Featured DJ: Aaron Pope (SF) 14 September 2009

AARON POPE (Erase Records, San Francisco)

Ahhh, control tower this is flight 479er. I’ve got a bogey; looks like a breakbeat jammer. Ahhhh, flight 479er, that’s no breakbeat jammer; its a tech-funk slammer from Aaron Pope. Yes, friends. Aaron has landed again at Jungo Road with beats far and wide; plus we got the 411 during [...]

Track Review: Waveplant & Ernesto “(I Need A) Bassline (Chad North and Aaron Pope Remix)”

Chad North and Aaron Pope have remixed Waveplant & Ernesto’s (I Need A) Bassline and it was just released this Monday on Exceptional Records. Waveplant, aka Joel Corelitz, is the track’s producer from Chicago. Jonatan Bäckelie, aka Ernesto, is a 27-year old Swedish soul singer from Gothenburg. Bassline is the first track to be released from [...]

Featured DJ: Chad North (NYC) 18 June 2009

CHAD NORTH (Erase Records, Jungo Road, NYC)
This second Jungo Road mix by Chad comes on the heels of an very exciting month of releases on Erase and Exceptional.
June 1st saw the release of The Grind which climbed the Beatport breaks chart immediately; peaking at #20 and then staying steady in the top 25. The Grind, [...]

The Grind now available on Beatport

“The Grind” started as a Lee Coombs vs Elite Force remix I was working on in summer of 2007 – I had a tough beat and some great samples but, as many producers can relate to, the track became overburdened with other elements and was shelved for a year and a half.
By that time, Aaron [...]

Featured DJ: Aaron Pope (San Francisco) 12 May 2009

AARON POPE (Erase Records,  SF)
“Dance music is all about drawing energy out of people in a positive way.” This is Aaron Pope’s belief, and that’s what most people remember about his DJ sets – his incredible energy. A longtime music fan and dance floor resident, Aaron brings this joy and love of music behind the [...]