This weekend I'm off to Steel City to do a gig with Slavic Soul Party! at Pete's Pandemic event:


Naturally it is one of the best weekends not to leave the city: the first NYC dance parade is taking place during the day ("Salsa, Contra, Disco, Clogging, Ballroom, Irish Step, Hip Hop, Swing, Tango, Ballet, Break dance, Japanese, Sufi, Samba and more" boasts their website) with a lineup of DJs to rock your socks off including Timeblind. Meanwhile some of the best producers and studio engineers will be delivering their treasures for free at the Remix Hotel. To wrap it up Kode9, Shackelton and (my personal favorite) Badawi will wage the DubWar.

So how, you ask, do I manage to still convince myself to take the plane? Two reasons: seeing the city from above

and seeing the airport on the way back knowing that
Monday is DeepSpace with Kode9 and Dub Gabriel.