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The first Klash party was Sunday night at Studio B. This place was built on the model of Studio A in Miami and probably works best as a venue for huge crowds dancing. With much of the same overlapping crew, Klash was like The Rub on steroids. Chicago's Flosstradamus (downloads at his myspace) was the main attraction with Pase Rock and Cosmo Baker also spinning a few records. Spank Rock and Ayers were in the DJ booth occasionally shouting a "Yo Yo Yo" or a "You are now rocking with ____." Atrak and Catchdubs served as hypemen as they nodded their heads and pumped their fists in the background. So basically you saw everyone you might see at any given Rub all in one DJ booth. The major downfall of the party is that PBR, for example, is $5 at Studio B instead of the $3 it cost at Southpaw. But there were twice as many people shaking it on the dance floor - some were even crowd surfing. As the music flowed, the crowd transformed from a mosh pit to rave to an ass-shaking competition. There were even people walking around taking party photos. Kudu also performed and threw goop in the crowd. Klash = The Rub on steriods.
Flosstradamus is not the next Girl Talk. The "DJs" have different styles. The duo of Flosstradamus spin more like traditional DJs, using turntables but not vinyl. They try to read the crowd with their selections, scratch a bit, play remixes, and ride big chunks of a song. Girl Talk on the other hand, pre-mashes everything and could be playing Minesweeper for all we know. Although to his credit, I have not seen him repeat the same thing live so there is a lot of work leading up to the "performance." Anyway, Girl Talk will play some songs at Studio B in February, which will conveniently allow us to compare who rocked the party better. Klash was fun though.

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Yes, crowd surfing at a dance party . . .