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What up my Beatery faithful, I’ve got a very special set to share with ya’ll today! This mix has been in the works for at least six years, ever since I first started that “World House” folder on my hard drive back in 2006. I’ve always been fascinated with different cultures, different languages, and as I love music with all my soul, I’ve also always been particularly fascinated with all the different instruments, grooves, rhythms, dances and melodies that make each culture unique.

As you may or may not know, I’m starting this series of happy hour parties and one of them has a World House theme! Finally the perfect excuse to get this pile of global grooves off my hard drive and into your ears. I don’t think its any surprise this set is particularly influenced by Latin and Brazilian sounds from my year plus in South America.

As always, enjoy and let know what you think!

DJ Jay - Global Groove - (Right click and “save as…” to download)

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Like my boy L.L. said: “Don’t call it a comeback, I been here for years!”

For my first podcast of 2012 (!) I wanted feature a bunch of tracks that are really speaking to me these days. The sounds looks forward, the samples back, and the result is healthy blend genres, new and old, the likes of which didn’t really exist before 2011. Its like we just threw some Hip Hop, soul, R&B, classical, electro house, alternative rock, dub-step, moombahton and breaks all together into a 110 BPM sonic smoothy. Yuuuuuuuuuuuum

Enjoy, and don’t forget to subscribe to the podcast! We’ve got a bunch of new stuff we’ll be rolling out over the summer v(^-^)v

HellaBeats - “Future Retro” - (right click and “Save as…” to download)

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Happy 11/11/11! Today instead of bringing you a Beatery Podcast I’m actually being featured on someone ELSE’S internet radio show. Good friend and fellow Weekend Warmup resident Natheus has been banging out the “Electrus Podcast” for a while now to a rather large audience, so I jumped at the chance share an episode with him.

The format is 30 minutes him, 30 minutes me, which just happened to perfectly fit the second part of my KZSU set form Halloween day: the spooky house! I called my part “Dark Rooms”, for reasons that will be obvious when you listen. Eventually I’ll post the mix here, but until then go on over and check it out! Natheus has banging 30 minute house set to kick it off to boot:

The Electrus Podcast 15: Jay Austin Gregory (Hellabeats)

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DJing on the radio is a weird experience. You’re in this foreign place so it doesn’t have the same feel as playing at home, but you’re also completely by yourself so it’s not at all like spinning at club, disco, lounge, basement or block party. Us DJs feed of he energy of the crowd, so having them out of the equation was certainly a bit odd.

That being said, I had the BEST time on the “The Big Love Show”! This was certainly aided by the massive, ohhh so sweet sounding speakers speakers in Stanford’s KZSU studio, the professionalism of host Jonathan Barns, and all the people who called into the station, texted me and posted to facebook saying that they were digging the music! Thanks so much everyone!

The DJ before me was playing some really techy stuff so I took my time in the beginning working up through progressive house and into some more bouncy Carnival House. The second and third tracks are actually two of my fav prog house releases to come out in recent years so it was great to finally get them on a recording and I know we ALL love the Carnival House. There’s a great blend of classics and brand new tracks on here, be sure to check out the new Yolanda Be Cool (the team that brought you the the 2010 smash hit “We Speak No Americano”) and Bass Kleph joints that I literally got the night before!

So without further adieu here’s part one of my three hour Halloween KZSU “Big Love Show” session!

DJ Jay - Live on KZSU - 10/31/2011 - Pt 1 (Right click and “Save as…” to download!)

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Happy Halloween everybody!

To mark my triumphant return to my own blog, I’m excited to announce that I will be laying it down live today on KZSU’s “The Big Love Show!” I’ll be on from 3pm-6pm PST and you can tune in right here:

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I’ve got a TON of new music to play including, but not limited to:

New Justice!

New Modeselektor!

New Tiesto (no really, it’s good)!

Hope you can tune in <3