June 7th, 2010

DJ Spun

This Thursday will feature DJ Spun of Rong Music – an amazing New York Label. He started out as a punk ( a surprisingly common beginning for House and Disco DJ’s) and soon moved onto hip hop and later got entangle with Harvey and Sarcastic Disco. He changed coasts to New York where he started Rong with Ben Cook. He also curates Museum of Modern Art PS1′s seminal Warm Up – a summer party in the museum’s courtyard.

He was kind enough to answer a few questions for us.

Winston: What made you shift from punk to dance music?

Jason (DJ Spun): I got into hip hop first which had somewhat similar energy music of the oppressed and disenfranchised. I was prob

ably rebelling against how stale and narrow minded I felt some people in the punk scene had become.

Winston: What made you want to start your label Rong?

Jason: There wasn’t really a master plan. I moved to New York and it was a way for my partner Ben Cook and I to keep working together and to put out some music from ourselves and some like minded friends. It was easy to get it started at that time, being that I was good friends with the people at Syntax Distribution (RIP).

Winston: Which seminal disco re-editor/remixer would you most want to remix one of your tracks: Tom Moulton, Shep Pettibone or Larry Levan and why?

Jason: Walter Gibbons. Oh sorry he wasn’t on your list. Actually it would depend on the project. If it was more straight forward I’d say Tom Moulton who is still on the scene and doing good work. He came out to my parties at ps1 a couple times and is a really nice guy. If the track was more unusual I’d have to say Larry.

Winston: Did you always want to make and play music for a living?

Jason: Pretty much, my twin brother Donovan and I would lip synch and pantomime Kiss songs for the family from about 5 or 6 years old. I think I wrote my first song at around 8 and started playing in a band with much older people at 13.

Winston: What’s your 5 favourite songs at the moment?

Jason: My favorites change almost every day. How about my current 5 fave rong songs.

Coati Mundi – Voyage Libertad to the Boat Dance

James Chance  - Incorrigible

Vegard Dyvik – C.O.D.E.S.

Lee Douglas – Our Song 99

Rub n Tug – Lower Beard Stays the Same

Here is a taste of what to expect on the sonic front

CL010: DJ SPUN LIVE AT CUTLOOSE 19TH MARCH

Link via Cut Loose

After the last few parties at Sugar (Jacques Renault, Woolfy) nothing less than complete debauchery is acceptable – that means naked breakdancing.

Kisses XX

AAC

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