Scott Kirkland of The Crystal Method unleashing the beat...
Sometimes you just need to get out of the house and go see one of America’s most prominent electronic acts tear up the decks with a winter warmer DJ set … ya know? If you don’t, these two Nevada-born characters (in no particular order), Scott Kirkland and Ken Jordan aka The Crystal Method have defined a generation of big, chemical beat loving breakbeat hounds as soon as they stepped on the scene with their 1997 release, Vegas. Fast-forward 15 years and the duo is still shaking up dancefloors across the globe with their own unique and ever-evolving blend of all things electronic. Hands down one of our favorite electronic DJs, ever. Period. Dot com.
Ken Jordan of The Crystal Method taking his turn on the 1s and 2s...
DJ Kos warming up the crowd with a blazing electro + scratch routine...Erik Lobe keeping the crowd moving in-between DJ Kos & The Crystal Method...Scott has a message to share with fans of The Crystal Method......and the crowd has a message to share as well!
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Two nights in a row this talented group of local Reno-based musicians tore the roof off the houses in which they share their ground-breaking yet old-school embracing sound with those who are bold enough to come out of their cozy, fireplace heated homes. Once at Knitting Factory Concert House in the form of Status-FLO (opening for Sage Francis) and the next as NoBody Really w/The Rhythmatics ft. Anonymous Jones aka Chari “Knowledge” Smith of the only female-fronted live hip-hop group Northern Nevada needs to concern themselves with … Knowledge Lives Forever.
Update: It has come to light that Anonymous Jones is actually a group comprised of Tony L. Walker and Tsuyoshi “Yosh” Curtis of NoBody Really along with Chari “Knowledge” Smith of Knowledge Lives Forever, not solely Chari.
These artists, musicians … renaissance persons or whatever you may, feed off of each other’s energy while on-stage and carry many times their weight when it comes to setting a fire up underneath the proverbial behind of Reno’s underground music scene. Like those West coast rappers have been saying since slanging tapes out the trunk of your car was a huge entrepreneurial step in marketing your music to the masses … if you don’t know, now you know.
Oh, right, camera stuff. Shooting in RAW is definitely something that I’m kicking myself for not doing earlier (even for the ability to go back and ‘remaster’ previous shoots) and can definitely attest to furthering my overall knowledge and growth as a photographer. The Nikon D7000camera and Nikon 50mm f/1.8Dlens which find themselves by my side as of late seemed to function well in the low-light setup The Alley is notorious for. With aperture open to 1.8, shutter speed set at 1/250th of a second and ISO cranked up to 3200, the images were coming through a little dark, but caught enough of the light to touch up in Lightrrom 3 after the jump. When the spotlight was caught by a performer, there seemed to be a bit of ‘burn’ in the resulting image and the color palette could be described as being overly flooded with red. Again, nothing a bit of work in Lightroom couldn’t handle. In fact, I’m quite proud of these images and I encourage you to click through on the ALL CAPS lettering below to view the full gallery.
Tony L. Walker of NoBody Really keeping spirits high at The Alley...Tsuyoshi “Yosh” Curtis of NoBody Really feelin' the love on-stage at The Alley...Joel "Jaybird" Cowell summoning a higher musical power on the keys...Chari “Knowledge” Smith aka Anonymous Jones taking center stage at The Alley...
Camera(s) Used:
Nikon D7000
Lens(es) Used:
Nikon 50mm f/1.8D
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