In the Spring of 2000, Sovereign State was formed with one simple
purpose: To organize and promote electronic dance music
events with a strong focus on quality.
Their debut event, the 2000 DC Summer
Synthpop festival, clearly illustrated their
commitment to quality. An ambitious 2-day event held at the legendary Black
Cat, featuring 9 live performers and 4 DJs
was a raging success and still held by many of the bands as the best show
they've played to date.
The last half of 2002 brought a resurgence to Sovereign State with the start of
Burn. Now, with the popular wednesday night hangout, Funky Alternatives, and an expanded
DJ roster Sovereign State is a force to be reckoned with in the DC Electronic Dance scene.
Spiggy's Top 10 Tracks for February/March 2005:
- 2 Raumwohnung & Moguai - Sasha (Sex Secret) (Moguai mix) - Punx
- Tears For Fears - Closest Thing to Heaven (Solasso Club Mix) - Gut
- DJ Hell - Let No Man Jack (Busy P Stotter Mix) - International Deejay Gigolos
- Soulwax - E Talking (original & Rex The Dog remixes) - PIAS
- SLK - Hype! Hype! (Tom Neville Remix) - white
- David Guetta - The World Is Mine (Blackstrobe remix) - Virgin
- Kylie Minogue - I Believe In You (Mylo dub) - Parlophone
- Azzido Da Bass feat. Digitalism - Strobelightz (x-tended mix) - Luscious Sounds
- Salt N Pepa - Push It (Bassbin Twins remix) - White
- Depeche Mode - Photographic (Rex the Dog Dubb Mix) - Mute
Spiggy's classic obsession for the month:
- My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult - Disko Fleshpot - Interscope
AO125's Top 10 Tracks for Jan/Feb 2005:
- Cleptomaniacs - All I Do (main mix) - Defected
- Soundscapers - Can You Feel - Blue Swan
- Warren Clarke - Over You (main mix) - Defected
- Santiago Mendez - Feeling Love - Reserved Sounds
- Cerrone - You are the One (dub mix) - Malligator
- Audiowhores - Music - Look At You
- Soulizm - Give You Love - Solid Soul
- Funktonic - The Release (Hoxton Whores mix) - white lable
- High Spies - Better Days (Olav Basoski mix) - Rootz
- Kluster - My Love (summer mix) - Filtered
The Logic Theorist's Top 5 Tracks for Jan/Feb 2005:
- Supastition - Soul Searching
- Wordsworth - One Day
- Beanie Sigel - Feel It in the Air
- Hot 22 - Moon and the Spoon
- Afrika Bambaataa - Pick Up
