Nina Sol & Patrick Wilson
 

ELEMENTS is a monthly dance ritual based in Oakland, CA centered around deep & soulful house music.

In January 2014, Patrick Wilson & Nina Sol collaborated to create Elements as a home for deep, soulful, underground, Black house music in the Bay Area. From Paradise Garage inspired classics, soulful house rooted in gospel, R&B, funk & jazz, or South African house and Afrobeat, Rumba, Deep and Tech House and everything in between...this mighty pair brings you an unparalleled experience that stays rooted in the underground black expression of soulful dance music.

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Patrick Wilson

Dancer-turned DJ, Patrick Wilson is known around the globe & locally as a LEGEND in the Soulful House community. It is his honesty, intensity and love that attracts devoted deepsoul lovers from miles around to hear his sets. Well known coast to coast amongst true headz, Patrick has been an unapologetic champion of the Soul Experience. Known for his love of the classics, Patrick's sets weave together music that spans over 3 generations, and maintain musical coherency while at the same time breaking new sounds. NuLife and now Elements is a manifestation of Patrick's desire to have a place where people could come and celebrate the musical journey in its entirety. Patrick has had the honor to play with some of House Music's best, Louie Vega, Frankie Feliciano, Timmy Regisford, Danny Krevit, Dennis F., Black Coffee, Master Kev, DJ Deep, Marques Wyatt, David Harness, Ron Trent, Karizma, King Britt just to name a few. As is the tradition of most music aficionado's Patrick has become an inspiration to many, uniting people through his love for the music.

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Nina Sol

Nina Sol, a nod to her Afro-Latina heritage & warm and sunshiny disposition, delivers a genre-bending soulful sound that resonates with audiences locally and across the globe. A vinyl enthusiast that traverses time and texture, Nina's insatiable curiosity for music discovering keeps her sets fresh and unexpected. Nina holds monthly residencies at Constellations, a party dedicated to past and present artists born under the zodiac sign of the month, and Elements throwing down underground dance music alongside soulful house DJ veteran, Patrick Wilson. She has played with artists ranging from DJ Spinna, Solange, Rich Medina, Pete Rock, Moodymann, Bugz in the Attic, Waajeed, and many others. Sol has contributed to music sites such as Music is My Sanctuary and mainstay parties namely thePeople, Jump N Funk, Bang The Drum, Makossa Brooklyn, Motown on Mondays, & Soul in the Horn NYC. Nina Sol brings a profound energy to dance floors while spreading messages of justice, freedom, and love.

www.djninasol.com

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P Soul

Hailing from Boston’s underground dance scene, Paul was deeply entrenched in an incredible, creative and diverse underground dance community (like the Bohemian parties). Paul ‘s DJ foundation comes from going to NYC in the early 80’s and getting his head blown open after going to The Paradise Garage, David Mancuso's Loft in NYC, Zanzibar in NJ. Enjoying the master mixes on KISS FM and WBLS also played a part in cementing a love for the expression of dance music, of soul music of Jazz, of hip hop, of disco. That all deepened his love and expression of underground music and dance culture transforming into a joyful expression with a lot of stories to tell as a DJ/Dancer.

With years of inspiration and experiences from the Garage to Choices to the Better Days, Days, The Shelter parties, it kept his love for the musical expression intact for years to come. Here in Northern CA, Paul is happy to be a part of an amazing community of like minded and passionate house music lovers and dancers and enjoys supporting as well as sharing with a lifetime experience as part of the underground dance community from coast to coast. Paul has played numerous events from Boston to San Francisco and is a regular Elements Oakland DJ.