Gloria Molina Grand Park’s Sunday Sessions is a highlight of summer in L.A. It’s a series of free, all ages, dance party picnics right in the middle of downtown, inside the park that sits between the Music Center and City Hall. At the event on July 20, my friend, Maurice de la Falaise curated a lineup of DJs to celebrate the roots of house music, and I got to DJ alongside Loopdropkid and Clifton Weaver, with KG Superstar MCing the afternoon. It was a ton of fun.
For my own set, I played mostly disco and Italo, with a lot of edits to kind of stress that connection between disco and house. In the first set, which started at about 3 p.m., I dropped Horse Meat Disco and Phenomenal Handclap Band’s track “Sanctuary,” which you probably heard a lot if you went to my nights back at The Lash right after the pandemic, because the lyrics are relevant to the moment. The second set, which was from 5:15 – 6 p.m., took a house turn towards the end because the crowd seemed up for it, so I dropped in two of my favorite tracks from the past handful of years “Cissy” from Natasha Kitty Katt, which pulls vocals from the Cissy Houston song “Think It Over,” and Kerri Chandler’s remix of Gabriels “Love and Hate in a Different Time.” Set list is below.
Set One:
Savage – Don’t Cry Tonight
Raf – Self Contral
Horse Meat Disco, Phenomenal Handclap Band – Sanctuary (Ray Mang Extended Mix)
Q – The Voice of Q (The Reflex Revision)
Rockers Revenge- Walking on Sunshine (Arthur Chaps Edit)
Gino Soccio – Dancer
Suzi Lane – Harmony
Claudja Barry – Sweet Dynamite (Filthy Lucre Elektrik Disko Club Mix)
Paul Parker – Right on Target (Ladies on Mars edit)
Chemise – She Can’t Love You (Purple Disco Machine Edit)
The Pointer Sisters – Happiness (Numa A Tfive Remix)
Candi Staton – Me and My Music (DJ Kulbir Rework Pt. II)
Set Two:
Donna Summer – Our Love
Cerrone – Supernature (Ethan Wood Ediit)
Kano – It’s a War (Purple Disco Machine & Lorenz Rhodes Remix)
The Flirts – Danger
Fun Fun – Baila Bolero (Krystal Klear Remix)
Cyber People – Void Vision
Mr. Flagio – Take a Chance
Master Plan – Electric Baile (Enzo Elia Vocal Edit)
Moloko – Sing It Back (Mousse T’s Feel Love Mix)
Sylvester – You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real) (Michael Gray Remix)
Natasha Kitty Katt – Cissy
Gabriels – Love and Hate in a Different Time (Kerri Chandler Remix)
Subscribe to the free, weekly Beatique newsletter.
Listen to Beatique Mix May 2025 feat. music from Boy Harsher, Sextile, Pixel Grip and more.
Liz O. is an L.A.-based writer and DJ. Read her recently published work and check out her upcoming gigs or listen to the latest Beatique Mix. Follow on Instagram or Bluesky for more updates.
Keep Reading:
“Me and My Music”: The Candi Staton Song That Reminds Me Why I DJ
DJ Koze Unleashes Spooky Cover of “Vamos a la Playa” on Music Can Hear Us