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DJ Kalyx from Growroom, AKA Muskie January 22, 1974 – October 24, 2019
Amherst, Massachusetts
DJ and organizer, Brian taught Gavin from Spectra how to DJ, and first brought him down to see Sasha & Digweed at Twilo in New York ~1999.
PARSONS, BRIAN James of Norwood passed away on Thursday, October 24, 2019 at the age of 45. Brian lost his battle to the disease of drug addiction. He leaves his wife Elizabeth ““”Tizzy” Upsher-Parsons and her son, Drey Upsher-Ober. Beloved son of Robert and Jeannine (Alexander) Parsons of Norwood. Brother of Kim Busa and her husband Stephen, Robyn Currier and her husband Joe and Scott Parsons and his wife Bridget. Uncle of Nick Busa, Sam Busa, Joey Busa, George Currier, Bobby Currier, James Currier, and Sophie Busa. A celebration of his life followed by a reception will be held on Sunday, November 10, 2019, 2:00pm at the Grace Episcopal Church, 150 Chapel Street Norwood, MA 02062. At the request of the family, burial will be private.
In lieu of flowers donations may be made in his name to the Plymouth House, 446 Main St. Plymouth, NH 03264 or to The Family Restored, 17 Bishop St. Suite 202, Portland, ME 04103.
Memorial Site
Excerpt from East Main Street: Asian American Popular Culture, NYU Press, 2005:
“Deejay Kalyx is one of the young owners of The Grow Room, an electronic music store in Amherst that sells vinyl as well as dancewear and that has become a meeting spot for (aspiring) deejays and party kids. Kalyx spins trance at parties in Cambridge and New York and observed that Goa trance itself has fragmented, with many local variations in sound and tempo across the various sites it has produced. Gavin, a producer of trance parties in Amherst and New York, describes Goa trance as the traditional label, now interchangeable with “psychedelic trance” (or psy-trance) for a sound that has an “arpeggiated synth-line” and is “very chaotic,” with “lots of sounds and noises moving in and out of each other: which Reynolds calls “mandala-swirls of sound” (1999, p. 176).”
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