Daly City Filipino Heritage Month Event, 10-10-15
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Author Archives: O.Wang
Skyline College Event, 10-15-15
Book Party in Oakland, 9-19-15
Legions of Boom Official Book Party
Saturday, September 19
9:00pm – 2:00am
BRIX 581
581 5th St, Oakland, California 94607
Hosted by:
Francisco Pardorla
Oliver Wang
Burton Kong
John Francisco
Kormann Roque
Ray Viray
Peter Suguitan
The Aftermath: Great party with all manners of OGs rolling through.
VQR Review
I never thought the book would be reviewed alongside the Fast and Furious franchise but I’m with it.
Interview on KQED’s Forum
New Book Celebrates the Bay Area’s Influential Filipino-American DJ Scene. KQED’s Forum (6/19/15)
RomeDigs Interview
Legions of Boom in the LA Weekly
Jeff Weiss wrote about “How Filipino American DJs Came to Dominate West Coast Turntablism.” LA Weekly, 5/27/15.
The California Report talks about the Filipino American mobile DJ scene
The California Report, 5/24/15
The print version of this story has that great photo of Non-Stop Boogie’s Orlando Madrid and some of the DJs who’ve trained under him.
(Same story also aired on PRI’s The World, 6/10/15).
Interview with Noisey (Vice.com)
How the Bay Area’s Filipino Mobile DJ Scene Turned High Schoolers Into Future Turntablism Stars. Noisey/Vice.com, (4/30/15)
Oliver Wang interviewed on The Cipher
I was recently interviewed for The Cipher podcast about the book (and other matters) and interviewer Shawn Setaro did a remarkable job of digging up found sound related to everyone from Cameron Paul to Francis Grasso to Jazzy Jim to Q-Bert to the Mission High drill team. Respect.