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92Q DJ Spen New Years Eve 1993

To bring you back up after that last post, here is more recently unearthed hotness. Classic house, and from New Years 1993 no less. I love this era of house, and I'm happy to have found this tape. I'm also going to start scanning the actual tapes this stuff comes off of, just because it's funny to see them these days. [EDIT: I went back and scanned in some more tapes, so if you are into the whole historical thing, flip back through the posts]

92Q DJ Spen New Years Eve 1993

2006 Shootings/Murders as visualized by Google maps

So maybe a little morbid bit of a post for a music blog, but with the close of the year there are the stories out there about murder rates and crime. [Watching The Wire also seems to bring up these sort of discussions] There was a New York Times article about the 100+ murder rate in Newark, NJ - and how it was really high for 2006. Since I'm originally from Baltimore, [and used to hearing much higher numbers be considered 'bad'] I decided to look up a few stats. It turns out that with Newark's 101 and Baltimore's current 253, the rate based on population is almost identical. Too many all around then.......

These maps are pretty amazing:
Murders for 2006

All shootings [fatal and non-fatal] Maybe the bullet my parents pulled out of their roof is from one of these? A couple are pretty close to Harford and Cold Spring.

via Baltimore Crime

December 25; Be there or be squared! FREE NO RSVP NEEDED!

Reggie Reg, Mike Crosby 92 Q circa summer 1997

So after a little apartment rearranging, a box of tapes re-surfaced. Most stuff I have already encoded (or quickly put back) but I started listening to some unlabled tapes. This particluar one is a pretty good mix, and it has some really funny shout-outs and commercials (don't worry I trimmed out the boring ones). Keep your ears out for the no longer existing 'El Dorado Gentlemans Club' spot - and 'double-jointed' wednesdays!

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