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The rising Brooklyn DJ and Sublimate resident discusses his next moves and showcases his signature sound.

As much as anyone in Brooklyn’s dance music scene, Turtle Bugg is fully immersed in the music. He spends his days tending to the proudly disorganized record stacks at the infamously grimy secondhand shop the Thing, and his off hours DJing across the borough (most notably as a resident at the roving party Sublimate) and running Basement Floor Records with his Soul 2 Seoul partner Phil Chung. The New Jersey native is constantly on the trail of killer tracks and novel combinations thereof. On this edition of the Bunker NY, Turtle Bugg takes Bryan Kasenic back to the beginnings of his musical obsession (catching Parliament/Funkadelic at the tender age of ten is never a bad thing), shares some nausea-inducing stories from the Thing, discusses his nascent production career and shares his thoughts on the state of dance music in New York. He bookends the interview with a pair of driving, funked-up, all-vinyl DJ sets.