SPECIAL GUESTS: EXPO (ROOT DOWN), UMOJA QUINTET LIVE!
@ GRAND STAR
JUNE 31st
9:30P
5TH FRIDAY EDITION: JUJU / FCKR SOUNDCLASH!!
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AUGUST 7TH
9:30P
SPECIAL GUEST: ADAM 12 (AFEX/SHE WANTS REVENGE)
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AUGUST 21ST
9:30P
SPECIAL GUEST: DADDY KEV (LOW END THEORY)
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Expo got his start at the ripe old age of 13, when he was blessed with his first set of turntables. He immediately jumped in with both feet, devoting countless hours to practicing his craft. Once his mixing and scratching skills were sufficiently sharp, he started busting out homemade mixtapes and picking up mobile DJ gigs all over Los Angeles. He first stepped into the club scene by organizing and promoting several events of his own. Being only 18 himself, Expo focused on throwing all-ages club events, which attracted luminaries like J-Rocc and Melo D, Music Man Miles, Time Machine, and, in what would prove to be a major link-up, the late, great DJ Dusk.
Dusk, the man behind the nationally renowned Root Down Soundsystem, took Expo under his wing, becoming a major mentor to the young DJ and encouraging him to expand his musical taste into many genres. Under Dusk’s tutelage, Expo became a strong-arm crate digger and has amassed a collection of more than 10,000 records; his diverse stockpile of wax ensures that no matter what kind of crowd he's playing for, he has the party covered with selections of hip-hop, funk, reggae, Latin, rock, or anything else to get 'em on the floor and keep 'em there.
Beyond the records, Dusk also brought Expo into the Root Down crew as the youngest member. Throughout all of 2005 through the first few months of 2006, Dusk had Expo spinning at a series of roaming after-hours parties that happened at various lofts and warehouses around Los Angeles. The parties took on a serious rep, and the last one Dusk planned before his tragic death was called Old School Rules, which featured Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, and Jazzy Jay, and went to New York and San Francisco as well as LA.
Expo also has been a resident at the legendary Root Down weekly party in LA since 2005 and has had the pleasure of sharing the stage with such luminaries as Kool Herc, Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash, Big Daddy Kane, Z-Trip, the Beat Junkies, Cut Chemist, The Breakestra, 45 King, DJ Nu-Mark, Madlib, and many more. Expo has rocked across the country from Hawaii, to Los Angeles, the Bay Area, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Austin, St Louis, Chicago, Indianapolis, New York, and more. Be sure not to miss Expo igniting the dance floor in a town near you!
FIRECRACKER HAPPENS 1st 3rd & 5th FRIDAYS OF THE MONTH
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943 N. BROADWAY (@ COLLEGE)
CHINATOWN, DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES 90012
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I have posted a new blog about my new mixtape, The Concrete Shinobi.
This blog is an introduction to the mixtape, with blurbs about each of the 9 tracks on the album, as well as a fat stack of hyperlinks to all the information you'll need to fully absorb The Concrete Shinobi and escape the Death Cult of Civilization!
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