Dan The Automator Spins His Favorite Records | Discogs Listening Room @ SF Art Book Fair 2025

He might not call himself a collector, but @dantheautomator (Deltron 3030, Handsome Boy Modeling School) clearly can’t resist digging for records. Moments before his Discogs Listening Room session, he ducked back into the record fair — one more dig for good measure. “With record collecting, how we grew up, it was going to stores every day and shopping for records to sample,” he says. Some things never change. Below are the records Dan The Automator spun in the Discogs Listening Room — a genre-hopping stack that blends funk, psych, and deep crate cuts: Can ‘Ege Bamyasi’: https://www.discogs.com/release/14397469-Can-Ege-Bamyasi Dennis Coffey ‘Theme From Black Belt Jones’: https://www.discogs.com/release/1045610-Dennis-Coffey-Theme-From-Black-Belt-Jones Ripple “I Don’t Know What It Is, But It Sure Is Funky”: https://www.discogs.com/release/1052925-Ripple-I-Dont-Know-What-It-Is-But-It-Sure-Is-Funky-Dance-Lady-Dance Cymande ‘Cymande’: https://www.discogs.com/release/25518601-Cymande-Cymande Nolan Porter “I Like What You Give”: https://www.discogs.com/release/1876392-Nolan-I-Like-What-You-Give-Somebodys-Cryin The Golding Institute ’Sounds of The San Francisco Adult Bookstores’: https://www.discogs.com/release/397490-The-Golding-Institute-Sounds-Of-The-San-Francisco-Adult-Bookstores The Jimmy Castor Bunch ‘It’s Just Begun’: https://www.discogs.com/release/3181315-The-Jimmy-Castor-Bunch-Its-Just-Begun Manu Dibango ‘Soul Makossa’: https://www.discogs.com/release/252557-Manu-Dibango-Soul-Makossa Dan The Automator on Discogs: https://www.discogs.com/artist/27341-Dan-The-Automator For this edition of the Discogs Listening Room, the following equipment was used: AlphaTheta Euphonia 4-Channel Rotary Mixer, Pioneer DJ PLX-1000 Turntable, and @Ortofonofficial cartridge (https://ortofon.com/products/concorde-music-blue) Hosted by Gabriel Lopez of @kexp 00:46 The funk side of Can's 'Ege Bamyasi' 04:23 Why the "Them From Black Belt Jones" is important in hip-hop 06:05 Discovering a Ripple single through Special Ed sampling 07:30 Why Dan The Automator is obsessed with the 'Hair' soundtrack 09:45 The importance of Cymande in hip-hop's inception years 10:23 If Dan The Automator did a cover song, this would be his choice 11:43 Dan The Automator brings it to a grinding halt 12:48 The Jimmy Castor Bunch's 'Flashdance' connection 13:55 New York, hip-hop, summertime and "Soul Makossa" -- Unlock the ultimate record collecting experience: https://www.discogs.com/about/get-started/ SUBSCRIBE: youtube.com/discogs Check us on Social @Discogs: Follow Discogs on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/discogs Follow Discogs on X: https://twitter.com/discogs Follow Discogs on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/discogs Follow Discogs on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@discogs Follow Discogs on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/discogsofficial.bsky.social #vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity