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Shows: VHS or Beta or turntables?

Last night we checked out a Royal Elastics store opening on Santa Monica’s Main Street. The free booty is nice but we really went to see electro-rockers VHS or Beta's DJ set, which apparently they enjoy as much as playing live (recent gigs include DJing alongside Carlose Dengles of Interpol at the Guggenheim Museum of Art).  And they killed it.

DJing since 1999, the DJ duo even have their own VHS or Beta DJs profile on MySpace.  They’ve been on the crazy french house and dance-rock tip before pretty much anyone, but they’ve embraced the trend of the feverish “species known as hipster DJs” because they remember being ridiculed by rock kids for liking “techno” back in 1999.  Now, we can all get along.  It was good to see them flex nuts for such a small crowd…it was easy to forget that DJing for these dudes is their side gig.

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