2011 New Year’s Eve Party Pics and Recap – Brooklyn 12/31/10

Jan 7, 2011 News
Posted by Q Master

Words by Ezra Gale. Photos by Quoc Pham and Michael Liebermann

So maybe we’ll just stay home on new year’s eve from now on. Of course, staying home isn’t the old pot of tea and Twilight Zone reruns that it might sound like, not when you live in Ezra and Brent’s house and the Sound Liberation Front throws a raging party in your living room with 100 or so of your newest and dearest friends, all of whom act like saving the planet is easy if we just shake it a little bit more, a little bit longer.

For real- overpriced cocktails and cover charges and bad music and craning your neck to see what’s past the velvet rope is so 2010. So we’re gonna do it just like we did this time from now on. Meaning we’re gonna freak out and drive all over town all day picking up equipment and booze, we’re gonna string christmas lights and plug in amplifiers and turntables and build a bar out of milk crates, and then we’re gonna sit back and watch the evening unfold about as close to perfect as you’re allowed to get.

Hopefully it’s always like this- with Brent Arnold starting us all off with his gorgeous looping cello (seriously, you’ve got to check this guy out- http://audiofriction.com/), and DJ ‘lil Tiger and Q-Mastah spinning us right into the new year on just the right note. We hope Treasure Don is always there too, toasting on the mic while a ragtag band of SLF all-stars- Ezra on bass, Linh on keys, Brent on guitar and Quinn on drums- rocks behind him. We made a new friend in DJ B from San Francisco, and Planet Rump’s set of funky electro, I mean…damn- we already knew we had a crush on these guys, like you have a crush on the new kid in school with the funky new haircut, but it turns out this new kid rocks vintage electro beats like your grandma rocks strawberry rhubarb pie, and looks damn sexy in skintight silver too. We’re in love. After that, somehow, it just got better, with a special treat of a set from none other than dj/rupture. By the time Trainwreck hit the decks the sun wasn’t far off and things were shading toward the blurry side, but what a way to end the night (and the year, and the decade…).

So yeah, you have to spend a few days cleaning your living room when you invite the world over instead of going out to meet it on New Year’s, but with a crew like this we wouldn’t have it any other way. Thanks to all who came and made it epic, we’ll see you soon…