James Gyre, D.J.

¿qué qué? - a new monthly party for tropical bass!

2011-10-01T23:14:00.005-04:00

r.s.v.p. at the facebook event page
STARTING OCTOBER 21st:

A brand new monthly party for Tropical Bass & Global Heat!!!

w/ resident DJs:

CUCITROA and JAMES GYRE

Music styles and genres to be featured (however not limited to):

Afrobeat, Baile Funk, Bhangra, Cumbia, Dancehall, Dutch House, Egypt, Flamenco, French Club, Gnawa, Hand Drums, Hip Hop, Iran, Jerk, Juke, Kuduro, Kwaito, Margaritas, Merengue, Moombahton, Prehispánico, Rai, Raga, Ragga, Reggae, Tribal Guarachero, UK Funky, world love...

r.s.v.p. at the facebook event page

21+ $5
10pm-2am
3rd fridays @
shadow lounge
5972 baum blvd.

Follow us here: http://www.facebook.com/quequepgh

B. Rich, 7up & James Gyre @ Brillobox Sept 3rd

2011-08-04T20:08:00.003-04:00

facebook event page: ⓇⒶⓋⒺ▲RAVE!@EarthlyDelights▲ⓇⒶⓋⒺ

Evolver Pittsburgh presents: Interweave

2011-08-04T20:07:00.001-04:00

this event was awesome. I made this pretty flyer, I deejayed, I showed artwork, I played drums and I taught people how to do a headstand. great party!

Distal, DJ Ripley visit Earthly Delights

2011-08-04T15:51:00.002-04:00

I haven't been updating this event blog as usual because i'm too busy deejaying! :) but... here's a recap of the last two earthly delights parties...

These last two parties went off amazingly. Such great talent. Ripley's lecture was fascinating and her set was slamming. Distal blew the Brillobox away. I've never heard a more amazing crowd response than I did from his unique blend of dubstep, techno, juke & crunk.

City Paper review of DJ Ripley @ Earthly Delights
City Paper review of Distal @ Earthly Delights

youtube fan video of james gyre & distal (plus excellent visuals by jocklaw)

spring event calendar...

2011-03-14T01:29:00.001-04:00

this blog is rarely updated... because i'm too busy deejaying!

i have a million photos of past parties, weddings, events, flyers for new stuff and whatnot... it would be great to post them all, but i'm too busy with the music. and my family. and a bunch of other stuff more fun than blogging. in the meantime, download my new slow bass mix, hit me up on facebook (to get invites), check out my event calendar & come out and dance!

i'll be playing these parties, for sure... details (& links) below the image...

thursday march 10th brainstorm @ z lounge w/ Keeb$
saturday march 19th decom @ belvedere's w/ Hobotech (nyc), Keeb$, Cucitroa
friday april 1st fuzion fashion show @ pgh. glass center w/ Geek Arts & Green Innovators festival
saturday april 9th o dang @ brillobox w/ Cucitroa & Pandemic Pete
saturday april 16th kingdom come @ cattivo w/ drag king performers
wednesday april 20th a speakeasy @ brillobox w/ performers from The Dojo
saturday april 30th global beats @ ava lounge w/ Carla Leininger
friday may 13th earthly delights @ brillobox w/ 7up, Comic Strips, Natty Boh Peep
saturday may 14th children's festival/silent rave @ schenley plaza w/ Selecta
sunday may 15th children's festival/silent rave @ schenley plaza w/ Selecta

Saturday March 19th HOBOTECH (nyc)

2011-03-13T01:08:00.000-05:00

massive decom. party for frostburn. top notch local support. headlining we have HOBOTECH (nyc). Hobotech is a project of Jon Margulies, the guy who literally wrote the book on ableton. expect a mix of electronic funk with american roots music. seriously. folktronica? bumstep? who cares? it's fun!

facebook event page here

Friday Nov. 19th... the PARTY LIBERATION FRONT returns!!!

2010-11-04T04:34:00.003-04:00

Friday Nov. 19th 9pm-2am 21+ $5
burner happy hour downstairs 7pm

The party liberation front are a collective
of incredible fire artists, deejays & lunatics
from richmond, virginia. They play festivals
all over the country including burning man &
are known for their good vibes, funky beats,
hot burlesque, tasty food & heavy bass...
expect a huge range of music... dubstep, juke,
u.k. funky, moonbahton, electro, glitchop,
tropical bass, balkan beat... oh, and fire!

last year they came and it was epic.
i've been meaning to post photos of that
party for almost a year now... soon, maybe!

brillobox d.j. lineup:
reinhold (P.L.F. - richmond, VA)
Mr jennings (P.L.F. - richmond, VA)
james gyre (earthly delights - pgh, pa)
dr zayaz (pittsburners, bat country - pgh, pa)

afterparty d.j. lineup:
DJ Cucitroa (Get weird - PGH, PA)
Matty Freebles (bat country - pgh, pa)
Michael NightTime (P.E.X., P.L.F. - philly, pA)

this is my birthday party, and i'm turning 30.
we will do this big. expect installations at the club,
drink specials, surprise guests, killer tunes
and good luck finding the afterparty!

July 22nd "Summer of Love-In" @ The Garden of Earthly Delights

2010-07-20T02:59:00.004-04:00

"SUMMER OF LOVE-IN" @
The Garden of Earthly Delights

Thursday July 22nd 9pm-2am
Brillobox 4104 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA

...celebrating themes of Love, Sex, Raunch & Romance!
A summer festival Decom party & Burning Man precom party
(10% of proceeds will go to Burners without Borders)
http://www.burnerswithoutborders.org/

w/ Deejays:

Michael Nighttime (Philly, Party Liberation Front, etc...)
James Gyre
Mr. Dug
Dr. Zayaz
& Brotha Mike

and Masters of Ceremonies, Sneaky Mike & Crystal Tzara (of the typewriter girls)!

Prizes for best outfit Man/Woman/Wild-card...
Anniversary Dance - prize for longest/shortest time together...
Beds on the stage... attempting record for most wasted cuddle-puddle.
Sexually themed drink specials: Slippery nipple, Sex-on-the-beach, Slow comfortable screw against the wall, etc...

The music will be all over the map. old-school funk love epics, rare groove sleaze, NOLA bounce, booty bass and other sex raps, , trip hop and other sexual chillout beats, romantic house, 80s bubble-gum pop and sure, maybe a couple orgasmic dubsteppers. We're gonna try to address the whole gamut of music about love & sex, from the sacred to the profane.

If you remember how fun my birthday party was in November, consider this party the sequel. guaranteed good times... and thank god Brillo reinforced the floor... this will be a hot and sweaty dance. (also, as usual with the burner parties, keep your eyes peeled for after party invites... if all else fails, ask the sexiest person near you where to go...)

DJ/rupture -->April 22nd (Earth Day!)

2010-03-05T12:35:00.001-05:00

DJ /rupture (Jace Clayton) is pretty much my favorite deejay. His ear for the often far-flung connections between disparate music styles is unmatched. A lecturer, writer, and blogger, he's as much an ethnomusicologist and cultural theoretician as deejay and producer. His mixes Gold Teeth Thief and Minesweeper Suite were benchmarks for three turntable mixing, combining hip hop, drum n bass, dancehall and experimental sounds within a global context.

DJ /rupture picked up a strong ear for North African music during his five year residence in Barcelona, and has recently been delving deeply into Central and South American styles and traditional styles at that, not just the popular modern hybrids. He has been instrumental in furthering appreciation of the dubstep, grime and u.k. funky scene here in America, as well as being an early adopter of new global dance forms like kuduro and tribal guachero.

Acoustic music, true stories, and earth-shuddering bass. Pop, politics and pure sound. Deejay, philosopher and travel guide.

DJ /rupture is coming here.

learn up!

notable /rupture websites:

wikipedia entry
full deejay bio
full writer bio
solo blog "mudd up!"
crew blog "dutty artz"
/rupture wfmu radio archives (an embarrassment of riches)

notable /rupture mixes:

2001 gold teeth thief (free! wire magazine top 50 albums of 2001)
2002 minesweeper suite (wire magazine top 10 albums of 2003)
2005 secret google cheat codes (with filastine)
2008 uproot (pitchfork top 10 albums of the year 2008)
2008 ghetto palms cumbia mix (free!)
2009 solar life raft (with matt shadetek)

other /rupture stuff:

/rupture youtube: interviews, music, etc...
/rupture discography at discogs

DJ /rupture +
James Gyre & Edgar Um
@ Garden of Earthly Delights
9PM - 2AM April 22nd @ Brillobox
4104 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA
$7 pre-sale $10 at the door

March 25th - DJ RIPLEY @ Earthly Delights

2010-03-05T00:31:00.003-05:00

DJ Ripley is an amazing deejay. After I saw her at one of Brooklyn's legendary (on the down-low) Rubaiyat parties in 2002 I knew I had to bring her to Pittsburgh...

So I am! March 25th Facebook event page here.

BIO-> Now disturbing San Francisco, California, since 1996 Ripley has careened through 17 countries with no sign of stopping, causing total dance mayhem at events from Berlin to Boston to Bristol to Brussels to Brisbane to Belgrade, Riga to Rotterdam to Rennes, Halle to Helsinki, Cambridge to Cholula, Scezczin to San Francisco, Tallinn to Toronto, Linz to London, Paris to Prague, Melbourne to Mexico City.

Ripley's wreckstep raggaphonics slice through genres of street bass, dubstep, baltimore club music, UK garage, kuduru, hiphop, jungle, dancehall, breakcore, d'n'b, glitched-out breaks, juke, baile funk, bhangra and dub, sprouting new life on the dancefloor. On sunny afternoons, Ripley spins rocksteady.

Ripley has caused total dance mayhem in spaces like a re-purposed public lavatory underground in East London, a former commercial fishing ship off the cost of Rostock, an (initially) laid-back lounge in Oakland California, a half-squatted office space in downtown Riga, a former military airport in eastern Germany, the basement of an Indian restaurant in Bristol, the Boston Children's Museum, alongside a riverbed in Mexico, as well as warehouses and clubs across America and Europe, in most places you'd think and some you wouldn't. Ripley's used her dj skills to support the Revolutionary Afghan Women's
Association, Medical Activists of New York, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Ripley's been voted "Best Dance DJ 2009" by the Sf Bay Guardian Readers' poll, and her monthly Surya Dub won "Best Club Night 2008" in the same poll, and one year later the Guardian named Surya Dub "Best Ambassadors of Dread Bass."

She's played alongside art-music luminaries like Kaffe Matthews, noted thereminist Pamelia Kurstin, as well as beat maniacs like Asian Dub Foundation, The Bug, Drop The Lime, Vex'd, Dub Gabriel, Dizzee Rascal, Plastician, Dr. Israel, Flying Lotus, Toecutter, Mike Slott and many more.

In the world of letters, Ripley examines global and subcultural property systems through the lens of law, especially investigating how people come to think they can own music as if it was a thing and not a practice. She is a columnist on technology & rights issues for Wiretap online youth magazine. But really, Ripley wants everyone to dance.

Latest mix: Terenga Global Bass sessions -
http://soundcloud.com/ripley/slayers-club-ft-ripley-at-terenga-11-12-09

Dubstep/breaks mix -
http://s3.amazonaws.com/noise/ripley.insensible.mp3

Breakcore mix -
http://www.span.nered.org/mixes/djripley/djripley_histeriadelaripley.mp3

Other mixes, mashes and thoughts up at http://djripley.blogspot.com

Garden of Earthly Delights
Dj Ripley w/ James Gyre
March 25th 10pm-2am
Brillobox 4104 Penn
$6/drink specials
video projections
by Flux Rostrum

I Love Techno - Feb. 25th @ Brillobox

2010-02-14T01:34:00.004-05:00

EARTHLY DELIGHTS FEBRUARY 25th =100% PURE TECHNO

It's techno time. Cold February, dark nights and banging beats. So I invited my two favorite Pittsburgh techno purveyors to join me for a night of pure, unadulterated techno...

SHAWN RUDIMAN (technoir audio) - Pittsburgh's legendary producer/live PA wizard. If you don't know Shawn's music, you need to. If you think you don't like techno, you need to hear Shawn do it live. When I heard him play at a big outdoor rave in 1999, I knew I would forever be a fan of that 4 to the floor electronic madness.

JWAN ALLEN (technoir audio) - A damn sexy deejay. His sets of techno are melodic, lush, slamming and somehow both gritty and classy. I don't know how to describe his music any better. Jwan's a rare treat.

and the resident woofer-wrecker:

JAMES GYRE (earthly delights) - Yours truly. I'll be playing on the fringes of Jwan and Shawn's sounds. Bits of minimal techno, dub techno and straight up jacking techno. BANG BANG BANG.

Garden of Earthly Delights
I Love Techno edition
February 25th
10pm - 2am
4104 Penn
Brillobox
just $5

earthly delights: new year's eve @ the brillobox

2009-11-26T22:47:00.007-05:00

Peace 2009 <-> Hello 2010

Brillobox
Dec. 31st 8pm - 2am
Garden of Earthly Delights
New Year's Eve: "a black belt & white tie joint"
$5 with all black & white threads (small color accents a.o.k.) $10 w/o

Resident D.J. James Gyre with Keeb$, Temisan Adoki, Nice Rec & Bartholomew Dylan

Seriously... this party will be beautiful. Keeb$ (stackinpaper.com, lazer crunk, fuzz) and I have been conniving secret new year's plans for months. For starters we're starting early with a potluck and cocktail reception. We'll be providing some appetizers and are encouraging people who want to eat before they drink to bring some food to share. Bartholomew Dylan's esoteric sounds & Nice Rec's deep vinyl crates of funk & soul will accompany our feasting. I'm planning on whipping up a batch of winter sangria... a spiced white wine concoction that's been received well at previous new year's events... All night we'll have a private photo booth available so you can get shot in your stunning black & white outfits. We're also transforming the Brillobox with art and installations.

After feasting Temisan Adoki, Pittsburgh's under-sung hero of the esoteric d.j. set will start the dance. He plays everything... expect techno, baile funk, electro, hip hop, b-more, wobble and classic detroit and chicago tracks. His set at Lazer Crunk this year was one of my favorite sets of the year, hands down. Then for the ball drop Keeb$ and I will blow the roof off. I've already pulled so many awesome tunes for that set. We'll have some custom, one-time only audio for the night, too! That last two hours will be dance mayhem... start 2010 by shaking your ass with us!

November 13th (Friday the 13th!) - The Party Liberation Front!

2009-10-06T00:30:00.005-04:00

this will be a really fun Earthly Delights.

It's close to my birthday, so i've brought in some of my favorite musicians to play for us...

PLF!

the party liberation front, for those of you that don't go to burning man or a lot of regional burns, are one of the finest crews of festival music out there. they bring infinite good vibes, good tracks and are some of my favorite people. For this event we'll have Mr. Jennings and The Reinhold of PLF up from richmond to bless the speakers. Mr. Dug (of Pgh) is going to start out the night with me playing some non-bass musics for us to get our breath before the bass. Mr. Jennings and I share a love for twerked-out bass madness, so we'll be tag-teaming for much of the dance... The Reinhold plays a bouncy and crowd-pleasing set of minimal techno/electro and he'll be closing the night for us.

these people are gems. i love waking up in the morning at their camp and playing tabla music for breakfast while the hula hoops spin and people clean up from the late-night partiers. the vegan chili gets busted out and people of all stripes take their turns on the stripper pole. as the day goes on the bass gets iller and people start spinning shit while it's lit on fire. the sounds pump out of their covered-wagon soundsystem all night, with a real diverse and talented line-up of deejays. I've never done a festival with PLF where the party didn't gravitate, night after night, to our part of the woods. which makes me so happy to share their vibe with all of you (god i feel like such a raver right now!)

come to this party people... give them a warm, pittsburgh welcome!

a secret after-party will be held where things will, indeed, be lit. on. fire. talk to me in private if you think you're into that.

(the garden of) Earthly Delights

w/ James Gyre & the P.L.F.

Friday, November 13th

4104 Penn Ave.

Brillobox

10-2

October 22nd - Earthly Delights "special dark edition" w/ Cutups!

2009-10-06T00:21:00.006-04:00

for the second installment of Earthly Delights, james gyre & cutups will play a special dark night of electronic music. expect unlimited rhythms, rare sound mutations and deep bass experiments.

as usual, 10:00-11:11 will feature an opening set of unidentified fly oddities & head-knodding tracks played at slightly lower volumes, and a drink special, not yet selected...

when the dance gets started, myself and geoff will each take a set, then close with a raw tag-team where we try to kill everyone in the club.

(the garden of) Earthly Delights
w/ James Gyre & Cutups
Thursday, Oct. 22nd
4104 Penn Ave.
Brillobox
10-2
$3

Sept. 24th debut! ->Earthly Delights: a new monthly d.j. night @ the brillo box...

2009-09-02T15:19:00.010-04:00

Sept 24th is the debut of my new club night the garden of Earthly Delights @ the brillo box. It will typically be on 4th thursdays, but occasionally on a different day of the month for special events (like new years eve, which I'll be doing!) It will be 10pm - 2am, with a special cocktail hour until 11:11 with drink specials. Expect more head-nodding tracks at slightly lower volumes during that time, so you can socialize with your people before the dance gets all wild...

Each month will feature a different local guest, each a resident of their own nights. As I have a really eclectic sound, the style of music the guest plays will shape the style and theme of that night... As the night grows, I plan to bring in some out of town guests where appropriate, but only when they compliment the superb local talent we have here in the (wheels of) steel city!

September 24th will feature Pete Pandemic and will be a crazy, international throwdown.

(the garden of) Earthly Delights

Thursday, September 24th

w/ Pete Pandemic

$3 @ brillo box

4104 penn ave

pittsburgh, pa

412-621-4900

Nigerian family party

2009-08-01T22:16:00.003-04:00

Played a gorgeous party for Adi Fapohunda... It was her 25th wedding anniversary and 50th birthday party. They had a lovely dinner, speeches and then dancing at the Shannopin Country Club. I played jazz and kora music during dinner (and a little Al Green!), and Nigerian music all night for the dance party... Fela Kuti, King Sunny Ade, Ayefele, Koola Lobitos, Tony Allen and more... Adi requested some reggae, so i played some classic tunes and a little dancehall. Great times! I'll upload photos when I get them from the photographer...

Palestine Rocks - a benefit party...

2009-07-30T18:34:00.005-04:00

This was a party to raise money to send someone to Palestine to do some human rights work... we raised over two thousand dollars!!! Great party, too... reggae band Man in the Street played as did singer Leslie Addis, and I provided a late night set of dubstep and middle eastern jams...

Iran Unveiled

2009-07-27T11:28:00.007-04:00

photography by renee rosensteel

Played some great Iranian music for WYEP's hosting of two great Iranian writers... The event was Iran Unveiled, and hosted Anahita Firouz and Moniro Ravanipour... I played Persian classical music of the zarb, oud and vocal ensemble, but I also played modern sufi work like Mercan Dede and some Persian pop. good times... a testimonial from the WYEP organizer is below...

"Thanks for DJ-ing at Iran Unveiled last week. Your wonderful music really took the whole evening to another level. Moniro and Anahita really loved everything you played. We would definitely be interested in working with you in the future. It’s always great to find someone who knows their stuff and is as easy to work with as you were."

Bargain Bassbins friday night afterparty...

2009-07-03T20:11:00.002-04:00

After party for Unblurred, Friday July 3rd
Me & DJ Ohms playing head-knocking beats on the cheap...
$1 holler. Dubstep, Hip Hop, Reggae, Jungle & Experimental Ambiance...

Dubstep & Friends w/ Keeb$

2009-06-27T18:52:00.000-04:00

Keeb$ (of Lazer Crunk, etc...) and I ripped it at the Gypsy Social Aftervibe... The usual bass-heavy sounds for the heads who know... Glitch-hop, Skweee, Bassline, Dubstep and not a small dose of Dancehall... I played a psychedelic opening set of the real experimental and atmospheric bass for the early birds (read: midnight!) and then Keeb$ and I traded off for four hours ... We had some mc's again who blessed the mic late night... and for a nice surprise, the Beatnuts were in the house!

Global Beats - Jamaica Night!

2009-05-30T18:44:00.001-04:00

My third night for Carla of Global Beats.
This event was an afterparty for Stephen Marley's show in Pittsburgh.
Just a full night of Reggae and it's offspring... Roots, Rocksteady, Dub, Ska & Dubstep.

groovin' & skankin' to the music (most) everyone loves!

Pandemic May Day Mayhem

2009-05-01T18:25:00.003-04:00

Another crazy party...

Played all kinds of world goodies... maybe 10 different languages in the set... Schlachthofbronx's "Good to go" was a hit as was Afronaut, Filastine & Xaniar...

Tower of Babel after hours party

2009-04-04T18:40:00.001-04:00

I played an event for D's Gypsy Social Aftervibe party at Your Inner Vagabond... I played an excerpt from my new mix "Tower of Babel" and several thick hours of serious dubstep and glitch-hop. The night got pretty raw... some mc's jumped on the mic towards dawn and ripped it. Definitely good times... dark dance late night.

persian panthers' norouz celebration

2009-03-29T16:49:00.000-04:00

i played a norouz celebration (new years) for an iranian student group. it featured traditional music during dinner and modern iranian pop and dance music for a two hour dance party afterwards.

the big hits? ironically syrian pop tune by omar souleyman and justin timberlake's "sexyback"... but mostly i played iranian pop. in fact, if i went too long without playing something persian i heard about it quick from the crowd...

awesome night. excellent food, circle dancing, clapping and a big tip! a lot of the students had older and younger relatives, so it was a beautiful time of mutli-generational dancing.

global beats - indian night!

2009-03-28T16:45:00.003-04:00

my second night for carla of global beats.

packed house. bhangra beat down!

more photos here

global beats - middle eastern night!

2009-01-31T16:38:00.005-05:00

my first night for carla of global beats... great times!

my (mostly accurate) setlist is here.

more photos here.