Kids & Explosions (Humblemania45, Ossington June 27/12)

Curiously the previous DJs had been running a bunch of songs utilized on the Girl Talk discs and then without any introduction Josh took over. In fact I'm not 100% sure when it occurred but I did take notice when G'n'R's November Rain started to run into a recognizable Kids & Explosions beat ("girl, shit, money, shit"). Sure enough there was the unassuming artist himself behind his unmissable Shit Computer (it says "SHIT" right on the laptop lid boldly in black tape). In addition to the laptop the only other equipment he used was a keyboard. This must have been programmed to somehow be in sync with the set as the keys seemed to take on aspects of the current samples. Much of the set culled from his one and only disc, although there were deviations, both in the cuts of the samples and even in more obvious cases where new songs were utilized. In fact a couple of these were Kanye samples as "can we get much higher" ran over an Arcade Fire track, and later Nicki Minaj's dirty verse from Power was cut up too. He even tossed some Stairway to Heaven in for good measure. Unfortunately there wasn't much recognition for the set although I suppose working from a nearly empty dance floor early in the set to a packed one by the end is recognition enough!