DJ ANNALOG

Tonight a friend from the Afro-Pop Radio Show, Jeff Pierre, invited me to a live reggae show at NYC's West Village venue S.O.B.S. (on the 1 train at Houston and Varick) The venue itself reminds me of an old swing club/speakeasy. While you experience and listen to the live music, you can order from a latin based menu that has mixed drinks and appetizers . It's not a dinner club club but I guess it kinda has that vibe. The soundsystem is pretty banging and the sound booth sits above the full-liquor bar that is a few steps above the dance floor/ tables. 

Anyways, It's been a loOoNG time since I've gone to a live show-- NY is getting me back to my roots. You get so tied up into the nightclub/party scene as a DJ that you forget (well maybe sometimes you do) that a whole 'nother world exists out side of a dark basement or club where the walls of bass and lasers hide. 

I grew up listening to Jamaican ska bands like the Skatalites while attending D.I.Y. Shows surounding the ska/rocksteady counterculture. I collected The Specials, Isaac Green and the Skalars, Hepcat, the Impossibles, Mephiskapheles, Operation Ivy.... and now BACHACO.