https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sassafrasguests en-us Podomatic RSS Generator Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:05:45 +0000 Music Copyright 2025 marty g Different music to shake your sassafras too. Guest mixes from people that should be heard. episodic false no https://assets.podomatic.net/ts/5c/d5/54/sassafrasguests/1400x1400_1982999.jpg https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sassafrasguests marty g A podcast to share the music from friends of sassafras sound. I will be puting up guest mixes of different kinds of music. It's just my way of sharing music that i feel is good. Enjoy!! If you want more. Goto the Original Sassafras Podcast or my mix archives sites: Sassafras Archive - Clickcaster Sassafras Mix Archive 1 Sassafras Mix Archive 2 Sassafras Mix Archive 3 Sassafras Mix Archive 4 also at www.myspace.com/sassafrassound https://sassafrasguests.podomatic.com/entry/2011-01-30T05_35_47-08_00 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sassafrasguests/episodes/2011-01-30T05_35_47-08_00 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 13:35:47 +0000 2013-12-06 2013-12-06 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sassafrasguests/episodes/2011-01-30T05_35_47-08_00 marty g deep,dj,electronic,guests,house,minimal,mrt611,music,blue,soul,sassafras,techno 4781 false sassguest02 I met Blue Soul at Amoeba record store in San Francisco. I was talking to someone about a certain label that was in the bins, when Blue Soul quickly turned and asked where the label was. We started talking after that. I saw him a few more times at Amoeba, then he asked if I wanted to go back to his house and check out some of his music. Needless to say, I really enjoyed it and we've been good friends since. I have helped design labels for his record label and been lucky enough to be one of the first people in San Francisco to drop his music on the dancefloor. I feel more people need to hear his musical voice and it is quite a well versed one at that. so here is a little interview to get to know Blue Soul... >> Who is Blue soul? Basically, I’m a music junky. This extends to numerous genres, time periods, and formats. I’ve been privileged to be exposed to so much amazing music in my life and I continue to seek out more every chance I get. One of my favorite aspects of my job, as a music buyer for a small shop in SF, is recommending music to a wide variety of listeners. As a dj, I aim to tell a story with a mix. Getting from one song to the next is only half the job. Creating something new by mixing records together in a musical way is one of the things I live for. I strive to create mixes that knock up the energy on the dance floor but are equally as intriguing in the living room or in headphones. My record collection is extremely eclectic but it is definitely tilted towards the legacy of dance music from 70’s funk & disco through to acid house, deep house, techno, and breakbeats. >> How many aliases do you have? How/why did you start the alias? My focus is cyclical so I go from working on dance floor oriented music to more experimental electronic music often. Blue Soul is the name I’ve had the longest. I also go under Archetypewriter for non-dance oriented material, of which I just finished an album. I use the moniker Metadub for deep dubstep and techno tracks. Blue Soul is the name most people know me by, though. >> How did the whole music thing start for you? Long story short, I’ve been fascinated with music for as long as I can remember. I started playing guitar in junior high school and then shifted to synths and drum machines in my freshman year of high school after getting into electronic music. Record collecting and djing followed shortly after. >> How long have you been djing for? I messed around with terribly ancient belt-driven turntables in 1993 and started djing out at events in 1994. At that time I was really just starting to figure out what sounds were the most interesting to me. It wasn’t until 1996 that I had regular gigs and a residency. >> Are you apart of any party/dj crew and if so, how did that start? When I started, I learned a lot from watching one of the finest djs on the planet, Jack Master Flash aka Jack MF. He exposed me to everything from Kraftwerk and Larry Levan to Chicago acid and early underground breakbeats. He’d been djing since the early 80’s and had been collecting records even longer. He and my friend Jen “popgirl” 23 were throwing outlaw raves up and down the east coast under the name A Book Called Galanta. I started attending and then helping put those events on in Maine. Within a couple years a friend and I started Divine Resonance and I was playing at clubs around New England as well as massive raves from NY to Maine. Divine Resonance started as a dj crew and then turned into a record label once I moved to San Francisco. >> Do you produce music? If so, for how long and why did you start producing? Although I love djing, these days most of my energy is focused on production. The first electronic music I made was ambient stuff in ’92. I was already absorbed in effects processing with guitars pedals so the sonic exploration of electronic music seemed like a perfect fit for me. Sound design quickly became my primary extracurricular (continued) sassguest02 I met Blue Soul at Amoeba record store in San Francisco. I was talking to someone ... https://sassafrasguests.podomatic.com/entry/2009-07-08T12_46_53-07_00 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sassafrasguests/episodes/2009-07-08T12_46_53-07_00 Wed, 08 Jul 2009 19:46:53 +0000 2013-12-05 2013-12-05 https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/sassafrasguests/episodes/2009-07-08T12_46_53-07_00 marty g neo-detroit,deep,dj,electronic,o'sugi,house,minimal,mrt611,music,sassafras,guests,techno 4708 false sassguest01 One of the first groups of people I met when I moved to Germany was Geräteturnen and was where I had my first dj gig there. They are all individuals and each of them have their own musical sound. They don't promote one type of music, it is more a feeling of togetherness. When you goto their party, you will hear different styles of music but it always feels like it flows. I am happy to say I have played with this group of guys. so here is a little interview to get to know one of the Geräteturnen guys: O'sugi... >> Who is O'sugi? o'sugi is a pure music addict! mainly he is addicted to electronic music but also to freaky old jazz, funk and latin tunes. his passion is crispy deep kickin' underground stuff with influences from detroits, paris' and londons old school scene. am i talking about myself in the third person??? i should avoid that... >> How did the whole music thing start for you? that would have been in about 1993 or 1994 when i heard the first prodigy album "experience". this was my first contact with electronic music and i was really fascinated by this freaky shit i was listening to. it was really mind-blowing to me! my cousin provided me with different kinds of electronic music from this time on and mate galic and sabine christ did this cool tv show called "housefrau" on tv. i was more and more fascinated and began to buy my first records and cds. at that time i had a rather old turntable from my parents and listened to tracks by steve stoll, sven väth, mate galic, plastikman, ken ishii, der dritte raum etc. some years later my cousin began to take me to these big rave parties and for me there was no turning back. i was totally addicted to this freaky music. this must be what love at first sight feels like, but perhaps this is truly bigger. once in about 1998 my cousin took me to this rather small club in krefeld/germany. its name was "katakomben", a small basement with rather hard and fast techno music. this small club had a second area which was even smaller ;) and we decided to check out what kind of music they were playing there. i guess this was the point where my personal style and feel began to develop and define its shape. what the fuck did this unknown dj play?! i hadn't heard anything like this before. it was deep, hard, totally playful and subtly funky with an unbelievable flow and all at the same time. i asked the dj what that was and he answered that it was "detroit"... >> How long have you been djing for? that was about ten years ago when a good friend from school bought 2 turntables and a mixer. he was doing some real great hip hop stuff and so the next time i was there for a visit i took some records with me and tried it out. surprisingly i did my first nearly clean mixes after a short period of time and practice, so little time later i bought my own equipment and started to practice every day annoying my mother and neighbors with funky house tunes. >> Are you a part of any party/dj crew and if so, how did that start? i am part of the geraeteturnen crew. it all began when some friends moved to düsseldorf and we decided to make parties together. the idea was to join differet arts, styles and whatever into something bigger than the sum of the single parts. djing, vjing, graphic design, dia projections, producing, different kinds of music and conception of complete electronic events. this is what jo, bilderwilderer, jan s, repp and i are doing. just visit our website and check it out. or even better be part of our parties!!! recently, i started making music with hamee, a good friend from essen. our styles differ but also complement each other, such that there is a perfect fusion between house, techno, deep, funky, jazzy, broad, juicy and dry & crispy stuff waiting to kick your ass on the dancefloor. he is the more stable and straight part of us while i do mix up some (continued) sassguest01 One of the first groups of people I met when I moved to Germany was Geräteturnen a...