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Sunday, May 02, 2004

IT'S A QUANNUM WORLD

Can you deny that? The most generous show in the business. Three hours of super dynamite soul. LB ripping off his sweats, and sanctifying in his draws. Jumbo doing the jump-up in the crowd. Xcel coming back from the tour bus. Rev Shines in the crates. New shit from Gab and Teef. D-Sharp trying to get the crowd to be quiet. Mad love. All that plus technology too: Shadow rocking clips of the Fat Boys and Wildstyle on the first-of-its-kind Pioneer DVJ prototype. And Vursatyl vs. Vursatyl? Oh shit. If you missed this, man you just don't know.

Speaking of technology, my little set before the incredible Jahi and the Life got on and rocked it was hampered by the fact that not only am I hella rusty, but that I prepped for two turntables and got one and a CDJ instead. (Oliver couldn't even get on. He brought no CDs.) Needless to say I had never used one of these things before in my life. Big shout to Eric for letting me on and for the 30-second tutorial.

So there was no mixing, blending or go-go, but instead Buzzcocks to Clint Eastwood and General Saint to Tanya Stephens to U-Roy to Stiff Little Fingers to a grand concourse Bronx style conclusion with the Ghetto Brothers and Bambaataa. Felt just like the KALX days. I hope a good time was had by all 50 of us in the building.

I've been told that I'm officially coming out of retirement for Carlos Mena's record release parties. (More on his record and stuff soon.) I promise to rock the spot with some DC breaks that night for ya. Then it's back into retirement.

Oh yeah the point was: crew was on hand to capture the show, which will end up in a movie or DVD somewhere down the line. Stay tuned to Quannum.com for the latest. Last but never the least, love to the Quammies and to Isaac and Lydia who always hold it down.

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