So, at Lollapalooza two years ago, I had the opportunity to read about CSS in the official program on the hour long elevated rail ("L") ride from our hotel by the the airport to the site of Lolla, Grant Park in Chicago. IL. As it turns out, I had missed their performance at the festival already. But by chance, they were playing a DJ set at the Debonair Social Club later that night. Mind you, I didn't know exactly who CSS was at that moment, as this was a swell year before their scene-breaking iPod Commercial where they really made a name for themselves. But when I had read "five Brazilian art school girls", I was sold, immediately. I thought to myself, "I have to see this, at all costs."
So , to make a long story short, I go (by myself mind you - my friends went to see some jam band), only to find out they had missed their flight, and the festival all together. Not an entire loss, however, because Colt 45 was hosting the party and I proceeded to enjoy myseld on their tab. I met a photographer which whom I exchanged a great deal of pleasantries with, only to later find out it was the one-and-only ShadowScene. Party photographer extraordinaire.
They did have a DJ however, were I was introduced to the hypnotizing sounds of Green Velvet for the first time. A moment I will never forget. On the way home I proceeded to get lost for seven hours in downtown Chicago, wandering the streets alone. Last time I go out alone in a strange city. Lesson learned.
But, hey, ...five art school girls. FIVE!
Indeed, I really felt close to the ol' rompin' grounds of Chicago house music being in a pretentious indie bar in Wicker Park off the Damen stop of the "L". It was a religious experience of sorts for me. A definite must-stop next time you visit Chicago.
CSS - Let's Make Love And Listen To Death From Above (RAC Remix)
CSS - Music Is My Hot, Hot Sex (Kill The Noise Remix)
Green Velvet ft. Walter Phillips - Shake & Pop (Original Mix)
P.S. I can Tanqueray.
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