Better living through Electronics
Harry Whoo, Julius Papp,
Rick Preston
What would Silicon Valley be without an electronic music scene? If we were born to strum acoustic guitars, it’d be Acoustic Valley. Three DJs pretty much built the dance music scene in the late1980s and early 1990s: Rick Preston, (center) Julius Papp (left) and Harry Whoo (right). The three turntablists teamed up for a party called Soul’d Out, which started at F/X and later moved to Hamburger Mary’s. Preston and Whoo (who vended vinyl at Solid Grooves records until 2004 and now photographs weddings) reunited for KZSU’s Slap! Party last summer. Papp and San Jose veteran Miguel Migs have kept the party going with Salted in San Francisco, which we dare not call the city.
