Tomorrow a friend of mine from Los Angeles’ So Sweet Records, Eli Smith, will be playing his second stop on his Brave New World Tour here is Shanghai. This will be a great show and is not to be missed.

The second edition of Shanghai’s worst party, Badtastic, will go down also at Not Me this Saturday. Look forward to good music mixed poorly and horrible guilty pleasures all night long. This party is bound to get messy.

In addition tonight my friend Rodney Evans will be having the opening to his solo exhibition. The show will showcase four years worth of travel photos throughout China. And of course if you are so inclined after viewing some great photo work you should head over to Not Me where Jenn Wong will be throwing down some indie dance floor goodness at the weekly party Heart Attack.

It has been raining on and off for about a week now in Shanghai, but that wasn’t able to stop a massive crowd from showing up to Badtastic on Saturday night. The party was a blast and in accordance with the theme there was lots of good music and bad mixing. I would have to say Jenn Wong (Wongton) and Sam (Samwhich) tied for the worst mixing. That sounds like a negative thing, but it’s actually the highest of achievements at Badtastic.

Edit: For photos of Badtastic visit the Flickr pool.

On both Saturday and Sunday I DJed an event put on by MTV China and Swatch. The concept of the event was to have local artists/illustrators/painters “battle” in front of a live crowd. Each artist was allowed one hour and a half to create their peice, and I was really impressed with the artwork in the end. It was cool to see what some of the local kids are doing here in Shanghai as far as art goes.

(Sorry about the poor quality on the photos. Low light + iPhone camera.)

This morning the longest solar eclipse of the 21st century occurred and apparently Shanghai was meant to be one of the best places on Earth to witness it. Unfortunately, like so many days here in Shanghai, the weather was cloudy and rainy. We were going to do a picnic in the park, but because of the weather we decided just to watch from home. It was actually pretty eery how dark it got during the main part of the eclipse. I didn’t know how dark it would actually get, but it was as dark as night for at least 5 minutes. It was pretty interesting even though we couldn’t experience it completely.

Check out Youku for videos of the eclipse from other parts of China.
(link via: Jenn Wong)

This weather makes me never want to leave the house. Shanghai in the Summer is just plain gross.

This weekend was enjoyably lazy for the most part, but it did have it’s high points. Friday was the official launch party for the club Not Me here in Shanghai. As expected the place was so packed that there were just as many people spilling out into the street as there was inside. It was good times though and Reggie, Baijiou Robot and Myself all played great sets. Weekly events at Not Me include Heart Attack and Knives Out (poster on the way). Both should be really great weekly nights, and I will be guest DJing at Knives Out this Friday so stop by.

Yesterday, despite the sauna-like weather outside Scott, Marc and I went on a lengthy bike ride around the south end of The Bund. There are areas that look almost like a war zone because of all the construction for the 2010 Expo going one next year. It was interesting to see some sights of The Bund that aren’t given much attention to.