Sosueme is hitting double digits, and they’re celebrating with a birthday blowout this Wednesday night.
For the past decade, Sosueme has been a staple on Sydney’s social calendar, returning each and every Wednesday night to provide long-stretching nights of decadent debauchery. Throughout it all, Sosueme has stuck by its ‘99% genre free’ motto, with the only guarantee being a nice time and a very sore head the next morning.
Most of Australia’s breakout stars have played at Sosueme at one stage of their career: Alison Wonderland, DMA’s, RÜFÜS, Gang of Youths and Flume have all performed sets there, while international stars include HAIM and the immortal RiFF RAFF earlier this year. This Wednesday, Sosueme will be celebrating their milestone with a bunch of their favourites across two floors of Beach Road Hotel, including Hayden James, Kuren, I OH YOU, Benson and more.
Ahead of the party, Sosueme godfathers Pat Stevenson and Hayden James have run through 10 tracks that have defined the party’s past 10 years – certified dancefloor anthems that get feet shuffling every Wednesday evening. See their picks below, and head on down to Sosueme’s birthday bash. It kicks off at 7:00pm, and we’d recommend getting down there early – it’s gonna pack out:
Stardust – Music Sounds Better With You
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxBdUIlhxo8
This one starts of with a really cool guitar loop that goes for 16 bars… it’s really easy to mix into from other songs. When it finally drops, the bass really kicks everyone in the guts.
Kanye West – Gold Digger (or The Throne – ‘N****s in Paris’)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vwNcNOTVzY
This sits at 90BPM and everyone can get into it – it’s instantly recognisable.
Fatman Scoop – Be Faithful
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmnEhmjgZ9s
I’ve never seen a song tear a club apart like this – it still works. It’s a great track. It sounds great mixed into ‘Jump Around’ by House of Pain. It’s hard to follow up the energy after this, it really rips the room to shreds.
Daft Punk – One More Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGBhQbmPwH8
Keeps the energy high towards the end of a set. Can’t go wrong with Daft Punk!
Duck Sauce – Barbara Streisand
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Io3aSEkG_s
I reckon I’ve played this song about 2,000 times in the two years when it was socially acceptable to play it. It went off every single time. We don’t play it so much nowadays though.
Arrested Development – People Everyday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_4Y7Cei_bw
A classic hip hop inclusion. This one’s a really good indicator to see if the room is working with you or not – there’s that ‘woahh’ ‘yeahhh’ call-and-response part, during this I’ll usually cut the volume and throw to the crowd. Sometimes two people shout back, sometimes the whole shouts it back at you. If it’s the latter, you know the night’s going to be a big one.
Jay Z & Alicia Keys – Empire State of Mind (tie between Beyonce – ‘Crazy in Love’)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCINmOZGV6Q
Two great female anthems! All the girls tend to jump up to these ones. And as the formula goes, if the girls are dancing – the guys will follow.
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ9rUzIMcZQ
We like to finish the night with this – there’s so many different part in this seven minute epic – there’s a slow melodic part, a rock part, a mosh part, then at the end it sounds like the soundtrack to a leaf slowly and gently blowing in the breeze… and that’s when you get on the microphone and say goodnight. You turn the lights on, and turn the decks off, and go to the afterparty.
