These Times Are A-Changin’
Hey all,
Just wanted to let you guys know that I’m still breathing and working on some new material. I’m still rockin’ the Nashville Roller Derby and some various events. Howver, I’m focusing some attention on new ventures as well. This means there will be less booking and more secret music being made. Also, working on some fun ‘flash-mob’-style ideas for some fun parties around Nashville. So, yeah, still doing the thing and still dreaming new ways to make you dance.
Peace. Love. Hug a fat kid.
-DJ Fat Andy
p.s. Working on some fun cheap merch ideas; so you can rock some fun gear without breaking the bank.
Weekend of Awesome
The Goon 10th Party
Well, kids, do you like The Goon? Of course you do. Your favorite muscled, zombie-fightin’, funny-book hero is celebrating his 10th anniversary - well, Eric Powell, the book’s creator is celebrating. He’s inviting all his friends and fiends down to Nashville, TN for a weekend of awesome. First, Friday night come on down to the Cannery Ballroom to see Eric, Calabrese, Goultown, the Protomen, Dj Fat Andy (yours truly), the Nashville Rollergirls, Ruby Rocket, the MCB girls and more! It is sure to be a night of good ol’ fashioned mischief - Goon style! Tickets are available through www.thegoon.com
NRG vs Tampa
Also, kids, do you love roller derby? Yes? How about your Nashville Rollergirls brand of roller derby? Hell yeah you love it! Well, it is again time on this Saturday lose you voice yelling and hurt you liver (only if your 21 or older) at the TN State Fairgrounds watching the Nashville Rollergirls. I will, as always, be there spinning before and during the bout. The doors are at 6pm; bout at 7pm. YOu can get your tickets in advance online at www.nashvillerollergirls.com, which is a smart move since not everyone got in last time due to the ratio of limited number of seats to ample amounts of asses. See you there!
NRG is back!!!
| February 7, 2009 | ||
| 4:30 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
Well, kids, it’s time to start this shit off again. The poweder keg that is the Nashville Rollergirls will be lighting it’s fuse for the first time in ‘09 on Febuary 7th. The girls are getting ready, I’m preparing some new stuff to spin and you should be buying your damn ticket. This is the first double header we’ve done, so it’ll be a bit different. So listen up!
Doors open at 4:30pm @ the TN State Fairgrounds.
TKTS are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.
Get advance TKTS here.
New Year’s Bash 2008!!!!
| December 31, 2008 8:00 pm | to | January 1, 2009 2:00 am |
New Years Eve 1908
Hey all. Well, it seems that the date has been set and it’s time to dance 2009 into our lives. I will be spinning all night at the new and oh-so-trendy Aloft Hotel in Cool Springs. I hope you all put on your party clothes and come help me welcome 2009.
Here is some more info.The event is free, but you have the option to book a room for some easy commuting or…..umm, adult fun.
2008 has been full of great triumphs and crisis for me as well as others, but this will be the night to dance all of your 2008 blues away!!!
Don’t Stop Believin’ in Santa
| December 13, 2008 | ||
| 12:00 am | to | 11:59 pm |
DJ Fat Andy’s “Top 5 Hip Hop Albums”
So, after talking with “the family” about musical influences. I realize, like anyone that has come to watch me spin, that my music is all over the place. So here is a place to let people know who has and is influencing me.
I give you: My Top 5 Hip Hop Records
Eric B & Rakim: Follow the Leader
In 1988, when Follow the Leader was released the was no slicker production than Eric B & Rakim. I know most point to Paid in Full as the duo’s masterpiece, but I feel on their sophomore effort they were able to write songs. The first effort, which is amazing, felt more like the took great freestyles from each MC and slammed them together to put out a record. Follow the Leader felt like the two came together to craft unbelievably great songs like “Follow the Leader”, “Microphone Fiend”, “Lyrics of Fury”, and “The R”.
Mars iLL: Pro-Pain
This duo from the ATL flipped me as producer on my head. Dust is by far one of the best turntablists and producers I’ve ever heard. His ability to use source material including blues and funk and turn them into hard hitting boom bap hip hop tracks. In the beats I create now I try to use source material from all genres instead of the predictable, like Dust. To quote MANchild from “Sound Off”: “Pro-Pain the album now completes the hat trick”…
Jurassic 5: Quality Control
Forming at the open mic night at The Good Life Cafe, Jurassic 5 brought new boom-bap tracks and classic inspired vocals to new generation of hip hop heads. “The Good Life was a renaissance period in hip hop,” according to Cut Chemist, one of the beat maestros of the group. This record pulls sample from James Brown to the A-Team and makes everything sound new and fresh. We all owe Charli 2na, Akil, Zaakir aka Soup, Mark 7even, DJ Nu-Mark, and Cut Chemist a big “Thanks” for bringing the crew mentality and delivery back to hip hop.
Deepspace 5: The Night We Called It A Day
Another crew bringing classic inspired crew hip hop back, but this time formed by an all-star underground Christian artists. Still boom-bap, but Deepspace 5’s beat sound more East Coast Renaissance than the party grooves of Jurassic 5. On this first full-legth outing Deepspace 5 paints pictures of the struggle of the underground with the added pressure of a moral standard higher than Earth. Beat Rabbi, Fred B, The Listener, Mars iLL, Playdough, Sintax.the.Terrific, Illtrip, Sivion, and Sev Statik make this collective continue to churn out great tracks even as they form their own label to do so.
Run-DMC: Raising Hell
Rev Run, DMC, and Jam Master Jay deliver classic tracks like “Peter Piper”; “It’s Tricky”; “My Adidas”; “Walk This Way”; “Raising Hell”; and “You Be Illin’.” Truly a masterpiece. Any questions?
October 18, 2008. 6:00pm
Final NRG bout of the year!!!
| October 18, 2008 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
This is the final Nashville Rollergirl bout of the year. So, all the times you wanted to see what the fuss was about, last chance. I will be spinning starting a 6:00pm. This is the intraleague championship: Damsels of Distress vs. the X-Pistols. So come one and come all.
TN State Fairgrounds: Sports Arena. $15. 6:00pm
New Site Is UNDER CONSTRUCTION!!!
Patience, my child.