William Benjamin Bensussen is a DJ and producer who started DJing in San Diego's
Gaslamp Quarter, where his weird, heavy sound was generally a dancefloor killer, earning him the name
The Gaslamp Killer But he kept at it, and found a home in Los Angeles, performing with the
Low End Theory crew. On December 1, 2012, Gaslamp Killer joined an ever-growing list of notable DJs and
appeared on BBC Radio 1 with an Essential Mix "
This runs the gamut, freak flag and spliff waving in the air. 2 brutal and beautiful hours of raw beats, boom bap, and Birdman. There is psych-rock, there is juke, there is Spaghetti Western. Exclusives from Lotus, HudMo, and Dilla." If you like what you hear, there's even more below the break.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Feb 17, 2013 -
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If you've browsed
some of the
many year-end Best Album Lists, you might have seen
AraabMUZIK's Electronic Dream rank highly. If his name means nothing to you, check
an interview with the then 19 year old Hispanic kid from Rhode Island, who had recently graduated high school and connected with
Dipset, or
the 20 year old drummer-turned-producer whose performance was copied by Kanye (and other information on his life and times). Or maybe you follow producers, and knew he made the beat for
Cam'ron's track I Used To Get It In Ohio, or cuts on the
Dipset Trance Party mixes (
DatPiff has volume 1,
2, and
3). If you want to know more, you can check
a mini AraabMUZIK documentary (6:38 on YouTube), or just
watch him
work the
MPC.
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posted by filthy light thief
on Dec 26, 2011 -
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