{"id":5050,"date":"2023-06-23T15:55:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-23T15:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/?p=5050"},"modified":"2024-07-14T20:26:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T20:26:33","slug":"louie-vega-deon-cole-kenny-dope-10-06-23-pt-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ajdancelegacy.com\/~ajdance\/louie-vega-deon-cole-kenny-dope-10-06-23-pt-i\/","title":{"rendered":"LOUIE VEGA, DEON COLE, & KENNY DOPE 10.06.23 Pt. I"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1600<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Music. Is the reason for this journey. An expedition meandering through space and time.\u00a0 <\/span>Arriving.\u00a0 <\/span>At the V.\u00a0 <\/span>Where 54th Street veers from Flushing Avenue. In Maspeth.\u00a0 <\/span>A working class community located somewhere in the borough of Queens.\u00a0 <\/span>That is New York City.\u00a0 <\/span>Where a brick and motor mammoth slumps with two erected smoke stacks.\u00a0 <\/span>That eyes you. Only if in your imagination.\u00a0 <\/span>That beckons you to enter its ingress. Crushing gravel beneath your soles. As your bag is checked. Electronic ticket is scanned. And your wrist is branded white with red dots. Enjoy! Security smiles. All before you kick more rocks. Past the food truck.\u00a0 <\/span>Across from the lonely picnic tables. There you eye the expanse.\u00a0 <\/span>A massive slab of concrete sloped downward towards a music stage. State of the art light rigs. Hanging sound gear. Fog machines. \u00a0Where twenty early birds dance in seventy-seven degree heat underneath scattered cirrus levitating across the oceanic azul. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Louie Vega<\/a><\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis road we\u2019re on shows a dark destiny.\u201d As your feet hit the pavement you overhear.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cI feel the end of humanity.\u201d Jeffrey Osborne sings. The lyrics are much aligned to the current crisis the world faces. Artificial Intelligence. Wildfires.\u00a0 <\/span>Hazardous breathing air.\u00a0 <\/span>The apocalypse?\u00a0 <\/span>There is a sense of urgency, not only in your walk, but in your heart.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cFather, father I know you are there\/I lift my voice\/Hear my prayer.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEven in the sad times, I wanna dance.\u201d Where there is hardship, there is rejoicing through storms.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cWhen I should be crying\/You make me wanna\u2026\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Louie Vega brings the \u201cDance<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>His Dance Ritual Version of the 3 Winans Brothers featuring the Clark Sisters feels appropriate.\u00a0 <\/span>The anthem plays naked with no a cappella or production theatrics, that welcomes attendees entering\u2026\u201dHeyyyyy!!!\u201d There appears a familiar face.\u00a0 <\/span>Wide smile. Bright eyes behind black rounded rims. Melanin and mocha.\u00a0 <\/span>Blonde cropped curls.\u00a0 <\/span>She gives you the heartiest hug ever. Atlanta\u2019s Andibop is at the Ruins. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Knockdown Center<\/a>\u2019s backyard is a fan favorite amongst artists, performers and music enthusiasts. Nothing compares to dancing outdoors.\u00a0 <\/span>After all, this summer, we outside! A year ago, your debut dancing on the outdoor patio in eighty-some degree heat in mid-July yielded disappointment.\u00a0 <\/span>The blame.\u00a0 <\/span>Not the former glass and former door factory, but a discombobulated playlist lacking soul.\u00a0 <\/span>Today.\u00a0 <\/span>Hope prevails. Already the music played is fire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There too runs Atlanta\u2019s Solenotes photographing feet shuffling in all their glory.\u00a0 <\/span>Recorded images of bodies in motion.\u00a0 <\/span>Eye candy provided by the man wearing a gender neutral bathing suit throwing out his ass and twerking.\u00a0 <\/span>His friend, wearing cargo pants with oversized pockets, duck walks.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cAre you taking anything?\u201d Cargo pants rubs her hand across the lengthy width of his upper bicep. \u201cCause you are getting bigger.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Their youthful brown frames wreath to disco – L.T.D featuring Jeffrey Osborne\u2019s \u201cLove to the World,\u201d gospel – \u201cDance<\/a>\u201d (Dance Ritual Remix), funk – George Clinton rapping \u201cAin\u2019t That Funkin\u2019 Kinda Hard On You?<\/a>\u201d(Louie Vega Remix), jazz – Monique Bingham crooning \u201cElevator (Going Up)<\/a>” (Dance Ritual Dub) and the groove – Kerri Chandler\u2019s \u201cLet it<\/a>\u201d [Basic Club], all speaks volumes.\u00a0 <\/span>Vega at his best plays his sermon of hope, peace and love. Dropping into the mix, the new school, Honeysweet\u2019s \u201cExodus Of 21<\/a>,\u201d alongside the old school, Shuggie Otis\u2019 \u201cStrawberry Letter 23,\u201d both round out the two hour opening ceremony.\u00a0 <\/span>As the spotlight is not so much shining on Vega as it is to whom Vega shines the spotlight on. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Seven weeks earlier, recall staring at the night sky, the twinkling stars and thinking, hmm, Vega should throw a music festival. Well this is the closest diehards will get to experiencing an Elements of Life Festival. Fresh from his residence in Ibiza, Vega visits home for his only US performance of the summer before jetting back to Club Chinois on the Illes Balears.\u00a0 <\/span>Today\u2019s main event is twofold.\u00a0 <\/span>No-holds-barred.\u00a0 <\/span>A TKO.\u00a0 <\/span>In corner one, an outdoor day party with a certain stand up comedian\/actor and Vega\u2019s music partner of decades playing on the ones and twos at the Ruins.\u00a0 <\/span>In corner two, an indoor night party with the venue\u2019s spotlight artist from Detroit and Louie\u2019s wife gracing the decks.\u00a0 <\/span>Apropos, the venue is aptly named the Knockdown Center.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Watch for the guy wearing the technoHub\u00a0 <\/span>tee driving his wheelchair. He bounces his shoulders up and down, snapping his fingers to Barbara Tucker\u2019s \u201cI Get Lifted<\/a>\u201d (The Bar Dub) semicircular his friends. Vega tears down brick by brick the boundaries of elitism and privilege.\u00a0 <\/span>Making the open air celebration accessible for all to experience.\u00a0 <\/span>The fedora King, crowned in a gold with orange brim, wearing tinted lenses and sporting a Supreme gold jersey with the number 23 stitched in maroon, turns over music duties.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cExcuse me but I have a dumb question.\u201d A young man walks up and asks you.\u00a0 <\/span>His eyes hiding behind black aviators.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cAre those pants?\u201d He continues. \u201cOr a sarong?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

1700<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Hush. You can hear a pin drop. An air of silence hangs over the 19,000 square feet like orange clouds.\u00a0 <\/span>You know that awkward silence. The stillness. Those deathly stares. Their folded arms. The air reeks of \u201cand what are you going to play.\u201d Listening ears lean in closer.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cGive yourself to meeeeee.\u201d Sinnaman sings from \u201cI Need You Now.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Hello. 1983 just called and she wants her music back.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The a cappella repeats on loop for minutes.\u00a0 <\/span>This is not a great first impression.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cDon\u2019t hold back the feeling\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And finally, the thumpeety thumps of beating percussions charge at the seventy some house heads like the four horsemen galloping into the battle of Armageddon. And when the heads recognize the falsetto asking, \u201cDon\u2019t you need a friend?\u201d When the brass section sounds, the heads yell. A panoramic view of the grounds reveals a family reunion.\u00a0 <\/span>Like elders reuniting with lost childhood friends from disco\u2019s golden era.\u00a0 <\/span>Their smiles. Their spinning around with arms outstretched. Their energy excited.\u00a0 <\/span>Full acceptance and relief are felt.\u00a0 <\/span>All it takes is playing the late Eddie Kendrick\u2019s gospel fueled \u201cFriend of Mine.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Who knew?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Deon Cole<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cHe is really good,\u201d says the woman with plunging braids sounding surprised as if a comedian\/comedy writer\/actor can actually deejay.\u00a0 <\/span>Albeit Deon Cole is less Hollywood and more Chicago.\u00a0 <\/span>Today.\u00a0 <\/span>Take his tatted entire left arm sleeve. Tats falling down his right bicep. Cole\u2019s mixing is not impeccable as is his song selections. The deodorant\/body wash spokesman knows his music. Be Afro, Soulfreakah\u2019s \u201cA Cure for Heartache<\/a>\u201d that makes perfect two-stepping in the warm embrace of the sun\u2019s rays, boogie to the perfect summer anthem Crackazat\u2019s \u201cFly Away<\/a>,\u201d never tire of the Yoruba classic, Afefe Iku\u2019s \u201cMirror Dance<\/a>\u201d and sing along to the anthem, Lil Louis featuring Chinahblac\u2019s \u201cFable\u201d (The Director\u2019s Cut Classic Club Mix) that brings cheers and widespread commotion when Christoper Cross sings \u201cFly Like The Wind.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cWhere the Freaks At<\/a>?\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>MC Vega steps to the microphone and announces Cole\u2019s newly recorded project.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cYep, he makes records now,\u201d Louie teases.\u00a0 <\/span>The only questionable tune playing is Kenny Bobien singing \u201cOld Landmark<\/a>\u201d that goes way back. Where did the Joe Claussell\u2019s Mission For Today Vocal Mix come from? What was the Average Joe actor thinking? Oh well, church time. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEve-ry bo-dy clap your hands.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>New Jersey\u2019s Bobien commands.\u00a0 <\/span>Survey a sea of multi-hue appendages soul-clapping in the air.\u00a0 <\/span>And that\u2019s not even the WTF moment.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

That moment comes courtesy when the music stops.\u00a0 <\/span>The Blackish alum is set to exit stage left.\u00a0 <\/span>When boom!\u00a0 <\/span>The music starts.\u00a0 <\/span>Surprise!\u00a0 <\/span>Nirvana\u2019s \u201cSmells Like Teen Spirit\u201d blasts from the arena size sound cabinets.\u00a0 <\/span>Subwoofers emitting wobbles and sonic booms.\u00a0 <\/span>Out comes the head bangers. Their fists in the air. Their bodies thrusting vertically.\u00a0 <\/span>Wow! This is a whole vibe.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Above the full length bar, march up the stairs onto the upper platform where a hovering drone records the moment. Standing on the\u00a0factitious structure provides aerial views of the action taking place below. Where onstage the\u00a0transition from Roseland\/Chicago to Sunset Park\/Brooklyn comes full circle. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

1900<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not Hollywood, I\u2019m Brooklyn\u201d reads the logo that wins the best tee shirt award. The recipient dances towards center stage for greater visibility.\u00a0 <\/span>Where a multitude of haggard millennials and baby faced Xers stand upright, awaiting his opening number. Strangely the aunties and uncles present earlier, have disappeared.\u00a0 <\/span>What a shame.\u00a0 <\/span>Must be taco time at the food truck.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA Slave to the Rhythm,\u201d the instantly recognizable voice from NYC\u2019s Queen of Avant Garde welcomes additional visages of bewilderment onto the concrete patio. Grace Jones\u2019 \u201cOperattack\u201d commands you to feel every single word, every pronounced syllable.\u00a0 <\/span>That is injected into all four limbs. That rushes through the veins. For a jolt of heart pounding shock. That causes the body to jump, jump, jump a little higher.\u00a0 <\/span>And when the syncopated drum loops and instrument samples and vocals drop, yo, shit gets real crazy. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Like Miki Howard singing \u201cLove Under New Management\u201d crazy. WTF?\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Feel the drums beat.\u00a0 <\/span>Listen to their speaking.\u00a0 <\/span>The language of broken beats.\u00a0 <\/span>Sputtering and choppy.\u00a0 <\/span>Their pitter\/patter over a four on the floor.\u00a0 <\/span>Is his claim to fame.\u00a0 <\/span>Long ago, in Europe, when watching jazz dancers rehearse, he hypothesized the strike and staccato.\u00a0 <\/span>Those syncopated drums.\u00a0 <\/span>His signature sound.\u00a0 <\/span>First, heard on the Nuyorican Soul\u2019s \u201cThe Nervous Track<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>Some thirty years earlier.\u00a0 T<\/span>hree decades later, today is his welcome debut in the Ruins at Knockdown Center.\u00a0 <\/span>His longtime production partner Louie Vega rouses the at capacity attendees to give it up for the one and only Kenny Dope Gonzalez. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Kenny Dope Gonzalez<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Find online, copied and pasted verbose bios about the legend\u2019s attributes, defying accomplishments, and commercial hits.\u00a0 <\/span>Song after song, hit after hit, the four-time GRAMMY nominee needs no introduction.\u00a0 <\/span>Although, at times, the Bucketheads mastermind appears the more behind-the-scenes of the two masters.\u00a0 <\/span>Gonzalez tours less.\u00a0 <\/span>His music releases are scattering.\u00a0 He\u00a0<\/span>rarely shows face at times. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There he wobbles onstage, his barrel frame sporting a MAW tribal tee in maroon that hangs past his waist, his eyes framed behind specs.\u00a0 <\/span>The NYC born\/Brooklyn bred Dope receives a fiery reception from the sea of congregants feeling the burn from the Ezel Remix of OVEOUS & QVLN\u2019s \u201cQueimar<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Front left side of the stage, be careful not to Mollywop\u00a0 <\/span>into another guest seated in his wheelchair as Da Capo featuring Tshepo King\u2019s \u201cAfrika<\/a>\u201d (Louie Vega Remix Vocal) excites.\u00a0 <\/span>The beats go hard.\u00a0 <\/span>The beats go Afro.\u00a0 <\/span>Spatial elements designed to dance in between. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrankie Feliciano is over there.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>A dancer shouts.\u00a0 <\/span>True, everyone who is anyone is handclappin\u2019 and stompin\u2019 and shoutin\u2019 to Ron Hall\u2019s \u201cTalk to God \u2018Bout It<\/a>\u201d (Spen\u2019s Sunday Service Re Edit).\u00a0 <\/span>A who\u2019s who of house royalty is welcomed to the church of Byron Stingily and Kerri Chandler\u2019s \u201cTestify<\/a>” (Long Dub).\u00a0 <\/span>Even the Pulitzer Prize for Music winner, Kendrick Lamar\u2019s \u201cI Got Loyalty\u201d gets love.\u00a0 <\/span>Kenny Dope turns his head and eyes the man in flesh from Baltimore who remixed the track.\u00a0 <\/span>Karizma humbly bows.<\/span><\/p>\n

A queen wears her vitiligo with pride. On display, uncovered, and unmasked as a black woman should.\u00a0 <\/span>Her lithe frame struts gracefully through throngs of bodies sweating to the Dance Ritual Mix of Josh Milan\u2019s \u201cThinking About Your Body<\/a>.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>By the way, Milan, who stands at the opposite end of the stage, will celebrate his 54th rotation around the sun with family and friends on a boat ride on the Hudson starring Atlanta\u2019s DJ Kemit the next day.\u00a0 <\/span>The reason why so many ATLiens are in attendance. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

There standing left side the stage in mid-conversation is NDATL\u2019s Kai Alc\u00e9 sporting his vibrant flowery jacket courtesy a puma logo. Atlanta\u2019s Godfather of House, DJ Ron Pulllman AKA Pullman Soul sits underneath tier two at a wooden picnic table woofing nachos and salsa.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cExcuse me, where are you from?\u201d A reader and spiritualist asks. \u201cAtlanta.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>A dancer replies. \u201cBrooklyn.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>@deeeebo_x replies, a former Atlantan.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cThere is DJ Kemit.\u201d She points to the bar where the former Arrested Development deejay orders drinks.\u00a0 <\/span>Hotlanta\u2019s \u201cGhostcam is on his way.\u201d Andibop announces seated on unruly bedrock.\u00a0 <\/span>This is one big happy ATL family reunion of melomaniacs in Queens, until it isn\u2019t. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cYou might think I\u2019m crazy, for waking you up this late.\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>He mouths to her.\u00a0 <\/span>His finger pointed as she grabs her heart on the stellar Dames Brown\u2019s \u201cWhat Would You Do?<\/a>\u201d\u00a0 <\/span>The Expansions NYC Extended Dub Vocal has two longtime dance partners singing each lyric back and forth as each dances around the other.\u00a0 <\/span>They are spirited, he points at her again.\u00a0 <\/span>She cocks her head.\u00a0 <\/span>He makes a heart shape with his hands as she dips and spins around.\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cLook at you black people up here having fun.\u201d A stranger walks up and says, \u201cI\u2019m watching you two.\u201d The woman smiles before dancing away to Harry Romero\u2019s \u201cRevolution<\/a>\u201d (Deep In Jersey Extended Mix) that drops bombs!\u00a0 <\/span>The patio explodes.\u00a0 <\/span>DJ Kemit\u2019s wifey, we see you.\u00a0 <\/span>Mrs. Aisha throws down.\u00a0 <\/span>Her hips swaying left to right and feet shuffling all before disappearing into heavy fog.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Knockdown Center has an obsession with jacking up the fog machines so much so the entire space is consumed in \u201ccough, cough\u201d haze.\u00a0 <\/span>And the smell!\u00a0 <\/span>Flashbacks from seventy-two hours earlier when the outdoor air turned orange and reeked of burning ash.\u00a0 <\/span>The air quality was worse than levels recorded in New Delhi, India!\u00a0 <\/span>My God, \u201cAre we going to die?\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Nope, not before \u201cMusic Is My Life<\/a>,\u201d \u201cDeep\u00a0Burnt<\/a>,\u201d and\u00a0 <\/span>\u201cAnother Day In My Life<\/a>,\u201d (LV Re-Touch) all Vega’s Expansions In The NYC<\/a><\/em>\u00a0productions, concludes.\u00a0 <\/span>As one master pays tribute to another master.\u00a0 <\/span>Earlier, when playing Vega\u2019s \u201cA Place Where We Can All Be Free<\/a>,\u201d spoken word Janine Lyon\u2019s synopsizes. \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a place that we go\/to let it all flow\/to hear the Maestro\/no cares or worries\/Black and deep\/sexy, Afro, Latin, jazzy\/broken beats\/where we can all be free.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Kenny musically gives Vega his flowers. And when Louie musically gets his flowers, he turns to the crowd, microphone in hand, to give the crowd an out of this world WTF!<\/span><\/p>\n

TBC<\/p>\n

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grphc: aj art<\/p>\n

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