DJ Sun isn’t hard to find. He has a residency most evenings of the week, either solo or with the crew from his long-running Saturday-night KPFT show Soular Grooves. As affable as he is industrious, in 20 years Sun has become a soft-spoken cornerstone of the Houston music community, often dispensing advice to or collaborating with a host of younger local musicians. One thing he’s not is especially prolific, recordwise. So to reintroduce himself before his new LP, One Hundred, drops January 19 — it’s his first release since 2009’s Para EP — Sun has been keeping a journal at www.soulargrooves.com. Whether the daily entry is a video tour of his preferred Houston haunts or simply a list of all the people Sun has opened for, it’s an enlightening glimpse into the career of an artist whose talents stretch far beyond the turntables.
This article appears in Jan 3-9, 2013.
