Sempersonic™

TJR, a man known for his funky house beats and large stature, graced the stage at Ruby Skye in San Francisco this past Saturday night and so I ventured to Ruby for the first time in 2013. Hard to believe I am saying that, but I believe it’s true (still partially unsure.) I was quite excited for this evening, as TJR has been producing some stellar tracks in the past year, starting with Funky Vodka, and eventually reaching the monster Ode To Oi, which is just sheer fun.

His newest track, Whats Up Suckaz has the best preview ever:

Team Sempersonic down in the southern part of this lovely state have already seen TJR dj multiple times and had many good things to say, so finally it was my turn. On an absolutely beautiful San Francisco night (was maybe 55 degrees with fog so think that we could have swam in it down to the club) we headed off to Ruby. After checking our coats, my friend comes out of the bathroom laughing, which leads to me asking what is up. He tells me there is a couple hooking up in the bathroom. I laugh, and decide to see for myself. As I walk into the bathroom, this dude is walking out chuckling to himself. I get in there and see some girl in a dress washing her mouth out in the sink. It’s not even 11pm yet. Good look Ruby, good look.

Mr TJR comes on a bit before midnight, and we are off to the races with some funky house. A refreshing change to say the least, the first hour was just glorious funky, groovy house and everyone was getting down on the dance floor. Funky Vodka made an appearance and it was getting sweaty. I’d try and give you a track list, but I had my share of funky vodka already if you will and I was too busy shakin what my momma gave me to worry about that. He did whip out Tonic – Big Fat at one point which had everyone going off.  Quite enjoyable first hour.

MAN AT WORK

I must commend TJR’s dj skills here too, he was up scratching and mixing, working the entire time and you could tell he was into it. His track selection was on point and his mixing was real solid. Rather delightful, and it is obvious he knows his shit. In the second hour he drifted a little more to the electro-house side of things, and everyone continued to get down. We got some nice tracks like the My Feelings For Hells Bells mashup, which I have been a fan of for a while now and have not heard live recently, along with The Code, which goes oh so hard all the time. We also got the Congorock remix of One, which brought back lovely memories of days past at Ruby and this monster from Carnage and Borgore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ynT-xjB8nI

The highlight of the night had to be Ode To Oi, which not only sent the crowd into hysteria, but also had matching lazers of Oi. You know you’ve made it when lazers spell out part of your track name.

Seriously, lazer ois. Can’t beat that. Towards the end it got a bit more progressive and just before 2 am, TJR bounced. So did we, pretty much immediately. Cheers TJR to a great night, you have some serious skills and you are welcome back in SF anytime. Hopefully next time we get a chance to say what up.