By Marke B.
The amazing and gifted House god DJ Spen of the Code Red and Defected labels is coming to Temple this Sunday night (8/31).
Now and Spen
Spen’s been in House so long, it wouldn’t have walls without him — dating back to his work with the seminal Basement Boys in 1989, up through his major diva remixes (I for one couldn’t escape his Mandarin-plucky version of Mary J.’s “Beautiful” in the mid-’90s — hi, DJ Rolo!) and into his current smooth matureness, spreading some deep sunshine all over the global floors. He’ll be accompanied on Sunday for a very long set — we do have Monday off, yes? — by the ever-fab DJ David Harness of Thread Recordings. Househed reunion!
My real question, though, is will Spen play this, one of the undisputed underground jams of 1999? I’ll bring a change of millennium shoes, just in case …
DJ Spen w/ David Harness
6pm-late, $10
(Super Soul Sundayz Labor Day Celebration)
Temple
55 Natoma
www.templesf.com