Time to grow up! These grey hairs finally feel acceptable. But seriously folks, if you’re in Vancouver I’d love to see you out at Shine Nightclub Saturday May 1st for the first of 2 birthday parties to celebrate my 30th birthday! Heres the poster:

Facebook Event (please RSVP)

and while you’re on Facebook, why not join my page? It’d be the best birthday present a fella could ask for

then, Sunday May 2nd, come check me out with Acid Girls (Kitsune/LA) and Expendable Youth:

and heres the Facebook Event – Please RSVP!

Feel free to hit me up for guestlist to both nights! Hope you make it there! Hope I make it out!

oh, and heres my charts for April! Resident Advisor Charts – April 2010.

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Life sucks!

Check out the new logo! This is the cover for the new CD, its an MP3 Sampler disc which contains 16 tracks, and 7 full length mixes! I’ll have copies at WMC in Miami, and any shows in the next while. Come up and ask for one! Big thanks to Josh Ruck for the amazing design work!

Here are some upcoming dates:

03/13 – Seattle @ Chapel
03/14 – Seattle @ The Red Eye
03/15 – Whistler THE WHT OUT at Moejoes
03/17 – Whistler @Buffalo Bills
03/18 – Calgary @ The Hi Fi Club w Toddla T & Wax Romeo
03/19 – Fernie @ Bulldogs
03/20 – Revelstoke @ Outofbounds
03/22 – Whistler THE WHT OUT at Moejoes
03/23-03/30 – Miami for WMC – Full conference dates TBA shortly!
04/03 – Shine Nightclub Vancouver
04/12 – w Miike Snow at Shine Nightclub (Vancouver)

First off, Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and Happy New Year! Everyone’s posting gifts, and I don’t really have much to offer at the moment. (Resolution 2, get back to work on tracks!). Heres an edit I made that might be passing its expiry date, but its something, right? Its an edit of Pon De Floor edits, including our Smoke & Mirrors edit (which was included in DJ Medhi & Busy P’s Essential mix), parts of Mighty Mi’s Rap mashup, and parts of the Beataucue Remix. Here’s a video of my dude Fashen playing it at the Livestock Block Party in Vancouver. It was also charted by Brodinski in November, which was kinda nice, albeit undeserving haha. Been asked about this quite a bit so here it is for you. Enjoy!

Major Lazer – Pon De Floor (Neo’s RapGlitchRave Edit)
* will post the full Smoke & Mirrors edit if get the OK for it

Also, you can find my late/early charts for Dec/Jan here:

www.djneoteric.com/charts/
or a top 10 on Resident Advisor

Aight, so tomorrow’s the big night. I’ll be ringing it up in style @ Moejoes in Vernon. Pretty hyped to play a bit of everything, and the crowd there has always been great!

Thursday is the new Friday in 2010 it seems, check out these great shows in the next 2 weeks:

Facebook Event

SWITCH!

Facebook Event

Aaand finally, here’s some recent videos. As always, you can check out the latest vids at my Youtube Page.

Crookers Pt 2 (diff angles, music and footage of them playing too)

Live @ The Mod Club (Toronto) Dec 11th, 2009

U-Tern & Neoteric in Banff AB, and Fernie BC

aaand thats it folks! Be safe, have fun, and see you in 2010!

Tonight in Vancouver! Come through to enter to Win your own copy of DJ Hero!:

Sunday the 22nd w my dudes Autoerotique (DIM MAK) / presented by Blueprintevents.ca …JUST ADDED! Thunderheist!!!

Thursday the 26th playing the after party w Friendly Fires & The XX!

Saturday the 28th with Breakbot (Ed Banger, Paris) !!!

Also should be out in London and Toronto in early December. New Years Eve has also been confirmed at Moejoes in Vernon, BC!

Hope to see yall out at some of these shows! Check for more dates on the right, I just listed the special events from the next few weeks!

MWUHAHAHA!!! Something big is about to happen! Something..mysterious! I’ll give a clue – its a MAJOR mixtape project featuring new, unreleased music from some of the biggest names in the game! There may be a twist, and an amazing prize package to the winner. Stay tuned here for more details! Expect the announcement in the next day or 2.

I’m busy as ever getting ready for some new nights, and out of town gigs, plus getting my Myspace, Facebook, Facebook Group, Twitter, White Light Mixes page, and Youtube pages up to snuff. What part of the game is this? Haha. This shit is exhausting! Anyways, onto the news!

The Crookers show was INSANE! Big ups to Blueprint Events for having me on the bill, and as always to my homies from Italy! We are compiling some wild footage from that show to post here shortly!

Halloween was BONKERS at our weekly night ‘Bonafide’ @ Shine on Saturdays. I went as an Oompa Loompa. Heres a shot with the Bonafide crew!

Tonight, Nov 6th is my main dude Sam Demoe’s birthday party. We’ve got Cobra Krames in town from NY and all the homies are playing. Should be a good one!

Monday Nov 9th is the grand opening of our new Whistler party ‘THE WHT OUT’! If you’re up there during the season, come check it out!

Then, me & U-Tern head out for some gigs in Alberta and Mountain town BC! Back to our favourite place to play, The Hi Fi Club in Calgary!

Check me out in the next bit:

Fri Nov 6th @ The Modern, Vancouver, BC
Sat Nov 7th @ Shine, Vancouver, BC
Monday Nov 9th @ Moejoes, Whistler, BC
Wed Nov 10th @ Aurora, Banff, AB
Thu Nov 11th @ Hi Fi Club, Calgary, AB
Fri Nov 12th @ Spirit Bar, Nelson, BC
Sat Nov 13th @ Bulldogs, Fernie, BC
Mon Nov 16th @ Moejoes, Whistler, BC
Tues Nov 17th @ Buffalo Bills w DJ Fashen, Whistler, BC

THEN, the 22nd my good homies Autoerotique are back in town, I’ll be playing along with them @ Youngblood Sundays @ Venue

THEN….Nov 28th @ Shine we’ve got Breakbot! No poster for this yet but check it out on Facebook. SO MAJOR!

Finally, heres a little interview I did that was in the Rifflandia Festival Magazine!

Thats all for now, check back in 2 days to start unravelling the mystery

Le Discoteque & WhiteLightMixes.com present…
Saturday Oct 10th, 2009 @ The Modern
Kris Menace (Germany) w Matty C, Neoteric & Trevor Risk
Tickets: http://www.clubzone.com/events/Vancouver/161541/KRIS-MENACE-Oct-10

Blueprintevents.ca presents
Wednesday Oct 28th, 2009 @ Celebrities
Crookers (Italy) w Neoteric & Expendable Youth
Tickets: http://www.clubzone.com/events/Vancouver/159499/blueprint

See y’all there! Be sure to join my facebook group for more updates, and follow me on Twitter

Well, just got back from some gigs in Ontario. First stop was Hamilton, where 540 came through at Rokbar. Big up to Digi Snail Geoff for havin me! Friday I hit Elixir in club in Kingston, shout out to the Fraggle Rock DJs Yale and Doug. It was a slow night, so I didnt play my ‘normal’ set, but I figured why not play some dancefloor friendly jams for the people who were there. I played on a 57 and recorded my set, while I ingested about 30 fine beverages – thus, its not ‘perfect’ but I think I hold it down damn well on that devil’s sauce! Mostly mashups, uptempo dance stuff, and general club joints. Nothing too new or anything but if you’re lookin for something to listen to, check it out. I’m only going to post it on here, blog exclusive! haha

DJ Neoteric – Live @ Elixir (Kingston) July 31st, 2009

Sunday I played at The Drake for the D-Money long weekend bash, alongside Jokers of the Scene’s DJ Booth, and Nacho Lovers Scott Seewhale, and celebrated Lucie Tic’s birthday, who played a rad set as well! It was a great party, I played mostly demos and “shit that aint out yet” haha, and it was really well recieved, as I got SO many comments after, including heaps of praise from the other DJs and Diggy the Don. Felt really fuckin good. Anyways…

Back in Vancouver for a day before we head out to the INFAMOUS Shambhala Music festival. This is one of the craziest festivals in the world! Imagine 10-15,000 crazy partiers in the middle of nowhere, in the mountains, on a river, going wild for 4 days straight on 5 stages! We’re (Smoke & Mirrors) playing the Fractal Forest on Friday (6am), after Boy 8 Bit, and will be joined by our good homies Smalltown DJs, along with Jack Beats, Treasure Fingers, AC Slater, Kill The Noise, Craze, Wax Romeo and tons more im forgetting now. Check their website for more info

But the big news is we formed like voltron with Smalltown Romeo for a crazy mix, that we’ll have copies of at the festival and will post download links after the weekend! Check back for that soon!

Thats all for now! Check back soon for this mix, and links to 2 others coming in the next 2 weeks!

Oh, and Aug 14th, come to the Modern in Vancouver for the Tittsworth show! Gonna be wiiiild!

I’m back! What an amazing trip, I’m going to do my best to recap the tour from memory, as it’s taken me over a month to compile the video clips, crop and compress the pictures, and generally recover from the wildness that was Australia and New Zealand!

Here’s 2 videos summarizing the tour. All shot on my Flip Mino HD. The first one is promo and club stuff, the second is scenery and andom stuff. Hope you enjoy!

PART 1:

PART 2:

And if that wasn’t enough, heres a full recap:

Big shouts to Tim from Act Yo Age for braving the early morning and scoopin me from the airport. We then headed to the Bondi and Bronte Beach areas and checked out the scenery and grabbed a bite to eat. Then headed over to my dude Chinnys place where I stayed during my time in Sydney. Dude was the best host, and had me at his night @ World Bar called the Wall.

I was joined by some of the Ro Sham Bo crew including Levins (Sleater Brockman) and Moriarty. It was a cool party, and the homie Dave Nada was in town, and we did it up in proper fashion. The night was really cool, the other DJs were great, Moriarty dropped a great UK Funky set that had the place OPEN, and tons of local heroes came through, including the Bang Gang and Bag Raiders! We capped the night with a 5am trip to the strip club. Did you know you can “touch” in Sydney? I found out and got forcedfed a mouth full of titties..niiiice! The next day me and Dave Nada were guests on Kato and James radio show on 94.5 FBI Radio. They play amazing music and average about 40,000 listeners at any given time – needless to say we have nothing near as cool in Vancouver. We each did a set and interview which was a lot of fun, big up to those dudes! If anyone wants a copy of the radio show to check out hit me up. The next day, I headed up to Newcastle (aka Newie!!!) with Kato. Y’all need to definitely check for this dude, he’s one of the dons of the scene for sure, and the best person. We took the 2 hour trip and linked up with Adrian and Brenton Catt, 2 of the best bogans I’ve had the pleasure of meeting! We hit the Uni for an early gig with Kato, then headed over to the Civic for the party that night. I’ve heard its since burnt down! Damn!

They put me up in a really nice hotel which I didnt even see until about 4am that night, and at 9 we were groggily heading back to Sydney with a cold case of beer in the back seat. We stopped at “Macca’s” (McDonalds), which there are basically cafe’s that also serve burgers. They had ones with Beetroots, eggs and other weird stuff on it, and they also sell slurpees?? We made it back into town around 1 and headed to Hordern Pavilion for the MASSIVE We Love Sounds festival, check out lineup!

It was a gorgeous day, and over 15,000 people came out to party! There was a strangely high percentage of shirtless muscleheads but I guess that’s just how they do. All the FINE women surely made up for it. The festival was a family affair for sure, with so many friends on the bill and at the festival. Jess Jubilee from NY was there, the whole Ro Sham Bo crew, The Hoops crew, Dave Nada on the Bang Gang stage, and of course Kato and the Catt’s. I checked out as many acts as I could during the day, but many of the people I wanted to see were on the same time as I was. I still got to check out Shazam, Bang Gang, Bag Raiders, In Flangranti, Armand Van Helden, Justin Martin, and Hijack who played on the same stage I did. All in all an amazing day! We then braved the crowds, and heading over to the afterparty, Locodisco at Nevermind:

The after party was cool, but I was exhausted from lack of sleep, and a day in the sun. Headman was the headliner and played an amazing set of slow burning disco, that built up a strong vibe. Super impressed! I played all over the place and didnt know exactly what to play at times but a fun gig nonetheless! I spent the next few days exploring Sydney, and chillin with Chinny, Wax Motif, The Ro Sham Bo crew, Nick Catchdubs, and Jess and Nada. Good times! But none better than the Ro Sham Bo X Hoops Party with special guest Nick Catchdubs. We got lit up, and ended the night with an indescribable sing along to ‘Come On Eileen’. Peep the posse shot!

Wednesday I packed my bags and headed to Gold Coast, which is like Australia’s Miami. Nothing but new, crazy buildings along the beach, full of fake tits and surfer dudes and an extremely high number of strip clubs. Theres some money in Gold Coast but not tons of soul. I met up with my booking agent Joe there and we checked out the city, and prepped for the gig the next night. After being at the club the night before I was hyped to kill it. It was an “R&B” club, aka Top40 which is no problem. Had an amazing dinner with Joe, Blaze Tripp and Jessamy, and got my sushi fix that night. The gig went ok, and the next day we flew out to Melbourne.

Melbourne is an amazing city, certainly the artistic capital of Oz, and co-incidentally the sister city of Vancouver. Strangely enough it was also the #1 city in the world to live in, up until Vancouver took that honor. The street press was amazing there, and I got tons of press:

This one was done over the phone while @ We Love Sounds and I’m quite certain I didnt say much of it as it was written. Some funny answers and sentences that don’t make much sense haha.

It was also the first time I was a victim of misquoting in themedia:

I had done this interview via email, so I figured there was NO WAY they could misconstrue anything, right? Wrong! The first question was about what I grew up listening to. I explained I was from a small town in rural Ontario, and grew up listening to rap when it was rather taboo. Everyone else was listening to Nirvana, at a time when if you didnt listen to rock you “were trying to be black”. In quotes, as an attempt to explain how others reacted to me at the time, saying that I was ‘trying to be black’ for listening to hip hop. Well, of course it was edited down to “I was listening to rap, I was trying to be black” !!! My excitement about the interview soon turned to dread for the implications of the misquote – I’d never say anything that ridiculous! Its funny, because none of the Aussies seemed to see why I was upset about the quote, while everyone at home was like “Oh man, you have to get that corrected!”. Of course that wasn’t possible, so I send an email back to the editors, who printed the correction. It was a stream of consciousness email so it didnt make much sense, but it was extra publicity, and printed right under a giant picture of the Bloody Beetroots, so it helped lessen the blog. You can check out the correction here.

Next up was the gig @ Eurotrash in Melbourne. It was great party with Mu-Gen, 1928 and Sleeves, and made all the better by the fact I was stayin with some good homies from Toronto, Caff and Rick, and also linked with my dude from Vancouver, Geoff. We drank a quick bottle in the alley and caught up, then partied until about 6 the next morning. Got a bit messy, and the hangover was rough, but completely worth it. By Monday I was back and living, and Caff and I hit the Melboure Zoo, on weeeeed man! It was a nice peaceful day and we zoned out on the amazing animals. You can see the footage I compiled a few posts down the page.

Tuesday we linked with the Scattermish crew (Shouts to Hamish, Lewis and Mu-Gen!), and got to play a last minute impromptu gig with them, and Classixx who were in town as well. We ate some amazing Korean food, then hit the club. Wednesday I composed myself and got ready to leave for New Zealand!

Thursday I had to fly from Melbourne to Sydney, and headed into town to get my NZ Work Visa, last minute styles. Then cabbed back to the airport and flew to New Zealand. The promoter Matthew picked me up in Wellie and we hit the club for a few drinks, but had an early night to prepare for the next day. Then linked up with local awesome dude / shop owner Eli and we grabbed some food and took the tour around town. The show was at Hope Bros, and had the illest poster of all the gigs by far. it looked like I ate a zombie and was drooling blue blood. Send me that ish!!! The party went off, and played alongside Marek – people in New Zealand like to drink! Some nice people over there!

The next day I barely made my flight to Aukland, but was glad I didn’t. The promoter and all around awesome MTron picked me up at the airport and we drove into town. They put me up in a really nice hotel, and we hit an amazing Japanese restaurant, again quenching my thirst for sashimi, soy and wasabi. The party that night was off the hook! Possibly the best of the entire trip! The club was packed with gorgeous women and the opening DJs had great taste. Couldn’t ask for a better night!!

The next day, I was admittedly happy to start the trip home. It had been a long trip and I was looking forward to my own bed. Unfortunately there was a 6 hour delay leaving Aukland! Then, because of that, I missed my connector in LA! It was also fathers day, so I left a voicemail on my Dad’s machine, and called ride to let them know I’d be delayed. The two one-minute phone calls cost me $30. NEVER pay for a call with credit card! Lesson learned.

Well, that about says it all. I’m sure I’ve forgotten some things, but I really don’t need to write any more. Here’s one of my favorite pictures from the trip. An ironically fitting end to this recap!

Check out the live dates posted over there ——>

First and foremost, if you’re in Vancouver I need your support at the Redbull 3 style Party rock battle on Jan 30th @ The Commodore! If you weren’t there last year, it was the party of the year, no doubt. This year will be EVEN WILDER!

I have UNLIMITED GUESTLIST for this!! it WILL sell out, so be there between 9:30 and 10 to ensure entry..not kidding! There will be 1200 people in the place!! Come out and yell your lungs out for me! I’m feeling really good about this year, and am hoping to make it to the national finals in Toronto!

Again, unlimited guestlist, just drop me a line at Neoteric AT gmail and full names and +’s and you’re good! Hope y’all can make it

In the next few days check me at Fastlife, where we’ve got some very special, last minute, top secret guests. We can’t tell you who, but you might be able to guess!

On the 22nd check me from 1-6 at the Redbull stage @ the Knowshow Convention at the Vancouver Convention Center. Its like a mini Magic, lots of dope brands on display!

Then in the evening, i’ll be killin it with the big homie Fashen @ Bar None, peep the flyer and hit me up for guestlist

Saturday we got a box booth in the stadium for the Lil Wayne show!! BAAAAALLLIN!! Monday the 26th, if you’re up in Whistler I’ll be at Moejoes for Aussie Day

And finally, I’m extremely hyped to get back to Toronto and play a jam for the fine people at Format Mag! Top notch site, check them out. Also happy to be rockin it with the amazing A-Rock (MTL, Peer Pressure) and my brother from another mum Caff! (TO, Fameless). Hope to see you there!

That’s about it for now. Stay tuned though, I’ll be posting tracks, doing features on people I’m feeling and generally using this blog to talk about someone other than myself haha.