Sleazy McQueen profile picture

Sleazy McQueen

new, improved.

About Me

Sleazy McQueen was keen on electronic music even in his early days in the deep south. The Central North Carolina disco was sparse, to say the least, but with the help of a friendly farm combine, a chicken, and five hundred pounds of recyclable Pabst cans, he began creating sounds far more complex than anything the townspeople had heard before. While honing his worthless production skills, he was soon involved in a scheme to lose great quantities of cashola. It was simple, really; each month, he and his Evil Twin Maxula would hire world-renowned deejays willing to play for bargain prices and two-bit haybed accommodations to play for the two of them and one or two other townsfolk, and each month the pair would lose a few hundred more dollars. Eventually, McQueens billfold was empty. Persistent nonetheless, McQueen spent the next two years relentlessly pursuing other sure-fire schemes to lose money, culminating in an all-out relocation to New York City.
As we all know, the New York Sound doesnt have much to do with chickens, so McQueen took it upon himself to learn the intricate ways of the synthesizer, common household spring apparati and kitchen utensils. While drunk one night with a Japanese-Hispanic-Italo-American and his aforementioned twin Maxula (who had, as of late, been consumed in the throes of a quarter-life crisis), McQueen gained complimentary access to a mega-club in the Citys notorious Chelsea neighborhood to attend a DJ performance by Mark Farina. After the customary rope-side congratulations, McQueen entered the club just in time to hear Farina playing a song he himself had created. It was at this point that McQueen realized his sound was, indeed, streetworthy. Following in the footsteps of other great Brooklyners, McQueen continues to provide an outlet for his culturally-confused funked-up house sound. Blazing along the time-space continuum, McQueen can see a future that is bright and promising. In April of 2007, McQueen relocated to central Florida to assume a position for the renowned Eighth Dimension/EIGHT-TRACKS music group as Head Office Lacky. This promises to be a long chapter for McQueen...
His record bag has found occasion to travel to Chicago, New York, Tokyo, Florence, and London, and has allowed him several tours of California. His computer and keyboards have signed releases on Icon Recordings, Eight-Tracks, Deepfunk Records, Morris Audio, Bananza Records, Chillin Music, Greenhouse Records LTD., Anonymous Records, Uncut Records, Bumpin City Records, Odds and Ends, Deep House Project, Pilot Recordings, Boogie Farm, Dae Recordings and Queep Organic Music. He also heads up the Brooklyn based band, Tres Gueros, a supergroup of sorts with releases due out on a number of fine US house labels. Tres Gueros focus on fusing house music with disco and rock to add much needed excitement and emotion to the dancefloor or car stereo.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 5/8/2006
Band Website: sleazymcqueen.com
Band Members: Tony the Pony, the Nasty Fruits, Hugh Swaso, Sleazy Mcqueen, Grumpypants, Stripshow, Ray Sweeten, Disco-Matt, Graham Holly, Chili Pepper, Donnellwell Linconton, two candle votives and a sauce pan.
Influences: Disco/Funk influences Prince, pre-1987 MJ, Midnight Star, Brothers Johnson, Quincy Jones, Kleeer, Isley Brothers, Instant Funk, Portishead, Los Amigos Invisibles, the Fatback Band, Evelyn Champagne-King, the Bar-Kays, Chromeo, Bernard Edwards, Nile Rodgers, Leroy Burgess, Skyy, Steve Miller Band, Bill Withers and anything from 1982 or the far reaches of Space!
House influences: deeper funkier house from 1998-2002, Luke Solomon and his label, MFF, Mark Farina, Ken ECB, Q-BAM, Phil Weeks, Daft Punk(Homework), Classic Music Co., 20/20 vision, Lawnchair Generals, Bob Sinclar's Paradise album, $tinkworx, Dick Diaz, Green Velvet, Joshua(IZ)+Diz, Atnarko, paper recordings, and all of my NC peeps who constantly have to listen to everything I make: Keith, Brian SanDiego, J.Sonel, Rattmouth, Silvaback, Morey, Mitch, UZI!
Stuff in general that influences me, Italy, burritos, tacos, coffee, clothes, debt, delays, reverb, space bodegas.
Sounds Like: If acid house took Kano in the backroom, beat up the two Italians, took the black guy, hopped a plane to minneapolis, kidnapped Prince, made those two do it until a baby popped out, then slapped the baby in the ass with a 303(TB, not groovebox!!!!), then sampled the baby crying. That would pretty much approximate my deejay style.
Record Label: http://www.discogs.com/artist/Sleazy+Mcqueen
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Sleazy McEverywhere in the next few weeks...

hey hey, I've got a few neat-o gigs over the next few weekends:first up is our second edition of Club Queso in NYC on Saturday, May 17th featuring some special funky sets from the Bastard Jazz Records...
Posted by Sleazy McQueen on Wed, 14 May 2008 12:30:00 PST

DJ mix of upcoming tunes!

hey peeps, I made a fancy little mix just before wmc of my upcoming releases. It’s a live mix, so none of that computer funny business was involved... enjoy!http://www. sleazymcqueen. com/Sleazy...
Posted by Sleazy McQueen on Tue, 08 Apr 2008 08:38:00 PST

new releases for April.

Hey hey, Laurin here!This week, I have a few exciting things hitting the streets and net! First up is my edit of Martin Circus’ ’Disco Circus’ Aptly titled, ’MC/DC-Sleazy McEdi...
Posted by Sleazy McQueen on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 08:55:00 PST

Releases this week!

hey guys thought I would send out a post about some releases in time for WMC!HA006 - Sleazy McQueen - Yacht Rock EditsA few things about this project; 1. Jane Tenille danced to this edit in my bedroom...
Posted by Sleazy McQueen on Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:35:00 PST

saturday night in brooklyn, disco disco disco!

hey hey,two days hence, we party like it's our first day on earth...
Posted by Sleazy McQueen on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 02:36:00 PST

¡Club Queso! Valentines Ball :: This Friday at The Peacock Room, Orlando

Your intrepid heartbreakers return this Friday, February 15 to The Peacock Room to unveil yet another edition of ¡Club Queso! This time, in the spirit of the season, it's a Valentine's Ball. Calling a...
Posted by Sleazy McQueen on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 07:52:00 PST

Yacht Rock Edits out soon on House Arrest LA

Hello friends, I thought I'd let you know that I have a smooth edit record coming out soon. It was initially a funny project made for our wickedly successful Yacht Rock party here in Orlando. I...
Posted by Sleazy McQueen on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 08:49:00 PST

Champagne Beat Boogie Remixes

hey friends, Our pals on the other side of the Earth have gotten a few remixes of the Boozy & Swan classic, Champagne Beat Boogie, I was invited to join the team of remixers and couldn't have made the...
Posted by Sleazy McQueen on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:11:00 PST

QuesoNYC edition one, a success!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/atnarko/sets/72157602048011706/ thanks to everyone who came out to the first Club Queso in New York on January 19th, it was a resounding success as evident by the pictures ...
Posted by Sleazy McQueen on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 06:09:00 PST

birthday weekend coming with fun fun fun in store!

hey hey friends, Laurin here!it's my birthday one wee from today and to celebrate I'm going to...play records.my buddy, Gabriel, 'funky cole' Medina is coming over from LA to play some records too!On ...
Posted by Sleazy McQueen on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 08:54:00 PST