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THE DJ DIARY: SOUL CLAP (PT.4)
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Charlie: The last two weeks have been intense! This was our last push before we chill out for a while in Miami. We basically played at three of our favorite clubs in one weekend. We did Pratersauna in Vienna, Fabric in London and Trow in Amsterdam. They are all special places each in their own way.
Then we headed to Copenhagen, via a quick stop in Berlin. The party in Copenhagen was alright, apart from some dude asking for Swedish House Mafia and a drunk girl coming into the DJ booth and trying to hump us. She was knocking over the turntables, so we had to get her out, but as she left the booth, she fell down the stairs. Wasn’t pretty.
Eli: We left Copenhagen early the next morning and headed over to Bucharest.
Charlie: Bucharest was a little out there. Outside our hotel there was a band of wild dogs and they were very territorial. Eli ordered a club sandwich and got into a tug of war with the dogs over the sandwich. It was messy.
Eli: We left the Bucharest club late, and jumped on a flight to Heathrow, got picked up and headed to Bristol for the Just Jack Halloween party. The party was held at Motion Skate Park, this unreal location of a warehouse skate park club complex. We were playing in a newer room that has only hosted about five parties before.
We smashed it so hard that all the moisture from the dancing crowd fucked the electrics and switched everything off, the lights, the decks…everything went dead.
Charlie: We were dressed as Butch Clapity and the Soul Dance kid. I want to shout out Jackie Taylor who made me the sickest costume.
Because they got enough followers on Facebook they got to shave the promoter Rag’s head, which was jokes.
Halloween was something special. We partied hard and had an awesome night. The Just Jack crew know how to get down.
Eli: We left the club and jumped in car with Shaun Reeves who was playing Mulletover that night. We got dropped off at Heathrow and headed straight to New Orleans for Voodoo festival. (Check out the pics here.)
We got there about 30 mins before we had to play, threw all our cases in a golf cart and went straight to the stage. This was the first year they had underground dance music at the festival, which was really cool because we got to expose the sound to some new people.
The next day was Halloween in New Orleans, which was probably one of the best Halloweens I’ve ever had. Charlie slept all day because he was up all night with Gadi and Deniz but I woke up and hooked up with Zev, Tanner Ross and his girlfriend and Greg from No Regular Play. We got up and basically started drinking. It’s what you do in New Orleans!
So now we're just settling into our new villa in Miami, which is amazing. We have a residency here, which kicks of this Saturday with Crazy P at the Electric Pickle. Were doing New Years Eve here too with all the crew.
It's now time to just relax and recover from a crazy ass summer! Make music and chill, just Charlie, Gadi, Zev and I. Deniz pops in and out too.
Charlie: We're now working on a new album. We haven’t really had the time to chill out and make some real original music so the next couple of months are all about doing just that. The mission is two tracks a day, every day until we got our shit done. Watch out for our album, hopefully dropping in the spring.
Shout out to everybody we got to hang out with, party with and throw down with in October. It was the best!
Speak to you soon y’all, and watch out for some exciting stuff coming your way.
Check out the other DJ Diaries from Soul Clap here, or read the feature of them at home in Miami here.
Interview: Sheriff Allam
Photos: Chris Cooper
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