If you plan on attending tonight’s event and are buying your ticket(s) after 4pm, please print out your PayPal confirmation and bring it with you. Thank you.

We sent out a message to the list, but we want everyone to be able to make the benefit and will accept a $10 admission at the door for tomorrow’s Speaking in Code benefit. Seems many of our friends aren’t exactly rolling in it (we know the feeling) and were bummed out by the fee. OK. Not a problem. We’ll have to keep the drinks to a minimum for the $10 people and there won’t be any special thanks credit or the other schwag we had in mind.

Either way, we’d love to see everyone who can make it to make it. This footage is dying to be seen!

We should also point out that a last-minute addition to the DJ bill includes Dan Paluska (aka Six Million Dollar Dan). Paulska is featured in our Boston clip, alongside Mike Uzzi, who is also DJing. Also DJing: Erik Pearson, co-producer David Day and Jon Schmidt from Robot Love Songs.

The trailer invite is here.

They also wrote about it over at the Phoenix. (Thanks guys!)

One of the clips we’ll watch comes from the Kompakt Total 6 party. Once a year the people of Kompakt Records in Koln gets together and throw a party celebrating the year in Kompakt. In the scene, we watch as Kompakt blows up before their own eyes. Turns out the venue, their hometown, home spun Stadtgarten, is a bit too small for the guest list, which is increasing rapidly. So the crew, the publicist and everyone, has to pitch in to pair it down. And one of the reasons for Komapakt’s success is the pure genius of DJ Koze (a k a Stefan Kozalla).

Koze grew up as a hip-hop DJ but transformed into a kind of pop prodigy: producing tracks, remixing, even singing. He’s consistently voted one of the best DJs in all of Germany and at Total 6 we found out why. He makes an appearance at the end of the Kompakt clip, which is an amazing wide shot of the entire dance floor, shot from the catwalk by our brilliant Director of Photography, Scott Sans.

Here’s the track from the same release: Total 6, wherein our hero, tongue in cheek, drops his approriately-named track “Hicc Up”. There’s much more the guy has done, seek out the Kompakt label and everything they do. Oh, and Total 7 should be coming before the end of the year. Yow-za.

DJ Koze - “Hicc Up”

So $10 tomorrow at the Enormous Room 6pm and beyond (the screening will happen after 7pm, fwiw)? Do-able?

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