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Eugene Sarduy didn’t have an easy life, but you would never know by talking to him. He was always cheerful, joking and positive. Several months after we started the SFDJA he had a stroke. He recovered and continued to be a friend and active member of our group. Many of us worked with him on gigs and he always let you know how much he appreciated the opportunity. He was a nice , good person and lord knows we need alot more of those here on this planet. Various health issues contributed to his untimely passing and it shocked us all.

On February 8 at a small service at Tropical Park we said goodbye to Eugene in our own ways. DJ Ralph Sosa collected funds to give to the family in their time of need. Ozzie Ramirez of SOBE GRAPHICS created a beautiful banner with various pictures of Eugene. His mixes played while we gathered with friends and family. We’ll miss him. The South Florida DJ Association

Yes, really.
First, it was the unicorn scrub.
Now, we bring you a body scrub formulated from actual meteors from outer space. Yes, really.
The aptly-named Blaq Meteor Shower Scrub is a blend of ingredient-activated charcoal and fragments of matter from the cosmos, to provide you with a gentle exfoliation and glow.
The scrub itself looks great and all but we can’t really get over the fact that it contains ACTUAL METEORITE DUST FROM OUTER SPACE.
Each pack even comes with its own unique code so you can check out where and when your space dust came from (ours was from a meteorite that crashed into Morocco).
This also means no two scrubs are the same, which is great because I don’t want to share my space dust with anyone else.
We’re not sure how you get into the business of mining meteorite dust, but we’re all about turning it into an iridescent shower scrub.
The future is now, people.
Check it out for yourself here.

As a young DJ, I was accustomed to glitzy, colorful , “artsy-fartsy” record covers. So when a friend of mine showed me his promo copy of the Village People’s first album with a plain black and white cover depicting a bunch of guys ( some of the wearing plaid, a “Disco fashion No-No “) I imagined this to be some kind of rock and Roll group.The back showed more of the same, although it did have a guy in a Tux. 4 tracks, 3 of them names of places ( although I had never heard of Fire Island) . The label Casablanca was a trusted source of good product with a decent track record so we sat down for our weekly listening session of new records. It’s intro at 120 BPM with a prominent triangle ” jangling” in the background was not the high energy sound we were used to, but the song quickly kicked into high gear and then the Casablanca magic started to happen and by the time the track ” Mixed” into the next we were up in the 130s with ” Hollywood ” the second cut on the side that seemlessly blended together. We were sold on the soulful vocal work ( some high pitched James Brown yells) and the percussion with heavy emphasis on Latin Percussion. The Village People may not have had us at ” Hello” but by the time we got to Hollywood we were fully onboard with these badly dressed guys that came from some ” Village ” we had never heard about here in Miami.
The original line-up comprised of lead singer, Victor Willis (cop/patrolman), David “Scar” Hodo (construction worker), Felipe Rose (Indian), Randy Jones (cowboy), Glenn Hughes (leather man), Alex Briley (the GI). The group was put together by Jacques Morali a french Music Producer who also produced The Ritchie Family.The Village People remains a “guilty pleasure” of many of today’s veteran jocks.

Tracklist
Side 1
Medley 10:46
San Francisco (You’ve Got Me)
In Hollywood (Everybody Is A Star)
Side 2
Fire Island 5:49
Village People