My Old Kentucy Home (maybe someday) (originally posted 11.26.05)

Went to Lexington, KY for Thanksgiving and got a chance to really get a feel for the place. This is a truly beautiful part of the country and the sweeping hills and enormous farms are amazing. Some of the richest people in the world have horse farms in Lexington and the buildings alone are a sight to see.

The Lexington metro area is relatively small, but there is a lot of money concentrated in the general area and there are some gorgeous homes that are big and affordable, two words that you just won’t see in the same sentence here on the East Coast. I got a chance to go to Rupp Arena to see UK play a basketball game, had some great food and enjoyed a really relaxing visit with my girlfriend’s family.

Saturday Night I drove to Louisville to check in at the historic and simply stunning Seelbach Hotel. We got settled and then headed downstairs to the jazz bar in the lounge, with stiff drinks and a lot of atmosphere. Finally got to meet Sam and Eddie from Resonant Vibes and they were really great guys. Had a few more drinks, a shot (thanks Sam) and then headed across the street to 4th Street Live, a section of bars and restaurants where you get carded on the street and then are able to take drinks from one bar to another or buy drinks in the street if the weather is nice enough. It was actually a really nice night for late November, but still we settled into the Markers Mark Lounge for a few drinks before we headed over to the gig.

Got to Main Street Lounge around 12:30 and Q Burns was throwing down a funky, eclectic house set…full of chunky beats and a ton of effects. The people in the room were digging the beats, but unfortunately there just weren’t enough of them in attendance. There was a line at the bar up the street that offered 18+ and Hip-hop (go figure), but Main Street was a bit slower than I had hoped.

Met Lindsay and Maria (the two main promoters) and had a few tasty cocktails with Sam, Eddie and Megan. I got on the decks at 2 and the room had even less people than it did when we first arrived, but I had come all this way with my music…might as well do my best and see what I could build. After about 15 minutes, more and more people started to come out of the bar area and by 2:30 or so, I had the dance floor relatively full. I started off nice and chunky with the new Trentemoller and Marc Romboy, but was determined to get my groove on and get my techno sound heard…even for 50 people in a small room in Louisville.

As I got further into the harder beats, the people actually responded very positively and came right along with me for the ride. I played a few classics (Go from Moby and Washing Machine from Mr. Fingers) and ended the set around 3:50 with “Amber” by 311. As I packed up, I had a couple of offers to go to after parties, but with a 6:30 trip to the airport and 9 hours of travel time to get back to Boston on the agenda, we decided to call it a day.

Thanks again to Eddie and Sam and the entire Louisville crew. Hope to do it again soon.