ANOTHER A-Ron.The.DJ COMPILATION
Alice The Unsavory Whore — March 2010
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Other compilations available from this year….
Good Morning Sacramento — January 2010
Singles Awareness Day — February 2010
And don’t forget! CLICK HERE or on the photo below to vote for
A-Ron as Best DJ in the DC City Paper’s Best of 2010!!!
VERY EXCITING NEWS!!!! CLICK HERE or on the photo to vote in the DC City Paper’s Best of 2010 in the DJ category for A-Ron.The.DJ!
This Monday began fir me at 545 as Boo was getting ready for work. Only thing is, it was supposed to begin at 5 and I was supposed to leave with him so I could take full advantage of my day off. So I rushed everything together and made it out the door, showered, did, and scented, in a cute outfit in 15 minutes. This is an achievement. A PS3 trophy even!! I am looking forward to my day and I hope tge same for you! It’s already turning out to be very interesting indeed.
Jacob Nathaniel Pring & Alphonso Wilson Present
“INDIGO”
**PREMIERES March 15th @ Tabaq Bistro**
We take over this amazing space on the Glass Encased Roof Top Terrace level each and every Monday. If you have not seen this space, you’re going to love it, with breath taking views of the Monuments. A retractable Roof with warm weather approaching will be amazing with all the windows on the sides that open up as well.
We will have //$1 Oysters// as our special for the Premiere. If you have not tried the food here, you will be wowed with its amazing flavors showcasing foods of the Mediterranean from Morocco to Spain!
JACOB will be “Guest” Bartending this first “Indigo” event & co-Hosting with ALPHONSO WILSON who will be walking around entertaining the guests to make sure everyone is happy! Alphonso & Jacob will rotate each week “Guest Bartending” and walking around as Host!
Hours are 9pm until Close! We will have local DJs of all sorts setting the mood each Monday!
MARCH 15 Local DJ and producer A-Ron.The.DJ (http://www.subwaystate.com/) will conjure the atmosphere for our innagural INDIGO. With electronic lounge selections that redefine the eclectic, his adaptive approach has been described by fans as “the music we WANT to be hearing!” You’re also sure to enjoy the vibrant energy he embeds into every venue when he performs.
Drinks Special will have a $5 Featured Liquor Sponsor each week on top of $6 for any of the following, Absolut, Jose Cuervo, Jack Daniels, Smirnoff, Tanqerry, JW RED! $4 Corona or Amstel Light will rotate each week as well! NO COVER!
This post was not written at the time of posting. But the point stands and I am going on a journalistic limb of speaking for all affected.
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Here I am once again in the twenty-something degree windy weather at NextBus Stop #1002157, where moments ago in the warmth of my house the system reported that I had 14 minutes to catch the G8 to Catholic Station from 22nd and Newton NE. I live a minute away.
I grabbed my coat and bag, popped on my headphones and started on my way. I arrived at my stop quickly. But what I’m about to tell you next keeps happening enough that I must say something.
I just snapped a picture of the NextBus report on my iPhone that counted down the minutes to arrival and watched it jump to 80 MINUTES. I usually hold back the expletives, WMATA, but what — the — fuck — is going on over there with your system we paid for with those fare hikes you’re instituting AGAIN at the end of this month?
I’m not old yet. I can handle the weather. But I live in a neighborhood where the aging population relies on it’s younger population for help. And when I see them at a bus stop in the freezing cold and have to tell them the bus isn’t coming, I’m adding to their woe in a world where limited budgets might not save them from pneumonia.
People have to get around in DC. We have to work. Our older population without cars who need the bus to operate on time for their own safety need you. So we all rely on you to listen. And you’ve made awesome strides in the past few years. I won’t negate that. But you really need to make sure that when you deploy something it’s been thoroughly tested.
In the words of Twitter, I issue a #NextBusFAIL to you WMATA. I could sooner have walked the 12 block up-hill hike to the station…but many of my neighbors can’t risk that. For shame.
Very lengthy bio, but a complete picture of where I came from and what I am today!
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Good Morning Sacramento
Singles Awareness Day
Alice The Unsavory Whore
A-Ron is a DC-based DJ and producer of electronic lounge music since 1998 when he started in campus radio at Bowie State University. He resides in Northeast DC and has DJ’d Thursdays at Science Club in Northwest since 2006.
Trained in music theory from a very young age, a singer and clarinet player, he excelled in music over all other subjects in school. He left his clarinet behind when he entered university, but still sings regularly in addition to DJ’ing and writing.
As a DJ for 1530AM at Bowie State University in 1997, he began an exploration into what was vaguely labeled “electronica”. He and co-DJ Jason Hash would enjoy PLURRadio until cancelled after a 6 month run. Aaron then took up vinyl beat-matching with influence from Lady Miss Kier (Dee-Lite) and local DC area DJ’s John Tab and Jackie Glass.
Aaron’s early influences remain in drum & bass and trip-hop. As a regular visitor to Buzz (Capitol Ballroom) and DEEP (The Circle Bar), he began networking into any odd job he could find. Through colleagues Amyl Nitrate and Jungle Girle, he landed the opportunity to man lighting boards at Capitol Ballroom’s “Buzz” and “Sting” events, where he had the rare opportunity to meet and perform with such notable colleagues as Kemistry & Storm, John Tab, Adam F (his DJ idol), Roni Size & Reprazent, DJ Punk Rock, DJ Dara, DB, Lonnie Fisher, Scott Henry, Dr. Who and many others. He would eventually spin the opening of a short-lived Wednesday party titled “Sugar” in the same booth as his idols.
As his own performances grew more sufficient, Aaron began spinning publically under the name “DJ Lyric” of the “Sit & Spin” crew, named so for his desire to sit down while spinning records. Venues where he was welcomed to play include Capitol Ballroom (later to become Nation), State Of The Union, Bliss, Edge/Wet, and several house events organized by “Cybertribe” / “DCRaves”. These events would systematically hone his taste in music to its peaks. He would later cap off the experience by organizing his own event, “Backup Systems”. The Baltimore warehouse party featured performances by top-billed local talent from the tri-state area at student rates.
The real-world set in for Aaron quite harshly after graduating from college. After a near dental-death experience on vacation, he returned to DC for a full time office job and the events of September 2001. “DJ Lyric” was put to rest permanently, and Aaron also stopped spinning records. He continued the writing and production he’d started in school under the pseudonym Galaktik Shift. His unreleased “Hillbilly Triphop” and “Unimatrix 0-1” albums, compiled from works written in 1999 and 2000 have few surviving copies but were noted in reviews as comparable to one of his long-time favorite bands Orbital.
The nickname A-Ron was given to him in jest by some friends in 2003 after Aaron began working at DC Country Western bar Remingtons as a karaoke host – a position he earned after the first annual Remingtons Idol audition. His singing career at Remingtons Trailer Park Karaoke would end in October 2008. “I feel very happy that I had a chance to work with DJ Papa Stan before his passing in 2009. He was a father-figure to all of us at Remingtons and he is greatly missed.”
But the nickname fueled “A-Ron.The.DJ’s” return to the DJ stage in 2004 with a purpose of reinvention and rediscovery. The Rex Monday, also known to the Washington DC area as artist Secret Worm and local blogger The Sean Show, would partner with A-Ron for a weekly event known as “Thirsty!” The event, which showcased the newest and updated sounds of electronic lounge music still exists at Science Club, now under the name “Touch-It Thursday” where customers are encouraged to use the Apple Remote application. Due to his growing art career as Secret Worm, The Rex Monday reduced his involvement to sporadic performances. When together, the duo bill as “The Vodka Manx”. During this period, Aaron had the opportunity to produce a remix of “Only” by Nine Inch Nails and begin work on several other cover tracks, not yet released.
2009 exploded for Aaron.
After 13 years of relatively dead gigs and empty floors (except at Science Club of course), new promoter Eric Singletary gave Aaron the chance to audition for Be:Bar (soon to become EFN Lounge) via recommendation from The Rex Monday. The audition was a complete success and opened the doors for an explosion of gigs to follow.
From July 2009 to January 2010 Aaron played the prestigious and coveted DJ-slots for DC’s brand new “W-Hotel” Living Room, Rooftop Terrace and POV Lounge venues to extremely positive review. This project is currently on hold due to reorganization within the corporation.
Aside from still playing at Science Club every Thursday, he played for a very brief period in Spring 2009 with DJ Justin Kas for ‘ATOMIK’ @ EFN Lounge (then officially formerly Be:Bar), in addition to a one-off ‘Black Party’ during the bar’s transition. He also signed on with Jacob Pring Events “Wet & Wild Wednesdays” at EFN, now currently on hold. (One particular Wet & Wild Night featured the single-release party for Kim Zolciak of Real Housewives of Atlanta. ‘Don’t Be Tardy For The Party’ was the most crowded and packed event in A-Ron’s experience at EFN…possibly in EFN history.)
In October 2009, Aaron signed on with bartenders in the upstairs level of EFN, dubbed ‘Motley Bar’ for Active Duty Thursdays – an event endeavoring the visibility and repealing of military Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policies. Being an Air-Force brat himself, it wasn’t a hard sell.
All of the events at EFN/Motley have been hailed as the realization of a new innovative direction for DC GLBT nightlife. “I am proud to have been a part of it so far. I really think Bill and Anthony are taking the city in an awesome direction. We just have to wait and see.” Aaron recently began dialogue with GLBT Nightlife mogul Ty Ford to discuss expansion and innovation plots to, in short, help venue owners such as Bill Gray dominate the planet. 
The revival of the Remingtons Trailer Park finally happened in August 2009, but as a relocation to The Green Lantern – hailing the reunion of Mama and A-Ron at the helm. Mama’s Trailer Park Lounge & Dance Party happens every 3rd and 4th Friday night of the month.
Most recently, Aaron accepted the opening of INDIGO, a Jacob Pring event to begin on March 15th and go every Monday at Tabaq Bistro. Other projects with Pring are soon to follow.
Many of A-Ron’s iTunes playlists are available for preview and purchase on the iTunes Store under the pre-fix Subway State. He also recently released two compiled concept sets, “Good Morning Sacramento” and “Singles Awareness Day”.
He likes the color orange, and will play for you if you ask.
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