#MusicMondays With Shane Okouchi: River & Phoenix, “Follow Your Dreams Pursue Your Nightmares (Lauer Mix)”
Shane Okouchi is an employee of Kinfolk Studios and a very excellent DJ from Oahu, Hawaii. In accordance with internet’s #MusicMondays laws, Shane has agreed to share some of his favorite gems with the Kinfolk community and provide some of his unique personal incite along with.
I was at an outdoor party in Brooklyn, maybe three months ago now, with a bunch of my friends from Hawaii and New York. We were in a courtyard surrounded by red brick everything, good music and good company. We were feeling good off the barbecue and beers, with my buddy August Goulet of Blind Faith Collective spinning some tunes as the sun was setting over our little enclosure. Once the last hint of light was gone, August put on a record that sounded like it could have been an amped up Kraftwerk track. We were all feeling the groove. There were a few cute girls I didn’t know, a few guys not used to listening to electronic music and all of my friends, every one of us, slowly moving along to the beat. Just as we were all starting to really get into the music, the percussion dropped out and this mesmerizing synthesizer riff came on. We all stood there swaying in a dark, boozy, early evening daze. A lot of us had our eyes closed as the synth kept going and going and going and then…the beat dropped. Party, On: The cute girls I didn’t know lost it, throwing themselves into the groove; the guys who weren’t familiar with the music didn’t seem too sure in what their bodies were doing, but they were moving too. My friends and I, needless to say, were getting all the way down.
When the song ended I went over to my buddy August and had to ask, “What the hell was that?” He looked at me and shook his head. “Here, man take it,” he told me. “I’ve been playing this too much.” It was called “Follow Your Dreams Pursue Your Nightmares” by River & Phoenix (Lauer Mix). I stared at him in disbelief and asked, “Are you fucking serious?”
“Yeah, man take it away.”
I sat down next to my friend Lorrnie and showed her the record. She flipped out almost as much as I did when I told her that August had just given it to me. Grateful would be an understatement of how I felt. As if great music, food, beers, the company (and it’s pretty faces) weren’t enough, that record in my hands made it one of those nights worthy of being dubbed, just a little too good.
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