DJ VIN SOL

Q. What's your favorite movie or movie quote?
A. She's my Rushmore

Q. What's your favorite artist(s) right now?
A. Nico - Chelsea Girls, Get Low Players - Lotta things, DJ Technics - Mr Postman

Q. Whats your favorite food and or restaurant?
A. A Cancun super burrito with hella salsa verde unless I am feeling hella bougie then it's breakfast at Zazie holmes

Q. Favorite DJ or producer?
A. Anyone can be king for a day

Q. What's your favorite book?
A. Scarred for life by Keith Hamm

Q. Whats your favorite TV show?
A. the OC

Q. Whats your favorite thing about San Francisco?
A. The hills and the homies

Q. What's your favorite thing to do when not DJing?
A. Getting my shred on at the chilli bowl

Q. Whats your favorite slang word or expression?
A. Ghost ride the whip down a cliff of suck

Q. What was the most embarrassing moment you had while DJing?
A. A little thing I like to call wasted ex-girlfriend trying to get skantless on stage @ the old Hush-Hush Bar

Q. Whats the strangest request you've received while DJing?
A. direct quote from a 200lb female clubgoer "Hey blood, you better shout out my girls birthday cuz I got my tech in my purse ya feel me?" then she proceeded to invite me to "hang out later"... needless to say, I declined

Q. Any last shout-outs?
A. My fam, Ted Shred, Jah Warrior Shelter Hi Fi, Coop D' Ville, Slo Poke, Morsecode, DJ Mutt, J Nugut, Chet Clark, Big Rich, FTC posse, Huf set, all the homies @ The Milk Bar, Catchdubs, Lowbudget, Ayres, Unruly Records, FourOneFunk, all the ladies, and anyone I might have forgot, u know who you are

Catch Vin Sol this Saturday with DJ Steve Aoki and rotating guest DJs every Thursday night at "Super Friends"

Super Friends? Super Villians!

The movement is officialy on. Clip comes courtesy of System D-128 and Suckadelic

Who is Steve Aoki?

DJ Kid Millionaire aka Steve Aoki DJs and promotes clubs in and around Hollywood and NYC in addition to various fashion and celebrity events. Otherwise known as the head honcho at DIM MAK Records Steve DJs dance party hits that encompass a wide variety of Hip Hop to Pop to Rock and back again.

Q. What are some of your favorite movies and or movie quotes?
A. Sin City, 2 Fast 2 Furius, D.E.B.S.

Q. What is your favorite (current) song or artist?
A. Bloc Party, The Rakes, Moving Units

Q. What's the last thing you do before going to sleep?
A. Work on Dim Mak business

Q. What's the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
A. Work on Dim Mak business

Q. Who's your favorite artist?
A. Mark the Cobra Snake (www.thecobrasnake.com)

Q. Whats your favorite T.V. show?
A. 24

Q. What's your favorite thing about San Francisco?
A. From MonumentTo Masses

Q. What's your favorite slang word or expression?
A. Buddy

Q. What are some of your favorite clothing brands?
A. Well of course, the Dim Mak collection... I love Gravis, WE Clothing, Bathing Ape, RVCA, Supra, Krew, Hysteric Glamour, Hiroshi Fujiwara, Adidas, Puma, Nike, Lamb/Royal Elastics

Q. Who's the funniest person you know?
A. My brother

Q. What was the most embarrassing moment you had while DJing?
A. Last night at the Troubadour opening for Hard Fi. No monitors, speakers were 200 feet in front of me, serious echo effect, computer was skipping on internal mode of Serato for some reason, and I couldn't hear a damn thing and was stuck solo on the stage with bright lights. It was fucking awful like I was on acid but worse

Q. What was the strangest request you've received while DJing?
A. I've had too many common pop requests but no strange request yet. I have a huge pallette of music from electro to hip hop to pop to oldies, Im all over the place. The stranger the request, as long as its dancy and I like the song, the better

Q. Who would you most like to meet (alive or dead)?
A. Bruce Lee and Malcolm X. Two life changing hero's of mine.

Q. Any last shout outs?
A. Shane Smith-revolutionary comrade from the bay, from monument to masses-one of the most underrated bands of our time only because they don't tour anywhere out of the bay, Jefrodisiac-running the dance party shit up in the bay, John Isaacson-zine maker and screen printer extraordinare, Jennie Romer from Rasputin's-old roomie, Alexa Dye-always fighting the good fight, Alex Pasternak-old hippie in a 25 year old body, Jenny Hoyston-singer in erase errata and solo project paradise island-veteran in the Dim Mak world, and of course my agent Matt Colon-the only one thats not from the Bay.

Catch Steve aka Kid Millionaire Saturday February 18th 2006 at The MILK Bar

more info on the untimely passing or "spiritual transition" of J Dilla. Here are just a few samples of dudes contribution to the world of hip hop. Slum Village "Fall in Love", Slum Village "Raise it Up" and "Nothing like This". Theres also a streaming J-Dilla memorial here.

More than meets the eye

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DJ RHETTMATIC is in the building

TONIGHT! DaJoint (SF's longest running Hip Hop night) proudly presents DJ RHETTMATIC of the world famous BEAT JUNKIES. Here's a little Q and A with the man himself...

Q. What's your favorite movie?
A. Enter the Dragon - "Don't look at the finger or you will miss all the heavenly glory..."

Q. Name 3 of your favorite artist.
A. Jmes Brown, Gangstarr, J Dilla

Q. Who are some of your favorite DJsand or producers?
A. Too many to list but here's a few : Premier, Alchemist, J Dilla, Madlib, Pete Rock, OhNo, DITC, Large Pro... DJ wise : my own crew, Jazzy Jeff, the OG KDAY Mixmasters, ISP, XMen, Triple Threat, Cut Chemist, Shadow... etc...

Q. What's your favorite book?
A. The Tao of Jeet Kune Do

Q. What's your favorite slang word or expression?
A. "Word"?

Q. Who's the funniest person you know?
A. Babu

Q, What was the most embarrassing moment you had while DJing?
A. Forgetting how to do my routine at the 94 DMC West Coast Championships... smoked out too much the night before.

Q. Who would you most like to meet(alive or dead)?
A. Bruce Lee

Q. Any last shout out?
A. Shout outs to all my Bay Area fam : Shortkut, Vinroc, P-LO, Miguel, Fran, SwiftRock, Randall, and anyone that has supported me and the whole Beat Junkies crew.

R.I.P J DILLA 1974 - 2006

This week at "Super Friends"

DJ Mark Farina drops a rare downtempo/hip hop set with special guest DJ Mr. E (DaJoint). We'll also be giving away FREE "Super Friends" tee shirts all night. Come get you one.

Hip Hop and New Wave

Kirby Dominant and Chris Sinister's (Kirb & Chris) latest effort "Niggaz & White Girls" blends rap over new wave loops from the likes of The Human League, Gary Numan, The Police, and The Cure. Check em out LIVE on stage tomorrow, Wednesday February 8th.

Oprah done got the scoop

how would you handle the stress of $50 million dollars? Dave Chappelle tells all (I've never seen dude so serious)

Put it on Blast

producer XXXchange, MC Cool Disco Spankrock, Ronnie Darko, Cristopher Rockswell and the sound of Baltimore Murderland are showcased in this 5 minute clip courtesy of Big Dada Records.

New year New look

DJShadow.com announces a new look and the release of "Freeze" on DVD + the exclusive DJ Shadow/Cut Chemist 45 box bundle.

DJ MR. E spits MAS FUEGO!

With residencies at both Tuesday night's BEAT LOUNGE and second Saturday's DAJOINT, DJ Mr. E has quickly become one of the most popular party-rockin DJs in the bay area (that's no easy feat people). With a deep crate and positive attitude its easy to see why the ladies love cool DJ Mr. E. We recently caught up with dude to ask him a couple of questions...

Q. What is your favorite movie and or movie quote?
A. RICHEEE!!! (From La Bamba)

Q. What is your favorite song and or artist?
A. Planet Rock, Ibeblowin (DeLaSoul feat Maseo Parker), Mood Indigo (Duke Ellington)

Q. What is the last thing you do before going to sleep?
A. Kiss my girl and turn off the Sportscenter.

Q. What is the first thing you do when you wake up in the morning?
A. Kiss my girl and turn ON the Sportscenter.

Q. What is your favorite food and or restaurant?
A. I hear this place PAPALOTE has great fish taco!

Q. Who's your favorite DJ and or Producer?
A. DJ : right now... Sake One ... revamping the SF Music Landscape

Q. What's your favorite slang word or expression?
A. That's what's up!

Q. Whats your favorite thing to do when not DJing?
A. Herbal Meditation

Q. What was your first paying gig ever?
A. Club Heartbreak in Mill Valley 1985!

Q. What was your favorite paying gig ever?
A. Wow... my first set at Beat Lounge in 1998... Shortkut, Apollo, Q-Bert were all listening and I made $20 bones... lol

Q. Where is your favorite place to vacation or visit?
A. CANCUN... its paradise

Q. Who is the funniest person you know?
A. My brother Victor... with Fran Boogie a close second!

Q. What was the most embarrassing moment you had while DJing?
A. see 1st paying gig above... lol... I switched the crossfader over on time ready to drop a sick mix... but the channel level was down... complete silence... for a crowd of 400+... oops.

Q. Whats the strangest request you've received while DJing?
A. After dropping 1 hour of Tribe, De La Soul, Heiro etc... a girl asked if I was going to play some Hip Hop!?!?!

Q. Who would you most like to meet (alive or dead)?
A. Well I met Prince... that was ill... ummm, I think Bob Marley

Q. Any last shout outs?
A. to all the Bay, and all of y'all's Moms... word!

Catch Mr E this week, Thursday February 9th with DJ Mark Farina at Super Friends and again Saturday February 11th at his monthly get down DAJOINT with special guest DJ RHETTMATIC (Beat Junkies)