Red Bull Thre3 Style Calgary DJ Fordinho winning set from Fokus Productions on Vimeo.
Tonight at The Rub we have guest dj Fordinho, who besides being our good friend also won the Red Bull Thre3style battle for Calgary. Of course this dovetails nicely with the fact that next week at Southpaw we are spinning / hosting the first ever Brooklyn Thre3style battle.
Also appearing tonight will be DJ Pump, whose dj name betrays his penchant for playing music while wearing ladies’ high heel shoes. Not that there is anything wrong with that.
The only video I could find for Pump is this 10 year old footage one of him cutting up James Brown records. This is presumably before the whole cross-dressing thing.
Tonight, Saturday, May 1: The Rub at Southpaw with Cosmo Baker, DJ Ayres, DJ Eleven, Fordinho & DJ Pumps
Next Saturday, May 8: Red Bull Thre3style competition at Southpaw with Boogie Blind, DJ Chela, Jayceeoh, Moma, Sam French, Sammy Slice, Terry Urban, & Vin Sol, hosted by Greg Nice. The Rub DJ set 1 AM – 4 AM.
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I’ve been meaning to do a new hip-hop mix for a while, but it kept getting swallowed up by mixes for our other Rub Radio show on Scion broadband. But I got a few months ahead on the other show, so I had some time to bang this out. Tons of new shit I’m feeling right now, and I threw in a few non-hip-hop selections to give it some flavor, but you know I had to start it off with Gangstarr. Tracklist after the jump.
Listen to our friend Matthew Africa’s Gangstarr mix, and read Cosmo’s thoughts about Guru and Gangstarr.
Matthew Africa – Got To Be The Sureshot
Rest In Power Keith “Guru” Elam (July 17th, 1966 – April 20th, 2010)
My morning regiment is pretty consistent day in and day out. I wake up, hit the bathroom, go into the kitchen and get the coffee started, and not so long afterwards that I’ll pick up my phone to see what messages I missed during the evening. Needless to say the news of Guru’s leaving this planet was one of the first pieces of news that I got this morning. Shocked, and saddened, I said to my wife “Jesus, Guru has died.” A few minutes later as we sat on the couch, she turned to me and, with tears in her eyes, said to me “This is so sad. It was ‘Step In The Arena’ that made me realize I was a real hip-hop ‘head’…”
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We’ve been a fan of the Thre3style battles for a while now. Each DJ plays for 15 minutes, and has to spin at least 3 different genres of music. They shift the focus from super technical scratching and beat juggling battles (ITF, DMC) to a longer, more open format, party rocking competition. So when Red Bull approached The Rub to host the event at Southpaw, we jumped on it, reaching out to a bunch of different types of DJs to make it a real fun diverse night of music. Here are the DJs in alphabetical order:
Boogie Blind
Chela
Jayceeoh
Moma
Sam French
Sammy Slice
Terry Urban
Vin Sol
We’re going to start the comp at 10 PM sharp so be sure to go ahead and get to Southpaw early to catch all these awesome DJs. After the winner is announced, it turns into The Rub, as Eleven, Cosmo and I will be playing the party after the battle.
Check out DJ Eleven on tour with our pals Sinden, JOTS & Franki Chan! All the events are free but you have to RSVP to get in. These tours happen every month to promote the Radio shows on Scion Radio 17, including Rub Radio. See all the dates on the Scion Radio 17 tour page, and more DJ Eleven tour dates at www.djeleven.com.
DJ Nu-Mark guests on Rub Radio this month. He talks about everything from his days as producer and DJ for Jurassic 5, to swing jazz, to crossing paths with a very young Kanye West, to crate digging and DJing around the world. Nu-Mark takes over the turntables for a banging live set recorded at The Rub party in Brooklyn. As always, Eleven, Cosmo and Ayres throw down, spinning new and classic hip-hop and dance music.
Awesome photos from The Rub last Saturday by Doobevision