Re-post from Discobelle.net

Tanner Ross and Sergio Santos are the latest signing to mothership. Tanner you may know from Voodeux or from early appearances on dirtybird. Sergio you may know from Wolf+Lamb and Airdrop. They are room-mates so they got the smelly socks 116 bpm funk goin on. Check their “G. Things EP” out next week, but for now here’s the free mix DL so u can hear what’s up. (yes, the new EP is in the mix)

Download Tanner Ross and Sergio Santos G Things Promo Mix (tracklist at bottom)

Week 23??
U may have been wondering where I’ve been but you probably never missed me at all. I don’t really know what happened besides the fact that writing “I just played a great party” 20 weeks in a row can be quite boring to write AND to read. But some really standout gigs have happened since my last entry including one of the best Dj weekends of my life in Dublin, Leeds, and London. Basically my “bread and butter” as my agent would call them. I love these three towns. I connect with the people there in a way that makes me smile and love my job more than anything in the world. Big up to T-Bar, Back to Basics, Plan B, Osaka, Chibuku, Denver and all the good shows over the last few weeks.

One of my favorite nights in the world is called Back to Basics in Leeds. Check out this BBC video about it (the longest running club night in the UK – over 18yrs!) with footage of yours truly and a clip of Who’s Afraid of Detroit?

Dirtybird B-Day
Also - our 5 year dirtybird B-Day party was in SF since my last blog entry and it was amazing. Everyone played great and we packed that place with over 1200 heads. There’s nothing like seeing something like this develop over 5 years and finally hit it’s stride. The hometown vibe was bouncin’ 100%. Here is a video one of our people made for us. It’s hard to see sometimes, but you get the picture. I can’t wait for this 5 year cd set to come out in April!

But no one really reads this to find out how much fun i’m having do they? It’s more about the mishaps and blunders on the road that make life interesting. So let’s revisit the second to last day of my 10 day trip to Asia. I have played Tokyo and about 5 other cities and I am burnt. It’s 7am on Saturday morning and I am sitting down next to a snack stand at the the Kuala Lampor airport throwing away all of the clothes I don’t absolutely “need.” I pick out my 8 favorite t-shirts and jam them into my DJ bag. All the rest like dirty underwear, socks, running shoes, jacket, shirts — will all be casualties of this purge.

What gives? Turns out the last day of my Asia tour had a little snag. I had to fly all the way from Kuala Lampor to Osaka Japan for the very last show of a 10 day trip. But in order to make it to Osaka i have to stop in “Guangzhou” China. And Guangzhou China is one of the only places on earth you cannot check your bag through. I have a 45 minute connection which would be difficult to make even if i didn’t have any luggage checked in. So the only way to make it to Osaka is to trash my “check in” luggage completely.

It might sound crazy but it is a very simple (and ridiculous) math equation.

Play the gig - Bag = get paid more than the price of the bag

OR

Keep Bag + miss the gig AND the flight home the next morning.

For me, it’s an easy choice. I ditch the dirty underwear in the garbage can and sacrifice the bag.

I go back upstairs and the Malaysian Air check-in guy recognizes me from my first encounter when he told me the crazy rules in China. He smiles and checks me into the flight. He’s kind of a goofy guy and I’ll never forget his last sentence to me..
“Your seat is 5c, the lounge is to the left after security, and thanks for the nice bag.” giggle…

Then he takes my $400 luggage as a gift because I can’t check it through!!

Wow, that is almost as funny as the night before when i walked on stage in front of 1500+ and the owner of the club came up to me and said…
“You can play a couple of your own things and then you need to play commercial.”

Followed by me saying…”Don’t stand anywhere near me. Don’t talk to me. You make me sick. I’m going to pretend you don’t exist.”

Followed by me Dj-ing with a forced grin and the promoters getting on the mic all throughout my set and shouting “Who’s Afraid of Detroit mothefuckers!! This is how we do it it the KL!!!” (that’s Kualal Lampor fyi)

Interesting night AND morning… can’t wait to go back and do it all again.

Tanner Ross & Sergio Santos - G.Things Ep Promo Mix (from mix link at top)

1. Martin Buttrich - L2 [ Desolate ]
2. Tanner Ross & Sergio Santos - Sedara [ Mothership ]
3. Seth Troxler - Love Never Sleeps ( Gadi Mizrahi Mix )
4. Franck Roger - The Wolfman [ Real Tone Records ]
5. Dachshund - V2e [ Sthlmaudio Recordings ]
6. Voodeux - Heebie Jeebiez ( Soul Clap mix ) CDR
7. Kenny Larkin - GLOB (Claude VonStroke 71 Remix) [Planet E]
8. Martyn - Seventy Four ( Redshape Remix ) [ 3024 ]
9. Tanner Ross & Sergio Santos - G.Things [ Mothership ]
10. Second-Hand Satellites - Orbit 1.4 [ Hallucination ]
11. Scuba - Flesh Is Weak [ Hot Flush ]
12. SECT - SECTsy [ Culprit ]