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Night & Day
800-Pound Guerrilla
By Clay McNear
Like those once-ferocious Weather Underground revolutionaries who are now respectable housewives and pipe-smoking professors, world-heavyweight DJ Vincent "DJ Spinna" Williams started out as a guerrilla fighter in the early days of NYC's indie hip-hop wars of the early ´90s. After laying down arms, Spinna went mainstream, morphing into a remixer for the likes of De La Soul, Mary J. Blige, and -- don’t stop reading! -- George Michael. These days, Spinna is a funk/soul revivalist who's breathing new life into old-school gems by the likes of Eddie Kendricks, Betty Carter, and Roy Ayers. But the DJ is arguably best known for his crazy-popular WONDER-Full™ raves -- bone-rattling odes to one of Spinna’s superheroes, Stevie Wonder. (The other is James Brown. The cat has taste.) Touring in support of his new album, InterGalactic Soul, Spinna performs as part of the "StraightNoChaser Presents: one" series.


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