When I was living in Cville, I used to hit up Cassis from time to time, usually based entirely on whether or not my friend Wes, aka DJ Western Front, was the one spinning the tunes. About a year ago, he was hitting kind of a sweet spot, balancing just a smidge of pandering to the meat marketeers on the dancefloor with a taste for electro-leaning top 40 and top 40-leaning electronic music type things. Our mutual suburban upbringings would occasionally surface when we'd get excited over silly things like the time he unexpectedly dropped that old Punjabi MC song on the much-too-drunk crowd. Or every single time the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air theme song got blended by surprise into who-knows-what.
Anyway, Wes just uploaded a short but fun 15 minute mix that cycles really quickly through a number of songs that would've been heavy-hitters last year alongside some tracks I assume he's using nowadays. A lot of the newer tracks seem to still be based on older indie-flavor-of-the-week bits, though he occasionally gets me to raise an eyebrow when the reappropriation is clever (i.e. the unexpectedly pleasant appearance of the poorly named P4k-darlings-turned-scapegoats known as "Black Kids"). Anyway, enjoy some 2007-2008-era body shakers and here's to hoping that Cville continues to enjoy new sounds emanating from Wes's decks.
