Santa Cruz (Rasta Cruz!), California, USA.
DJ Daddy Spleece of Reality Sound International, a reggae and dancehall radio, club, festival, and clash selector, started on KFSR, Fresno in 1994. He was the creator of and webmaster for FresnoReggae.com, webmaster for JahWorks.org (V2.0), and also hosted 'Turning Tower on Its Dread' on Tower Free Radio and 'Roots Carnival' on Satellite Radio Bilingue's internationally simulcast network for twelve years before relocating to Santa Cruz, California in 2008. In Fresno, he co-hosted a weekly party every day of the week for eleven years and also brought internationally touring live reggae acts at least once a month. He has clashed other reggae sounds such as Jah Warrior Shelter Hi Fi, Broken Silence, Lone Star, Capricorn, Shotta Crew, and beat Tribe of Kings Sound from San Diego in San Francisco in 2010, as well as TNT sound from Oakland in Chico in 2019. He co-hosted Free-Up Fridays with 1Wize Sound, a successful weekly dance in Santa Cruz. He's played multiple sets each year at Sierra Nevada World Music Festival for 24 of its 26 years, as well as Reggae on the River, Reggae at the Lake, Quincy Fest, and was crowned 'Clash Champion' at the first Tico Time Reggae Fest in New Mexico, where he returns to play annually. Webmaster of SantaCruzReggae.com, he hosts several successful club events in Santa Cruz regularly. He co-hosts, promotes, and opens for most of the live reggae performances that come through Moe's Alley, Santa Cruz, over 200 shows in just the last 15 years, and regularly plays many other Santa Cruz venues. He hosted 'All Fruits Ripe' on KZSC 88.1FM every Tuesday morning from 9am-12noon for 14 years (over 2,200 hours of volunteer broadcast time). He currently hosts 'Santa Cruz Reggae Radio' every Saturday night from 10pm-12midnight on KSQD 90.7FM, KSQT 88.7FM and 89.5FM Central Coast. Spleece broadcasts live in-the-mix to an international audience every Sunday on Nice Up Radio, heard at niceupradio.com 7pm-9pm (PST).
Santa Cruz Reggae Radio is hosted by DJ Spleece every Saturday night from
10:00pm-12:00mid (PST) on KSQD & KSQT,
Santa Cruz.
Dancehall, reggae & dub plates are in-the-mix LIVE! Tune into DJ Spleece
on Nice Up Radio every Sunday night from 7:00pm-9:00pm (Pacific Standard
Time). Over 200 episodes are archived on soundcloud...
DJ Spleece killed TNT sound's DJ Doogie in 'RIDDIM WARFARE CLASH' held
in Chico, California July 12th, 2019.
An artical by Aaron Carnes, writer at Good
Times. "I was like, 'That's it for me. That's all I'm going to listen
to. That's all I'm going to play'"...
My opening set for one of my all time favorite sounds, Mighty Crown (Japan).
This was a DUB PLATE ONLY SHOWCASE. Here's my 22 minute set.
A collection of Mix CDs that you can find on DJ Spleece's SoundCloud. These span over a long range of time starting back in 2006. Before that was the cassette days...
DJ Spleece's October 28, 2010 win at 'Sound Clash Thursdays' inside The Rocket Room in San Fransisco, California!