EP.002 - DJ Basta // Hip Hop Producer from Macarthur Maze & Electric Colors

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07/10/24 • 121 min

Episode 2 - DJ Basta // Producer. DJ. Beat Maker. Visual Artist. Teacher.
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“DJ Basta, aka Nick Basta , was one of my earliest visual art idols. Growing up where we did in our little northern pocket of the Bay Area, Nick was somehow tapped-in to a larger cultural scene of the outlier arts. Things like Graffiti, Hip Hop, Reggae, Block Parties, they weren’t really big factors or pillars of where we came from, but somehow Nick learned about them and did what he does best: he taught us all and put us all on game. When I was a late-teenager, Nick was like this artistic and cultural messenger to me. He would go to the city and bring back little nuggets of cultural gold. Nick has always had this upper echelon taste and an extremely magnetic quality and and when you combine those two facets and add-in the special sauce of his willingness to teach and share, you get to experience someone who is wildly influential. Sit back and listen to this big homie talk about the beginning years of his art life in the North Bay, finding Graffiti, going to California College of the Arts, throwing block parties in Oakland, DJ’ing events for over a decade, transitioning from DJ’ing into producing beats, col2laborating with all sorts of musicians and emcees and singers, his involvement with his crews Macarthur Maze and The Electric Colors, having his music played at Golden State Warriors Games by fellow Macarthur Maze member DJ D Sharp, Macarthur Maze being featured on Sway’s Radio Show and having their work on the billboards of Times Square, the Roots and Branches record box project, Nick and I’s cassette tape collaboration projects “QQQ” and “222”, as well as just a plethora of wisdom and good vibes. Big shout outs, always and forever, to the big homie DJ Basta. Roots and Branches forever. Welcome to the BEDROOM y’all. WORLD WIDE PEACE! ” - PSG
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DJ Basta's Socials & Music:
Instagram: @rootsanbranches
YouTube: youtube.com/rootsanbranches
Cassette Tape: "222"
Cassette Tape: "QQQ"
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EP.001 - Owen Tuttle // Patrick's High School Art Teacher & Overall Legend

Episode 1 - Owen Tuttle // Patrick's High School Art Teacher. Artist. Shepherd. Cowboy. Legend.
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"Owen was my high school art teacher, but more than that he was my Master Yoda. When I was a wild and crazy senior in high school, Owen helped tame the beast that I was by assigning me a specialized curriculum. He, for some reason, saw a budding passion in me that I didn't even know existed yet. In his classroom, Owen ( Mr. Tuttle, at the time ) let me experiment on my own terms, independently from the rest, and throughout my senior year I began to discover this newly developed and passionate budding love for the art of making things and expressing oneself creatively. Fast-forward 18 years since then, I've been professionally working as the visual artist I always dreamed of becoming. Looking back, Owen had a lot to do with my initial jump and I'll always respect him for his encouragement and his non-authoritarian approach to his teachings. A lot of these episodes I'm recording are to share with you, the listener, but if I'm being honest... this one I recorded just for me. Sit back and listen to this legend talk about his run-ins with James Taylor and Jackie O, growing up in and around The University of Iowa, spending summers in Cape Cod, going to the San Francisco Art Institute and being taught by the famed painter Joan Brown, shepherding around California and Oregon, becoming an art teacher, and overall just how he's lived a varied, beautiful, and colorful life. I'm very stoked that Owen decided to come on to the pod for the inaugural episode, as it feels only right for him to be here at the beginning of a new creative path I am undertaking with this podcast joynt. Getting the chance to reunite with him and record some of his life's history was incredible and I feel absolutely honored. Big shout outs, always and forever, to Mr. Owen Tuttle. Welcome to the BEDROOM y'all." - PSG
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EP.003 - Kel Troughton // Typography Designer & Type Teacher at Type West

Episode 3 - Kel Troughton // Type Designer. Lettering Artist. Graffiti Enthusiast. Educator.
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“Back when I was a teenager and I fell in love with art making, the form that initially captivated me was graffiti. In the small town of Sonoma where I grew up there wasn’t much of a graffiti scene but there was one gem among the rough... spraying and tagging the county, the one and only: Kel Troughton. I remember one week seeing a piece of his under a bridge in Glen Ellen and a couple days later seeing one at the local youth hang-out spot called “The Shop”. His skill level blew my teenage mind. Due to our age difference, I never really saw him much, so he sort of became this elusive-like Bigfoot character to me. There were signs of his presence around town, I’d learn little tidbits bits about him, but I never really chopped it up and hung out with him. Now that I’m older, I finally have had the chance to become friends with Kel and learn about all the magnificent qualities that he possesses - and guess what? The dude doesn’t disappoint, he’s still just as talented as ever. Sit back and listen to the big homie talk about growing up in Hawaii and moving to the Bay Area, meeting Stan Lee as a kid and recreating the art inside of his comic books, how he became obsessed with graffiti, the cultural importance of magazines pre-internet, getting involved with a friend’s butcher shop and starting a decade plus gig of being the shop’s official sign writer, going to school to study typography, being an educational bridge between the worlds of graffiti and typography, his involvement with the Letterform Archive and curating a graffiti collection for them, becoming a typography teacher at the Type West postgraduate program, having his first typeface drop on Future Fonts, the type foundry he established called “Overlap”, the bygone era of internet blogs, his fascination with “civilian graffiti”, his favorite type designers, as well as the importance of finding your own lane within a creative community and contributing to the scene. Big shouts to Kel for coming onto the pod. Welcome to the BEDROOM y’all! WORLD WIDE PEACE!” - PSG
--Kel Troughton's Socials & Websites:
Instagram: @keltroughton
Website: www.keltroughtonstudio.com
Overlap Type Foundry: www.overlaptype.com
Letter Person: www.letterperson.com
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