Party madness this past Friday evening as my husband Lars DJ’d at his monthly residency at Moonshadows in Malibu. (Name sound familiar? Well, Moonshadows is the restaurant/bar where Mel Gibson was partying it up the night of his infamous run in with Malibu police a couple years ago.) This spot is always great times..outdoor deck lounge overlooking the pacific ocean, the crowd, amazing food, stiff drinks and of course the MUSIC.

We started by sitting outside at a table on the deck, overlooking the ocean, and enjoyed an incredible gourmet dinner from the Moonshadows restaurant. And then Lars got behind the DJ decks, dropping some sweet music to start out the beautiful early evening. Soon after his guest DJ for the evening, our very good friend Tony Watson and his beautiful wife Angie showed up. Tony is one of my favorite DJ’s in LA and listening to him play is always a treat.  Both Tony and Lars dropped some serious dope records throughout the night, never staying within a specific genre or style. As the evening went on the place became more and more packed and soon the place was jumping and getting crazy. People were dancing, singing out loud and screaming. I’ve never seen that place get that nutty. All in all..although I was having a sober evening, (Lars drank plenty for the both of us… haha! ) I had a seriously good time and met some great new people .

Click on the image mosaic above and it will take you to my flickr set of all the photos both me and Lars took. Or you can view the slideshow.

My husband Lars just broadcasted the 250th episode of his weekly XM Radio show Deeper Shades of House. For this special occasion he recorded a two hour classic house special. I’ve been bumping this show at home and in the car and wanted to share it with you. Make sure to check out the playlist on his site deepershades.net.

1st hour:

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Available very soon will be the limited edition T-shirts I designed for Deeper Shades of House, my husband Lars Behrenroth’s radio show and website. Deeper Shades of House (DSOH) is entering its 5th year on XM satellite radio and is now syndicated on numerous other FM and online stations globally. It’s very fulfilling to know that so many people worldwide have become devoted fans of the show and tune in weekly or download the DSOH podcast. Lars has put a lot of hard work and creative energy into his show and music, and has always remained humble and appreciative to his fans.
These premiere DSOH t-shirts will be limited edition as we have printed a very limited number of them. And, because they are printed with a unique technique called discharge printing. It’s not really a print, but more a process where the color of the shirt is extracted to create the design, similar to bleaching.

I’ll post another update here as soon as they are available for purchase, which should be as early as next week.

What you see above is our first moblog / photoblog image (a picture I took of my screen, adding this category, ‘Photoblog’ - using the camera of my Nokia 6133 phone). Beginning Monday, August 20th, Kat and I will post photos in this category. It may be taken with our mobile phones, digital camera, iSight or even a scanned Polaroid, but it has to be originally taken by either one of us to be posted.

Enjoy and feel free to comment on our adventures.

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We’re laying low for the rest of our trip here in northern Germany, just enjoying the warm weather, hanging out with family and doing lots of shopping. I can definitely say I won’t be needing to go clothes shopping for a awhile as we’ve been spoiling ourselves plenty.

Thanks to Lars’ profession, we’ve spent a lot of time in different nightclubs in the US and around the world during our travels. T-O 12 is a nightclub that was recently built in Stuttgart, Germany’s notorious “party mile, Theodor Heuss-Strasse. I’d love to visit this club on a future trip simply for the thought, detail and style that went into the sleek design.

Like the street, the club is also named after the late Theodor Heuss, a fun-loving, dashing man and the first person elected for a full term as the President of the Federal Republic of Germany. Clubbers call the joint either Theo (T O sounds just like Theo in German) or Theo Zwölf (=Theo 12 in German).

To create the three-story club, the owners hired two Stuttgart-based firms: Architecture and communications firm Ippolito Fleiz Group, and graphic designers i-d buero. The result is a sleekly mysterious, pitch-dark space with white furnishings and massive black-and-white murals. The all-black walls, ceilings and floors together with the huge mirrors and tiny light spots produce an effect that is vertigo–inducing and fun.

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Lastly, for your listening pleasure, the latest mix for download by Lars Behrenroth from his show Deeper Shades of House. This mix is one of my personal favorites.

download DSOH #203

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