Pictures from
The Rub Warehouse Party II with Max Glazer and Waajeed
Monday, December 24
DJ Soul has been putting up old mixtapes on his blog and
we've been downloading them for a minute, but his latest
post is super tough - Kid Capri's Free James Brown mix
from 1989. So crazy - go
get it!
Monday, December 10
FOOLS GOLD x THE RUB!
DJ Ayres interviews Nick Catchdubs and A-Trak about their
new record label. Read
it here. Plus DJ Ayres mixes it up with an hour of music from Fools Gold and exclusive
remixes from Nick, A-Trak and the rest of the Fools Gold
camp. The mix: download / stream
Sunday, December 9
Brand new Rub Radio on Scion
Broadband - special guests Pharoahe Monch plus DJ Co-op and Hunnicut. As always we hit you with 3 hours of stone cold jams! The show streams 24/7 on loop, and the title of the track playing at any given moment is diplayed under our sexy mugs.
Wednesday, December 5
A bunch of T&A and The Rub vinyl was just repressed:
Brand New Mix For Download: "Diamond
D (With The Dope Sound)"
So after recording the Pete
Rock Tribute Mix for our Brooklyn
Radio Show Rub
Radio I got inspired to keep on running through some shit that used to get me open
back in the day. So I dug around and found some joints
by one of my favorite producers, Diamond D. keep reading / download
Ross
and Neta skraight kilt it at The Rub in September and
then blessed us with an interview and an all Bay Area set
for our monthly show on the Scion website. It is a 3 hour
show that streams 24/7 and you can't move fast forward through
us to get to them but when you hear the Bay Raps that's them.
DJ Eleven, Cosmo Baker & DJ
Ayres with super duper spectacular guests: Ross Hogg & DJ Neta
Both Ross & Neta have been working
DJs in the SF Bay Area for almost 10 years. In addition, Ross writes
the “Reggae Rewind” column for XLR8R magazine. They have been featured
in The Fader, SF Weekly, The Bay Guardian and Entertainment Weekly
and regularly release critically acclaimed mixtapes. In this edition
of RUB Radio we discuss with them the Bay Area DJ and music scenes,
the state of Hyphy music & reggae, as well the experience of being a married DJ duo. More info can be found
at:
Whoa, it's been almost 2 weeks since the news has been updated!
So much going on, with the upcoming Rub tour, a million and
one Halloween parties, more records and mixtapes and general
paper stackery. Playing catch up, here are Halloween
pictures from Galapagos and here is a cut and paste
of my tour blog from Australia, from the Turntablelab blog:
I'm
back from Australia - it was truly incredible, a whirlwind
tour that somehow crammed gigs in Melbourne, Sydney and Newcastle,
two radio spots, an instore, trips to the beach, the Sydney
opera house and the Melbourne zoo into four days. Ian took 350 pictures! We're back out on the road tommorow to Detroit and California but we'll be
back in the city from Saturday on for a bunch of Halloween
parties and other fun. Be sure to come out and party with
us -
Koala
at the National Zoo in Melbourne. It was
beautiful weather and they were
moving around a lot which is unusual for Koalas, even leaping
from branch to
branch.
Wombats were cute as hell! The Platapus was
amazing too, so crazy looking.
At ABC radio studios in Melbourne
On the radio! One of the turntables was messed up
and wouldn't work with Serato
so I had to play almost entirely on internal mode on that side, so
frustrating
to suck on national radio behind technical issues. Oh well.
Ian drinking Rave Juice at the club in Melbourne.
Agwa liquor + Redbull + Vodka + Glow
Stick!
Doing it big in Melbourne
In the club with Levins (Ro Sham Bo / Heaps Decent)
and Craig (CWD)
The Sydney crowd was already in a frenzy when we
got there at 11 PM. There was
a three way battle between Ro Sham Bo, Hoops and Peace Out crews,
madness.
Anna Lunoe (Hoops) - the Hoops girls were tag teaming
new hip-hop and dancing
up a storm in matching outfits. I felt like they won but Ro Sham Bo were the
crowd favorites.
Newcastle was a sort of cheesy outdoor hotel party but
people were going off
to Baile funk and Baltimore Club and electro house. All that
stuff is super popular in Australia,
it's not even underground music there.
Huge huge shout out to Alanna who rescued us from the insanity in Newcastle
and
took us sightseeing in Sydney!
Circular Quay - we hung out for three hours watching the sun set.
I
Like Make Dance digital EP out now on Gigacrate. New remixes of Black Box "Everybody Everybody," Twista & Pharrell "Give It Up," Lidell Townsell "Nu Nu," 4 Hero "Mr Kirk's Nightmare" and Masters at Work "Work." Vinyl
coming soon with bonus Kid Sister - Pro Nails remix
Cosmo has a bunch of good parties going on this week:
Monday, October 15
DJ Andy Smith, Cosmo Baker & DJ
Excel
Fluid - Philadelphia, PA
Tuesday, October 16
Cool Kids, Hollywood Holt & Vyle
DJ Sets by Craze N Klever, Cosmo Baker & JM
205 Chrystie - New York, NY Invite only @ dubfrequency.imeem.com
Wednesday, October 17
Cosmo Baker & Rob Wonder
El Bar - Atlanta, GA
Thursday, October 18
DJ Spinna, J. Rocc, Cosmo Baker, DJ Kaos & Pharoahe
Monch
Plan B - New York, NY
"New
Baltimore Club EP: Tittsworth & Ayres present Dave Nada! "The
sixth release
from the en fuego T&A Records comes courtesy of Baltimore's own Dave Nada. If you don't know Dave,
he's played in a bunch of hardcore bands around the Bmore/DC area, produced with
one of the guys from Q & Not U under the name Rubber Bullets, and now holds it down as a resident at
Taxlo with his DJ partner, Tittsworth. The six heavy Bmore remixes here not
only feature some sick production from Mr. Nada, but also some original synth
work(!)
a la Blaqstarr or old Samir shit.
A-side has the MC5 remix Kick
Out The Jams, the Biggie-sampling Where
Brooklyn At and the Queen / Ying Yang jumble Fat
Bottom Girl. B-side
wins, however, with remixes of Unk's Back
It Up and Screamin Jay
Hawkins' Spell
On You, plus "Bonus Beats," featuring crisp
Bmore drums and some of that tasty synth."
I started
recording this set as a Rub Radio show but I liked it so
much I put extra work into it and made it a CD. It's
basically a bunch of the
songs that I play in my new house sets, minus most of the more obvious
joints (A Bit Patchy, Beeper) but still keeping some songs that are
pretty big (Dr Pressure, DANCE remix, I Want Your Soul, Shake and
Pop) along with lesser known joints. I also threw in a
few exclusive new
remixes and edits (my Kid Sister remix, A-Trak's Digitalism remix,
Herve's Thriller). The vibe is poppy and druggy. Huge shout out to
Sinden & Josh, I stole their idea from Beeper for the theme.
You can buy the CD at Turntablelab or via Paypal onat my website,
and if you just want to download it, paypal $5 to itstherub@gmail.com
and I will send you the link.
1. Soulwax - Krack
2. Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Justice remix)
3. Matty C - You Used to Exceed Me
4. Apt One - When I Here Medhi
5. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
6. Armand Van Helden - I Want Your Soul (edit)
7. Mylo - Dr. Pressure (remix)
8. Mr Hudson - Ask the DJ (Count of Monte Cristal & Sinden
remix)
9. Egg Foo Young - Up It
10. Claude Von Stroke - Chimps
11. Das Glow - Weiss Gaz
12. Alter Ego - Rocker
13. Green Velvet - Shake and Pop
14. Kid Sister - Pro Nails (DJ Ayres remix)
15. Herve - Cheap Thrills
16. Digitalism - Idealism (A-Trak remix)
17. Stephan Hinz - Ending Up Flipping Burgers
18. Mr. Oizo - Patrick122
19. Booka Shade - In White Rooms
Also - congratulations to the homie Queen
Majesty on the release
of her new mix CD, "Trilla". Jamaican covers of American tunes from the '80's & '90's.
It's not too be missed! Buy it at Deadly
Dragon; coming soon to Turntablelab and stores worldwide.
Tuesday, September 18
Tittsworth and I have a good interview up on Inquiring
Mind.
Friday, September 14
New Vinyl - The Rub Party Medleys Vol 1
Eleven and I were djing together on two turntables in Boston a few
months ago and we were going back and forth a lot and we started running
out of options for real vinyl to play while switching computers. I
said "somebody should make a record for switching computers, one record that never
leaves your bag, with stuff everyone plays, at a bunch of different
tempos."
This is what we came up with, four party medleys on one EP. The one record for
Serato DJs that never leaves your bag. The 6 minute medleys are linked
with quick 2 bar acapella skits so you can play each side for 12-13
minutes through if you need to, say if your computer crashes or you
have to run to the bathroom. The songs are quick mixed, playing for
about a verse and a chorus each, with no fancy West Coast production
extras (sorry LA hip-hop dudes), just regular NYC quick mix party style.
If this sells well, we'll be doing more like it with different types
of music.
A1. 80s Medley listen (Prince - Kiss, Michael Jackson - Billie
Jean, Rolling Stones - Miss You, Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That) ~ 112 BPM
A2. House Medley listen (Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You, Robin S
- Show Me Love, Nightcrawlers - Push the Feeling On) ~ 122 BPM
B1. Crunk Medley listen (Lil Jon - Bia Bia, Lil Scrappy - No Problem, Ludacris
- Move Bitch) ~ 80 - 90 BPM)
B2. Dancehall Medley listen (Shaggy & Rayvon
- Big Up, Shabba Ranks - Batty Rider, Cutty Ranks - A Who See Me Dun,
Mr. Vegas - Heads High)
A few years ago Milk Bar in San Francisco approached me
and Nick about setting up a rotating residency - every month would
be me or Nick plus a special guest, so for example Nick and Low-Bee
one month, me and Paul Nice the next, Nick and Morse Code the next,
and so on. We threw around a few ideas for themes and I came up with
Super Friends, and Nick liked it because it meant he could flip comic
book covers on the flyers, and he came up with a super hot logo. We
went out and DJed the first party and it went well. Milk liked the
name and flyer concept so much they decided to make Super Friends a
weekly, with resident DJ Vin Sol. Nick continued to design the Super
Friends flyers but our monthly residency wasn't to be. It's all love
though. I'll be back out at Milk in October for the first time in almost
two years to DJ at Morse Code's CD release party.
Nick and I have been talking about doing a mix CD together
for a long time, and when we finally got our shit together, the vibe
we agreed on was dance rock records - some new wave, some punk, some
newer electro shit. We did it as Super Friends because even though
we aren't as involved in the party as we originally planned to be,
we did come up with a hot concept and Vin Sol and Morse Code are our
people and were into it. Another person I have to acknowledge is Scott
from Ten Deep - he and I were planning on doing a rock mixtape, but
we're both so busy all the time it never came together. I got a few
of these records from him when we were planning the Ten Deep mixtape.
Blonde Redhead at the Pool Party (photo
by Anna G Dickson)
Blonde Redhead at the Pool Party (photo by Aaron
Headley
Heavy Summer Rotation:
Tuesday, July 31
I
was
out on
tour opening for Ghostface all last week. It was a little bit of a challenge
because I didn't play any dirty
south hip-hop, house, club, 80s or
whatever else I'm used to playing, but I had fun with real schitt hip-hop and
classic soul and reggae. It's pretty awesome getting a room full of backpackers
to sing along to Gloria Jones "Tainted
Love."
Cappadonna killed it with those long breathless verses from Winter Wars and
Daytona 500. When he's 48 bars in and still going the crowd just loses it.
Rhythm Roots Allstars unloading from the bus. These dudes kill it live, staying
faithful to the original Ghostface instrumentals and freaking shit like Nautilus,
No No No and La La Means I Love You. The old guy is our bus driver; he's normally
the driver for Good Charlotte.
My bunk on the bus is the size of a coffin but has its own DVD / CD / radio
player. Scion puts us up in four star hotels but we don't even sleep there.
To get from St Louis to Minneapolis for example we had to leave at like 3 AM
so the hotel was just a really expensive place to shower and change clothes
after the show.
Mike the 2600 King showed me around Minneapolis and took me to the Burlesque
Design studios.
Wezz and Mike were printing MF Doom posters.
Kid Sister & Sam brought me cupcakes for my birthday
in Chicago!
The Rub European tour
is going swimmingly, thanks for asking! Just one day left then we'll be home for a couple of days. I have to say the
highlight so far was playing with Sinden,
Switch, Kool Keith and South Rakkas crew at Fabric. So nuts!
More pictures soon-ish.
Eleven and I won't be back in time for McCarren Pool Party
Saturday so Cosmo is holding it down along with Kennan & Mikey Palms so go! I'll be at Highline Ballroom Monday with Ghostface but I think the RSVPs are already full up. But in the meantime check out the video for Escort's "All
Through The Night."
Be sure to check out the newly redesigned Brooklyn
Radio. The Rub's weekly show is now available as a podcast! This week we put up me and DJ Soul's best of Ghostface mix, Chamber Music! I have some tour dates coming up at the end of the month with Ghostface:
Monday,
July 23
Ghostface Killah / DJ Ayres
431 West 16th Street
Highline Ballroom, NYC
free! rsvp
here
Wednesday, July 25
Ghostface Killah / DJ Ayres
6504 Delmar Blvd
Blueberry Hill,
St Louis
free! rsvp
here
Thursday, July 26
Ghostface Killah / DJ Ayres
1308 4th Street SE
Varsity Theater, Minneapolis
free! rsvp
here
Friday, July 27
Ghostface Killah / DJ Ayres
3730 N. Clark Street
The Metro, Chicago
free! rsvp
here