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DJ STEF FEST, SAT/16 AT DRAKES DEALERSHIP, OAKLAND
DJ tradition is such a stronghold within the Bay Area that when a unifying determine slips away, it’s that precise tradition that ensures their contributions usually are not in useless. Alain Grissette, also referred to as DJ Delon, has been a central determine in East Bay DJ tradition for almost three a long time. He lately knowledgeable us at 48hills a few actually worthy occasion.
For these unaware of music venue Drakes Dealership’s historical past, it started in 2015 with a lineup of DJs that included a neighborhood heavyweight inside the hip-hop DJ group named Stephanie Ornelas, also referred to as DJ Stef. She hosted each third Saturday afternoon at Dealership. She constructed a following of old heads and new lovers who fell in love along with her beautiful style, trendy blends, and in depth information of soul, funk, trendy and basic hip-hop, and music typically. DJ Stef performed a vital position in establishing Dealership as a professional vacation spot for music lovers of all genres.
Unfortunately, Stef handed away as a result of a coronary heart attack within the fall of 2017, surprising everybody who knew her and forsaking a fruitful and promising legacy. To honor her reminiscence, buddies and DJ friends of Stef, in addition to common DJs at Dealership Toph One And DJ Davoud, will host the primary annual DJ STEF FEST, 1pm-9pm on Sat/16. Friends will spin tunes, share recollections, and have fun the legacy of an irreplaceable determine inside Bay Area DJ tradition.
Join in honoring her reminiscence, surrounded by so many who liked and revered her expertise and coronary heart. More information right here.
POTATOHEAD PEOPLE, “LAST NIGHT” FEATURING REDMAN
Reggie Noble is the go-to emcee who can add that veteran dankness, punch-up jokes, or just deliver out charisma in your monitor in a matter of seconds. That’s proper, Redman has all the time been round, so there’s no want for a comeback speak about him. First, he shocked everybody by making a cameo look in JLo’s “Can’t Get Enough” efficiency on SNL this previous February fifth. And now, the Rap legend is featured on a monitor by Potatohead People, with one-liner accents popping up all through the music, whereas he celebrates the day-to-day elements of being in a relationship and shares the loopy issues that occurred to him the evening earlier than.
It’s a Fender Rhodes vibe, created by Vancouver’s multi-faceted manufacturing duo of Nick Wisdom & AstroLogical. They began working collectively in 2008 as a part of the hip-hop collective Elekwent Folk, and shortly after, the 2 producers fashioned Potatohead People. They started creating forward-thinking instrumental music that each neo-soul lovers and true college hip-hoppers are all the time desirous to embrace and have interaction with.
Their fourth album, Eat Your Heart Out marks their return to the Bastard Jazz imprint and shall be launched in May.
Pre-order right here.
BACAO RHYTHM & STEEL BAND, BRSB (BIG CROWN RECORDS)
The mysterious metal pan outfit hailing from Hamburg, Germany, returns with a potpourri of topical songs that traverse trendy TV collection themes songs to basic disco extravagance, retooled with cool vibes and slick inventiveness.
Pop this in your “easy to vibe to” pick-up record.
We teased this final yr with that “Stranger Things” tune, and that was cool, on the topical trending sort of get down. But yo, the dubbed-out model of Claudja Barry’s disco basic “Love For The Sake Of Love”.
Mang. It’s a Mutha.
Cop it, right here.
MUTINY/PIRATE CAT RADIO, RIP
It’s darkish on the market for the media. We’re witnessing the crumbling of all of it. One Friday information dump after one other.
The ending of Mutiny/Pirate Cat Radio hits not simply near home for San Franciscans however cuts that a lot deeper within the realization that the concepts and tenets that this metropolis was as soon as constructed upon, are gone.
Mission Local did a wonderful write-up on the ending. I forgot that I interned there through the Pirate Cat Radio “Monkey Man” period. And the station did entice a rapscallion assortment of characters who had been looking for that “beat poet” period of SF, that had lengthy handed as quickly as we hit Y2K.
I had an obnoxiously early am shift, the place I used to be arranging chairs within the foyer, stocking chilly objects within the cafe, and making an attempt to determine what sort of present I wished to do. It was a ship of unsteadiness the place the current didn’t all the time match up with the plan.
There had been dwell jazz exhibits that gave off a bygone sort of environment, however as Mission Local places it, the dot com tech increase erased all of the boho accents the town was as soon as recognized in style for.
Finally, I finished going to the internship. It was too early within the morning to cope with that sort of disappointment.
Sail on Mutiny/Pirate Cat Radio……
SUCKER, SEEIN’ GOD
Skip by way of a band’s random liner notes on their Bandcamp web page, and also you get a way of how briskly and free a burgeoning outfit needs to play it.
Sucker, a four-piece outta Oakland, units off all of the automobile alarms with their commotion-clatter racket.
Seein’ God presents a buzz-blast model in 4 tracks by way of the “classic black vinyl with small hole” title.
This is a lo-fi, no-care, gloom so meh slice of gold. It distinctly jogs my memory of the primary Dehd file—once they had a beer and pizza funds and all of the concepts had been rooted in two band members breaking apart.
Peep the killer tag of “recorded and mixed by Capt. Tripps Ballsington at High Command in Olympia, WA” on the backside of the liner notes web page. I don’t know if Capt. is actual, however that tag made me go and take heed to this EP, and uh, nicely, we bought a brand new vibe-merchant to observe this yr.
Pick it up right here.
