Lincolnup
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Biografía
- Record Changer Extraordinaire Resident at No Requests (PDX)Among your favorite DJ’s favorite DJs, long time servant & celebrator of dance musics Lincoln Up dwells in Portland, OR. Disk Jockeying, programming, & producing parties since 2000, L^ sits in & meditates on the origin & diaspora of Disk Jockey Culture, in the present & going forward, steadily seeking sublime musics across times & styles, in the spirit of modern DJ guiding lights Francis Grasso & The Electrifying Mojo. This beatific, inclusive sensibility leads L^’s DJ sets, sounding out outstanding tracks from the up front revelries of today & mixing them into the dance canon for novel reveries with crucial hits & cuts from yesterday & back when. Sporting a deeply funky, all the way in the pocket approach to mixing, mostly vinyl, L^ pays homage to the hallowed DJ disciplines of selecting, blending, cutting & pasting, & fx/dubbing. Possessed with a preternatural knack for cueing sprawling sets of well paced & placed musics, & packing a penchant for creating extended oddballer eternal shining moments in the mix, L^ has set off many, many dances in Portland & Seattle (where L^ lived ‘97-‘06) & gone far afield to do the same in places such as Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Honolulu, São Paulo, & Sayulita, & plays like Decibel Fest (4x), XXXbórnival, What The Fest, Phoenix Fest, & DAT Fest (2x). For reference, please do bang any & all of L^’s mixes, to be found at linktr.ee/lincolnup Along with handfuls of lauded party series, L^ conceived of & co-founded the seminal DJ/Event outfit Bubblin (2010-2015), which was praised as “reshaping Portland’s dance [music] culture” by Willamette Week. L^ has DJ’d and programmed bills with constellations of stars, such as DJ Pierre, Peanut Butter Wolf, Derrick Carter, Kyle Hall, Derrick May, Claude Young, DJ Deeon, RP Boo, DJ Technics, Todd Edwards, Octo Octa, Ikonika, Ben UFO, Pearson Sound, Mount Kimbie, Avalon Emerson, MikeQ, Cakes Da Killa, Digital Mystikz (Mala & Coki), The Bug, Kahn, Martyn, MJ Cole, Zed Bias, Leon Vynehall, Flava D, DJ Krush, Roska, Jubilee, Bok Bok, J-Sweet, Doormouse, Kode 9, DJ Godfather, Dre Skull, Mike Huckaby (RIP), Jeff Samuel, and many, many other stellar luminaries, to give a small idea of direct influences. L^ firmly believes some of life’s most important moments & finest pleasures are to be had moving on & around inclusive & equitable dance floors to great Disk Jockeys revering DJ culture, at the controls of two turntables, a mixer, and a beautiful sound system. "Lincoln Up is one of those DJs who excel at several styles while possessing vast knowledge of both old and new releases. A serious student of electronic music who can throw down sets encompassing house, techno, garage, and many branches of bass music with enviable technical dexterity." “Lincoln Up has a PhD in Funknology.” - Dave Segal, The Stranger (Seattle)