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Vital Radio 152 – Hour 1: Aren DeJong

Aren — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:04:01 +0000

Going from funky to full-on, on this week’s Vital Radio Resident Mix.

1. Alex Kenji & Frederico Scavo – Get Funky (Original Mix)
2. Topspin & Dmit Kits – Elvis House (Simone Vitulio Remix)
3. David Tort – Jack It Up (Original Mix)
4. Crazibiza – Donuts Stew (Original Mix)
5. Lauer & Canard – Get Funk (Original Mix)
6. Axwell & Bob Sinclair – What a Wonderful World (Freemasons Remix)
7. Purple Code – The Rising (Deadmau5 Remix)
8. Eterna – Relentless Trip (Original Mix)
9. Spencer Hill & Bastian Van Shield – Cantina (Spencer Hill Remix)
10. Nam Nori – Cracks (Original mix)
11. Cicada – The Things You Say (Dirty South Remix)

Download!.. Vital Radio 152 – Aren DeJong

Vital Radio pres.: SBBE at Locus 144 w/ Aren deJong & DJ Ups

Aren — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 14:59:34 +0000

Event is August 19th!

Our good friends Juan Sanchez and The Bullet (of Speedboats &Big Explosions) bring their musics of justice to a unique new venue on King Street. DJ Ups and I will be supporting with opening and closing DJ sets as well.

Check the Facebook event for details.

Vital pres., Another ‘Epique’ Night – Feb 26, 2011

Aren — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 21:26:34 +0000

Saturday, February 26th at 930pm, we’re spinning again at a Lounge that has bee transformed into something darker, and more enticing!

Vital Feb26 2011 at Epique

Aren on SoundCloud

Aren — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:55:55 +0000

For most of my productions, seek them out at my soundcloud page, for the time being.

Summer 2010: Aftermath & Fall 2010

Aren — Wed, 29 Sep 2010 02:39:56 +0000

So it’s all done, the summer in Toronto. Sad really, because the cold weather isn’t really all that pleasant. Cold weather aside, it’s nice to think back to the things that did happen that made the summer so much more fantastic than it had to be such as…

Pier Pressure 2010 – the 2nd Annual Vital & Liquid Stairs boat cruise, when being on a boat with great friends, and great tunes all at once makes for a delicious evening out on the water. If you missed it, you missed out, but worry not because there will be a similar event come summer 2011

Ongoing gigs with myself and the awesome Vital crew, many of which stood well with the fine atmosphere of Libra Lounge.
Methinks we shall try yet another lounge in the city for some time in November or December 2010.

.. And now that the fall season is underway, I seem to be ringing in the season in quite a special way, thanks to the kind ladies behind Vapor Creative. They are a pair of artists that organized events with the Vital crew before and have called us back to play for 12 hours long for Toronto’s famed Nuit Blanche. The event is:

on facebook here, where you may RSVP, so we know you might drop by to say hello
and detailed from the Nuit Blanche website at this link, where a map to the event can be found.

Up next, you can expect me to alter my online presence a little to accomodate some new ideas and concepts I’ve decided to show off via arendejong.com. And now, onward into my favourite month, October!

Me + Summer 2010: An Update

Aren — Sat, 29 May 2010 17:09:43 +0000

Summer 2010 is a great one so far, and I haven’t even passed through the month of May! Things have been busy in non-internet real-life! The Vital Radio team and myself have been gigging steady and even did a live stream for our Vital Radio episode 100!

I’ve been also getting into the blog-space we’ve got for ourselves on the Vital Radio website.. My posts can be found via this link.

There’s also a thorough listing for all my vital radio sets, which by the way can all be found as a podcast in iTunes, within the Vital Radio podcast. The sets can all be streamed or downloaded. If yee bee interested, they’re all right in [this link].

Libra Lounge -our favourite Toronto residency to date- has undergone some recent and very well-deserved renovations too! It’s amazing how they’ve managed to do this on the off-days before the weekend’s busy nights! We’ll have pics from the place posted on the VitalEvents.net website after this weekend’s event, but I can’t guarantee there will be many pictures of JUST the space itself.

Not only have they renovated, but they asked me to rework the sound system! After about 6 hours of untwisting the cables and re-fitting amplifiers and processing to the new space, I think the place has a MUCH less piercing sound to it. I really enjoy helping a space sound better, especially if I spin there a lot. The best part now is the augmented bass and no more blown tweeters in the speakers.

Vital pres. Liberation @ Libra Lounge, May 29, 2010

Aren — Fri, 28 May 2010 16:39:57 +0000

Get Liberated, May 29th at Libra Lounge. Our second of the 2-per-month appearances at our favourite Toronto spot!
Expect big tunes and a great vibe.

The “untz untz boom tsk boom tsk” (a.k.a. sexy house music) provided by:

Aren DeJong (@arendej)
arendejong.com

David Akermanis (@davidakermanis)
davidakermanis.com

Dj Endgame (@djendgame)
djendgame.com

As always, No cover, just great times!

Libra Lounge
391 King St W
Toronto ON

It’s back! Pier Pressure 2 – Liquid Stairs & Vital Events Boat Cruise!

Aren — Thu, 27 May 2010 17:09:50 +0000

The Vital Events team and friends Liquid Stairs have brought the boat back again for more partying out on Lake Ontario! Pier Pressure 2 (links to facebook event) is the most exciting part about the mid-late summer for us. Last year was a blast, and this year has a new boat and of course a new arrangement of DJs. Get tickets before they run out, as they did last year!

“From both sides of the Atlantic, Canada and the UK’s top funky and progressive house DJs bring you Pier Pressure 2, the Liquid Stairs & Vital Events Boat Cruise.

17 July 2010 5:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Afterparty 10:00 PM – 3:00 AM

Full cash bar and snacks onboard.
Boarding commences 5:00 PM @ Klancy II,
1 Queens Quay West, Toronto (Behind Captain John’s).
Please do not be late.

Afterparty @ Libra Lounge,
391 King Street West, Toronto.
No cover charge for afterparty.
Bottle service available (bottles@vitalevents.net)

This event has limited capacity and will sell out ahead of time. Please purchase your tickets well in advance.

Keep your boat ticket stub for chance to win an iPod at the afterparty!”

Vital pres. Liberation @ Libra Lounge, May 8, 2010

Aren — Sat, 08 May 2010 16:32:55 +0000

As we kick-off the Vital summer party schedule, join us and our special guest DJ Ups. Look forward to twice the good times this summer – we certainly are.

More awesome news: Keep Saturday, July 17th free for PIER PRESSURE 2. We’ll be announcing full details very soon!

And of course, we’re celebrating the birthday of our favorite Brit – DJ Ups!
Good Times provided by:

DJ Ups

http://www.liquidstairs.com/

Aren DeJong

http://arendejong.com/

DJ Endgame

http://www.djendgame.com/

M2J

http://www.mahanjavadi.com/

Vital pres. Liberation @ Libra Lounge April 17, 2010

Aren — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 16:10:04 +0000

Thank god it’s Friday. The best part about it? Other than Beer O’Clock being almost within our grasp – Liberated @ Libra Lounge goes down tomorrow night! The weather is just getting nice here in Toronto as we gear up for another night at our favorite King St. hot spot.

Zeee DJs..:
- Mahan M2J Javadi
- DJ Endgame
- Aren DeJong
- David Akermanis

Libra Lounge
391 King Street West
(Spadina/King St W)
Toronto, ON M5V 1K1
(416) 599-7000

Dress Code In Effect / 21+ event / photographers present / NO Cover