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Article: Bueno Sonido Social Club; Club Havana has kept house on decks for five years and counting
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- Pittsburgh City Paper
- Article date:
- March 9, 2005
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IN THE ILL-LIT CORNER of Shadyside's Club Havana, signature miner's light on his forehead like a record-crate spelunker, "Brother Mike" Robertson exudes a blue-collar methodology to his deejaying. But despite his almost brutish way of working a record, if it's laborious to pull those chunky 4/4 beats and twist those soaring melodies out of Mateo & Matos or Jon Cutler tracks, it's a labor of love. One which Robertson -- who spins under the nom de disc DC Space -- doesn't miss the opportunity to conduct, every Thursday night now for almost four years and counting.
"Since I took over as resident [deejay] I've only missed one night," says Robertson. "About three weeks ago." As it turns out, ...