DJ Colette & Prismatic 4 Year Anniversary @ Temple Fridays! November 6, 2009

This week at Temple Fridays DJ Colette will bring down the house with her soulful and sexy singing and DJ combo! Also, join Andrew Phelan and George Cochrane as they celebrate 4 years of throwing down rockin' beats with Prismatic! With Trinidadian Deep & Friends holding it down in the Destiny Lounge, this is sure to be an energetic and fun-filled night!

RSVP to [email protected] for free admission before 12am, $10 after



Shrine:

DJ Colette (OM Records, Apt Ent)

DJ Colette is one of the first DJs to add her vocals to the record she spins, inspiring a new category of performance in the electronic world. As countless others begin to sing and spin, many can still not compare to the vocal/turntable sessions Colette delivers.

Colette credits both her mixing style and her improvised vocals to coming up as part of the fertile Chicago house music scene at the turn of the Nineties. "I'm very spoiled because Derrick Carter and Mark Farina are the first DJs I got to hear growing up in Chicago. And I definitely learned how to spin watching people. Because at that time, unlike now, there weren't any classes, or people, that were willing to instruct you. I remember when I was 16 I used to watch Diz and Lego; I'd watch every little thing that they were doing and just kind of suck it in."

It was also at those house parties that Colette, a classical music student by day, began to find the liberation she still enjoys from singing over other people's records. "I started singing with house music when I was 16 or 17. I would go to parties and just freestyle over other DJs playing." That spontaneous approach, a dance music version of rapping, is something that has stuck with her through the present. To Colette, there is no better rush than the one that comes from improvising in front of a room full of clubgoers. "It's very impromptu when I write a song over a record, cause a lot of times I'll buy the record that day and when I'm playing it out that's when I write the lyrics," she says laughing. "There's definitely something to be said for a practiced performance, but it's really freeing to just improvise. Because it's almost like you're one of the people in the party. It's just like dancing; you don't really have a set dance routine when you go out to a club; you just feel it and you react to it. And it's the same thing for me."

Andrew Phelan & George Cochrane - Prismatic 4 Year Anniversary!
Founded in 2005, Prismatic Tracks is run out of San Francisco’s famed Moulton Studios complex by DJ and producer Andrew Phelan. The label is focused on a blend of deep, funk, and tech based house music, driven by the sounds of musicians and vocalists such as Origami, Audio Angel and Brown. Prismatic’s roster features some of the premier names in house music, including Bryan Jones, Chris Lum, Christian Malloni, George Cochrane, Jake Childs, Luke Solomon, Q-Burns Abstract Message, Ross Couch, Santiago & Bushido, and Scope. Locally in San Francisco, the Prismatic brand is renowned as an event production company that has produced events at local hot spots such as Mezzanine, Vessel, Mighty, Harlot, DNA Lounge and Supperclub, including flagship parties Alpha Beats and Tonal.

Destiny Lounge:

Trinidad Deep & Friends all Nite! (Prescription Records)

Catacombs:

Tone (Temple)
DJ Von (Temple)