Gedeon Luke & The People, Douglas and the Goodharts, DJ $mall Change

Hailing from the streets of Memphis, soul music flows through Gedeon Luke’s veins in rainbow colored hues. Weaned on the gospel infused sounds of Sly Stone, Curtis Mayfield and Al Green and inspired by the rock ‘n roll passion of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, Gedeon and his band The People are here to crash through the boundaries of music and society, to bring Love, Peace and Soul to the world.

Fighting through childhood poverty, rejecting the gang violence and drug abuse that surrounded him, Gedeon looked to music, family and faith as his beacon. Refusing to be hardened by the mean streets, Gedeon brings pure joy and passion to his music and his life.

His debut record, “Live Free and Love” was cut old school style, throwing his band The People and special guests in a room and laying it down live. It follows no trend. It’s Love, Peace and Soul. It’s Gedeon Luke.



"Soulful”, “Heartfelt”, and “Funky As Hell.” Formed in New York City, this dynamic soul group has been delighting audiences with deep grooves and deeply personal songs written by their leader Douglas Goodhart. After having his heart broken by a long term love in 2013, Douglas picked up a pen and a guitar and began to tell his story. Drawing influence from their favorite soul and R&B artists ranging from Al Green and Bill Withers to Fela Kuti and Prince, Douglas and the Goodharts tell stories of an unrequited love affair with a neighbor, the pleasures of calling in sick to work, and how he "can't commit but will commute" when it comes to love.

$mall ¢hange (aka James Dier) will never stop. A musical addict, he’s been collecting and DJing for 20 years, has 10s of thousands of records, in every conceivable genre and time period. Seriously deep crates in funk, jazz, blues, soul, latin, reggae, dancehall, hip hop, house, breaks, jungle, booty bass, classics, rawk n’ roll, punk, vintage RnB, disco, downtempo, ambient, experimental, tropical bass…you get the picture. Some people say they’re eclectic–this homeslice lives it, with the skills to mix it all together.

In terms of radio, $¢ has been involved with WFMU, the world reknown freeform station, for 15 years, did shows for East Village Radio for 3 years, been invovled with BMIR (Burning Man’s official station) for 8-9 years, plus guest sets on AOL’s dance station, Giant Step’s Jukebox, Tim Sweeney’s Beats in Space show, WPS1 (PS1?s online station), KUCI in Irvine.

Out in clubland $mall ¢hange has played in every conceivable downtown NYC/BK venue you can think of, swank, underground, big, small–but always funky. A short list includes Santos, Nublu, BLVD, Greenhouse, Commodore, Lit, Sutra, and places not around anymore like Bar XVI, Centro-Fly, and APT. $mall ¢hange was also the music director at APT for a year and a half, booking folks like Kenny Dope, Moodyman, DJ Premier, Quantic, J-Rocc, 9th Wonder, Stretch Armstrong, Rich Medina, etc.. He’s also played in LA/SF (Do-Over, Root Down, Funky Sole, Afro Funke, Afrolicious), Germany, France, England, Burning Man, Pex festival, Australia, Costa Rica and your mom’s basement.

$mall ¢hange has been involved with the legendary Rubulad crew for over 15 years, demented underground BK loft par-tays that go into the wee wee hours. He also booked parties at Rubulad called ‘Remove Ya!’ which involved 15-20 DJs and live bands in 4 rooms, spinning everything under the sun. Like the scene in Rockers, its a musical takeover. He’s also thrown a party called ‘Lose Your Shit’ for 2 years with Jen Lyon of Mean Red Productions, booking folks like Rub n’ Tub, Cosmo Baker of the Rub, King Britt, Fort Knox 5, Trouble and Bass, etc, and has an ongoing dance focused party called ‘No Parking On the Dance Floor’. As for other loft parties he’s been featured at Danger, Winkle and Baltick, Gemini and Scorpio, Refuge, Bang On!, Greenhouse Gallery and others.

In 2001 $m ¢hizzo provided the music soundtrack for a modern dance performance called ‘Trance Territory’, choreographed by Wally Cardona and his quartet of dancers. The music was mixed live on three decks with multiple effects, and toured in selected parts of the US with a few dates in Mexico.

$mall ¢hange also runs the ‘Blackcrack List’, an an information / resource / email list about record collecting. Its been running for over four years and has over 250 DJs, collectors and blackbelt crate diggers from around the world. Vinyl is the blackcrack, and $¢ is addicted. How many rekkids? He’s lost count. And yes, a few are for sale/trade, so let him know what you got to deal!