![]() When did you decide to turn that into Josey Records? I started buying records for the purpose of selling them initially the thought was to sell records to pay for the ones I wanted to keep. I started studying and put in countless hours of research. Yes, I wanted to DJ and was buying records for that, but I also started buying records that I knew had value. ![]() How did you get into the retail end of things?ĮBay started coming into prominence in ’98 and it became apparent that records had value. I was taking long road trips to Chicago and New York. I was getting sales lists from people that placed ads in music magazines or was calling shops in Chicago. connecting with collectors was obviously far less easy then. Towards the end of the millennium, though, I started noticing that some of the records I had been buying were worth some money. At the time, buying records as a collector wasn’t even a thought. I was hunting down and calling record stores all over the country looking for records I was hearing on tapes. My primary focus in the '90s was buying records to DJ. How has it changed since you started collecting? If I’m not doing a house or 45 gig, I’m likely playing music like this. I grew up in the '80s and it’s always had a place in my heart. Ultimately I went with this mix of new wave, Italo disco, minimal synth and all-around '80s weirdness. I thought about doing an all-45 mix, as I’ve been doing the Fresh 45s night with JT Donaldson. At first I considered a mix of records that emanated from Dallas, whether it be soul, hip-hop or house. ![]() I have a wide variety of musical tastes and it took a while to decide where I wanted to take the mix. How was this mix made? Is there a particular theme for the track selection? We started taking trips to Chicago and Detroit in 1990 and discovered that disco and electronic disco records coming out of Italy were the pre-cursors to house, so it was a natural progression to start buying and collecting that stuff too. There were radio tapes from Chicago (WBMX, WGCI) and Detroit (WJLB) that had made their way to Dallas through friends and we were hooked, trying to find all these records that we were mesmerized by.īill’s was the first store in Dallas to start carrying underground house and was ordering direct through Gherkin and Barney’s in Chicago. He had been working for Bill’s for a couple years and turned me onto this new music that I had never heard before. Sardello: I started DJing in 1988 when a junior high friend, Derrick Wright, introduced me to house music and techno. For this week's mixtape, Sardello dives into the world of minimal synth, Italo and oddball '80s tunes.ĭallas Observer: How did you get started DJing? As such, he goes deeper than the vast majority of active DJs. As a DJ he's largely associated with house music, but - as a crate digger of the highest order - his extreme depth of knowledge makes him able to execute techno, electro, funk 45s and a plethora of music microcosms. Sardello is the epitome of an old school Dallas vet, but he is also a music connoisseur, curator and part of the brains behind Josey Records. Head over to Ad Hoc to stream the track, and check out her full list of tour dates below.Luke Sardello is so much more than just a veteran DJ. In anticipation of her new album Un Autre Voyage, Marie Davidson has premiered a new single, "Exces De Vitesse," and her full list of tour dates on Ad Hoc.
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