HI GUYS IT WAS SO AWESOME
Figure 1. SOUL RELEASE OH YES. here’s some stuff thrown together from some dope footage that jenn shot!!
the first thing that i realized—these faces have never met up together outside of a jam! everybody rolled through and we danced to a 2 hour pre-made playlist. set after set after set it was sooooo dope. EVERYBODY WAS ON FIRE!!!! man the vibe was totally different from a cypher at a battle—people did not give a fuck and just did whatever they want . people weren’t studying each other moves, people weren’t holding back—we were just feelin it and having fun!
afterwards we got to sit around and talk about what we want to do next, and our thoughts about how we can help our city’s scene. we’ve decided the location and date of the next soul release—it’s gonna be outdoors and dope! if this is the kind of thing that you’re looking for hit me up and i can fill you in on the details. the reason why i don’t want to just post up all the details is because i’m not interested in people who just want to come to show off or prove themselves—this is for the heads who want something more than that!
flash drove up from rhode island (having recently returned from a year in florida!). he had mentioned that there is a smaller dance community where he was living, so i didn’t know if he had to opportunity to get good practice while he was down there. damn yo flash was killin it though!!!
another stand out for me was justin—-when he hits the floor he makes an instant connection with me and i feel everything he’s trying to do. to imagine that he learned from SCRATCH as a freshman last year at bulletproof funk—and now this he feels the music and shows it to me. DOPE
james also had a couple sets that i still remember and they were icey iccccceeeeeeeee—so CRISPY. like PEW PEW! POW SAP! NYC LOOK OUT! congratulations by the way, james just got a job offer out there so he’s moving in october 
alright, i just realized that i have awesome things in my mind about every person who attended, so i’m just gonna stop writing because its making me too hype. i’m supposed to be chillin after my exam
ALRIGHT SO THAT”S ALL I CARE TO WRITE RIGHT NOW. ALRIGHT NOW? TONIGHT I”M GOING TO WATCH A MAGICIAN SHOW AT BU. I WILL PROBABLY UPDATE THIS POST LATER TO GIVE SOME THOUGHTS ABOUT HOW IT TURNED OUT AND HOW IT WAS DIFFERENT THAN I EXPECTED. UNTIL THEN!
*edit #1
in my head, i was imagining a heavier more zoned-out kind of feel for the cypher. but it was actually very casual, fun, and light. it ended up feeling like people meeting up together to hang out and joke around but at the same time watch some amazing shit and be able to dance.
you know that vibe where you practice with your friends and you can make fun of their stuff cuz you know them well and you know their dance well—another thing that surprised me was that this cypher had that same vibe except with people who don’t practice together!! very cool, very open, nice atmosphere
okay back to work! maybe another update later. but probably not. will post some info about soul release v2 soon! i think this idea may add something to the scene—not sure yet, but this first experiment turned out good so we will put more effort into it!
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