You can’t talk about West Coast dance music history without talking about Doc Martin.
Born Martin Mendoza in San Francisco, the artist started his career spinning on vinyl, helping define the early ’90s rave scene in Los Angeles when he relocated to the city. Here, he was not only a scene stalwart alongside SoCal comrades like DJ Dan and Marques Wyatt, but a sort of archivist, putting the house, acid house, techno and other underground sounds he was hearing and playing onto wax, cassette and later CD and digital with the launch of his label, Sublevel.
30 years later, the imprint is still running strong, as is…
