This is a recording of DJ Jesse Brooks spinning live at Sunny Side Up, a daytime “underground” party organized by Fresh Produce LA, on Saturday May 13, 1995, at the Venice Beach Pavilion, Venice, California.
The sun is shining, the palm trees are swaying, the salty ocean breeze washes over your body, and the thumping beat of HOUSE MUSIC fills the air! It's 3:40 pm, Saturday afternoon, May 13, 1995. The location is the old Venice Beach Pavilion, a graffiti-covered, concrete picnic area in the middle of the Venice boardwalk, normally a hangout for skaters and taggers. Today, tourists stop to gawk at these strangely-dressed kids dancing strangely to this strange, loud music. But to those in-the-know, this is like a dream come true! Raving in broad daylight, on the beach, with thousands of people around?!? Heck Yeah!
Sunny Side Up was organized by Fresh Produce, an LA promotion crew that produced intimate parties with a real family feel. The lineup for the day included Alison, John Kelly, Eric Davenport, Jesse Brooks and Thomas Michael.
In this recording, Jesse Brooks is heard serving up a a perfect blend of funky breakbeat, acid, tribal and deep house. The mix of the board feed and audience mic is perfect. The stereo signal is loud but the mic is present just enough to give you a realistic sensation of being there.
So, don your sunglasses, slather on some SPF 30, hit PLAY and travel back to Sunny Side Up!