In Bass We Trust: 9/02 | Erick Morillo | Studio Square

Labor Day weekend was marred in the dance music community when Electric Zoo NYC had to close down the final day of the huge Randall's Island event due to several drug related deaths. The closure meant the town was now filled with legions of global music chasing punters with no plans or set destination and looking for shows. They hit New York City in their neon garb ready to party. All the clubs and events were guaranteed packed to overflow on Sunday night after the shutdown, especially the infamous Paradise Garage party with Joey Llanos.

The main remaining event to close the weekend fell to Erick Morillo on Monday. The Colombian-American Subliminal Records owner (based in Weehawken) interntional DJ and hit music producer is so local to the NYC area as to have had a portion of Bergainline Ave. in Union City, NJ renamed in 2012 to ‘Morillo Way’. Tonight he played in Astoria at Studio Square and there was no way we’d miss it. Potential rainstorms in the area meant that the event was moved from the outdoor courtyard to upstairs in the main event room. We can’t say were overly impressed with the bass heavy sound system in the untreated concrete echo chamber of an event space, but the sounds coming out of Erick's mixer were certainly top notch all night. Because the event was on a Monday, Erick came on early and we were quite thankful for that! Around 10 pm, Erick began dropping an acapella of ‘Love is the Message/It’s All About House Music/The Underground’ and the crowd who had been partying by as early as 4 pm packed the dance floor. He obviousluy loves Breach's summer hit, playing the original mix fully twice in an hour! He dropped his smash hit under the Reel to Reel Moniker before closing his set with his strongest offerings, Jungle Blood sandwiched between two songs starting with 'I Wanna'. The crowd danced fiercely to the Cube Guy mix of I Wanna Dance with Somebody and Erick closed with the '13 Ibiza smash by Santiago, 'I Wanna Feel'.

Love is the message Acapella

Jessie Garcia & Dario Nunez – Tribalism

Spencer Parker – I Think I Love You

Breach – Jack

Jose Nunez & Erick Morillo feat Shawnee Taylor – Addicted

Boris Dlugosh – Keep Pushin

Mark Leaf – However Do U Need Me (Si Biddle mix)

BenBen - Juan Pachanga

Ahmet Sendil – El Baile (Dub mix)

Breach – Jack (2^nd time!!!)

Jay Lumen – Get Ready

Laguna – Spiller from Rio