We are inching closer and closer to the magic number 300 in terms of episodes. That is a lot of music if you have been following the show since it started in 2016.

Next week, I am taking a break (ie there won't be a show). This is because for the first time in over 5 years I will go to visit my hometown of Montreal to see my family. I'll be gone for 10 days so unless I get my hands on some decks while there this episode (with the other 300 or so before) will have to hold you up for the next two weeks.

As  always, enjoy and catch the show every monday on d3ep.com. See you back when I return from Montréal.

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The NDYD Radio Show EP294

Back this week with an episode that is nothing but DEEP. I even dusted off some old vinyl from Jay Denes who was the original label boss of the legendary Naked Music label out of San Francisco. This track by Jay was one of the early releases on Naked Music back in 2002 with a young talented singer at the time that you might recognize ;) Her sultry and familiar voice hasn't changed since those days and this was before she blew up in the scene and became a staple of this label. Let's see if you can guess who that is as this Denes' classic closes this show. 

Catch the show every Monday on d3ep.com at 3pm PST. Enjoy!

The NDYD Radio Show EP298

Did you think I would go play at a festival without my recorder? NEVER! Here is my set from the Junkyard stage at Lighting in a Bottle. I had to opportunity to play on the closing day of the festival and I had an absolute blast. Thank you to @patricio_la, who will be a guest soon on the show, and the Do Lab crew for having me grace the decks.

Enjoy and see you next week for EP300 (!!) with a familiar special guest ;)

Catch the show every Monday at 3pm PST on d3ep.com

The NDYD Radio Show EP299 - Ricardo live from LIB - May 28, 2023

This is a very special episode indeed. When we started the show in 2016 we never imagine that we would get to 300 episodes a few years later. A lot of things have changed in the world, in our lives, and around us since EP-01 but one thing that hasn't change is our dedication to bring you some of the best underground dance music around.

Having said that, no better guest to bring you this milestone episode than the head honcho of NDYD, and the guy who started the whole thing - @krissantiago

Kris brings you a high energy dance floor ready set in his signature style and I am so happy that he is helping us cross the 300 mark.

Finally I want to thank you, the listener, for making the show a success for so many years. If you have been around since EP-01 or joined us at EP-299 I am infinitely grateful that you are part of our family.

Here is to 300 more episodes and you coming along with us for the next chapter of our musical journey.

Enjoy and much love to all.

-Ricardo

The NDYD Radio Show EP300 - Guest mix by KRIS SANTIAGO

Holy sh** we've surpassed 300 episodes! FIrst thing first, a huge thank you to NDYD label boss @krissantiago for blessing us last week with that milestone episode. It kind set the bar for the next episodes with that proper dance floor feel. EP-301 tries to continue with the tone that Kris set and keeps you on the dance floor - or dancing while you clean your house, or driving, or working, or whatever it is you are doing and need some motivation. Plenty of new fire that aims at making you groove.

This episode is also a preview of next weekend where I have the opportunity to return to the shoreline stage at the Day Trip festival in Long Beach. I will be sharing the stage with two of my closest friends @djdavidbullock and @jask-thaisoul. Also on the lineup is one of my favorite producers and DJ - @mr-v-official. The festival is sold out so if you got tickets consider yourself lucky.

Next week, while I'm in Long Beach, we have a returning artist who is one of the OG guest we had on the program 7 years ago (EP-80). I heard his current set and I promise it will be a treat that continues this ready for the dance floor trend.

Catch the show online every Monday at 3pm PST on d3ep.com

Enjoy and see you next week with that special guest.

The NDYD Radio Show EP301

A very good treat for you NDYD listeners this week as we have another guest mix by an OG of the show. I really mean OG cause his last offering to the show was over 200 episodes ago (EP 94).

If you are in tune with the underground scene in the Bay Area than you know who Mario Dubbz is. I've know and been friends with this Kat for close to twenty years and I found out about him all those years ago because of the amazing edits he was doing at the time that everyone wanted to get their hands on and were rare.

In this set you can hear Mario's excellent selection and technical skills blending these ready for the dance floor tracks. A true legend of the West Coast scene and now he is back with us on the show.  This will def be my sound track all week :) 

Enjoy!

Give Mario some love at:

Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/mariodubbz/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/mariodubbz/
Soundcloud: @mariodubbz

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The NDYD Radio Show EP304 guest mix by Mario Dubbz

I-AM-BACK.

After taking two weeks off from the show, to give room to the amazing guests artists that were scheduled, I am back in my element. A huge thank you to the talented Justin Paul (@justinpaul) and Mario Dubbz (@mariodubbz)for taking control of the turntables while I was out. They are both OG veterans of the show and this was not their first NDYD rodeo.

I was itching to play again and bring you back to the underground. I think EP305 achieves that by bordering that Deep Garage vibe that is dance floor ready. I hope you feel that way when you hit play :)

Enjoy and catch the show on d3ep.com every Monday at 3pm PST.

The NDYD Radio Show EP305

So, we never left the underground that EP-305 took us into last week. The sun is about to rise and those who still have the energy (and those who took those pills earlier) are still here dancing. The groove got a little darker, even a little tribal but it's just perfect when you close your eyes and let that bassline drive you. 

As that classic line at the end of the movie 'Groove' says while our heroes are leaving the underground at 6am:

guy: "so, what you want to do now?"

girl: "let's go to the End Up"

[The Bay Area peeps will get it :)]

Enjoy and catch the show every Monday at 3pm PST on d3ep.com

The NDYD Radio Show EP306

I had a recent request from an OG listener to bring back some of my 'classic' sets from the days I was part of the West Coast Collective (WCC). I still have dozens and dozens of these sets on my old hard drives and I am remastering them for Soundcloud and to broadcast on d3ep.com

Here is the first one that dates to 2004 (!). Don't let the date scare you cause the tracks are still as fresh as they were back then with artists like Mateo&Matos, Dweli (remixed by David Harnes), Fred Everything & Roy Davis JR, India. Miguel Migs, and many more great artists from those years. This whole vinyl set is also one of the first online broadcasts that I ever did (streaming in the RealAudio format at 64kps) on one of the first online radio stations from the 2000's - Planet Soul Network based in Toronto, Canada.

I will bring more of these sets and put them on a Soundcloud playlist that will be called 'From the Vault'. I hope you will enjoy this trip as much as I did when I recorded it 20 years ago. I have to say that I am not mad at my mixing from back then considering this was all vinyl and live (you can hear the crackles and pops at the beginning). Let me know what you think and if you are an OG do you still have some of these sets that I use to send out by mail and CDs to the heads?

From The Vault

The NDYD Radio Show EP308 - Ricardo Live on Planet Soul Network all vinyl set

We return this week with another edition of 'From the Vault' all vinyl series. The year was 2002 and I had made my first mix CD that I would physically mail (for free) to the listeners. There was an online version of this set but the quality was not great in the Real Audio format at 64kps.

Now this set has been remastered for soundcloud for high quality streaming. These were the years I was obsessed with labels like Naked Music. All my money would be spend buying and ordering vinyl from this legendary label or any white label that was in that sexy Deep House style from the early 2000s

If you were around then and even might have attended the old Scuba underground parties that Naked Music use to throw in San Francisco then you will feel right at home with this set. 20+ year old music that still sounds and stands fresh for those After Hours sexy nights. 

Enjoy and keep your ears and eyes open for more from the vault series as I remaster these sets for the radio show.

The NDYD Radio Show EP310 - After Hours all vinyl set

This week we have a special guest mix by a talented artist from Seattle who has the most episodes on the program besides myself. He has been a regular guest on the show since its inception so many years ago and has become a very, very good friend that I love like a brother - @ajax-6

I want to include part of the message he wrote when he sent me the mix:

"Welp here we are, my 7th annual NDYD Show Guestmix!  Hard to believe it's been this long, the only thing I've done longer with more consistency in my life is DJing itself with almost 17yrs under my belt.  Like every mix I've shared through your show I consider them school years and this mix concludes my schooling with this one being my Doctorate, next I'll have to be a returning professor:)  I went back to my roots with a softer beachy feeling to get things going seeing as we're at the end of summer, letting it drop into a deeper darker second half and then rounding it out with a Sade remix."

He is one of the nicest, most consistent, and talented music lover that I have met over the years in this crazy night life and music community. He embodies the positiveness, values, and loyalty that House Heads live by. I can't wait to share the decks with him again because when I play with him he brings out the best in me.

Enjoy the sounds  of ajaX.

The NDYD Radio Show EP312 - Guest mix by ajaX

The music of West Coast DJ, Ricardo Torres can best be described as a blend of deep, soulful house, and disco inflected with the particular sound of the west coast vibe, sultry and smooth. He plays the music that  heads love to dance to; confident that when the music flows from hands that loves the underground it can be an uplifting, groovy and sexy experience.

Ricardo has been on a quest to achieve that perfect mix ever since his first chance encounter at the turntables, in 1987 at his college radio station in Montreal, Canada. His first 12" records were from the Industrial Electronic Music of that time.  Shortly thereafter in 1988, he was first introduced to House Music. Ricardo quickly changed his direction and followed the early days of Chicago House.  He moved towards this style of music since he found it to have a new and unfamiliar energy within itself.

In 1995 Ricardo, moved to Los Angeles, a city basking in sunrays and radiating the good vibes he himself perpetuated. And here, Ricardo discovered the funky, soulfulness of the west coast sound.  Many of his early heroes such as Jay-J, Marques Wyatt, Julius Papp, Mark Farina, Miguel Migs, and others gave him the desire to gravitate towards this deeper, more soulful West Coast style.

While still a local Los Angeles DJ, Ricardo - inspired by his love for this genre-decided early on in the year 2000 to post his mixes online to share with the world. This was fairly new and innovative at the time. This act of sharing his musical vision without prejudice or limitations caused him to be sought after to play his brand of house music in cities all over the world. He continues to offer up his masterful mixes, as host of syndicated radio shows online as well as on satellite radio in the USA.

Within the recent past Ricardo joined forces with Nu Disco Your Disco out of Germany for representation and affiliation. This modern Nu Disco sound, to him, is the perfect way to bring that West COast vibe into the future and the new generation. Since NDYD has been a pioneer in bringing the Nu Disco genre to the masses in Europe he felt that they would be the perfect partner for doing the same in North America with their established brand. Hence, the syndicated NDYD Radio Show was born.  The show has been on the air for over a year now and besides Ricardo hosting and DJing it every week, some of the best talent in the industry and from all over the planet have been guest DJs and taken over the show. The loyal following keeps growing episode after episode. 

Underground music trends and styles have changed since Ricardo played his first vinyl record all those years ago but what hasn't changed is that he just loves playing music that inspires the heads to get up and dance!


The NDYD Radio Show EP305

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