As mentioned before, Daymon Day will be returning to Tuttle Park 9-19-09. For more info on Daymon Day, and its parade, please read 614 Magazine’s article on the event. 614 interviewed Envelope, Daymon’s mom Judy and myself for the article.

As for the Basketball portion of the event, CJ Townsend organized a basketblog tourney, in which Team Donewaiting (DJ True Skills, Aleks Shaulov,Andrew Patton, and myself) will compete with Weedsteeler, Agit Reader, Milk Bar, Embassy, Kings Rowe,Central City Recordings, and The Grip for a warm case of PBR.

The bball tourney will be from 12 to 5 at Tuttle Park, Saturday 9-19. The Daymon Day Parade is scheduled to start at Tuttle Park @ 8pm.

(the grudge match right now is between Weedsteeler and the Grip. Or perhaps Weedsteeler and itself)

Micheal “Gaybar” Carney lining up  um a, gay disco record.

Moral Tales is the new skin of Columbus future dance offering options for  the following: any lady with discerning taste; harlots that shop at both vintage stores and American Apparel; cordially mannered sociopath hustlers,; well-educated gentleman that are products of proper breeding; exquisitvely dressed nancyboys; rock n roll narcotic users; any other combination that requires both being attractive and well-versed in something . The first one installment of this monthly gala launched Last Saturday. The music provided by DJ Tru Skills, Gaybar, and DJ Detox centered around Exotic Funk, Disco, Electo and then ventured into R+B/blog house/bmore/ dance musics of the now at the end. The event’s host was a Mr. Scotty Neimat whose past endeavors include but aren’t limited toboth Sweatin Dance Party and the place Columbus DIY took root, the Neil House.

photos by danielle kline

DJ Detox. Polite societies number one dejay. MGMT/Kid Cudi/PYT/Jodeci/MIA+more.

Whats that song I heard at the Treasure Fingers thing? We gonna do drugs We are gonna get fucked. And we are gonna do it all tonight?  Something like that. It’s by some group Ocelot. Treasure Fingers did a remix.Our Time?  Seems to be a good sentiment. Anyway. Tonight marks the launch of a new chapter of Columbus Dance parties. This time it groups Sweatin Promoter Scotty with Get RIght’s DJ Detox, True Skills fresh of his Andyland Wexner Center show with RJD2, and Pillowtalk’s Gaybar.

Expect the music to go everywhere from Abba to Kraftwerk to Dub to Moroder to Kano to DFA to New Wave to French House to Electro to DJ Funk to Blog Bmore wih some Exotic pyschdelic funk to boot. True Skills even has this sweet dance verison of Joliene.

Last time these people combined efforts it looked like this. Disco dunston.

Moral Tales on Myspace.com

The Wexner Center had a Factory themed party called Andyland that enlisted perhaps the only superproducer in the age of internet/touring fame that is from Columbus, former Huntington Bank teller and Columbus State Calculus student, RJD2. The superproducer turned songwriter that will be the only instrumental hip hop producer that will be acceptable to sample  in the year 2032 because he played instruments and organized the songwrites in loop friendly increments on his last recorded release The Third Hand. The superproducer did not bring a band nor engage in fancy turntable combination arrangements for this this gala. The superproducer was here to play music off his turntables that were hooked up to the Serato computer program channeled thru his mixer for Ladies in waiting, Handsome suitors, townies with charisma, hustlers and general patrons of the arts.

Perhaps Bizzy Bone makes beats and is technically more famous and is from Columbus but does that ever come to mind? SO they invited RJD2 instead of Bizzy Bone. I believe that Jermaine Dupri produced Lil Bow in the beginning , and Jermaine Dupri is thankfully not from Columbus. So because this is a Warhol themed event in celebration of the dead artists exhibit in Columbus RJD2 was superproducer turned superstar dejay,

RJD2 is an old friend of the Columbus Hip Hop and Art communities. So before his playing of musicks he came and met up with his old friends in the food areas. The light-fare was catered by both Cameron Mitchell, and possibly White Castles. There were elegant truffles and extravagent pastries, and well as small square shaped beef offerings placed on similar sized baguettes that looked exactly like Sliders.

Due my lactose intolerance ailment, I elected to just drink Tom Collins. I soon realized I didn’t know what a Tom Collins was. I began to fear that they may not have alcohol content. Perhaps they were a male version of Shirley Temples Luckily one of RJ’s friends with an I-phone googled Tom Collin’s.

After my paranoia was qwelled, We discussed the celebrations of the Obama coup. RJ then gave Envelope and I some recommendations on informative writings then the superproducer had to ready himself for performence.

RJ started his set with the song “Andy Warhol” then mixed it into an old rap song. His set later included the Talking Heads, and that karoake song that Cam’ron sampled that has “Don’t Stop Believing” in the hook.

The inbrebriated socialites seemed to enjoy dancing to the selectors’ selections while sipping eco-friendly achohol served at bars in the performance space.

I greatly enjoyed not having to gallop over to RJ’s old haunt, Bernies Distillary,to purchase spirits.

RJ introduced an old friend for said stomping ground Bernies, a DJ True Skills. The superproducer proclaimed True Skills as the Godfather of Columbus Hip Hop. An apt-title do to DJ True Skills pioneering efforts in our cities Hip Hop community. One time True Skills bought me 40′s when I was underage which may have contributed to me being an alchoholic. His greater feats include DJing all over the city since the 80′s, song production, show promotion, and Hip Hop shopkeeping.

I earlier told a Jerry Dannemiller that DJ True Skills is the DJ version of the Cheater Slicks.

So RJ honoring True Skills was appropriate.

It would be incorrect to assume that DJ True Skills is an outdated, Hip Hop man stuck in the doldrums of bitterness. Quite the opposite, his selections of exotic pyschedelic records, Funk House and modern disco  records transforms any moment into a combination of a DIY juke-joint house party, and Studio 54.

He proved that to be the case once again at the Wexner Center.

All and all the night was pretty decent. The Wex was able to throw a party for its supporters. And RJ got to spin records in his hometown.

Scotty Cockblock(Sweatin,Invented Columbus Hardcore) and DC Kareem(Get Right/MilkBar) are throwing a new Funk Party tonight with Columbus Hip Hop Pioneer DJ True Skills in the limelight. True Skills(Adrian Willis) has some of most curious, peregrine psychedelic funk records I have heard. Its like a weed brigadeiros for your body’s internal rhythmic response mechanisms.

After the Jump. 1 Important Fact about DJ True Skills.

“You have no props or Madskills”-MHz-World Premier 1998

DJ True Skills, known as DJ MAd Skills at the time, gave Bobbitio Garcia a MHZ(RJD2,Camu Tao, Copywrite,Jakki, Tage) demo in 1997.

For those that don’t know, Bobby used to host the Stretch Armstrong Show on WKCR that defined NYC underground Hip Hop in the 90′s. Bobbito had a label called Fondle’ Em. Fondle Em was at the time launching the career of Cage, and bringing Zevlove X of KMD back under the name MF Doom.

Bobbito thought it was dope, and started putting MHZ records out. This entrance to the NYC Indie Hop Hop inner-circle led to Copywrite & Camu getting down with Eastern Conference, and RJ being able to handle his “Dead Ringer” demo to Def Jux head El-P.

Who knows what time would’ve brought. Slug would’ve still been in at Scribble in Cincy for Print to meet. Rawls still knew Kweli. The MHz were really talented.

But. True Skills giving that demo was crucial.