Veteran DJ Salah Ananse produces music, spins at local clubs and lounges, and has opened for soul sensations like Musiq, Dwele, India Arie, Donnie and Raphael Saadiq. Get a glimpse into Salah’s world and find out where this Atlanta-born mix master likes to hang out when he’s not on the ones and twos.

Name: DJ Salah Ananse

Age: Classified

Hometown: Southwest Atlanta

Neighborhood: Greenbriar

Spins: House, Soul, Hip-Hop

For that perfect ensemble, you go to...?  Drew Lewis in Midtown. They have the best labels in men’s clothing. For shoes, Wish in Little Five Points.

Favorite music store to stalk? Honestly, most of it is sent to me. When I do buy music, I get CDs and vinyl from Earwax Records. Criminal Records is cool too, but I go there more for magazines. I also go to Discolandia on Buford Hwy.

What’s bumping in your mp3 player right now? My whole catalog , because I’m always listening to my stuff trying to make it better. It’s a little different, a lot of electronica and soul -  N.E.R.D., Estelle, Marvin Gaye, Kid Sister.

What’s your drink of choice and where do you go to get it? I like wine, Sauvignon Blanc, at The W Hotel or Noir (my favorite bartender Monica works there).

Favorite place to stuff your face? Lately, I’ve been going to Brake Pad in East Point because I ride a motorcycle and you can just pull up on your bike. I like everything there from the blackened tilapia tacos, to their black bean burger.

What’s your biggest guilty pleasure? "The View." I watch the first 15 minutes of it every day. Politics are my thing and they have good topics. I think I’m way more progressive than most people, so it’s good to gage where the rest of the country is.

On any given day of the week, what hotspots are a must for you? Monday–Graveyard in East Atlanta; Tuesday–Sugar Hill for the Tuesday Jam Session; Wednesday–MJQ; I do a crawl on Thursdays: Bazzaar, Sutra and Leopard Lounge; Naturally Straits on Friday but I start out at Stats; Saturday–Utopia; On Sunday, I just bounce around on my motorcycle.

Where can we see you at work? Thursday–Stats (until July) and Sutra; Friday–Straits; Saturday–Utopia; Every third Sunday–Sushi Sundays.

Prep for a show includes…? A glass of wine (not that I’m an alcoholic). I DJ on feel. A lot of my gigs are open, so whatever I’m feeling that day that’s what I’ll do.

So what’s so great about being a DJ? The interaction between me and the crowd, seeing people hear something new and unexpected, and like it.