Norm 2nd Sunday 1999 SF <click this link to listen to the first ever 2nd Sunday in San Francisco, summer 1999!
The pinnacle of the rave scene having spilled into the club scene rooted in the dot com bubble of the Bay Area was the international house music scene! It was all about San Francisco house music! Mark Farnia slowed beats down and created the Mushroom Jazz series. John Howard was another flap ship DJ of the era accompanied with keyboarders and hand drummers! Record stores were booming all along the Height and Valencia. The city was full of young dot commies starry-eyed and disillusioned with the idea that they, like their parents, would only make even more money as time went on. It was a free for all! SOMA was the spot for startups and night clubs, which spread throughout the city!
Parties began Thursday night and ran through the weekend spilling into clubs that opened one after another until Monday! The End Up filled the gaps opening Saturday morning at 6 am while most of the other clubs had just closed. 2nd Sunday started Sunday morning and ran until early Monday morning!
I remember showing up at the first 2nd Sunday party around 10am on Sunday morning. There was a DJ already spinning records, but hardly anyone there, yet. I had been dancing for days, so I hit the floor for fun, cuz why stop? We danced our hearts and minds and bodies out on the dance floor for we all became the music.
By the afternoon, things had warmed up, several DJ's played in two rooms and outside on a patio. The crowd had definitely thickened, and the buzz was beginning to blaze! The sun and beats were unreal as the party began to bust at the seems. By night, practicably every local I had ever seen at a club was there. It was the scene.
To partake in an all day house music party is quite the experience as the crowd and atmosphere grows and feeds upon itself. Especially one where everyone who was anyone in the San Francisco club scene converged!
By the end of the night party promoters had already burned live CD recordings of DJ's from that night! I recall getting my 2nd Sunday CD, and hearing others blaring it from out their open car windows! I could hear that recording through the streets of San Francisco throughout the entire summer of 1999! It was the ultimate arrival of house music and the club/rave scene.
One of the greatest build ups in a live recorded house DJ set on wax is in the track at the top of the page by Norm for the first ever 2nd Sunday party, and signifier that San Francisco was once again a world wide scene, capturing culture as the center stage of the spectacle society becomes when it reaches it's climatic crescendo before it collapses back into the balance of the viable real world.
2nd Sunday has carried on over a decade now! Checkout their website for New Years Even party! http://www.2ndsunday.com/index.html
Ha Ha Happy Ho Ho Holidays!
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