A true L.A. legend has passed away. Michael "Mixxin" Moor was a triple O.G. L.A. legend. He was an original KDAY mixmaster. I met him working as an audio/visual technician at a Compaq Show at the Anaheim Convention Center in early September 2001. He was my supervisor. He found out I was a Hip-Hop head and then he told me who he was and I was blown away! We became cool. We were together on the day of 9-11 and he had all the conspiracies figured out already, dude was deep. While everybody was scared, we were getting ready for revolution the same day.
Some of his accomplishments were creating the 5 o'clock traffic jam, period. He was also in Uncle Jamm's Army. He engineered/produced alot of the classic L.A. Hip-Hop shit before Dre came including The Batteram by Toddy Tee, The Gap Band, 6 in the morning by Ice T, DJ'd at the Garage under Larry Levan, Paugh Paugh by Romy Dee, Casualties of War by Rakim, the Nickel Slick Nigga remix for Kokane, mixed at the Playboy mansion for Hef, among many other credits. He also coached an L.A. high school football team to a championship in 2000.
Just remember whenever you say fuck the radio, Michael Mixxin Moor started the whole movement in 93' at the The Beat Summerjam when he rented a helicopter and threw down a bunch of flyers at the crowd about how the station was dumbing down its audience.
He was probably the last real radio DJ. One who would actually break records, like literally add a record into the playlist that was his choosing, like a real DJ should who knows his music and not doing what the fuckin' station ordered him to play. He broke the C.R.E.A.M. record by Wu-Tang Clan as one example and Court Is Now in Session by Chill Rob G as another. He was that bridge that brought New York records to L.A. with the Impact Record Pool.
I tried getting him back into the music game but he said he had had enough. He left me his music on dats and I would like to show everybody what his militant master mixxes sounded like. I will be going to the May 20 event in his honor. He was my friend, my mentor, and he will be missed.
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Some of his accomplishments were creating the 5 o'clock traffic jam, period. He was also in Uncle Jamm's Army. He engineered/produced alot of the classic L.A. Hip-Hop shit before Dre came including The Batteram by Toddy Tee, The Gap Band, 6 in the morning by Ice T, DJ'd at the Garage under Larry Levan, Paugh Paugh by Romy Dee, Casualties of War by Rakim, the Nickel Slick Nigga remix for Kokane, mixed at the Playboy mansion for Hef, among many other credits. He also coached an L.A. high school football team to a championship in 2000.
Just remember whenever you say fuck the radio, Michael Mixxin Moor started the whole movement in 93' at the The Beat Summerjam when he rented a helicopter and threw down a bunch of flyers at the crowd about how the station was dumbing down its audience.
He was probably the last real radio DJ. One who would actually break records, like literally add a record into the playlist that was his choosing, like a real DJ should who knows his music and not doing what the fuckin' station ordered him to play. He broke the C.R.E.A.M. record by Wu-Tang Clan as one example and Court Is Now in Session by Chill Rob G as another. He was that bridge that brought New York records to L.A. with the Impact Record Pool.
I tried getting him back into the music game but he said he had had enough. He left me his music on dats and I would like to show everybody what his militant master mixxes sounded like. I will be going to the May 20 event in his honor. He was my friend, my mentor, and he will be missed.
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Michael's friends
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