
Darryl 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 »
Great 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, [...]
since the release of one hundred, things have been amazing, in terms of reviews and feedback…one honor i received, was to do a guest mix for brooklyn radio… the last few years i’ve made countless travels to the bk and even collaborated with a crew from the kensington area in brooklyn, so of course i [...]
a 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:
jan 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…
in episode 5 we took some sound bytes from rapper jawwaad, who grew up in houston and recently moved back from nyc to re-establish himself in our community, and supa neil, a transplant from trinidad & tobago who has done radio shows on kpft 90.1 and ktsu 90.9, and is also a music producer, about [...]
with the help of urban circus video production we checked out different cultural aspects of houston which have been influential…the b boys in houston have been at many a dj sun event, lending their skils and just contributed their vibe by setting up impromptu dance circles; video episode 6 represents a quick look into the [...]
as we get closer to the release date of “one hundred,” we revisit some of the video episode…in this one we do a field trip to the rothko chapel and the menil park…
this was one of my favorite video episodes. you can also check all of the episodes at urban circus…
immensely 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 [...]
here’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…
i 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 [...]
i spent the day with mom, celebrating her birthday…none of this would be possible without her, of course! happy birthday!