20 years of #FusionBatches ! For those who listen to my monthly show on
@nts_radio that has been on their airwaves since fall of 2021, you may or may not know that the concept and musical vibes of the show originate from a mix CD that I self-released in spring of 2006 that ended up becoming a 3 part series, released in ‘06, ‘09, and ‘21 respectively. When the General Lee reissue dropped it made me trip that it’s been 20 years! I talked about that record in a separate post but here’s a more in depth look at a handful of records that were featured on the mix. At the time I was super influenced by the DJ scene in the Bay (I was born and raised in SF) and had grown up collecting mixtapes and CD’s by local DJ’s, as well as copping tapes and CD’s at Amoeba by
@kon1200 &
@djamir70 and
@jrocc210 (Syndromes!) and many others that influenced my approach to this endeavor. Along with starting to spend a lot of time at
@groovemerchantsf in the early 00’s as well as getting schooled by the likes of
@justintorres74 and
@sfdjbcause in the SF digging scene, by ‘05 I felt ready to try and make something that would hopefully be distributed one way or another outside of the Bay where I had a handful of mixtapes in rotation locally. That ended up being
@turntablelab who featured it on their site and got me some of the first nationwide and beyond exposure as a DJ. I actually handed a CD-R of the mix when it was initially completed to
@djjazzyjeff when he was in SF for a gig in ‘05, and he ended up emailing me and giving me the amazing quote from him that I incorporated into the artwork on the back cover. So many thanks to
@mike2600 for the iconic artwork design, to this day I can’t get over how thoroughly he nailed the perfect imagery to go with this concept. And I also gotta shout out the
@soulstrut message boards for the encouragement. These kind of records spoke to me the most back then and in large part thanks to the twitch era and really getting back into consistently digging thru my own records still very much do today!! I’ll post a link to the original mix on my story. Love to all those that have supported #FusionBatches in any and all its forms throughout the years! 🎷🎹🎺✨
