ADAM GOLDSTONE | TRENDY ETERNAL
Anyone who knows me knows my older brother Adam Goldstone (Ibaye) was a big ass influence on me. Basically, he taught me everything i know about music. My brotha DJ Dusk taught me most of what i know about being a DJ. Losing both of them in a 5-month span in 2006 wasn't easy, but in a strange way it has given me a reason to continue my strange, complicated relationship with music and DJing. In many ways, i stay in touch with them thru DJing....even when (especially when?) no one else is really paying attention.
My brother Adam passed away at tha tender age of 37 roughly two years ago; my family continues to learn new things about Adam almost daily and tha process of mourning him has turned into a reconstruction of sorts -- a reconstruction of a dude who was pretty private, especially with his immediate family members, and a reconstruction of a community that literally spanned tha entire world. Straight up, Adam was a Master Jedi and tha people who loved him originate in his neighborhood in Alphabet City (as it should) and radiates outward to countless cities, countries and websites across tha world.
This Saturday, my family and me will commemorate my brother's life and his indelible impact on his adopted and beloved community in tha Lower East Side/Loisaida. We're doing something that on a human scale is small: dedicating a tree in his name, in Tompkins Square Park. But its massive and eternal in that it again calls his community together, one (maybe) last time, to remember him and bear witness to the greatness that he manifested in both life and legacy.
My brother was truly one of a kind, and like many of those who are difficult to fathom in life, his luster grows exponentially in death. He was definitely ahead of his time, yet like any master DJ was absorbed in tha past -- determined to "get it right" in the footsteps of his hero, Larry Levan.
Saturday, September 20 at around 4pm at Tompkins Square Park please join us if you knew Adam or respect his work. Just look for tha big ass motley group of people standing around a big ass tree. Even in New York, that should be easy to spot ;)
This is a really dope edit my brother did of ANOTHER edit that Master Jedi Danny Krivit did, of Lamont Dozier's disco classic, "Going Back to My Roots." Enjoy....
Adam, Danny Krivit & Friend (c. 2004)
WATER | ROOTS | ANCESTORS
Carrying on tradition means bringing those who came before along with you. It means lifting as you climb; for me especially, it means climbing when you feel like falling into space. I don't feel like i have tha option of falling anymore - i have a legacy to uphold, and a master teacher on top of tha mountain that i need to have a real conversation with. One day i hope to make them all proud....
BONUS JOINT: Jarvis Church, "Shake it Off" (AG Dancehall Remix) (RCA Records, 2002)
My brother Adam passed away at tha tender age of 37 roughly two years ago; my family continues to learn new things about Adam almost daily and tha process of mourning him has turned into a reconstruction of sorts -- a reconstruction of a dude who was pretty private, especially with his immediate family members, and a reconstruction of a community that literally spanned tha entire world. Straight up, Adam was a Master Jedi and tha people who loved him originate in his neighborhood in Alphabet City (as it should) and radiates outward to countless cities, countries and websites across tha world.
This Saturday, my family and me will commemorate my brother's life and his indelible impact on his adopted and beloved community in tha Lower East Side/Loisaida. We're doing something that on a human scale is small: dedicating a tree in his name, in Tompkins Square Park. But its massive and eternal in that it again calls his community together, one (maybe) last time, to remember him and bear witness to the greatness that he manifested in both life and legacy.
My brother was truly one of a kind, and like many of those who are difficult to fathom in life, his luster grows exponentially in death. He was definitely ahead of his time, yet like any master DJ was absorbed in tha past -- determined to "get it right" in the footsteps of his hero, Larry Levan.
Saturday, September 20 at around 4pm at Tompkins Square Park please join us if you knew Adam or respect his work. Just look for tha big ass motley group of people standing around a big ass tree. Even in New York, that should be easy to spot ;)
This is a really dope edit my brother did of ANOTHER edit that Master Jedi Danny Krivit did, of Lamont Dozier's disco classic, "Going Back to My Roots." Enjoy....
WATER | ROOTS | ANCESTORS
Carrying on tradition means bringing those who came before along with you. It means lifting as you climb; for me especially, it means climbing when you feel like falling into space. I don't feel like i have tha option of falling anymore - i have a legacy to uphold, and a master teacher on top of tha mountain that i need to have a real conversation with. One day i hope to make them all proud....
BONUS JOINT: Jarvis Church, "Shake it Off" (AG Dancehall Remix) (RCA Records, 2002)
posted by dj sake 1 at 1:29 PM
4 Comments:
Beautiful, Stefan.
Mon and Dad
That's fresh, Stefan. Trees are a good sysmbol of one's life. They have roots that go deeper than you can see that provide nourishmnet so they can grown and blossom.
I'm sure it was a beautiful day.
I see you shining, brother! Make it so!
Adam was a beautiful person. He is missed.
Mark B
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