Waking up in Amsterdam!

This guy came up to me and asked me to come shoot his party one recent night at Studio80.

Not such an uncommon occurrence these days.

I gave him a card and told him that if he liked my work, to contact me.

I got an email the next day…

<tangent=long>I’m told that if you can’t quite categorize something, (in this case, a style of music) it’s probably pretty good!

Makes it hard to write a clear description though!

Rutger Docter’s playing style is rather difficult for me to put into words that make sense, I’ve been trying and mostly failing…

He calls it “Deep House”, but I hear quite a bit of Deep House that I like a LOT.

His stuff just doesn’t sound quite like anybody else’s I’ve ever heard!

What I DO know, is that when I checked out Au10tique’s site a couple of days before the party, and clicked on the audio player in an attempt to see just exactly what I was getting into… (Standard procedure when collecting pre-party intelligence during shoot planning.) I listened for several solid hours! (Which generally isn’t standard.)

I was almost mesmerized…

I was even (mostly) sober! *snicker*

Made an effing great soundtrack for going through a bunch of my pic sets!

Turns out, it makes an even better soundtrack for dancing, as the lovely Prinses Eva and I found out last Saturday night!</tangent>

So your raconteur and one of his very favourite kittens got to make a rather triumphant return to De Kring after a couple of years absence!

<tangent=short>I have LOTS of history at De Kring!

Eva and I met there almost four years ago at Wicked Jazz Sounds, they played at De Kring for quite awhile after leaving Club Zion, and then as we all waited for SugarFactory to open and the current WJS era to begin!</tangent>

Now we were back, I was there to shoot and I asked Eva to join me because she’s FUN to party with! (and because she was in need a little bit of morale support…)

Shooting a party for the first time can be daunting, but it went really well!

Hope y’all enjoy the pics, because I sure had fun taking them!

Thanks for the kind invitation!

Oh, by the way, here’s one of the video clips I shot that night!
(So y’all can hear a bit of the sweet tunage and see VJ Rick Robin’s AMAZING visuals!)

(See ALL of my video on WUIA-TV!)

AND the night’s “Money Shot” is:

“Why boys become DJs…”

UPDATE: Here’s the Animoto video… ENJOY!