We gotta thank the homie Josh from Instant Club Hit who hooked this one up years ago. This edition of Throwback Thursday brings us a recording of Baltimore’s own DJ Spen mixing on 92Q the night of New Years Eve ’93. DJ Spen is a legend. He’s been a major staple in the music community for a very long time. I wouldn’t do him justice by attempting to list his feats and accomplishments, so I’ll send you directly to his website instead.
This is straight up soulful house on 92Q. As you’ll see with this post and more to come in the next upcoming weeks, radio in Baltimore was amazing. I would love to hear them get away with playing stuff like this today. They still play Baltimore club music, but 92Q and V103 used to play everything from hip hop to house to rave music. I miss it. Clear Channel sucks.
Here’s my set from a compilation CD made for Adidas a while back (circa 2007). It’s compiled of all the original breaks (samples) that were used to make lots of songs that became classics. There are about 50+ breaks played in a little over 10 minutes. Some rare, some not.
This is the raw set recording of the mix I did for this week’s Strictly Hip Hop show on WEAA 88.9 FM in Baltimore. Tune in to listen live via web broadcast or via FM radio like the old folks used to do.
Here’s another house mix by Sasha that she did about a year ago. These are some of her favorite songs she used to play a lot. Lots of soulful lounge-y vocal house.