WHEN DJin' IT'S MOST OFTEN ON THE FUNKY/SOULFUL TIP [THAT'S MY CENTER] COULD BE HIP HOP/LATIN/BREAKS/JAZZHOUSE, WHATEVA!- LOVE MUSIC!!!-Stuff I Dig-MILES DAVIS to the JAZZANOVA to the EDAN to the TURNTABLES ON THE HUDSON to the FRANCK ROGER to the BRIAN ENO to the LCD SOUNDSYSTEM to the BLAZE to the ROY AYERS to the KANYE WEST to the SUN RA to the MADLIB to the THE SMITHS to the GILLES PETERSON to the LYRICS BORN to the FUNKADELIC to the JOHN CAGE to the BUGZ IN THE ATTIC to the RAHSAAN ROLAND KIRK to the TUSSLE to the CAN to the DECEMBERISTS to the GERARDO FRISINA to the BDP to the KIRK DIGEORGIO to the NORMA JEAN BELL to the THELONIOUS MONK to the GANG OF FOUR to the 4HERO to the BILL LASWELL to the
JOHN TEJADA to the SOUL II SOUL to the ROXY MUSIC to the PUBLIC ENEMY to the FAT FREDDY'S DROP to the NICOLA CONTE to the LTJ BUKEM to the FORT KNOX FIVE to the JOANNA NEWSOM to the DAVID BOWIE to the DOMU to the FERTILE GROUND to the TALKING HEADS to the TOSCA to the WEATHER REPORT to the CALM to the (silence)......to be continued.....
Lost in Translation/Bad Lieutenant/Anchorman/Naked/Rat Race/Superbad/Night on Earth/Short Cuts/Crash/Little Miss Sunshine/Big Fish/When We Were Kings/It's All Gone Pete Tong/24 Hour Party People/James Brown at the Boston Garden 1968/Amarcord/Satyricon/Grizzly Man/Swept Away (original)
Television
Curb Your Enthusiasm/Ken Burn's Docs/The Wire!!/Deadwood/Sopranos/Weeds/It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia!!!!/The Shield/The Riches/Pistons & Warriors Basketball/Dexter/Giants & Tigers Baseball
Books
Don't read books enuff, but here are some I'd say have been influential...Giles Goat Boy by John Barth/Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch by Henry Miller/Crash-Concrete Island-& High Rise by JG Ballard/Brutal Injustice by Alan Dershowitz/Space is the Place-Sun Ra Bio by John Schwed/Last Night A DJ Saved My Life:The History of the DJ by B. Brewster... MAGAZINES-Wax Poetic/Straight No Chaser (now only online)
Heroes
Martin Luther King,Ghandi,John Cage,Brian Eno,Rosa Parks,Rahsaan Roland Kirk,....
Selected by international "future music" journal URB MAGAZINE as one of club music's "NEXT 100" DJ TOM THUMP is receiving recognition for his creative exploration and programming. Check new DCD's "MIDNIGHT SOUL 3" and "LOFT PARTY:SYDNEY"
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dj Tom Thump'Opening Sets for FAT FREDDY'S DROP 11/19/09 SF
Hi everyone, I posted a new episode to my podcast, tomthumps Podcast.
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It was a magical night, with New Zealand's Soul Dub titan's selling out the Independent for there first California date ever. Check there website http://fatfreddysdrop.com for more, including there trailer (full of their instruments!) mishap on the 5 freeway after the gig! there's a video).
projecting surf films by thomas campbell ( THE SEEDLING & SPROUT ) and amazing space visuals
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DJ'S MR. ROBINSON ( LITTLE BUDDY) 4AM (OCTAVIUS / DOPESTYLE / BLACK FICTION) MISS WATKINS (ART NOW SF / GET UNDERGOUND)
Jason P. Chavez (DJ4AM) cut his teeth doing radio, poetry jams and club nights during the mid-90's in Fresno, Ca. before moving to San Francisco in 2001. Since then he has released solo outings, over 20 mix cd's, DJed in London, Paris and Barcelona and garnered acclaim as a percussionist, vocalist, producer and DJ with Mush label artist Octavius, Daly City Label artist Dopestyle and SF indy band Black Fiction. DJ4AM has also held numerous DJ residencies in San Francisco, playing a wide range of styles from eclectic chill rooms to booty shaking speakeasies, big room Hip-Hop and Dance. In the works are a series of Re-Edit 12"s, new solo material, new collaborations with MC Dopestyle, L.A. Electro-Sounscapist Nathanial Eras and Avant-Jazz composer Armen Nalbandian. Current DJ residencies include nights at 222 Hyde and KoKo with Miss Watkins's tastemaking crew Get Underground, as well as slots for Art Now SF. <br .."
Heroes of the Dancefloor have released the second album 'Torch' for the homeless in New York. ALL the money goes to 'Picture the homeless' and 'Coalition for the homeless'. No money goes to the musicians. It is released through INgrooves and downloadable on all the major sites e. g amazon and i tunes
Hi everyone, I posted a new episode to my podcast, tomthumps Podcast.
Please click the link below to view it.
http://tomthump.podOmatic.com/entry/2009-11-22T15_58_01-08_00
See you there!
- tom
