Monday, May 30, 2011
Sunday, May 29, 2011
More, Now, Harder, Faster, Slower, Longer, Tighter!! part 1
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Hello my little beat bunnies.
One of my Fave One Hit Wonders was the delicious porn star actress / disco debutant....Andrea True Connection “More, More, More”. It was a bit sleazy, but it captures the essence of what seems to be the mantra of many of our lives in the club scene. More (fill in the blank) Please.
Well I Said it was one of MY faves. And I have met a few of you that even if you don’t know the song....you know the words.
“More, More, More....How do you like IT, how do you Like it.” (*I’m jus’ sayin’)
Music over the years changes in style, tempo and beats. The production values have gone out of the roof, and vary to taste. I love a LOT of different types of musics. I like it All. I want You to hear it all. (*you Better get busy ‘cause I’m telling you it’s a full time job.) I’d Like it if you could hear All my sets....and how I work them beginning to end every time I hit the corner booth....but, alas....you have your “More” list to take care of too.
So, I’m only able to Give you a “Taste” of what is just a slice of the pie that is the program of the night as it progresses. These sets here are from two different Peak Night sets. I also realize that listening on headphones in the gym or in the car is a Far cry from what it actually sounds like in the club....when you have a room Full of ambient crowd noise and conversations going on around you. And after you’ve had a few choice cocktailed combinations and are UP for IT.
So, all I can offer is an invitation to come Out and Get There yourself to “Feel” the entire Trip.
I promise it doesn’t hurt ….too bad. Again, More, Now, Harder, Faster, Slower, Longer, Tighter, MORE. (*sly). Whew.....These two nights....one was from the ‘Drummer” party I played a few weeks ago. The second is from the last “Mandance” that happens every 3rd Friday of each month. They are both peak night, crazy screaming at me crowds of “Havin’ It” peoples....Just the way I Likes ‘em. So, hoist one, Crank up the Big knob to High....and shake it like no one is watching. There’s some fantastic new songs out, I hope you find one or two here to sweat you through the summer.
Keep your heads to the sky. Eat your veggies. Call your moms. Spread some house love and get yourself out to the club for the Real Thing.
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL Djs.
It’s a great life.....Live it large.
Love all around
Herbie
(*your friendly neighborhood taste maker)
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Saturday, May 07, 2011
Go Deeper!!
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Hello there Universe.
I’m here to report....that You can Get!!. You....Can Get!! Just ask it. Wish It. Think It. Feel It. Want It bad enough....yeah yeah...I know I know. I’ve been Taught this my whole life....and have listened to many people tell me the whole sales pitch. Over and Over. Again and Again. And If only I had listened a Long time ago.....we would be talking a whole new story in the “E True Hollywood Story” that is my life. NOW.
BE Blessed!! You already are.....Just accept it.
Listen to your Uncle Herbie.
Now, Listen to your Uncle Herbie....as he turns out yet anOther set of what has turned into a night of Wicked High NRG. The club that I have been Delt....(*the Ramrod Bar in Fort Lauderdale, FL) Has turned into this Wild, feely touchy, hands in the air, screaming for the breakdown, Loving crowd on my Friday nights. Truly a gift horse.
This parTicular set....is the second of the four sets that made up the last 3rd Friday of the Month MANDANCE. (*Not, to be missed) The crowd on this one....was just up for it. I just wish I had an open mic that could capture the “Live” vibe of the night. Hot.
This set is a little more on the Vocal tip than I might tend to play....but you know I Love It ALL. There are even a couple of “Requests” spattered in it. But, since I love to Play It All....and try to Mixxx it Up.....Here’s a different side of the Herbicidal.
Not to worry....there’s more MORE to come. I Think you should hear it all...but you Need to get to the club...and enjoy the full on....Volume Cranked up....Cocktailed, Groped, and Bumped madness that ensues just about every Friday now.
Feel some house love.....let the music lift you Up.....Turn it UP....Get on your best Sunday dancin’ shoes....and shake it up with me.
Hope you are all doing well....and living Life Large.
Love all around
Herbie
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(*yes, don’t forget to tune in for my weekly updated radio show on GIRL every Monday and Friday!!....Midnight to 2am.)
Friday, April 15, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
It’s some Dog Dayz Y’all,
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Two Come UP's to 2011
Friday, November 26, 2010
Abundant Manly Dancing
Sunday, October 31, 2010
Saturday, October 30, 2010
Techno for Love part 2
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Comes In All Shapes and Sizes
Herbie goes Top 40 ....The Horrors!! part 3
Friday, June 25, 2010
A Little Help From My Friends
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Hi kids
I know that Usually this E Blast is all about me. And yes....I Wish the world revolved around me....alas that rude awakening came quite a long time ago. So now, and for This time, it's not about me....it's about another friend who needs a vote of confidence. Seems She is in the running for her own TV show on the Oprah network....and it's a bit of a competition and she needs as many "Votes" as she can get. So, I thought....how nice it might be to ask a slice of My universe for some of that. So, If you have a quick moment, go to this shared link....and give back some Love to Becky and let's get one of our own Out there. Thanks.
(Here's the mail that She sent out, with the voting link....just so you get the gist of her show. XOXOX)
Hello everyone,
Each of you on this email has in some way inspired me in my life, sometimes, without even realizing it. And so, I am asking you all to support me in my never ending quest to spread love and sunshine. Oprah Winfrey has a competition for someone to win the opportunity to create their own show on her network and be the new Oprah!!!
My show concept is "Love Today" and as you know me well, are probably not surprised by this! From the little girl skipping and tap dancing, to the "Hello Love" Cruise Director, I really believe that I have something to offer. The show would be fun and exciting, emotional and inspiring, educational and at times surprising....but always fun!
What the world needs now is a feel-good TV show. What the world needs now is "Love".
So, I need your help and the help of ALL of your friends, family, neighbours, collegues, facebookers and twitterers.....it is a voting process and so please have you or your friends log on to the below website and search for Becky Thomson Foley, "Love Today" and vote for me. Some have a million + votes and so the more people you could ask to help would enable Oprah to see that Becky and Love need to be on her network.
Here is the link so copy and paste it:
http://myown.oprah.com/audition/index.html?request=video_details&response_id=15255&promo_id=1
Thank you for inspiring me.......thank you for supporting me.......
Whatever you do, do it with love,
Becky "Hello Love" Thomson :)
PS.....Hope you didn't think I was going to just leave without posting some choons for ya. (w) Spread some house love and I hope to see you all on a dancefloor near me soon.
Love all around
Herbie
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Thursday, June 17, 2010
Get Serious
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It's Time to Get Serious my Little Monsters.....
Yes....it is My, "Time of the Month." It's also Your time of the month....for Mandance!! And, it's happening this Friday during South Florida Gay Pride weekend. As this Friday begins the craziness that is Pride. Always a blast of a weekend. But then....every Friday has been a really good time in the club and the crowd has "Let...Me...'aVe IT." So, I can't Wait for this one.
So here's a little sumin' sumin' to wet your musical whistles. It's not too hard or too soft...(hehe)....but it is a little funky....just the way we like it. Just a little taste of how it all comes out during the course of any given night. It's never the same....but neither is the crowd that demands it. I play to Them. With a few twists and bumps along the way of course.
So, If you are anywhere close to the drive.....this is DEF the place to be this Friday night. And, If ....you get near the "Parade" on Sunday....Look for me on the Broward House "Broward Bares" float. See yaz then....Love you Always.
As always....check out a new podcast that you may not have heard....and check out my twice weekly internet radio show on GIRL radio. Till then....keep your heads to the sky....and spread some house love.
Love all around
Herbie
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Saturday, June 05, 2010
I Can't Get Out 3
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Hi my Little Monsters
This podcast was Featured on one of my Fave blogs, JoeMyGod, (*thank you Joe) . And I got so many requests for download that I'm now posting it to the website / iTunes for all the lovers of the musics. Stay tuned as I've got lots more to come....and come.
Love all around
Herbie
Friday, May 14, 2010
Creativity in Chaos part 1
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Hey Lovers,
I have been having So much fun lately. The music is getting So exciting. I think it's the energy that it creates. Of course, I'm there start to finish...and I get to watch what happens to the crowd as it becomes this life-force, with a mentality all it's own. It ebbs and flows like an amoeba....from the black lagoon....snicker. There's all kinds too....peoples with attitude...with baggage...with sexual attitude....with sexual baggage. It all adds up to a bunch of crazies getting all liquored up, and making the circle flow that is the bar-life. Me, on the other hand.....I'm stuck in my own little world....control freak that I AM....and it's me controlling the little musics of the night. Course they, the little musics... are really big musics....they are powerful, powerful messages. They also have lives of their own, and they create an energy and a sexualness that makes Some people do some Stuff....and stuff. They create a chaos, a melee, that once it starts it goes where it goes. No stopping it 'till it's over. Sometimes spirits are moved....sometimes it's the bodies. Sometimes minds are touched....sometimes it's the hearts. I'm always talking to them....sending out subliminal messages that make you go hmmmmm. One of my fave quotes, is from Robert Ashley's "The Bar.'' And he says...."....Short ideas....Repeated....Massage the brain." Boom Tsst, Boom Tsst, Boom Tsst, Boom Tsst.
I AM .....Truly....Blessed. Blessed with the gift of music. I say it's a gift, because I don't know how this comes out of me without the help of a higher love. I mean who else could have made Me a great programmer of music? I thank God every day for giving me this gift. The Higher Love!! And, thank You, for allowing me to share it with my small universe. Because this music is much bigger than I am. I am only the vessel. I give it back the way it's given me. I only put the music in the bag....the way it comes Out of the bag is entirely up to the creativity given me In the chaos. Creativity In Chaos....that's the only way I can explain it.
This night I had all kinds of people come up to me, and ask, "What's got into you tonight?" And, say things like...."You have lost your mind,' and 'Where, are you going tonight." I don't exactly have the answer to any of those questions. The music plays itself. All I do, is start it with a song. Then one song leads to the next one...and the next one. I can only think a song or two in advance. It flows out the way it flows Out. And over the night, it will most likely take a few twists and turns. I only collect the music that I love. I let the LOVE of it, put order to it. It's my "Style." I don't think there's anybody who would play the same records the same way. It would just sound different. If fact....I have to confess.....What I think is one of the greatest compliments paid to me....and the music that I play....IS....people come into the room All the time....and tell me...."Before I could even see who was spinning....I could tell it was you (that'd be me>)." I don't know exactly what that means....and I hope it's a good thing....but, I take it as the highest compliment that anyone could give a DJ....because that means that I actually DO have a "Sound." I can't even give it a name...I just know that when I go out....I don't hear anybody else playing the same music. It must be the way I connect drums and basslines...and vocals and breakdowns...in a way that makes some sense. I am a dancer from way back in the day....so now, I play the music that I would want to hear if I was on the dancefloor. In my room of course. And, I have no doubt that I have some kind of story to tell. Too much musical history not to. You can hear my roots in the classics that I drop time to time. It's all in the bag....it just comes Out that way. Different night to night. That story being....I play the party. I play the Room. The crowd that's there at the time. The sound system. Some of the songs may even be the same night to night....and the energy can be totally different. I'm not sure if it's the order of the songs....or the pitch....or the vibe in the room. What ever it is....They. Make me DOIT.
So this set....started out a little rough....As I started with something like Etta James and Amy Winehouse, maybe some Al Green....but I had a song in mind...with an intro...and I couldn't for the life of me find it in the bag....(Until about 3 hours later.) Don't ask. So that didn't happen and I had to find another. Which is were we start here. The last podcast posted was a come down set....So, This one is a come UP set. Different night, probably a different feel. It is what it is....I just felt like it was a good one...and that You needed to hear it. So, crank up the volume....make yourself a strong cocktail....and powder the floor. This ones Sexxxxxy. Part two might be coming....I just need to hear back about one of the tracks first. (*re-snicker).
So, till the next time we get together. Make it a good one. Tell somebody you love 'em. Play safe. And holla at me if we're close. And, if you are in a club and the music is bumpin', seek out the DJ and tell them that you are diggin' what he/she is serving.
Love all around
Herbie
PS. The Annie Lennox was a request....and I thought it was early enough to just go ahead and drop it almost right after he requested it....so there.
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Sunday, May 02, 2010
Some good morning come down grooves
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Hello out there....all my fave Fabnesses.
It's been some wild and full on hands in the air fun nights as of late. I only wish you All could BE there for all of them. And, I wish that I could post All of it in podcasts. Time and space allotted....it's just not possible. The other point to be made here....is a lot of you who Do make it to the club....and you come for many different reasons....(wagwagwagwag)....but, you sometimes don't stay to the very end....lights up...with security herding you out the doors. So, you miss some of the most musical fun of the whole story of the night. Now too, I don't always get to "come down." Sometimes the crowd, and the set, just doesn't let it happen that way. But, as you know from my past posts....I love to come up and to come down. This just happened to be one of those nights. A night when there were famous glitteratti in the room, and I was playing to them. This is a sample of what can happen.....when that happens.
Mind you....they have already been beat down with the Herbicidal sexualness....and might need a hug before they are "Herded". Too, they have been cocktailed, bumped, and groped by some of the sexiest sexiness in the world....from where I stand anyway. This one...they just didn't want to leave.....so I gave them a nudge. I love nudges. So, a few fierce cocktails....and lots of free groping later....this is how it all came "Down." It's when the energy is still pumping....and I turn them around for some delicious
late night / early morning grooves. Also, keep in mind...the lights were up and the bartenders are waving me down for at least the last twenty minutes. So, Let the games begin.
Love all around;
Herbie
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Saturday, March 27, 2010
The Vibe is Thick! - part 1
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Hello all my favorite Beat buddies.
Welcome to Winter Music Conference week in Miami. And in case you have been under a musical Rock for the last 25 years....WMC is the biggest DJ event in the world....and it happens every year in Miami during what is probably one of the most beautiful times for weather here in what we call paradise. Every club, Every day, is having a party that one is as off the chain as the next. It's a full time job to try to do them...but worth every ounce of energy. I have some incredible memories of some legendary parties....that are still talked about. I've played my share during some of them. There is just a whole lotta love that fills the air. Lots of catching up with old music buddies, and lots of track exchange of the newest and hottest new music that the rest of us...will be playing a year from now....if we're lucky.
I, on the other hand, have to Work during the weekend nights, so These sets are what I was playing, feeling My "Vibe" one night at the club during. You know I try my best to represent in my little corner of the musical world. And you know that there is Never enough time to play everything....so here you have a little taste of what they got. I like it. The night was bumping with tourists and my tail was Waggin. (wagwagwagwagwag) As were quite a few other tails I might add.
Now go get it...and turn up the volume to a nice and loud....but comfortable level...maybe powder the floor so you can slide in your Sunday best dress....and turn it out as only you know how.
I hope that everything in your corner is going smoothly...and that all of you are healthy and happy. Sending you some house love. And if you are Ever nearby....stop in for a drive by look see at how we DOIT in the big city. I always love my peoples to stop by and chat stew.
Love all around
Herbie
ps. And, you can always listen every week to my internet radio show on GIRL radio. It's a two hour snap-shot of what is going down in the club week to week. (Tuesday 12am-2am and Friday 12am-2am EST)
