J Boogie

Justin Boland aka J Boogie is a DJ / producer from San Francisco with over 25 years of experience in the music industry both as an artist and a music director.

He is currently the Hip Hop Curator at Pandora Media, responsible for programming genre stations and adding music to the R&B, hip hop and reggae libraries. J Boogie has also worked at Beats, Pulselocker, Spinner.com, AOL Music, Amoeba Music, KUSF 90.3 FM and more.

He was born in September 1973. He is signed to the Om Records label, and has 3 full-length albums as well as several mix CDs. He has also been featured on several compilations such as Mushroom Jazz and the OM Lounge series. His style includes a mixture of downtempo, hip-hop, funk, dub, soul, afrobeat, Latin, dancehall, and electronic. He is the co-creator of the radio show "Beatsauce," along with DJs Raw B, and Wisdom on KUSF, which was awarded "Best hip-hop show" by citysearch.com, the S.F. Bay Guardian, and the S.F. Weekly. He was also one of the long time residents at Dub Mission, a weekly reggae/roots party in San Francisco.

J has a band called J Boogie's Dubtronic Science, which features himself and a few other frequent contributors. They play a mix of styles and feature members of Jazz Mafia on horns, an Afro Latin percussion percussionist, Aima the Dreamer, Deuce Eclipse and Rich Armstrong on vocals, and sometimes special guests such as Zion I or Lyrics Born. Although Dubtronic Science uses production techniques popularized in Dub music, the album does not fall under that genre.

J-Boogie has been DJing since 1991. He started on the radio in college radio at KUSF. When DJing, he integrates various techniques and musical genres including dub, soul, hip–hop, reggae, funk, Latin, afro-beat, bhangra, dancehall, disco, electro and house.

J-Boogie has earned awards such as “SF’s Best Club DJ” by SF Weekly, "SF’s Best Radio & Club DJ" by citysearch.com and "Best Hip–Hop Radio Show" by SF Bay Guardian.

J-Boogie DJs around the world at places like APT, Turntables on the Hudson, Deep Space NYC, 18th Street Lounge, Halo, Temple Bar, Afro Funke, Root Down, Firecracker, The Do Over and Deep LA. He has also been on tour with Widespread Panic, Bassnectar and Spearhead, and has opened for George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Mark Farina, Louie Vega, DJ Krush, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Breakestra, RJD2, PPP, and Nickodemus.

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