The Vibe Conductor
We’ve got some multimedia mastery in the crew. Check the footage from the March session and let your peoples know what they’ve been missing. Then join us this Saturday for more Afro.Latin.Brazilian.House.Disco.Funk. With DJs Stylus,…
Continue Reading New Sol Power! video. Rocking again this Saturday, 5/1
aka THE BIG ONE… aka DJ Stylus and the Temple of BOOM What is U Street Music Hall? It has the most ridiculous sound system in the city. The kind where you’re submerged in the…
Continue Reading DJ Stylus at U Street Music Hall, Fri. 4/9
The Smithsonian Francophonie festival is turning the National Postal Museum into a dance party. I’ll be opening for Make The Girl Dance. They do an electro-house-rock thing. Obviously, they’re French. I wonder if they’re bringing…
Continue Reading DJ Stylus at Discothèque, Nat’l Postal Museum (Fri. 3/19)
Samba whistles, shekeres and cowbells welcome. Sweat to the rhythms of Cuba, Brazil, Puerto Rico & West Africa. With DJs Stylus, Meistro, Deep Sang and Hermon on live percussion. Snowpocalypse knocked us off track last…
Continue Reading Sol Power! Afro. Latin. Brazilian. House. Disco. Funk. Sat. 3/6
You might find these bits interesting. For the lovers… I went digging in the crates and pulled out a classic soundtrack for seduction. Projectvibe 2 – Foreplay [Audio clip: view full post to listen] [download…
Continue Reading I don’t usually get all Cupid-y, but…
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It’s almost cursory to mention it at this point because everyone already knows but we’ll be playing the new Sade album in its entirety tomorrow, after a special video message from the golden lady herself.…
Continue Reading Refuge #14 recap and Sade listening party
No Kleeer, just another evening pulling treats from the old box o’ choons to entertain my friends. Didn’t really dig into the new-new stuff last week, but at Refuge the records tell me what to…
Continue Reading Refuge #12: Intimate connection
Some folks told their friends and they brought their friends. Then some old college friends showed up. Then some friends who were having a business meeting over drinks caught the boogie in their bodies. Then…
Continue Reading Refuge #10: New Year’s Eve Eve
Looking at the highlights below, I guess that’s how I was feeling last week. Vibe Conductor Pick: Kidkanevil – “When I Dig” featuring Kissey Asplund, Blu It almost feels premature to be rocking this now…
Continue Reading Refuge #9: Straight R&B
The backstory on this cat is pretty deep. He was killing this style on a pair of these when I first met him on the U Street scene almost 15 years ago: That was back…
Continue Reading Blackberry Jones is back
Same as last year, I was drowning in so much good stuff that I couldn’t keep up. I’m just now getting around to listening to Spinna’s record and just copped the most recent Ghostface. I…
Continue Reading The Vibe Conductor 2009 Hot List
Remember this Diamond D album? It had treats. Diamond D – “The Hiatus” Pulling this out last week was prescient since Refuge is taking a week off. Kat is in the middle of her birthday…
Continue Reading Refuge #8: The Hiatus & Soul Overdose feat. Phonte, Wed. 12/16