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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Why I ambarrassed. Hey everyone, we are back with another
episode of I Am Paris and we are here with
Alternate and today we are talking about the future. So
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I want to say congratulations. You have the twentieth anniversary
of your Deep Sugar party that's coming up. Can you
tell the listeners all about the event.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Wow, twenty years. When you say that, it just kind
of stuns me because I can't believe it's been twenty years.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I don't even know how that happened.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
The party itself that's coming up this Labor Day weekend
is in September September two in Baltimore. It's one of
our themes that I've done at the party for a
number of years. This will be our Emerald City Ball
number three, and everyone loves that because they love going
off to the Emerald City and it's full of fantasy
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and spectacular. People get to dress up and go a
little kookie and experiment a little bit, and it gives
them license to like push the envelope and have a
little fun.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
And so that's kind of the theme around it.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
I have Jellybean Benitez, who is one of the original
DJs that played at Studio fifty four is going to
be my guest DJ and bring us that lovely nostalgia
of Studio fifty four, which is wrapped in glamour. And
then we're going to continue with the after party, and
that's going to be in a more underground space called
seventeen twenty two.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
And I use that club quite often in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
It's been around for thirty plus years and it's like
a little shoe box, but it's like the last proper
analog sound system in the whole city. So, you know,
I still love it because I love underground club culture
just as much as like what the shiny, brand new
version of what house music has become. I still love
the underground where it's like it's really just about the
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sound system and dancing, you know. And so the party
is twenty years old. I started it myself and my
late very very good friend and sister DJ Lisa Moody
and Jonathan that you met that came to the event
at the Fonda with me, and I just kind of
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wrangled them in, you know, they didn't They were used
to my kooky little ideas sometimes because they both did
do tour management for me, and so they were used
to me just kind of sometimes out of the blue,
like Okay, this is what we're going to do, you know.
So it is just one of those things that I
noticed by the mid nineties that our scene was starting
to dry up a bit at home, you know, venues
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and club nights were starting to disintegrate. And you know,
for me, we half the time I'm on the road
and I'm at a party, so I'm living it. I'm
enjoying it, you know, club culture is at its height
for me. But when I would come home, there would
be there would be nothing, you know, it was kind
of barren. And I really didn't want to see that
for Baltimore because that was the community that gave me
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my opportunity by falling into club culture in that way.
And so instead of complaining about it, I just decided
to start my own party. After I started DJing, Lisa
and I just kind of went and played some Vinyl
one night and the bug bid Us and we started
wanting to play all the time, going to everyone's houses,
all of our DJ friends and getting on their turntables
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and playing. And we started with Vinyl, so we were schlepping,
you know, vinyl around all over the place, and it
just all kind of grew out of that, which is
why it makes to now be looking at twenty years
later so stunning, because it was really the Baltimore community
that supported us and rode with us and gave.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
Us our legs as a as a.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
Party time flies and are having fun mm hmm.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Indeed.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Yeah, there's like going up on stage and DJing for people.
It's just like, again, like an indescribable feeling unless you've
experience to It's.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Just like.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I love it. Like when I'm up there, I just
feeling the love and just seeing everyone just so excited
and dancing is just like I love DJing.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
Yeah, there's nothing like it. I mean, people ask me
all the time like what do you prefer.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
More DJing or singing? And there's really no comparison, you know.
For me, it's all an extension of my art and
it's just another way of expressing, you know, my creativity.
So it's all it's all. It all comes from the
springs from the same well and it's just expressed in
a different way, you know. But I love being able
to play the music that makes me move or impacts
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me or makes me feel something. And my party situation
gave me the platform to learn and create in that
space while also feeding my community and creating opportunities for
other DJs, creating the opportunity to actually bring some of
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my international DJ friends and artists to my community to
you know, so they could perform there and the locals
get a chance to have this level of acts perform
for them. We've taken the party on the road and
when and we're in residency in New York, in Miami,
I've done the party in Amsterdam a couple of times
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in La So we've been able to like morph into
all these different things out of this one little idea,
one little granule of an idea, you know, and it
was just again most of the time, like with most
creative things, it was born out of necessity.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
I love the name. It's so cute. Thank you, And
what else are you going to be up to the summer?
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Running around the world as I have been, what's like
really crazy since we started navigating out of COVID and
lockdown period. It's like the world opened back up and
my schedule went ballistic with it and it's just gotten
even more intense.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
See like I'm all over the place right now and
I'm going.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
I'm doing Amsterdam very soon for Milkshake festal I have
a couple more gigs back here in the UK for
some outdoor festivals over the over the course of July.
I'm getting around, definitely getting around. I'm a little actually
a little tired. He's a little sleep right now.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
You can't tell you look gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Hell, well, that's just good me good Mama is tired.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I need just like three days of like good night
of eight hour sleep and I'll be golden.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
Same.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
But you know, I wouldn't trade it for the world.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
You know, it gets crazy, but then I have I
look at the reality, like you know, this is a
very unconventional life, and you know you're you've had a living,
You've sustained a living for three decades in counting off
your art, and you know, most people can't say that
that's ever happened.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
Blessed Hi. This is Paris, Hilton. Some of the best
times of my life have been spent inside of nightclubs, singing,
dancing and being free to truly be myself. And now
I'm the executive producer of a new show, The History
of the World's Greatest nightclubs. I wanted a show that
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represented freedom, joy and hope, and there is no one
better to host than someone who has inspired me for
so many years with her musical talent.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I'm alternate and I've been in the music industry for
three decades. I'm a singer, songwriter and musician, and now
I'm inviting you to join me on this global nightclub journey.
We'll dive into the origins of genres that broke the
industry and uncover the stories of legendary DJs, all through
the eyes of the people who partied at the height
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of club culture. Listen to the history of the world's
greatest nightclubs on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever
you get your podcasts.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Is there a festival or a venue that you hope
to perform at one day?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Oh yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
I'm as far as festivals, I would say, you know
Glastonbury and Tomorrowland. You know the big the big kids,
the big ticket items. I would love to see. I
would love to see them start to diversify more. I
would love to see them give platforms to more genres
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of the under the dance music umbrella for soul and
people of color and things like that. I think, you know,
it would make it more well rounded. I think that
the audience would appreciate it more. You know, people love
music across the board, and I think it's they're missing
an opportunity not broadening it just yet. So I have
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hope for that because I've seen in this year's Glastonbury
some some new folks coming in that are are you know,
representing in a real way. So I hope that they
continue to push that forward. That would be great. And then,
like I said in the beginning, you know, I don't know,
I have this this stadium thing in my head and
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ever since I did the Orchestra tour, I'm like, yeah,
arenas stadiums. This is where we should this is where
we should be. So yeah, that's that's my vibe right now.
But I love my clubs. I mean, you know, it's
really about the crowd. It's always about the people. It's
always about the energy, and you can find the most
amazing experience that fortifies you in such a way in
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some of the most surprising places, you know. So it's
not something I would ever eliminate. I would just want
to add to my lifestyle in my art to be
able to play in those kind of spaces.
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Yeah, I would love that too. So you have a
very exciting July coming up with some new releases. Can
you tell our listeners what to expect?
Speaker 3 (10:03):
Well, you know, I'm always looking forward. You know.
Speaker 2 (10:05):
That's why when people are like, you've been doing this
for thirty years, ten albums, I'm like, oh wow, yeah really,
because for me, it's always like, what's the next thing.
What are we doing? You know, I'm collaborating on this,
I'm writing that, I'm recording this, and we have a
see what seems to turn out to be a laundry
list of new releases coming out on July fourteenth, I
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think is the next thing happening. Actually, the song I
did if You Could Read My Mind, which is also
like twenty four to twenty five years old, now twenty
fifth anniversary package is coming out from Tommy Boy, which
is also now Reservoir Music. They're re releasing all of
the original mixes on if You Could Read My Mind,
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and that's dropping July fourteenth. So that song is still
a huge staple, especially a Pride season. Everyone loves the
Gordon Lightfoot classic It's Myself Amber and Joslyn Eriquez and
that's being repackaged, reimagined and some new mixes, and that's
coming out very very soon. I also have a new
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record with a French duo called Les Besou on Ar
Model Music that's coming out later in July or either
early August. We may have pushed it slightly into August
now just to give it to give it some room
from this current release about to happen with if you
could read My mind.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
So that song is coming out. That's called Dangerous Dare Me.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
That's a brand new track, and that's going to be
part of my album, my Ultra album, which I released
last summer. We are preparing to re release that in
early September with the new music on it and some
remixes from some of the stuff we've already released. So
being reimagined, a deluxe package put together and re released
and hopefully on all formats, because I'd love to put
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it out on vinyl and on CD.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Yes, send it over to me so I can play
in my new sets.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Absolutely love it. You got it.
Speaker 1 (12:06):
What advice do you have for women out there who
want to become a DJ?
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Well I said earlier in our conversation that my favorite
quote from my grandmother was to eat the meat and
spin out the bones. That's what I would tell them
to start with, because so many people can get in
your head and have you doubting yourself, having you doubt
your potential or doubt your ability only because they're projecting
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their own fears on you. And I would say to
take that and see it for what it's worth and
move on. Use it as fuel, and move on past it.
So just to get started, Like, you can't win the
race if you don't get in the race, So the
first thing is to do is just to start playing
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and then practice, practice, practice. There's so much more advantage
now because there's so much more information readily available. There's
YouTube tutorials all over the place. Ask questions, you know,
talk to people who have played for a long time.
Watch what DJs are doing when they play in front
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of a crowd.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
There's nothing like it.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Like you can be a bedroom DJ forever and ever,
but it's a completely different animal when you're in front
of a crowd. The dynamics are so different, and that
raw energy is.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
Really amazing and it's going to feed you in a way.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
And people are going to support you if you just
put yourself out there, don't be afraid to put yourself
out there.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Well, thank you so much. I had so much fun
doing these three episodes with you, and I'm misting you
so much luck with everything, traveling around the world slang
and killing it and all the new music. I'm so
excited for the new podcast, the World's Greatest Nightclubs, and
I just can't wait to see you soon.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Thank you, parents.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
I appreciate you so much, and everyone out there, thank
you so much. And I can't wait to get back
to get back to it, like once the show drops
and you know, and then we get everyone's feedback and
just see what people are feeling and how it's impacting
people's lives. And you know, there's going to be like
a flurry of conversation happening everywhere.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
So I can't wait me till. Yeah, it's like the
calm before the storm right now, you know.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Yeah, I know, coming out very soon. Well, Thank you
so much, Anny, and have so much fun in London.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I will and you be safe and keeps laying, keeps
living girl always.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Thanks for listening to I in Paris.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
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