BONA-FIDE MIXTAPE!!! Yo, bro, I have always thought U are one of the BADDEST (and "hardest-working") cats in the NYC/NJ underground dance music scene. As far as this mix, it got some DEFINITIVE NYC/NJ Jams on it. MASSSIVE RESPECT for the programming & flow. **This mix is a keeper, aka one for my personal hard drive (LOL).** YO!!!, how may people know, as far as underground dance music, before" The MELTING POT" & "THE REAL," etc... that U started "DMF." Thanks for putting me on to that, brutha. RESPECT, forever for that and just being a cool-ass cat that lived just a few blocks from me back in those days!!! The Medley use of E2E4 on this mix is ridiculous. U really got me open when I heard Banarama's "Cruel Summer" in the mix.  Yo, If U are wondering, I'm good. In closing gotta say hoping things are good with U and all your loved ones, as well.  YO, AS I'M TYPING THIS (OMG) Imagination's "Changes" is mixed-in. FIRE FOR DAY. I'VE ALWAYS LOVED THAT TUNE!!!  ***RESPECT FOREVER, BRO!!!***

Rodney Franklin's "The Groove" was just mixed in. Eptiomizes the NYC vibe back during the late 70s/early 80s. DOPE selection to include on this mixtape, brutha.

Kerv's Klassix pt1

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Playlist
1)Latin Nights (Original Mix) - J.B. Boogie
2)Santeria (Original Mix) - Aaron Sevilla, Mijangos
3)Bailando De Too - Peppe Citarella, Mijangos, Manybeat
4)El Son - afro drumz & DJ Lucerox
5)Bailamos (Mijangos Re-Touch Mix) - Roger Garcia, Mijangos
6)Juanito Alimaña (feat. Alejandro Alca) [Tribute Mix 2022] - Peppe Citarella
7)La Vida Es Un Carnaval - Peppe Citarella, Isidro Infante
8)Iscah (Vocal Mix) - Kristof Tigran
9)Cada Estação (Original Mix) - Braulio Silva, Silyvi, Richard
10)Te Quiero (Original Mix) - Minas Portokalis
11)Besame Mucho (Extended Mix) - Tayllor, Marasi
12)Ecua - Dennis Cruz
13)El Muan (Extended Mix) - That Kid Chris
14)Yemaya Orisha (master) - afro drumz
15)Nothing On Me - Cleo Sol

Libation Live with Ian Friday 10-6-24

2024-10-08 Lightout Sessions Live SHMC 138

Deep House September

Soulmeka Deep House Selection-Fall 2024 by Uzi

Mixed by Voc Walters

1. Tom Glide, Kimicoh - Come Back
2. Aya-Nobody Knows Me (Musols 21st Century Rerub)
3. Trinidadian Deep - Moments Of Sounds (Drums Tool)
4. Saxture, Beaucy Nkosi - You My Sunshine (DJ SGZ Deepah Mix)
5. Rona Ray - Groovin' To Myself (Mark Lewis Remix)
6. Oscar P, Tonya Henderson - Oscar P, Tonya Henderson - Say What (Maurice Joshua AfroDub)
7. Mr.Eclectic, MissFly - Without Me (Coflo Remix)
8. Movementsoul - Angel-A - I Can't Help It - Vocal
9. Aytiwan, Idd Aziz - Iphathi (Kususa Remix)
10. At One, Wyoma - African Healing Dance (Atjazz Remix)
11. Fred P - Uncertain But Sure

Voc Walters Mixes.Operation Underground.CHR

Operation Underground 10.26.2024 Voc Walters

NOCTURNAL NIGHTS 30

01 Self Management

djmikewinston HOTTSHYTFROMTHESOULOFMIKE

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Amigo

Amigo (60 Hertz Project  Mix)

Download/Order Love Injection Issue 25 "The Shelter Issue" here: 
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Son of jazz legend Johnny “Hammond’ Smith and singer Sonja Brown, BEAST621 aka “The Mad Monk of Mixing” was raised in the Bronx and exposed to all music genres from a very young age. As a teenager in the ‘80s, he patronized the Bronx Community Centers, the block and house parties, and the park jams where Hip Hop pioneers like Grand Master flash and the Furious 5, Kool Herc and the Herculoids, and Grand Wizard Theodore were making names for themselves. 

He saved up his earnings from a summer job at Pony Sports to purchase DJ equipment, built his own speakers, and started collecting music from there on, initially focusing on drum breaks. He went by the name of  “Grand Master Cool C”. As Hip Hop started to evolve, so did he. Hearing for the first time Larry Levan play on the Richard Long sound system at the Paradise Garage changed his perspective. Full songs were played, not just the break. From there on, his scratches and cuts grew into disco style blends. Lexxx “the listening experience” became his new musical nom de plume and his creative mixes were blends of music, sounds, and movie clips. 

Simultaneously, he was working security at NY clubs and afterhours. After hearing his maestro Timmy Regisford play one night, the Shelter became his home. The name “BEAST” stuck to him as he freely unleashed his love for the music. Often the first one at the club and the last to leave, he became a staple at Shelter. He’d sometimes worked the lights with Lil’ Ray and Ben Johnson. The name BEAST621 combines his strongest positive influences in life: The Shelter and his daughter’s birthday. His motto: “Find yourself before you can let yourself go!”

He has played parties alongside soulful house legends such as DJ Disciple, Spinna, Jellybean Benitez, Tyrone Francis, Adam Rios, Kim Lightfoot, Kalim Shabbazz, and many more. 

- Redness ‘Kim’ Hayes

Tracklist:
Sinnamon, “I Need You Now (Acapella)”
Pat Metheny, “Are You Going With Me?”
Carl Bean, “I Was Born This Way (Boyd Jarvis & Timmy Regisford Remix)
Michael Watford, “Holdin’ On (Original Shelter Mix)”
Robert Owens, “I’ll Be Your Friend”
Lisa Stansfield, “People Hold On”
River Ocean feat. India, “Love & Happiness (Yamaya Y Ochún) (Congra Drums)”
Carl Craig, “Sandstorm”
Kimara Lovelace, “When Can Our Love Begin (Timmy Regisford Shelter Anthem)”
Ame, “Rej”
Donnie, “Rocketship (Quentin Harris Shelter Mix)”
Jose Feliciano, “Sunny (Shelter Vocal)”
DJ Camacho, “Renegade”
Peven Everett, “Burning Hot (Timmy Regisford & Adam Rios Remix)”
Femi Kuti, “Traitors Of Africa” 
Big Moses feat. Kenny Bobien, “Brighter Days”
Ken, “Heaven (Shelter Real Vocal)”
Arnold Jarvis, “Masterpiece”
Quentin Harris, “Let’s Be Young”
Grand High Priest, “Mary Don't Weep”
Cafe Soul All Stars, “Urban Jungle (Ian Friday Tea Party Vocal)”
Peven Everett, “Stuck”
Timmy Regisford feat. Lynn Lockamy, “At The Club (Timmy Regisford & Adam Rios Remix)”
Fingers Inc., “Distant Planet”
Roy Davis Jr. feat. Peven Everett, “Gabriel”
Jill Scott & Leela James, “Crown Royale”
Peven Everett, “I Can’t Believe I Loved Her”
Tiger Wilson & Timmy Regisford, “Cravin”
Inner Life, “Aint No Mountain High Enough”

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Love Injection #25 "The Shelter Issue" A Tribute Mix by BEAST621

Kervyn Mark offers something no other DJ quite delivers - a fusion of spiritual intent, cultural guardianship, and dancefloor pecision that's singular in today's scene. 

Here's what only he brings to the table:

1) Ritualist's Approach to House Music - Kervyn doesn't just play tracks - he conducts rituals. His sets are built like sacred journeys, where every transition is designed to cleanse, uplift, and transform. No one else crafts energy shifts the way he does-it's not about peaks and drops, but about healing and elevation. That's not performance...that's cermony.

2) Scholar-DJ Hybrid - While some DJs are historians and others are selectors, Kervyn bridges both. He's a walking archive of Afro-diasporic music history, able to link Yoruba rhythms, spitual jazz, early house, broken beat, and deep soul with scholarly insight. But he doesn't lecture-he lets the music teach. No one else connects dots across Black musical lineages in such a subtle but profound way.

3) Deep NYC Underground Fluency + Global Sonic Vision - Many DJs are either local heroes or global spinners-Kervyn is both. He's deeply rooted in New York's loft, Shelter and dance community tradition, but his sound travels through Lagos, Bahia, Detroit, Cape Town, and London-all without losing coherence. It's a rare global-local fusion that feels lived-in, not curated.

4) He doesn't just play for a community-he serves it. Though events like The Meltin Pot, collaborations with dancers, and mentorship of younger DJs, Kervyn protects and nutures spaces that are too often erased by gentrification and commodification. He is not a "headliner"-he's a guardian.

5) Resistence Through Groove

Only Kervyn can play a deep house set that simultaneously:
- honors the ancestors
- affirms Black queerness
- critiques gentrification
- and makes you sweat for hours

He doesn't just move the body-he moves the consciousness.

In a world full of DJs chasing charts, gigs, and algorithms, Kervyn Mark offers music as ancestral memory, resistance art, and spiritual technology.

The are great DJs. There are smart DJs.

BUT there is only one Kervyn Mark.

Kerv's Klassix pt1

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