodies around me dancing and fist pumping.  The inside of the nightclub is dark except for the multicolored flashing lights that are shining down on the dance floor and all the glows stick jewelry that is wrapped around people's necks and wrists.  I see the DJ high up on his own platform scratching and spinning on the turntables.  He's got his massive, black headphones on top of his head.  I can tell he's really into what he does because he's swaying from side to side and tapping his foot on the floor as he DJs.  

I push my way through the crowd as if I am an explorer trying to get through the jungle.  So many bodies rubbing up against me.  I can smell the saltiness of their sweat and the intensity of their different colognes.  Once I find a comfortable spot that feels right, I begin to dance with my friends.  I just let the music take total control of my body, mind, and soul.  Everyone else just disappears.  Nothing else matters because my favorite music is playing, and it is loud.  I feel like I am high on some type of "music ecstasy".  The more I dance, the more energy I gain.  I never feel more alive than I do when I am dancing at the clubs.  I can feel this incredible vivacity in the atmosphere.  Everyone is happy and upbeat.  The concept of time is lost once I've entered the nightclub world.



ANOTHER AWESOME SONG!!! GOLD DUST (FLUX PAVILLION REMIX)_DJ FRESH:

One of My Favorite House DJs

One of the hottest House DJs is Kaskade!!

Kaskade is an American DJ and a record producer.  His real name is Ryan Raddon.  He was born February 25, 1971.  In 1989 to 1990, Kaskade practiced his DJ skills in his dorm room at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah.

On September 9, 2011, a DJ Times poll voted Kaskade "America's Best DJ 2011".  

On October 20, 2011, DJ Magazine announced the results of their annual Top 100 DJ Poll, with Ultra Records, and Kaskade placed at #30.

Kaskade rose to prominence alongside producers Deadmau5 and Wolfgang Gartner during the revival of American progressive in late 2008-early 2009. His style is mostly bassline minimal, although he occasionally likes to add sudden very abrasive leads and breaks. 

Kaskade released his first single "What I Say" on the label in 2001. In the Moment saw Kaskade's first top 10 single with "Steppin' Out" reaching #5 on Billboard's Magazine’s Hot Dance Club Play chart and #6 on Dance Radio Airplay. The fourth single to be released from the album, "Everything," reached #1 on Billboard Magazine’s Hot Dance Club Play.

Kaskade took his stage name from a nature book when he saw a picture of a waterfall and a co-worker agreed "cascade" was a good choice, but he then changed the spelling.

Kaskade worked with Canadian house/electronic DJ/artist deadmau5 to produce tracks on Strobelite Seduction, including the first single (released as an EP) Move for Me. The single became his fifth top ten hit on Billboard's Hot Dance Airplay Chart, reaching the number one position in its September 6, 2008 issue. It also gave Kaskade his first number one single on this chart. The dance single has become a crossover hit, managing to reach number 71 on the Canadian Hot 100 as of February 14, 2009. on vocals.

Kaskade's has 5 albums out: 

• It's You, It's Me (2003)
• Love Mysterious (2006)
• Strobelite Seduction (2008)
• Dynasty (2010)
• Fire and Ice (2011)

My Favorite Songs by Kaskade which are on My Ipod are:

• Move for Me
• Fire In Your New Shoes
• 4 AM
• Angel on My Shoulder
• I Remember
• Dynasty
• Steppin’ Out

His music is really chill and relaxing.  It's not too fast paced or crazy.  It's more relaxing.  You can dance to some of his songs, but you can just lay back, relax, and listen to a lot of his songs.  For example, they are good songs to listen to while on a walk or while laying on the beach.  I just get lost in the songs and caught up in the moment.  Everything else around me just disappears!  I love it!  He's pretty hot too!! LOL

More Exploration on House Music

After the mid-90s, house music grew even larger during the second wave of Progressive House (1999–2001). The genre still remains popular and fused into other subgenres which are popular, as the DJ mag poll has been dominated by House DJs since the beginning of the polls. 

In Europe, the genre remains highly popular into the 2000s, with groups and artists such as Daft Punk and Justice performing in the genre, and obtaining commercial success and critical acclaim.  

In the 2000s, a house subgenre known as electro house achieved popularity. Today, house music remains popular in both clubs and in the mainstream pop scene.
House is uptempo music for dancing, although by modern dance-music standards it is mid-tempo, generally ranging between 118 and 135 bpm. Tempos tended to be slower in the early years of house.

The common element of house is a prominent kick drum on every beat (also known as a four-on-the-floor beat), usually generated by a drum machine or sampler. The kick drum sound is augmented by various kick fills and extended dropouts. 
 This pattern derives from the so-called "four-on-the-floor" dance drumbeats of the 1960s which impacted on 1980s house music via the 1970s disco drummers.

The term "house music" is widely cited to have originated as a reference to a Chicago nightclub called The Warehouse which existed from 1977 to 1983.  The Warehouse was patronized primarily by black and Latino men, who came to dance music played by the club's resident DJ Frankie Knuckles.  

 Knuckles became a popular DJ at the club.  After the Warehouse closed in 1983, the crowds went to his new club, The Power Plant.  In the Channel 4 documentary Pump Up The Volume, Knuckles remarks that the first time he heard the term "house music" was upon seeing "we play house music" on a sign in the window of a bar on Chicago's South Side.  

One of the people in the car with him joked, "you know, that's the kind of music you play down at the Warehouse!", and then everybody laughed.  South-Side Chicago DJ Leonard "Remix" Roy, in self-published statements, claims he put such a sign in a tavern window because it was where he played music that one might find in one's home; in his case, it referred to his mother's soul & disco records, which he worked into his sets. 

Chip E.'s 1985 recording "It's House" may also have helped to define this new form of electronic music.  However, Chip E. lends credence to the Knuckles association, claiming the name came from methods of labelling records at the Importes Etc. record store, where he worked in the early 1980s.

Much of the music that DJ Knuckles played at the Warehouse nightclub were labelled in the store "As Heard At The Warehouse", which was shortened to simply "House".  

I would now like to end this blog with a sample of a house song that I love!!!!