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Popmatters.com reviews DJ Sun: One Hundred
17, Apr 2013Darryl G. Wright over at popmatters.com showing some love for One Hundred: Fat organic breaks seemingly borrowed from the back rooms of the finest vinyl archives are plentiful from track to track, and DJ Sun doesn’t mind exploring them from phrase to phrase… a candidate for soundtrack of the summer. Read the article »
DJ Sun: Houston’s Rising Star
15, Apr 2013Great article by Glenn H Roth over at jambands.com showing some love for Soular Grooves founder DJ Sun: DJ Sun mixes music and culture like a gourmet chef. He sprinkles all parts of his heritage – Dutch, Caribbean, Indo-Chinese and African – onto his turntables to the delight of his audiences. “I don’t want to be [...]
late last year i approached friend, colleague, and ninjatune recording artist yppah to do a remix of the first single off “one hundred:” “heart seed feat leah alvarez”… he presented a banger! definitely knocked it out of the park…he bumped up the tempo a bit and added his own signature feel, guitar work, percussive work, [...]
video episode 11: the bridge…
31, Jan 2013a conversation with dj melodic and fat tony…i sat down with fat tony and dj melodic to discuss musical influences from now and then…check it out on the next page:
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one hundred!
19, Jan 2013jan 19th- “one hundred” release date is here…i’m also celebrating my birthday at cha…if you are not in houston, you can get the album at itunes or beatport, amongst other download sites…
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jason woods aka flash gordon parks sat in my living room several months ago…”you should do ‘one hundred days to one hundred’…”… i enthusiastically said “yes,” but wasn’t too sure i could pull it off- well here it is: 10 video episodes and countless posts later (i missed a day early on when i didn’t [...]
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7…on trevor southard & urban circus…
13, Jan 2013immensely talented, super hard-working and ambitious (see the pic below of a text he sent to me today…a sunday!)…trevor came to me to help me accomplish the idea that flash gordon parks had presented to me: “do a countdown of one hundred days to one hundred”…when flash mentioned it, i thought it was cool…as we [...]
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8…on inspirational literature…
13, Jan 2013here’s a sampling…the 33 1/3 series are particularly interesting…i’ve read the ones on “paul’s boutique,” “signs of the times,” “people’s instinctive…,” “endtroducing,” “live at the apollo,” among a number of others…
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9…on that sound…
11, Jan 2013i packed my vinyl on monday and when i started my set i played a number of the songs below…they belong to an era, mostly around the early 80s…for me..and for the music industry in general, pivotal years: transition from the disco years…as in every decade of my life, many trips to nyc exposed me [...]
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10…is brought to you by: mom (happy birthday!)
11, Jan 2013i spent the day with mom, celebrating her birthday…none of this would be possible without her, of course! happy birthday!
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11…on quincy banks….
9, Jan 2013quincy miles banks…with that name (yes! they are homages to jones & davis) he was destined to do music and be involved in the music scene, so when the opportunity came up to intern with me, quincy jumped in and has put forth great energy in doing so… in introducing him to others, i refer [...]
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13…on sunday shining…
7, Jan 2013-taken sunday afternoon at the rothko chapel… i like finley quaye’s music…always have…finley has never really picked up much steam here and apparently has made some un-wise decisions in his life…neither her nor there for me…when you tackle bob’s “sun is shining” (one of my fave bob songs) and you put a completely new spin [...]
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