DJ Amy Robbins does a great show on KSJS with Badcat on Thursdays, featuring what she calls “dirty robot sex music.” They are maybe the most overcaffeinated duo on the dial, rattling the halls of San Jose State with yelps and screams and all kinds of ridiculous ramblings.
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It’s not always easy mentoring a DJ. John Fowler, a respected turntablist in the South Bay for two decades, got lucky, as his understudy learns fast. But there are certain technological changes that have created a generation gap—for instance, the way computer programs like Virtual DJ have created a reliance on eyes…
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While Spin Master J—the nom de scratch for 22-year-old South Bay DJ Jerry Huizar—was in Fahrenheit’s Wheels of Steel battle last year, he told me he saw his sets as 20 minutes to tell the audience a story.
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Almost hidden away amid rows of trees, a block from DeAnza Boulevard, the Cupertino Public Library is about as far as one can get from the thousands of screaming, writhing fans at the festivals and stadiums that Bassnectar plays around the country, and the world.
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Moombahton and moombahsoul are the hottest new trends in dance music, and the San Francisco DJ known as J Boogie—real name Justin Boland—has a theory as to why. To him, 108 to 115 beats per minute has been a lost tempo in EDM for too long. “It’s not super fast, it’s not…
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San Francisco super DJ J Boogie has started off this year releasing a crazy barrage of sound—New Orleans bounce, East Indian bhangra and electro-funk remixes for the single “It’s On Fire” with his group J Boogie’s Dubtronic Science. He performed every day at South By Southwest, and then at Miami’s Winter Music…
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The latest party series to hit San Jose, SJ Bass Club makes its debut December 16 at Motif. Featuring all things bass, organizers hope to bring fresh sounds in electronic music and new subgenres like UK garage, ghetto house, tropical, moombahton and more.
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