Mixes I Ladybird live, Rork & DJ Elias at mona

This was a quite a hard night to succeed in terms of crowd attraction. It was on the saturday following thursday’s national holiday in France, and when that happens Parisians traditionnally take a day off to ‘bridge’ with the weekend and leave town to catch some rays near the sea or out in the provinces. Plus it was the Nuits Sonores festival in Lyon and a lot of our crowd had gone to see Danny Krivit, Joe Claussel and François K play their Body and Soul set there on Saturday. Our attendance was definitely much lower than usual.

But what I’ve often noticed, at Mona at least, is that when the crowd is smaller the atmosphere is actually better. I think people can actually see each other more so all that eye contact and extra dancing room definitely creates a better vibe than when you’re standing against a wall nodding your head to the music because you can’t move.

We had the Elevation team over to guest with me : DJ Elias, DJ Rork and Ladybird on vocals. Elevation is a sunday afternoon tea dance for deep house lovers and dancers. They’ve just started but have already done a few great parties and are very open minded about their crowd and music policy so it was definitely appropriate for us to invite to them play at mona. Ladybird’s live performance was the highlight. I’ve often played Soldiers of Twilight – which is her and Rork – in my sets so it was quite a special moment to have them perform their songs live at mona.

Enjoy out the videos below and the mixes above. Above also is the flyer designed by Carlos Torres who is part of mona. I love the way the fingers touch in the ‘O’.
Next mona on 19th June ‘mona loves marseille’ at La Java.