"In Sequence" w/ Darone Sassounian and Guests, on Dublab

Darone Sassounian is on a never-ending search for fresh sounds. Pulling records from his collection and from recent digs, he aspires to share music that moves him and others. Whether you’re on the dance floor or anywhere else in the world, Darone’s knowledge on music combined with his technical ability approaches a contemporary audience, by clashing the old with the new. Styles ranging from disco, soul, jazz, international obscurities, house, and more. @dublab

"In Sequence" w/ Darone Sassounian on dublab (April 2023)

Darone Sassounian is on a never-ending search for fresh sounds. Pulling records from his collection and from recent digs, he aspires to share music that moves him and others. Whether you’re on the dance floor or anywhere else in the world, Darone’s knowledge on music combined with his technical ability approaches a contemporary audience, by clashing the old with the new. Styles ranging from disco, soul, jazz, international obscurities, house, and more. @dublab

On today’s edition of the show, Darone invites @LaraSarkissian. Lara is an electronic musician, DJ and broadcaster born and raised in San Francisco; currently based in Los Angeles. Sarkissian is a resident on NTS Radio, a home for her narrative-style mixes that showcase dance and electronic music from around the globe. She blends across dub, techno, house, dnb, bass, jungle, noise, mainly hailing from the underground and a reflection of her collaborations with artists in the respected genres.  Sarkissian cofounded experimental dance label and event series CLUB CHAI and has released with labels Tresor, Knekelhuis, All Centre, TT, and SOS Music. She has DJ'd nights for Tresor, Hyperdub, Unsound Festival, MoMA PS1, Roskilde Festival, Boiler Room broadcasts and more.

"In Sequence" w/ Darone Sassounian and Lara Sarkissian on Dublab (May 2023)

Darone Sassounian is on a never-ending search for fresh sounds. Pulling records from his collection and from recent digs, he aspires to share music that moves him and others. Whether you’re on the dancefloor or anywhere else in the world, Darone’s knowledge on music combined with his technical ability approaches a contemporary audience, by clashing the old with the new. Styles ranging from disco, soul, jazz, international obscurities, house, and more. You can find him each month here on dublab.

On today’s edition of the show, Darone invites @deonjamarmd. Deon is a Detroit native whose roots stem from the crates of family. Growing up hearing many different styles of music in the household is the inspiration behind his range of selection. Inspired by everything from jazz, funk, & soul, to more modern black dance music forms like hip-hop/r&b, house, techno, & broken beat.

His career in Detroit began as resident DJ & organizer for the monthly hip-hop showcase “Bluecollar Gentleman”.
Around the same time, working with Theo Parrish to promote the Music Gallery party series & most recently to co-curate Theo’s ‘Detroit Forward’ compilation on K7 Records.

Aside from playing gigs, Deon also enjoys programming events of his own such as the “Healin’ Session” party series and the music and art exhibition, “Black Music”.

"In Sequence" w/ Darone Sassounian and Deon Jamar on Dublab (June 2023)

Darone Sassounian is on a never-ending search for fresh sounds. Pulling records from his collection and from recent digs, he aspires to share music that moves him and others. Whether you’re on the dancefloor or anywhere else in the world, Darone’s knowledge on music combined with his technical ability approaches a contemporary audience, by clashing the old with the new. Styles ranging from disco, soul, jazz, international obscurities, house, and more. You can find him each month here on dublab.

On this edition of the show, Darone invites Hadj Sameer. @hadjsameer is a documentarist and record collector. Based in Paris, but of Algerian origin, he has been traveling the world for the past fifteen years, searching for rare vinyl and grooves from all over. These musical universes are mixed with a deep passion for electronic music, especially Chicago house, Detroit techno, British dubstep, Drum & Bass and jungle. The encounters the artist has made during his travels — from Will Bankhead (The Trilogy Tapes) to Ron Morelli (L.I.E.S.) or Max D (Future Times) — have allowed him to develop a circle of friends and collaborators who feed many of his projects. The last one is a documentary called “Raï is not dead” on Arte TV channel in which he takes the hand of viewers to tell the story of Raï through his collection and encounters.

His motto? “Dig, find, share.”

"In Sequence" w/ Darone Sassounian and Hadj Sameer on Dublab (July 2023)

Darone Sassounian is on a never-ending search for fresh sounds. Pulling records from his collection and from recent diggings, he aspires to share music that moves him each month here on Dublab.

On today’s edition of the show, Darone invites David Haffner. What can you say after 30 years of collecting records and DJing? David Haffner is attracted to the underplayed, underrated, and undiscovered nooks and crannies of the record world. Along the way, he’s popularized a few records and broken them on various scenes. He’s been involved in the Hip Hop, and every genre that went into that in the 90s, Deep Funk, Disco, and Rare Soul scenes.

He’s worked in music licensing for years, most notably putting out the compilation Disco With A Feeling on Athens Of The North, but also working with Jazzman, Big Crown, Light In The Attic, and his own labels the Preservation Project and Friends Of Sound.

The latter being the namesake of his record stores for the last 17 years - through which he’s sold records from the novice to the hardest of hardcore collectors of every genre and been dubbed the “tastemaker’s tastemaker” and the “record grandpa”.

"In Sequence" w/ Darone Sassounian and David Haffner on Dublab (August 2023)

Terrestrial Funk’s sixth release explores over a decade of Armenian disco, funk, and soul. Compiled by Darone Sassounian who spent three years tracking down the records and artists; fulfilling a calling to lift his people’s voice, a people that have always faced the threat of erasure. The music was made a generation after the Armenian Genocide, a testament to perseverance. The seven tracks featured are incredibly inventive and unique in their interpretations of these Western seventies sounds. This compilation comes at an urgent time as 2020 set the stage for Azerbaijan and Turkey to perpetuate genocidal rhetoric as they invaded Armenian borders and bombed civilian cities eventually resulting in the loss of lives and land stewarded for millennia. All while the western world paid little notice. It is with great gratitude and purpose that Terrestrial Funk rebirths this music and uplifts the voice of the Armenian Diaspora.

Out February 2021
Discounted presales available at www.terrestrialfunk.com

[TF006] Silk Road: Journey of the Armenian Diaspora 1971-1982 (previews)

Bookings: info@rockyhillrecords.us

LA based selector and producer. Head of Rocky Hill.

"In Sequence" w/ Darone Sassounian and David Haffner on Dublab (August 2023)

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