Samples and teasers for this Friday

Hey everyone,

Not too too much to say here, just wanted to post a sample of what's in the works for this Friday!

What you're looking at are spy shots of our will-be 6 speaker surround sound system in my garage and the first completed piece of our costumes.

Evan

I can hardly breathe right now...

Alex and I, Night Panda, have been asked to be THE entertainment for the Moxie's Halloween party, Zombiefest, next Friday, October 31st!!!

Now, I want to give you an idea of how insane this is: Alex and I have met up with the promoter of all Moxie's events, Chad, on Monday once already to introduce ourselves and find out about the event, but I met up with him yet again tonight to talk logistics, and here's what I have in my hand right now:

I got Chad really excited by telling him what kind of parties we like to throw and the costumes we wear and the lights and effects we bring and the music we play, and he has given me essentially 100% creative free reign on the night! I told him that between Alex and I, we are actually going to invite absolutely everyone we know, and of course that only made him more excited, SO -

For the night of Friday October 31st, Alex and I are going to be throwing the most immense party we've ever attempted, rivaling the legend of Flowatholon (scroll below if you don't know what I'm referring to). I will tell you everything we are going to have at this party next Friday:

- We, the DJs, our ridiculous costumes, and our even more ridiculous music
- Lights. LOTS of lights. Black lights, red lights, strobe lights, flood lights (industrial strength. Chad told me)
- Smoke machine. Oh yeah baby.
- Four PA's and two subwoofers to surround the dancefloor (by the way, if you didn't know Moxie's had a dancefloor, and a killer one at that, with a bolted-down marble table that you can dance on in the middle of it all, well, now you do)
- LOTS of people. I am inviting everyone I know, Alex as well. And not to mention, as I found out from Chad tonight, the event itself actually has a reputation of its own, so the general public will be there as well.
- And did I mention pounding Wobble, Electro and House from 9pm until 2am???

If I haven't convinced you by now that I would actually wet my pants to see you there at 9pm next Friday, Halloween, tell me and I will get in my car right now and drive to wherever you are and take you to Peter's Drive-In to seal the deal.

For those of you that have homework or midterms that week or whatever, I think I can relate: I actually have a programming midterm from 6:30pm - 8:30pm THAT NIGHT, and you can bet I'll have to write the darn thing with my costume on and race down south when it's done. So if you see a red Honda pulled over on Crowchild with an officer arresting Edward Scissor hands, now you know why.

Actually, I haven't decided on my costume yet, but it's gonna be bonk and so will Alex's.

I'm going to pass out now. I typed this all out in one breath, did you know that?

*Body Hits floor. 3 minutes pass. Startles awake, rubs eyes, climbs back to keyboard.*

Okay, there you have it. I asked Chad tonight for 200 posters that I'm going to be stapling up around the University in the next two days, so you're going to see posters up for "Zombiefest" at Moxie's in the south close to Southcentre. Yes, some of you live in the North, but you see, when our great city was formed, they actually thought of that problem, and they built this nifty road that actually takes you all the way here!

Zesty!!

"Do We Dance Now?" - A new mix by Night Panda

Here it is Ladies and Gentlemen - the mix that Alex and I have sweat, cried and bled over for the past two weeks.

Named "Do We Dance Now?", it features a mix of Wobble/Electro House and Breakbeats, tuned to the most discriminating of ears. The tracks are largely summer releases of this year, and are a great representation of our all-time favourite artists and styles.

Feel free to download it, hit play, then 46 minutes later come back on here and tell us what you think!

Peace and Love,

Night Panda

(Alex and Evan)

"Do We Dance Now?" - Night Panda (320kbps)

*Note: The tracklisting is in the "lyrics" section of the mp3, if you use iTunes!

*(Photos courtesy of John Bransfield)

Do We Dance Now? Tracklisting:

Kraak & Smaak - Squeeze Me (The Trevor Loveys Skeezer Pleezer Jam)

Jackinori - Ba Bada (2 Bit Thugs Remix)

X-Press 2 - Lazy feat. Byrne (Mowgli's Wobblin' Remix)

Rob Le Pitch - Twisted (Tom Real & Rogue Element Remix)

A-Trak - Say Whoa (Sinden Remix)

Dopamine - Anyone Can Do It (Mr. Wonk's Green Mask Mix)

Jaymo - On The Grind

Idiotproof - Gorilla (Siriusmo's Ass Of The Baboon Remix)

Aquasky, Meat Katie - Overneath

Larry Tee - I Love U (The Bulgarian Remix)

The Rogue Element, Tom Real, Disco of Doom - The Click (Fucking Zombie Remix)

Joachim Garraud - Back From Space (Federico Franchi Remix)

Hatiras & Jelo - Donkey Punch

Niki Belucci - Get Up (Kelevra's Keep On Remix)

Slyde - Frequency (NAPT Remix)

Believe it or not...

...This post is purely to create a buffer between the two seemingly depressing posts below and what is to come: A super-exciting, thrilling, pump-you-up post!

"Evan, how can you say such things", you ask? Well, I know this because Alex and I are about to update our blog with a brand new mix!

I won't talk about it too too much, though, because that would steal away from the post itself. I will say, however, on a different note, that Alex and I have been very busy lately in Engineering Boot Camp battling demons and sorcerers with our minds. Don't worry though - the good guys are winning this battle.

Update: Alex moved into a place of his own, the basement suite of a house close to the university, which both me and him thought would be the ideal romp pad for throwing down gnarly DJ sets whenever we felt like it. But as it turns out, the tenants upstairs are clinically allergic to sound, and will frequently come all the way down the stairs to ask for us to turn it down. Frick, eh?

Anyways, that mix is coming up PRONTO and you are all jewels in Alex and my heart!

Evan out.