Hey all members of the Midnight Funk Association...
This is a modernized vessel into the feelings & sounds associated with the 2nd summer of love across the pond & the acid house scene of NYC, Chi-town & beyond. Not all trax are old, but make me feel that way.
Transmission out..............
Spacey Sissick
Podcast Summary
Born the year of the 12” (1976), Brooklyn raised DJ Spacey Sissick
was nourished on a steady diet of the beauty that came from the strife of NYC’s last Golden age of culture. Disco kids, b-boys and graffiti drenched subway lines were all awe inspiring in equal measure to his impressionable senses.
This all culminates into the artist he is today. Mel has been spinning under various guises for over 12 years. Vinyl is all he thinks about. It doesn’t help that he is the buyer & manager of one of New York’s best record stores (infinityrecords.net), so he has boundless access to music from all areas & time.
Taking the cue from his forefathers before him;
(Mancuso, Levan, Arthur Russell, Ron Hardy, The Symlonylon crew), Spacey crafts deeps mixes that cram together late 70’s – mid 90’s NYC, Chicago, and Detroit streetsounds along with new music that takes inspiration from those scenes.
There were no boundaries then, and he continues to show that there are bridges in all music, as well as all of humanity if you look and listen hard enough.
In addition to ONLY using vinyl, Sis also has other tricks in his arsenal.
Using dubwise studio techniques live, along with effect pedals, keyboards, drum machines & even sometimes a homemade Theremin, Sis is looking to redefine what a natural (NO digital mp3 horseshit) DJ can do when there are no restrictions on party, sound, or scene.
NYC needs to find its own identity again.
DJ Spacey Sissick has the smelling salts to wake it out of its digital coma.
