GRAB BAG

  • A brief contribution from me was included in NPR’s round-up of “the sounds of summer.” I picked one of my favorite, end-of-summer jams: “Be Thankful For What You Got.”
  • My dude Dino Rivera of Spintronix sent me some new business card scans from the mobile DJ era.
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    This sheet is especially cool for all the record and music stores on there. Aloha is legendary amongst dance DJs of the 1980s and I remember going to Star Records when it was still around. Manor Music, in Pacifica, perseveres but most of the other businesses are long gone now.

  • Speaking of Spintronix, they have a trailer for their own upcoming autobiographical documentary on the crew’s history. I don’t mean to humblebrag but I’m slightly embarrassed to be the pretentious dude speaking first.

  • By the way, I don’t know how many of y’all are on Spotify but I just put this up: the Black Label collection. My long-time readers may remember this from way back when. Insanely well-curated (and not by me!)