Lance DeSardi – Jazz Salad EP (Pacific Coast House) 12″

pre-order for 18th Oct

Dallas Native Lance Desardi arrived in Los Angels alongside his roommate JT
Donaldson sometime around 1999. At that time I was the head buyer & managing L.A’s
largest independent dance music shop in the heart of Hollywood “Beatnonstop” on
Melrose Avenue.
We had just put out a double pack vinyl on Beatnonstop and a single on PCH feat.
Myself & Cpen on both.
Lance & J.T were introduced to me by Chris Penny aka CPen who was also a Dallas
transplant to L.A and as chance would have it they were both looking for jobs.
The two had been sojourning in Chicago for about two years under the tutelidge of
Spencer Kincy aka Gemini and the House Mayor of Chicago Derrick Carter.
I hired them both and we soon became fast friends. I would lend them pieces of gear
and keyboards etc to work on projects and suddenly we had this little community of
producers and artist’s working on beats, bringing them into the shop for “show & tell.”
This created a healthy atmosphere of us all pushing each other to make songs for the
labels. This is one of the reasons Seductive, Pacific Coast House & Pacific Traxx etc
were started to house the different projects and alias’s of us at that time.
One day Lance showed up to work at the shop beaming from ear to ear a some pep in
his step. Him and another co-worker Jaime G had gone into the studio that week and
banged out “Jazz Salad.”
As soon as Lance slipped in the DAT tape and the track came thundering through the
speakers with Jaime’s deep Latin intro I knew it was going to be a big tune in the
underground. Such a groove and so infectious it is undeniable even today 20 odd years
later.
So nice to see it back out on wax and not at the hefty discos price tag of over a hundred
quid!
The flip side “Boing” is a deep late night groover that fits nicely into a Mark Farina style
set with bonus beats to boot.
Not to be missed.
Classic