DJ Amir

Amir Abdullah is part of Hip Hop history as a sample excavator, music historian, compilation curator, and DJ who’s already acknowledged alongside some of his childhood heroes. As a DJ he’s rocked parties from Brooklyn to Berlin, where he’s been based for the past few years; as a producer, he reinterprets classic cuts into innovative remixes; as an educator, he lectures on topics ranging from the cultural appropriation in Hip Hop to the history of independent jazz; as a radio DJ his monthly residency for Worldwide FM, The Khronicles, airs every first Tuesday; and as a curator and label executive he’s responsible for over a dozen releases for his label 180-Proof Records. His latest release, distributed by BBE Records, is DJ Amir presents Strata Records -The Sound of Detroit Volume