Prince Klassen

A few years ago I celebrated my 25th anniversary of DJing. That same year I was asked to do a set at Brooklyn's venerable Musicland. The space had been growing in the underground world, and the DJs / selectors were some of my absolute heroes, so I was excited to play the space. Things started at 11PM and eventually broke daylight, going until somewhere between 7-8AM. At the end of it I realized I had only gone through a single crate of records, with 2 more full crates left untouched. Doing quick / rough math, and still feeling energized, I felt I could easily keep going and immediately set out to try for a marathon 25 hour set to celebrate the milestone.

I eventually found a location that would let me use the space and set a date, but life got in the way and never made the 25 hour party a reality.

From that idea, I still wanted to celebrate in some way and came up with recording an hour long mix every day for 25 days. They lived exclusively on Toshi's Dailysession.com up until very recently, but the site seems to be in some sort of dormancy, and I'm now finally posting them on my page for the first time in a slightly modified format. I've compiled them into 5 x 5 mixes; 5 hours per mix broken into 5 sections.

(Listen to the entire 25 Hour Party People Series here: https://soundcloud.com/princeklassen/sets/25-hour-party-people)

I'm not entirely sure where all that time came and went, but I am happy to say that through all the waves of new faces coming and going I am still excited to share these moments with people on the dance floor.

A few years ago I celebrated my 25th anniversary of DJing. That same year I was asked to do a set at Brooklyn's venerable Musicland. The space had been growing in the underground world, and the DJs / selectors were some of my absolute heroes, so I was excited to play the space. Things started at 11PM and eventually broke daylight, going until somewhere between 7-8AM. At the end of it I realized I had only gone through a single crate of records, with 2 more full crates left untouched. Doing quick / rough math, and still feeling energized, I felt I could easily keep going and immediately set out to try for a marathon 25 hour set to celebrate the milestone.

I eventually found a location that would let me use the space and set a date, but life got in the way and never made the 25 hour party a reality.

From that idea, I still wanted to celebrate in some way and came up with recording an hour long mix every day for 25 days. They lived exclusively on Toshi's Dailysession.com up until very recently, but the site seems to be in some sort of dormancy, and I'm now finally posting them on my page for the first time in a slightly modified format. I've compiled them into 5 x 5 mixes; 5 hours per mix broken into 5 sections.

(Listen to the whole 25 Hour Party People Series here: https://soundcloud.com/princeklassen/sets/25-hour-party-people)

I'm not entirely sure where all that time came and went, but I am happy to say that through all the waves of new faces coming and going I am still excited to share these moments with people on the dance floor.

A few years ago I celebrated my 25th anniversary of DJing. That same year I was asked to do a set at Brooklyn's venerable Musicland. The space had been growing in the underground world, and the DJs / selectors were some of my absolute heroes, so I was excited to play the space. Things started at 11PM and eventually broke daylight, going until somewhere between 7-8AM. At the end of it I realized I had only gone through a single crate of records, with 2 more full crates left untouched. Doing quick / rough math, and still feeling energized, I felt I could easily keep going and immediately set out to try for a marathon 25 hour set to celebrate the milestone.

I eventually found a location that would let me use the space and set a date, but life got in the way and never made the 25 hour party a reality.

From that idea, I still wanted to celebrate in some way and came up with recording an hour long mix every day for 25 days. They lived exclusively on Toshi's Dailysession.com up until very recently, but the site seems to be in some sort of dormancy, and I'm now finally posting them on my page for the first time in a slightly modified format. I've compiled them into 5 x 5 mixes; 5 hours per mix broken into 5 sections.

(Listen to the entire 25 Hour Party People Series here: https://soundcloud.com/princeklassen/sets/25-hour-party-people)

I'm not entirely sure where all that time came and went, but I am happy to say that through all the waves of new faces coming and going I am still excited to share these moments with people on the dance floor.

A few years ago I celebrated my 25th anniversary of DJing. That same year I was asked to do a set at Brooklyn's venerable Musicland. The space had been growing in the underground world, and the DJs / selectors were some of my absolute heroes, so I was excited to play the space. Things started at 11PM and eventually broke daylight, going until somewhere between 7-8AM. At the end of it I realized I had only gone through a single crate of records, with 2 more full crates left untouched. Doing quick / rough math, and still feeling energized, I felt I could easily keep going and immediately set out to try for a marathon 25 hour set to celebrate the milestone.

I eventually found a location that would let me use the space and set a date, but life got in the way and never made the 25 hour party a reality.

From that idea, I still wanted to celebrate in some way and came up with recording an hour long mix every day for 25 days. They lived exclusively on Toshi's Dailysession.com up until very recently, but the site seems to be in some sort of dormancy, and I'm now finally posting them on my page for the first time in a slightly modified format. I've compiled them into 5 x 5 mixes; 5 hours per mix broken into 5 sections.

(Listen to 25 Hour Party People series here: soundcloud.com/princeklassen/sets/25-hour-party-people)

I'm not entirely sure where all that time came and went, but I am happy to say that through all the waves of new faces coming and going I am still excited to share these moments with people on the dance floor.

A few years ago I celebrated my 25th anniversary of DJing. That same year I was asked to do a set at Brooklyn's venerable Musicland. The space had been growing in the underground world, and the DJs / selectors were some of my absolute heroes, so I was excited to play the space. Things started at 11PM and eventually broke daylight, going until somewhere between 7-8AM. At the end of it I realized I had only gone through a single crate of records, with 2 more full crates left untouched. Doing quick / rough math, and still feeling energized, I felt I could easily keep going and immediately set out to try for a marathon 25 hour set to celebrate the milestone.

I eventually found a location that would let me use the space and set a date, but life got in the way and never made the 25 hour party a reality.

From that idea, I still wanted to celebrate in some way and came up with recording an hour long mix every day for 25 days. They lived exclusively on Toshi's Dailysession.com up until very recently, but the site seems to be in some sort of dormancy, and I'm now finally posting them on my page for the first time in a slightly modified format. I've compiled them into 5 x 5 mixes; 5 hours per mix broken into 5 sections.

(Find the 25 Hour Party People Series here: soundcloud.com/princeklassen/sets/25-hour-party-people)

I'm not entirely sure where all that time came and went, but I am happy to say that through all the waves of new faces coming and going I am still excited to share these moments with people on the dance floor.

Recorded live from Bar Meridian, later Summer 2023

Airplane Mode is a seasonal monthly listening session held at Bar Meridian where I selected sounds from around the 🌎 , offering a time to chat with a friend you been meaning to see for months, disconnect from a digital landscape, or just enjoy the 🌞 in your face.

On the live recording you will hear tracks unmixed, in their entirety, selected as they presented themselves to me in the moment.

You can expect soulful, jazzy, psychedelic, breezy jams from Shintaro Sakamoto, Gary Bartz, Hal Bradbury, Chu Kosaka + More!

I hope it brings a little bit of sunshine to your world.

Listen to A I R P L A N E M O D E PT. 2 HERE

Earlier in the month I played at Good Bar in Greenpoint to a fine group of uninterested young people, but I still had a great time and recorded the set that can now be heard exclusively at DailySession.

Recorded live from Bar Meridian late Summer 2023. (Listen)

The Spring Equinox🌹🪻🌸🌺🌷🌻 is here and to celebrate I’m hosting a new live recording that took place late Summer of 2023 that will hopefully get us in the spirit of the oncoming season of allergies and block parties.

Airplane Mode is a seasonal monthly listening session held at Bar Meridian where I selected sounds from around the 🌎 , offering a time to chat with a friend you been meaning to see for months, disconnect from a digital landscape, or just enjoy the 🌞 in your face.

On the live recording you will hear tracks unmixed, in their entirety, selected as they presented themselves to me in the moment.

You can expect soulful, jazzy, psychedelic, breezy jams from Marcos Resende & index, Azymuth, Hiroshi Sato, Naoya Matsuoka, Gabor Szabo, Djavan, Kalapana & more.

I hope it brings a little bit of sunshine to your world.

Listen to the latest episode of Shared Time recorded live from The Lot Radio 12.11.23.

Listen at Mixcloud or Soundcloud.

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In the Fall of 2019 I was out in LA for a few days doing a pop-up at Mohawk General Store for Tokyo / New York’s Face Records. The 2-day event was well attended and I met some great people over the weekend, but two customers stuck out because, as chance would have it, we struck up a conversation and I asked if anything was happening that evening. 

“We are going to see Pharoah Sanders perform tonight in Santa Monica”

I immediately lit up, asking if tickets were still available. I called The Moss Theater immediately and they said it was sold out, but there may be tickets if a few customers don’t show. Needless to say, I took the chance. The pop-up was done at 7, the show started at 8… Silver Lake to Santa Monica had never been traversed in such a way until that night, but I had to make it.  

I happened to be staying in Santa Monica that weekend, not too far from the performance with an old friend and former co-worker of Waterloo Records. I called her on the way to the theater and told her to meet me there and possibly stand in line if she gets there before me. She books it on a scooter, I’m hauling (J-AZZ) down the road catching a beautiful LA sunset, and we arrived seconds apart from each other. I put the car in park and my phone rings… “WE GOT TICKETS”.

The performance was a duo, Benito Gonzales on piano and Pharoah Sanders on sax. I’d never seen Pharoah in such an intimate lineup before, so I was very excited for the evening. The performance was excellent, but it was the end that made the evening even more magical. Pharoah had the crowd dancing & clapping along for his last number and when they finished the host surprised Pharoah with a birthday cake.… Pharoah then tells her that his birthday was actually tomorrow, the 13th!! While she was slightly embarrassed, we all got to celebrate Pharoah’s birthday WITH Pharoah one day ahead of schedule.

Thanks to the wonders of modern technology, I recorded audio of the full performance on my phone and tried to clean it up as best as possible for everyone to enjoy this year on what would have been Pharoah’s 83rd birthday. 

Recorded live from The Lot Radio 07.11.23

I finally got some time allotted at The Lot Radio a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately it was only an hour so I tried to make the most of it with a quick assortment of breezy soulful jams. Thanks for listening and the support, you can watch below via The Lot Radio's Youtube channel OR listen via Mixcloud or via Soundcloud