SCION @ Mod Club: Drop The Lime, AC Slater, Jokers of the Scene, Nacho Lovers

SCION threw a party @ MOD Club.

On the menu were: Drop The LIme (whom we 20 Questioned on the day of), label mate AC Slater, and Canadians Jokers of the Scene and Nacho Lovers (also 20 Questioned). 3 bloggers reviewed and Al D took some snaps. Read below for what’s what.

AMANDA SCRIVER

The SCION party at Mod Club was the party everyone was talking bout.  Everywhere from Twitter to FB to BBM was a flutter about NYC’s own Drop the Lime, AC Slater, Jokers of the Scene and Nacho Lovers taking the stage on this bass heavy lineup. The promotion said, “Arrive early, your RSVP does not guarantee entry.” and goddamn - were they right.  I never thought in a million years would lazy

hipsters get off their asses before 10PM.  But sure enough, as I pulled up to the doors, there was a lineup.  And people scheming and skeezing to get in. Solid.  Toronto does have a pulse, even on a Thursday.

Nacho Lovers are hometown heroes and have been absent from the scene for awhile as they tour the world being fucking superstar DJs.  It’s nice to see the boys getting some recognition for their production

skills but most notably, their style of house music.  Nacho Lovers set took on a disco-house / tribal-house aura and generally was refreshing than the generic electro and dubstep heavy sets of late. What really

got me though, was the abundance of glow-sticking going on.  I felt as if I had been transported in time to a warehouse rave circa 1996.

With the audience lubed up and ready, AC Slater took to the stage and was ready to do them proper, with bass-lines so heavy – it would make your mind explode.  By this point, the crowd was already good & rowdy.

AC’s regular cheering section was right in the middle of the crowd screaming out, “AC! AC! AC!” and trying to start a moshpit at one point.  It’s amazing what a few bass-lines (and alcohol) can do to some people.  But hey, it seems like this man has a definite following.  And one that is loyal.  I know I lost my mind at one point when I heard a track which I’ll call, “Time After Time” off the Ninjasonik – Strictly for my Hipstaz mixtape.  It was a remix of that track, but I went right the f off.  And from here, I went into my Brooklyn Bounce & was ready for some more.

The crowd was restless and ready for Drop the Lime.  This man is just incredible.  His rockabilly greaser look mixed with his bass heavy ability.  Man, enough to make any girl swoon, right?  But the fact that he can sing added to the mix?  Ooh laa laa.  Just when he popped his set off right with some righteous 1998 booty house (with a little Major Lazer thrown in for good measure) and got girls all on the dancefloor throwing down their best dancehall butt shake, DTL busts out his singing skills (on his original track, Devils Eyes) and erupts some of the most righteous chanting from the crowd & crowd surfing.

Toronto peeps know how to party proper for a Thursday. But just when I thought that this set couldn’t get any better — he throws on some 1950s swing and blues with images of Bettie Page all up on the screen.

Mindsplode.

If you missed this night, you missed a good night of partying.  I know when I left, I picked up some wicked swag.  A wicked hangover.  And wicked bruises from getting caught up in a moshpit.  Good night?  You

better believe. I didn’t end up at work the morning.

KAY VANDERTRAMP

Avec a beach bonanza on the patio and a decibel charging masquerade on the floor, the trendy people at Scion Automotives built a custom fit party Thursday night at Mod Club.  To kick off the2010 Toronto International Auto Show, the North American branch of Toyota Motors rolled into town with Drop The Lime (NYC) and popped a rush party for city car lushes and spinning electro fanatics alike.

Sets by Fool’s Gold dappers, Nacho Lovers (TO) and Jokers of Scene (CapCity) wet the whistles of chivalrous company and AC Slater wrestled two step for all the leather juice pumped grinders in attendance. As the Diabolical Pink crept up in an eight cylinder convoy, Dubstep fresh from the port of Elegance was fully loaded in the trunk.

Hand in hand, the swagger of Generation Y drivers and the jaunt of fashionable sound ignited affiliate industries. Fueling an association between Automotives and the Arts, Guests were showered with Scion gear. The event exhausted a sense of youth and fashion in an industry historically dominated by brilliant Asian men, efficient Europeans and our fable Republican neighbours.

Between the noise and props, additions to the scene should ONLY have included: A trip to Sizzler in a Drop Top Pink Scion Limited Addition Series (loaded into VIP) with Johnny Knoxville or Paul Barman, fire dancers and a little more lime.

MELANIA FEDYNA

Scion-sponsored Thursday night at Mod Club was packed with a melange of scene kids, rave kids, new ravers time machine’d in from the summer of 2006, club regulars, industry insiders, old friends, new friends, and general party-cravers. The placed was jammed just before midnight, steady streams of people filing in. Featuring Drop The Lime, AC Slater, JOTS, and Nacho Lovers, the vibe was chill in a dub step-heavy environment that seemed to appeal to all. Glow sticks included. And hair bows, sequins, and corduroy pants.

On the way out, attendees were treated to Scion-tagged gift bags holding a beanie hat and headphones. This, on top of the goodies handed out inside, garnered me quite the collection of cool garb plus a sweet sampler cd (for solo after partying, of course).

(Editor’s note: Our photographer smoked your photographer’s ass. Rest of the set is on the Pink Mafia Facebook Group)