Polk Street, by DJ Olive

Polk Street

by DJ Olive

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1.	Still On Post 04:25	buy track
2.	Saw You Near Eddy 03:16	buy track
3.	Larkin Moon Dance 05:25	buy track
4.	O'Farrell Papaya 04:10	buy track
5.	Willow Over Easy 03:41	buy track
6.	Curb Of Pine 05:16	buy track
7.	Clay Chowder 04:46	buy track
8.	Running Snail Down Geary 03:58	buy track
9.	Blizzard ( Cedar Mix ) 04:17	buy track
10.	Ellis Encounter 03:10	buy track
11.	Hashbrowns Off Bush 05:03	buy track
12.	Sutter Escape 04:00	buy track
13.	Hand In The Hemlock 03:49	buy track
14.	Polk Street 04:15	buy track

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Polk Street by DJ Olive set to release april 11 2016 on Record Blanks
After 2 years of touring, in 2005 DJ Olive found himself in San Fran heartbroken sleeping on Escape Art’s Polk Street studio couch. His longtime friend and collaborator Ignacio Platas aka Once11 arrived from 2 years in the Costa Rican jungle making bamboo homes. He had fallen in love and was on his way to meet her on the Brooklyn bridge six weeks later. Once11 worked nights and Olive days at the Escape Art studio. Six weeks later Once11 had Produced Smile Hunter, released on the Agriculture in ’06. Olive produced this record Polk Street which was left deep within a folder within a folder within a folder on a somewhat old and battered titanium laptop. A year later when olive went for a lunch break at the Skin Tone Riddles studio in Greenpoint Brooklyn he came back to find he had been robbed. In a cold sweat he grabbed a metal floor scraper and ran down the stairwell to the street in time to see three blocks up Manhattan avenue a man with Olive’s Yakpack disappear onto a side street. Olive caught up and held the floor scraper out and said “I got to have that computer… its the only copy of my record”. Many years later, deep in the Canadian Rockies, biking into town at 5:30 am to work on music in the basement of the local co-op radio station this record would again just escape oblivion. It was winter and there was much ice and snow. Olive had become used to this but coming around an outside downhill turn perfectly balanced in the still morning air suddenly a skunk darted out into the road and froze then spun and froze again, its tail pointing. Olive swerved just a fraction but it was enough to set the bike side-slipping out from under him. With one thought in his head he leaped spread eagle like a skydiver to land on his chest, backpack riding safely on his back, sliding down the snow packed road a good 100 yards, his eyes locked on the tail of the skunk as he passed. Yes in the backpack was the only copy of this record Polk Street. It is with great pleasure that Record Blanks can make this beautiful record of beat impressions, a kind of under the radar poetry of sound, available to all.

willard freeman
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released April 11, 2016

produced in 2005 at Escape Art Studio, Polk Street, the Tenderloin, San Francisco by gregor asch. written arranged and mixed by gregor asch aka dj olive the audio janitor. (C)&(P) g. asch and The Agriculture ASCAP 2016

thanks to ignacio Once11 platas, james Escape Art healy, morgan fey, that girl from the polk st buffalo exchange who made my heart come back to life with a fit of laughter, Xopher, mel at chameleon who also helped mend my heart , that turkish coffee joint on polk st. swan’s end of the day clam chowder. the hemlock. san fran morning sunlight. house producer charles in the next door studio. dj sep and the dub mission posse. all the bands and artists on the rope-a-dope tour 2005. thanks lawrence & beck, some of this was written in your old spare bedroom in brisbane and some on the road in Oz. thanks jen for taking the photo used on the cover art way back in cairns at budgie smugglers cove. thanks big al and mariana for the safe haven and epic meals back in the day, some of this record was written in your guest room

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RECORD BLANKS Parañaque City, Philippines

Record Blanks is a burst of recordings with the heart of a mother bear, you being her cub...We are in search of the Unicorn Bass & Blue Bellied Pad.. of unworn rhythms.. and those believable beats. Our server is based in San Fransisco but our office is in orbit. ... more

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Listening to Fir

Aug 2018
Too Late For School

Apr 2017
Polk Street

Apr 2016
BABEL - 17

Jan 2016
REFRAIN (the jolly gootch sessions)

Mar 2015
UNICORN BASS (the jolly gootch session)

Feb 2015
BASS OF THE MOON (single)

Feb 2015
BASS OF THE MOON REMIX'S

Feb 2015
HALF TIME DOUBLE MIND (single)

Feb 2015
SQUALL (single)

Feb 2015
DOYERS (single)

Jan 2015
HAND IN HAND (single)

Jan 2015
ICESCAPE (single)

Jan 2015
WINTER SUN (single)

Jan 2015
ACID BASS REACTION (single)

Dec 2014
ALENTEJO (single)

Dec 2014
COCO

Nov 2014
ROOTS & ACID (single)

Nov 2014
WHOLE BAG OF WRONG (single)

Nov 2014
RHUBARB (ep)

Jul 2014
DOMINO (ep)

May 2014
SO ME FREE (ep)

Dec 2013
MOON WAX (ep)

Jul 2013
HOMELESS RECORDS

Nov 2013
"THE VINYL SCORES" LIVE AT BERGHAIN

Nov 2013
VINYL SCORES LIVE AT KCR

Nov 2013

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