Selector Platurn Mindfully Curates Music Storytelling While Navigating Hate, Injustice & Fake Folks

How does DJ Platurn create the perfect mixes and stay prolific for over 25 years? It helps to be completely mindful with the desire to tell a story through your selections. It takes real composing, knowing how to build the peaks and valleys to carry your listeners on a journey. And we've been on quite a journey in the past 6 months. As strongly worded in this interview, Platurn without conviction, declares music and entertainment at large to be an essential business. How else do we cope with the madness & hate spewing up? We discuss the plethora of DJs streaming, how to differentiate yourself, if this is what's left for performers and how he builds on his projects to evolve into the nest one. A 26 year veteran of the music industry, Platurn has traveled the world many times over bringing quality music to multiple corners of the globe. With a client list that includes Red Bull, Toyota, Adidas, Pixar, Monster Cable, MTV, and the Golden State Warriors to name a few, he’s built a reputation as a music man with vision plus a deep sense of community, and in turn preserving crucial aspects of DJ and music culture. Founder of the Oakland Faders and The 45 Sessions, he has solidified himself as a force to be reckoned with in the ever changing entertainment industry landscape. Career highlights include: *Rocking parties worldwide including engagements in Asia, Australia, Europe, Canada, South America, Scandinavia, and countless venues throughout the US and in his home base of San Francisco’s Bay Area. *Played alongside some of the biggest names in the industry including De La Soul & DJ Maseo, Prince Paul, A-Trak (Fools Gold), Janelle Monae, Z-Trip, Fishbone, Quest Love (The Roots), DJ Premier (Gang Starr), MF Doom, Triple Threat DJs, Pete Rock, Mixmaster Mike (Beastie Boys), Mayer Hawthorne (Stones Throw), Nu-Mark (Jurassic Five), Rob Swift (X-Ecutioners), Ali Shaheed Muhammad (Tribe Called Quest), Jazzy Jeff, DJ Spinna, Large Professor, The Beat Junkies, DJ Q-Bert, The Eh! Team DJs, DJ Craze, DJ Klever, Faust & Shortee, Zion I & The Grouch, Latyrx, DJ Shadow, Cut Chemist, Dan The Automator, Das Efx, Hieroglyphics, Boot Camp Click, Rich Medina, DJ Muggs (Cypress Hill), Jazzy Jay, DJ Scratch (EPMD), The Bladerunners, Spinderella (Salt & Pepa), and many more. *Produced music for and collaborated with filmmakers, award winning documentarians, Grammy nominated vocalists, and groundbreaking visual artists. Contributed film score to the feature length documentary “A Lovely Day” (as The Midnite Sons). Musical contributor to Michael Rapaport’s Tribe Called Quest documentary, “Beats, Rhymes, & Life, + numerous other solo projects and collaborations. *Owner/operator of Platurn Productions as DJ and Event/Music Producer. Founded the Oakland Faders in 2000 with partner DJ Spair and the revered 45 Sessions back in 2010, the preeminent outlet for 7” culture on the West Coast of the United States. djplaturn.com linktr.ee/platurn 45sessions.com Don't forget to like, share,

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Selector Platurn Mindfully Curates Music Storytelling While Navigating Hate, Injustice & Fake Folks is an episode from The Sam Jack Podcast: I'm Not A Professional But Wait, I AM! by The Sam Jack Podcast.

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This episode was published on Aug 21, 2020.

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