This is exciting. I’ve been a trans-continental DJ, but never an inter-continental DJ. This will be my first time DJing in London, and my first time there since I was 13. I’m going on an epic trip, London, St. Albans, Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, but this will be my only DJ appearance. So I don’t care if you’re in Sheffield, Leeds, Bristol or Brighton, take the lorry down to London for some real Queens New York style dance music. I don’t know what that means but I’m bringing disco, italo-disco, french disco, canadian disco, french-canadian disco, new wave, old wave, techno, house, but no tech-house. Some real summertime Fire Island/Paradise Garage/Music Box/Danceteria/Hacienda sounds.

I’m totally honored to be playing with Rory and Nadia, old LiveJournal folks from the early Web 2.0 days. I don’t even remember how or when I met Rory, but he was in NY as much as I was back then, and I lived in Brooklyn at the time. All I knew was that he cue’d his records through a red telephone, like that guy used to at Bang the Party at Frank’s Lounge. He played at Transmission with me once, that may have been the first time we actually met, Lauren or the Rapture were probably like “oh Dan, you have to let our friend DJ”! A few years later our paths crossed again at the afterparty for Franz Ferdinand after Making Time in Philly, in some giant warehouse with nothing but a Sparks van (the drink, not the band) and a shaky balcony from which Rory played I Want More by Can and He’s Frank by the Monochrome Set. And once again the next time Franz came to town, they were much bigger but I got booked to play the after party at the Tribecca Grand with Melody Nelson and Sons and Daughters. Rory introduced me to Paul from the band, apparently a big Acute Records fan.

So please tell your London friends and if you are in London please come and say hello and dance some.

More details at the Facebook event page, of course.