Acosta: And festivals, exactly. I mean, it’s cool, but I’m more of a club DJ. I need four or five hours to play. I definitely can’t play big room for five hours. *laughs* Progressive, techno, house, tech-house. That lets me create more of a vibe.

As someone who DJ’d hip-hop...

Acosta: Yeah, I was a hip-hop DJ when I started, a classic hip-hop DJ. I’m not like this new hip-hop. I like Biggie, Rakim, old school shit like that. When they say hip-hop, that new shit playing now, that’s not what I like. I like real hip-hop, old school hip-hop, that’s like house music in a way.

Yes! Like in a way, at early hip-hop shows it was house music a lot of the times with an emcee, and that’s something that’s completely been forgotten about in the culture.

Acosta: Yeah, I’m trying to bring that back right now.

I think a lot of people have really forgotten that when hip-hop started it was a Black and Latino thing. It was Puerto Ricans in New York, along with all the Black people doing hip-hop. It really was a cultural blend. Hip-hop is now this global phenomena, but I do think we’ve forgotten some of the early stories about it. I would love to hear you go back and play some of that old stuff.

Acosta: Yeah, I’m doing a once a month party in Miami that’s like a vintage playground setting. We’ve been doing like a lot of house and early house that ends up in techno. Techno today is like a remake of everything that was. If you listen closely you hear the things that have been done already. What we’re doing now is starting an early party, old-school house and old school hip-hop - together like the 90s, how we used to do it.