The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and the Houston Press are hosting Soular Sessions, a four-part monthly series featuring local DJs playing alongside Electric Relaxation: Digital Good Time (How to Break Your Own Heart), a wall-to-wall installation by Xaviera Simmons. The room is covered in classic soul, funk and jazz album covers, and each DJ will play songs from or inspired by the records that line the walls. The curator of the event and host of KPFTยs Soular Grooves, DJ Sun, kicks things off today spinning everything from ย70s Soul to Brit Pop to early ย90s hip-hop. DJ Sun, a.k.a. Andre Sam-Sin, says he was immediately interested in the project after seeing Simmonsยs installation. ยIยm very inspired by the fact that she goes along looking for [vinyl] records,ย Sam-Sin says, adding that both he and Simmons use their art to pay homage to something no longer given enough attention. ยI want vinyl culture to continue; I just donยt want it going away,ย he says — and he backs it up by always giving digital-free music performances. ยIยm a vinyl DJ. I do not use CDs, I donยt use Mp3s.ย Hear his all-wax musing from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Thu., July 19, 7-9 p.m.
This article appears in Jul 19-25, 2007.