Wow. Yes this is real:
http://www.lovegodsway.org

And here are excerpts from their list of popular music groups which might turn your kids gay:
Scissor Sisters
Rufus Wainwright
Ravi Shankar
Wilco
Bjork
Tech N9ne
Ghostface Killah
The String Cheese Incident
Eagles of Death Metal
The Grateful Dead (AIDS)
Le Tigre
Marilyn Manson (dark gay)
The Doors
Phish
Metallica
Jay-Z
Motorhead
DMX

Lloyds corner pt. ????? the return.

up late. its been a minute i know. appologies for the hiatus. i wish i could say ive been mad busy but the fact is i havent done shit all year. my friend james hip'd me to PEEKVID.COM and its kinda been a wrap for me since. there's nothing more depressing then watching television on you computer. FYI

anyway, i figure in order to work my way back into your lives i have to get personal. its time to let down my gaurd, take my hands out of my pockets, extend my friendship and say "welcome, I so do enjoy your company". that being said...a look into my closet. enjoy.

always,
Lloydski

if god had a tshirt company this is what it would look like....

i bought this shirt off of ebay 5 years ago for about 4 bucks. if you were to ask me if it was worth it id point at kellys name with my right hand, look you in the eye and smack the shit out you with my left hand.

i found this shirt a couple weeks after the infamous concert on fulton for 15 bucks. as far as im concerned their first colabo (did i just use that word?) was waaaaay better. like one of the best albums of the 20th century better. like a notch above blueprint better. go cop it if you havent. trust me! even woody likes it. (right woody?) anyway, i bought this because i like to document Rkelly life in wierd ways and this is when shit got crazy....again

back

i got this in at PG plaza in maryland when i was 14. we had open lunch at my high school which meant we could leave at lunch and often i would stay gone only to rome shopping malls stealling discus shirts, nautica gear, cassette tapes from circuit city and columbia jackets. i bought this shirt tho...i like diddy.

this one ive had the longest and wear the most. i also got this at PG plaza only i was 12 this time and i was with my mother. i remember we were christmas shopping and this was the one thing i bought for myself. i remember it like it was yesterday because that was the year i told my father i wanted to be a photographer and in support of this he got me a football for christmas.

yep, PG plaza wins again. if there was a theme to my shirts it would definitely be "fallen soldiers" or something.

OJ SIMPSON THAT IS!

oh, and to MIKE 2600 and EGG FOO. you forgot one very important ingredient.

MORE SHIRTS TO COME!

that's right,
in conjunction with Re-Up and Hello Nurse,

get up-close and personal with
THE EGYPTIAN LOVER

The Lover will be doing an in-store at our Manhattan location
THIS SATURDAY, February 3rd at 1:30pm

He will be do a short DJ set
and then a RECORD SIGNING SESSION
so bring out those old 12"s!
(we will have some on sale if you don't have any)

DON'T FORGET THE NIGHT BEFORE...
check The Lover and Jamie Jupitor
plus IN FLAGRANTI
and others getting down at Studio B in Greenpoint

SURE TO BE MADNESS
tickets also on sale at the Lab Manhattan....

Egyptian Lover imposter?

couple posts back i referenced "kraze burger"
i didn't anyone would get it, but of course Utz Stacker emailed me about it...
i'm not sure how this guy ended up in Seoul (see pic below)
but he's there and he writes me hilarious emails...
you've been blogged!
(btw, kraze burger is a chain of burger joints in korea started by a korean-american)

he sent me images of this cool Korean design book he found over there,
never thought I'd see kimchee packaging in a design book...
but it really covers a interesting theme: how to make the ugly look beautiful....

also Bozack wrote me about my Namm post,
pointing out that Bozack mixer might actually be the first DJ mixer. it came out in 67 and pre-dated the Urei. after I got the correction, I went to check up on the Pioneer mixer from 1974 and it's actually (in the words of Pionner) the "first Pro DJ product," whatever that means... seems like they are trying to pull a fast life remix. (If you are wondering why Bozack shares the same name as the mixer: "btw i go by bozak because it was my fam's OG last name before they were on the lam during prohibition. they changed it to evade the feds cuz they were slangin that moonshine. my name has nothing to do with this mixer.I want one though."

also what i'm listening to these days:

awesome Brasilian album... available at the lab

didn't believe that folk and punk could be used together, until i heard this... since his passing, it's only gotten that much more powerful.

i hate to admit this one, but this shit is pretty good. so what if he's the son of Alan Thicke?

also, AVOID THIS MOVIE... unless you like depressing as fuck movies with no redemption at the end... seriously, this falls into my worst movie theater experiences, up there with Million Dollar Baby and Legally Blond 2...

no ipod or cognac for yoo!

Yeahhh baby. Its Freaky Freaky Time! Just a reminder, The Detroit Grand Pubahs will be in the building tonight. I know its cold, that's a given, BUT that's just another reason to come and COLD GET DUMB!!! Guaranteed that these Galactus Ass Creatures will tear the roof off the sucka. Plus, our very own Alison will be blessing you with some jacking and chicago styles, that are very much the real deal...

9 - 3 am
Tickets $8 adv, $10 Door
Tickets from www.themusicgallery.net

The Music Gallery
, 3rd fl, 49 Ann St, Manhattan.
Subway: Broadway/Nassau St & WTC -
Trains: A,C,E,J,M,Z,2,3,4,5

RIP Disco D.

http://www.urb.com/permalink/243/Dave-Shayman-(aka-Disco-D)-1980-2007.html

Fuck.

This was already posted on pitchfork but its so good you gotta read it again. basically my dream lineup. Seriously let every act marinate--Tag Team? CHECK. If I had photoshop skills I would add Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Mephiskapheles, Yerba Buena, Atari Teenage Riot, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, John Tesh, and throw in a Wolf band (but make them play with Kellert Williams)
I think Lloydski would add P.O.D. ("Alive" ? eh? epic!!) and Woodman would add an entire Moonska Tent, but they can chime in if they want..

Have you seen these yet? So clever... Nice find Shota.

Also got in some new (non all-over print) shirts from LocalRec...


Can't get enough of that Bmore Oriole.

I AM SAYING.

we're building a new clothing display in our LA store to accommodate the "Roving Packs of Streetwear Kids." no joke. we'll be sitting in the store, and then all the sudden they'll be like 20 dudes from the same crew hunting for gear. kraze burger. also, this illustrates two fundamental design/business concepts:
1) starting small and going big later is sometimes the best option.
2) destroy and rebuild rather than modify.

also would like to announce the next Money Studies release
which will be a sampler of upcoming Money Studies projects
this EP will feature original tracks by:
Blu Jemz
Gaslamp Killer
Eggfooyoung
Eliot Lipp
Snack & C'mish
and possibly others...

by the end of the year, expect a full-on compilation in the style of MoWax Heads...
that's right, we're taking it back.

liquid dinner has been big at the camp (I live at "The Camp")

guess everyone got sick of dropping 6 on Jambas

plus they don't offer the garlic brussel boost

I added too many beets, they took over

my first smoothie with mushroom, will add more next time (you can hardly taste them).

just got back from a stint at LA store. Jared Eberhardt installed his awesome cassette posters at the store on thursday. go check em out, and if you like, you can special order them at the store.

on friday, I went to the annual NAMM convention which covers everything from violins, to guitars, pro audio and djing. this is the real underbelly of the industry: lots of suits, mullets, ex-mullets, and shady electronics people.

the coolest thing I saw was the upcoming Serato competitor by Native Instruments. The interface looked robust with all sorts of inputs, the timecode was tight, and the software had many more features than Serato. on a side observation, there weren't that many small companies at the show this year. seems like the big boys like M-Audio/Digidesign and Native Instruments are taking over the production game.

Pioneer had a cool mini-exhibit about "historic DJ products." apparently, this is the first DJ product ever: a Pioneer mixer from the mid-seventies.

go-go midi control! this guy was killing the computer drums using some old-school MIDI controller.

In pro-audio, Akai is know for 2 things: the MPC series and this electronic clarinet-type thing called the Ewi

As usual, the best action was downstairs where all the independent companies show their wares. Over a hundred custom guitar dealers, plus this strange booth of vintage and homemade synths.

NAMM is also a haven for b-listers. this is the second year I've seen CC Deville there. my top NAMM spotting was Elvira two years ago, I almost popped 12 year wood (I had a crush on that cleavage when I was young)...

there's also a bunch of Asian companies downstairs, offering generic goods... this poster was so strange (and communist), I saw it at a Chinese case company booth.

there's also a bunch of cool performers down there.

thrash band in a box!

"Hey yooooo guuuuuyyyyyys!"

Check out Diplo, System D-128 and Pase Rock sporting the new Mad Decent / Hollertronix / Money Studies shirt. They're on tour in Australia with Spank Rock.

(Speaking of Spank Rock, I saw Thom Yorke's Celebrity Playlist on iTunes... and he called YoYoYoYoYo his favorite album of 2006???)

Best song of 4th quarter 2006 is now the best video of 1st quarter 2007.
This is like the updated version of "Rockit" - amusingly creepy / lo-fi VS hi-fi.

help wanted

full time production position
1) must be quick on the computer (seriously, no slow pokes)
2) live in the nyc area.
3) know about the music the lab carries
4) be available 5 days a week, no exceptions

email resumes to

chris
////at////
turntablelab . com

New Lab Radio update
with guest hosts AkBoogie + T-Kat bringing that Heavyweight heat.
SHIPSET IS IN THE BUILDING!

Wow. I've been waiting for this moment for so long I don't even know what to do with my life now. I guess I can give up. So long records, I don't need to collect you anymore. After all, how I can I go out and shop for records when THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO FIND!

My fucking holy grail of records is found. Shout to Gimme Gimme for the connection. I believe when I got it my reaction was basically the following:

(spoken to the record while pawing it)

"Oh my sweet God, precious fetish object I can't believe you are now finally in my arms. I'm not even going to LISTEN to you! Do you understand! You are going into a frame and up on my wall. [as if the record were a baby or a cat:] Yes you are. Yes you are!!!"

And so now it's a wrap on records. I had a pretty good run I guess. There's some obvious stuff I never got around to getting, but really I think I covered all the basics. I even for some reason got into a little reggae phase, even though I basically think reggae (that's right, ALL FORMS OF IT!) is basically inhuman screeching noise, but there are worst things than reggae. The bastard offspring of reggae, reggaeton for example. It's amazing, I think reggae reveals how truly racist I really am (but try to hide).

OK, gatefold 7" of Offspring's "Come out and Play," gatefold 12s of Poison's "Something to Believe In" and (for no discernible reason) Jet's "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" ... it's time for you to go into my "why in God's name did I buy you" pile.

Christ! Andy has a 12 of "Hunger Strike" and Lloyd has a 12 of "Mr Roboto" though, so I guess they both still win. Plus Kevin has a 12 of "Old Time Rock & Roll," which he will hold on to "just in case."

1. Producer Timbaland rips song from finnish musician?
2. Timbaland rips song - new information

Say it ain't so, Timbo!

FAT GERMAN RABBITS TO FEED POOR
Monster Bunnies for North Korea

Oh shit! Herman is probably long gone by now...

(Also, could it be any less shocking that Kim Jong Il is involved in this? They could tell me that he's grown a handlebar moustache and started tying damsels to railroad tracks and I'd pretty much believe it.)

Fri 26 January 2007

A new monthly night of ground-breaking showcases by cutting edge artists, in a no-nonsense intimate underground Manhattan setting. It's that simple. DJ showcase by the extraordinary;

Detroit Grand Pubah's. With support from the very talented, yet very modest Alison Tara of Dirty Trick Records and NYC's Turntable Lab.

The Detroit Grand Pubah's, famous for their underground hit, "Sandwiches" and 2nd album "Galactic Ass Creatures From Uranus" (nice) which got signed to Steve Bug's, edgy Poker Flat imprint. But novelty act, they are definately not. The 2nd album spawned 2 club hits, "The Clapper" and "Big Onion" that torched the way for big bottomed velvety-cheeked electro house.
With a raft of new works in the pipeline and a new full live show featuring guitars and live percussion, work is under way for a new, more song-orientated, album with Detroit and Chicago influences.

If Techno is Kraftwerk Jamming with with George Clinton in an elovator, then The Detroit Grand Pubahs have got Spike Millligan on drums, Richard Pryor on Bass, and The Hair Bear Bunch on vocals.

Expect the unexpected...literally...

9 - 3 am
Tickets $8 adv, $10 Door
Tickets from www.themusicgallery.net

The Music Gallery
, 3rd fl, 49 Ann St, Manhattan.
Subway: Broadway/Nassau St & WTC -
Trains: A,C,E,J,M,Z,2,3,4,5

If a girl's dance is a sign of her sexual ways...what do you make of this?

written while listening to
Kool Moe Dee's "I Go To Work"

my blog presence has been lacking these days...
shit is beyond hectic in the office.
i guess its good cause
we're coming off one of our best months ever,
but the lab is swimming through spreadsheets and brown boxes.
get a peek into The Madness:

we buy a ton of shit, so much so, that stony had to hire Brit just to alphabetize all the invoices we get. check the depth.

this cart is actually much bigger in person. this is what we call a "store pull." this is the shit that we send to our stores. we do 4 of these a week.

i believe this is the day's international packages. I'll put money that our shipset will outship your shipping department anyday.

we drink a lot of water...

im off to LA to check out this year's NAMM show.
will get a full electro-mullet report for all yall...

stay warm.

This is the ONLY time you'll see my mug on this blog. Caught a bad one after Sujinho's Baile Funk party we did at APT last Tuesday. Me vs. The Pavement. Tooth replacement donations can be made via paypal to info[at]reupmag.com.

So, I wore the new look to the Spankrock / XXXplosive thing at Studio B this Sunday. Let me tell you, there is no shame in playing the sympathy card. Lots of compliments on the new face. Almost had me thinking to just run with it. Anywhoo, that party was fun as shit, everyone was there. Speaking of Studio B, keep your eyes peeled for this guy coming thru...

PS. fuck your fake gold fronts...

Online Musics.

I buy lots of music at Turntablelab (10% discount bitch!) but you can't listen to records on a plane so I'm always looking for new shit to put in the Ipod. Stretch Armstrong has a new blog for the old heads that looks real promising. Discobelle is a top notch MP3 blog and mix series run by my people in Malmo, Sweden. Fluokids in France is also nuts. The Mad Decent blog is weird and great. You better already know about Snack and C'mish on Turntablelab Radio. The Rub has a show on BrooklynRadio.net too; check out Evil Dee and Mr Walt spinning House at The Rub warehouse party and be sure to grab our James Brown mix (recorded live at The Rub NYE). PJ has Cosmo spinning Funk 45s live in Boston last week - go download that at Galactic Fractures. My friend Jamal Ali (who works at the Lab Mahattan store during the day and still manages to pop Grey Goose bottles at night) and his man Evan Baggs consistently kill it on East Village Radio. So do my dudes Catchdubs and Mark Ronson and Queen Majesty and Roy Dank.

More slaps from Triumvir...

and new shirts from Subware...

Also, get your designy ass kicked from before you were born.

gyeaah...

The grace of this man never ceases to amaze me. P-Gorgeous, the man, the myth comes back to do what no other alumni dares to...Work! Here he is actually helping with Fed Ex, looking more proper than our president in the south for MLK's B-day! He's got my vote!

intern wanted! 2-3 days a week...

- general office work
- fashion knowledge a plus
- daily travel stipend provided

please email : chris "at" turntablelab.com

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If you have a gig Monday and you don't play this then we're not friends.

just in time for the White Rapper show...


get em here.

also got new shirts from That's Them and Freegums too...

and have you seen these awesome prints from our boy Mike 2600?

hollar

"Fiyah Pon Dem!"
New Lab Radio update.

Jeff Mills circa '85 / '86 making 95% of all today's DJs obsolete.
part 1
part 2

And how's about a nice round of WOULD YOU RATHER???

went to check out that loft party that lloyd shouted on the blog. the upstairs dancefloor was kinda stale until Woodman and Lloyd showed up, dancing like bisexual banshees. I've noticed a new trend with djs which i think is pretty cool.

here's the typical i am a dj and i'm going to a party steez:
1) head straight to the dj booth
2) give the dj a pound
3) assume relaxed position around or near the dj booth (proximity to booth depends on how well you know the DJ)
4) sulk around said area while everyone else is having a good time.
5) if the dj plays a song, that you as a dj agree with, raise your hand, and bob your head several times in a most righteous fashion, maybe even give the dj your nod of approval or some M.P.A. (more pound action)... but no dancing!
6) action of the night: another dj arrives in said area, all the assembled djs give him exaggerated M.P.A. Word up bro!
7) resume sulking
8) gets no tang.
9) one of the djs in said area pops out a blunt, everyone smokes it like a gay porn.
10) still no tang.
11) outtro M.P.A.
12) leave drunk, stoned and alone.

well here's the new shit:
go to the party and fucking have fun.
dance your fucking ass off.
talk to that girl you've been staring at all night.
do some blow if you have to!
that's your new year's resolution dj brethren.
im retired...

new yorkers were gifted with Al Gorsian mid-sixties weather this past weekend. it was incredible, the sun was glaring, and people were on the streets like it was may. the Mgmnt took it as an opportunity to hit the links out in BK.


carts are the only way to go, frogman + guest joplus.

frogman plays like he's a senior pga player: nice and easy.

stony is quite the opposite. he's calling out scores at the end of holes and yelling at his short game.

as for me, I'm the dude whose dad made him play seriously since he was six, rebelled against, and is now slowly learning to enjoy the game again (i don't keep score, that helps).

set your auto-tune! Monday 1/8 10:30est, television history will be made...
the debut of ego trip's The White Rapper Show

get more ego trip, biz puppet and white rappers here

Bless this child.
Even pre-puberty, he instinctively knows to be excited when he sees Jessica Alba in a bikini.
Godspeed, little man.

Happy 25th Birthday Gilbert "Hibachi" Arenas.

Please dont call him "Agent Zero". Nobody in DC named him that, so please dont call him that. Also, vote for this motherfucker, this shits pathetic, easily the MVP so far, and isnt going to start for the garbage East!?! Anyways, Gilbert's 25th Bday Bash is the biggest party in DC this weekend, the hottest ticket in town. Dont believe me? Check out the invites....

The envelope containing the Arenas Express invite card.

BREAKING NEWS. Check out Lab employee and international gigolo deejay Sabo on East Village Radio tonight with that dude Catchdini. You can get all the info (and another picture of him looking dapper) here and don't forget you can buy his new Sol Selectas EP at the Lab.

Its the Saturday after New Year's, let's keep it raging. My boy David Choe is having his final art show at Jonathan Levine Gallery, marking a ten year reign of terror on walls, canvases, books, toys, video etc... You might know him from the Vice Guide To Travel, looking for a mythical dinosaur in the Congo(check the back cover). Also, check his shit here. Following this will be an outrageous afterparty at Fontana's with music provided by Ted Shred, Poignant, Snackmaster and myself. Special Commish fact: The girl to guy ratio at these events weighs heavily toward the girl side, like really hot art girls...need I say more?

Saturday, Jan. 6th
10pm - ???
Fontana's
105 Eldridge btw Broome & Grand
LES, NYC
FREE!

via Shota the Database, via Digital World Tokyo

So i found this trophy outside my apt at the beginning of the summer. i thought it would make a great gift for which ever team won the next inner lab basketball tournament. you cant tell becuase i had a hard time shrinking the photo but the trophy stands about 3 feet high and the statue on top (female), unlike the production squad is in amazing shape...
Unfortunatly there was no tournament and ive about had it with this thing. I figured id document it before i threw it out and maybe even light a spark in the brooklyn office. im down if you are!

Unemployed Lloyd

Ps. If youre not doing anything on Thursday go see dj Sabo. Im so PUMPED!

We'll be playing every hollertronix/rub/justice song ever made.
Oh, and this dude will be there:

shameless self-plug
i have a new print out, screened by the great guys at burlesque
buy it here

What say we start the fiscal blog year off with a little man-on-horse-on-woman action.
Not exactly safe for work