Eli Escobar, DJ, Producer, and Outside Broadcast Blogger

As a DJ with a love for underground classics, I often feel like a chump behind the decks. DJing is supposed to be about music discovery, and yet in the very moments I’m trying to share the love with some old chicago house or rare groove track, I’m simultaneously bracing myself for the inevitable. “Do you have Beyonce?” “How about some Paramore?” Or, the worst one of all “Can you play something I can dance to?”

Please, never say that to a DJ ever. Hearing this makes me want to dump my drink directly onto the mixer, inciting fatal electric shock for me and my inquirer. My songs are my babies, and if you talk shit about my babies …let’s just say nightlife DJing is supposed to be more exciting than watching MTV and stubbornly, I refuse to dumb it down.

That’s why I’m so stoked about our new playlist from Eli Escobar. Eli mixed in detroit techno tracks like Blake Baxter’s Where Is The Love with DFA’s latest indie dance fuzz bunny Woolfy. Mingling eras and sounds, the lines are easily drawn between italo-disco legend Gino Soccio’s track Remember, and today’s synthpop like Frankmusik or Private.

Connecting the dots on the dancefloor is educational, and learning is fun, so check out his stuff. Don’t make me get all Joan Collins crazy on you.

-Fucci

Check Eli Escobar’s playlist live on Loudcrowd at 3, 6, 9, and 12 AM & PM through January 13th.