DrumJam has taken a nice break since our last show in March at the famous Howl'n Wolf in New Orleans. During the summer, my brother Dylan (the drum set player of DJ) and I decided to create a spin-off of DrumJam called "ParePercussion" (Guam Slang for "Brotha Percussion"). We took ordinary house hold items such as trash-cans, pvc pipes, tin canisters and outdoor metallic signs and turned them into retro sounding percussion instruments. We then contacted several house DJ's from around the world and got them interested in having us come into their club and performing live with them. Since these DJ's were already playing songs that we knew, we could easily play along to the beats and the DJ was able to mix his beats strait back to us. I was first inspired to do this when I was at a local Austin club and finding myself getting extremely bored, even after having a couple drinks and dancing. So if the club crowd could not only hear the beats but see them getting produced live, they seemed to let out their inner tribal souls and really get into it. Every club we performed at had a significant increase in drink sales and attendance while we were laying down the beats and we instantly became an international hit. We performed over a course of eight weeks in Beruit, Dubai, Abu-Dhabi, Manila, Tokyo and ended it in Guam. I have a feeling we will be introducing this to the Austin Club Scene in the near future.
Check out this youtube video for one of our performances at the Globe Ultra Lounge, the biggest night club in Tumon, Guam.
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