Brook Legends: Raleigh's DJ Maverick

In this episode of The Vinyl Underground Podcast, Tony and Tim welcome special guest DJ Brook Legends. The three dive deep into Brook’s impressive journey, starting from his roots in Newark, NJ, his professional track career, to becoming a notable figure in Raleigh’s house music scene. They discuss Brook's influence from hip-hop and Latin music, his experience in the underground party scene, and his transition to DJing after an athletic injury. Brook also shares insights into his production techniques, collaborations, and the Raleigh House Collective's impact on the local music scene during COVID-19. The episode highlights Brooke's dedication to creating unique sounds, promoting house music in Raleigh, and his upcoming music projects. Don't miss this engaging conversation packed with history, music passion, and future aspirations.

00:00 Welcome and Guest Introduction
01:35 Brook Legends' Background and Journey
03:53 Influences and Musical Roots
08:56 DJing and Production Insights
14:40 Performing and Live Sets
22:37 The Dance Scene and Community
30:30 Raleigh vs. Charlotte Music Scene
36:39 Revamping Fayetteville Street
37:02 Alchemy's Underground Scene
37:29 Exploring Wilmington's Music Scene
38:16 Groove Lab and Greensboro's Party Scene
39:06 Asheville's Artistic Vibe
41:15 European Adventures and Party Cities
47:29 Raleigh House Collective's Rise
49:40 COVID-Era Underground Parties
55:55 Future of Raleigh's Music Scene
01:02:31 Upcoming Tracks and Projects

Creators and Guests

Host

Tim Piner

Host of the Vinyl Underground Podcast

Host

Tony Rivera

Built from the streets Specializing in Crowd Control

Guest

Brooke Legends

Having deep roots in Hip Hop, Reggaeton, House music and Jersey Club, Brook Legends creates unique sets thats refreshing to hear. Catch him at a venue near you!

What is The Vinyl Underground?

Welcome to The Vinyl Underground, a podcast created by fans, for fans of electronic music in North Carolina. Hosted by Crowd Control, this show dives deep into the local and regional scenes across Raleigh/Durham, Charlotte, Asheville, and Wilmington.

Our first series, Behind the Decks, showcases the hottest emerging DJs—sharing their stories, musical styles, inspirations, and favorite dancefloor moments. Whether you're Gen Z discovering the scene or a seasoned Gen X raver revisiting your roots, The Vinyl Underground is where beats meet community.

Tune in, get inspired, and stay connected to the movement.

03 - Vinyl Underground - Brook Legends
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Tony Rivera: Welcome back Party people to the Vinyl Underground [00:01:00] Podcast show. I'm Tony Technique here with my brother Tim Penna Hoola. And today we have, who do we have today?

Tim Piner: We got a stud that I've followed for for a minute, man. Brooke Legend. Good to have you here, man. Thanks. Thank y'all for having me. I appreciate it. Great smiling faces and DJs. I followed you and your house, collective squad, so much left quite a

Tony Rivera: history in the, in the, in the city, right? Yeah. Been around for a little bit. Yeah. It's on a hell of a party. Try. I

Brook Legends: try to, um, lay down the foundation to hopefully go down as one of the, one of the greats in Raleigh, but only Timem will tell.

Believe it. I believe it. Yeah.

Tony Rivera: Yeah. But we uh, got a lot to talk to, so let's get right into the show.

Brooke Legends. Like I said, my man, my main man, my undercover here around town. Yeah. I'm here. You know, he is not, you know, he's here, he's there, he's everywhere. You don't know where this guy's at.

Yeah. But, uh, we are here to just kind of, you know, get into it. My man's um, been doing a lot of busy things, a lot of great things kind of following you. And your, um, you know, what you've been doing with your production, with your DJ sets, you know, with your, you know, shows and stuff [00:02:00] like that. So, um, tell us a little about yourself.

Man, my man, Tim knows, uh, he knows a set.

Tim Piner: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, uh, like I said, uh, good to see man. And, um, you know, you've done great residencies, a lot of places, uh, you and the old crew. Yeah. Um, and briefly just, um, big love to Andrew Capi and Jay Stack Stack miss you guys. But, uh, yeah, you fell out a block party.

Uh, you, you've, yeah. You've done a lot of stuff, man. Yeah.

Brook Legends: So, so Raleigh's

Tim Piner: grateful,

Brook Legends: I guess, uh, I go a little bit back before the DJ days, so I'm originally from Newark, New Jersey, born and raised. Um, moved down to North Carolina for high school. And there, you know, went to Cardinal Gibbons High School in Raleigh.

Tim Piner: Smart kids. After that,

Brook Legends: uh, went up to App State, ran track and field studied, biology and chemistry. Nice man. Went into the workforce and actually ran track professionally for a little bit.

Tony Rivera: Nice. Oh,

Brook Legends: that's [00:03:00] what's up. So yeah, that was, that was, was running things everywhere. Yeah. I'm trying, I was trying.

It's just, uh, yeah,

Tony Rivera: I hear you. Right. That's, that's, that's pretty impressive, man. Actually, man, to actually be, uh, you know, a, a competitive athlete, you know, I always admire those type of people, put their body to the, you know, to the limits, you know?

Brook Legends: Mm. Yeah. It was, uh, it was tough training before work, after work.

It was a grind. Yeah. Yeah. But I was fortunate enough because that kind of, uh, training rigor is what led me to doing what I do as a dj. Like after I got hurt and I kind of had this, you know, self-identity crisis mm-hmm. Because I was an athlete all my life. Yeah. A couple friends took me to a festival and I was like, I think I could do that.

And then. The journey began 2019. Yeah. Right, right,

Tony Rivera: right. So, uh, I know that, um, you know, your background from what I've heard is like you have, you know, I know you have a lot of [00:04:00] hip hop and r and b that you've, you know, used as influences and stuff like that. Yeah. And, uh, growing up in Newark, I mean, Newark is like, you know, straight hardcore, like hip hop, red man and all those dude from Nord by nature, the laws of the underground.

Exactly. Exactly.

Brook Legends: But yeah speaking of those names, most deaf, I have influence. Uh mm-hmm. Uh, who else? I mean DMX. DMX. Yeah. Naughty by nature, like I said, Noriega, I mean that whole Yeah. Era kind of, uh, nineties, early two thousands. Hip hop is good shit, man. Is what really? Well, that's my background, you know?

Yeah. And then I also have Latin roots. My mom is from Panama, my dad is from Haiti. And so, you know, ton, uh, s bachata, that's, that's all in my background. So really just, I love music. I love, yeah. I love anything with rhythm. Yeah. Dancing. I was a real big [00:05:00] dancer before I became a dj. Yeah. Um, so if you, if you knew me Yeah.

In the early EDM stages, um, I was shuffling all the time, so, yeah. Oh,

Tim Piner: okay. So we gotta watch you fanning one day. 'cause then you can, I'll bust it out every once in a while, every

Brook Legends: once in a while bust out.

Tony Rivera: But I think I saw you one of the videos, but mean while back with, uh, with shuffling, was you got anything online with that?

No.

Brook Legends: Um, I. Might've. I'm not gonna shout you out. I'm just saying, I might have had something I might have had, so Yeah,

Tony Rivera: yeah, yeah. I know. But hey, it's all good. And um, you know, he was just running in place. That's what it was. Exactly, exactly. I'm trying to get a little workout in trying music for athlete, you know, it's like

Tim Piner: world class looking Yeah.

Trying to look like you, man. Like you, oh, it's, geez, man. Old man. Just trying to stay relevant, man. This,

Tony Rivera: yeah, this guy. But he's Jack. I just try, I try to catch up with his energy. I'm like, all right, I'm slowing down, bro. You keep going.

Tim Piner: Every DJ seems to be fit now, man. You know? Yeah. I don't know. It's, it's a

Tony Rivera: lifestyle.

I mean, you have to, if you're gonna be out all night, especially, [00:06:00] well, lemme take that back. There are some DJs that's just like, yo yeah, we're just, I'm just gonna get hammered tonight and do my party and whatever. Right. But there's

Brook Legends: some DJs who take it serious and they, I think that's a trend. It's starting to go that way.

I mean, yeah. You know, a couple years ago you had the John Summit, you know, my life is a bender. Everybody was Yeah. You know, just partying hard. And if you look at kind of the, the demographic now of DJs and even like. A lot of ravers, a lot of people are doing it sober. They're talking about sober r Like, I respect that new topic.

Yeah. But

Tony Rivera: no, I agree. And, um, I think, I think, and I've seen that trend and, you know actually, you know, I, I got stories to tell when I was younger. You know what I'm trying to say? I should be all too. Yeah.

Tim Piner: I'll own it too. But

Tony Rivera: You know, as I've gotten older, I'm like, you know what, I can just, I can go all night with just water.

Brook Legends: Right? Yep.

Tony Rivera: Seriously. Just, just gimme some water. You know what I'm trying to say? And, and, and the music is keeping me alive. Right? A hundred percent. A hundred percent. And that's, uh, something that I noticed that I, I thought I couldn't do.

Tim Piner: Me too. As soon as I get a bar, I bring my girl along sometimes. [00:07:00] And, you know, first thing, can we get a drink?

But I literally run to the stage, man, if I'm feeling, I'm like, yeah, no care's. Just

Brook Legends: music is, music is everything. And as a dj I used to think that I needed, you know, extra activities to, to make me better, to make the party last longer, you know what I'm saying? To

Tony Rivera: give you more, uh, uh, creativity and whatnot.

Exactly. You know, and they get caught in that trap and it's just like, eh, it doesn't

Brook Legends: work. Doesn't work. It doesn't work. And it's for a short period of time until you realize it's not gonna work. You know? Right. It's either you got it or you don't. Exactly. You got, it's nothing gonna enhance it. Right, right, right,

Tony Rivera: right.

Um, and, and, and you're right. I mean, you're more fo more focused as well, you know what, I'm totally man, more focused, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. You know, like when I'm, sometimes I'm just practicing at home. I'll practice like at a day, like at lunchtime. Yes. You know what I'm trying to say, and I'll just, I feel so, you know, just focused.

And that's, you know, that's all I'm doing. As opposed to if, you know, it was [00:08:00] later on the night, and then I'm like, you know, winding down, less focused. Yeah. But I feel like when you get the most, it's like stay steady. You study in the morning Right. And you got the most energy and you're, you know, more focused and stuff, so, right.

Yeah. But what, what makes you focused, man? To be

Brook Legends: honest, it's, I have kind of like this gift and a curse, right. It's, um, I'm really goal oriented. Mm-hmm. Once I put my mind to something, I gotta achieve it. And if I don't, I'm gonna keep grinding at it until I get it.

So, um, what makes me focus is the, the goals that I set.

Tony Rivera: Yeah.

Brook Legends: And, and just trying to achieve it. And not only that, but making my family proud. You know? That's good. Trying to leave behind, uh, a legacy for, yeah. Right. My family to, to have

Tony Rivera: great, yeah. That's, that's, uh, you know, a noble position to have, you know, especially, you know, a young man as yourself, you know what I'm saying?

That's building something. You have that positive outlook, you know, only good things could come appreciate, you know what I'm saying? And, and, you know, God bless you definitely for that, bro. A hundred percent.

Tim Piner: Yeah.

Tony Rivera: Been DJing. You know, got some production [00:09:00] now, which Tim and I has been checking out the production.

Tim's been digging some of your stuff over there.

Tim Piner: I have, man. Yeah,

Tony Rivera: right.

Tim Piner: You got, and you know, and also, um, Tony and I just observed even your album art and whatever is, is sick and cool as shit.

Brook Legends: Appreciate it.

Tim Piner: Um, yeah. But, uh, it's hard to say some favorites, but of course I enjoyed the three on, um, you know, the Panama Stan.

Uh, the third one might even be my favorite. What am I thinking of? Oh,

Brook Legends: wait, wait.

Tim Piner: Is it weight? Yeah,

Brook Legends: this, uh, Yingying twin sample. Yeah.

Tim Piner: Yeah. And you got some good samples too. Appreciate it. It, yeah.

Brook Legends: It's that, that hip hop background.

Tony Rivera: Yeah, I noticed a lot of the hip hop samples and stuff. It's your

Tim Piner: sound kind of, but eclectic.

'cause there, there's a range, but, um mm-hmm. You know, it's, it's unique. Appreciate it. Appreciate you got a signature? Yeah. Yeah,

Brook Legends: so shout out to Disco. He was the first, um, label to Groovy Bone Records to sign my track. That's big. Uh, yeah. Slut ho Freak. Which yeah, to this day is still, I think my, my best, my best production.

My best [00:10:00] work. Yeah. I think it has

Tony Rivera: about 11,000 listens on Spotify, something like that. One of those records too. But yeah,

Brook Legends: it's, uh, that was a, that was a special one. 'cause at that time, um, there was an artist that was out in London that came out with the track. They used a, a Whitney Houston sample.

Mm-hmm. And it was stuck in my head. It was stuck in my head. And then I was like, what would be the equivalent of like that record from where I'm from? And it was like Biggie and Little Kim, like a hundred percent. Yeah. And so, um, if you listen to it, it kind of has like this UK like minimal vibe. Mm-hmm.

But it has more of like a hip hop. Like undertone, whatnot. Yeah. Undertone to it. So where you're listening to it and you're just like, yeah. You know, makes you bob your head and, and kind of, A lot of my tracks do that. Like, yeah. I had to catch myself because when I make songs in the studio, I'm like, kind of like that hip hop feel and I'm like, wait, wait.

People need to dance to this. Not head hop. I [00:11:00] gotta kind of change, change the feeling sometimes, but yeah.

Tim Piner: Yeah. You know, you have to sample in, uh, OMI says on some shit. Oh, in a different case. Yeah.

Tony Rivera: Let's do it To honor. NY Hey, what do you use for production? I mean, like, uh,

Brook Legends: yeah. So I have your own production, uh, set up.

I do. So everything is in my house. Mm-hmm. Uh, nothing too crazy, but when I was making majority of my music earlier on, I was on a 2014 MacBook Air. Yeah. And on FL Studio. Right. Um, my brother showed me Fruity Loops. Yeah. Way back in the day when we were on like Napster. And shout out to the FL Studio users.

Shout out to FL Studio users. Right. Upgrade to Ableton.

Tony Rivera: Yeah.

Brook Legends: Upgrade to,

Tony Rivera: you're the nephew of Ableton. No, no. FL is so,

Brook Legends: FL is so powerful. But Ableton, when I switched over, it's got way better though. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's just a, it's a different animal and not only that, but a lot of people in the industry use it, so it makes it kind of easier to [00:12:00] collaborate.

Yeah. I find. Mm-hmm. Um, but yeah, so I use FL Studio, I have like an aki little MIDI keyboard. And then, uh, yeah, over the years I've just, a lot of artists have sent me sample packs and Yeah. Doing a lot of networking and Nice. And been able to have some, some cool one-on-one teaching moments. Luke Andy.

He's signed with Dirty Bird and Oh,

Tim Piner: dirty Bird dude, huh? Yeah. Yeah.

Brook Legends: He's, he's, he's awesome. Club Van

Tim Piner: Strokes label, right? Yeah,

Brook Legends: yeah, yeah. I think it's also on a label called No Rules Apply, which is Walker and Royce. Oh, yeah. Uh, awesome guy. My newest mentor, uh, right now is, um, Andre Salman out of Ecuador.

Tony Rivera: Mm-hmm.

Brook Legends: I saw the collaboration. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that's my mentor. He's, he's. Super gifted. It has a really good ear for like minimal glitchy. Yeah. Uh, house music. So it's dude that little

Tim Piner: country's got [00:13:00] like, I don't know, right around, you know, six artists. Yeah. South America's pumping right now. South America is

Brook Legends: pumping Latin, Latin tech house, Latin houses.

Yeah. Is big right now. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah.

Tony Rivera: And how'd you guys meet? Like, just through a label or,

Brook Legends: um, so I was in a production group called track Source. It was, uh, track source. Now you kind of sign up and you could send your records directly to labels or other artists. So I was one of the first kind of beta signees.

Mm-hmm. And so they had kind of the first people who started, you could pay a little bit extra and be a part of a production group. Um, so in that production group, there's probably like 35, 40 of us. And they would have, um, teachers come on. And I had Andre's music from the get go. I mean, that guy like I play a lot, I played a lot of his music.

So as soon as [00:14:00] he was announced as a teacher, I reached out to one of the leaders within the group. I said, Hey, is there any chance I could, you know, send him an email, say if I could get some one-on-one lessons? And it just so happens that he had one spot available and Wow. So I signed up. Awesome. And then we've been rocking for almost two years now.

Yeah.

Tim Piner: That's so cool, man. I love how inquisitive you are to just keep Yeah. Getting better and growing If you have stop learning. Yeah. If you stop learning, you're, you're stagnant water. Yeah.

Brook Legends: Get stagnant and stock. Everything is always changing, so you have to keep evolving.

Tony Rivera: Right. Yeah. Keep it interesting.

I, I get it, man. You know, same here keep it moving, keep it fresh, keeping changing. And uh, I see that you've been doing a lot of different things and whatnot.

And what is that you like to do the most? You know, like what, I mean, what is it that is the DJing? Is it the

Brook Legends: I really love performing perform? Um, yeah, like, so I have residencies in Raleigh, which I love 'cause I get to meet a lot of new people and [00:15:00] I,

Tim Piner: yeah.

Brook Legends: My job is to, specifically in Raleigh, put people onto house music that don't know that they like house music.

Yes. Everybody wants to go to these bars and listen to the same thing that you listen to on the radio when you're driving. Yeah. And I said, Uhuh, okay, let me put you onto something new and I have to do it in a way that they understand. So yes, fortunately, unfortunately, I have to mix in some top 40 recognizable vocals.

However, majority of my sets is underground focused. Pulling out those vocals, giving them something to recognize and then have them being like, dang, this beat behind it is, I like this. Yeah. You know? And so, um, luckily I've been with Nomad for two, almost coming up two years, and that's I think

Tim Piner: where, uh, one of your friends, uh, Eric, I've met him there and I see him at the Jan.

I, he remembered me. I like just dancing in front of you. Yeah. We became buddies

Brook Legends: and it is, it's awesome how that happens. You know, our community is, is so [00:16:00] small, but it's tight knit and, and you can meet somebody and they become lifelong friends afterwards. You know? That's, that's awesome. About, um, the electronic scene.

I love performing, so I have, uh, my friend Johnny Cupcake out in, in Charlotte. Mm-hmm. Um, he does House vibrations. Shout out to House Vibrations, huh? Yeah. Shout

Tony Rivera: out to House Vibrations. Those guys on Charlotte. Yeah. Mm-hmm. They're

Brook Legends: doing their thing and so he brings me out to shows and I mean, some of my best sets are Wow.

The Warehouse out there or at Black Box where we're playing Black box. Yeah. 1800 people. Yeah. And the feeling that I get where I could drop a song and I could like see that people are locked in. Yeah. There's no other feeling.

Tony Rivera: Yeah. That's a big venue too. Black box is pretty large. Um, shout out to some of the, probably DJs too.

Actually performed out there. Poetic was out there recently. We got Stitch Charlotte. Yeah,

Tim Piner: right. I mean, we kind of do in a way and Oh

Tony Rivera: yeah. Was, yeah. Sure. Yeah, definitely. Man, we was out in Panga just, you know, uh, a couple weeks ago and kind South Carolina. Yeah. Got there to mingle out with the Rethink people [00:17:00] and, uh, all the, you know, heads from out Charlotte and stuff like that.

Pretty cool, pretty cool crowd. Yeah, yeah, yeah, man. Yeah.

Tim Piner: On that note, I was gonna say, and we'll have to do this 'cause it's Charleston and it's just a chill vibe, but High tide's pretty fricking cool. And I know you've been on that docket.

Brook Legends: I got lucky enough to play two years ago. I played right before Odd Mob and it was insane.

There was probably like 3000 people. I, I think I saw a video there and it's like, dude, 3000 people at my set. That's the largest crowd I've played for before it was 1800 and I thought that was insane, you know? Um, but 3000 people and. Yeah, that was a pretty big, I just, does

Tim Piner: that change anything? Because I mean, you know, we all have a healthy nervousness in some series, but that, that's not, you know, 50 to 200 that's a shit ton of humans.

Yeah. So

Brook Legends: honestly, like I prepared a set and because the [00:18:00] nerves were just so high, like my hour and some change set turned into like 38 minutes. Ah. So like I was mixing way too quick. Yeah. So then after that it was like, okay, now I'm freestyling. Yeah. Which is fine because I typically. I haven't prepared a set since 2019.

Oh. So I like to freestyle my sets all the time. Appreciate it. Yeah. But I learned very quickly if somebody doesn't like what you prepared, you have to freestyle. So you might as well switch it up. Pivot, yeah, exactly. As far as a COVID work. Yeah. Yeah. You definitely have to pivot. So, um, I'll never forget, I, I was playing a block party which was my first party series ever in 2019.

I think it was the second or third time I had it, but I prepped out the set. I was super excited for it. I probably got to like the third track. It weren't feeling man, nobody was feeling nobody like, ah, damn, what am I gonna do now? And so I was like, [00:19:00] strike, you didn't want Pharrell. What do I do? You know?

And at that time, I mean, I'm, I'm gonna say it, I was, my technique was not as, nowhere near as polished as I was now, so. But yeah, I, I switched it up and I, I got the crowd, but like, that was the first time where I was like, okay, reading a room is essential. Mm-hmm. And what are you gonna do if you're Plan A doesn't work.

Yeah. Yeah. So ended up working out, but that was the last time I ever prepped a set. Yeah. Yeah. And I won't go back unless, I mean, I will go back. That's a lie. I will definitely purpose it for big festival shows. Yes. But also I will know to have extra in my arsenal. Yeah. And make mental notes for if I need to.

Yeah. Yeah. Go another way.

Tim Piner: That's nice, man. Yeah.

Tony Rivera: How do you, how do you, uh, like when you're going into a set or like something big like that, how do you prepare your playlist? Like you have certain genres, you have certain BPMs.

Brook Legends: People always say [00:20:00] that I'm crazy that I do this. This is a legendary secret right here. Yeah. Normally before every big show, like big show, meaning more than a hundred people, and if I'm downloading music from my set day of majority, like four hours before the set, I'm listening to about 15 seconds of a track, a little bit of the breakdown and the drop, and if I like it, I download it.

I'll test it out in the set, then I'm playing. That would be the first and last time I hear it before I actually play it. So majority of the time when everybody's listening to the track for the first time, like when I'm dropping it, I'm really busy. You're first to first style as well? Yeah. Nice. Are they

Tim Piner: typically newer?

Like probably not heard? Is that part of the gameplay? Right. I like to

Brook Legends: create, dig I, I don't like to play majority of things that people listen to. Like shazaming. If you Shazam a track, like I try to at least have like [00:21:00] majority of times less than 2000 shazams. Yeah. I try to even do like under a thousand.

God, they're

Tim Piner: hard to find on there. Man. It's frustrating when I'm listening to this, but you know, it's, yeah, but they're missing a lot. I'm

Brook Legends: always on SoundCloud. Me too. Just trying to find new music. Yeah. And it seems like today's a lot harder because everybody's trying to copy and paste and all music really sounds the same, so it's, it's getting harder to find.

Good material, Remes

Tony Rivera: man, remixes. I mean, you gotta make your own.

Tim Piner: Yeah. Yeah. The doors, the, it's all, you know, it's always like this certain, and by the way, it could be done very cool radial head or something Of course, but, you know, there's plenty of,

Tony Rivera: plenty of material out there that you can use.

Yeah. And just recreate something new.

Brook Legends: Yeah. You know? Yeah. Sampling is a very powerful tool.

Tony Rivera: Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you know, if, if, you know, if you're just playing it for a set, like I'll do a live remix, you know, on the spot. Mm-hmm. You know, just using four decks. But you know, I won't. Publish any of that stuff because I'm not gonna [00:22:00] go through all the sampling hurdles and all that stuff.

Yeah, exactly. Even though it came out dope. Right. You know, but I'd be like, nah

Brook Legends: special one time y'all heard it. Yeah, that's it. You know.

Tony Rivera: Oh, I might just record it at home. Like I've, I've done done a remix for, um, some old house song. Uh, you remember, um, Lil Louie? Oh, Lil Louie and

Tim Piner: French Kiss.

Tony Rivera: Yeah. Well, not, not that song, but Don with the, the saxophone, the, the, the, forgot what it's called without

Tim Piner: remembering the name.

I, I think I am recalling. Yeah. Saxophone Can, can be a nice app edition. Yeah. When done Right. Dope. Kind of

Tony Rivera: updated that kind of dope. But, um, yeah, man, that's, uh, kind of do those things, you know, that's cool. And fly. I mean, you know, I think a lot of DJs, I don't know if they, they're they're doing that nowadays, or you tell me man, like, how, how are they, I'm not up there quite often as some of the.

You know, guys that I've been dealing with, they're out there pretty much hitting the parties and all that. And, uh, yeah,

Brook Legends: it, it really just depends. There are some DJs that do live mixing, you know? Mm-hmm. And then there's [00:23:00] some that just play top four. It depends where you go. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I don't say top 40.

I'm sorry. They play in the top house hits. Yes. Yeah. Um, but really, it really just depends who's playing. Like sometimes I'll do live remixes where I'm taking an acapella over a beat. But I have to really be locked in and Yeah. Because I just, I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to mess up, you know?

Yeah, that's true.

Tony Rivera: You have the pressure under you. It makes a difference.

Brook Legends: Yeah. But, but when you see me doing that, like I've, I've posted videos where I'm doing that, like. Entire set. I'm not looking up at all, like mm-hmm. I'm down in the decks. Yeah. Locked in, just having fun. And majority of the time I'm just playing everything back in my head.

Like, oh, this will sound good. This will sound good. Queuing it up. Mm-hmm. Hitting a loop, bringing it in, chopping like it's, yeah. Yeah. It's fun. And I'm by myself. Yeah. And I, you know, it is, it's hard sometimes 'cause it's, yeah. People want you to interact with the crowd and Yeah. And so if I'm [00:24:00] in that mode, I don't see anybody, but Yeah.

Yeah. Pioneer, right? Yeah.

Tony Rivera: Well that's, that's how it used to be though. I mean, you know, the, the DJs were never part of like, you know, central stage and whatnot. You know what, I'm trying hit, hit in the back in the corner somewhere. It's like, you know, but you,

Brook Legends: so, and that's another, that's a very good point.

So I think people. Need that because people don't know how to dance, like mm-hmm. People do not know how to dance. They really don't. Lemme tell

Tony Rivera: you. I'm trying to bring that back. All Let's, let's, let's form a, let's form something. Let's do it. Because lemme tell you, I've been trying to push that and, and push actually a party because I don't know if you guys remember, there was used to be a part of New York Santos House Party down in, um, Manhattan.

And they used to have, well, I know you probably heard of, I know from Newark, um, the, the funk box parties. Yeah. With Tony Touch and these guys and those, all these dudes dance.

Tim Piner: Yeah. You go in there and just circle dancing.

Tony Rivera: Just all night, all night. Everyone's dancing.

Tim Piner: That's awesome. Put your fucking phones down

Brook Legends: and chill.

There's a group out in Charlotte after orbit, [00:25:00] well, Charlotte's a different animal, but after orbit they do a lot of Afro house. Mm-hmm. Um, really for the culture. That's nice, man. I haven't been to a party yet, but I see their videos. Everybody's dancing, everybody's sweaty, everybody's moving the footwork.

And I'm like, where, where have you guys been?

Tim Piner: And South Africa. Right? Everybody. Timbo or lemon and Irv and shim or black coffee shit. And they all are just, they're fun to watch the audience. They're vibing, they're vibing, vibing, dancing. Dancing and

Tony Rivera: uh, you know, but, but that type of vibe, you know, those, those, those circle dances, bring that, that, that vibe back.

Having dancers actually, because people like to see people dance. Yeah,

Brook Legends: yeah.

Tony Rivera: You know what I'm trying to say? And if you like to see people dance, guess what? You're gonna go over there to the club and you're gonna have fun because you're interacting with the crowd. Not even if you're dancing, you're watching people dance.

Yeah. Right.

Brook Legends: Yeah.

Tony Rivera: You know what I'm saying? And, uh, that's, it's always so fun. And, um, I haven't even found that type of scene out here yet.

Brook Legends: I don't know if it's, 'cause maybe house music's gotten so fast, you know, playing [00:26:00] one 30 mm, 1 29, 1 27, keep it, you can't dance like that whole night, you gotta dance.

The one eighth of the v you know, you got a two step, you got two step. Two step. Yeah. But like, what they're playing is you're talking about, you know, one 20 to like 1 26 max. Yeah. True. Whereas it's a lot slower than, you know, majority of the mm-hmm. The more majority of house music being played, played right now.

Yes. Right. Um, so I don't know, it's, it's always interesting if you. Take a look at my production. Now I'm slowing it down myself. I'm trying to create more 1 26. Mm-hmm. Um, yeah. I'm trying to make it sexier instead of so fast, you know? Mm-hmm. Like, I want people, when I play a song to like grab a partner and like yeah.

Mm-hmm. Be intimate dance, like feel house music. 'cause house music is just so beautiful, man. There's so many, you can take in so many directions. It just,

Tony Rivera: it's just, you know, forward to the floor. You can just put anything on it, bro. And make it different, different [00:27:00] BPMs. I mean, you know, Tim Sim, Tim's a encyclopedia here when it comes to life music.

This guy, he'll pull out songs outta everywhere. Like, how

Tim Piner: do you know

Tony Rivera: these things, bro?

Tim Piner: You know, I'm, I'm about two hours, uh, maybe not two all the time, but on SoundCloud and I just, you listen to copious sets and one thing I like about that lower not only their studies that this seems exorbitant, but.

You live longer, you dance a few times a week, there's data and if it's in a certain beats per minute range, about one 19 to 1 26. Mm-hmm. There's therapy in there. It's like two times the human heart rate. Mm-hmm. I've seems, you know, I don't know if we all walk around at 60 beats per minute, but mm-hmm. Um, but yeah, like, I like that there's data, but if, to me the low end hits more powerful, I'm just like, boom.

Yep, boom. It's not boom, boom. And that's fine 'cause good is good, but man, I just find that to be my range if I had a preference. Yeah. And you kind of going down that channel right now sounds like, and

Brook Legends: so I never talked about this, [00:28:00] but. Cleaning up on Sundays. That's why I was first introduced to house music.

I didn't know it was called house music. Yeah. You know, my parents used to blast. Mm-hmm. And, and coming from Jersey as well, you know, Jersey had a real big house scene. But like I said, it was just music to me. And growing up on Sundays, we listen to like CC Pennington. Mm-hmm. We listen to Robin s Justin name, the bigger alley us, um, the Follow Me.

Yeah, yeah. Follow me. Like that was, that's a, yeah, that's a big group, you know, and that's one 19 BP m you know, and if you listen to those tracks and if you watch clips from back in the day, everybody's dancing, they catch that groove. And I think it's because it's a slower rhythm. Yeah. But like you hear and you feel everything a lot more.

Yeah. 'cause it's just, it's a groove, you know.

Tony Rivera: It's true. And um, I've been getting into some of that a lot lately, man. Some of those slower tempo, older, you know, school, more old school house, you know. Yeah. Just kind of. And, you know, you could find some good stuff nowadays in that. A lot of good stuff [00:29:00] actually, you know, that's coming on that bpm.

Yeah,

Tim Piner: yeah,

Tony Rivera: exactly. Yeah, man, that's, that's, that's pretty good. And, um, yeah, I guess, um, dancing, right? I mean, you want to try to bring that back, Tim, man, let's learn some dance. Thank you guys

Tim Piner: for providing me a, a dance floor.

Tony Rivera: Yeah. Well, so Charlotte, right? Charlotte has a scene out there, apparently.

Brook Legends: Big time.

Big time. I, it is grown so much. I've seen

Tony Rivera: like one video out there when I was doing some research on some, like, uh, circle dances and just kind of did a quick search and I found like one video was like in some dark, like little room or whatever, and some people just doing like some circle dancing and whatnot.

I was like, mm-hmm. All right. Charlie got something happening. Yeah. That was it. I didn't, I didn't find anything else. And there's

Brook Legends: a, there's a lot of different groups, like I said after Orbit. I apologize if I'm saying the name wrong, but I'm pretty sure it's after Orbit is one House Vibration is another.

That's, that's more of your, your tech house techno. Mm. Um, you have Gang Stars, which is a newer group that kind of just popped up. Um, it a

Tim Piner: gang star. [00:30:00] They're legit. Right. But they haven't been around for 10, 15 years or, or I think it's of Different's one that end in two Rs maybe I'm thinking of.

Brook Legends: Yeah, that's no gang stars.

It's like kind of a newer group. Gotcha, gotcha. Um, that is in Charlotte now. They're really big on the Latin tech house. Yeah. Um, that

Tim Piner: Latin influence man. Yeah. You

Brook Legends: have, uh, offi, um, and his group he's also on the, the Latin Tech House side. Yeah, of course you have Groovy Bone.

That's more so on the base house, uh, UKG garage. But yeah, there's a lot of groups out in Charlotte and all their parties are hitting, I mean Yeah, they're, they're not, so, wait a minute, so wait

Tony Rivera: a minute. You're saying that. Charlotte is popping way more than Raleigh right now.

Brook Legends: Raleigh. I love y'all, but

Tony Rivera: it's kind a big shit, right?

Come on, Charlotte is, we got a shout out. Riley. You seen our skyline? Man, I love

Brook Legends: Raleigh. I fuck. I love Raleigh. So wait, hold on. Hold up.

Tony Rivera: More talent. I'm not gonna let you answer that Popul, but we know population matters. There's more there. So [00:31:00] you should have a

Tim Piner: bigger call. It's like pizza in New York versus pizza.

No, I get

Tony Rivera: it. You know, it is the financial capital of North Carolina. So they got a lot of money being pumped into all kinds of stuff, though. You know what I'm trying to say? I mean, difference. We, we

Brook Legends: have, we have some diamonds in the rough here that, that, that are not big, but they are, they can, you know, play.

Yes. And Charlotte, we're coming to your city next. Yes. All right.

Tim Piner: But we're gonna do our rally crew. 'cause we know there's a lot of hidden gems. Like, like you, there's lot, not even hidden, but just gems. Yeah. But yeah, there's

Brook Legends: a, there's a lot of kids on the come up out here that you know, I see that I've been, you know, watching.

'cause I may be involved in a party out here and could get a couple people on. Yes. Um, but yeah, I've been, I've been watching a lot of kids and I mean, biggest thing I can say, 'cause a lot of people always ask, put me on, put me on. Put out mixes. Yes. Let me, with good transitions. Make sure you're embedded, man.

Yes. I need transitions to [00:32:00] be good. Yes. If your transitions are off, I'm a stickler. I'm sorry. Yeah, that's fair. I can't give you a stamp approval. Practice it up. I'm nobody though. Just I'm put that out there. Yeah.

Tim Piner: But you know, open deck. Right? That's how we're meeting at clockwork at London Bridge. He's a devotee at London Bridge.

I'm usually working right. Until it kind of ends. But that's how you've met some great young kids. Yeah, a lot of kids. And I don't know, and I know a lot of 'em, Raleigh, but yeah, some

Tony Rivera: in my circle that are been putting out some pretty good stuff, like impressive, you know, and, um, trying to get those guys, push those guys to promote 'em as well, you know, and, um, they're just getting better.

So, you know, I think more and more, you know, that the scene grows out here. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You're getting more and more people who are, excuse me, um, you know, putting out some pretty good, pretty good stuff, so. Yeah. Yeah. But you're, you're saying that, hold on. They have to have a certain criteria in order for what to get with.

Brook Legends: You wanna put 'em on? He's got a discerning palette. So if [00:33:00] you, if for me personally, if I can put you on to this party called after hours. Mm-hmm. Ran by who cares? Mm-hmm. Because at the end of the day, who really cares?

Tim Piner: Shout out to Who cares while we're there. Shout out. Who cares? There you go. Shout out to Who cares?

We're in the merch.

Brook Legends: Uh, who cares? Uh, you wanna

Tim Piner: show us the back real quick? Yeah, I, I mean, if you don't mind, I mean, we're All right. Oh, need one of those. I like that. I need one of those. What is that Damn COVID sport?

Brook Legends: It actually is a virus because music, music is infectious. Spike proteins. Yeah, spike proteins.

Music is infectious. So yeah, it's a, it is a virus. Oh, that's awesome. That's brilliant, man. Yeah. And so, kind of who cares came about is, um, you know, wanting to have a party, wanted to go big, wanted to be in different locations where, you know, if people's asking, you know, who's throwing this party? Where is it?

Who cares? Just come, you know, like [00:34:00] who, why does it matter about who's throwing a party? Yeah. Just come dance, have fun. You know what I'm saying? It's not about the clout right's about the music. That's awesome. So very selfless

Tim Piner: way to look at it.

Tony Rivera: Of course, of course. And that's, uh, you know, we need more, more of that.

And um, you know, I'm glad guys like you are pioneering. You know, that, especially that underground after our scene, man. Those are fun. How many do we have in the, in the city right now? I mean, you know, now we

Brook Legends: have

Tony Rivera: three,

Brook Legends: yeah, three in Raleigh. Yeah. Shout out to, uh, fusions, which is Fusion parties. Yeah, capital City, shuffler.

That was also those guys. Look at that like a fun one. And then, um, we have, uh, a guy who came from Durham, now he's in Raleigh and that's, uh, it was Johann Connect, Connecticut Audio, Connecticut audio. Love, love Johann. I love, yo, those are my piece right there, man. I support them 1%. It shows are legit.

Tim Piner: And that's a cute little warehouse he is got over there.

So,

Brook Legends: I mean, and it's like, you know, it, it is good for the city. The, the more that we can have where we're actually showing off, like real [00:35:00] talent. Yeah. I think the more we can bring the music scene back because everybody's always hitting Charlotte. I agree. We don't have really how's hitting Raleigh? So, yeah.

One, we need a, we need a venue, but yeah, that's another topic. Something like

Tim Piner: Flash, but But a third of the size. Yeah. Something iconic, right? Yeah. I mean

Tony Rivera: that's, yeah. Well

Tim Piner: shout out to our rich friends. If you want to be benefactors, we'd love to do a warehouse with your rich as Yeah, yeah. Well, yeah.

Tony Rivera: That's a, hopefully it'll come. Hopefully Aura. Aura

Brook Legends: is supposed to be opening Aura. Yeah, aura. That's supposed to be a, a club. And I, I will be a resident there, so. Oh, good, good. I was gonna ask you about the

Tim Piner: residencies and, uh, other gigs. And I've even had ideas too, just from friends that I know that have pretty slick bars and Yeah.

So where's that at?

Brook Legends: Well, uh, aura. Yeah. Aura is a new club that is opening. They open for a little bit, now they're going under a [00:36:00] change in management. Mm-hmm. This is not paid advertising, by the way.

Yeah, yeah. Um, however, uh, Dutch is, uh, is it a Dutch, yeah. Okay. I've heard.

Tim Piner: Okay. So Aura is the name. Yeah. And, uh, it's, is it that class we're like southern chard? Is it a kind of No, no, no. It's not even, oh, it's,

Brook Legends: it's, no, it's okay. Like Fayetteville area. Oh, right on. Yeah. Um, it's like by the, like, off of South McDowell.

You take that street, that's kind of by, um, boxcar.

Tim Piner: Of course. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Go

Brook Legends: across that way. It is like right there.

Tim Piner: That's cool. So yeah, I love that junction area. There's cool stuff, crank arm and there's blah, blah, blah, that area. Chocolate. Right. Kind of my thinking. Right? Yep.

Brook Legends: They're building that area up big time.

They try, I think they're trying to revamp that Fayetteville Street area.

Tim Piner: I know. And they need to. Yeah. It's, it's just kind of, it, it's a good street, but it's just hits different, it's a bad energy sometimes. Yeah. And they need to do something more with the aesthetic of it.

Tony Rivera: Yeah, definitely. Yeah. It has a lot of potential.

Brook Legends: Yes, it does. But yeah. Or that's, um, [00:37:00] that is come online soon. Yeah. Yeah.

Tim Piner: I mean, he ran some cool, I've seen a lot of good shows at Alchemy. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Kinda underground. I picked and chose, but there were some badass acts that he brought to For sure. For sure.

Brook Legends: Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wax motif CRAs. Yeah. Benny Bassie was a good one.

Tim Piner: Christoff was one I yeah. Really enjoyed. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah.

Brook Legends: Some, some pretty big names come through Alchemy before. Yeah. That whole management change and Right,

Tim Piner: right. Life happens, man. You know?

Brook Legends: Yeah.

Tim Piner: How's Wilmington though? Real quick. Just to honor. So I'd say what the four big cities in Carolina. We got Charlotte, Raleigh, maybe Wilmington, then Winston-Salem would be my green Greensboro.

Mm-hmm. But Greensboro too, but yeah. So Wilmington, it seems like it's got a kind of a cool scene. I wish I could, Wilmington has

Brook Legends: a cool scene. They're more on the minimal side, which is pretty cool. Um, running it down there is sound waves. Sound waves. Yep. Yep. Sound waves. And that's gonna be Chandler Sinclair.

Yeah. And create, which is John Coin. [00:38:00] Mm-hmm. Um. Apologies if I said your name wrong. Sorry. Yeah, John Coone a coin. Okay. Um, but they are out in Wilmington. I know. They're, they're pushing the house scene. Yeah. Out there. Yeah, that's good. Lot of people out there. I've heard a lot of, some,

Tony Rivera: some rum. And then Greensboro

Brook Legends: Winston, you're looking at Tay Lively.

Yeah. Sot Lively has, um, a party out there called Groove Theory Groove.

Tony Rivera: Yeah. This was a Groove Lab, isn't it? Groove Lab. Oh, groove Lab Groove. Groove Lab. Sorry. Yeah.

Brook Legends: Groove Lab. Mm-hmm. Um, I think Groove Theory is a song. It is a groove. Tell me if

Tony Rivera: you

Brook Legends: want Yeah, there we go. We go. I'm listen, shout out to Group Theory.

Yeah, that's a great one. Yeah. But yeah, that's out in, uh, in Greensboro and, and used to be strictly social out in Greensboro also. Mm-hmm. Um, I remember that. I think that was his name was Freddy something. Freddie Todd, maybe? Mm-hmm. Okay. I don't know if he's still doing parties, but, um, that was in Greensboro.

I remember that. Yeah, I

Tim Piner: think [00:39:00] they did that day. Even if they're defunct. That was just a few years ago, right? Mm-hmm.

Tony Rivera: Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Yeah. Asheville too. Actually, we were in Panga. Oh, don't sleep on Asheville. Shit, Asheville's bad. We, we met a couple of heads out there. It's an artist city, Asheville. Yeah. You know, it's pretty good, you know, I don't know what, you know, I haven't really heard of the parties.

I know there's like one guy, I think, uh, Lex had mentioned it last time. Cloud or Mountain. I don't know if they're doing events and stuff like that, but there's another, some other people doing stuff out there that I know. Yeah, yeah. It's a great setting. And you know, they're close to Charlotte too, so it's like, you know, they're like pretty much an hour away or something like that, or something close.

Retire is

Tim Piner: like low key. Just kind of thought that something, you know, I'm trying to, it's like a, it's a Colorado vibes, but less. Rany Mountains, but it's just kind like people into fitness, little bohemian, all the breweries, which I love. Could be here. Yeah. Trying

Brook Legends: to retire in Italy. Oh, well Italy. I'm trying to retire.

You just want up to show in the mountains and the caucuses or whatever, just, yeah. Rin, shout out to, I went to, um, Kappa Festival. Yeah, [00:40:00] in 2023 in Turin, Italy in Tur, that's a

Tim Piner: unique

Brook Legends: life, life up north. Uh, beautiful. That's a pretty country. Yeah. I loved it. Loved it. Stayed in an Airbnb in the middle of the city.

Nobody spoke English. I was just, yeah. I was thriving.

Tim Piner: It wasn't the Rome vibe, which is no disrespect, what a historic amazing place, but Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

Tony Rivera: Oh yeah. The northern part of the, I mean, there's, there's a lot of mountains up that way too, I think, right? Mm-hmm. Yeah. It was like close to, uh, Switzerland.

Switzerland, yeah. Close to Switzerland.

Tim Piner: It's kinda like just low key guys, sort like just a richer vibe. And the topography is green, lush. Mm-hmm. Yeah. It is crazy. Creates a certain difference than, uh, the drier in South, which is also awesome. Nothing in Italy really sucks.

Brook Legends: No, no, no. I fell in love with the food and the people.

Yeah. Saw grandmas walking. Mm-hmm. Saw everybody just fellowshipping drink, drinking at little cafes. Yep. It was. Such a different, uh, vibe. Vibe, right? Yeah, I understand. We

Tim Piner: all need a little Italy in our life. I'm

Tony Rivera: serious man, too. [00:41:00] Shout out to Italy and shout out to Italy.

Tim Piner: Be great. The fucking history, the boots.

Sardinia. Let's give you a shout. Wine. Yeah. I've been to Sicily. Luckily Will traveled to Italy too, but, uh, yeah, it is special, man. Yeah. Yeah. It's, I

Tony Rivera: mean, a lot of great places in Europe, man. Have you been to any of the big party cities over there and partied out? Partied a lot. Um,

Brook Legends: so while I was over there mm-hmm.

I visited my boy Eric in London. Yeah. Um, so we went to a couple different parties, went to this rooftop place that actually I met a guy at Kappa Festival who lived in London, who was a DJ and invited us to like this rooftop lounge place, which is really cool. So, uh, we got some food there while he was like spinning some real, like, deep cut's.

A pretty nice scene, man. London. London, man. Yeah, that's the international capital. That's always something happening in London, bro. Like, anywhere you go. Phenomenal. Yeah. London was, London was cool. London reminded me of like a British [00:42:00] New York. Yes. It was cool.

Tony Rivera: Just the streets are like this though, man.

Everything is like, like spaghetti. Yeah. Like you go down and then, then it almost got killed. That's for sure. Looking the wrong way. I mean, you know, I'm looking this way, the car's coming this way. I'm like, ah, I'm gonna kill. Yeah. You

Tim Piner: gotta, you gotta change your brain when you're there, man. Yeah.

Tony Rivera: It's like you're just too used to looking left when you're supposed to look, you know, whatever.

Right. So the history

Tim Piner: there too, man, I mean, in British empire, Jesus, man, let's talk, talk about another empire like Italy, right? Yeah. And they got quite the history, the money,

Tony Rivera: the money there man is just ridiculous. Yeah. You know? Yeah. That's, that's what it is. I mean, all these financial capitals in, in, in cities like New York and, and London and.

Any financial capital you're gonna go to, man Singapore, it is just gonna be Pop San Francisco is a financial capital too. Think about California.

Brook Legends: Yeah. The, the artistry coming outta Italy is crazy. Those guys are, I say, so Benny Azi too. I went back to Italy. Yeah, London as well. London and Italy. The artists that are coming out of there is just, his [00:43:00] talent is crazy.

Remind me, is,

Tim Piner: uh, Enrico San Angelini? I, that sounds Italian. Do you remember? He used the kind of techno he'd be on like, uh, Adam Bear's label and I don't know, I'm just thinking of some Italian names. I know. I knew more than all Laton

Tony Rivera: Joe. Which one?

Brook Legends: Jordan. Oh yeah, yeah, techno. But he's, he's from New York.

Is he originally, but I'm sure he has Italian descent probably. Okay. But yeah, he's like, um, he's under like John Summit's management. Oh. They're, uh, they're doing a lot of collaboration for parties and whatnot together. Nice, nice.

Tony Rivera: Yeah. Yeah. Europe got a pop in his is always, I mean.

Tim Piner: France has had so much talent too.

God, the eighties, eighties, nineties. From London.

Brook Legends: Yeah. We flew over to France, la 24 hour popup. France is also, yeah, France is, I'm gonna say this on camera. I didn't know there was that many black people in France. Like, I was like, yo, immigrants from North Africa or whatever. It's hundred percent correct.

Yeah. Yeah. I [00:44:00] don't know what I was thinking. But you get educated there, just, you're talking to friends. There's lot of, and French, you know, colonized African countries. Yeah, there are. Correct. Like

Tony Rivera: you gotta think about, you know, what's it called? Faso? All those countries. I mean, a

Tim Piner: lot of those guys fought in World War II too.

So when you see a, you know, platoon, and they're all black, you know, they're from Algeria, they're not black, black, but there's, they were countries, you know, as you get further south in Africa, not as North ai, I mean, they Yeah. Pulled their weight.

Brook Legends: I loved, uh, I loved every second second of France. France was France.

Paris was really cool. Oh, yeah. I, I like Paris. Yeah. More than

Tony Rivera: London or

Brook Legends: No, no,

Tony Rivera: no, no.

Brook Legends: Nah. Okay. And not more than Italy. Italy the number one I know. But yeah, we're, we're actually going back, um, to Europe. We're going to Amsterdam for no art festival. Damn. I'm joking. For another in July, July 26th.

Amsterdam is pretty crazy too. Heck yeah.

Tim Piner: Yeah. I lived in the Netherlands for three years. But credit though, mom and dad. Yeah, kid, kid memories. But they were, they were awesome. Yeah. You go to

Tony Rivera: Amsterdam, the [00:45:00] buildings are leaning like this. They're so old. It was like. That building's about to fall me, but it's like the whole block, the whole street is like that.

Yeah. They're all leaning like that.

Brook Legends: Oh, city. About to see, I'm going the opposite side where it's leaning, make, go back straight. It

Tony Rivera: it is quite a city and um yeah, you have fun there. Definitely, man. Yeah. Super excited. Yeah. So you doing a little like just touring a little bit or just, so I'm only

Brook Legends: there for, um, seven days.

Mm-hmm. So thinking about maybe going over to like Belgium or something. Mm. But have it a hundred percent. I don't know if I should just like, try to see as much as I can there or like spread my time a little bit. That's a

Tim Piner: delano when you child, you know, 'cause you could stay in one city in Italy for three weeks and still get your soul fed or whatever.

Mm-hmm. Right. But then there's the get around. Maybe you don't get to do it for every five years and

Brook Legends: Yeah. I, I go back to Europe. I go to Ireland in September, so. Mm-hmm. Nice. I dunno, I have some. Have some thinking to do.

Tim Piner: Yeah. Yeah. Ireland's special too. I mean, [00:46:00] God, we got kudos to Europe, man. Yeah. We might be slightly cooler than us.

Brook Legends: Yeah. Just a little bit. Yeah. We got some pretty cool things, but you know, we live here so it's Right. You

Tony Rivera: know, to take it for granted. Yeah, true. That's true. Exactly. But it's just like the, you know, out there, everything is so much closer. Everything is so much more accessible right here. Things So, you know, I mean, and I was just talking to someone about this, about the, the design of a lot of the cities that we make out here.

Everything's so spread out and whatnot. And you have like one little city center suburb, right? Yeah. And it's like three blocks, whatever. If you get outside of New York, maybe the only metropolis like in, or maybe Chicago and Philly. Yeah. Yeah. Right. Um, but outside of that, everything is spread out so, so far.

Yeah. You know, and um, yeah. You know, but this is unique, I guess. Yeah, for sure. For sure, for sure. Yeah.

Tim Piner: We're a top five place to move for like 30 years. So there's some attraction here, you know? Yeah.

Brook Legends: A lot of people coming and that's why after hours gotta keep building. Yes, that's right. That's what I was just,

Tony Rivera: that's what I was just explaining to, you know, some of the [00:47:00] people say, you know, yeah.

The scene is, it is what it is now, but there's more and more people coming. I know when I was, we got down here in what, 2009? When, when I got down here, it was a lot different than it was now. And you know, big time, you know, you've seen it. Massive chill. I remember like, you know, only, only other place that we went to was, uh, mosaic when Mosaic was was around and stuff.

And you were like, all right, this is chill. You know? Yeah. It's a spot, you know. Well, what else we got? Yeah, yeah. It was fun. Yeah.

Brook Legends: Yeah. I mean, there's still not that many places. I mean, when I started playing music and the reason why I even wanted to start throwing parties, 'cause you couldn't really find house music like that.

Jstack was playing in like Black Flower, I think. Yes. That's like the first time I saw him. Yeah. And then I was like, dang, he's good. Yeah. I wasn't even DJing yet. Yes. And I was like following him locally around all the shows. 'cause he was just nice. Like that what he was playing was different. And then like how he was mixing was different.

Yep. And then I saw Andrew Capelli,

Tim Piner: [00:48:00] ah, Capelli and Capelli was a handsome man. Shout out to Capelli Sound, whatever. I bet I follow, you know, where

Brook Legends: he capelli was on, you know, that kind of like grown sexy, like, kind of like female vocal vibe. Like he was always playing something with female vocals. Yeah. And then me, I was like the wild child.

I was like playing like dirty bird stuff. Yeah. A little bit more gritty. Mm-hmm. Um, and it was cool 'cause when we came together and made Rally House Collective, like we would always play 1 1 1 track each. Yes. And it just made for like a such a great contrast. You did do that? Yeah. B two. B2B. Yeah. B three B.

Yeah. B three B and, and shout out to them. Really? 'cause I wouldn't be technically where I am without them. 'cause they were years ahead of me of DJing. Yeah. And they, they took a, a gamble on me, like giving me an opportunity to play with them. And then I had this crazy idea of starting Rally House Collective and I brought it to them.

We met at O'Malley's off of, yeah. O Glenwood. That's a classic Irish bar man. [00:49:00] Classic Irish bar. We had a beer each and you know, we like, were thinking of the name. Great idea. That was

Tim Piner: a great name, dude.

Brook Legends: Yeah. Raleigh House Collective. We thought of some stupid names. You were the, and then we were like, why don't we just be Raleigh House Collective.

Yeah. And then, I don't know. It stuck. It stuck. Yeah. And we, I felt like we had the keys to the city for a life. You

Tim Piner: drew more crowds. And I have so many memories of the architect, which seems like there's sometimes that's what we have. You're working Love John Bin owner. These are a great, great guy. But, um, but yeah, just, you know, sometimes you have to take a random spot.

Brook Legends: Yeah.

Tim Piner: And it's not gonna be a clubbing rally and, but, but that looked the part and you kind of, it almost ended up being boiler musk. I'd always stand behind y'all.

Brook Legends: So, yeah. So, and watch from

Tim Piner: there. Yeah.

Brook Legends: Crazy enough, when we first started doing that, and hopefully nobody cancels me for, for saying this, cancel, we were our first, like, real big success was an underground party that we threw during COVID.

Where we were doing live streams and we were having like [00:50:00] 200 people like tuning into our live stream. We were like, why don't we just try to just throw a party one time?

Tim Piner: Yes.

Brook Legends: So I came up with like this crazy idea. I was like, all right, I'm gonna sign up for this tech service. Right. And I heard about Carl Cox doing this back in London where you call a number and the number will tell you where to go for this party.

Oh yeah, I remember that. So I was like, well, why don't we try this texting service where they text it? They text it, and then the day of you'll get the address to the party. So and I still have all these like business cards, but That's great. It was a business cards with an architectural layout on it.

Mm-hmm. Which was a clue to, it was gonna be an architect. So I had an architectural layout on the card. It said Raleigh House Collective, and it said on the back it said text and it had the number. Ah, so when you texted the number, you got a welcome message and then it said, look out for a text message on this day.

Mm-hmm. You'll get the [00:51:00] information to the party. Awesome. So this is during COVID, right? Yeah. Yeah. So we didn't know how many people, well, we kind of knew how many people because we could get the text right. But Raleigh is so last minute. So yeah. We kind of baited people by saying, okay, in order to get a card, you have to come to one of our open air events.

Mm-hmm. So we were throwing parties. Oh, at Lake Wheeler, right? Mm-hmm. Under a shelter. Yeah. Open their event. So that was like 30, 40 people that would come out. Yeah. So we're handing out cards. People are like, oh, can I give a card to such and such? And we're like, if you get the text, you can tell people.

Yeah. Boom. Brilliant. First party we have, this is during COVID. Not supposed to have parties, right? Mm-hmm. 260, like, like 64, 260 Crowd Man. Which venue? Architect. Oh, at Architect? Yeah. Wow. That's

Tony Rivera: a, that's a pretty big sizable crowd Architect. Gosh

Brook Legends: architect. Yeah. I missed that one. Architect was like, wait, what?

Yeah. We were like, they [00:52:00] made some money that, so we, yeah. Oh yeah. They money and whatnot. So we were like, okay, like we could do this, you know? Mm-hmm. Like, let's run it again. It's gonna be random. We're not gonna tell people when we're doing it, they're just gonna be at our party and we're gonna announce it.

So I remember we were playing, um, in the backyard of Alchemy. Mm-hmm. And I got on the mic, it was like, if you're at the party, stay after, we're gonna hand out some cards. So people knew. It was like, all right, boom. Second party's coming up. Mm-hmm. Damn. Second one, an

Tim Piner: architect. Good party.

Brook Legends: It was like 300 people.

They couldn't let people in. Oh, wow. It was slam full. Wow. And I hate that we took down the Instagram because. Man. Yeah, there were some videos. Really? I'm like hanging on the speaker, like, you pan the camera the other way. You just, just just see a sea of people. It's, it was nuts. Wow. It was nuts. And I really felt like a rockstar.

That sounds pretty magical. Yeah, it was. It was crazy. [00:53:00] So shout out to Raleigh House Collective. I mean, for four years we were, yeah, we were on a tier. Y'all were,

Tim Piner: were the Titans. And you just drew the Mosts people and Yeah. Yeah. Especially So it even

Brook Legends: got words like Orlando, like where people Yeah. Kind of knew who we were.

So we actually went out to, um, skyline Festival mm-hmm. And we met up with these guys, um, in, um, housekeeper Records. Mm-hmm. And they had actually seen like a couple of our videos on Instagram. And so we ended up becoming cool with them. And then I still talk to these guys and I bring them up for some parties every once in a while.

But yeah, it was crazy. Riley House Collective was, was definitely mm-hmm. Yeah. Like. That's what like kind of shot me up. Like I would say Brook Legends was made during COVID. Yeah, that's, that's where my name was made in the underground scene. Right. Yeah. I'll forever be in debt to the underground. Yeah.

Tim Piner: That's really cool, man. But you had, you were an idea incubator and did your, you pulled your weight in a way? Yeah. 'cause you were saying you come up with a text idea and you just kind of names and and you kind of knew they [00:54:00] might be the veterans, but like I'd say you were quite the addition. Yeah. Uh, because I knew those guys well, but I hadn't really met you yet.

Brook Legends: Right. So yeah, I was a new face on the block. You know, Capelli had been around. Jstack had been around. Yeah. And, and Jstack was really playing shows, like he was getting booked by Sugar Society. Yeah. And, uh, Capelli had just been around. He, he had been around, so I was really the new kid on the block.

Tim Piner: Yes.

Brook Legends: Um, with the big ambitious ideas, you know, and just trying to take us.

Like I had that level entrepreneurial business mindset. Yes. Jstack was, you know, the face, the rock star, right. Always smiling. Yeah. And then Capelli was, he was the gear guy. I mean, all of our parties, Capelli had all the gear, the speakers, the board, the cables. I learned how to set up a party from Capelli.

That's cool, man. Yeah.

Tim Piner: That's cool. You know, they used to play it up at Babylon, Mollino, like, I mean, it would've been mollino by then, but same event, you know, rent a restaurant. And, um, it was so, you know, it was nice to have them there. [00:55:00] And I'd see those guys out a lot just independently. So. Yeah. Yeah. Two good, two good

Brook Legends: guys, man.

Yeah, they been awesome. Awesome DJs. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Tony Rivera: Wow. That's a lot of, um, yeah, especially during COVID. I mean, that's a lot of, uh, people, man, that you pulled, you were able to pull, man, you know, they were like, was hundred, 300. It was crazy. Deep was like, yeah.

Brook Legends: And so, you know, people say they don't see money making the dj Right.

But like, we were seeing money. We were like, wow. We can do something with this. Yeah. And and during COVID too, I mean, you know, people were out of jobs and whatnot and, and we were, we were making some pretty good money, but, you know, everything that we had was going back into our parties. Yeah. Yeah. So it just made it even better, you know, we were getting lights, we were getting signed, we were making videos, like Yeah.

You know, nobody was putting out promotional videos like us, you know? Mm-hmm. It was, it was a time you were ahead the curve man. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And then unfortunately, you know, we disbanded and, you know, [00:56:00] jstack is up in Canada now, Capelli's in Tampa. Mm-hmm. Uh, I stayed here and, uh, yeah, I was in the Raleigh House Collective.

Yeah, yeah. But, uh, four years. Four years. Four years. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. Four years. I was

Tony Rivera: just recently pretty much. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. That's pretty, uh, pretty, uh, an interesting history of, of. You know the scene out here. Yeah,

Tim Piner: yeah, yeah. You guys were really important in, in that because we're kind of talking about the burgeoning aspects and there wasn't, there's a lot less to talk about.

Yeah. 10 years ago even. And uh, and now I feel like 'cause Raleigh's population still isn't so high. There might be three or four options that are kind of legit on a Friday or Saturday. It almost peels off. Yeah. Where 500 could have gone to one and instead it's one 20 and one 70. And you know,

Brook Legends: I could say, looking back on it, it probably was.

A, um, demon spawn child of us because we were so particular on who we put [00:57:00] on. Mm-hmm. And so then a lot of people were like, all right, well since we're not playing, we're gonna go do our own thing. Yeah. And so, you know, one group was made and then you see another group pop up. Yes. And the next thing you know, there was like four different groups splitting up mm-hmm.

Where everybody used to come. Mm-hmm. Yeah. And we kind of never recovered after that. I think like, and Sean was always his own thing. Rabbit hole production. He had, he had his own thing, but then like, Hey, sub tech too, Sean, you know, he used to sub tech as well. He the brands behind a lot, which Capelli was a part of Sub I'm pretty sure.

Yeah. They were good bros. Yep. And then, um, you kind of, you had space Camp. Yep. Space Camp. Yep. Um, and then Capital City, shuffler. Yep. And then Connecticut Audio, like we talked about. Yep. So like those are the three that stayed in and four I guess. 'cause Rabbit Hole is still doing as well. Yeah. Yeah. I mean it is kind of like a split now where we all have our own little community, but Right.

One day we just need to just have one big party and see what [00:58:00] one big fell. Yeah. One big festival, you got Ian

Tim Piner: over there in Durham. You know, some of that crowd, like some of our Raleigh people went to Durham. Durham's probably a little cooler maybe. And yeah, artsy driven, but, uh, but Rally's got more population, which kind of, yeah.

But yeah, we can all drive 28 minutes or whatever it is. Yeah, for sure. And one thing I

Brook Legends: love about Durham is the last time I played at The Fruit I opened for Sid and um, Sid and Shean.

Tim Piner: You did? Oh, whoa. It's pretty, pretty badass. Yeah, yeah,

Brook Legends: yeah, yeah. Didn't know that Durham could dance. Yeah, Durham could dance.

They get down,

Tim Piner: they, they're a little hipper man. They just are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But yeah,

Tony Rivera: Durham definitely been through some really good parties out there. And yes. You know, we live in Durham, so it's like whatever, we get a chance, we just pop right over. Yeah. And um, that's where I met, you know, a lot of underground cats now, like kinetic audio and some of these people that are Yeah.

Ian and all these guys out there. Yeah. So, right.

Brook Legends: Yeah.

Tony Rivera: It's a good scene, man. You know, we need more of that. I mean, Durham is, like you said, population is a little bit [00:59:00] less. Yeah. You know, a lot of people from Raleigh don't wanna come out there, you know. Right. That's kind of the's partying

Tim Piner: too. Right. You better just stop at two and a half drinks, you know, or what, I don't know.

Whatever. You're there for six hours, you can probably have four, whatever the analogy is. Five hit that, uh, that's, that's a long haul, that commute. Five, five commute is tough. That's a deal breaker a most of the time for me, sadly. Yeah.

Brook Legends: Raleigh PD don't play either, so. No, you gotta, you gotta pick and choose, you know, I've had a few of those tickets too, the big ones.

So like,

Tim Piner: I had no moss. Yeah. No risk, but I don't always wanna take up. You know, but that makes sense, man. You

Tony Rivera: know, like joining forces and just having one big festival or something like that, you know, a nice spot. Yeah. It could be the best idea I've heard in a while. Yeah.

Brook Legends: Yeah. I mean, uh, I think, I think that that would be dope.

Like I said, a lot of us that have reached the point where we're throwing our own parties, we just have a very particular way it wants to be thrown, so. Yeah, exactly. A lot of egos have to be, have to be swallow. That's a thing here for sure. Some sometimes

Tim Piner: backstabbing. It's kinda like, yeah. [01:00:00] But I think it'll be

Brook Legends: done.

I think it'll be done.

Tim Piner: Yeah.

Tony Rivera: Yeah. I mean, you know, if, if, if everyone's pretty much aiming for the same ball, I'm talking about like every week I'm talking like maybe one, you know what I'm saying? Have like

Brook Legends: a, yeah. I don't know. Whatever. Yeah. Or even if you have like, you know, like. You send like two representatives per each like group.

Exactly. You know? Exactly. And then just make one dope lineup and it switches every year. Exactly. That'll be cool. Yeah. That's really good idea, dude. Yeah.

Tony Rivera: And you know, we need something like that. I know. You know, the guys who at Rabbit Hole did try something, you know, one year with uh, set free, that was six.

That was, I'll never forget that good spot.

Brook Legends: That was at like some ranch or something like that. That was at the Lakeside retreats. Oh yeah. Really nice, nice

Tony Rivera: grounds. It was really, really, really pretty and stuff. And um, that's like one option there. I don't know what the situation is. I don't know. I thought there was, there was some complaints about noise.

I think I remember, but he had a whole setup, you know, everything was just, you know, big stage, you know. Right. Awesome system. Yeah. Um, but I'm sure there's other places. I know some of these [01:01:00] guys that are, we we're kind of, uh, sponsoring, um. Section four, shout out to section four. Mm-hmm. And, uh, they're gonna be doing something at the Hall River Ballroom.

Tim Piner: Dude, that's a great venue. It is a, it's a beautiful venue. That is all. It's huge. Yeah. Indoors. A lot of good in Pittsburgh, lots of trees. There's lots of campgrounds and yeah, we've had a couple too at uh, like I think it was Falls, there's a river and it was, I think it was Sean Sub Tech put on a few and literally you've got water behind you.

Tony Rivera: Yeah.

Tim Piner: Pretty crisp stream and put your hammocks in your trees. It was that kind of nature driven. Yeah. Nice. Like panga, like set you free. That kind. So there are

Tony Rivera: spots, there are people I'm sure will, won't have a problem clean up the damn trash, you know,

Tim Piner: follow the rules, you know, you mess it up for the whole thing.

Tony Rivera: I think we have more fans than we realize mm-hmm. In the area. Yeah. Because I, you know, I've seen people come outta nowhere, like there'd be shows in the fruit.

Yes. I'm like, the heck all these people came from. Yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Seriously. I know. I mean like all kinds of heads. Yeah. Old heads, young heads, you know, uh, all [01:02:00] kinds of nationalities. And I'm like, yo, where these people came from. I know,

Tim Piner: but I love, it's almost, we need to tap

Tony Rivera: into this, uh, resources right here.

Nice. You know? Nice to not know.

Tim Piner: 80% of'em is the time you got. And you, you feel like the most popular guy in the world. You know, 80% of the people in a room full a hundred. Now it's like, well, well this is good. Yeah. Yeah. And,

Tony Rivera: uh, it's definitely doable. And um, you know, I think the more and more people, you know, the more and more populated this area becomes, I think you know, more options that are presented to them, they'll, they'll come out for sure.

Yeah. I think, I think they would. And, um, you know, that's, um, only in due time.

Tim Piner: You got that new track coming out, right? I do.

Tony Rivera: It's a call. What do you want to,

Brook Legends: oh, well I got a couple tracks coming out, but, um, I just made a song. They don't know. Mm-hmm. Um, it's a sample with John b. , I got a song that I just made, um, I just tested it at our last party called They Don't Know. Mm-hmm. It's a, it's a r and b sample. John BI think the song came out in like 97. Oh. Kind of like that. UK Okay. Deep Tech. Deep House. Oh, nice vibe. [01:03:00] Right. Was

Tony Rivera: it something you played just like a little sneak peek this past weekend?

Andrea? Yeah. All right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was hot. That vocals. Appreciate Appreci. Yeah.

Brook Legends: Thank you. Thank you. So I have that and then, um, yeah, who cares? Record label is, uh, is up and running, so we're about to have our first release. Good. Which is, which is awesome. That's good. I have, uh, two, two tracks, family

Families and no more parties. Um, and then I just have this, um, new track that, uh, testing out, sending it to a couple different artists.

Um, trying to get it to in Diplo's hands. Mks hands. Yeah. Right, right, right, right.

Tony Rivera: So that's, that's, that's, that's nice, man. Um, 1, 1, 1 thing that I wanted to ask my wife's been asking me was the cover art that you're putting on the, on, on your stuff, right? Mm-hmm. The cover art? Mm-hmm. Uh, for she's, yeah. You had like this, she's like, this looks like, so Picasso ish.

Yeah. Um, uh, for which track? Which track was it showing,

Tim Piner: or what did it look like? It had a wonky, like distorted face. Multiple colors. Yeah. Like colorful face and whatnot. And, [01:04:00] uh, was it, was it the one that was the, uh, Hispanic driven? It had a, it had a unique, uh, Hispanic, yeah. Yeah. Oh,

Brook Legends: oh, so that was on, uh, too many rules?

Yes. Okay. Too many rules. So I think I'm saying the right thing, right? Andre Samon.

Tim Piner: Yeah. But now, but it was like something with a Gina V or something. I'm trying to remember. It was a long two words on Espanol, but I don't know if that, or maybe you're saying it's the same thing.

Brook Legends: Yeah. Um.

Tim Piner: Uh, it's like your fifth song on Spotify or something That, and if we're going in order from the way I've seen it.

Oh,

Brook Legends: on too many rules. Okay.

Tim Piner: Yeah. Yeah.

Brook Legends: So that, uh, they have actually have a artist in house that, that made that, that art for us. Oh yeah. Oh,

Tony Rivera: that's what's up. Yeah. That was, that was a rivy track, man. She thought, she thought it was pretty cool. And, uh, yeah. Yeah. Some of the, like the other, you know, the, like on on the Panama Track and you have that certain art on there and stuff and, uh, yeah.

Yeah. Weight. It,

Tim Piner: it's, it's legit. Just Brook legends on Spotify, right? Mm-hmm. It's for everybody [01:05:00] to know and he's good. Legends. Several songs. Yeah. Yeah.

Brook Legends: I've released on, um, desert Hearts. Damn. Desert Hearts. Yep. Released on material. Too many rules. Shout out to the homies in Miami House of Humans, um, released on their label two.

And then, uh, groovy Bone Records. There you go. So House of Humans. I look

Tony Rivera: up

Brook Legends: my man Brooke

Tony Rivera: Legends. Yeah. On Spotify. Legend, legend, hot tracks, you know, about to release some stuff soon and check out his Who Cares parties, his who cares. Already used parties. Yeah. We don't know. You better find out. Better find out.

Um, and

Tim Piner: yeah, I mean, we'll

Tony Rivera: see you around town and, um, you know, we'll,

Tim Piner: we'll be supporting you of

Tony Rivera: course, at minimum and bringing all our crew for coming the show. Man, I appreciate guys and giving us your, you know, your insight and your history and everything that you know you got going on and, uh, talking about.

Yeah, I learned some things today.

Tim Piner: Me too. I mean, just even more me always respected you and all you, but just you're even more badass on thought. Yeah. Yeah. Appreciate [01:06:00] you. I just

Brook Legends: got one more thing to say, please. I got one rule and one rule only. If you're not dancing. Get the fuck out.