In Memory of OddCake

Summary & History:

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OddCake, LLC. (2009-2015)was a party production company based out of Philadelphia, PA, and started in 2009 after Dan Ran finished his education at Drexel University. The epitome of an unconventional business in an unconventional industry, OddCake attempted (with a large degree of success) to merge an art collective, an interior design collective, a DJ collective, a burning man collective, a group of event planners, official OddCake LLC. company interns, and a post college circle of friends & promoters, all under one banner, in a uniform and cohesive production super-crew branded as The OddCake Party Crew.

Contrary to having the term “Party Crew”, by the time “Oddcake” was officially drafted and on paper, the crew was by no means focused on partying themselves, but much more interested in dripping blood, sweat, and tears to propel the Oddcake brand name up to being synonymous with one of the Northeastern regions secretly elaborate, radically inclusive, unconditionally loving, and intelligently interactive party experiences.

The Oddcake Crew was purpose driven with their target demographic being those carrying a specific “enlightened” mindset, or a potentially convert-able mindset. This mindset shared the sentiment that “partying” was a conscious exercise in the love of and celebration of, others, of self, and of personal growth and success”. This gave OddCake, (in the realm of east-coast nightlife party production companies) a brand association that was atypical. It conflicted with the youth oriented production company mind-set that was more aligned with the use of recreational partying as a crutch, and means to escape unfaceable truths or realities about self.

When designing & Marketing the OddCake mentality and it’s message, Dan had to acknowledge and assert a few truths:

  1. Those who party with the intention of escaping harsh realities about their own life, eventually get older.
  2. When partygoers age and are forced to grow up, facing the above realities, they immediately and subconsciously start associating “partying” with their youth, as well as bad personal decisions and a hinderance towards personal growth; thus, they move to cut partying (or in our terms, “Celebrating”) out from their life entirely. In short, they grow out of it.

If Oddcake were to shape their image and brand their parties as just another means for college students to “get F’d Up and escape reality”, it would be a decision that would attract a larger and more youthful audience, crowd, or “market share”. However, Dan deduced, that that would also be a decision prone to backfire, as the primary focus would be a demographic that had “Short-term retention and limited loyalty” ingrained in their DNA roadmap. Thus, not only did the business side of, but also the sentimentalist side of Dan, decided to first instill within, and then externally implement and market the message of OddCake: a light-hearted and unobtrusive, yet deeply insightful, all-encompassing, highly fulfilling, and love embracing, lifestyle choice.

What were results of this non-standard marketing message? Externally, attendee numbers increased, retention became stronger, and the volunteers became more interested, and OddCake caught the public among newspapers and journalists. Internally, the participants grew, the DJ’s became more refined, the artwork became more elaborate, leadership strengthened (bringing relief to Dans outstandingly heavy workload) and roles grew bigger. Furthermore, the events, parties, and lifestyle experience as a whole got better, much better. The OddCake Lifestyle Experience easily ousted the party memories that OddCaker’s had from their college years, and the local acclaim OddCake was getting from Philadelphia partygoers was sensational. Over time and hard work, Oddcake events and Parties (such as Halloween 2012 & Voyage Into Dreamz) became a sensational talk of the town.One Of The Many Facebook Comments About An Oddcake Party 2, OddCakeUwishunu.com critical acclaim

For OddCake Parties… the generated energy and vibe was top-notch loving and friendly. The atmosphere was filled with people of a diverse age demographic, ranging from the ages of 21 to 60, who shared positive outlooks, expressed love and warmth, shared common interests, goals and consciousness, consequently, creating a communal atmosphere that was synonymous with a family Thanksgiving on steroids. If you didn’t know someone at an OddCake event, well, Cakers made sure it felt like you did. After all, we wanted to welcome you into our life!

Dan Ran & the OddCake Crew planned, produced and marketed (many being word of mouth promotion only) over 118 of some of the best, most lively, thrilling, and exciting parties ever created by a company or organization of their size. Focusing on the overall environment, atmosphere, friendliness, radical inclusion, and of course, their very skilled and killer lineup of Resident DJ’s and local talent, OddCake, LLC. and the OddCake Crew came out of Philadelphia night-lifes left field, and consistently crushed it out of the ballpark for six strait years.

For more info/photos on OddCake you can check the main Nerd-Tech Oddcake page (Dan Ran‘s website), or the main OddCake page. Furthermore, you can check out the old OddCake Facebook Fan page for anything we may have missed on OddCake.net.

OddCake Comrades & Involvement

Lastly, if you are a local Philadelphian looking for nightlife House & Techno events, or Burning man based events, you can check out LeftRite, (the successor to OddCake and run by former OddCake Management & DJs) on the LeftRite Homepage or on the LeftRite Facebook Page. For anything else artsy or Burning Man related in Philadelphia, it is recommended you seek out any of our 3 colleague art and events collectives:

  1. The “big brother” and “spiritual mentor” of OddCake, and class act of an art and events collective, called the “Space Pirates”. These group of pirates are our beloved friends and throw top notch art parties! Please check them out and get involved.
  2. Another Philadelphia Burning man art and events collective (and OddCake colleague) that we have much respect for is Bangarang!!! Feel free to check out their events and get involved also.
  3. Finally, the very oldschool and very large PEX (The Philadelphia Experiment) also hosts massive events and parties. Feel Free to Get involved with their events also.

Enjoy the pointers for House/Techno and art nightlife events in Philadelphia. Maybe one day OddCake will come back to throw another event for you to feast on one day. In the meantime, enjoy the memories we created by checking out our event photos (not all events photographed) section.

The Official last words From OddCake (Camp OddCake, Oddcake LLC. and the OddCake Party Crew):

Picture of Camp OddCake at Regional Burn Playa Del Fuego in New Jersey, United States
Camp OddCake at Regional Burn Playa Del Fuego in New Jersey, United States

From 2009-2015, OddCake was one of the most prestigious Electronic Dance Party party production Companies in Philadelphia. We hosted events of epic proportions, and changed lives forever by spreading love through our events. Our former art collective, DJ Collective, in-house musician collective, event services crew, talent agents, and group of best friends, was collectively known as the OddCake Crew. Unfortunately, life has changed quite a bit since the beginning of OddCake, and we made a formal decision to close our event services company before we “burned out and got stale”, according to Dan Ran, the Founder of the OddCake super crew.

“Goodnight Sweet Prince..”

— Tim H. aka BeeTee Beats

…but we will always have the memories and Photos that we created for ever. So enjoy this site dedicated to archiving events put on by the OddCake Crew, and maybe, one day, we will come back out of the woodwork to throw some more parties.

We reached Legend, we attained a legacy, we spread our love, we created everlasting memories, and we shared our Cake with the world! I’d Say, OddCake was a success.

— Dan Ran (President and Founder of OddCake, LLC.)

Until that day, you can still experience a legacy taste of OddCake through an ongoing sister project called Left Rite Philadelphia; a DJ and events collective put on by some of the former management/DJ’s of the OddCake Crew. For now, so long and enjoy the archive!