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🎧 dj / producer
☎️ text me 917-830-3954
💌 email amanda @thekagency

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she’s OUT ‼️ we ran it up at @rodeo.bk last night to celebrate the release of (it comes to me in waves) and it really went hard in the sound system if i do say so myself!! Thank you @darlingchuck for setting the vibe off so vibeaciously, @guarionex_jr for taking us on an astral electronic journey to close us out, and everyone who came through for your immaculate warmth energy and revelry.

THANK YOU to everyone who has pressed play, shared, sent a kind note, I love to hear which songs are your favorite. People are bumping the album at the gym, on their commute, pre gaming, on their way to and at the function…. As was intended when we made these songs for you !!

big thanks to @rodeo.bk for the hospitality, dance floor of my dreams for the album to be heard in its entirely. floating!!! all photos by @manmeet.misc 🙏💜

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my album comes out this week (!!!) and this thursday we celebrate its release where I first started writing it three years ago: NYC.

Join us at @rodeo.bk on 10/15 starting at 9 PM - we’ll do a full album listening ~10/10:15 and otherwise properly revel with two of my fav nyc djs, @darlingchuck + @guarionex_jr on the decks. Come early, come late, just come through. This album was made for dancing and that’s what we shall do!

RSVP, invite the friends, meet someone new (it will be a sexy crowd I promise u), and see you there🤍

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What’s Janet’s ultimate feel-good record? 🎶

Yo, @darlingchuck choosing @janetjackson “When I Think of You” as the greatest song ever made reminded me that some of the most consequential music just makes you want to dance.

Released in 1986 on Control, “When I Think of You” became Janet’s first No. 1 record, but the bigger story is what was happening around it. Janet was 20, asserting creative control, and working with @officialjamandlewis, two former members of the Time who took the rhythmic language of Prince’s universe and helped bend it into bangers. Control was funkier and more rhythmically aggressive than much of the R&B-pop during the era, part of a shift that helps set the table for new jack swing that followed.

My own relationship with Janet happened backwards. I knew the Janet of the early 2000s first, then worked my way through the ‘90s, and eventually arrived at Control. The further back I went, the clearer it became how much of what I understood as contemporary R&B and pop already existed somewhere inside her catalog.

Darling Chuck, a Filipino 🇵🇭 American DJ from the Bay, came to that catalog from her own vantage point. Janet has records that are harder, sexier, stranger, and more ambitious. But the argument for “When I Think of You” might be simpler than all of that…put it on in the right room and watch what happens. 40 years later, the record still knows exactly what to do.

Created by @jaekicho & @brianlee of @flavorthing
Executive produced by @blink49studios
Shot by @weinkranz
Edited by @alvinjooo

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happy anniversary (4 married and 16 together 🥰) to my best friend @darlingchuck, the one whom everything is always worth it for. whether we’re “hanging out” with @nathanfielder emma stone and @bowedtie on a @filmlinc @flc_newwave poster for the better part of a year, or we’re simply just doing our thing in our own little world, I love the life we’ve built together within each other’s hearts. here’s to a scrillion more years of getting hyphy together in our own personal way. 💖 143 637 823

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Catch the Summer Season closer with DJ @darlingchuck this Friday, @electriclemonnyc ⚡️🍋

One final summer send-off on the dance floor.

#TheKagency #DJBooking #TalentAgency #ElectricLemon #NYCDJ

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ok it’s time :) my sophomore full length solo album “(it comes to me in waves)” is out October 16. release party in Brooklyn at @rodeo.bk on October 15 with @darlingchuck & @guarionex_jr on the decks. and — a new song out next Friday, 9/18 🤍

RSVP at the link in my bio and sign up for my email list to hear the new song first and for all the album deets. I’m so incredibly proud of this project and can’t wait to share what my collaborators and I created with you.

album artwork by @owenscarlett

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Some of my favorite people and places on 🎞️
📷: Minolta Himatic AF2 (1981). Film: Portra & Ultramax 400

I am geeked by how tactile this old school camera is. It allows me to evaluate light and composition in a real way, keeps me present, detaches me from my phone (gasp!), and is a lesson in trust, trial, and error. There is so much beauty in the raw, unfiltered life as we know it.

#chasetheprocess

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In celebration of Met Monday, we produced an intimate NYC experience last week: On Air: In Style - an evening with @spotify exploring the intersection of fashion and podcasting alongside creators and style tastemakers.

The night began with a cocktail + dinner reception, followed by a live Q&A with Mia Calabrese and fashion podcaster Mina Le (live on Spotify), and closed with immersive, always-on branded moments.

Designed to feel chic yet inviting for the podcast community, the space blended style, art, and production through a clean stage design, a spotlight photo moment, custom martini tower, live fashion illustrations by Deanna First, and curated takeaways. From florals to lighting, every detail delivered a sexy, elevated atmosphere.

Services: Design, Production, Guest List Management, Strategy. 🤏🏼🤏🏼🤏🏼

📷 @syduals

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It didn’t really hit me all the way until I landed in New York. @donutsareforever was happening for the 20th time. An idea that came up amongst four friends, a tribe called @rareformnyc, in a Bed-Stuy parlor apartment in 2006 and executed for the first time in 2007. Just because we were nerds and wanted to hear this specific music on big speakers w/ our friends and simultaneously pay homage to a guy who helped shaped the sound of our young adulthood.

Life has taken us all in very different paths yet we manage to still find the time to be involved w/ @buildingbeats producing a stellar event to pay tribute to one James “J Dilla” Yancey. This is the longest running annual tribute to Jay Dee in the world.

Big shouts to everyone who has ever bought a ticket, spun a set, hosted for us, and assisted us in any way over the years. (Especially @questlove, @freshoffthepressnyc, @lovejessica.xo, @danabartle, @_mawkus_, @krithimusic, @dcharnas and @maratberenstein.)

That was the main reason for the trip. To take in all of that and be present in it. That led to reunions. And laughs. And big hugs. And talking really loud. New York was alive that night. And pretty much for my very rapid three days and three night visit. Thank you for all the warmth literally and figuratively.

Catch you on the next one, Lord willing. ✌🏾

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Who knew DJs would care so much about the mix??? 🥁
@sake1derful @caldee @darlingchuck @djninasol @djdsharp

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Link in Bio. #dj #djlife #djs #music #newmusic #musiclover #party #partying #nightclub #djculture #remix #mixed #mastered

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There's more than one way to skin a cat... or approach a DJ night. @darlingchuck @djken_z_o @siribo510 @DeeJay_gd give their perspectives.

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@darlingchuck shares her Top 3 tracks from her #WomensHistoryMonth show on TNMS featuring:
@suminboutu @slominu - The Gonlan Song (Japanese Version)
@fcukers__ - L.U.C.K.Y
@bigwett_ - SHE GOT THAT THING

Listen back on @gigabel.io

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