DJ Stylus – The Vibe Conductor

Slip in after dinner with someone and continue the conversation. Bring a bunch of friends and take over the spot. Whatever you do is how I play. The only constant is flavor.

Have a listen to this new set, grab the previous joint then stop by tonight for a bite, some tunes, and a place to chill.

DJ Stylus at Blackbyrd Warehouse
alternating Thursdays
no cover, 21+, 10pm
2005 14th St. NW, WDC 20009

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DJ Format – Here Comes The Fuzz
Heatwave – Ain’t No Half Steppin’
John Legend & The Roots – Compared To What
N.E.R.D – Stay Together
Latyrx – Lady Don’t Tek No
Prince – Begging Endlessly
the Caesarz – Take Me Away
Biggabush – Shark Fin Soup
King Most x Frank Ocean x Notorious B.I.G. – Big Novacane (King Most Redirection Clean)
PPP – Smoking Mirrors
Matt & Kim – Block After Block
Grace Jones – Williams Blood (Aeroplane Remix)
Slave – Feel My Love (InnerWestSoul Edit)
The Fatback Band – I Found Lovin’
?uesto/FE/Carlitta Durand – Purple Flip
Analog Players Society – Feat. Cecilia Stalin – I Can’t Wait feat. Cecilia Stalin
Teena Marie – You Make Love Like Springtime (propsEdit)
Tall Black Guy VS Michael Jackson – Sunshine (Blame It On The Boogie)
Uncle Jesse – Even Closer
Anthony Hamilton – Prayin’ for you ( Hallex.M Edit )
Chanson feat. Q-Tip – Don’t Hold Back (The S-Man & DJ Phaze remix)
Edwin Birdsong – Cola Bottle Baby
Cymande – Bra
The Brand New Heavies – Saturday Nite (Jay Dee Remix feat. Mos Def)
The Politik – Saturn (the Gentleman Players remix)
N*E*R*D – You Know What
Ikenga Super Stars of Africa – Soffry Soffry Catch Monkey (Sol Power Dub)
Quantic & His Combo Bárbaro – Mas Pan
Gregory Porter – 1960 What? (Opolopo Kick & Bass Rerub)
d e g o – Eyelids Heavy
Tanya Morgan – A Love Joint Named Saturday (clean)
Donwill – Love Junkie (Wallpaper. Rmx ft The Park)

Had to cook up something special for the big shebang-bang.

Saturday, January 28th. A celebration of one year of all the body-rolling and curl moisturizing you can handle.

Tickets: http://axelf.eventbrite.com

Pre-game with this jammy right ch’ere.

Reverend Brown intro
DâM-FunK – Monster Jam (DâM-FunK Re-Freak 4 Kool Herc)
Gladys Knight & The Pips – Save The Overtime (For Me)
Bobby Nunn – Do You Look That Good In The Morning
Sherrick – Just Call
Vesta Williams – Don’t Blow A Good Thing
Tyrone Brunson – Fresh (Scratch Mix)
Bugz In The Attic – Consequences
RJD2 – A Rollerskating Jam Called Fridays
Aurra – Baby Love (Touchsoul Boogiedub Edit)
Kon & The Gang – Sunlight
Bennson – Let The Love (Yam Who Remix)
Material – Over & Over
Logg – Lay It On the Line (JM After-Session M&M Mix)
Finis Henderson – Skip To My Lou
Janet Jackson – Say You Do
Aretha Franklin – Jump To It
Michael Jackson – Just Good Friends feat. Stevie Wonder
Ollie and Jerry – Breakin’… There’s No Stopping Us (Club Mix)
New Edition – My Secret (Didja Gitit Yet?)
Jamie Foxx – Slow Jam (live)
Midnight Star – Slow Jam
DeBarge – Love Me in a Special Way
Sheila E. – Hold Me
Isley Jasper Isley – Insatiable Woman
Herb Alpert – Making Love in the Rain feat. Lisa Keith and Janet Jackson
Status IV – You Ain’t Really Down (acapella)
Azari & III – Reckless With Your Love
EPMD – It’s Time 2 Party
Raze – Jack The Groove
Aretha Faltermeyer – Who’s Zoomin’ Axel F
The Time – Grace
Prince – Irresistible Bitch (propsEdit)
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean (Ahmed’s Get It Remix)
Shalamar – Dancing In The Sheets
Dance Avenue – Doing Lines

Check out this sneak peek into the preparations for the Sexual Chocolate Band & Show’s triumphant unveiling at the Axel F anniversary.

And come have a drink tomorrow evening.

DJ Stylus at Blackbyrd Warehouse
every other Thursday
no cover, 21+, 10pm
2005 14th St. NW, WDC 20009

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Jon Lucien – The Ghetto Song
Lyrics Born – I Changed My Mind (DJ Spinna Remix)
Cacique’97 – Get No Stronger
Captain Planet – Get You Some
TiRon – the Do
Slum Village – Jealousy
Stone Allliance – Sweetie Pie
Soulive – She’s Hooked
Mike Baker the Bike Maker – Espionage
DJ Eurok – Hendrix Me By
De La Soul – Fanatic of the B Word
Poor Righteous Teachers – Each One Teach One
Special Ed – Ya Wish Ya Could
DâM-FunK – Monster Jam (DaM-FunK Re-Freak 4 Kool Herc)
B.T. Express – Do It (‘Til You’re Satisfied)
Frank Ocean – nature feels
Mayer Hawthorne – No Strings (Classixx Original)
Carl Anderson – Buttercup
Mary J. Blige – Keepin’ Real Love New (Pure P’s MJB v. Howard Johnson)

[DJ Stylus: sunset at Ku De Ta, 4/19/11]

Much respect to the brother Stevie G. as well as Solomon, NK, Malik and the venues where I played on this trip: Crystal Palace, KU DE TA, Harry Juku and The Cave.

That last one was the only evening that yielded a recording. I’m still hurt about not capturing my sunset session at Ku but these three hours of Stevie and I going in on the afterhours tip at the Cave will have to suffice.

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Been inserted into the Marvin week day rotation a few times lately, and since I’ve been getting lounge crowds more suited to hanging out than raving, I’ve been playing Refuge style sets… and enjoying it. Hope you dig it too. There are a few more of these on the hard drive that I’ll share in coming weeks.

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Tuesday night at Marvin: a Refuge special (pt. 1)

The Roots – Spain (ft. Chick Corea)
Matt Hudson – Trippin’ On Your Love
Kaidi Tatham – On A Vibe
Nicky Thomas – Soul Power
James Brown – Lowdown Popcorn
Randolph – Golden Days
The Memphis Horns – Soul Bowl
Monty Alexander - Love And Happiness
Tony Allen – Pariwo
Omar – Ghana Emotion
Amel Larrieux – Nadie Mas (CASAMENA Kitchen RMX)
Oddisee – Viva Brasil
Dorothy Ashby – Canto de Ossanha
Herbie Hancock – Trust Me
Jill Scott – High Post Brotha feat. Common
Oddisee – All Because She’s Gone feat. Phonte (clean)
King – The Story
Frank Ocean – songs for women
Kev Brown – What Ruling Means (feat. Grap Luva)
Dwele – Too Fly
DJ Day – Sunday
A Tribe Called Quest – 1nce Again feat. Tammy Lucas
Nas ft. AZ – Life’s a Bitch/Doonit
The ARE – Lyrics To Stay
Donwill – I See You ft Ragen Fykes

Here’s my segment from the 6th annual DC Loves Dilla party.

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Grab all the recordings from the whole night courtesy of the homie Quartermaine.

http://www.mediafire.com/folder/qogu29qdg108w

Ever wondered why ’80s parties tend to ignore a whole body of R&B, funk, rap and electro, like those genres didn’t contribute really awesome songs to that era?

Enter Axel F.

’80s and ’90s have been done as well as disco and soul classics. New Jack Swing hasn’t been done PROPERLY (yet). Golden era hip-hop is done a lot. We love all of those and continue to rock them, but there’s a period that hasn’t been examined.

From roughly 1977 – 1987 (folks tend to debate those dates but there are some clear markers) popular black music transitioned between the disco era and hip-hop’s rise to prominence. There were a lot of synthesizers and some androgynous fashion choices, as well as hair disasters. Some call this stuff “boogie”. We file it under the mantle of champagne soul and jheri curl funk, with some new wave thrown in, because we like stuff like Talking Heads and want to play that too.

Per DJ Jahsonic‘s original concept, Eddie Murphy’s turn in Beverly Hills Cop became Axel F’s muse.

Now we’ll be paying homage to a different ’80s movie every month. February is the debut of Black Kevin Bacon.

Join myself, DJ Jahsonic and DJ Adrian Loving for another sweaty, grooving night of synthed out Reagan era dance classics.

Saturday February 26
9pm
LIV Nightclub
2001 11th Street NW
Washington, DC

We’ve already got four mixes up for you to download in preparation. Here’s a glimpse of last month’s fun.

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I was recently asked when Refuge was coming back. I’ve got no helpful details on that at present but I can re-up one of the few recordings I saved.

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New Sector Movements – Para
Stevie Wonder – As If You Read My Mind
Root Soul feat. Vanessa Freeman & Mike Patto – Spirit of Love (Phil Asher’s Restless Soul Boogie Mix)
Eddie Kendricks – Date With The Rain
OK-Ma – Bwoygal (Lanu Remix)
Atlantic Starr – Circles
Jamiroquai – Soul Education
Ne-Yo – Nobody
Ty – Wait A Minute (Dwele Remix)
Little Dragon – Constant Surprises
Kaidi Tatham – I’m High
Reel People – Ordinary
Quantic – Mishaps Happening (Quantic Beat Mix)

Yup. Back at it. And it’s Ed‘s birthday too. Even got a new podcast for you from the last time we were there.

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Wednesday, Sept. 1
10pm
U Street Music Hall
1115 U Street NW, WDC
<<< FREE ALL NIGHT, 18+ >>>

I forgot this existed until I dug up some old cd’s while cleaning up the studio. Synergy was like Refuge, except it was a long, long time ago, back in the solely vinyl days.

This still sounds really good, especially for a live recording. And the style is also a fitting compliment to Gaia this Sunday.

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Beanfield – Corso
Vikter Duplaix – Manhood
John Coltrane – Naima (4hero mix)
Chick Corea – The Slide
Angie Stone – Wish I Didn’t Miss You
Seek – Surrender
Gwen Guthrie – Ain’t Nothing Going On But the Rent (dub mix)
Lucy Pearl – Don’t Mess With My Man
Earth, Wind & Fire – Evil
Minnie Riperton – Gettin’ Ready For Your Love
Petal Pusher – Rely On Me
Tortured Soul – How’s Your Life? Part One
Abstract Truth – Get Another Plan
Seek – The Story Of Us
Meikbar – Sunshine
Kaskade – Brighter Day
Banda Favela – Samba 1250 (Alex Phountzi rmx.)
Shaun Escoffery – Let It Go
Nuspirit Helsinki – Get Over