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DJ Sneak (AKA Carlos Sosa) doesn’t need an introduction if you know house music. Sneak has been running around bragging that he’s a house gangster for a while now. And that’s a pretty bold claim. Well ...

Outspoken dance music legend DJ Sneak used a recent interview to explain what he thinks makes a true DJ. The House Gangster said: "If you're a DJ you learn how to mix with decks first... I don't care ...

Other than the music journalists who get something to post about, does anyone win when artists get into flame wars? In hip-hop, the competitive spirit of public beefs has led to some great diss tracks ...

Ahead of his upcoming gig for LWE at Tobacco Dock on August 9th, the one and only DJ Sneak regales Mike Boorman in brilliant detail about all things BBQ; a topic so close to his heart that it caused a ...

In early spring, a Twitter beef erupted between DJ Sneak, a Chicago house music legend, and Steve Angello, one-third of the DJ supergroup Swedish House Mafia. Sneak called SHM’s music “fake shit” and ...

One of the masters of the ’90s 'second wave' of Chicago house, Carlos Sosa left sunny Puerto Rico for a life in dark and rainy Chicago in 1983. Having brought with him the rhythms of salsa, merengue ...

DJ Sneak got down to the musical nitty gritty with Marko Kutlesa as they discussed Chicago labels, his mixing style and artist exposure. As a producer his first outings were heavily built around ...

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Pumping insistence is the hallmark of all house music, but the work of DJ Sneak, both as a producer and a DJ, insists a bit more fervently than most. His tempos are a shade faster than the house norm, ...

As a noted Chicago house great in his own right, DJ Sneak knows his way around a top-notch mix. That's why we can't wait to hear what the a ...

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