“The Rub have just put the finishing touches on their History of Hip-Hop series on Brooklyn Radio. And with that, we wanted to get their perspective on the last 30 years of the genre. After the cut, we go deep with Cosmo, DJ Ayres and DJ Eleven. ”
The Rub Interview on Brooklyn Radio
Thursday, August 19
Hi-Fi Club
219 10th Ave. SW Calgary, Canada
Friday, August 20
The HooDoo
Banff Canada
Saturday, August 21
Scratch
215 2nd Avenue South Saskatoon, SK, Canada
Wednesday, August 25
The Bulldog
Fernie BC, Canada
Thursday, August 26
The Pyramid
176 Fort Street Winnipeg
Friday, August 27
The Drake
1150 Queen Street West Toronto, ON
Sunday, August 29
The Pool Party
East River State Park
90 Kent Avenue Brooklyn, NY
+ Afterparty at Brooklyn Bowl!
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Interview with Tittsworth:
http://brooklynradio.net/blog/interview-tittsworth
Titty Recall Mix ( . )( . )( . )
http://brooklynradio.net/the-rub
Dj Ayres – Can’t Shake This Feeling Mix by Red Bull Music Academy Radio on Mixcloud
tracklist after the jump
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Sweden’s Let’s Mix site interviewed us about our Hip-Hop History series. Read the whole interview here (or below).
Hey Rubbers! You’ve done an amazing job compiling and producing the Hip Hop History mixes. How did you come up with this, slightly crazy, idea?
Ayres: Thank you! If I remember correctly, I had the idea for a series of hip-hop history mix CDs at first, but it just seemed crazy to try to dump that many CDs on the market place. Most of the years would have been double or triple CDs. But yeah, Eleven and Cosmo were both into the idea to do it and just give the mixes away on The Rub website and Brooklyn Radio. So we split it up between the three of us into years, like “I’ll take 1979, you do 1980, he does 1981…” and so on. It felt really ambitious but also once we got the bug, it was a project we had to do. And it is awesome now because it has found such a huge audience and people keep finding it and emailing about the mixes long after we first put them up.
How long did it the whole process take, from compiling the tracks, via laying out the order in the respective mixes to finishing the actual mixes?
Eleven: The mixes got longer the further we got into them. But they average around two hours. For each of those, there was three-four hours of tracking down and going through music, a couple hours of prepping to record, three-four hours of recording and touch up. So each show probably took at least ten hours. By the time we bring the project up to now, we’ll be 300+ hours in!
White Light #29 – DJ Ayres (mellow dubstep / electronic / chillout)
Plasmodium Mix #43 – DJ Ayres (All T&A Records: House, Techno, Club)
Flashing Lights Mix #6 (all types of dance music w. Jubilee & Nick Catchdubs)
Photos by Sam Horine for the Village Voice view the whole set
See the whole set at Kenny’s Flickr
The Rub catches up with the original nuttah Shy FX, along with the next generation on his Digital Soundbwoy label, Breakage. The labelmates discuss the roots of jungle and dubstep, their varied careers, the eclecticism of the UK scene, and the virtues of jumping up and down in the studio.
Listen at http://scion.com/channel2 or right here: