Jamie Jams featured in Bold Italic

The DJs in this photo series are some of San Francisco’s coolest cats, most having played in underground clubs for years. They’ve all built powerful circles of nightlife followers, and they run the gamut of music styles and genres. Check out what they’re up to these days.

Jamie Guzzi of Debaser takes us back to our roots with his ’90s parties at the Knockout. He scours local record stores for popping ’90s LPs, which run the gamut from baggy beat to shoegaze, grunge, alternative, Britpop, indie pop, post-rock, post-hardcore, and emo. Jamie spins mostly ’90s alternative at his parties, though he’ll periodically mix in some hip-hop and r&b.

The parties feel like a community, with lots of epic rock T-shirts in the house, though he would love to see more baby-doll dresses. “We're doing this year-by-year theme, so we'll be slicing it sort of horizontally instead of vertically for a little bit. Probably throwing in a bit more of the other genres we've missed too as we go. We even played a little industrial at the last one! We're definitely putting the ’90s on rinse, that's for sure.”

His current top 5:
Husker Du - Could You Be the One?
The Replacements - Alex Chilton
R.E.M. - Wolves, Lower
Soul Asylum - Cartoon
DESCENDENTS - Wendy

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DEBASER featured in SFBG Club Action Feature

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Salsa, rocksteady, gay goth, electro-cumbia, hypercrunk, bhangra, zouk... the 62 parties you should be going to right now

02.28.12 - 4:39 pm | Marke B.

Debaser After four years of excellently reviving grunge and alternative rock for flannel-shirted, babydoll-dressed 1990s fanatics, DJs Jamie Jams and Emdee are incorporating hip-hop and taking on a huge project: dedicating a night to every year of that nutso decade, starting with 1989 on March 10. Second Saturdays, 10 p.m., free with flannel before 11 p.m., otherwise $5. The Knockout, 3223 Mission, SF.www.debaser90s.com

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