Garth (Wicked/King & Hound/Grayhound)
ALL VINYL, ALL NIGHT LONG in the Loft
DJ Garth - A quarterly throwdown at Public Works
Saturday Aug 18, 2012 - LAUNCH PARTY!
10pm-late. $5 B4 11pm, $10 after.
$7 presale tix here:
http://garthallnightpw.eventbrite.com/
$3 Coronas and $3 well vodkas til 11pm!
It is all too often these days where DJs are given 45 minute sets. We have even seen promoters listing 2 hour sets for DJ duos. Well that's a bit ridiculous. So we at the Public Works Loft have invited Garth, one of SF's most enduring DJs, to come play records for us all night. Expect a proper musical journey through Acid House, Space Disco & Cosmic Rock. He will be driving a car load of his coveted records up from LA.
And YES - We are all really excited about this.
Legend status - DJ Garth, the story:
Before moving to Los Angeles in 2010, Garth spent two decades in San Francisco fanning the flames of conscious hell raising that existed there in generations past. Parties with his stamp include a coveted ten year residency at Come Unity, thirteen legendary years with the Wicked Sound System and since 2005, Back2Back with right hand man Jeno. His sound is a definitive fusion of Acid House, Space Disco & Psyche Rock.
He is behind LA's SPANK! and SUPERJAM! events and has just made his acting debut in Speed Dragon, a film starring Bai Ling.
The Wicked crew recently reformed for a 13 city Twenty Years of Disco Glory Tour of the States & Japan. Garth also spent seven weeks in 2010/2011 on tour with DJ Harvey in Australia and Japan.
Bringing UK sound system culture to San Francisco in 1991, Wicked's lawless full moon beach parties ushered in an era of Acid House hysteria that ripped through the west coast and spread into the heartland. Wicked are credited widely with kick-starting the City's rave scene in the early 90's, cementing its reputation as the red headed step child of Disco.
Scoring a Tony Andrews designed Turbosound rig, they toured in a '47 Greyhound bus whose previous owners were a gospel choir hitting the road to spread their own gospel across the States. Wicked was the pioneering sound system at Burning Man in 1995.
They brought the best DJs the world had to offer to San Francisco including the first time Bay Area performances of House/Disco luminaries like Tony Humphries, DJ Harvey, Louis Vega, Francois K, Joe Clausel, Roger S, Robert Owens, Stacy Pullen, DJ Pierre and K Alexi.
Garth holds court at many of the world's best nightclubs including Eleven, Mago, Gold, Yellow, Townsend, 1015, The Roxy, Twilo, Fabric, The End, Horsemeat Disco, Sublevel, Thirtynine Hotel, Rex, Room, Lux & Zouk. He has been voted amongst America's top DJs in Urb, XLR8R and DJ Magazines. For many years he pioneered all night Dub sets on the only renegade system permitted at Reggae on the River where Jamaican legends Mikey Dread and Junior Reid stopped by the bus to rock the mic.
The same bus provided inspiration for a record label. Since '98 Grayhound has released 50+ singles documenting an edgier West Coast sound. Artists include Wicked (Garth, Markie, Jeno & Thomas), Rocket, Perry Farrell, ETI, DJ Harvey, The Glimmers & Ray Mang, Darryl Pandy, Michoacan, DJ Rasoul, Nectar, Stranger, Steve Kotey & EBE. Many recording artists launched their careers on the label.
His breakout anthem with E.T.I. 'Twenty Minutes of Disco Glory' shook things up internationally, praised by Muzik Magazine as one of the best dance singles of '96. Since then he has produced 60 records under various pseudonyms working with Anthony Mansfield, Eric James (Rocket), Rob Doten (Crosstown Traffic) and Markie Mark or Jeno (Wicked). His remixes include Freeland, The Units, Faithless, Halo Varga, The Glimmers, Rob Rives, Dada Munchamonkey, Perry Farrell (Janes Addiction), Yabby You, Mutabaruka and Tribe Called Quest.
He has compiled and mixed albums for Sex + Design Magazine, Om, NRK, Thrive & Grayhound. Grayhound productions have been licensed to countless DJ mix CDs and Garth's music can be found in two films - SF rave flick 'Groove' and Gus Van Sant's 'Speedway Junky'.
Since 2007 he and collector/dealer James Glass have been waving the flag for Golden Goose re-edits, raiding their record collections & respectfully placing Disco/Rock obscurities under the knife as King & Hound.
Remaining true to the original art form, he can be found playing all-vinyl sets out in Hawaii, Japan, Fiji, Korea, Spain, England, Greece, Portugal, France, Belgium, Germany, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, even Indonesia and Malaysia, turning parties out upon request.
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