Club reflection – my new path
In three weeks, a lot has happened. The universe really said, “it’s your time, fly.” Everything has happened all at once and I don’t know how to start processing it. it’s like I am living two different lives, the life of a dancer and maker and the life of a DJ. All so surreal. I never thought I would live out my dream of a DJ but here I am front and centre, doing gig after gig. Meeting person after person. Building an entire new life than what I predicted for myself. It feels right.
And this brings me to my graduation, The Last Gig Ever. An eclectic clubbing breakdown. Chasing chaos. A crossroads of all my personas coming together. I can proudly say that I am obsessed with this world and that this is my hyper fixation, the scratch I can’t quite reach. You better strap in for this one because this will be some ride I swear.
I would like to tell my story of clubbing, and my experience within the culture of it. not all is good, not all is bad. But there are key marking points in this lifetime of dancefloors. Stuff that changed my entire perspective on music and underground club culture. What brought me from one side to the other. What made me make that switch to go from the person dancing to the person making the people dance.
I am the child of two clubbing maniacs. It’s in my DNA to go out. However, when I was a teenager looking for these spaces, I couldn’t find them. I didn’t like the music or the people in the clubs around me. And as the child of two immigrant’s as well, I craved a space where I could create my own identity and find comfort in my own skin. I’ve only found one space like this and I’m afraid to say that I only found it in my early twenties, moving abroad to a country with more club culture. And thus, I became free. And I went a bit crazy. And maybe I indulged a bit too much. But I needed to. And there a few experiences I would like to describe in detail. And from these, I decided to go on an entirely different path of life. It changed the way I looked at art. And it definitly changed the way I wanted to create.
Agent & Juice
Back in 2022 I got very close to a person, my now best friend Tien Le. One of the first this we ever did as friends was to do something together; then one as we sat outside the cats back have a nice glass of wine, we had an idea to have a DJ act together. And that’s how Agents & Juice was form.
And we stuck to it. we now do gigs together. It’s the most incredible thing ever and experience ever. To do to this with a best friend was the most amazing experience of my life.
The DJ is the choreographer. I don’t know if all would agree with me, but this is how I feel. When you are aware of the impact of your musical choices and the effects that it has on the crowd. To me, that is choreography. This is very abstract, and it makes me questions the whole idea of this being a theatre piece.
It’s the idea that my set is a score for the crowd to move to and the way that the crowd reacts to the choices made with music is the choreography. Thus making this an act out of human nature.
"I want to be engulfed by the dancefloor,
Soft bodies moving into mine
A stranger.
Come.
Move with me.
Silky resin filled contractions lead into hypnosis
It’s laced in the air. In the notes
Crushing, sniffing, and popping melody after melody"
Intoxicated is an understatement
Blissful ignorance is another
Swoop me up into your arms and coddle me as you would a new-born
Let me experience it with virgin skin
Pureness unfolds
Elongated limbs flying out from wall to wall
I want to float across the dancefloor"
Because only an angel can affair with such beauty."
