On Sunday, August 4, I went to Dolton Park for DJ Clent’s Beatdown House Litnic, a free daytime party and barbecue celebrating ghetto house, juke, and footwork. In the park I noticed a couple other picnics with PA systems set up, but none of them compared to what DJ Clent had brought—nearly two dozen speakers, assembled into a massive sound system that stretched across the front of the stubby stage like a fortification. A couple tiny tents onstage protected two DJ rigs, set up to allow one performer to begin immediately after the preceding set, with little dead air. Three portable generators powered the whole setup, and Clent had rented a U-Haul truck to transport the gear to the southwest corner of Dolton Park.
