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DJ Subtle Memorial Event

Wes — Thu, 26 May 2011 00:32:15 +0000

On February 4th, 2011 my longtime friend Landon Roberts aka DJ Subtle died tragically, he was 33 years old. Since that day his friends have tried to put together a memorial event in his honor in Dallas to celebrate his life and love of music. After a lot of effort the show is this weekend. If you are in or around the D/FW Metroplex this weekend please stop by and toast the memory of a really good guy.

RIP DJ Subtle

A Degree of Subtly : Landon’s Memorial
Time: Saturday at 9:00pm – May 29 at 12:00am
Location:
Milo’s
501 E. Division Street
Arlington, TX

Re-unite with 32 degrees, friends, family and US to remember a departed dear friend, Landon Roberts. The memorial will be on Saturday May 28th at Milo’s bar in Arlington, Texas. Doors open at 9pm and there will be no cover though a $5 donation is suggested. Donations will be taken on stage and all donations will go directly into a memorial fund in Landon’s name. Tribute and toast to Landon will be at 11:30pm. Lineup has not yet been set but is expected to be an assortment of Landon’s friends on the tables. We will be playing old school drum and bass till midnight, or later depending on the crowd. There will be drink specials for the entire night. Milo’s is located at 501 E. Division Street in Arlington, TX 76011, and FYI they are letting US use this space at no charge. Thank them. Brought to you by US, the Urban Subversive.

For a link that will allow you to make a donation via PayPal to the Landon Roberts Memorial Fund, send an email to:
LandonRobertsMemorialFund @ gmail dot com

Kemal – Live @ Trees – Dallas – 12.19.01

Wes — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 03:54:26 +0000

In December of 2000 we hosted Konflict at the Nu-line Warehouse in Dallas, TX. The night isn’t memorable for their set, the venue, or the time of year. No, it’s remembered by the people that were there as the night I went to jail for “Operating an Illegal Dancehall,” a Class-C misdemeanor in Dallas County, which is equivalent to a speeding ticket. I’m not sure why I was the guy picked to go to jail but, because of that, Konflict never played and we were out $4401 (which we’ve yet to get back).

Fast forward to a year later, and we somehow managed to talk Kemal into coming back to Dallas to play a set at Trees.

Kemal – Live @ Trees Dallas 12.19.01

Filetype: zip/mp3
Time: 78min
Size: 72mb
Bitrate: 128kbps

DJ Luck & MC Neat – Live @ Planet Love in Dallas 2.12.2000

Wes — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 03:01:48 +0000

The first time I heard UK Garage was in early 1999 while on a trip to Atlanta to visit my buddy Bobble. We’d run into DJ Casper (of Strictly Jungle Chicago fame) and he was ridiculously excited to share a Ramsey & Fen (Live @ La Cosa Nostra) mixtape that he’d picked up in the UK. Bob and I were hooked and we wore that tape out during my trip!

UK Garage sparked something in us because it seemed like a bridge between the soul of house music and breaks/bass of jungle. I knew people in Dallas would love it, so when I returned home I decided that it was something I wanted to push (on the side of course!). So I began gobbling up everything I could from tape packs to downloading live sets from super dodgy websites just to satiate my obsession.

I tried for months to book anyone I could from the UK Garage scene and just couldn’t close the deal. After all why travel 4800 miles across to Texas, where now one knows you, in order to make the same amount of cash you’d make by staying home? It wasn’t until November of 1999 that I finally got in touch with an agency that worked to get something booked. Their offer was a one-off date in February with DJ Luck and MC Neat, a duo that had a massive single in the UK charts with A Little Bit of Luck.

We’d lost our venue the month before so we ended up putting together an outdoor event at a ranch south of Dallas. Despite some chilly weather we had a great crowd and it was an solid introduction to UK Garage for everyone in attendance.

Ultimately that chance meeting over a mixtape spawned two very healthy garage scenes in Dallas and Atlanta in the earlier part of the decade. In Atlanta, Bobble began his Right Direction monthly at MJQ which went on strong for a year. In Dallas that tape ultimately led to the Luck & Neat show and it helped to birth the longest running 2-step & UK Garage weekly in North America put on by Dallas’ Jason Mundo and the Groovology Crew.

Enjoy your history lesson.

DJ Luck & MC Neat – Live @ Planet Love – Dallas, TX – 2.12.00

Filetype: mp3
Time: 74min
Size: 156mb
Bitrate: 256kbps