On Thursday night March 5, disco / electro / house heads in Vancouver were treated to the musical stylings of Alan Braxe. Braxe, one of the true originators of the French Touch sound of disco-house, is probably best known for his early work with Thomas Bangalter (One half of Daft Punk) as Stardust and in particular the song that they released “Music Sounds Better With You”. But the man has always kept grindin’ and makin’ people shake their asses whether it be his own music, solo remixes or teaming up with Fred Falke and blowing peoples minds.
Anyways the DJ Set on Thursday night, needless to say, was effin’ amazing. He played joints across the board, freaking some newer shit like Treasure Fingers and then dropping Chaka Khan on heads then changing it up with his own remixes. There was no doubt that music heads in the house were enjoying every little bit of it. Oh and did I mention, the man is nice as hell and mad humble. That and he’s a friggin’ chain smoker, I think I saw him duck down below the decks smoking at least 1800 times within his set, okay more like 8 – 10 times, but daaaaamn son.
I actually had the opportunity to shoot some shots for Killahbeez, but without some help this opportunity wouldn’t have been possible. So we’d like to thank Matty Cee from Fastlife (www.myspace.com/thefastliferepublic) and Nate S. over at DHM (www.dhmbars.ca) for hooking us up with some love. Folks, make sure you check these sites out and keep it locked upcoming sets, cus they are bringing in quality DJs.
Check a few of the photos below and hit our Flickr page for the rest of them. For those of you wondering what I’m shooting with, I recently picked up a 10.5mm Nikon Fisheye lens, so that’s what you’re seeing shit through.
Killahbeez Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/killahbeez/
