Qool Marv Plays at HBO Films Premiere of Fahrenheit 451 at TAO Downtown New York City on May 8 2018

Hear this mix, see the film, then listen again and see how I braid the aural atmosphere of the party with plot, themes and visuals of the film. The audience re-experiences the film, unwittingly, while immersed in revelry at the celebration.

Gotta Get Up (Another Day) (Featuring 4Hero) - Jill Scott
A Life Worth Living - Quantic and Flowering Inferno featuring U-Roy and Alice Russell
Flight of the Eagle - Vincent Sebastian
Blackbird - Fat Freddy's Drop
Great Balls Of Fire - Sun Ra
Compared To What - Les McCann & Eddie Harris
Brooklyn Inferno Quadraphonic - QPSM Unit
Wanna Fly – S’Miller
Mind Power – LeJames Bron
Fly Robin Fly – Michael The Lion
Hot Music - Soho
Freedom – Anthony Hamilton & Elayna Boynton
The Future – Prince
Blaze 'n' Cook - Stereotyp Meets Al Haca
Hands Up - Cassara
Burn This Disco Out – Michael Jackson
Running Away - Roy Ayers Ubiquity
Runaway - Masters At Work w India
Heavyweights – Sh!t Hot Soundsystem
F.E.V.E.R - Sugar Hill + Nytron
Red Alert - Basement Jaxx
This Is America - Childish Gambino
Freedom (feat. Kendrick Lamar) - Beyoncé
The Fire - The Roots
Fly Away - Lenny Kravitz
Always On The Run - Lenny Kravitz
All The Stars - Kendrick Lamar & SZA
Pray For Me - The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar
The Knowledge - Janet Jackson
Fire - Ohio Players
Let Me Change Your Mind featuring Jenna G - Zed Bias
Burning Down The House - Talking Heads
Deep Burnt - Pepe Bradock
Up To Rise - SESSION VICTIM
Migration (partial) - Bonobo
Light My Fire (Live) - Massive Attack
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
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Since 1998

@qooldjmarv x @hbo

Thank you HBO for having me conduct the musical atmosphere at events for series, films and documentaries. I can't say I imagined 20 years of getting that call. At the Fahrenheit 451 party last night (May 8 '18) you all could hear how concept meets execution and you could see how the party went from warm glow to blazing hot.

Once upon a time, about 13 years ago, or whenever the last season of the Sopranos was happening, I got the call to play the last gathering of that game changing series (I actually did a wrap party set up on set in Tony's kitchen once). After a few years of doing entertainment industry parties, I noticed a pattern... somewhat of a template or format that favored the safe and obvious. Humbly, I asked, during a meeting at HBO headquarters, if I could shatter that plain - buttressing my suggestion by offering to be the DJ equivalent of their classic motto from the 90s - "It's not TV it's HBO."

"Your events should not sound like any other network's party, your parties should be as unique as your programming." (Paraphrasing)

From there, I asked for the 1st 90mins of that Sopranos party to show what I had in mind. At some point Little Steven from Bruce Springsteen's band looked at me and gave me the thumbs up (I'd pitched doing a Classic Rock set to open the party) and the events folks noticed and also gave me thumbs up. Highlight of that night was having David Chase - creator of the Sopranos, come up on stage with his wife and they both told me how they noticed and enjoyed what I was doing with the music.

Side note to that story is that the Sopranos party was on a Sunday...the night before, I was in Paris and the night before that, I was in Ireland... BTW, friends in Ireland have offered me space for my 1st lecture that will weave DJ culture with sociology and a bit of history.

Happening in 2018!

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