It’s time to celebrate a decade of soul and funk music.

Posted on September 11, 2019 by gordy

TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party | 10 YEAR ANNIVERSARY
with guest DJ SKEME RICHARDS
Saturday, October 5th
Spirit (Upstairs & Downstairs) // 242 51st St.
Pittsburgh, PA 15201
9pm – 2am; 21+ w/ ID, $10 at the door
RSVP on Facebook

*** The first 50 people will receive a limited edition poster from Pittsburgh’s Triangle Poster & Printing Co. ***

This is it. It’s time to celebrate a decade of soul music.

From the beginning, we didn’t know it would last this long. Despite ever-changing tastes and trends, TITLE TOWN has stayed relevant and has become one of Pittsburgh’s longest running and most successful events. Join us on Saturday, October 5th when we mark TEN YEARS of TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party and welcome Philadelphia’s DJ Skeme Richards to Spirit Hall to help us celebrate.

Even better – we’re now bringing in 2 heavy hitters to help us rock two FLOORS of soul and funk! Buscrates (16-bit Ensemble, ELQ) + Anthony Susan (For The Record, Get Down Gang) will keep yr head nodding in the Lodge all night.

In a world filled with misinformation and distractions – this music remains a constant. It helps us escape the real world, but also connects us – on the dance the floor – to one another. It heals us and takes us on a journey – from deep funk to disco, from Motown to Memphis, from Northern Soul to ‘50s R&B – for a few hours every month.

TITLE TOWN kicked off at the Shadow Lounge in East Liberty in October 2009 and has been holding it down for ten years at venues throughout the city. Up-tempo beats, funky grooves, and a blast of infectious energy from decades past, TITLE TOWN spins hand-picked rarities from regional scenes around the country – including music from right here in the Burgh. These anthems – cathartic classics to the rarest of the rare – will make you move.

THANK YOU to everyone who has supported us, danced with us, served (and spilled) drinks with us over the last ten years – let’s do it again.

DJ Skeme Richards

Lexdray writes, “When you think of Philadelphia’s rich history of musical contributions, you automatically notice that it is also a city known for birthing some of the greatest internationally known DJ’s who are masters of their art. One such person who has deep roots and connections to the City of Brotherly Love is Skeme Richards.”

“Digging and spinning genres across the board from Hip Hop to House, Funk & Soul classics to Disco, Nu Disco and beyond, Skeme keeps things classy and continuously strives to separate himself from the pack. While maintaining originality, he keeps his first class status as a true party rocker all while satisfying the partygoer at the same time. His all 45 Funk & Soul party, Hot Peas & Butta is one of the most successful brands in the genre worldwide.”

TITLE TOWN is excited to welcome DJ Skeme Richards as our guest for our ten year anniversary.

Advance tickets are on sale now. Admission is guaranteed with an advance ticket until 11:30 PM. After 11:30 PM admission is dependent on venue capacity.
Doors open early at 9pm. Early arrival is recommended.

Kick off 2019 with that SOUL feeling

Posted on January 4, 2019 by gordy

TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party

Saturday, January 5th 2019

9pm-2am, 21+, $5 before 10pm / $7 after

Spirit 242 51st St. 15201

TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party returns to Spirit Saturday, January 5th. Join us downstairs in the Spirit Lodge the first Saturday of each month. This month we are joined by Pittsburgh expatriate DJ Phil.I.Am (Denver, CO). Doors open early at 9 pm and the party doesn’t stop until two in the morning.

Feel every vibe as we cover everything from Northern Soul to Motown and funky-jazz to disco, boogie, and Latin boogaloo – all on original 45 RPM vinyl. The party is inclusive, infectiously feel-good and totally fresh. There’s nothing else like it.

Now in its tenth year, TITLE TOWN upholds Pittsburgh’s rich DJ legacy with an appreciation for timeless tracks and seldom-heard sounds from decades past – Northern Soul, ‘70s nightclub Funk, deep Disco cuts and 80’s Boogie, 50’s and 60’s vintage Rhythm & Blues. The Steel City’s #1 soul party covers it all and everything in between. It’s Chuck Jackson meets The Jackson 5, the Steel City to the Motor City, with a feel-good house party atmosphere all night long.

The music was created for the dance floor: Uptempo beats, funky grooves, and a blast of infectious energy. TITLE TOWN navigates genres and eras, blending the best of labels such as Motown, Stax, and Chess with hand-picked rarities from regional soul scenes around the country including right here in the Burgh.

Posted on November 2, 2018 by gordy

SATURDAY, November 3rd

Spirit 242 51st St.

Pittsburgh, Pa

9pm – 2am; 21+ w/ ID

$5 before 10pm / $7 after

*** RSVP HERE ***

TITLE TOWN is back on Saturday, November 3rd at Spirit. This month we’re are joined by Pittsburgh’s own DJ BUSCRATES.

July 7th with guest DJ Justin ‘Juddy’ Hopper

Posted on July 7, 2018 by gordy

SATURDAY, July 7th

Spirit 242 51st St.

Pittsburgh, PA

9pm – 2am; 21+ w/ ID

$5 before 10pm / $7 after

TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party is back on July 7th at Spirit! Join us for FIVE HOURS of the forgotten era of groove. Whatever it is – funky bass lines, foot-stomping soul, disco-funk rarities, or floor filling favorites – this music will make you wind up your waist and get into it.

This month, we welcome special guest DJ Justin “Juddy” Hopper. Currently living in England, Justin Hopper is a DJ, writer, artist and curator who, in the early ‘00s, helped cement Pittsburgh’s place in the growing soul and vinyl record scene. Armed with a few boxes of Northern Soul, cathartic ’50s & ’60s R&B, Latin Boogaloo, and then some – Juddy is back for a one night only affair and he’s been itchin’ to shake some action into your heads and dancin’ feet.

7 YEARS. Get ready.

Posted on November 11, 2016 by gordy

TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party
7 YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY
w/ special guest
DJ BUSCRATES

FRIDAY, November 25
Spirit (Upstairs) 242 51st St. Pittsburgh, PA
9pm – 2am; 21+ w/ ID

RARE SOUL ? DEEP FUNK ? DISCO ? VINTAGE R&B

THIS IS OUR 7-YEAR ANNIVERSARY AND OUR LAST PARTY OF 2016.

To help us celebrate, TITLE TOWN welcomes a maestro of contemporary modern funk and hip hop production, Orlando “Buscrates” Marshall aka the Sixteen Bit Ensemble. DJ, producer, musician, and one-third of Pittsburgh’s East Liberty Quarters collaboration – he will be in the house throwing down a not-so-common, all-45 set of fat funk, synth soul, underground boogie, disco beats, and beyond.

Music Is My Sanctuary writes “the producer known as Buscrates (or Buscrates 16-Bit Ensemble) captured our ear a couple years ago with his early releases; already miles ahead of your average beat maker. The Pittsburgh-native (now based in Atlanta) has an undeniable sound, a mix with Boogie-Funk, Soul heavy on synths but also with the influence of being raised on a steady dose of Boom Bap. His EP titled “The Spectrum” released on Omega Supreme Records is easily one of the best in the great Modern Funk movement.”

Get ready.

RSVP HERE FOR UPDATES

TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Dance Party w/ Special Guest DJ SMI

Posted on August 24, 2015 by gordy

TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Dance Party
w/ special guest DJ Smi

Saturday, September 12th at brillobox
4104 Penn Ave. (Bloomfield/Lawrenceville)
9 pm-2 am, 21+ $6

TITLE TOWN returns to Brillobox the second Saturday of each month and this time we are joined by DJ SMI. The former Shadow Lounge owner (where TITLE TOWN first began) is a musician and disc jockey, an all around creative guy and way back in the day he paid his crate digging dues while acquiring a massive amount of 45’s, which he will share with us on Saturday, September 12th. This is a rare opportunity to catch an all-45 set from the ubiquitous Pittsburgh DJ and co-founder of popular local events including Afro Heat and Classic Material.

Early arrival is always recommended, especially since the college students will be back in town this month. As an extra incentive we offer half-priced admission before 10 pm.

Bring your open minds and ears and be prepared to dance to FIVE HOURS of vintage Soul, Funk, R&B, Boogaloo, Disco, Boogie and MORE!!

RSVP here!

SAT 5/10: TITLE TOWN SOUL & FUNK PARTY with guest DJ TY JESSO

Posted on April 23, 2014 by gordy

SATURDAY, May 10th
TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party
w/ special guest DJ TY JESSO (Soulelujah, Boston)
brillobox (4104 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh)
Doors/music at 9pm; 21+; $6

RSVP HERE!

(Take note that this party starts at 9pm. Early arrival is recommended!)

Armed with two turntables and a mixer, TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party is back on May 5th and we’re serving up a five hour slice of the good stuff, the cream of the crop, the rhythm, funk and soul of cities like New Orleans, Detroit, and Memphis – and we DANCE and show our respect to the singers, songwriters and musicians and who made this music so great. So get to the Brillobox where the beat never stops. We do the heavy lifting while you pour back libations, dance manically and get sweaty with a bunch of your closest friends.

And things just keep gettin’ better.

This month we welcome guest DJ TY JESSO – hailing all the way from Providence, Rhode Island, Ty spins monthly at Boston’s longest and award winning soul and funk DJ night, SOULELUJAH. Now in it’s eleventh year, SOULELUJAH & TY JESSO know how to throw a party – pounding Northern and ‘60s soul, wild R&B, and boogaloo mixed up in a fervent, four-to-the-floor journey that makes this one of Boston’s best DJ nights – every Saturday at the legendary Middle East Club in Cambridge, Mass.

Besides Soulelujah, Ty has been DJing ’60s rock, soul, R&B, and garage 45s nationally and internationally since the ’80s. He has DJed top club nights such as New York’s Soul Clap & Dance Off, Smashed Blocked and the Subway Soul Club, Chicago’s ModChicago, Baltimore’s Save Your Soul, Miami’s Southernmost Soul Party as well as several New Untouchables Mod Events in London.

Get to it, Pittsburgh!

Soulelujah: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRb4xDlJ8KU

TITLE TOWN returns on November 9th with Washington D.C.’s DJ Nitekrawler!

Posted on October 23, 2013 by gordy

TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party
w/ guest DJ NITEKRAWLER (Moneytown, D.C. Soul Recordings)
Saturday, November 9th
BRILLOBOX (4104 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh)
9pm – 2am; $6; 21+

RSVP on Facebook for prizes and updates!

DOORS OPEN EARLY AT 9 P.M. EARLY ARRIVAL IS RECOMMENDED.

“Voted one of Pittsburgh’s best dance parties of 2013 by Pittsburgh City Paper readers!”

We’re still reelin’ from having wrapped four successful years of TITLE TOWN, but Pittsburgh’s dance-centric soul party is turnin’ things up on November 9th with a special guest appearance from Washington D.C.’s DJ NITEKRAWLER – DJ, collector and driving force behind D.C. Soul Recordings and MONEYTOWN.

As any music fan knows, a steady diet of familiar, yet fresh sounds is the perfect recipe for a good dance party, so expect everything from obscure ‘60s & ‘70s soul, deep and classic funk, vintage rhythm & blues, Latin boogaloo, uptempo disco and anything (and everything) else that makes your Saturday night move – all at 45 revolutions per minute.

ABOUT DJ NITEKRAWLER

We gotta say, not many DJs in the game can throw down an all-45 set of downright obscure and forgotten 45s while maintaining a high level of feel-good party rocking craftsmanship. Kevin Coombe a.k.a DJ Nitekrawler has been honing his skills at H Street’s Little Miss Whiskey’s Golden Dollar for years. His MONEYTOWN party continues to be D.C.’s best outlet for a dance-friendly mix of funk, soul, boogaloo, breakbeats, Latin, and more.

The Washington Post writes, “DJ Nitekrawler has getting crowds to dance down to a science: wickedly funky drums. Deep, rubbery bass. Punching horns. Shaking tambourine. The unmistakable chicka-chicka shuffle of wah-wah guitar.” He’s not only a schooled DJ dropping mean grooves, but a catalyst behind the cataloging of records by legends and lesser-known artists of the Washington D.C. & Maryland funk, soul, & R&B era of the ’60s to the early ’90s (including all related sub-genres and descendants such as Go-Go and Disco). In 2010, DJ Nitekrawler was featured on NPR’s Morning Edition and is working on a book that delves deeper into the D.C. and Maryland music.

Don’t miss the one-two punch of DJ Nitekrawler and TITLE TOWN’s resident DJ Gordy G.

Discovering Old D.C. Soul (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/30/AR2009043001465.html

Funk On A 45: D.C. Soul Music Rediscovered (NPR)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122080915

DJ Nitekrawler Promo Mixes
https://soundcloud.com/nitekrawler45

Brillobox is located at 4104 Penn Avenue and TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party is a 21+ event. Doors open promptly at 9 p.m. Admission is $6 at the door. Early arrival is strongly encouraged.

TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party 4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY with New York City’s MR. FINE WINE

Posted on September 26, 2013 by gordy

TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party
4 YEAR ANNIVERSARY w/ guest DJ MR. FINE WINE (WFMU’s Downtown Soulville)
Saturday, October 12th
BRILLOBOX (4104 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh)
9pm – 2am; $6; 21+
RSVP HERE

On Saturday, October 12th, TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party will celebrate its four-year anniversary at the Brillobox. The party, founded by host DJs J.Malls and Gordy G., will continue its tradition of bringing some of the top DJs of the day to the Burgh with a special guest appearance from New York City’s MR. FINE WINE – DJ and radio host of WFMU’s Downtown Soulville.

In addition to Mr Fine Wine, New York City’s DJ ONE MINT JULEP will be in the house spinning her brand of wild R&B and soul.

ABOUT MR. FINE WINE

Mr. Fine Wine grew up in Detroit in the 1960s and ’70s, surrounded by music and by music-industry people. His schoolmates included the offspring of Motown stars like Eddie Kendricks and David Ruffin; his uncle (believe it or not!) taught John Lee Hooker how to play guitar chords and owned a local label that put out jazz and soul records. An avid collector of soul 45s for more than 25 years now, Fine Wine took up DJ’ing soon after he relocated to New York City. His radio show, “Downtown Soulville” (www.wfmu.org/playlists/sv), has been converting casual listeners around the globe into soul freaks since 1994. TimeOut London magazine called it one of the best independent music podcasts in the world, and the Village Voice named it New York’s best radio show in 2011. In addition to presiding over many local dance parties through the years (including the Empire State Soul Club, Bumpshop, Horse River Social, and Thee Knights of the Round Tables), he has held down a weekly residency at Manhattan dive bar Botanica since 1996—perhaps the longest-running weekly soul-45 listening party anywhere, and one that has attracted visiting luminaries such as Keb Darge, Yo La Tengo, Cut Chemist, the Dap Kings, and the Dirtbombs. Fine Wine has spun his across-the-board mix of vintage R&B, soul, blues, and funk in Spain, Belgium, Turkey, Italy, Russia, Scotland, Finland, England, Canada, Norway, and Germany, and he has backed the likes of Sharon Jones, the Mighty Hannibal, the Gories, Brian Auger, Dee Dee Ramone, DJ Shadow, the Detroit Cobras, Cody Black, Rudy Ray Moore, and Nathaniel Mayer. He has also compiled and written liner notes for the collections “Vital Organs” (Grooovysounds Unltd.), “Crash of Thunder,” “Teach Me to Monkey,” “Scratch That Itch,” and “Just a Little Bit of the Jumpin’ Bean” (Vampisoul); he has two more Vampisoul compilations due out in 2014. Fine Wine and his friend the soul legend the Mighty Hannibal are the subjects of a feature-length documentary film, currently in production, called “Showtime.”

Downtown Soulville archives page: http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/sv

Above photo credit: Eilon Paz, Dust & Grooves

Oh Baby, Don’t You Weep: TITLE TOWN returns with guest DJ JUDDY!

Posted on August 14, 2013 by gordy

TITLE TOWN Soul & Funk Party
w/ guest DJ JUDDY (Pittsburgh, UK)
SATURDAY, September 7th
BRILLOBOX (4104 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh)
9pm – 2am; $5

Oh Baby, Don’t You Weep because the Dream Team is BACK, September 7th at BRILLOBOX!

Attention: Pittsburgh – put on your red dress and your hi-heel sneakers because the dream team is back: The one-two punch that made you shake your head and get outta bed; the serious heavyweights, the greats of the stay-up-lates; the purveyors of Maximum R’n’B, spinners of platters what matters from time immemorial – back together again, Mssrs. GORDY G and JUDDY bringin’ down the TITLE TOWN!

While Gordy’s name is the one that makes all fliers get higher, you gotta ask your mama and your papa if you wanna know about Gentleman Juddy: Once sire of Pittsburgh’s soul shakin’ scene, since the dawn of the 21^st Century, Juddy’s made a mess with a stack of rare-n-scratchy NORTHERN SOUL, NEW ORLEANS VIPERS, ’50s R&B & BLUES and ’60s BOOGALOOS as co-founder of influential nights like Soulcialism and Vipers Soul Club. And now he’s back from for ONE NIGHT ONLY all the way from London, England, to spill your drink and make ya think!

TITLE TOWN. It’s a hedonistic throwback to the days of Memphis juke joints and funky New Orleans soul, Pittsburgh record hops and Manchester’s Twisted Wheel club. You can lose your cool and cure your dance fever to the soulful sounds of GENO WASHINGTON and THE 5 ROYALES, hear vintage club tracks from RALPH “SOUL” JACKSON and ERMA FRANKLIN and party ‘til the wee hours with disco and modern soul sounds of EDDIE KENDRICKS and LARRY MCGEE.

We need you. And you need it too.

Come out, shake it down, and help show Juddy the Burgh’ hasn’t skipped a beat.

Tell us you’re comin’: RSVP here.

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