Join us for FOUNDATIONS, The Floor’s underground nightlife experience, held every Third Saturday at The Fruit.
Headlining the night (12/21) is Jake Mitchell, aka Butterball, hailing all. the. way. from... Raleigh. And just like all of our local DJs, Butterball's set is not to be missed.
Butterball is a co-collaborator with The Saturday Night Project and Swamp. Read more about their musical style and personal history below.
$10 at the door
Ages 21+
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The Floor — Gathering people around the transformative power of electronic-based music, amplifying the talents of local DJs, and eluding formal structures of control in order to spark uninhibited creativity.
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ARTIST'S BIO
BUTTERBALL
In June of 1997, along with a series of other unexplained phenomena, a crop circle appeared overnight in a field behind an eastern North Carolina Butterball turkey processing facility. Even more concerning than the crop circle itself, however, was the young boy found at its center. Outfitted in nothing but a small pair of Wrangler jeans and clutching a pack of Camel cigarettes, the boy could utter only the "la da dee la dee da" vocal melody of Crystal Water's "Gypsy Woman." Horrified and confused by what they'd discovered, employees of the Butterball facility loaded the boy into the back of an F-150 and drove to nearby Raleigh, NC before unloading him onto the front steps of a nightclub. Curious, the boy wandered in and began to party, and the rest is history.
Focusing on classic dance music from Detroit and beyond, Butterball brings with him a mixed bag of tracks highlighting unique instruments and disco & jazz inspired melodies that stick. However, you're likely to hear a few recognizable party anthems of the past woven in, too. His selections are more often two-steppers than fist-pumpers. Bring your dancing shoes, leave your egos at home, and let the good times roll.