Footwork and ghetto house producer DJ Clent turns 38 on Saturday, and he’s decided to celebrate with a party—a party he hopes will feel like the juke blowouts he remembers from the late 90s. Back then hip-hop and R&B were rarely if ever heard at the south- and west-side parties Clent attended. “It was pretty much just footworking and dancing on females—it was a straight party vibe,” he says. “Just pretty much ghetto house, juke, and footwork.” To capture the vibe of that era at Saturday’s festivities, he’s called in many of the scene’s biggest players to spin alongside him: DJ Deeon, Traxman, Majik Myke, DJ B-Man, DJ Roc, and DJ T-Rell. Clent is hosting the party at Hales Franciscan High School in Grand Boulevard. “I didn’t want a club,” he says. “A lot of the parties back then were in gym rooms, schools, or field houses—we used to DJ parties at Hales.”
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Advance tickets for DJ Clent’s Throwback Juke Party are available through Eventbrite.
