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Dante Carfagna, the Soul Keeper
"Before the internet [...] knowledge was hard earned and could only be acquired from actual fieldwork. There were no shortcuts."

Jon (eikimono)
Oct 9, 202220 min read
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Mophono's Late Night Tales
"I've always loved electro and old school rap. Stuff where if you get a feel for it, it's unmistakable and it's also undeniable..."

Jon (eikimono)
Aug 2, 202245 min read
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Yasushi Takayama, from Toy’s Factory to Rush! Production
"I always had a dream of having my own label, so soon after Mo Wax Japan came to an end, I started Rush! Production..."

Jon (eikimono)
Jun 26, 202237 min read
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Lateef, Nothing but the Truthspeaker!
"When I first met Gab we went into a booth at KDVS and rapped first thing [...] we were just monks about freestyling..."

Jon (eikimono)
Mar 20, 202210 min read
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Yasushi Takayama: the Man from Mo Wax Japan
"I remember James Lavelle saying "I'm looking for the holy grail for Mo Wax in Japan," and so this was already very intriguing for me..."

Jon (eikimono)
Mar 6, 202219 min read
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DJ Shadow: Genesis (1982-1988)
"85-86 that's when you start hearing samples in rap records so it went from DJs playing those records to people putting it in the sampler."

Jon (eikimono)
Dec 5, 202114 min read
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DJ Shadow: Genesis (1972-1982)
"Most of my early memories were from a town we lived in called Middletown, California..."

Jon (eikimono)
Nov 14, 202114 min read
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Brian “B+” Cross, the Man Behind the Camera(s)
"I love the cat among the records! It's the notion that everything there has already gone through some kind of human cycle."

Jon (eikimono)
Sep 11, 202131 min read
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Dave Paul is Da Bomb!
"I didn't have a computer so the first [Bomb Hip Hop Magazine] issue is actually done on my mum’s typewriter..."

Jon (eikimono)
Aug 23, 202110 min read
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The More You Know About Ross Allen, the Better
"I suppose my A&R career started, probably in 1995-96 [...] I was 24 so it was a foot in the door for me as a young London DJ..."

Jon (eikimono)
Aug 8, 202113 min read
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Chris Rivers Is Bigger Than Life
"There was no Oakland rap in 1979 when Sugar Hill Gang came in, it did not exist. I thought it was so cool that people could do that..."

Jon (eikimono)
Jun 21, 202112 min read
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Alex Mejia, The Bay Area Attitude & 4-Track Recorders
"I was a Street Music Director who was in charge of all the mixshows. We brought in a lot of DJs [...] and Josh was one of them..."

Jon (eikimono)
May 22, 20217 min read
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Oras Washington's KDVS Years
"I was one of a few DJs in the Sacramento Valley that actually had a mix show. Josh was at the Davis High School and he came down at KDVS."

Jon (eikimono)
Mar 19, 202111 min read
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Mike Nardone: He Came From Beyond!
"I worked at a record label called Poetic Groove [...] either ‘90 or ’91 and I was doing college promotions, sort of learning the industry."

Jon (eikimono)
Mar 14, 20217 min read
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