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propsRadio • SWEATER FUNK turns 2

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 03:20:58 -0700

"The world will know about Sweater Funk."
Daz-I-Kue (Bugz In The Attic/UK) Live at Sweater Funk, Sunday 31 January 2010

The best modern soul party in Chinatown on a Sunday celebrates two years of making Mondays that much harder to get up on. So get on up with us this time around since we’re giving all you superstar, up and coming, local and out of town guest DJs a break. Peep Sweater Funk fam Jon Blunck, Guillermo, The Selecter DJ Kirk, Sean Boogie, Sabrina, Shred One, Renmin, Vinyl Richie, Marky, Chungtech, Mamabear, Auto and yours truly (aka the Wu-Tang Clan of Boogie) pon de controls as we tip our champagne glasses (and dim sum plates too!) to you for all the times you’ve decided to make your way out from your apartment to the basement...prepare for an extravaganza befitting a party whose patrons pack positivity by the pound...getting on the good foot to a sound system that’s off the meters...and all love. So enjoy this mix and tell a friend...SWEATER FUNK turns 2 and ya won’t want Sunday to end!

Sunday, July 25th
SWEATER FUNK turns 2
JON BLUNCK, GUILLERMO, THE SELECTER DJ KIRK, SEAN BOOGIE, SABRINA, SHRED ONE, RENMIN, VINYL RICHIE, MARKY, CHUNGTECH, MAMABEAR, AUTO & FREDDY
LI PO LOUNGE 916 Grant & Washington SF / 21+ / 9pm-1:30am / FREE

propsRadio • GOSTOSA! • GUILLERMO & THE AMBASSADOR

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 07:58:12 -0700

Me, Allen The Ambassador Thayer, Jacob Guillermo Pena and Marky Enriquez at GOSTOSA!

Brazil is the only other country, along with the USA, to consume more of their own domestic music than foreign imports and you're still trying to figure out how to do the Lambada? Guillermo and The Ambassador go muito fundo with their selections of the sexiest, sweatiest, funkiest and psychiest Brasilian music, all on wax, every month at Casanova in the Mission SF. Dope visuals from way south of the border served up at no additional charge.

GOSTOSA = “Hot” or if you want a more prosaic answer, read this.

For each monthly party, we're gonna feature a different Artista Brasileira (Brazilian artist of the musical variety) on our flier, eventually culminating in a calendar. It'll be way classier and collectible than a Snap-On Tools cheesecake/soft-porn affair - we're talking only the best of the best from classic Brazilian album covers, back covers, wherever we can find images that cry out "Gostosa".

For our first month, we have the lovely and criminally underrated Astrud Gilberto. She may have started her career on a fluke: she just happened to be in the recording studio with her then-husband Joao Gilberto during the recording of the classic Getz/Gilberto album and at Creed Taylor's suggesting she sang the English version of "The Girl from Ipanema" lyrics because Joao refused, but she has proven herself to be a classy interpreter of Brazilian and American/Anglo pop songs as well. Her first solo album is a real treat with both Jobim and Donato providing arrangements and she was also responsible for being the first to release many classic Brazilian songs in the US.

We begin GOSTOSA! on propsRadio with “Beginnings” by Miss Gilberto.

-Allen Thayer aka THE AMBASSADOR (Wax Poetics/Soul Spectrum)

Thursday, July 22nd
GOSTOSA! Brazilian Music on Vinyl
GUILLERMO (Sweater Funk/Colombia y Panama) & THE AMBASSADOR (Wax Poetics/Soul Spectrum)
CASANOVA 527 Valencia SF / 21+ / 9pm-2am / FREE
Every 2nd Wednesday thereafter

propsRadio • HOT WAX • 80s LADIES

Mon, 12 Jul 2010 09:52:42 -0700

HOT WAX, the all styles, all vinyl dance party returns this week and this month, we pay tribute to the ladies of the 80s who put it down on record and on the dancefloor through the sounds of soul, boogie and R&B. FM is proud to feature SWEATER FUNK's own CHUNGTECH, MAMABEAR, SABRINA and the return of SHRED ONE behind the wheels of steel, rotary dials and Turbosound™ system at 222 Hyde SF this Thurday, July 15! These sisters got deep crates and crazy skills to match, so get your dancing shoes ready...no parking on the dancefloor!

Listen to their HOT WAX • 80s LADIES mix on propsRadio to get in the mood and get into the groove...see you Thursday night!

Thursday, July 15
FM presents
HOT WAX • 80s LADIES
featuring the ladies of SWEATER FUNK
CHUNGTECH / MAMABEAR / SABRINA / SHRED ONE
222 Hyde SF / 21+ / 9pm-2am / $5 cover

along with your hosts
FREDDY & MARKY (FM)

propsRadio • MAKossa HIP HOP Mix

Thu, 8 Jul 2010 01:42:44 -0700

For people who really “get it”, it might seem that I’m stating the obvious, but funk, hip-hop, psych and a lot of soul music are all one and the same to me. You just feel that heavy groove, some warm analog production and it’s all good. Hip-hop isn’t about collecting sneakers and pretending to be a bigger Dilla fan than the next dude. To me, it is much bigger than that, and musically, hip-hop is so much more than simply hip-hop music, in the traditional sense. For me, all the records in this mix are hip-hop. All hand-selected records dug out from all over the world. Don’t get me wrong; I’ll be drooling all day over OG Ultimate Force “I’m Not Playin’” 12’s, but I just wanted to give a little insight into how I perceive hip-hop from a bigger picture. So when the homie Freddy asked me to do a mix, I wanted to connect the dots on some of my favorite records and show people what hip-hop is to me. In doing so, I also wanted to pay tribute to some legends that have passed away over the past couple months; namely Bo Hansson, Guru and Rammellzee. Lastly, a big thanks to Freddy Anzures for the invitation to drop a set on propsRadio.

Much love and respect,
Rory Flynn aka MAKossa

MAKossa has been living in San Francisco and elsewhere on the West Coast for several years. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, he attended school at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, dj’ing at KJHK Student Radio. MAKossa started the rare-groove psych party AFREAKA! as well as The Funky Rewind and is currently in the process of moving back to St. Louis to be with his family and reconnect with his roots.

MAKossa MOVING AWAY Party Get Down!
This Friday, July 9TH at MADRONE 500 Divisadero SF

SPECIAL GUESTS
COOL CHRIS (GROOVE MERCHANT/DIS-JOINT RECORDS)
DEEJAY OM (HEARDRUMS/AFREAKA!)
JERRY NICE (TRACK THE MOVEMENT)
& MAKossa (FUNKY REWIND/AFREAKA!)

ALL DOPE VINYL ALL NIGHT!!!
FUNK, SOUL, REGGAE, HIP-HOP, BOOGIE, DISCO & MORE!
ONLY $5 ALL NIGHT

propsRadio • FUTURE SHOCK Daft iN Africa 2 • Mixed by FM

Fri, 2 Jul 2010 11:53:59 -0700

...as the robots survey the Motherland after the tumultuous crash of the spaceship, they begin to realize that where they landed was a place very different from their own...

FM presents FUTURE SHOCK DNA 2.

propsRadio • MICHAEL JACKSON 2

Fri, 25 Jun 2010 13:07:09 -0700

Rest in peace, Michael.

Michael Jackson 1

KON & AMIR Live at Sweater Funk 06.20.10

Wed, 23 Jun 2010 08:23:35 -0700

Renmin, Marky, Chungtech, Mamabear, Jon, Auto, Kon & Amir, Sabrina, Freddy

World renowned beat diggers/tastemakers/rumpshakers Kon & Amir blessed the Sweater Funk basement on Sunday, June 20, 2010. The grand finale of four consecutive gigs in the Bay Area, starting with HOT WAX at 222 Hyde on Thursday, OFF TRACK TOUR at Triple Crown on Friday and 45 Sessions with DJ Platurn at The Layover in Oakland on Saturday, K & A spread love in the Bay...proper.

Listen to KON & AMIR Live at Sweater Funk 06.20.10.

KON & AMIR OFF TRACK TOUR TONITE!!!

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:19:42 -0700

Tonite!!! FM is proud to present the official Bay Area release party for KON & AMIR's OFF TRACK Vol. III: Brooklyn in San Francisco, the third installment in their OFF TRACK series. Also rockin the spot, we've got DEEJAY SURESHOT along with FREDDY & MARKY to round out an evening of funky soul, dance classics and HOT MUSIC all night long.

FM presents
KON & AMIR (BBE Records)
Official OFF TRACK Vol. III: Brooklyn Release Party
Friday 18 June 2010
The Triple Crown 1760 Market & Octavia
21+ | 9pm-3am | $15 cover
$10 presale: konandamir.eventbrite.com

starring
KON & AMIR (BBE/On Track Productions)

along with
DEEJAY SURESHOT (Million Dollar Crates/Sharpshooters)

plus your hosts FM
FREDDY (p-r-o-p-s/Wax Poetics) & MARKY (Massive Selector/Sweater Funk)

HOT WAX TONITE!!! KM/FM + SPECIAL SECRET GUESTS

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:05:06 -0700

KM/FM are King Most, Freddy & Marky.
KM/FM represents San Francisco at a party in New York called SFNY.
KM/FM have made 4 mixes together as a group on propsRadio:

KM/FM is playing at HOT WAX, the all styles, all vinyl party TONITE!!! at 222 Hyde in SF with two special secret guests known to their peers and fans as "Kings of Diggin’.”

propsRadio • DEEJAY SURESHOT

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:16:16 -0700

The man they call SURESHOT is mostly well known for his groundbreaking and critically acclaimed hip hop meets jazz project THE SHARPHOOTERS. This highly innovative sound garnered him global recognition and led to numerous releases on the Ubiquity, Om, Light In The Attic, Shadow, Conception, Hed Kandi and Sony labels. His music productions have been featured on MTV, “The Wire”, “Kevin Hill”, “Sopranos”, “OZ”, ESPN and Washington State Lotto commercials. In certain circles, Sureshot’s insane record collection aka “Million Dollar Crates” is often the topic of discussion. He is after all, responsible for four of the worlds rarest funk albums: Betty Padgett, Turner Bros. Act 1, Lialeh and Wayne McGhie & The Sounds Of Joy getting proper legal reissues. Rumor has it that the heavily sampled and even bootlegged Status Breaks And Beats and Soundbwoy Reggae Breaks And Beats 5 LP series was also his crafty work.

Deejay Sureshot has been into music ever since he can remember. Buying records with his lunch money as a kid, he recalls purchasing a “Le Freak” by Chic 45 when he was in 5th grade. In his teen years, he was turned on to 60’s Soul and Jamaican Ska through the Mod revival scene in the early 80’s. Years later he purchased the Paid In Full LP by Eric B. & Rakim and it truly changed his life forever, hearing old funk given a new life through hip hop. He started his quest for diggin’ up the originals that were being sampled by producers and cut up by disc jockeys. With nearly two decades of dj’ing and collecting under his belt, not a lot has changed. Sureshot remains loyal to quality music and keeps a “True School” attitude. His dj sets are a perfect marriage of Funk, Soul, Hip Hop, Disco and Reggae and incorporate underground and future classics in these genres. Sureshot likes to mix it up in order to keep it fresh and knows how to rock a crowd, ensuring a sweaty dancefloor each and everytime! His skills and deep crates keep him in-demand and have led to performances alongside Cut Chemist, Thievery Corporation, DJ Spinna, Music Man Miles, Peanut Butter Wolf, Max Glazer, Apollo, DJ Honda, DJ What, Kon & Amir, Pazant Brothers, J-Rocc, Shortkut, Andy Smith (Portishead), Greyboy, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, Egon, Cherry Wine, The JB’s: Fred Wesley / Sweet Charles / Maceo Parker, Arrested Development, Grandmaster Caz, Busy B, Mark Rae, Aim, Ice T and Kool Keith. Sureshot has dj’ed across the US and in London, Japan, Canada, France, Poland, Germany and Spain and has toured with Ben Harper, Prince Paul and Big Daddy Kane.

This Friday, June 18, FM is proud to present the official Bay Area release party for KON & AMIR's OFF TRACK Vol. III: Brooklyn in San Francisco, the third installment in their OFF TRACK series. Also rockin the spot, we've got DEEJAY SURESHOT along with FREDDY & MARKY to round out an evening of funky soul, dance classics and HOT MUSIC all night long.

FM presents
KON & AMIR (BBE Records)
Official OFF TRACK Vol. III: Brooklyn Release Party
Friday 18 June 2010
The Triple Crown 1760 Market & Octavia
21+ | 9pm-3am | $15 cover
$10 presale: konandamir.eventbrite.com

starring
KON & AMIR (BBE/On Track Productions)

along with
DEEJAY SURESHOT (Million Dollar Crates/Sharpshooters)

plus your hosts FM
FREDDY (p-r-o-p-s/Wax Poetics) & MARKY (Massive Selector/Sweater Funk)

Listen to DEEJAY SURESHOT’s exclusive promo mix on propsRadio to see what he got in store for the dancefloor this Friday!*