Theo Parrish

It's about how can we use sound to change the vibration of a space? And certainly that is hopefully what we intend to do in these many different avenues in which we take the work.

And it reminds me of a final story would say like from DJ Theo Parrish.

Right.

Who I love to talk

you know and it's like nah that's going to get that's going to get our folks moving and what he says is like the test of it is like once you get them moving then that's the test of the DJ can you keep them there can you keep them moving and can you through the transitions figure out ways to take them somewhere else while they're still dancing and before you know and this is what he says and I believe it because I've seen him at work of like Before you even know it, three, four songs later, they're still dancing.

They don't even know what they're listening to, but they know the beat.

Listen, first of all, I have danced many a night to Theo Parrish.

His partner in crime, Kai Alce, is just one of my favorite DJs.

Chris, this one's for you, mate, even though you might not be listening right now.

This is Theo Parrish.

Is it Synthetic Phlegm, I think it's called.

Amazing tune.

Yeah.

Um, and in the case of someone like Theo Parrish too, it's because he, he pulls off like absolutely bananas mixes, right? Like these are like, like mixes of songs that like you would not think could go together and he makes them go together.

Um, and like, yeah, like you, you, you, unless you're taking risks and unless you're, you're risking total train wreck, you can't get to that kind of magic.

Um, yeah, yeah, totally.

yeah, Theo, of course, yeah.

Something he does in his productions all the time is, you know, like, that kind of, like...

So you'll listen to, like, a Theo Parrish record, and you'll be like, is he train wrecking his own...

Like, how the fuck is this happening? But it's just because, like, he has a...

What do people think? This is me looking for some live feedback.

This one's off Theo Parrish DJ Kicks.

Really really really feel stuff like this.

It's so nice just to have the repetition and slow build.

Yeah, of course.

I think the one with Theo Parrish and Benny Rodriguez lately, recently at 909 Festival and Theo Parrish at Drum Sheds in London.

Just super cool.

Wasn't that scary? Yeah.

I actually ran into him after I'd interviewed him about six months previous at We Out Here.

And I think it was Theo Parrish was playing and I just literally bumped into him at the bar and he was just bossing it big time.

Just having a good time.

He's a

Um, Terry Hudette, um, amazing DJ, brought me her records.

And then Theo Parrish.

Theo Parrish was, is one of, is a, one of our, our true OGs in the sense, and he's always had, like, a, a group of kids that he is teaching, right?

Mm.

And they always brought ...

Yeah.

In 2015, Dago and Kitee released a 12-inch EP called Adam Rock Dist on a Detroit label called Sound Signature, which was founded back in 1997 by Theo Parrish.

That connection is monumental.

Why is that?

This was played by Giles Peterson at peak time at their massive New Year's Eve event, which had like the craziest lineup ever.

Theo Parrish was part of it.

The Pharaoh Sanders.

Giles Peterson amongst many many more lots of New York hip-hop heads as well so just it was a wild lineup for its time and yeah kind of just reminiscing on how amazing we out here was this year and I had this Insane thing happened to me on the Sunday afternoon.