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BSB0042 – Brand Spanking Bought

It’s been just over a week since I have been back in the #LBC — Long Beach, CA — on my #100LongBeachDays of 2018. And there has been some set backs and some nice developments.

So how is that for a bad-news-good-news teaser, eh?

I’ll be going into some of the bad news soon enough. The good news is that I and one of my new friends out here from last year and I are launching a new project in the next few weeks. We are looking to have a launch party in late June.

But for now, dig into the latest BSB — Brand Spanking Bought Show.  It was recorded at Our Spot–my last Sunday in Baltimore before I started on this latest #100LongBeachDays 2018 adventure.

It has been awhile since Oscar and I had any face-to-face time–too long, to be honest–even though we have been in the same town of Baltimore for years. Yet here I was crossing the threshold into his store. (I should say their store–Belinda’s wonderful force is just as important in their story.)

There is much that is inspirational about Belinda and Oscar’s story in my humble opinion. But I will not spill those proverbial beans here. I suggest you go into there wonderful massage-barber-wellness shop and hear it yourself.

Tell them Stylo sent you–I’m sure they would love to tell their story. (And while you are there, partake in one of their beautiful soul replenishing services.)

 

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BSB0041 – Brand Spanking Bought

Yesterday, I posted my latest podcast and mix BSB show.

There was a power outage that impacted when I aired the live portion on Instagram. As I have been in the habit of broadcasting the first 30 minutes or so of the show a week before posting on Mixcloud, this was delayed by 2 days.

The Layers Of Vinyl LoV features 1+1=Love by luluxpo on Compilatrax Vol 2.

Also inside is:

  • We Rock The House – Wise D, Kobe
  • Let Me Smash – Black V Neck, Tim Baresko
  • In the Throwback section, Main Ingredient – Bernard Jones, Aren B, Kink
  • Run – Tourist, Lil Silva
Photo by Aaron Burden on Unsplash with more editing by myself…

 

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Sacrifice

So I went off a bit on Instagram for #MondayMotivation …

I probably came off as a bit of an ass to some. But here is the thing–I really don’t care.

How Not To Be ‘Encouraging’

The last week of positives culminated in a show for Butter, a last Friday of the month party upstairs at Ottobar.

(btw, I still get nervous for sets. It doesn’t matter if is for 20 people or 2000 people. I get nervous.)

There is no way to suddenly make it big

I guess it was something that got under my skin, this so called positive re-enforcement that was not positive. And this was a way for me to exorcise it.

Their is no so secret to success

No, it was not something in this past week. Yes, it was something that preceded it, but not by much. More importantly, it is a common thing for a lot of people to say, do, or suggest to others who actually have the balls (or vagina) to put themselves out there, who take risks beyond the average person.

I realize that this post or any post of this nature is not likely to be a tide changing event. However, just like putting the music out there, the prose out there, the writings out there, and letting the chips fall where they may so to speak, putting these feelings out into the ether is a way for me to be free.

 

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Preview DC at Flash

Flash is one of my favorite places in DC these days.

There are a lot of places that have electronic music in the DC area and frankly most of them are junk. Yeah this is rather judgmental, but hear me out.

Yes a lot of electronic music has become more mainstream and this in of itself is not a bad thing. More mainstream means more ears will hear it right?

True, more people will hear ‘something’, but this does not mean it is the right somethings. As anything that becomes overtly popular, other forces start to have an impact.

We forget to keep being curious about the ‘why’ behind something and turn into the dumb, blind, non-thinking, zombies that consumerism is really all about.

Money, instead of quality, becomes the driver. With the focus on the bottom dollar, the often difficult and or accidental paths that delivered uniqueness to us is replaced with just trying to rubber stamp the results in.

More mainstream means more ears will hear it right?

Okay, I’ll stop ranting about the negatives.

Top Pick Rated by DC House Grooves

Why do I like Flash? Because they seem to keep looking for the forward and edgy while not forgetting those paths I mentioned that have described what some would call a tradition. Yes, they do look for what is popular but with an eye to what might be next. This is not without much risk, which is just the opposite one gets with pop (read= that EDM term).

However, there isn’t any adventure without some risk.

I have 2 or 3 more places in the DC area that are on my short list of where to get good curated electronic music from the popular to the emerging. Send me a note to get the list of those places in your inbox via the Contact Me page.

Tonight, I am joining the Preview DC gang again on the roof top of Flash for Happy Hour. Don’t worry it’s free and we start at 6PM.

Preview DC feat. Stylo

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