ADULT SKATE-MLK EDITION
Starring: KAI ALCE, RON PULLMAN & CULLEN COLE
19.01
No roller skates are rented.
No roller skates are permitted.
No in-line skates are rented.
No roller blades are permitted.
Adult Skate is not a roller rink.
Adult Skate is an annual event where various tribes gather to dance to the hottest disco and house music south of the Mason-Dixon in the wee morning hours of the Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Holiday at MJQ Concourse on perhaps the coldest night of the year thus far. Listed is the top 14 defining moments & music played at Adult Skate-MLK Edition.
14. Warming up to the First Lady of Paradise Garage. The late Gwen Guthrie’s “It Should Have Been You” meanders into talking guitars and finger snaps provided by The Steve Silk Hurley Mix of
13. Yolanda Adam’s prayerful anthem that has arms elevated and voices belting “Open My Heart.”
12. Next, riding the disco thumper via heart-pounding four counts courtesy, DJ Kemit presents The Lounge Lizards featuring Jill Rock Jones’ “Wake Up & Stand Up” (Kai Alcé KZR Dubstrumental) as the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Junior proclaims “Let Freedom Ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia” from his beloved “I Have A Dream” speech that scorches dancing feet and heats up the party.
11. Is that Cinthie’s “Everything I Say?”
10. Hearing the galactic sounds of Sandman & Riverside featuring Jeremy Ellis’ “Into Your Story.” The Kai Alcé Distinctive Remix, enough said.
09. Boom!!! Detroit Techno steps into the room. Kevin Saunderson presents Inner City’s “Good Life,” causes ears to bleed, not from the content, but the volume that is pitched to screeching decibels.
08. Experiencing the jazz ambience of Gregory Porter’s “On My Way To Harlem” (Kai Alcé Interpretation Radio Edit) that closes Kai’s musical selection.
07. Watch out! Onstage, don’t get stabbed by the spikes of stilettos from the woman wearing big hair.
06. Sharing hearty hugs with familiar faces from yesteryear; the King, the 2-stepper, and the Tambourine Man.
05. Ron Pullman taking the decks and surprises playing Tamia’s “Still” (D.F.A Mix).
04. Smiling as Mrs. Nightingale with eyes closed mouths every lyric to Shaun Escoffery’s “Space Rider” (Spinna & Ticklah Mix).
03. Behold, standing, surrounded in a zombie apocalypse of mouths lipping, “If I lose my woman.” The sight is uncanny. Even Mr. Kai Alcé is entranced, 2 stepping, spinning around and singing on cue to the classic Kenny Lattimore (Masters At Work Remix).
02. Experiencing the peak hour rush of being raptured by Peven Everett’s “Burning Hot.” The Timmy Regisford & Adam Rios Mix ignites the room in flames. Sending dancers to the floor and bodies capsizing midair.
01. The AS-MLK Edition’s brainchild Cullen Cole getting on the decks and delivering spaced-out sounds.
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