Our friend Puja wrote an article for her new Village Voice column about DJ AM. Thoughts from A-Trak, Eli Escobar, Diplo, ?uestlove, Nick Catchdubs, DJ Premier, Stretch Armstrong, Matt Colon, Roctakon, Pase Rock and me. http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2009/08/rip_dj_am.php
When we dropped this CD earlier in the year, Turntable Lab wrote “Ayres and Eleven knew they have a good thing going with the Glamorous Life series (GL #2 was not only a certified Lab best seller, it’s one of the most played mixes in the Lab office EVER) so they went and did the logical thing and made part 3! (About time too, it’s been like 4 years since the second one.) Like the previous volumes, the selection is top notch 80’s (a great blend of educated sureshots, soulful boogie, garage classics and poppin’ funk) and the mixes and cuts are flawless as you would expect. Features tracks from the likes of Zapp, Teena Marie, Midnight Star, Gap Band, Gwen Guthrie. The dudes don’t disappoint!” Now we’re giving it to you for free, because we’re that type of guy.
Download high bitrate here Glamorous Life 3 (145 MB) (right click “save target as”)
Lower bitrate and streaming file at Brooklyn Radio
Get the tracklist and buy the CD in The Rub Store or at Turntable Lab.
View the whole set on MRI Lightpainting’s Flickr Gallery and be sure to check out their Blog
View The HiFi Cartel’s whole set here: http://www.hificartel.com/photos/flashing-lights/
Love Letter is a project by Stephen Powers with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program
http://www.aloveletterforyou.com/
Want over 30 MOP tracks, all masterfully mixed together? Simply click here to download DJ Eleven’s ‘Fight Music: The Best Of MOP’, which pretty much does what it says in the title. Now read on to hear him break down the science of the mix… Salute!
When did the idea to do an MOP mix come about?
“I’ve always felt like dudes were criminally underrated, long been a huge fan, and had always wanted to do a project which would allow me to listen to MOP for months on end. So when I was presented with the chance to get a connect to them through the Spitkicker guys, I jumped at the chance. Sure, it took well over a year to make it happen, but it was worth the wait.”
Read the whole interview at Hip-Hop Connection.
New Rub Radio with Fool’s Gold honchos A-Trak & Nick Catchdubs, plus epic hilarity from Andrew Andrew. Plus music! Go listen (or just rock it on our embedded player in the far right column). We got video too:
Watch the full interview on YouTube or listen on Rub Radio then go check Andrew Andrew’s Historical Internet Website AndrewAndrewDotCom.com and our favorite label, Fool’s Gold.
RIBBIT RIBBIT FLASHING LIGHTS IS THIS FRIDAY!
“Paypur / Smoke Rings” Single Release + Jess Jubilee Birthday Spectacular!
Toadally Krossed Out (Mad Decent) NYC Debut!
To celebrate the party we put together a new mix with a ton of our favorite music (and exclusives from Toadally Krossed Out, Nadastrom, Kid Sister & Kingdom, and a bunch more )
Download it (and RSVP for the party) here: http://www.flashinglightslightslights.com
On Saturday, at 3 p.m., it’s the motherfucking witching hour. The hour of all hours. The 6 hour event. The realest event in musical history, that’s right, we return to, another edition of… the almighty, SABBATH IN THE PARK! VIII!
Saturday, August 8
Sabbath In The Park
Hosted by The Rub & Mattsoreal
Black Sabbath Cover Band! Mad Beer! Apple Bowl!
3 PM – 9 PM
Bklyn Yard
400 Carroll St. (between Bond and Nevins)
F/G to Carroll St.
Brooklyn, NY
Note this event is not BYOB! There will be a Cash Bar and Evil Taco Truck at Brooklyn Yard
The Yard is at 400 Carroll btwn Bond and Nevins in Brooklyn
DOWNLOAD:
Sabbath in the Park Wicked Mix 666
Let’s revisit this evil classic mixed by Cosmo Baker complete with over an hour of Black Sabbath and exclusive drunk interviews from SITP III.
PICTURES FROM SITP I-VII:
Sabbath in the Park I, CMJ 2006, Fort Greene Park
Sabbath in the Court (case dismissed!)
SITP II: Sabbath in the Court Afterparty, Southpaw, Feb 2007
SITP III: More Fire, SxSW 2007, Austin TX
SITP IV – Brooklyn Yard, 2007
SITP V – SXSW 2008, Austin TX
Sabbath in the Park VI – CMJ 2008
SITP VII – SXSW 2009
Check out this interview with our guest at The Rub in August:
“DJ Jonny Blaze has been a key figure in Baltimore club for more than a decade. So when I contacted him for an interview recently, he was understandably curious about what took me so long to look him up. But the fact of the matter is, well, there’s a lot of Jonny Blazes out there-I mistakenly introduced myself to another DJ using the name at an event a couple years ago. “Man, it’s like hundreds of ’em,” says the 38-year-old producer born John Grant. “They hit me up on MySpace, ‘How long you had your name?’ One guy said he had his name since 2005. I got you beat, my cousin gave me my name back in ’88.”
read the whole thing at http://www.citypaper.com/digest.asp?id=18403
We’ve got a few changes to announce: The Rub website has finally made the leap to proper blog. Thanks Oka! Thanks Andy! So from now on, news will be on the front page here, and everything will properly archive, making the site a lot easier for us to update and for you to follow. The other real big news is that all the mixes are back up on Crewcial.org. Thanks Ian! That includes all the Hip-Hop History mixes and a ton of other mixes littered throughout the news page. Be sure to grab all The Rub Live mixes (2003 – 2007) here: http://therub.crewcial.org/live/
Last, we are working on It’s The Motherfucking Remix Vol. 3, which will be out in September on CD with remixes from a ton of great DJs including the usual suspects and some newer names who have played at The Rub more recently. So definitely be on the lookout for that!