Monday, July 21, 2008

Welcome to Summerstage on the hottest day of the year...

The presenter wasn't kidding.  My friend and I got to Central park at about 2:00, and there were 200+ people in front of us.  I assumed I wouldn't even be getting into the venue (not realizing how big it was).  I squeezed my way to about 5th row, and waited for the show to start.

I'm gonna have a lot to write about.

Mz Streamz

About 6 teenage girls came running out on stage and started dancing while DJ Blaqstarr was spinning.  I thought they were just a dance team, but then 2 girls grabbed a mic and started performing.  




I only had videos of them dancing to a backing track of their song.  I thought I recorded "Tear It Up", a really good Bmore club track featuring DJ Sega, but apparently I didn't.  They killed it, and I am looking for more of their songs, and can't really find any.  I read somewhere that they filmed a video recently and have a mixtape coming out soon.

Mz Streams Myspace

Blaqstarr

Blaqstarr came on and played some of the best baltimore club music I have ever heard.  I always love Blaqstarr mixes and the entire crowd was going crazy for "Hands Up, Thumbs Down".  He sampled some M.I.A. and Bonde Do Role (possibly a new song?).  Kid Cudi came on as a special guest, and he was alright.  I wasn't too into him, but I did manage to get a picture with him.  I'll be checking out his songs later this week to see what I think.  This is also around the time I may or may not have passed out for a second from the heat, so I had to make my way to the back of Summerstage so I could cool down (which is why I have no good pictures from this event).

DJ Blaqstarr - Tote It

Diplo

Hands down favorite DJ.  The fact is he is extremely talented, good looking, brings the best unknown music acts into the spotlight, and dated M.I.A. for a while.  He played a bunch of my favorites (his Golddiger Mix and Stronger Mix) and he sample The Gossip, which was a nice suprise.  He played for about an hour and a half (splitting the stage with A Trak, who was pretty damn good too) and it was great.   Check out maddecent.com to see all of Diplo's mixes, acts, up and coming artists, etc.


Rihanna - Umbrella (Diplo VNDLSM (Z-Share)

Santogold

This is what everyone was waiting for.  She walked right by me going backstage, but had her headphones in.  When she came on, all of Summerstage exploded.  She started with "You'll Find A Way (Switch remix)" and went on to sing "LES Artistes", "Starstruck", "Anne", "Unstoppable", and a few others.  She ended with "Creator" and it was really good.  She was really interactive with the first few rows (and I was extremely jealous of them).  Her backup dancers were PERFECT.  I was too far to get good video, but I recorded some live audio.  More will come later.

Santogold - Say Aha (Live at Summerstage)

(recorded by me)

Also here is a short video.  Its from really far away, and I was dancing but you can kind of see her backup dancers dancing.

Word.

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