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DJ Starsign's Interests
General
beats, design, culture, vinyl, travel, art, vintage styles, amateur photos, knowledge, wisdom, understanding, free speech, digging below the surface, stepping out of comfort zones
John Baldessari, screen printing, Jose Parla, Herber Baglione, Futura
Music
everything from jazz funk house electro hiphop afrobeat krautrock pop new wave dub and disco (basically everything except metal and polka). My favorites in random order...Nick Drake, David Bowie, Scott Walker, Todd Terje, Lindstrom, Iggy Pop, The Stone Roses, Rolling Stones, Depeche Mode, Vincent Montana, Kraftwerk, Can, Digitalism, Daft Punk, Bush Tetras, Grandmaster Flash, Schooly D, The Clash, New Order, Chuck Berry, Bob Dylan, Howling Wolf, Steve Reich, Led Zeppelin, The Clash, PiL, Dead Can Dance, This Mortal Coil, Run DMC, Boogie Down Productions, The Beatles, Moodyman, Idjut Boys, Stereolab, Marvin Gaye, Serge Gainsbourg, Martha Reeves, The Smiths, Talking Heads, Coldcut, DFA, Masters at Work, Jazzanova, Ashley Beedle, De La Soul, Vikter Duplaix, Seiji, London Elektricity, Roni Size, Fela Kuti, Pink Floyd, Mikey Dread, The Orb, Ennio Morricone, Plaid, Radiohead, UNKLE, Beck, DJ Shadow, Lee Perry, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Bjork, The Cure, The Flaming Lips, Carole King, Primal Scream, Big Joe Turner, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Mississippi John Hurt, Jesse Fuller, Skip James.
Movies
Badlands, Diving Bell and The Butterfly, Thin Red Line, Two Lane Black Top, Vanishing Point, Klute, Three Days of The Condor, Yellow Submarine, 2001, Solaris, Breathless, City of God, City of Lost Children, Taxi Driver, Le Mans, Bullit, Taking Pelham 123, Charly Varrick, Le E'Clisse, 8 1/2, My Own Private Idaho, C*cksucker Blues, Alphaville, Les Biches, One Plus One, Weekend, Hable Con Ella, Science of Sleep, Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid, Paths of Glory, Holy Mountain, Down By Law, Mystery Train, The Shining, All The Presidents Men, The Vanishing, Trishtam Shandy
Television
Television is okay, but I don't watch much these days. Watch these dope ass videos instead and get learned.
Heroes
John Lennon, Steve McQueen, DJ Shadow, The Meters, James Brown, Bootsy, Uncle George Clinton, Plugs 1,2 & 3, Prince Paul, Brian Eno, The Beatles, Gilles Peterson, Benji B, The Stones, Stan Brakhage, Kubrick, Hemingway, Picasso, Welles
About me: My BLOG: infina.blogspot.com My DJ MIXES: djstarsign.podomatic.com My "MUXTAPE": djstarsign.muxtape.com
I would have linked the links above except that myspace acts crazy with links now so... it's just easier to copy and paste so you can get the info. Lots of good stuff so it's worth it ;-) thanks!
Quick summary: besides djing... I love art, design, The Rolling Stones, vintage posters, vinyl, photography, guitars and coming up with more dj aliases.
LISTEN TO DJ STARSIGN MIXES ONLINE!
Mixes available at djstarsign.podomatic.com (copy and paste in new window).
Who I am, What I do, What I believe in...
Unlike most of my heroes, I didn't start deejaying until quite late (19), but my love affair with music started quite early (5). It all started with The Beatles "A Day In The Life". Along the way, Echo and The Bunnymen, The Smiths, The Cure, The Pixies, David Bowie, Velvet Underground, Can, Bob Dylan, Brian Eno and Slowdive forever changed the way I would listen to music, but it was the soulful sounds of 60's and 70's Black America that really had the strongest impact on me.
James Brown, Fred Wesley, Maceo Parker, Sly Stone, The Meters, Funkadelic, Donald Byrd, Mizell Brothers, Freddie Hubbard, Bobbi Humphrey, Lonnie Liston Smith, Kool and the Gang, Fatback, Freda Payne, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder (among many others) created the music that would become the soundtrack to my life. As a fan of hip hop (back when hip hop was an underdog that relied almost exclusively on obscure samples), I became somewhat obsessed with finding the original tracks that were used on tracks by Gang Starr, Organized Konfusion, A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, and Main Source records.
That's when the bug kicked in and I began collecting "dusty vinyl", from second hand stores and garage sales. Over time, my collection went from a few dozen records to a few thousand.
My mentors are people like Norman Jay, Grandmaster Flash, Prince Paul, DJ Premier, Gilles Peterson, Jazzanova, Benji B, DJ Shadow, Diamond D, and Evil D. They promoted the culture of music, music that had teeth and grit as opposed to just gloss and sheen.
I mainly play music that sounds good, never music that is trendy. I was trying to recreate the cut and paste style of people like Bomb Squad, Dust Brothers and Coldcut when I first started djing that's why I incorporated so many styles into my mixes. Lately, I've kinda been playing disco records at minus 8 and feeling some of the more mellow cuts.
I plan on releasing a new mix cd very soon under my latest dj alias, King Cutlass. Lots of slower moody percussive joints and tidbits. It'll sound like a radio show as opposed to straight up bangers. All vinyl, as usual.
The Hump is a weekly dj event that happens at Plush. My friends Res and Paco spin the finest in Disco, Funk and Boogie. Here's a chance for me to spin an all vinyl set of some of my favorite "disco" records. Be there!
DJ Starsign or The Lord Imperial? DJ Starsign used to be my guise when I played less electronic music (funk, hip hop, lounge, downtempo, jazz, etc...). The Lord Imperial was my alias for when I played more house/disco/electro/uptempo sets. I rarely play jazz and downtempo (even though I'm still a fan) so now Starsign and Lord Imperial are basically the same.
Who I'd like to meet: you! George Clinton, Bootsy, Thom Yorke, DJ Shadow
Tomorrow, this FRIDAY, MARCH 7, we’ll be having a special in-store event featuring live P.A. perfomances from two local electronic music artists:
BROOKS MOSHER -- A Detroit producer who’s recently moved to Austin, Brooks has been making tracks since the mid-90s and has released material on Smart Records and Comfortable Records. Expect deep and moody techno with a warm Detroit feel.
MIKE TAYLOR (aka DISCO NIHILIST) -- Another Detroiter now in Austin, Mike has crafted sounds ranging from ambient to ghetto-tech that always maintain a link to the Motor City techno sound.
Nothing much busy with school,I will soon be going to schools to do my observations. I am really excited about that. How about you? Take care and I love you.
