Click to Buy Album OSCAR G: DJ - TRIPLE DISC SET - OUT MAY 2009
In 2007 we broke new ground with the Oscar G: Space cd/dvd. In 2008 came Oscar G: Innov8, which was the source of club classics like “Miami” and the dance radio hit “You.” Now we are going one step further in expanding the boundaries of what an original DJ package can offer. Coming Spring 2009, Oscar G: DJ (de'ja') ...Triple disc package including one cd of original Oscar G productions, one cd consisting of a live Oscar G morning set on Space Terrace, and a DVD recording of that set.
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OSCAR G: MADE IN MIAMI
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Oscar G has captivated club audiences from Miami to Malaysia and all points in-between. Known for his club classic, “Dark Beat,” he continues to deliver cutting edge house music to the masses. Now you can hear this award-winning, chart-topping DJ bringing the true Miami underground to XM/SIRIUS with OSCAR G: MADE IN MIAMI. http://www.sirius.com/area
INNOV8 is an album of all original material that Oscar G personally wrote, but also arranged, mixed and programmed as a DJ set. It’s a spectacular mix of original song segments, loops, samples, edits, effects and mixed grooves created from the eight original songs featured on the album.
The release of INNOV8 strengthens an alliance between two of the most influential names in modern electronic club music, Oscar G and Nervous Records. Launched in 1991 by Michael Weiss, Nervous Records has built its reputation through a willingness to take chances on new sounds and new producers. Nervous was the first American label to sign and release tracks from some of dance music’s most respected names. Oscar G’s 2007 mix CD/DVD release Nervous Nitelife: Space Miami was a huge success for both the label and artist with Nervous Nitelife branded events taking off across the country. Critically, the hard work has not gone unnoticed as DJ Times is set to profile the resurgent Oscar G. on the cover of its March issue.
Oscar G is one-half of the legendary production team known as Murk, and is currently a resident at Club Space in Miami - indisputably the 1 nightclub in North America. This CD features a live rendition of Oscar's DJ set, including all the attendant sound effects (crowd noise, special effects) that make clubbing so exciting. Features several exclusive tracks destined to be massive in 2008, and other memorably dark and dirty, neo-tribal songs. The bonus DVD explores the history of Club Space, its success, the DJs, promoters, managers, and club goers themselves.
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Oscar G at Hoy Como Ayer's Tropicasa Wednesday Night Party
(By Jose D. Duran/ Miami New Times)
Oscar G comes home Wednesday nights at Hoy Como Ayer.
Since 2001, Oscar G has been Space's resident DJ and the main reason why patrons still flock to the all-night 11th Street mainstay. Not to mention the fact that he's done remixes for artists like Madonna and Pet Shop Boys and as one-half of Murk (the other half being Ralph Falcon) has racked up numerous industry awards. So what is such a high-profile DJ doing at Hoy Como Ayer's (2212 SW 8th Street, Miami) Wednesday night party Tropicasa?
"We wanted to take it back to our roots, away from downtown and the Beach," explains Jackie Richie, the self-proclaimed Queen of Space and one of the night's hosts. The other, David Orth, says he and Oscar have been playing around with the idea of doing a mid-week party for a long time. "I had been going to Hoy Como Ayer for years now to see the Spam All-stars and I thought it would be a great place for Oscar G to do a party." And with the promise of no guestlists, no VIPs and no dress code, the night is more of a low-key affair that's heavy on the house beats. Seven dollar cover charge and $5 beers also make this a cheap night out.
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If you were to get out a map and track the history of house music – with endless lines sprouting from New York, Chicago and Detroit to points all over the world – you’d have to make a big, red circle around Miami, Florida, and start drawing.
Miami was never ground zero to a full-fledged subcultural movement. But it is where Oscar Gaetan, better known as Oscar G, has lived every day of his life. And that fact alone makes it a hub on the global underground.
An award-winning songwriter, producer, and DJ, Oscar is one of dance music’s brightest and most enduring stars. As part of seminal production teams Liberty City, Murk, and Funky Green Dogs, he boasts hits – Billboard chart-toppers as well as underground smashes – in every decade, every trend, and every market. “Some Lovin’,” “Fired Up,” and “Dark Beat” are more than just tracks: They are moments, shared by clubbers worldwide. They’re the kind of moments Oscar still creates at Space Miami, his hometown superclub, where he’s been a resident DJ for a staggering eight years – coming full circle after a globetrotting career.
Oscar and longtime friend and production partner Ralph Falcon grew up in a Miami enlivened by the fresh spirit of hip-hop. “Break dancing, graffiti and the music that went along with it: That’s really what got me into DJ-ing in the first place,” he says. By the age of 12, he was already spinning at school dances.
Oscar and Ralph started working together at the end of high school, blending the sounds of their youth with the beginnings of house, like Ten City and Blaze; and the darker Euro bands of the time, like Depeche Mode and New Order. “We were always big on doing our own sound, with our own feeling and vibe in every aspect of it; from the way we mixed things to the sounds we chose,” says Oscar. “I remember being obsessed with that for years, and then people started to listen.”
The early years bore some of the work for which they’re still best known, like often imitated, never duplicated vocals “Some Lovin’,” “If You Really Love Someone,” and “Reach For Me” (Tribal). Upon their release in 1993, the pair became instant superstars. “Europe kind of grabbed us,” says Oscar, so they spent a good amount of time touring overseas, eventually visiting every major and minor outpost of the global dance scene, including Zouk Singapore, Ministry Of Sound London, and Stereo Montreal.
“Fired Up!” (Twisted), their biggest hit ever, followed in 1996. It topped the Billboard Dance chart, and even cracked the Top 100, peaking at No. 80. They would go on to remix countless major pop artists, from Madonna to Cher to Donna Summer; and appear on mainstream outlets like MTV and Top Of The Pops. The boys also cut two complete Funky Green Dogs albums for major label MCA, “Star” (1999) and “Super California” (2001). But their own measures of success were still decidedly underground: “Once Junior Vasquez played our records at Sound Factory [in New York], we felt like we could retire, and at that point we were like 20,” says Oscar.
In March 2000, Space opened in downtown Miami with Oscar as the Saturday night resident, just as the world was paying its annual visit for Winter Music Conference. The club – with its cavernous main room, pummeling German sound system and nitrogen blasts – was the talk of dance world, and the legend of Oscar’s residency began to grow.
The year 2003 was a big one. Oscar released the “Live @ Space” (Star 69) compilation, and won the Club World Award for “Best Resident DJ” (which he won again in 2007). Murk set a new Billboard Dance chart record, with five No. 1’s in a single year: Four singles from their self-titled artist album on Tommy Boy Records, and “Dark Beat” (Twisted), tribal house’s first real vocal anthem, which found its way from dance floors onto mainstream radio. “We came up with ‘Dark Beat’ in about 15 minutes. Whenever things come that quickly, you know there’s something to them,” says Oscar. “But we didn’t think radio or anthem; we were thinking more like, ‘Oh man, Danny Tenaglia’s gonna be all over this!’”
In 2006, Oscar became one of Pacha New York’s only non-NY-based monthly residents, strengthening his bond with his home-away-from-home, and its rich dance history. He released a second installment in the Space series in 2007, starting new relationships with Nervous Records in the U.S. and CR2 in the U.K. CR2 also snapped up the Murk catalog, and commissioned new remixes of the classic tracks, including Paul Woolford’s takes on “If You Really Love Someone” and “Reach For Me.” And in 2008, after nearly two decades making music, Oscar released out his first solo album, “Innov8” (Nervous).
Even though his passion for music creation is undeniable, it’s in his DJ booth where Oscar feels most at home. “On the music side, I’ve felt pretty energized lately, because the changes in the industry really enable you to be a lot more experimental and take more chances,” he says. “But DJ-ing to me always comes first: I really believe in it as an art form. Having a residency like Space, with a regular crowd, it’s the ultimate.”
you were AMAZINGGG last night at tropicasaaa!!! thanku for a great night of music!!!! we took a picture with you outside in the front before leaving. i gotta send it to you once its loaded :D
i missed the damn party saturday...can u believe such a thing could happen? that shit had to b crazy in there...i am super tight...had to fuckin take care of my niece man..
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