L.A. Carnival has been played on NTS in shows including The Do!! You!!! Breakfast Show w/ Charlie Bones, featured first on 3 April 2013. Songs played include Blind Man (Cut Chemist Edit), The Klan and Color.

Lester Abrams formed the The Les Smith Soul Band (the Band would be renamed L.A. Carnival later) as Lester was developing the "Fabulous Impacts" and a reputation as "the baddest drummer in town", Leslie Orlando Smith (born 1949 in Detroit) was attending North High School and singing lead in the band "Sights and Sounds" with, amongst others, schoolmate Ron Cooley on guitar and a bass player from Central…