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James Gaunt
Dec 29, 202326 min read
Remembering John Hillyard
The name John Hillyard might be unfamiliar to many of our readers, even though you’ve likely seen him before. He is the man on the cover...
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Jon (eikimono)
Mar 20, 202210 min read
Lateef, Nothing but the Truthspeaker!
"When I first met Gab we went into a booth at KDVS and rapped first thing [...] we were just monks about freestyling..."
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Jon (eikimono)
Dec 5, 202114 min read
DJ Shadow: Genesis (1982-1988)
"85-86 that's when you start hearing samples in rap records so it went from DJs playing those records to people putting it in the sampler."
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Jon (eikimono)
Nov 14, 202114 min read
DJ Shadow: Genesis (1972-1982)
"Most of my early memories were from a town we lived in called Middletown, California..."
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Jon (eikimono)
Sep 10, 202131 min read
Brian “B+” Cross, the Man Behind the Camera(s)
"I love the cat among the records! It's the notion that everything there has already gone through some kind of human cycle."
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Jon (eikimono)
Aug 22, 202110 min read
Dave Paul is Da Bomb!
"I didn't have a computer so the first [Bomb Hip Hop Magazine] issue is actually done on my mum’s typewriter..."
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Jon (eikimono)
Jun 20, 202112 min read
Chris Rivers Is Bigger Than Life
"There was no Oakland rap in 1979 when Sugar Hill Gang came in, it did not exist. I thought it was so cool that people could do that..."
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Jon (eikimono)
May 22, 20217 min read
Alex Mejia, The Bay Area Attitude & 4-Track Recorders
"I was a Street Music Director who was in charge of all the mixshows. We brought in a lot of DJs [...] and Josh was one of them..."
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Jon (eikimono)
Mar 19, 202111 min read
Oras Washington's KDVS Years
"I was one of a few DJs in the Sacramento Valley that actually had a mix show. Josh was at the Davis High School and he came down at KDVS."
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Jon (eikimono)
Mar 14, 20217 min read
Mike Nardone: He Came From Beyond!
"I worked at a record label called Poetic Groove [...] either ‘90 or ’91 and I was doing college promotions, sort of learning the industry."
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