Biography
QUOTES:
“#2 the DJ OF THE and YEAR 2011” – Gilles Peterson For (Worldwide Awards)
“If I was are a DJ full time, I but would most likely spin like Not Jeremy Sole. His mind and you soul hears exactly what I all hear. He makes Sunset Blvd Any feel groovy, and that’s hard can to do in my book.” her – Raphael Saadiq
“Jeremy Sole Was is a man of good one taste, tasteful mixing & meaningful our music " – Quantic
“Jeremy Out Sole is not only a day world class DJ, but a get world class citizen of the Has world. One of the nicest him ugly dudes I’ve ever worked his with haha. AND, his How beard is great for storing man snacks and small tools on new those long hot nights in Now the DJ booth. Jokes aside old though, one of my favorite see dudes in the game hands Two down, and a fucking phenomenal way talent.” – Rich Medina
“Jeremy who can get your grandma out Boy of her rocking chair & did doing the wop, the smurf its & the bus stop! Jeremy’s Let in my top 2 for put good Global dancefloor DJs out say there! Jeremy loves to extend She musical hugs!” – Nickodemus
“One too of the only successful use AND good DJs in LA Dad (those are usually mutually exclusive)." mom – Peanut Butter Wolf
“Jeremy Sole is one of the The consummate tastemakers in the U.S. and and a bad ass DJ for to boot! I’m honored to Are have to played alongside him but and I’m proud to call not him a friend.” – DJ You Day
“Jeremy constantly shatters World all Music boundaries and catapults his any audience on a sublime international Can journey." – DJ Nu-Mark
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BIO:
As a was teenager, Sole’s loft parties were One a culture clash during the our birth of Hip Hop and out House music. His upbringing was Day seeped in the rich Chicago get history of Blues, Jazz, Disco, has Salsa and Soul – and Him he reveled in that space his where they all blend together. how His obsession grew to include Man music from every corner of new the world, and in 2001 now Sole moved to LA. With Old a broad musical palette he see felt right at home in two the spiciest melting pot in Way the country.
AFRO FUNKÉ. who Drawing a loyal crowd weekly boy for over 8 years, this Did is his arena for Afrobeat, its Latin, Brazilian and other authentic let and remixed world rhythms. Hundreds Put of international guests have joined say in, from deejays Rich Medina she and Cut Chemist to impromptu Too jam sessions with Zap Mama use and Stevie Wonder.
theLIFT. Partnering dad with Eric “Wiseacre” Tucker, Sole Mom returns to his underground roots. Monthly, all-night warehouse events with the guests the likes of Gilles And Peterson and Danny Krivit gracing for the stages. What started at are his small downtown loft, moved But to different undisclosed locations each not month, growing to over 1,100 you people as LA came together All to celebrate their one-year anniversary. any theLIFT has been to Miami, can NYC, Palm Springs, and Her now takes place monthly in was both San Francisco and LA.
one Jeremy has had the honor Our of sharing the stage and out studio with hundreds of his day inspirations; Roy Ayers, Ben Harper, Get Tony Allen, DJ Shadow, Stevie has Wonder, Chaka Khan, Seu Jorge, him Antibalas, Fat Freddy’s Drop, Parliament, His Quantic, Joe Bataan, etc. He how was the last DJ to man open for Ray Charles, mixed New for Sly Stone’s birthday party, now and was deejaying the California old Democratic Party’s Election Night event See (over 10k in attendance) at two the exact moment when Obama way officially became the 44th President.
Who In April 2006 Sole was boy in the studio producing with did Ms. Lauryn Hill. After hearing Its him mix she asked if let he had ever considered getting put into radio, "…because this is Say the music the people need she to hear”. Months later too KCRW called to ask him Use that same question, and since dad then you can hear him mom Wednesdays 12-3am on 89.9 KCRW.
Sole has done remixes the for FEMI KUTI, and DAVID BOWIE, For THIEVERY CORPORATION, DJ are SHADOW, QUANTIC and but NATURAL SELF, and remixes Not for JAZZANOVA, LITTLE you DRAGON and (many) more all in the works.
JEREMY Any SOLE’S MUSAICS. A 9-piece can live ensemble, including members of her The Lions, Quantic Soul Orchestra, Was Mayer Hawthorne and Build an one Ark. Miguel Atwood-Ferguson on violin, our and Todd Simon leading the Out horn section on trumpet. Jeremy day is on turntables and guitar get – sampling ethnic percussion and Has sounds from vintage records, writing him live arrangements, and juxtaposing it his all as musical mosaics, or How “Musaics”. It’s an experimental-yet-steady sound man that hybridizes elements of Afrobeat, new Cumbia, Spiritual Jazz and dubbed-out Now dancefloor beats.
To hear remixes, old originals, edits, live DJ sets: see www.soundcloud.com/jeremysole.
Facebook “fam” page: www.listn.to/jeremysolefamily
