diggin in the design archives...

announcement sticker for the manhattan store... 2001!

2002 flyer for the party celebrating the first Money Studies release.
think this was the first time Diplo dj'ed in nyc. roc + monk + wes killed it. still the best APT party in my opinion. shout to J.Nichols who convinced me to dig this one up.

life is hard.
take a break into in a world much different than yours

Holy Yammi Bolos! This had everyone in the office in stiches. Due to my constant complaining of having no wrist pad, Snack scored this little beaut for me as an early Christmas gift on Ebay. Never before have I received anything so thoughtful. Now my endless hours of uploading audio for you fiends, will be eased by the squishy pillows of this delightful babe. Not to mention, it makes an attractive desk piece and makes me more productive. I think I'll name her Janine. Holiday gift givers take note. The key here is personal and useful.

Without question the best music video ever made by anyone

Gear madness!

Newness from Marc Ecko & Spike Lee, Hello Minor, Mishka, Manifest, and mo' in the gear section...

new 10 deep and Acapulco Gold coming soon...

PLUS lots of newness in the books/design section too... including a thick hardcover from lab-fave Banksy.

We see you.

style icon of the moment
Muammar al-Gaddafi
posse ain't too shabby either

JASPER: LOS ANGELES TIMES PT.1

We miss you here at the LA store Jas. so many good times, so many good friends... for instance... the infamous deejay PUBES collides with the hair duo! only to form the hair trio!

A side note to NY TTLAB SHIPSET: I represent the LA TTLAB staff when i say...We love getting your neatly rapped packages in the mail every week. ONLY ONE WARPED RECORD was ever mailed to us out here in sunny Los Angeles!

well maybe thats not exactly true... but hell, great job anyhow!

Another side note to ALL OF YOU FROGMAN FANS OUT THERE: check the semi-drastic to DRASTIC hair changes in this rare creature KNOWN AS: JASPER! AKA FROGMAN'S life in LA... from being mistaken for "THAT ONE CRAZY DJ WITH THE HAIR" to "PROFESIONAL BOSS MAN"

Last side note: IN HIS HAND IS # 2 OF 3 CELL PHONES JASPER, "HAD THEN LOST" IN LA.

AND FINALLY... THE POINT.

JASPER... WE ARE REALLY GONNA MISS WORKING WITH YOU, AND LISTENING TO YOU MOAN & GROAN, FROM YOUR AWESOME "BACK OFFICE", ABOUT WRITING "ONE MORE BLURB !", WHILE WE HUMBLY SERVE THE MULTITUDES OF TTLAB FANS & CUSTOMERS THAT GRACE OUR STORE WITH THEIR WONDERFUL PRESENCE EVERY DAY. WE ARE ALSO GOING TO MISS YOUR SMOOTH HAND WITH THE HOMELESS PEOPLE OF FAIRFAX, (LIKE BUSCUIT, WHOM WE LOVE & ADORE), & YOUR DISTASTE FOR MR. PIZZA'S PIZZA & THE FACT THAT WE HAD ABOUT 5 RESTAURANT CHOICES WITH IN COMFORTABLE WALKING DISTANCE OF THE STORE. + your euro's are rad. BOTTOM LINE IS WE ARE GONNA MISS YOU BUDDY.

YOU ARE A TRUE CHARACTER & AN AWESOME DUDE.

YOU TAUGHT ME HOW TO MOP A FLOOR MAN...THANK YOU.

MUCH RESPECT & GOOD LUCK TO YOU JASPER...

> THE MAN, THE MYTH, THE LEGEND...

FROGMAN...
LOS ANGELES TIMES PT. 1

New Turntable Lab Radio update.
Get comfy with us.

so I'm back in NY now, for good. Looking for an apartment (sucks), trying to get used to grey weather and tall buildings (sucks), really loud shit happening in the street all the time (sucks), and working back in the office (fucking awesome). It actually aint that bad, and Im kinda psyched to be back in a city thats awake. Anyway I never did a goodbye LA blog, but here's the Halloween pics I shoulda posted a month ago.

I went to the costume store and just grabbed some shit, James actually had a costume: Egyptian Lover. Activator and all. Had to take a pic with the 82 Benzo, it's only right.

that night was super hectic. first we had a Justice in-store (like the day before they won that euro vma), which was kinda small due to it being Halloween and everything, but those guys played a great set and everybody had fun. Free beer and lots of candy, sorry no pics.

Then we had to rush down to Venice Beach for our party with Stussy at the Nike Blue House. It's literally a house, right on the boardwalk, converted into party space with artwork all over the place, great system, outdoor space, the works. Blu Jemz, Willie The Gaslamp Killer & Chromeo DJed for us. Costume required:

that's adam from Stussy & his boy as nerds, then Dave and P-Thugg dressed as eachother (sorry dudes but I don't think anybody guessed this), and a couple randoms in one of the Nike rooms. Good times all around, but not as good as this guy:

that face is priceless.

Nike house shut down around 12:30, so it was back to Hollywood and Cinespace where Chromeo closed the night with a live (instruments, duh) set. They frickin killed that place. By that time I was in serious trouble, so P-Thugg, while I'm geniunely sorry I didnt get you on the talk box, I'm surprised I even caught this one. Me and Jemz were on a roll after that... ended up ultimate Hollywood-style: meeting Carlos at Adam Levine's (Maroon 5) house in the hills, then giving somebody in a 60s Chrysler a jump start on the hill.

I got some more LA shit I'll try to upload later.... everybody out there, I miss y'all already.

From a new Billboard article:

Lately, as evidenced by Jay-Z's recent trip to Africa as part of his Water for Life campaign, he could be improving lives on a scale far exceeding the music industry.

In the Kawara state of Nigeria, "they crowned him King of All Music," says DJ Green Lantern, who served as Jay-Z's recent tour DJ. "They wrapped him up in traditional layers like a king, and he had to ride a horse. It was literally almost 100 degrees, and they kept adding layer upon layer. But he was very diplomatic."

"Very diplomatic??" GREEN LANTERN, KING OF SUBLIMINALS.
(Jay's diss to Jim Jones on the "We Fly High" beat is out on Killah Kuts now. We'll have it on the daily tonight...)

man is crazy. this is an actual working thing, one of the largest mobile machines in the world. it's used to for surface mining more info.

Hello Brooklyn.

the infamous billy ripken card has nothing on this. the Jets' Leon Washington giving the straight-up crossed birds on the 2006 Bowman card. Get yours now on ebay, going price $50-100.

Got to play at Taxlo in Baltimore last friday

JNFYM

San Serac Live

Dave Nada ripping it



Simon D approved

Cullen and Dave

View from above Morphius Records/Distro/Manufacturing

The next day I sat on a bus for 8 hours next to the toilet while it drove at 20 mph from Baltimore to NYC. I arrived late to my high school 10 year reunion. This girl was still a bitch. more pics soon.. Anyways, word on the street is that Jasper is having his return to NYC party at Sway tonight! 305 Spring Street...Music provided by Low B and myself...Neil Nice will be in effect!

Listening to the first story on this podcast made me wanna read this book, and lemme tell ya... I never feel compelled to read books. Fascinating stuff.

thanksgiving is definitely the best holiday.
so simple and straight to the point.
plus, you get to go home and see all your old friends.
have fun.

just threw up the "beta-version" of our hoilday gift guide.
we'll be tweaking and adding to it up until x-mas.
go there

Do I suck for kind of wanting to buy this? It's like, every 2 steps I take forward I take one giant one back. I'm no "loop digga." I don't get off on "crates of wax." But I still kind of want to buy this poster. This is indicative of my life.

For example! My life: my new look is "scraggly ex-boyfriend." So I'm growing out my head-hair, and I'm wearing a shirt and tie every day. But then I'll do some shit like wear a Giant Robot hoodie that's like 2 sizes too big. Not gonna be kicking poon off of me with that one!

I'm also listening to Led Zeppelin now because I'm reading "Hammer of the Gods" (best book ever). I know Kyle relates because Led Zeppelin I is like his favorite album ever. But dude, am I a fucking high school student? No but here I am, air-guitaring on the subway to Dazed and Confused.

I guess it beats buying every record on the Cut Copy fabriclive CD? I'm kind of over being self-deprecating so I wouldn't know.

I just found out that this guy hails from Jasper, Indiana.
my absolute foaming at the mouth from the very
pit of my being hatred of the red birds is complete.
It's good to hate somebody.

peep the crispy new signage at lab manhattan...
that's jamal in the bottom pic,
check him djing this weds with Stretch
click for flyer

And then there is this guy...

This is jasper's last couple of days here in Los Angeles so i figured, what the hell lets throw all that is decent out the window! Come one, come all!

Last night i shat on my neighbor's lawn because i was too sick to make it into my own house.

read the rest of this post

In an effort to actually buy Christmas presents for everyone in my life who should get one this year, I'm slowly starting to sell all of my beloved weirdo folk / noise records on eBay for extra dough. This is just the first wave, and I don't even know if you Lab folks will be into this stuff, but shit... my little brother deserves Madden 07 and I gotta make it happen. Six Organs of Admittance, don't fail me now!

where have I been?
basically stuck in my windowless basement working on some top secret lab stuff. spent so much time down there, I think my eyes are getting bugged, so I impulse bought one of these lamps made by Fortebraccio. Artemide's are classic (already got one of those), but something about these is extra-sexy. love that handle on the lamp, it's surgeon-like. the white finish gets extra-points too.

also, really feeling this:

1000 times better than the Lasse Gjertsen video.

what up Kienyo / Sujinho on the front page of jet blue for like a week!
how'd that happen? nice shirt by the way. full frogman update coming later today

i know I'm probably mad late on this one in blog years, but I can't stop laughing at the way they drew him to like hammer. another gasface victim...

if your late like me and your still interested in Justice's side VICE has an interview.

White Castle, that's funny. We were fiendin' for a junk fix here too. So, we set precedent with this. Instead of frequenting the bomb deli down the street, great italian food, and hot thai food, that we've pretty much played out, we all quenched our itchin' for a Wendy's feast by pitching in on a car service to drive us 2 miles to the nearest spot. When me and Snack came through the door with the two 30lbs bags it was Hyenas in here! Greasy bacon cheeseburgers were everywhere, fries, nuggets and frosties were flowin', and moral was at an all time high. Yeaaaahhh.

Went to White Castle the other night.
Tried to do a crave case. Things fell apart after #6...

Got a new intern this week. Aside from having RE:UP as one of her MySpace top friends, she has our competitor as well... She goes to Pratt.

New reading:

Came in the mail this week. Heller's take on the wildly successful limited edition Suge x Dre x Eazy collab. Thanks Jerry, we got you in the next episode.

...He and wifey.

And then, there is this.
Says Michna, "you want me to bring the fog machine?"
Yes.

Monday night was free food, free drinks, and Queens of the Stone Age at a small club courtesy of Microsoft. The party was to promote the Zune, their attempt to compete with the ipod. Nice Try! Then somone told me that this Zune MP3 player is not compatible with iTunes. LOL!

Meanwhile Neil Nice made some Russian friends..

i like how you put a nice little hex on your sexy time.
Pittsy, you DO look good in a dinner jacket. don't sell yourself short.

speaking of shattered encounters, the friggin mice are back in casa de Lloyd and P.Gorg. not a good look. they're gonna see the wrong side of the glue trap fer shure.

No longer working at the lab makes me miss the King of Sexy Time Theater, the SIZ. although he did have his stories about love making, the best tales revolved largely around getting totally destroyed and fighting frightened strangers who "instigated" something with the "innocent" Sizzy. Greatest hits involved flaming backpacks, drinking 40s on Sunday morning in Chinatown, K-holes, bricks to the face, robbing drug dealers, getting run over by an intern, dorito teeth breakage, distorted sub-bass, skating like a 15 year old when you're over thirty, and fucking all night. it's hard to fully grasp the full persona by one lousy, already posted headshot. an end of an era. you're the king, baby.

i cAN HEAR the mice running around on my rangetop. i'm out.

-p

MY TOP FIVE SEXY TIME JAMS OF THE MOMENT

1. Bar-Kays "It Be That Way Sometimes"
2. Cameo "Attack Me With Your Love"
3. Miami Sound Machine "Falling/Uh Oh"
4. S.O.S. Band "Good n Plenty"
5. Wings "Goodnight Tonight"

I have a sexy time dinner date this weekend. I'm kind of pumped (dinner jacket + flowers). I hollered at the girl at the MOMA last week and pretty much hit it off... so to speak.

I look good in a dinner jacket.

Holler at me if you're interested in being a part of my short illustrated book "Collecting Records, DJing, and Talking To Girls." Q and A, tips, how to get organized (in all the right areas)... you know stuff like that. I'm planning for this to be informative and helpful.

Shout out to everyone who told me what that track was I was asking about last week. Thanks. Too bad I can't get it from a distributor or else we'd be carrying that one.

Does anyone have some raw disco laser samples they could send me?

I don't know where my USB cable is or else I'd also be uploading some pictures of me in my new robe. I was wearing that shit all Sunday encoding audio. Mad comfortable. I just need some good slippers now.

"Girl I swore I loved you..."

fuck a whip....

for thos of you who dont know i (Lloyd Dicky Harris) am probably the only person (24 years and older) in the United states on America who doesnt know how to drive. i wish i was kidding but if you were to leave me in the middle of the desert with a jeep, several tanks of gas and the keys to drive it i would be completely assed out.

so anyway, tonight was as ordinary as any other night. other then figuring how to work the micraphone at the W Hotel and acting mad niggerish over the loud system for 4 hours straight i dj'd, i drank some dranks, mingled with the civilians and went home in a cab. when you live as far in BK as i do its common practice to conversate with your driver. i did the usual...hello, how was your night, awesome, you own this cab, awesome, blah blah blah....anyway, a 15 min conversation turned into me sitting in the drivers seat while the cab driver (Varaitch Resham) taught me how to drive in park slope for 40 bucks.(crazy right!?) anyway, I never thought id say this but driving is overratted. matter fact it aint shit! with all the traffic lights, stop signs and padestrians how the fuck they expect a nigga to get loose. its oppressive, demeaning and im already over it. fuck a whip!

fact. i actually sat in the drivers seat (while in park) for about 30 seconds before Varaitch and i realized it was such a bad idea.

whatever...i still cant drive.

always,
young skeezy

Ps. i kinda gotta thing for the microphone now. i used to hate it but now you cant keep me off that fucking thing. so, if its your birthday and im dj'n i will go out of my way to sing you happy birthday accapela no less. im not one of these tight ass dj's who lives in his headphones trying to figure out how to drop "hypnotize." holler at me!

laura bong r.i.p. 10 november 2006


it sure ain't heaven...

And here's the tracklist...
Check back Monday for volume 2. Yada?

If you haven't clicked on that likkle button to the right, you should get to doin' that promptly. My TTLab Production Squad bredren in crime, Snackmaster & Commish, have been commissioned to contribute a bi-weekly radio show to BrooklynRadio.net and every mix will have brand new hotness, exclusivos and of course the latest stuff to come through the old mail chute here at the Lab. They've done two volumes already and they're gearing up for numero tres. Unfortunately, BrooklynRadio hasn't been posting the tracklist, but maybe if one of the dudes is reading this they could post it up herrre. Cheah.

so lloyd introduced me to natalie from nina sky..
we got to hear snippets of the new single, talked industry goo gah,
their desire to work with amanda blank maya and all that .
anyways, there could be some fire on the album, lets hope so.

limited time only.

Related - Minnesota just sent the first ever Muslim to Congress.

The Dems are about to storm the House, and that's definitely a good thing (or at least a better thing than the GOP keeping their fat asses planted where they were). But the finest moment of Super Tuesday was when my home state of Massachusetts elected its first black governor. It's a good look on so many fronts -- you'll all find out what a retard our ex-governor Mitt Romney is when he runs for President in 2008 -- but given Boston's infamous reputation on all things racial, it really instilled an extra sense of hometown pride in me.

In even better news: PEACE, RUMMY!

corporate america says phuggit with Sonic's new
Fritos Chili Cheese Wrap and Tater Tots meal deal
that's right, you get a wrap stuffed with chili, cheese, and Frito chips.
then on the side you get a large mound of Tater Tots...
58 grams of fat for that ass.

election, esmection.....let's talk hard news....

and now please a word from my roommate Lloydski about how K-Fed is one to be adored..........

my man got served.

Britney is so back. i can not wait.

FIRE !!!

Oh Pitts, wrong as usual.

EDIT: Watch these and report back.

Anything related to SPACE, THE WILD WEST ie COWBOYS, and POTIONS i.e. LORD OF THE RINGS...

...PRETTY MUCH BLOWS!!!

This is not a sports refference by any means.

Tonight was AWESOME.

PICTURE UPDATE COMMING WEDNESDAY.

oh and by the way... I HAVE FANS.. from this blog no less....

GO TALK TO GIRLS AND PUT DOWN BREAKTIONARY!!!

fuck the cowboys.

Proof that Gold Chains, Brass Knuckles and Hosoi knock-offs will NOT catch you that A.D. job at Nike. HuGa takes on Darwin.

Our current office debate...

Is the sound at the end of "The Funky Cypress Hill Shit"
a) someone smoking a bong?
b) the end of a reel-to-reel flapping around?

Please help us settle this one.

Jemz and Lloydski "PUSH IT TO THE LIMIT" tour coming soon...

I know my posts recently have been lacking in heat as of late. whatever, sue me! i'll even be the first to say that this post is pretty lacking. i repeat. sue me!

However, i heard the new Snoop and Kelly song during the cab ride home tonight. FUCKING FIRE! Not to mention it samples the bathroom scene from "Coming to America". 20 bucks says that "wasnt" R Kellys idea.

as always,
unemployed lloyd (your favorite)

Despite what you might think the lab doesn't really pay that much. A lot of us just work for free records and the exposure. Usually it's all good, but lately the dj shit has been slow so i've been auditioning around Hollywood for for some more work.

Here's a clip from the new pilot i landed over the summer. I'm actually kind of excited about this one, i think it's gonna be big. Plus it's for the kids.

"Ha-Ha!, Do the Harry Nigga!"

Some of the recluse lab staff in Brooklyn have requested I blog what people are buying as of late at the Lab Manhattan Store.

People want the SOV. I heard Lady Sov is a carpet licker. Well I don't know if she planned this, but she is a genius because the gay community BUYS RECORDS. They SUPPORT ARTISTS. So dude comes in and gets the 7"s the 12"s the CDs and the 2XLPs. Respect! Then I leave work and see a girl wearing an SOV mask.

These are like a BJ for your ears. You should already own a pair. They'll make you go back and re-listen to all your favorite records.

Bogman scored some mega rare stuff from Whatever We Want Records. Sometimes you can find hidden jems in the Manhattan store. People still think we have a secret stash of Mike Tyson stickers. Those things go on ebay for like... (if you check ebay you're a loser)

A lot of people making beats. They need drum sounds. People, we have so many funk and break records with mad drums as well as sample cds.

Do you ever have girls come over to the crib? They're probably not interested in your DMC videos, so do yourself a favor. Bet she'll say "I love Coachella"

A lot of people asking about hard drives. My friend said they should sell these in pairs. One to back your shit up, and another to move forward.

I was on my way home on Friday after work and noticed music playing at this place on Delancy. Incidentally I worked my way in (this was some list only shit) saying that I work at Turntable Lab and was the Director of Marketing. Anyways I get in, drink a bunch of free Red Stripe, and catch the rest of Ayers DJ set. I then see on the list of who goes next and see that MSTRKRFT is playing. Fuck yeah, I was pretty pumped cause I missed them the night before at Hiro… I only stayed for Digitalism. Even though they only DJed, they still killed, MSTRKRFT gets my overall approval.

Digitalism "Zdarlight" Live at Fixed New York City CMJ 2006

I saw Digitalism twice this week (Hiro Ballroom and Studio B). They pretty much destroyed both places. That live Zdarlight re-edit killed and well as hearing Jupiter Room really loud.

Justice, which played at Studio B, was a let down. Step you game up bros. I think I’ve just about seen all of what Ed Banger records and affiliates have to offer and hands down Para One is the man when it comes to DJ-ing (he pretty much killed at that Ed Banger party a few months back) and Uffie’s live performance is actually good too, not just another Stacey Q studio girl if you know what I mean. Feadz was good as well, technically, that Ed Banger party was pretty much off the hook all around.

I don’t know I guess Justice was alright, I was just a little pissed cause they blew their load and opened up with Waters of Nazareth cause that’s some peak time shit right there.

Oh and I NEED TO KNOW what that “GIVE IT UP FOR DETROIT” track people were playing on Thursday at Hiro and at the Fader party (MSTRKRFT played it too). That is some really hot shit right there. Drpitts ….. @... gmail.com

The blog is mad quiet with the Roc MIA and Pete on vaykay.

Shout of to Rob from the record fair this weekend. Dude reads the blog. I bought a lot of grown and sexy disco jams off of him on Saturday. Also shout out the guy from Brooklyn Radio who was at the Justice show on Saturday and Brandon the old intern who was at the Fader party.

Oh and the record fair this past weekend was VERY NERDY. Dudes were talking about 300 dollar jazz records and shit. Whatever, I did get a lot of original disco 12s and Smiths singles I didn’t have. And on top of that I didn’t really spend that much money. Score!

And last but not least shout out to Carrie and Timex Social Club.

Check out the lab's Apple section for some new (and super-useful)
accessories..

oh yea...
hot book of the moment

the Remix Hotel is going on in LA right now, with 3 days of hands on music production demos and seminars. Open to the public, free to register & attend, tons of information. We are also offering a special discount deal for Remix Hotel attendees (get the flyer at SAE):

10% OFF EVERYTHING IN OUR LA STORE!

Companies like Apple, Digidesign, Rane, Pioneer, and Ableton will all be there giving demos with their latest gear as well as specific classes and seminars. There are also panelist discussions about music industry topics like the art of recording, getting your music on TV, etc. For full info see the Remix Hotel site at www.remixhotel.com

Remix Hotel is located at the
SAE Institute of Technology
November 2-4 | 3-9 p.m. daily
6565 Sunset Boulevard
Los Angeles

Issue release tonight at APT.
Witness the fury that is The Gaslamp Killer.

To start off the morning, we ladies of the lab encourage you to celebrate democracy!

Something Special....

Had a little brodown sesh with the fellas tonight. Me, kevin, the roc, kyle and the woodman(all former labee's) went to some BBQ spot uptown. dragon something..i forget. good eaten tho....i thought the nitis would have kicked in by now but instead its a quarter to 5 and im all fired up. anywho, becuase im in such a good mood i thought id hit you guys off with another mix. This one is a live mix i made over the summer at michna's. i had every intention of putting it out but never got around to it. i guess you can say its sorta hip in a disco not disco type way. nothing rare. somethings youve heard somethings you havent. hope you like. you have my permission to shit on it, pass it around, name your first child after it ect ect.

for you and you and you and you

tracklisting here (yep, finally got a myspace. holler at me!)

OH, and the new all over print. i been had one!

always,
Lloydski

Federline report:

album came out yesterday. i must have went to the megastore at an off time. there wasnt a line for it around the corner or swarms of people fighting for their precious copys. weird right? in fact there were tons of copies left when i got there. i bought two. anyway, im gonna take a long listen to it tonight and get back to you.

Now, I see a lot of credit card where Harrywan tries to run an order from Ann Hartswell in Peoria to himself at 324-1882 Mylang, Gamelanjapur, Australia for 7 mac books, 3 60GB ipods and a 10deep hoodie, but to the jerk who had to send the deaf lady in TN a microphone, you are the lowest of the low.

Early morning fire evacuations are not a good look. 20 Jay Street is burning!

later roc,
didn't know that the blog meant so much to you that you had to use other people's accounts just to get your word in. i knew kids like you growing up. cool as hell when you first meet them cause they're "edgy" and aren't afraid to say anything, but then you realize that there's nothing else there, and it gets old, real fast. every post you put on this blog has been some shit that bashes the blog, the lab, or the people on the blog, I am surprised pete put up with your shit for so long. good luck, scribble.

I seriously haven't enjoyed listening to a whole album this much in a long, long time. Someone has to say this every time a new Tom Waits album comes out, but seriously... best one since Rain Dogs? I'm pretty sure it is. The first disc is loaded with crazy rock songs that make him sound younger than he has in 20 years. Then the other two discs are kinda back to his old creepy uncle shtick, but there's nothing wrong with that either. Just saying... I'm sure we won't be carrying this one, but it's worth seeking out if you're someone who can handle 3 CDs full of Tom Waits.

Also, wish I could get some copies of Fabo from D4L's new single, "Scotty," but they seem to be pretty hard to come by. That, and the Andre 3000 / Jim Jones remix of Unk's "Walk It Out," but we'll hopefully have that on Killah Kuts this week... Anyway, if you wanna check the Fabo song, he's got it on his MySpace or Catchdubs mixed it into the new FADER podcast.