So I got to check out Night Train last thursday in Baltimore at the Golden West in Hampden with my buddy DJ HOFF. A friend of mine Emily Rabbit was hosting, along with a guy I have met a few times, that holds down the nightlife scene in Baltimore, Simon Phoenix (An amazingly entertaining DJ by the way part of the TaxLo crew) So this party consisted of real deal un-prentitious hipsters who don't give a fuck what people think about them. They were looking to cut loose and have a good time. These aren't the "scenester" types that are too cool to dance and care more about the way they look and what they drink then how much fun they have. You see Hamden is a place where people are who they are and if you have a problem with it you can go fuck yourself. If you have ever seen Edward Furlong in "Pecker", a John Waters movie, it takes place mostly in Hampden and you will get the picture.. Check it out! Great flick. Anyways Jonathan Toubin spins all 45's and plays Rock and Soul that you can dance too. I was tired as hell and didn't know what I was getting myself into but the music was truthfully fun. I'm hoping to get in touch with this guy and see about bringing him to the west coast. I think he would work well in S.F/ and L.A. but hope I could figure something out for S.D. to make it worth his while. Read more below and enjoy the video.
New York Night Train - "home of the extraordinary 45rpm maximum rock and soul sets and wild parties o fDJ Mr. Jonathan Toubin continuing to prove that neither nightlife nor music need to be mediocre"
I’m not one of the Schmucks who will lament over New York not being “what it used to be”, but I will say that we’re not fans of this dismal wasteland of Eurotrash tourists and guidos with polo shirts unbuttoned down to their navels grinding to the repetitive pounding of bad electro… Enter Jonathan Toubin, and his simple-yet-visionary approach to revamping the entire lanscape of New York and Brooklyn from midnight till the after hours. His New York Night Train parties have become stuff of sheer legend do to the simple fact that Toubin actually seems to care about what he is producing. His meticulous approach has paid off quite handsomely as pretty much each and every party with the Jonathan Toubin stamp on it seems to be the biggest party going on for that given night.”
The dawn of 2010 finds New York Night Train conductor/soul proprietor Mr. Jonathan Toubin the most popular, prolific, and highest-earning rock and soul DJ on the North American nightclub circuit – taking the 45rpm dance party to a whole new level conceptually, culturally, and commercially. Though known for “maximum rock and soul” dance club sets and multi-media “Happenings,” his Soul Clap and Dance-Off party has, in the last year, put Mr. T on the map as soul man and left a huge footprint on contemporary urban nightlife. Working over 600 gigs the last two years, Mr. Jonathan Toubin has managed to keep one boot in the counter-culture from which he emerged (punk bars, DIY basements, loft parties, art galleries, music venues, and shady afterhours spots) while crossing over to dance clubs, prestigious festivals, boutique hotels, museums, ivy league colleges, fashion parties, gay events, arena pop/rock shows, and even raves – receiving nominations for nightlife awards from the fancier side of New York culture in the process.
Mr. Jonathan Toubin conceived the Soul Clap and Dance-Off more than three years ago as a monthly outlet to play his soul 45s to a small north Brooklyn underground art/rock social community in the spirit of the mid-1990s indie/punk scene parties. He added a brief dance-contest to the mix to make the event more interesting. As this humble makeshift neighborhood underdog evolved into an institution, Mr. T employed the party’s popularity as a weapon against tired hit nights, 80s nights, and other mediocre contemporary dance culture – offering an alternative in the possibility of dancing to exciting music most of us have never heard before. The epic size, frequency, and geographical breadth of the Soul Clap the last couple of years has been a seed for a new wave of soul dance culture among indie rockers, punks, and hipsters first in Brooklyn, next in Manhattan, and, in the last year, around the world – garnering slews of imitators and developing a new nightlife economy everywhere from Portland, ME to Portland, OR, from Canada to Mexico and even as far away as the Middle East.
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