Just Sixty Minutes of House Music
February 4, 2021 11:32 AM Subscribe
New Hampshire-based Eris Drew and Octo Octa (Maya Bouldry-Nelson) are lovers, co-founders of T4T Luv NRG Records, and two of the most prominent DJs boosting the house and rave scene.
(Slight derail: In essay, interview, and recording, Drew has described how the spiritual ecstasy provided by dance music has impacted her.)
This past year, Octa & Drew have been resident DJs at the BBC.
On February 1, they wrapped things up with 60 minutes of old-school house bangerzzz.
(Slight derail: In essay, interview, and recording, Drew has described how the spiritual ecstasy provided by dance music has impacted her.)
This past year, Octa & Drew have been resident DJs at the BBC.
On February 1, they wrapped things up with 60 minutes of old-school house bangerzzz.
I've been a fan of Octo Octa ever since Let Me See You but I didn't know anything about T4T Luv NRG, so I guess I have some catching up to do! Thanks, Going To Maine, I'm v. excited to put all this in my ears!
posted by aubilenon at 11:49 AM on February 4, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by aubilenon at 11:49 AM on February 4, 2021 [1 favorite]
Octo Octa is indeed great. Her Boiler Room set is one of my favorites (and I might've bitten a couple of tracks from it).
When I started going to raves in '94, there was a lot of house music that nodded to disco – a genre that had been thoroughly out of fashion for 15 years. At the time, that seemed impossibly ancient to me.
But now, the house music of 1994 is even older – 25 years! And the kids are hip to it! And they're still making new tracks in that style (if you know where to look)! Makes an old raver's heart glad.
posted by escape from the potato planet at 12:36 PM on February 4, 2021 [5 favorites]
When I started going to raves in '94, there was a lot of house music that nodded to disco – a genre that had been thoroughly out of fashion for 15 years. At the time, that seemed impossibly ancient to me.
But now, the house music of 1994 is even older – 25 years! And the kids are hip to it! And they're still making new tracks in that style (if you know where to look)! Makes an old raver's heart glad.
posted by escape from the potato planet at 12:36 PM on February 4, 2021 [5 favorites]
Hey, New Hampshire represent!
posted by schoolgirl report at 12:53 PM on February 4, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by schoolgirl report at 12:53 PM on February 4, 2021 [1 favorite]
As someone who grew up in fabulous Manchvegas, where the party famously never starts, I am very confused to read that two of the most prominent DJs boosting the house and rave scene live in New Hampshire.
posted by ChuraChura at 1:17 PM on February 4, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by ChuraChura at 1:17 PM on February 4, 2021 [2 favorites]
I love both of their music and was lucky enough to see them perform in Europe back when such things were possible. I had no idea they were base din New Hampshire! A summer rave in a field in New Hampshire crewed by these two ladies would be incredible.
posted by chaz at 1:19 PM on February 4, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by chaz at 1:19 PM on February 4, 2021 [1 favorite]
chaz, they basically do exactly that. (For themselves, at least. Guess you'd have to wrangle an invite.)
posted by escape from the potato planet at 1:34 PM on February 4, 2021 [3 favorites]
posted by escape from the potato planet at 1:34 PM on February 4, 2021 [3 favorites]
And the kids are hip to it! And they're still making new tracks in that style (if you know where to look)! Makes an old raver's heart glad.
Not only are they hip to it they're killing it. The current state of the art of DJing and dance music in almost any genre has been so good it makes the hair on my neck stand up.
There's so much good deep house out there right now i can barely keep up with a tiny fraction of it. There's also a lot of really good techno and right proper electro still being made and released, and if anything the pandemic has accelerated production and releases.
Octo Octa is indeed great. Her Boiler Room set is one of my favorites (and I might've bitten a couple of tracks from it).
Oh this is good. It's fun to see live vinyl, mistakes and everything and really seeing how hard it is to do well. You can even see that she's getting a case of the DJ shakes which for some reason is totally a thing when DJing, especially with vinyl.
I still have that happen if I try to mix vinyl. And it seems to be different than stage fright or anxiety. It doesn't seem to happen the same way as playing a live instrument or even live MIDI and seems to be a DJ specific case of the yips. It's a super weird mix of feelings about being nervous about fucking up, dealing with the workflow of beat matching and mixing vinyl, and then also feeling you're playing around with very heavy and dangerous power equipment like a big backhoe or a flying a high work load aircraft or something.
Which you kind of are doing - I mean playing with heavy power equipment - if the sound system is at all larger than a home theater stereo, especially with vinyl.
posted by loquacious at 2:26 PM on February 4, 2021 [2 favorites]
Not only are they hip to it they're killing it. The current state of the art of DJing and dance music in almost any genre has been so good it makes the hair on my neck stand up.
There's so much good deep house out there right now i can barely keep up with a tiny fraction of it. There's also a lot of really good techno and right proper electro still being made and released, and if anything the pandemic has accelerated production and releases.
Octo Octa is indeed great. Her Boiler Room set is one of my favorites (and I might've bitten a couple of tracks from it).
Oh this is good. It's fun to see live vinyl, mistakes and everything and really seeing how hard it is to do well. You can even see that she's getting a case of the DJ shakes which for some reason is totally a thing when DJing, especially with vinyl.
I still have that happen if I try to mix vinyl. And it seems to be different than stage fright or anxiety. It doesn't seem to happen the same way as playing a live instrument or even live MIDI and seems to be a DJ specific case of the yips. It's a super weird mix of feelings about being nervous about fucking up, dealing with the workflow of beat matching and mixing vinyl, and then also feeling you're playing around with very heavy and dangerous power equipment like a big backhoe or a flying a high work load aircraft or something.
Which you kind of are doing - I mean playing with heavy power equipment - if the sound system is at all larger than a home theater stereo, especially with vinyl.
posted by loquacious at 2:26 PM on February 4, 2021 [2 favorites]
World-famous house DJs from New Hampshire? Amazing!
I was playing 808 State when I went to school in New Hampshire in the 90s, but I wasn't on BBC. I was just playing it in my dorm room, lmao.
posted by gen at 2:53 PM on February 4, 2021 [1 favorite]
I was playing 808 State when I went to school in New Hampshire in the 90s, but I wasn't on BBC. I was just playing it in my dorm room, lmao.
posted by gen at 2:53 PM on February 4, 2021 [1 favorite]
Those gold old days! I can’t remember going to NH, but I did make it up to Maine for this one. Somehow I never realized how important smart drinks were for keeping one’s energy up.
posted by snofoam at 5:45 PM on February 4, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by snofoam at 5:45 PM on February 4, 2021 [1 favorite]
I love them both! And there is nothing I wish I could do more than get sweaty with a bunch of people dancing to House music. I live for the day!
posted by a Rrose by any other name at 6:35 PM on February 4, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by a Rrose by any other name at 6:35 PM on February 4, 2021 [1 favorite]
Yes, I too long for the clüb.
posted by Going To Maine at 6:49 PM on February 4, 2021
posted by Going To Maine at 6:49 PM on February 4, 2021
Maya and Eris on the blue! My queer rave collective was lucky enough to host one of their Motherbeat parties a couple of years ago. No booze sold, psychedelics everywhere, amazing vibes.
posted by LMGM at 3:00 AM on February 5, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by LMGM at 3:00 AM on February 5, 2021 [1 favorite]
If you need other sessions from their residency, maybe drop me a memail
posted by Going To Maine at 9:04 PM on February 5, 2021 [2 favorites]
posted by Going To Maine at 9:04 PM on February 5, 2021 [2 favorites]
Octo Octa has this week’s RA podcast, if people are looking for more.
posted by Going To Maine at 10:06 PM on February 28, 2021
posted by Going To Maine at 10:06 PM on February 28, 2021
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