Tuesday, October 28, 2014

DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL" Live @ The RAD Cabin's "Zombie Prom" THIS SATURDAY (11.1.14)!!!

Third time is the charm and third time is the deadliest. This Saturday night, The RAD Cabin presents another holiday function sure shot. A LOT going down with this one. Read all the details below directly from The RAD Cabin crew. See you on the other side... this Saturday night *Insert Vincent Price laugh*
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FREE ENTRY ~ 21+
It's a Warehouse, UBER there's no parking!
**ENTER on 58TH Street**

Dress in your Zombie Best!
It's scary how good this will be.
A Wound Bar? Yup! You can get your scars and gashes done by Special FX make-up artists at our Wound Bar!

You can come in prom wear OR be the Undead of your choice. Sexy Zombies. Celebrity Zombies. Evil Zombies. Rotting, undead, brainsucking mutant virus voodoo Zombies. It's a dead man's party... who could ask for more?!?
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Please contribute to Charleyville.org, a charitable foundation which provides scholarships for musicians and writers. You can make a direct donation to Charleyville here: http://charleyville.org/support/contribute/

Just a reminder that this benefits a great cause: Charlotte was an amazing and inspiring musician and poet and her family will be here from Nashville and Wisconsin to celebrate and raise awareness for the foundation that they set up in her name. If you can’t attend, please consider making a donation to this charity.

LIVE music!!!


Get your classic Zombie Prom picture taken by Playboy Magazine Photographer, Joel Flora!

***Make sure you show the flyer above on your smartphone for entree at the door!!! And say the password: "PromKing"

Thursday, October 16, 2014

Yearbook (The Mount:Year One)



In late September, I received a Facebook message from a college classmate that "wanted to see if I could do something for her since I was all in the music business." Oh boy I thought, messages that start off like this usually result in two kinds of requests: one, to help them get something on the radio or two, concert tickets. Turns out, she asked if I could type out a playlist of some popular mainstream Hip-Hop and R&B songs from our freshman year at Marymount College for a memory box she was complying.

Now, anyone that knows me will tell you, I am always one to soundtrack associate almost every occurrence in my life. From the moment I received that message, the wheels started turning, and I saw myself scribble out a list of over 40 songs the next morning. Once I looked down at my hieroglyphics, bookmarked moments of my freshman year of college; one of the most influential 12 months in my life, started to flashback in my mind. A time in my life when I realized "I knew this world was crazy, but not this crazy." I realized it moves at the speed of light such as the album covers photo; a shot I took of myself one late night on the colleges bus for photography class. Just a written list would not suffice nor do justice, these experiences had to be relived through speakers.

Unlike The Demonstration series, the record selection process was more based on historic context than my own personal taste. It had to be given that this was the soundtrack for that time period, and not just for my own ears (that is another list in itself).

Important to highlight is much of the landscape of what Hip-Hop and R&B music has become presently started to manifest that year. Just listen to Snoop and Akons I Wanna Love You or the Hyphy Movement cuts on this tape and tell me you cant hear its minimalist influence on DJ Mustard; currently spearheading arguably the West Coasts most influential sound since Dr. Dre and Scott Storch unleashed the lowrider Grand Piano and Symphony String bounce of the magnum opus, Still D.R.E. Then there is the affair of Hip-Hop with Dance music. It is a common place now, but later became pop culture foreshadowing heard in, my humble opinion, Timbalands best cover to cover production work outside of Missy and Aaliyah: Justin Timberlakes Future Sex/Love Sounds, Nelly Furtados Loose, and his own Shock Value. All three of those LPs were laced with vibes of Electronic, dance floor driven monsters.

Admittedly, 95% of these songs I jammed from jump, 4% grew on me over time, and one song on here I honesty cringed at including. But I knew I had to given both its popularity and association with one of those hilarious flashbacks I mentioned above. I'll let you try to figure out which song it is.

But that is the power of music. It is a hell of a stimulating sensation. The melody and lyrics are the flux capacitor and our mind is the DeLorean. With that established as the motto, I welcome you to the first installment of my nostalgia trip with no roads. First stop... 30800 Palos Verdes Drive East... Fall of 2006.

These were the sounds, these were the quotes this is the music Yearbook of The Mount: Year One.

Soul Claps & Salutes and Thank You For Listening,

DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL"

PS- Thank you Sara "placing" the light bulb over my head.

Arranged and Mixed By DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL" For Honor Flow Productions
Album Art Design: Tyler Ann Nunley For Genevieve Munroe co.
For Promotional Use Only!

Saturday, October 4, 2014

DJ Chuck "thE oLd SouL" Live @ Eighty-Two Tomorrow (10.4.14)!!!

A Super Sonic Sunday with your homie "thE oLd SouL" tomorrow at Eighty Two! I'm on starting at 5pm!

#HFP #RespectTheDJ #Sega

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