Be My Tropical Valentine with Colette, Ben Annand, Bret Wallace, Nocturn, and Olga Arteaga

Bringing back a favorite from back in the day!

In Tropical's formative years we hosted a free Valentine's Day party which sometimes also featured free smoothies and even mixtapes.

Fresh off a benefit party, we can't quite offer everyone free admission, but we will offer some free and lots of cheap spaces because we know some of you really need it! We'll just need 40 heroes to cough up $20 and we can pay our expenses <3

At ticket launch, we offer

10 x FREE Tickets

20 x $5 Tickets

20 x $10 Tickets

50 x $20 Tickets

It's up to you how much you contribute.

Free late-night smoothies are back! And I will give a modern mixtape - Live at Be My Tropical Valentine at the Tree House Feb 14, 2003 - on Soundcloud on Feb 14

Lineup!  
Colette (Om Records, LA)
Ben Annand (Tropical, Eugene, OR)
Bret Wallace (re:love, LA)
Nocturn (LA)
Olga Arteaga (LA)

Headliner bio:

Chicago native and Los Angeles resident Colette has a unique career trajectory and influence as an international DJ, singer, songwriter, and landmark figure of American dance music. Colette has been an integral part of the Midwestern underground since 1994. 

Charting her first Billboard No. 1 with "What Will She Do for Love", the debut long-play effort from Colette became the most downloaded dance album on Apple's iTunes in June 2005, with the title track, “Feelin’ Hypnotized”, being licensed to the soundtrack of the movie, “The Devil Wears Prada”. Not her last silver screen placement, her track “I Like The Way” produced in 2004 with Kaskade, would be featured in 2008’s “Sex and the City” movie soundtrack.  

2006’s "House Of OM" mix compilation with DJ Heather would kick off a multi-decade partnership and DJ pairing that still holds a remarkable relevance today. As Colette's international touring schedule widened, 2007 saw the release of her second album “Push”, with the single “If” reaching No. 5 on Billboard’s Dance Club Play chart.  Launching her own imprint in 2010, Colette put together Candy Talk Records as a platform to have more creative control over her music, curation, and collaborations.

2020 saw the return collaboration with Kaskade on their single “When I’m With You”, which has been streamed over 5 million times. Colette celebrated the 10 year anniversary of her award winning album "When The Music's Loud", featuring the single “Hotwire", named one of the top 20 Dance Music Albums of 2013 by Billboard and “One of The 99 Greatest Dance Albums of All Time” in 2015 by Thump/VICE.