 These things just kind of like appeared in my life my brother bringing these turntables home this huge record collections It's like shows up at my house. So like do something with it. That's just like what my life is now It's just music Dusty was invited to clubs when he was a little kid whenever you have a 16 year old DJing in your club That's pretty different, you know, but he was that good that early on my life kind of took a turn I was seeing my brother come up, you know, he was in trouble sometimes He had a little gangstin and stuff like that and being really comfortable with that. It wasn't probably wasn't a very good thing Dusty's brother stole some turntables from the Skeenton yetta and brought him back home. I Helped him figure it all out. You know, he had the Mexican blanket down everything all the stuff on top of turntables It was real nice and then like he's leaving. He's like all right Don't touch it me like close the door behind me like dude. Come on, man So the first thing naturally that I did was go into his room and practice Uncle mine had passed away and they gave my mom this like huge record collection It's probably like, I don't know 70,000 records or some crazy like a whole warehouse full I was like, what's going on? I've been getting like this dude stuff or what and they're like, that's all records All right, that should be fun I started finding all the songs that were like people were sampling, you know I found this one sample and I was like, man, this is dope and I looked at it and he had already like circled it I was like, oh, he knew It's been like a daily thing every day just kind of like here there. Let's find another song. Let's find a sample Let's do this culture is very important to me I love to have the my Latin roots in the sound the way I make music is I'm inspired by what they were jamming to Back in the day, you know, I get to hear these old guys jamming on all these things And that kind of pumps me up to find this like killer sample that nobody's ever used And it has this like texture and color that like you can't really get from anywhere else, but an old record You hear something like Selena and I was a little bit more fresh She kind of opened the door for like these like Hispanics that don't necessarily speak Spanish to like listen to Kumbia and kind of go back and reference these old styles and remake it Corpus Christi is known for Selena. She's the one that brought Kumbia to Corpus Christi. El Dusty knows how to grab different types of Kumbia and mix them with Trap and everything else that is just not put together right now. He's inventing something new Kumbia and like let's say like house music are super similar in Texas It kind of gets this electronic twist and it's always kind of been like that here Because when it got popular it was like drum machines and stuff like that were in the picture So it's like naturally like a house rhythm, you know It's like house beat and then you put your kumbia on top and that's how we make our tracks around here This is a song called Canto Negro from Andres Andero. He's an old kumbia pioneer like most sample Like kumbia dude out there right now Right now I'm quantizing the song so like back in the day they didn't really play to like a click track or like Metronome or anything so the the songs are always like swinging around, you know That's why like the older recording sound more groovy and it's kind of more live So what I'm trying to do is like lock it into the grid now now that I have the actual loop of what I want to use You can hear how it like lands on the beat That'll be sort of like the main lead of the whole song is that little loop right there Then it all starts to make sense a little my dad was in a car accident when I was like four And he was paralyzed from the from the neck down So kind of seeing my mom going through that struggle of like, you know living two lives for somebody It was really inspiring to me is like dude, you have nothing to complain about, you know Like you can walk around you can make music you can do whatever you want to do, you know My dream is to be able to provide and educate and facilitate Artists and have a place where people can go and make their artwork We have these after-school programs that we do for kids certain Table Academy Chica's rock It's just something that if we didn't have coming up, you know We didn't have like a place to go and learn how to play music. We didn't have a place to go to Practice, you know being a DJ or even like seeing that stuff was just kind of like foreign to us, you know So we started these things so that way these kids could experience that at our early age This is basically my life. I've been here since I was like eight and I'm 14 now So it's had a big part of my life. I can't imagine leaving it some of the girls when they start like they're really shy And then the girls grow to be like part of their school band and then that makes us happy because if we can make a difference in one of them You know, it's that's a big thing for us Yeah, my album is gonna come out in October. It's called made in Corpus Yeah, I'm like an homage to the city. It's a lot of my samples are on this album a lot of this stuff in the record collection You know we're on here. Now Dusty is definitely one of those people that have stuck to his roots He's really bringing out the Latino culture and just something a little bit more progressive It's really important for me to show where I'm from and put the cumbia out there because it's a lot of Mexico, but it's also a lot of the US. I want to show that and I want that to like Represent where I'm from. I want people to hear it and be like, oh, that's from Corpus And the sound to be really familiar. You're gonna see it and know that that's that's Dusty or that's that's Corpus Do you know an uncharted musician whose music deserves to be shared with the world email artists at who is uncharted?