DJ Static (Canadian DJ)
- This is about the Canadian DJ. For other similarly named DJs, see DJ Static (disambiguation)
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DJ Static (born Michael Lai in 1977) is a well-known Canadian DJ and radio personality.
He arrived in 1988 from Hong Kong settling first in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada then in Montreal, Quebec.[1] He credits hip hop music with helping him learn English[2] and started DJing in 1994.
In 1996, in collaboration with fellow Canadian DJ Professor Groove, he launched the award-winning WeFunk weekly radio show[3][4][5] on Montreal's CKUT 90.3, McGill University's radio station.
Since 1999, the show is also available online through WEFUNK Radio. Both DJs play a symbiotic mix of Funk, Soul, R&B and Rap, both old and new.[6] The name of the radio show comes from the Parliament song "P. Funk (Wants To Get Funked Up)", in which WEFUNK is a fictional radio station broadcasting "directly from the Mothership, top of the Chocolate Milky Way, 500,000 kilowatts of P Funk-power." The Internet radio stream in 1999, becoming one of the oldest continuously operating radio streams on the Internet, as well as one of the longest-running online radio shows.
DJ Static became DJ for the Canadian multicultural multilingual hip-hop group Nomadic Massive. The members of the band come from Haiti, Algeria, Iraq, China, Argentina, Chile and France.
In addition to his radio work and work with Nomadic Massive, he has club residencies in Blizzarts and Boa in Montreal. At various times, he has DJed internationally including various American and Canadian venues, Cuba, Hong Kong and Zurich.
References
- ^ Abley, Mark (2008). The Prodigal Tongue: Dispatches from the Future of English. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. p. 160. ISBN 978-0-618-57122-2.
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- ^ Phanor-Faury, Alexandra (July 21, 2008). "WEFUNK's Got the Funk". Paper Mag.
- ^ "Stylus DJ Awards: 2007 Winners". Stylus Group. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 13 September 2011.
- ^ Clyke, Scott (June 14, 2007). "WeFunk Tops 10: CKUT's Wefunk radio show celebrates a decade on the airwaves". Montreal Mirror. Archived from the original on July 10, 2012. Retrieved September 16, 2012.
- ^ ""Best of Montreal" 2009 Annual Reader's Poll". Montreal Mirror. May 14, 2009. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012.
- ^ "CKUT weekly pick". The McGill Daily. September 18, 2008.