Tonight (9/3)
$-MONEYTOWN-$Little Miss Whiskey's Golden Dollar (1104 H St., NE DC)
10pm-3am, no cover
DJ Nitekrawler w/ special DJ guest:
David Griffiths (Daptone, Kaydee NYC)
About our guest:Soul music collector/DJ/Producer, David Griffiths is currently restoring two vintage unreleased LPs for future issue. One is an all instrumental long player, for his new Orivious Records imprint, to be distributed by Daptone Records. The other, documenting a couple of true eccentric soul men, Buffalo, NY?s Key & Cleary, is to be released on Now-Again records.
Past projects include an album by Buffalo, NY lost soul legends Bob & Gene
http://www.daptonerecords.com/bobandgene.html , as well as the creation of Daptone's Ever-Soul imprint
http://www.daptonerecords.com/eversoul-records.html. David has also collaborated on many projects with house music legend Kenny Dope for his imprint
http://kaydeerecords.com/ .
Along with his partners, David started Bumpshop at APT in Manhattan, a monthly deep funk party that ran monthly from 2004-2009, and has hosted many guest DJs including: Cut Chemist, Kenny Dope, DJ Spinna and DJ Shadow.
David created and maintains a website documenting independent soul music from upstate NY,
http://www.newyorksoulrecordings.com .
Join me in welcoming back this legend to DC, and don't forget to tie your dancing shoes TIGHT!
.............and speaking of Kenny Dope, make sure to come out to ESL this Sunday to see the Master himself spinning on their most excellent system. Not to be missed!!
