1. Thanks to 3SA's Dave "Dynamix" Refuerzo for permission to use the photo. Dave's still passionate about DJing after nearly three decades in the game. He has a sick collection of mobile era fliers on his FB page.
2. For example, the Latino mobile scene in the Bay was thick too.
3. I don't have time to get into it here but DJing is still a predominantly male community and the mobile crews I studied were very much so. I managed to find just one female Filipino crew - the Go-Go's (who were frickin' awesome to interview).
4. One common misperception about my research is that it's about "Filipinos in hip-hop." It's not. The mobile scene predates the spread of hip-hop to the West Coast and more to the point, though rap music found a happy audience amongst the crews, it wasn't the dominant genre in this community during its heyday: uptempo dance music such as Latin freestyle and hi-NRG was. Hip-hop became big by the latter era of the scene, especially those that formed in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but the mobile scene was not a hip-hop scene as much as it may have a paralleled hip-hop's rise.
5. This may be pure coincidence, but as Tim Lawrence chronicles, many of the major NY disco DJs that emerged during the late 1960s and throughout the ?70s were the children of Italian immigrants.