10 Years and 39 Billion Beats Later…
In February of 2000, a group of friends in love with dance music, got together and put together a party that many still remember today. It was so much fucking fun!
As far as electronic dance music events go, “Do You Remember Love?” wasn’t the biggest, it wasn’t the best, it wasn’t the -est of anything, most likely. What it was, though, was an incredible experience and memory for me, personally, and it’s really hard to believe that this week marks ten years since this party went off in a big field in the middle of almost nowhere, twenty miles south of Dallas, Texas.
We’d had a venue booked near downtown Dallas that was shut down by the anti-dance music culture authorities a short time before our party was due to go off, and it was not a little bit nerve-wracking, but ultimately – with some help from the people that had the original venue in Dallas – we got a, well, pasture, to play in with an open-sided pavilion for the main “room.” It was cold that night. Really cold. The jungle “room” was further out in the field. What a bunch of troopers! My Mom (who died later that year in December, sadly) worked the “door” which was an opening in the fence to the pasture where cars were going to park. I remember security checking for dangerous things in people’s trunks and finding a box of sugar cubes and my Mom curiously picking it up thinking it was such a strange thing to bring to a party… Coffee or tea, anyone? and me loudly saying “Noooooooo!!!!” in what felt like slow motion, snatching it away from her (she would have no clue, naturally, that it was probably covered in LSD.) Scary at the time but hilarious, in retrospect. Disaster averted, the party went on to be both a vibe and fiscal success.
“That party bought my VW!” — Sean “Turtle” Anderson
So in honor of the 10th anniversary of a party I will never forget, I decided I should post online the mix I made the night before in haste in my apartment living room before driving to Dallas for the event. If anyone else that spun at the party has mixes and can put them online somewhere let me know and I will link them up here! It would be awesome if someone had DJ Colette’s mix recorded from that night, as well.
