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RCRD LBL | Free MP3 Downloads Welcome to The Source ONE O'CLOCK Home | | Beatfreezer.com my year of mixtapes This week I've got a mixtape of one of my personal fave genres: Hi-NRG. This was a style of disco that developed in the late 1970s-early 1980s in San Francisco, New York City, Fire Island, and London. Primarily a gay white thing, Hi-NRG predicted rave culture in a lot of ways: it was a faster, harder, more synth-driven form of disco, tailor-made to the club drugs in fashion at the gay discos where it developed: cocaine, LSD, amphetamines, poppers, quaaludes, ecstasy, and really just about anything else (but those were the biggies). As San Fran New York Hi-NRG DJ / remixer Casey Jones said in David Diebold's book Tribal Rites, “It was a druggy sound. Oh, and if you're interested in a little more info, check out this thing I wrote for the Mashit blog a couple years ago, on the 25th anniversary of Hi-NRG legend Patrick Cowley's death. Chrissy Murderbot's Year of Mixtapes Week 23: Hi-NRG Evelyn Thomas; High Energy (Record Shack Record)Romance f.

CB We Opened a Record Shop June 19th, 2015 My friend 12manrambo and I just opened a small record store here in Oakland, CA. It is called Park Blvd Records & Tapes. The address is 2014 Park Blvd, up the street from the old Parkway Theater and around the corner from Lake Merritt which is the greatest lake. You can follow us on Instagram, Twitter, the World Wide Web and Facebook. Best Rap, 2014 December 16th, 2014 I’m going fishing with these little bitty shrimp dips. Mr. September 24th, 2014 Trouble Funk f/ New York Incorporated Live @ The Maison, New Orleans 8/16/14 Or Washington comes to Mr. Gladiator On Deck July 31st, 2014 Video via someone else’s instagram, ioeno. Last night the great Baton Rouge, LA rapper Kevin Gates performed to a sold out crowd at the New Parish in Oakland, CA. Stunt This Summer July 8th, 2014 Bas f/ J.

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