The Do-Over

It’s been said that “3″ is the magic number. Week Three of our sixth season proved just that. A sticky Memorial Day Sunday could be the perfect stage for The Do-Over. We expected a wild one, but perhaps we didn’t forsee it being that berserk.

In typical fashion Strong and Haycock adjusted the levels up for the first few hours. Strong took it across the place in various tempos building up to a disco pace, while Haycock went back down into the dirtier 90bpms tossing a vast selection. The voodoo deep master, Osunlade, followed with a sunny sweaty set of roller classics to deep daylight house jams. Hier followed it up with a fist pump set of the nice kind, even calling people out for expecting the Jamaica sounds he’s known and wasn’t necessarily falling into for most of the set. Beat Junkies own Rhettmatic did what he does best and ripped the patio a new one with a set of classics galore. Fresh from LAX, Pase Rock came in and bitch smacked the tipsy crowd around and did not let up until we were forced to close down at 10:15. All in all another reason you should get to The Do-Over early… it’s a daytime jam if you haven’t already realized.

What should you expect this upcoming Sunday? We ain’t gonna tell you who’s playing but we can assure you it will be another stumbling Sunday under the sun. Oh yeah… GO LAKERS!

What’cha Wanna Do? Do-Over!

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Friends and family traveled from far and near for our annual post bird day romp aka The Left-Over. If you’ve had the pleasure of attending any of our one-off events, you’ve come to learn that these are some of the most fun Do-Over’s to experience. Well, this year’s Left-Over definitely lived up to those expectations. With each passing season, the bar itself takes on a new life and identity of its own. Attendees were treated to the next phase of Cranes, which included a remodeled outside patio giving it a Brooklyn-esque feel. As for the party itself, it was a nonstop rug cutting affair with $mall Change making his annual pilgrimage from NYC to get down alongside fellow New Yorker JT Donaldson, KCRW’s Jeremy Sole and Rhettmatic featuring Eric Bobo on percussion who had the crowd in a dancing frenzy (Rhett even made a cameo on percussion!).

Save The Date: Friday, January 1st. The New-Over.

If you attended our first ever New Years Day party last year, you know it’s not worth missing. That was probably our craziest party all year and in the history of Do-Over. This year we will top it bigger and bigger.

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DOWNLOAD: Rhettmatic & Eric Bobo -
http://www.zshare.net/audio/69297810b5a4a054/

DOWNLOAD: JT Donaldson -
http://www.zshare.net/audio/692978760149c5d8/

DOWNLOAD: Jeremy Sole -
http://www.zshare.net/audio/692977988519de21/

DOWNLOAD: Small Change -
http://www.zshare.net/audio/6929774638629a07/

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Good times as always at our Sunday soiree in. Wiseacre started us off with a nice blend of now and then and a little bit of rare here and there. Benny Ben put the “D” in Do-Over with a high speed up-tempo set not unlike what our Detroit patrons say they would hear back home. The Beat Junkies came through for DJ Babu’s birthday and instituted the first Do-Over “Take Over” with party rocking sets by J.Rocc, Rhettmatic, and debut sets by Curse and Babu. John Arnold followed in suit by keeping the party hyped with some more hip hop and a bit of his hometown Detroit sound. Before it was time to go, Induce took us home with some funk, freestyle and disco.

If you know what The Do-Over is about, then you know you don’t wanna miss out. We are riding out this 2009 season with a STACKED lineup, each week.

What’cha Wanna Do? Do-Over!

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DOWNLOAD: Beat Junkie invasion (Babu, Rhettmatic, J.Rocc & Curse):
http://www.zshare.net/audio/65542494a3ebe3aa/

DOWNLOAD: Wiseacre:
http://www.zshare.net/audio/6554154605b30397/

It doesn’t get much better then this: bbq, beats, beer, and bball (Go Lakers!). The energy and vibe on Sunday was one of the best we have ever seen at The Do-Over. We don’t know if it was something in the sangria, The Lakers victory or our mystery guests?! From Byze One’s opening reggae set to Damon Bell’s boogie brigade to Rhettmatic’s party rocking jock jams during the game to Peanut Butter Wolf’s insane video set (15 foot screen on top of outside bar!) to Garth Trinidad’s sexy sounds to close it out, it was definitely one for the books. Best part about it, we will do it all over this weekend with another all-star cast of selectors lined up (4 of which are making their Do-Over debut), plus the Lakers game again will be televised.

DOWNLOAD: Rhettmatic (zshare):
http://www.zshare.net/audio/61132793b654b722/

DOWNLOAD: Garth Trinidad (zshare):
http://www.zshare.net/audio/611323424527a7dd/

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What’cha Wanna Do? Do-Over