I went to SF with jesse and a couple of other friends to see Justice and MSTRKRFT perform at the mezzanine last night. We had a bit of trouble finding the venue, it's hidden in an alley and there are several alleys in the same area with the same name. The space itself is pretty rad, big dance floor, nice DJ booths, basically a place that I would love to DJ at some point. Once we got there I figured out that I knew two of the guys who were spinning before the Justice/MSTRKRFT set, one I met while working at Dim Mak and the other was the guy who does Lipstick in Sac every week. There weren't many people dancing when we arrived, but after I spent some time talking to a friend that I ran into, the dancefloor started to fill up. From then on it was pretty much nonstop dancing until we left the place exhausted at around 115. I was really surprised because most of the time indie hipster-ish shows are pretty notorius for a lack of dancing especially in SF, but this was not the case here.

MSTRKRFT played a really sweet set, they really only played one of their own songs, most of the stuff was pretty house-y and all very electro. They transitioned very smoothly over to the Justice guys and everyone started dancing even harder. I was pretty much just hanging out with Jesse at this point, which was really cool, I like being able to hang out with him independent of other friends or girls.

When Justice went on they had two hipster girls dancing on the side of the stage acting as their onstage entertainment. For about 10 minutes they were the only ones on stage, but slowly people began to jump up there and start dancing as well. Once a few more got up there a tide of people including Jesse and I got up there and basically danced our asses off for the rest of the night.

I can't remember the last time I was that tired after a show. I only recognized a
couple of the songs all night, there was a Justice track and one from Hot Chip, other than that it was mostly house-y electro and booty bass stuff. Basically all of the kind of stuff that I would like to play at Rock It, but can't because people would rather hear 6 year old rock tracks. I think the Rock It crowd is more accepting of different genres than most indie nights, hip-hop goes over okay and I can play some electro, but if I try to play too many tracks that people don't recognize they will leave.

The night before I DJ-ed at the Grad's Halloween party, it was a tuesday so it normally would have been Rock It, but because of Halloween there were several other DJs and it was much more of a Bros and Hos audience. Jesse and a couple other people came out, and it was totally awesome when Justin and Mariah won the costume contest with their Dead Kennedys ensemble. My set was pretty short, but I managed to keep the dancefloor mostly entertained and then spent the rest of the night dancing. I am hoping that the one week off will revitalize Rock It so we can get one good one and then the following will be 80s night and hopefully that will go off as well.