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On the Wings of Rock and Roll

A piece of Recorded San Francisco Chess history on the  lives of  some of the street  players . 
San Francisco street chess was officially shut down in Dec 2013 after over 30 years  . , luckily we got to spend some time down there recording some the stories from the players like Marvin Boykins .


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Background & History 

 In the late 1970s, Marvin Boykins and his cousin began to argue during a game of chess at the Mechanics’ Institute Library and Chess Room. Told that such behavior was not tolerated at the high-minded club, they were asked to leave.
They ended up on nearby Market Street. And as their tempers cooled, Boykins unpacked his chess set on a cement slab and they continued to play. So began Market Street chess, a tradition that has lived on for decades in varying forms and locations.

The tradition ended last month, when San Francisco police confiscated the chess sets, tables and chairs set up on Market Street between Fifth and Sixth streets after giving Boykins and other players advance warning. The crackdown was prompted by increasing complaints from businesses about drug dealing, theft and gambling.

Problems began in December and only worsened as the number of tables grew to eight or nine, police Capt. Michael Redmond said. The area became a hot spot for sales of marijuana and crack cocaine. In August alone, Redmond said, there were 120 calls for service related to the problems associated with the chess games.


Boykins agrees that the games attracted an unwelcome byproduct, but says it wasn’t the players themselves — only a criminal element that sprung up around them. Since the crackdown, Boykins, 57, has taken a break from the game he fell in love with 50 years ago.

At age 7, Boykins lived in Sunnydale public housing and visited the nearby Boys & Girls Club. The director noticed that Boykins wasn’t getting along with the other kids, so he brought him into the office where people were playing chess. Boykins was hooked instantly. After reading a chess book he started beating kids twice his age, who started calling him “Professor.”

“It became my joy,” Boykins said of the game, which dates back to sixth-century India.

Boykins, who set up the Market Street chess tables for decades with religious devotion, charges usage fees of $1 per person for an hour of play. But if someone wanted to take him on, his fee would rise to $5 and up. He said the rates are less expensive than those charged for games in New York’s Washington Square Park.

“I’m here to provide a service; that’s my byline,” Boykins said one afternoon last week. On that day, he was sitting on a collapsible metal chair by a tree in the mid-Market Street area, only without any chess boards in sight. “I’m willing to take the hiatus for a while.”

Talks about working something out are ongoing. San Francisco Beautiful has started a $10,000 fundraising campaign to install permanent chess tables just off Market Street in the nearby U.N. Plaza, a public space the nonprofit organization was already eyeing for a rehab.

SF Beautiful Executive Director Kearstin Krehbiel said chess is “critical to our city” and one of those unique cultural elements that makes San Francisco a special place, likening it to the cable cars.

“There is a lesson to be learned from how New York has been able to manage their tables successfully,” Krehbiel said of what the group is trying to do with the plaza proposal.

Boykins likes the idea of U.N. Plaza but won’t commit until he sees final designs. Krehbiel said those should be coming by the end of this month.

“We recognize that this was a very tough and difficult issue for SFPD,” said Supervisor Jane Kim, whose district includes the mid-Market area. “We do need to figure out a way to keep this a permanent fixture in San Francisco, to keep the players safe, many of whom are homeless and seniors and have this as one of their recreational activities.”

Low-key protest supports street chess community

People from all walks of life brought their own chess sets and spent a few hours Sunday afternoon playing on Market and Fifth streets, as had been a San Francisco tradition for decades. They were not bothered by police, who last month confiscated chess sets, tables and chairs after businesses complained about drug dealing, gambling and theft.

The “chess-in” differed from the usual activity, which draws mostly poor and homeless players and was forced to move to Market and Sixth streets several years ago. The children, families and community members there came in response to a call by the Coalition On Homelessness, hoping to help the regulars with their plight.

“For us, it’s always an excuse that there’s some kind of illegal activity going on and they push poor people out,” coalition Executive Director Jennifer Friedenbach of the police. “This is about making sure public space is for everyone.”

Hector Torres Jr., 42, who facilitated the $1-per-hour of play system, said drug dealers “would occasionally plant themselves at our tables and make us look like we were involved, but we were not.” Police “put us in a rat hole and they made some stuff up and we are fighting for a San Francisco tradition,” he said.

The chess-in, supported with live music from the Brass Liberation Orchestra, was pleasant until Christina Flores, a regular chess player until a year ago, walked by and loudly voiced her criticism.

She said the regulars gamble illegally and introduced her to crack cocaine.

“It’s a shame that people would bring their children to a drug central capital,” Flores, 32, said. “Come by on a Tuesday or Thursday to Market between 6th and Jones and you’ll see it’s all grown men dealing drugs. Very seldom do you see a female there.”

The chess-playing protestors, otherwise consumed in their games, paused and to clap along with the live music until she left. — Jessica Kwong

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Recording by Duncan McNiff 
All rights reserved 
Copyright  2014 . 

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‘Kneedelus’ Out Now -
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Taken from ‘Kneedelus’, released 27th November 2015 on Brainfeeder.

Following game-changing releases from Thundercat and Kamasi Washington in 2015, Brainfeeder once again dips into LA's crucible of jazz and deep electronics to shine the spotlight on instrumental quintet Kneebody’s collaboration with electronic veteran and serial innovator Daedelus. A multi-headed beast straddling rock, jazz, and electronic music, the ten-song set titled Kneedelus explores the theory of technological singularity - the notion that humans and computer technology will increasingly blend together - in spirited and enterprising style. 

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Walter Trout stopped by the 88.1 KDHX studio in St. Louis, Missouri on August 6, 2012 for a groovy live performance. Audio by Dan Kinney. Discover more great media at http://kdhx.org.

Walter Trout "Blues for My Baby" Live at KDHX 8/6/12

The Gaslamp Killer - Resident Advisor Mix RA 329 (September 2012)

Original Mix / Feature here: http://bit.ly/UccLEA

Raw sounds from an LA b-boy.

You don't get a word like "motherfucker" attached to your name for no good reason. William Bensussen, AKA The Gaslamp Killer, has been in peoples' faces right from the start. Coming up in the rock town of San Diego, Bensussen would continually clear dance floors in the city's Gaslamp district—hence the name—by playing Mobb Deep and Dilla.

Things didn't stay this way forever. In LA he became a resident DJ at Daddy Kev's Low End Theory, the mythologised weekly party and producer hangout that has seen the likes of Daedelus, Nosaj Thing and Flying Lotus rise from its ranks. It was on the latter's Brainfeeder that GLK met a global audience as a producer. 2009's My Troubled Mind and the following year's Death Gate threw up his love of grizzly beats and obscure samples. Seeing GLK behind a pair of turntables is, however, when the MF tag makes most sense. His shows are the epitome of unhinged energy. Rock, jazz, bass music and funk are just as likely to be aired as hip-hop, as he wigs out with his now trademark dance moves.

GLK's "Resident Killer mix" is 45-minute slice of what we're talking about—plus you get the added bonus of a coda comprised solely of music from Breakthrough, his madcap debut album which was released today through Brainfeeder.

What have you been up to recently?

Touring (as usual), working on new music with Jungle By Night from Amsterdam, not to mention enjoying this amazing summer of love!

How and where was the mix recorded?

In my room at my house in Los Angeles on ProTools with my Dr. Sample 303.

Can you tell us about the idea behind the mix?

It's one of my best mixes yet. The first part is all about the heavy newer beat music with a bunch of unreleased stuff from my worldwide crew of beat making friends. The second part is a little more hip-hop turntablist influenced and the third part is all brand new GLK Breakthrough material!

Tell us about the writing of Breakthrough.

I worked on it tirelessly between touring and touring—trying to work with some of my favourite LA musicians to make it all come to life a little more than my previous records. Also, had to reach out to Dimlite (CH) all the way out in Zurich cause he is one of my favourite producers of all time and I am working on a whole record with him soon!

Outside of your LA base, where do you see as being other key strongholds for your sound?

London, Manchester, Paris, Amsterdam, Berlin, Istanbul, Tel Aviv, Athens, Tokyo, Johannesburg and New York fuckin City are some of my most favourite places to play. They always get what I'm bringing to the table and always have amazing openers playing with me that make me want to run for the hills! Some of these cities even have Low End Theory-related events that stemmed from our little Wednesday night club in LA. Pretty fuckin cool.

What are you up to next?

Release parties all over the world plus a new Low End Theory podcast with a VERY special guest! Even planning a trip to India with Gonjasufi to try and record some new material there. But it's all in the works so I can't promise anything just yet! 

The Gaslamp Killer - Resident Advisor Mix ★ September 2012

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We asked Deech for a short mix to celebrate the birth of Activia Benz and boy oh boy did he deliver! It's as instantly ear-catching, colourful and botty-shakey as we could have dared to hope, successfully summing up in 30 minutes exactly what Activia Benz is all about. Thanks Deech!

[BNZ001] Deech - Urnite EP will drop in December 2012 featuring a remix from our very own Slugabed.


01) Nouveau Palais - Drama (Canblaster & Sinjin Hawke Remix)
02) Deft - No Solace
03) Deech - Skyworm
04) Two Inch Punch - Digital Love Letters
05) Luvian - Valley Girl
06) Richman - Dro Montana
07) El Cucuy ft Trim Jones - Los Antiguos [7∆∆KLUB]
08) Naive Machine - Shore Enough
09) +VERB - TRAPTORADE  (ELOQ REMIX)
10) RL Grime - FLOOD
11) Redlight ft. Ms. Dynamite - What You Talking About (Filthy Disco Remix)
12) Deech - Urnite
13) Jon Phonics - Double Vision (Ft. Jeeks)
14) ARP 101 - U
15) Ryan Hemsworth - Slurring (Baauer Remix)
16) LAKIM - Future Bounce
17) Bondax - Just Smile For Me (Ft. Bobbie Gordon)
18) Sweater Beats - The Limit
19) Clicks & Whistles - Adventure Tune
20) Destiny's Child - Say My Name (Swede:art x Feux Reflip)
21) Guillamino - Half-A-Romeo (Nino Remix)
22) Paul Jones - Bad Haircut (Obey City Remix)
23) Fingazz - Nobody 
24) Deech - Windwave

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Deech - 30 Minute Mix 4 Activia Benz (DL IN DESCRIPTION)

Bedtime Stories (Austin Peralta Reinterpretation)

Beginning in the Summer of 2012 with his Low End Theory guest spots, DJ Shadow's "All Basses Covered" set has morphed and evolved to incorporate as many different contemporary genres of urban and electronic music as possible. From hardcore rap to footwork and juke and beyond, Shadow has combed the web to curate seamless and dexterous blends of the most progressive sounds bubbling up from the underground.  'Too hard?' 'Too future?' Or just too raw? As always, DJ Shadow has provoked crucial flashpoints of discussion about the discipline of DJ'ing that have defined our turbulent times.  -DJShadow.com Team

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All Basses Covered (Low End Theory Set #1, July 2012)

Dizz 1 - konotakosuka yaro
Makvillain - back up ft OHNO
flying lotus - 1983
Guilty Simpson - Clap your hands
Lord finesse - keep the crowd listening dj premier remix
exile - planet ox
harmonic 313 - the returners
computer jay - epiphany
percee p & quasimoto - raw heat
j dilla - e = mc2
frank n dank - spitkicker
jay dee - yall aint ready
rustie - tar
fulgeance - ann arbor jimmy edgar remix
souleance - manana
dorian concept - tropical hands
rick ross -  hustlin
joker & ginz - stash
grand puba - get it caspa remix
ludacris - whats your fantasy
mark pritchard - wind it up
dabrye - air ft MF DOOM
darkstar - squeeze my lime


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