ANDY REICHEL (aka GEL-SOL; )
Current top 5 tracks:
Isaac Hayes, “Pursuit of the Pimpmobile” (Enterprise)
Mike Ratledge, “Riddles of the Sphinx – Sequence 3” (Mordant Music)
Uschi Brünin, “Eifersucht” (Amiga)
Wigwam, “Pedagogue” (Love Records)
Sonny Sharrock, “Once Upon a Time” (Axiom)
Crew/label affiliations: “Patchwerks; SYNPROV CORP (Monster Planet); Verses Records (Washington, D.C.)
Styles played: “Progressive rock, classic electronic, ambient, funk, psych, international. If it’s from ’67-’74, I almost don’t care what the genre is.”
Events organized: Monster Planet; various Patchwerks events
DJing philosophy: “The music depends on where and when, but I generally like to keep it weird, funky, and funny. I also prefer genre-hopping vs. playing the same type of music for an entire set.”
Preferred format: “Vinyl.”
Worst request: “A couple drunk women came into Hazlewood during PROG! and requested ‘(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life’ from the Dirty Dancing soundtrack, when I clearly wasn’t playing anything remotely poppy or crappy. That request was particularly chuckle-worthy to me, since Dirty Dancing was my mother’s favorite movie and it was filmed down the road from where I went to college. I told the women that I would absolutely not play that record, and if I possessed that record, I would break it over my knee.”
Upcoming events:
Gel-Sol/Monster Planet LIVE + VR Installation at Mokedo on Friday, October 20. Horse Head Bookends album release show.
Monster Planet: 3rd Mondays at Re-bar
PROG!: 3rd Thursdays at Hazlewood Bar
