The Revolution will be Digitized
By Morgan Short, Jul 2nd, 2007 | In Nightlife
This Thursday the righteous wraith of the proletariat will be mobilized in the form of the spry and stalwart Antidote DJs (their names are being withheld), as they mount a devastating offensive on one of "Shanghai's top nightclubs." It's billed as a "Coup d'Etat," and the revolutionary fervor is already running strong in Antidote organizer Commander Ozone as he outlines the rules of engagement: "We'll storm their posh surroundings and depose the resident DJ with sounds from the underground. A squad of six masked DJs from the collective will force their way in to the yet-to-be named venue and abduct the resident spinners, before taking to the wheels of steel to exorcise the venue of commercial music."
Perhaps to avoid a counter attack from The Man (one can only imagine the casualties should the resident DJs from, say, Attica or Bar Rouge assail the decks at C's), Ozone has kept the "victim venue" a well-guarded secret, even from the Antidote junta themselves.
The location will be released on SmartShanghai.com on Thursday at 7pm. Conversely, you can join the task force by sending an sms phone text message to 159-0174-1452 or by emailing your phone number to antidote8@gmail.com a day before the insurrection.
Ozone's been pushing Antidote, the best drug in town, since the summer of 2005 and the parties have consistently served as one of the few outlets for young, locally-based electronic DJs. Nearly two years later, the Antidote events have become a cross-demographic favorite and the crew has remained consistent in reinventing the concept of Antidote while remaining true to its DIY origins. In the following interview, Ozone discusses two years of Antidote, Thursday's Coup d'Etat and the future of the collective.
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