Syd Gris Music

Syd Gris Music A Sampling of sets for your listening pleasure...

I've posted some various sets from the last couple years to hear (or re-hear). Most are live recordings of the moment how it went down and so reflect the time and circumstance of that gig. These don't always translate into a listening experience out of the club environment, but these best represent what happens when I'm at the helm. Your feedback is always welcome.

Track listings for all of these sets can be found HERE. Check it if you're curious.

**NEW SET POSTED**Download :: 'A Decompensated Set'
Live at Opulent Temple's Decom After Party. Sunday, October 11th, 2009
A short set of some heady techno and a few gritty tracks, including my first single 'Who Are You?' Love the post Decom crowd on a Sunday night, up for anything. Brief at 42 minutes, but effective, me thinks. Obligatory feel good ending. (Thanks to Zach Moore for recording and hosting the recording)

Download :: 'A 7 Year Old Set' -
Live at the Opel 7 Year Anniversary Party (Part 1) at Mission Rock. 4-25-09.
I went on after Meat Katie (who's mix, along with Dylan Rhymes & Zach Moore is available at the same link) at my anniversary party, so this one is special to me. A couple rough mixes, but the programming is sick, In My not so Humble Opinion. I played some tracks that appear in other mixes, but I was wanting to not be burdened by worrying about such things, and have a little indulgent fun alongside some new stuff as well. I consider this set another variation on quintessential Sydious Maximus, with a range of electro, dirty house, indie/nu-disco and break beat. Play it loud.

In Search of Tequila - Live from Ruby Skye (Tiesto Opening Set) 12-18-08.** (In 2 Parts)
Download Part 1 : In Search of Tequila. Syd Gris Live at Ruby Skye - 12-18-08
Download Part 2 : In Search of Tequila. Syd Gris Live at Ruby Skye - 12-18-08
I had the good fortune of opening up for Tiesto last December at Ruby Skye at a sold out show on a Thursday night. I played for 3 hours as the room reached capacity and played a range of techno flavored progressive, Balaeric trance, melodic electro, and other 4/4 variations of proper progressive music. Enjoying the art of a good opening set, it was a blast to stretch out musically, take my time, and bring the crowd up and back down in steady waves. Nice long mixes, hypnotic undertones, lots of melody of course. This is different than most everything else posted here, you closet trance fans will like it. Plus, it's a lot of music! In case you want to burn as a single track CD, it's separated into (2) 80 minute portions. Part 1 is the warm up, Part 2 is the peak time (for an opening set). Both are solid.

Download :: 'Temporarily Definitive' -
Live at the 'Music is Art' party at Mission Rock. 11-14-08.
I wanted to share my set from this party, in part because I had so much fun playing that night. It's live and on the fly so not without it's imperfections, but I'm digging the music I have right now in this vein more than usual and I think the set rocks. It's not for the faint of heart, with songs about doing coke and licking pussy (only the latter of which I condone), and some dirty, fuzzy, distorted, raucous sounds that are best heard loud. This is the core of where I'm at musically right now when I get to let it loose. Thus, it's definitive, but only for the moment. Tell me what you think.

New Download :: 'A Burning Set, Vol. VI.' Part 1
Live at Opulent Temple, Tuesday Night, Burning Man 2008
Prime time at Opulent Temple with brand new flame throwers to play with. Intro for context of the purpose of our efforts by myself & Shahid Buttar. Covering the music bases with purpose as well. A who's who of some of my favorite producers : Blende, Miles Dyson, Lee Coombs, Uberzone, Justice, Rogue Element, Dylan Rhymes, Alex Metric, with a great seldom heard mash-up of Freeland's 'Hate' with Bassbin Twins' 'Dogs'. This is Syd at OT.

Download :: Syd Gris, Live at The Deep End.
Thursday at Burning Man 2008.
For my last set at the legendary DE, I played an at times indulgent set, including some played out tracks and one particularly craptastic mix. I should not even be sharing this mix. But it was for the ladies, and all in fun. Accessible house that's a good one to put on at a party. Don't get too serious on this one, with re-mixes of Depeche Mode, Run DMC, Justin Timberlake, and Chic Flowerz side by side with some kick ass electro by Vandalism, Deadmau5, Beat Assassins, etc.

Download :: 'Just This Moment' .
Live from the Bada Big Boom Party at Mighty : 8-2-08.
Electro, breaks and tech funk. My goal for this set was to play all music I had never played out before, so 14 of the 16 tracks on here I had just gotten. As a live set of this kind, it's a bit unpolished and the programming a little uneven, but if you're looking for new music, here's one moment in my play list.

Download :: Live from Ruby Skye 1/05/08.
From an all night tag set Alain and I did, here's 45 minutes of my turn, with electro and dirty house of the moment, proper for the Ruby crowd without losing it's grit.

Download :: 'A Lovely Set'
Syd Gris, Live from the Opel float at SF LoveFest : 9/29/07.
A sampling of electro, breaks & tech funk big tracks I loved at that moment that seemed proper for the thousands on the plaza that day. (Plus a 'necessary' public service announcement at the beginning.) From the crowd pleasing Get Slippery remix, to the bombastically dirty Blende remix of Ironie, it's a bit all over the place, but so am I...

Download :: 'An Achtung Set', from April 2007.
Recorded for Hoj's Thick Frisky Radio show.
This was right after Meat Katie and Dylan Rhymes loaded me up on sick unreleased tracks after the Opel 5 Year Anniversary party in March. I made this up as I went along, with lots of Blende, Alex Metric and Miles Dyson. This was a departure for me at the time, and this is still one of my favorite sets to listen back to for it's deep, dirty and at times distorted groove. A clear precursor to how I play presently.

Download :: 'A Political Set'.
Syd Gris Live at Mighty Breaks, 4-21-06.
This was a favorite of friends and fans for a while, a showcase of my taste in breaks : tech funk, rock influenced, with some other heady, muscley fun thrown in w/ a cross section of breaks's biggest names of the time. I programmed it with the theme in mind of political thoughts and commentary, from 'Mad as Hell' and 'Obey', to 'We Want Your Soul' and 'Hope Time', thus it's called 'A Political Set.' When I first played it out a lot of these were unreleased and fresh, now of course breaks has peaked but I still think you'll find something to like in this prime time banger set. It's live and un-fixed so there's a couple rough mixes, hope you forgive me.

All of these sets have the track listings HERE if you want to check it.

Visuals from Eye Vapor during Syd's set at BM

A nice vid of the visuals that were playing during my opening track, Thursday night at Opulent Temple - a remix of 'Welcome to the Machine', interspersed with crowd shots & booth shots....

"Visuals from Eye Vapor during Syd's set at BM" perma-link

March 18, 2010 12:43 AM, by Syd Gris

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Opel DJ's Upcoming Gigs

Syd's Gigs Gigs: tba Hear some Music: Live recordings of Syd Gris sets available for download Here.

Dex's Gigs Sun, Feb 14, 2010 Marathon Valentine at Triple Crown Dex set time: 11PM Sat, Feb 20, 2010 Opulent Temple Deep Underground at (location TBA) Dex set time: TBA Sat, Feb 27, 2010 Opel 8-Year Anniversary at Mighty Dex set time: TBA Check out the latest DexMixes: **NEW** LIVE FROM LudaXMas - Recorded off the mixer at Burntown's LudaXMas party at the California Club in Auburn, CA on Dec 12th, 2009. Tech funk to techno to electro to breaks. Download the MP3 of the mix. FLAGRANT: Due North From San Francisco - Created specifically for the Jungo Road blog site, you can now download the 320K MP3 of it HERE. SUBTLETY: It's Not My Middle Name - available as a 192k MP3 or a 320k MP3. Love Fest 2008 MegaMix - 18 tracks in 30 minutes - whew! - Download these tracks to burn the CD or this single MP3.

Melyss's Gigs Check out Melyss' latest mix: Monkey Style available on the Cheeky Productions Website. NYE, December 31st Opel presents the Stanton Warriors at Mighty. Set time 3:30-5:00a Contact Melyss

"Opel DJ's Upcoming Gigs" perma-link

March 16, 2010 09:42 PM, by Syd Gris

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