GOMI HALLOWEEN PARTY!!! THE PICTURES ARE IN

FOR EVERYONE WHO MADE IT(& THERE WE'RE ALOT OF YOU),
THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU!
EVERYONE WAS AWESOME!!!!
THANKS TO ERIKA & JOHN FOR THE PARTY PICS

ATTENTION: IF YOU GO OUT ON RED RIVER OR 7TH PLEASE KEEP READING!!!!

THIS WAS SENT TO MY BOX EARLIER TODAY, ONCE AGAIN THE CITY OF AUSTIN IS @ IT AGAIN!!!

Hey Guys,

I hate massive emails, but I just ran into this piece of info that I had heard about when I covered the Save Austin Music launch last week and thought other people I know might be interested. Below is the text of an email I received, and before you start thinking you aren't affected these plans would affect the following clubs:

Stubb's
Red Eyed Fly
Beerland
Elysium
Side Bar
Creekside Lounge
Red 7
Beauty Bar
Emo's
And anything south until you hit 4th street.

Or at least that is what I was hearing from a few city council members at the launch party. If you go to any of these venues/bars the rest of this email might interest you.

Thank you for your time.

-
John Pesina
832.236.7595
http://www.flickr.com/photos/johnpesina
http://www.johnpesinaphotography.com

For those unaware, the City is currently attempting to force the live music venues on Red River to sell their buildings so that they can raze the buildings, install an underground pipe to drain Waller Creek better, and then rebuild *more* retail and residence on Red River. This will effectively wipe out a large number of live music venues that many Austinites enjoy and that have been the springboard for many fledgling bands.

If you want to help assure the future of live music in Austin, please help us by showing up at City Hall tonight for the hearing at 7pm! We'll need all the help we can get. Following is a letter from John Wickham, owner of Elysium:

Forwarded from John Wickham

Okay guys, everyone has asked what they can do to help and here it is (first step):

7:00pm Wed, Oct 29th at City Hall 301 W 2nd St.
Live Music Task Force Hearing

We need as many people as possible to show up and support the recommendations of the Live Music Task Force.

Here's why:
If these get passed the City of Austin would create a Music Department that will work on helping Live Music Venues, Artists and patrons rather than just well-meaning lip service to the Live Music Capitol of the World.

This would help ALL the Venues and Artists that play along Red River (and all over Austin) with issues like:
-Parking
-Noise Ordinance Issues
-Red River becoming an "Official" District
-Development Issues that threaten existing venues and areas like Red River
-Permitting Issues
-Marketing
-Help to Austin organizations that aid Musicians (HAMM, SIMS, AMF, etc)

Here's the Problem:
Some Neighborhood organizations are concerned a new Live Music Department would hurt their chances to further develop downtown. Many of them favor stronger noise ordinances and restrictions on Live Music.

They will attend this meeting in massive groups. They will protest the recommendations.

What to Do:
Just show up, be polite (don't argue with the opposition), and if you can bring yourself to: Speak! Everyone there before 7:30 will have 3 minutes to address the City Council about what Live Music means to them and why this is an important issue to them. If you don't want to speak, you can still sign in and register your support of the Live Music Task Force recommendations. Even still, just showing up and letting the City know how many people think this is important will help.

Also, please forward this to everyone; bands and music fans you know, the full recommendations are at:
http://www. ci. austin. tx. us/council/downloads/lmtfreport. pdf

Parking is free in the City Hall garage.

John Wickham
Elysium

GADJO DISKO: HALLOWEEN EDITION!

OK, CMJ IS OVER, I'M BACK FROM NYC...HALLOWEEN IS DAY AFTER 2 MORROW WHICH IS ALSO THE NEXT INSTALLMENT OF GADJO DISKO, MADE FROM 100% RECYCLED CULTURE!!!

OK, I KNOW I WAS GOING TO GO CMJ DAY BY DAY, BUT TOO MUCH HAS HAPPENED SO....

OK I'LL TO A RECAP WHEN I GET MY THOUGHTS TOGETHER, GOING TO SEE NICKY SIANO @ SANTO'S TONIGHT & BANKY'S PET SHOP BEFORE MIDNIGHT, SEE WWW.BEATIMPRINT.COM FOR THE VIDEO. CYA
JG

CMJ: DAY 1: fuerzabruta!, DJ ORION, ALCOHOL, & VANDELISM

OK after alost missing my 7 AM flight i made it to JFK & dove into running around last night i saw fuerzabruta, below are a couple of exerts from fuerzabruta the new de la guarda show in NYC this time around with Danny Krivit manning the decks, after that i ran into the skidmarks crew & dj orion drinking 40s in Thompson square park, on to the Vice party & happy endings both of which we were asked to leave & not come back, i lost them after that & went back to just close my eyes for a minute & go to cielo... okay i fell asleep, i'm lame. stay tuned for day 2.








Oh & here's Danny's bio...

Growing up in Greenwich Village, New York City, in the 1960s, Danny was surrounded by music. His mother was an accomplished jazz singer and his father was the manager of legendary jazz trumpeter Chet Baker before going on to open up “The Ninth Circle”, a Village hot spot, where Danny worked as a boy. It was here that Danny met some of the most influential people in the music scene; Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Charlie Mingus, John Lennon & Yoko Ono, amongst others. His home was also a hotbed of musical inspiration, with The Mothers of Invention living down the hall, and Sid Bernstein (Manager of The Rascals) living upstairs, the rascals would regularly pop down to the Krivit household to practice their future hits on the piano. At school, a close friend and classmate was the son of Creed Taylor, the production genius behind many artists who recorded on the VERVE, C.T.I. & KUDA labels, and another close friend was the legendary soul guru Nile Rogers. By 1970, Danny was already a vinyl junkie & an amateur DJ, But DJ'ing as a profession wasn't fully realized until 1971, after another neighbor/friend of Danny’s (Vice President of Polydor Records) introduced Danny to one of his artists - none other than the legendary James Brown, who gave Danny white-label promo copies of his “Get on the Good foot” and “Think” by Lynn Collins. Soon after, Danny started Djing for “The Ninth Circle” which by now had been transformed into a disco. In 1975, Danny’s father opened his second club called “Ones”; Danny was their sole DJ through 1977. Danny’s sets were a big success and from this he started promoting and Djing at his own after-hours club down the street. At this stage, Danny was becoming part of the underground scene, club-hopped a lot, meeting some of the greatest DJ names of the time. These included Nicky Siano (of the Gallery), Walter Gibbons (of Galaxy 21), Tee Scott (of Better Days), David Rodriguez (of The Limelight), Richie Kaczar (Club Hollywood), and Bobby DJ (of Le Jardin) amongst others. Although all outstanding names, one DJ and club stood out amongst the rest: DJ David Mancuso and The Loft. The Loft (A musical center and Mecca for DJs) was a unique place and home of the original DJ “Record Pool”. This is where Danny began his long time friendships with DJs Larry Levan and Francois Kevorkian (Francois K). In 1977 when Danny started Djing at “Trude Hellers”, he also had become an avid roller skater, and with his girlfriend (Daphne Rubin Vega) would regularly skate over to the Paradise Garage, where Larry would let them skate around the club while he would check out some of the new records that week on the sound system. The Garage remained Danny’s main stomping ground until it closed in 1987. Danny’s list of DJ residencies steadily grew throughout the 70s and in 1979, after Djing at the opening of the Roxy; he became their resident DJ for the next 4 years. In the early 80s the Roxy was the home of some of the best Hip hop DJs of the day like “D.S.T”, Grand master Flash, and Africa Bambaata. Since Danny was one of the few white boys who could scratch mix, he became known as Danny Rock. Throughout the 80s his list of clubs he played at exploded & very often playing 6 & 7 nights a week, which included places like, Area, Dancateria, The Ice Palace, Laces, The Limelite, Red Zone, Save The Robots, Studio 54(Virgin Islands), Tracks, The Tunnel, The World, and many, many others. Even a guest spot at the legendary Paradise Garage. Since the late 70s trade magazines such as Billboard (which he still reports to weekly), Cash Box, Record World, & Dance Music Report amongst others, have listed Danny’s play lists and Danny’s mix tapes have been getting airplay on radio station WBLS, WKTU, & KISS FM. The 80s’ saw the beginning of Danny’s studio work. He worked on tracks featuring legends such as, James Brown on “Soul Power”, “The Funky Drummer”, “Give it up and Turn it loose”, Ecstasy, Passion & Pain on “Touch and Go”, Brenda and the Tabulations “Let’s Go All the Way”, Gloria Gaynor on “Casanova Brown”, and what is probably THE quintessential version of MFSB’s classic "Love Is The Message". Moving into the 90s, Danny commanded legendary status amongst young and old as well as continuing to forge new paths in dance music into the millennium. He inherited the Ninth Circle from his father and continued to DJ at clubs such as Mars, Tracks, The Choice, Palladium, Shelter, Sound Factory Bar, Twilo, The Warehouse, & The Loft. At it's inception in 1996, Danny joined the Body and Soul team, Francois K and Joe Claussell, at club Vinyl and regularly played every Sunday for it's entire run, while also regularly Djing in various clubs in New York & Japan & everywhere in-between, Body & Soul has been enjoying special events in Brazil, Portugal & Italy, & sensational annual events in Japan, & occasionally back in NYC where July 2006 is celebrating it’s 10th anniversary, While B&S is still seeking a home for it’s weekly event, for the past 4 years, Danny has been enjoying a similar success on his own, as resident DJ of the award winning “Best Party In NYC”, “THE 718 SESSIONS" @ club Deep in Manhattan, where he’s not just the DJ, but in charge of every creative aspect of the party, from it’s lighting to it’s graphic designing of the flyers & merchandise. And in-between this & traveling, he also holds down a barrage of guest spots @ places like; APT, Cielo, Deep (LA), Devotion (San Francisco), Love, Pacha, Roxy, Shelter, Stereo (Montreal), Sole, Spirit, Table 50, & Warehouse.... Djing 35 years has given Danny many highlights. Just to name a few: In 1999 Djing for a 15,000 strong crowd for the first of three annual Body and Soul “Summer Stage” events in NYC's Central Park. Also with Body & Soul DJing for a special sell-out 2-day event annually for the past 5 years in. Also in Japan, New Year’s Eve 2001 he played for a one night indoor event with an attendance of 21,000 people. & Back in NY, summer of 2003 playing for an incredible 7,000 of his own fans at Museum Of Modern Art's PS1. & again in Japan, December 2005 @ club Ageha, also playing for an incredible 7,000 of his own fans.

Danny’s talents and reputation have grown immensely and continues to do so, with demand for his DJing & editing work reaching new heights & exploding worldwide from North & South America to Europe & Japan, with his Producer/Editor/Mixer credits included on well over 200 records. Earning a status of “King Of The Re-edit” since the early 80’s, he’s been a major force in bringing attention & world acceptance to the art of editing, even spawning an onslaught of imitators. He’s also a VJ, with a collection of well over 5000 rare soul performances on video from the 60s, 70s, 80's, & 90's. His vinyl record collection is now well over 70,000. Historical film & literature such as: “Maestro”, “Love Saves The Day”, “Last Night A DJ Saved My Life”, & Mel Cheren’s “My Life & The Paradise Garage” all include Danny Krivit as one of the key players in the history of NY night life & Most definitely one of the very few people who can honestly say he’s consistently DJ’d in all the hottest clubs in NY for the past 35 years!

& ORION BEING A VANDEL, HAHAHA

BEATIMPRINT: THE OLD NEW ADDITION TO THE GOMI FAMILY!!!

In a time before blog house, electro, & ed banger, i existed in a different form. my man skza & i along with the reverend pain, & a crazy loose affiliation of other bands & crews(trey lopez,parson,etc) played & hosted parties under beatimprint. We've all gone our separate ways, & come back together again, gone, returned etc. anyway, the beatimprint has entered the 21 century with www.beatimprint.com a refuge for all our jazzy, dub, drone, dubstep, minimal, leftfield, hip hop, broken beat goodness. PLEASE CHECK IT OUT!!!
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO SEE THE SITE!!!

HYPERSONIC 101X MIX : ONE FROM THE VAULTS

Hey here's one that most folks haven't heard from me it came out as a radio mix for 101x show HYPERSONIC. Enjoy. it hasn't been heard since broadcast.

HYPERSONIC 101X MIX

SOUL SHAKEDOWN!!! THIS sat.ur.DAY!!!

Day of Sat. Oct. 18th noon to 6pm @ Zilker Park Polo Grounds (southwest area of the park near the restrooms).
All ages welcome! We will have hotdogs and watermelon but bring anything you want to grill, picnic food, favorite beverages, sides, etc.

Great music and fun in the sun!
Put it on your calendar, dust off those dancin' shoes and pass on the good word!

CHILLY CHILL JOHNGOMI SET @ DOLCE VITA 2NITE W/DAETRON VARGAS

BEATZ & TREATZ
HEY THIS IS LAST MINUTE, I'LL BE @ DOLCE VITA FROM 8pm-MIDNIGHT, THANKS TO DAETRON VARGAS. (THIS IS HIS REGULAR GIG, I'M JUST GUESTING)
THIS WE FOR SURE BE A CHILLY CHILL SET. GELATO, COCKTAILS, & ABSTRAKT BEATZ.
DOLCE VITA 4200 DUVAL
AUSTIN, 78701
DOLCE VITA-website

GOMI' GOING'S ON 10.8.08 THE 411, YO!!!

HEY, I HAVEN'T POSTED MUCH WE'VE BEEN BUSY!!! NOT DOING RETAIL YOU'D THINK I HAVE MORE TIME TO GET STUFF DONE, BUT WE'RE STILL PLAYING CATCH UP FROM THE SHOP NOT BEING OPEN, UGH! WE HAVE A WAREHOUSE DOWN SOUTH & HOPEFULLY IN NEXT FEW WEEKS WE'LL START BEING ABLE TO SORT THAT OUT. IF YOU KNOW ANYONE NEEDING STORE FIXTURES LET US KNOW, WE'RE LETTING 'EM GO C-H-E-A-P!!!

ANYWAY, WE EXPLAINED EVERYTHING A FEW MONTHS AGO, BUT I'VE HAD A COUPLE OF MORE FOLKS ASK SO I'LL RE-POST THE INFO, ABOUT WHERE WE ARE & WHAT WE ARE DOING. OK, HERE IT GOES... WE CLOSED 2ND STREET LAST YEAR AFTER COMING TO AN AGREEMENT WITH THE AMLI. NOT A GREAT DEAL, BUT WE GOT OUT OF 2ND STREET RETAIL HELL FAIRLY OK, & UNSCATHED, & NOT TOOOO BROKE. THEY STILL HAVEN'T OPENED ANYTHING IN OUR OLD SPOT, OCTANE, DUCATI, SHORELINE, SAGE SALON & LUCKY SOLES ALL LEFT TOO. LUCKY SOLES HAS MOVED OVER TO 5TH ST. GO CHECK HER OUT!!! AS FAR AS GOMI AS A RETAIL OUTLET IS CONCERNED, WE ARE DONE. (7+YEARS & MORE B4, I'M DONE!!), WE ARE MAINTAINING THE TSHIRTS, ART, TOYS, & DJ-ING/MUSIC. I'VE ALWAYS DONE THAT SO IT'S NOT LIKE THAT EVER STOPPED, BUT HERE'S THE CURRENT STUFF...

I SHOW IN THE EROTIC SHOW @ GALLARY LOMBARDI (SHOW CLOSED END OF AUGUST)
I WILL BE SHOWING @ DOMY BOOKS FOR THE MONSTER SHOW(IT OPENS OCT 31 & RUN THROUGH NOV. CHECK IT DURING THE EAST AUSTIN STUDIO TOUR IF YOU GET THE CHANCE DOMY IS AWESOME.)

WE STARTED THE LABEL LAST YEAR GOMI HEART ELECTRIC WWW.GOMIHEARTELECTRIC.COM

CHECK IT OUT JOEL IRDBISA & I HAVE SEVERAL DIFFERENT ACTS UP, FRIENDS & GHE FAM REMIXES ETC ALL AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD.
CHECK OUT MY BAND CITY OF HUNGRY GHOSTS
CITY OF HUNGRY GHOSTS-myspace

CITY OF HUNGRY GHOSTS- GHE OFFICIAL SITE

ALSO, ON THE SITE UNDER DJ JOHNGOMI ARE AN ARCHIVE OF DJ MIXES AVAILABLE FOR FREE DOWNLOAD, ENJOY. ALSO, I'M LOOKING TO DJ MORE SO HIT ME UP!!!

LASTLY THERE ARE A COUPLE OF BLOGS I CONTRIBUTE TO & MY ART BLOG SO CHECK THESE OUT AS WELL

WWW.ICUSTOMIZEEVERYTHING.COM(MY VISUAL ART/MUSIC BLOG
WWW.ELECTRONICAUSTIN.COM( I REVIEW MUSIC & POST EVENTS)
WWW.ELCTRONICNOLA.COM( SISTER BLOG TO ELECTRONICAUSTIN)
WWW.BEATIMPRINT.COM(MY MAN SKZA/AKA DJ STELLA' & I POST OUR JAZZIER, DUBSTEPY, DRONEY, ABSTRACT BEAT GOODNESS HERE, IT'S ACTUALLY BEEN OUR ON & OFF PRODUCTION CREW SINCE 1995, CHECK THIS IF YOU GET A CHANCE!)

THAT'S NOT REALLY IT, BUT I'M TIRED OF TYPING, CHECK OUT THE ABOVE. & I'LL ADD MORE IN A DAY OR 2. THANKS-JG