May 26, 2010 – “Stereo” – DJ Sets by Adam Warped & Chris Casual of POSR

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• Artist: POSR (Adam Warped & Chris Casual DJ Set)
• Date: Wednesday, May 26th 2010
• Time: 10:00pm
• City: POSR (Adam Warped & Chris Casual DJ Set) in Austin
• Venue: Barbarella
• Address: 615 Red River
• Country: United States
• Age restrictions: No Minors
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POSR’s Chris Casual ON SET -Larissa Ness “Don’t Think I Won’t” (Prepmode & Elstar RMX) Music Video Shoot- Behind the Scenes

POSR’s Chris Casual handling the hair for Larissa Ness’ music video “Don’t Think I Won’t” (Prepmode & Elstar Remix).   JJ Castillo of JoseJonesFilms.com taking the video, photography by Cory Ryan of EyeCandyAustin.com.

Larissa Ness, Prepmode and Elstar are all Austin musicians making waves in our beloved music scene.  Prepmode is one of our favorite Austin DJ’s – come show your support at the video release party @ Speakeasy on May 13,2010.  Click here for more info.

POSR-Mixtape Sessions V.1

XX at CMJ With suprise Apperance by The Golden Filter

Well it was fri and me and Sicca were feening for something to do..  already Post Op and appeased by the new york bagel gods, we were going to meet up with Adam Warped and Chris Casual  to go to  Hercules And Love Affair but we decided to go out and about with  our  very uber hip  friend / business associate /manager and over most of all awesome guy.. Traey Hatch .. He told us that we should come check out this band XX and meet up with our new found friend Myles Grosovsky of Sneak Attack Media

well anyyywaysssss… enough of the  name dropping and tag indexing lets move back to the story at hand..

So we get on the subway (Imagine That) and head toward the hotel. and arrive greeted by yer typical are you on the list douche bag to tell us that we were at the wrong place. So 2 block later we arrived to smiling faces that greeted and checked if we were on the list  and so we entered the   beautiful but yet to be packed hotel.

As we walked down the stairs we heard the oh familiar but faint sounds of a DJ coming form downstairs, im assuming it was in the basement of the hotel but what the hell do i know. So after Sicca decided to get her 17 dollar glass of wine in a plastic cup  we decided to hit the dance floor. it was packed but not yet to packed and it was a little odd cause the music wasn’t up very loud.. So after all that it start`ed to fill up more and more and more.. and it wouldn’t stop. So naturally the music became louder which i might add there was a Dj Tag team That caught my ear playing Indie dance To Electro to Disco There names were Dave And Josh Of  Fixed NYC so after a few waddles on the dance floor i naturally had to pee right when the place was filled but on my way to the pisser low and behold  whom did i see  could this be  ….

Yes YES yeS it was! it was Penelope Of The Golden FilterI felt like a school boy telling her how im such a big hugeee fan.. hahha   what can ya do when i like something i like something.. anyways so back to the floor  and we met up with miles chatted for a tad and the dj music turned down  and the  band XX started to come on..

YOU COULD BARLEY HEAR THEM…  as we all looked in astonishment  as how they turned off all the speakers in the back  and only the staeg speakers we became quite  restless. i liked what i heard but just couldn’t hear it very well so we decided to make like a banana and split!..

On my way out the facilities  i was greeted again by Penelope and Stephen of The Golden Filter so naturally asked them when they were coing back to Austin they said probably SXSW. So i said goodbyes and we wandered off into the Manhattan night  all in one piece.

THE END

P.S. so Chris Casual and Adam Warped were dancing the night away with trannys!
UGGG i would have paid to see this! Jealous!

MAPS – Turning the Mind (Chris Casual’s review)

The new maps album, Turning the Mind, is definitely not to be missed. It has the dark, drug rock feel of an early to mid career Spiritualized record – organs and all!  However, it never feels too heavy or bogged down. It’s quite the opposite; with uplifting vocals, chord progressions, and strings, as heard on “I Dream of Crystal”, it is connotative to that of the polyphonic spree in it’s many moments of glee and ecstasy. It’s as if James Chapman, the man behind Maps, is killing himself in his pursuit of happiness; there is even a track entitled “Die Happy Die Smiling”. There are intense minimalist moments, such as the opening of “nothing” that make me want to cry like a Muse song sometimes makes me want to cry; but then Maps drops a nice beat with plenty of interesting, and sometimes dirty, synths to make me feel like dancing… and maybe crying and laughing too.

So many emotions come and go as I listen to Turning the Mind, but boredom is never one of them. It is a very cohesive work, which I never found any tracks that are there just as “fluff” or “fillers” in. The project has conquered one very big quality that I look for in music: two opposing sounds working synergistically to create something familiar yet so new that you can’t quite put your finger on why you love it so much. Turning the Mind is both dark and uplifting. It leaves me feeling warm with a tinge of cold shudders, like I just got home safely from a long, harrowing journey. This is an LP full of gems that I definitely recommend digging up.

Fucking Fab II w/ DJs Chris Casual of POSR , and DETAILS

I’ve wanted to post this for a while but just got the flyer today. It’s going to be another amazing party. I’ll be spinning during the fashion show.

Fashion Show featuring designers:
-Bekah DuBose
-Audrey Macabre
-Teddy
-Holden
-and the stylings of Makiki and Bradiamond
(show at 11pm)

w/ special performances including the return of Ana Borschins
there will be fire, water, glitter, some male stripping & more!

B-day girl, the always lovely, Clara!!

DJs: Chris Casual & Details
Photos: The Peen Scene & www…brainold.com
Photobooth: Alison Narro

And afterparty!

Beerland

So I had a pretty good weekend. Saturday, 3 of my friends had a birthday party at the Tiniest Bar in Texas (on 5th street). The staff and the regulars were NOT prepared for the bar to be over run by hipsters and trannies… SURPRISE. In spite of overwhelmed bar tenders, they asked my friends to come back and throw more parties. Of coarse they did, the place was packed. I’ve been asked to DJ the next party, so keep your eyes peeled for that.

Then Sunday I slept in and got ready for my DJ set that night at Beerland (7th and Red River). It was an after party for the TX Roller Girls… always a fun group. Most of the girls seemed to be really into it. But I knew not everyone was going to be ready for an electro/ house set at a place like Beerland. I got several older dudes and stupid girls asking to hear 80′s… and even HIP HOP! I had already been throwing in a little 80′s here and there but that’s really never my focus. I wanted to tell them to go next door to Elysium where Sunday nights are actually devoted to playing the same 80′s jams that have been playing for 30 years. And PS… hip hop was totally out of the question and wouldn’t have fit at all. Hip hop girl laughed at me when I told her I kinda had a set list. My set wasn’t carved in stone, but I did have a few things planned out. Hip hop was obviously not on the agenda. After my set, I went next door to Elysium and ran into a friend that told me all his friends had scurried over to Beerland from the gay bars because they had heard “it was really happenin’ over there”. I was glad he told me that because I had really let 3 people with no taste bring me down. I had just forgotten how frustrating it can be to get “requests”… I’m not a wedding DJ, sorry. Next time I spin for the roller girls, I am going to bring in my old DJ partner b/c he’s good at pleasing those kinds of people. We work well together, mixing in his top 40′s with my beats. So, also be on the lookout for that set… probably in about a month.

Ps. I played a few POSR reworks and they definitely kept everyone dancing.

New Shiznit, different … Dayznit?

by illson

Woke up this morning and stepped into a pile of fluff. What? Ah, River, my girlfriend’s dog, just chewed through part of the couch. I nudge her awake and she checks on him under the bed, then I hear her try to grab something away, then I hear River growl, then I hear her say ‘he’s got your wallet!’ This is when I really wake up. Somehow, my money survived. I take this as a sign that it’s going to be a good day, and with that thought I curl back up under the covers to sleep off the hangover.

Final Memories from Yesterday

They are; listening to a Peter, Bjorn and John remix on the way to taking Chris Casual home and having the song end just as we pull up in front of his east-side house. Making a playlist on my ipod at Side Bar because they let you play 20 minutes of music. My first mix was well received by the wheel-chaired host (really, he’s on a wheelchair. He’s also from detroit. that’s all i can remember). The playlist:

Song – Band
Midnight Blues – Detroit Cobras
Roberta Flack – Flying Lotus
Get Off Of My Cloud – the Rolling Stones
You Only Live Once – the Strokes
Cool It Down – the Velvet Underground
A Means to an End – Joy Division
Hang Me Up to Dry – Cold War Kids
Flight of the Knife (Part Two) – Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears

Chris Casual said, ‘You know the next song is going to be good because you picked it.’ I knew the next song was going to be good because I was on four Jack and waters.

I thought it was a good idea to grab a drink on the way to Chris’ place, and the bars on Red River are my favorite ones. Creekside, Side Bar, Beauty Bar and Plush are all clustered in staggering distance to each other, and Headhunters and Mohawk are just around the corner. These bars have the added benefit of being just a wee bit away from sixth street, so there’s a reduction of drunken coed factor – which is crucial. Drunken frat boys and coeds BAD. Drunken hipsters – passable. Being able to play your ipod at Side Bar on mondays – GOOD!

More Memories

Monday was the day Chris Casual came by the house to learn the songs. Its been a while since Jake and I have jammed, so I was pretty rusty. Good thing I kept notes. Bad thing that it was me keeping the notes; it seemed that every time I needed the tabs for the songs, they were hidden within a sheaf of social security office paperwork (what the hell was that paperwork doing in my gig bag?). Chris was SOLID. He picked up the songs quickly and he played perfectly on time. He’s going to be great. He also cuts hair, and was loving the bass playing because it was a slightly different motion than what he does all day. By god, keep that wrist in one piece, please – WE NEED YOU!!

Jake squeezed a couple of new tracks from his glitchy laptop and they sound superb. They’re fast, catchy, dancy, and in your face. Lap it up, people!

We wrapped practice after Chris got a general idea of the bass lines. Then we went upstairs and my girlfriend had him take his shirt off for some photos for her class. Maybe we’ll post them up. Maybe we’ll charge for them.

After their little photo session was when we headed off for a drink. And talked about the impending tour. And whether we would be selling t-shirts on the road to survive. Or if there was a bus with champagne on it waiting for us. Who knows? Jake gave me the contract and I promptly gave it back – which I thought was pretty rock and roll. And not very smart. Still, rock & roll. Still not smart. Which came first?

So here it is; my first blog entry for the hungry masses. I hope I get a copy of the Joy Division discography for this (which Jake mentioned he had).

Band Practice 1.0

Ahh the oh so familiar smell of cigarettes  and fresh new guitar strings strings..

Well today was the first pre practice for POSR. with Chris casual on Bass and Wilson on the guitar as the frantic Jake screams on the vocal going horse within the first 15 min…  the mesh of these 3 fellows worked very well as they tabbed the rhythm and riffs that they will play in front of a live studio audience.. Jaleki on drums and Lonnie on key s will be there soon soon within the week to get caught up.. things are looking might mighty fine

your friend POSR