Most of the attention is focused on legendary Larry Levan and his major influence on the disco and house scenes, not to mention the creation of the “Garage” genre. Interview subjects are a who’s who of DJ luminaries. With the likes of David Mancuso, Francis Grasso, Nicky Siano, Frankie Knuckles, and Francois K waxing poetic nostalgia you can’t help but wish you were there when it all went down…

“OBEDIENT”

Jesse Chapo, an artist out of San Diego, works with pens and paint on birch wood while incorporating different objects and mediums. Up close, the pieces are large and intricately detailed. His work is very fresh, colorful and full of dark imagery that seems to tell a very complicated story.

This was on full display a couple weeks back at my friend’s gallery, Phyllis Stein Art, as part of the Downtown Art Walk going on here in L.A. Head on down if ya wanna check ‘em out in person. I highly recommend it, if only for the crazy ill totem pole!

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Here’s a mix I recorded a couple weeks back celebrating all things SUMMER. 
Happy Hands Happy Feet is a feel good buffet of easy breezy beats n’ rhymes inspired by sunshine, heat waves, BBQ’s, all white leather interiors, and smothered enchiladas. 

A whole slew of good stuff permeates throughout. Even got the chance to mix in a N.A.S.A. joint!

Comes in 3 easy installments, download the zip file of all 3 tracks above. Tracklist on the next page…

Hope you enjoy, let me know what ya think!

Redman needs zero introduction here but I feel like his first album is chock full of dope album cuts that people might not remember. “Rhythm & Funk makes ya hump like Technotronic I make the Jam Pump”. YES!

The track “Daylight” is my top choice not just because it’s funkier than a mosquito’s tweeter but because it tells the story of some party people at 5am grooving to the FM music, getting down in their stockinged feet as the daylight catches up with them again.Gangsta!