It seems that women just want to play with my feelings.

For real.

In other news...

What's the new summer look going to be; sexual disco circa Cerrone or old school hip hop circa Kool Moe Dee? In any scenario, whatever mine or yours may be, gator skin loafers are a must. It’s time to get your summer body in check.

Tons of gear at ridiculously low prices... (Over 300 to be exact!) Jackets, shirts, hoodies, hats and more.
check it out.

Poo-Bah Records representatives tear up the LA store tomorrow nite!

for those of you wondering what jasper is up to these days, he is...

back to the roots

in his natural habitat

waking the cobra

This morning on AIM (screen names changed to protect the innocent):

Jasper (10:36:09 AM): hi
Jasper (10:36:31 AM): u male or female
Ayres (10:36:43 AM): ha ha. what's good?
Jasper (10:38:04 AM): no really much
Ayres (10:38:47 AM): we were out in LA and saw Tony, he said you're travelling a lot
Jasper (10:39:06 AM): ya true
Jasper (10:39:13 AM): when planning to come to india
Ayres (10:39:37 AM): 2018
Jasper (10:41:41 AM): gr88
Jasper (10:41:52 AM): i am coming to La in april
Ayres (10:42:27 AM): ****'s getting married! I had no idea until Tony told me.
Jasper (10:44:57 AM): mail me ur snaps at ar_pats@yahoo.com
Jasper (10:45:02 AM): its my new mail id
Ayres (10:45:37 AM): who is this?
Jasper (10:46:48 AM): what ya

The plot thickens.

So we decided to step it up a notch and carry some real high quality WESC gear.
Can't really stress how nice this stuff is, but check it out for yourself.

Also got in the latest from Gravis and Fresh Jive.... more gear coming!

jamal from the manhattan store is getting loose this week. check him out if you can.

thursday

saturday

always,
unemployed lloyd

via Angel aka DJ BabyMaker

The Rub San Francisco was at a dancehall / hip-hop party in a GULLY neighborhood in San Francisco. But it was packed and a ton of our people came out. This is XJ (Local 1200), Cosmo and DJ Fuze (Digital Underground/Tupac/Luniz) with King Most and some other folks in the background.

The Turntablelab instore in LA was fun. He we are with Tony out in the streets.

He we are in the store with the homie DJ Pubes. Blu Jemz got the gasface for being in the studio the whole time we were in LA.

Brother Reade, Bobby Evans, DJ Feadz & Uffie (Ed Banger) got the crowd good and sweaty before we went on at Cinespace in LA. Feadz (middle) MURDERS it on Pioneer CDJs.

Roxy was in the building! Our fam gets around - she had an Oxy Cottontail show in LA the same night we rocked and came over afterwards to dance.

Them Jeans (L) promotes and DJs at Cinespace with Steve Aoki every Tuesday, and he put us on at his party. He kills it on every level.

I smashed my Serato records at the end of the night and one of them miraculously formed the Wu-Tang symbol. This is a sign that we have to play all Wu-Tang at Canal Room on Saturday (with El Michels Affair - the synergy is amazing).

Tomorrow night - The Rub dudes take over the Lab's LA store!

to continue the spirit of Pauls attempted robbery, my digital camera was just stolen from the venue where I built this indoor golf course. Its not that big a deal, BUT, it was at this event, for golf types/yuppies/wall street coke heads/corporate climbin snivilin asswipes, and the camera was crispy new (canon sd 600), full with a gig of new photos, i put it down for a minute, and some douche stole it! Is he now sitting in his cubicle like "heh, i'm awesome?" It took me about 20 minutes to get over it, i walked around in circles, and then went home. But the funs not over yet. I board the A train, put on the headphones, and zone out. wait- is the guy next to me really READING a porn? full color, on a full train? I start laughing, then on lookers start looking at me and laughing. but i should chill cause he's probably a crackhead. But I figure its now or never to get a flick. hey, wait I've got a camera on my phone! and i dont know how to use it! So I stand up, secretly point it at porno man, and it makes a loud simulated shutter "KA-KLICK!!!" Thanks Verizon! Long story short-people started leaving their seats, I got the pic, and my man kept on reading. pic has to be coming soon.

as lloydski said, "just when you thought new york was totally soft..."

coming out of the corner store, i made eye contact with a gentleman.
although i normally (seriously) get mistaken for an undercover, tonight i guess my look was transparent.
as i walked past this eye contact guy, i hear him go "give me your fucking money!", and wheel around in pursuit.
i ignored him until i heard him getting louder and closer.
i saw i had the crosswalk light and i dropped into 100 meter highschool track mode. i heard the guy call me a "pussy" from half a block away....but i was OUT, and i still have my wallet! brrrroooklyn!!!!!!!!!
you've got to work to take this paper.

so i just got back from the Magic Tradeshow in Vegas...
the Streetwear boom is in full effect, the most buzz was surrounding Magic's "streetwear" section...
1) everybody and their momma's momma has a t-shirt line
2) there are more terrible lines than quality ones
3) fronting is prevalent
4) all-over is running on fumes
5) but through it all, more companies means more selection, I also saw the most quality stuff that I've seen at Magic... look for a bunch of new lines hitting the lab pages this spring.

i didn't take any pictures of the madness, I'm sure you know where to go for those...

here's me and stony's side of vegas...

i don't care if you hate sports or tv, sportsbooks are breath-taking. it's like you're god and you have every sporting event at your call, complete with instantly updated lines. we got there too late to bet on anything, so we just sat and oogled at the many screens while eating pastrami sandwiches... next year, we have to hit march madness.

after the sportsbook, stony hit the tables while I wandered around the casino (i don't play blackjack anymore, I think I'm cosmically unlucky at it). I went to hit the bathroom and these 2 burly guys were wrestling at the entrance. I thought they were just playing, but dudes started punching each other in the face. still, I didn't know what was going on, it was like slow motion punches. then, in one blow, one dude knocked out the other, and kept punching him... at this point, I thought to myself: "this would be awesome for the blog!" and took this picture. shit never seemed real until dude was on the ground bleeding. everyone around me just stood there watching... dude hijacked it out of there, and all that was left was a blood stain and some teeth on the ground...

I had heard rumors that the mighty Crazy Horse Too had fallen off, but I have had so many excellent times there I had to go see it for myself... it's true, the place is not what it once was, but it's still way better than anything in nyc. it took me and stony a good hour to get comfortable, but by the end, we were dragging each other out.

at magic, you're bound to see some stars promoting their lines... this one was too incredible to pass up... Tera Patrick touched me!

and I'm not one to floss about celebrity photos, but this one is too cool... met Mikhail Baryshnikov. look for the upcoming money studies collabo....

and last but not least, got to give a shout to my cab driver, who took me from newark back to the city... he was an old italian man, who had moved here 6 years ago. we got to talking about life, and he told me about how his family business went under and he was forced to drive this cab to support his kids through college... I asked him if he was going back after they graduated, and he replied: "of course..." I asked why, and he dropped this jewel on me: "italians work to live, people here work to die..." (typed as I am sitting in the office at 11pm, ha-ha....)

Despite what Lloyd thinks, I really did end up in Chicago this weekend, thanks to everyone's favorite car company. They put me up in the W, where I made 4 phone calls, and had a complimentary voss water for only $45. Dinner was nice, courvoisier tasting, entertainment by Second City and... well... painted scion doors by today's hottest street artists. I heart corporate-strategic-tastemaker-branding-added-value-marketing-budgets. Strug and Lori got the beef.

After that, we went to Sonotheque. Ed Bangers played.

the crowd was tits. I definitely didn't get enough of this scene at The Rapture show at studio B the night before :-|




cant trust a man that cant trust his pants

this girl was maniac. praying she didnt catch the coochie cold.

she also did tha socks in tha club thing...

eye patches... the new bandana? I saw 3 dudes rockin them, the same night, in one club.

Ended up here. Lot of fuck words were used. mmmm... charred dogs.

its murda...

it hurts me to think it was 50 cent of all fucking people who put Ja rule in early retirment. So much potential. He used remind me of younger more graceful Tupac but that was a long long time ago.

i ran into this little gem in the 5 dollar bin at virgin. i figure its been long enough. what better way to start off the first quarter of the year then to revisit the classics. i love how JR names his best of album after a Bob Marley record. theyre probably more a like then you think only BM has shittier fans.

youre welcome.

man i love Bobby Brown! Worth watching to see his helicopter exit alone. you cant tell me this guys not batshit out of his fucking mind.

always,
Lloydski

"the rule is no laughing matter" - the ROC

The Rub instore at Turntable Lab in Los Angeles, Tuesday Feb 20 from 7 to 9 PM. Then Cinespace with Steve Aoki and Them Jeans.

When we're on tour we average about 5 hours of sleep per night. A typical day is wake up at 10, get to airport by 12, land at 4 and drop our bags off at the hotel, eat something and go to soundcheck at 7, dj from 11-3, get paid by 4 and try to go to sleep by 5. That doesn't sound too bad until you do it every day for weeks on end. I know, boo hoo.

Smalltown DJs own a club, a clothing and record store, a shoe store, and a record label in Calgary. We went out for two weeks with them last year on the Northern Exposure tour through all of Canada plus Brooklyn and Philly, and in March they are coming down to SXSW in Austin and WMC in Miami, plus a gig in DC. They are the funniest dudes I know. Mike (left) was gooned in this picture.

In Alberta they were selling brass animals on the side of the road. L-R Smalltown Pete aka Canadian Football Pete, Cosmo "Cook Coffee" Baker, and me, the Little Man of Hate.

In Billings, our dude Jimi Scott got a Rub banner done up at Kinko's. I left it on a plane roughly 10 hours after he gave it to us. So far we have lost a cell phone, a microphone, an M-Audio digital recorder, a Money Studies roller bag (which was recovered broken), a whole bunch of CDs, and I'm sure some other shit I'm forgetting.

Still it's all worth it. I can't imagine doing anything else for a living.

Some pictures from Edmonton here. All tour dates here.

What the fuck?
Isn't this one of the signs of the apocalypse?

party size...

Black History Fact...
I havent showered in 4 days.

Oh, and your welcome (NSFW)

Philly stand up!

Valentine's celebration THIS FRIDAY (the 16th).
Bitches, show as much titty as possible.

HARU
241 Chestnut St.
Olde City, Philadelphia

with an appearance by:

Boy Genius aka P. Hizzle

Unfuckwitable...

so woody lost his job on tuesday.

Viacom thought it best to down size the company and the asian branch was the first to go. Woody would like to believe its because of politics but i happen to think air humping the President of viacom at the christmas party had something to do with it.

so now its back to drawing comics and attending to what some might call a blog.

i personally think this is an amazing opportunity for woody to step back, admire life and become what he was born to be.

...a true nigga.

lets get this money woody. i love you nigga.

i get chills just thinking about it

always,
Skeazer Leo

It's hard to come after Lloydski

This is Matias aka Melchezz aka swissmister. Sorry I'm not a DJ. Pete just made me honorary fellow of turntablelab. I made a profession out of getting lost in cities around the world. Right now I'm lost in Mumbai doing research on Dharavi, an informal settlement with the highest density level I have ever experienced. A walk through the streets of Dharavi makes Hong Kong feel like US suburbia.

I'll post stuff once in a while that will probably be completely unrelated to turntablism, sports and whatever this blog is about. I've been checking out this blog regularly for some time although I lost a little bit of interest after ROC got kicked out. I thought he was bringing a lot of sense to it all. Another thing I share with ROC is my bad command of English grammar so expect many spelling mistakes from me.

Back soon with more adventures

valentines...

DICK IN A BOX!

I get a lot of mail. Either it's the fact that i'm a registered Democrat, or the fact that the bills at my place are all in my name. Maybe the magazines i subscribe to sold my info. i don't know. But nothing i get in the mail is more frustrating than the infrequent communication i receive from my sponsored child, Elmer, a small boy in Honduras.
About 3 years ago, on MLK day, i was walking down Broadway and got stopped by some enthusiastic NYU student, armed with a clipboard and a decent pitch. She told me that often young boys are the last to be sponsored, and wouldn't i like to help out someone less fortunate than myself? Sure, i said, taking a look at a picture of Elmer, who i swear was no older than 8 years old. Tell me why the last correspondence i received, persuading me to drop an extra 30 bucks on an Easter gift, i look at the little player's stats, and my man is friggin 15 years old!!!! i mean, shit, i'm sure he could use the money, but this MAN has a starter 'stache. i feel like such a chump. Dear friends, don't get swindled like your boy P. The kid needs to get a damn job. Screw you, "Children International". Change your name!

Cock Paper Scissors

Love is in the air today.

What better way to tell some one you love them then with a red (right pocket) bandana.

Its all the rage.

Hows your bandana game?

the ROC prefers watersports (right side of corse)

Cary likes bears and Ken likes Cary!

Always,
Lloydski

Ps. Grrrrrrrr

The Cannonball Rub is in full swing. So far we did Orlando, Austin and Atlanta, and then swung through Mississippi for a little R&R (rodeo and relaxation). This week we have Dallas, Calgary, Billings, San Francisco and LA. All tour dates here

it was christina ricci's 27th birthday today. what did you get her?

thought so....

always,
Lloydski

by the way..

its black history month...free grand marnier for everybody!

them 1
us 0

black history fact:
I wet the bed til i was 12 years old

Fuck Duke Basketball.... unranked for the first time since i was 11.

pretty funny photoshop'ed fake Gap khaki ad with Coach K.

Fuck Duke.

The Pack in NYC tonight!
Time to break out that old pair of topsiders...

This might be hella old, but fuck it.
I stumbled upon this looking for scratch videos on youtube and what I found amazed me!
Seeing this video gave me the utmost respect for Cosmo, Ayres and The Rub, not that I already didn't, but this is a different kinda respect.
anyways here it is if you haven't peeped it yet.

Just to give respect to my west coast click here is some footage of one of my brothers, Isaiah, who is known to Tucson, AZ as "champ" and all around good guy. He also raps and does a poppin' club night out in tuscon, so he the guy to know if you pass through AZ and want to dj at a spot, I will be dropping a album with this homie real, real soon.

speaking about djs and props

white power!
djs should do the shirtless performance thing too...

wow, bogman doesn't post for like 6 months...
and he comes with that? i have a feeling that's not our Romanian friend posting.
haven't djs understood that we are bottom-feeders in the whole social scene?
you're stuck in a booth, while everyone else is getting wasted, getting f-ed over by club owners and promoters... the saving grace is that you get to experience that addictive, crowd-response-induced, internal chemical rushes that normal people don't get to experience, but that's it... unless you are in it for the cash bonus like Roc or Stress... or Skribble...
djs get props on blogs, not on page 6.
for every DJ AM and Tiestos, there's 50,000 chasers...
btw, my friend's dad writes that column... ha-ha

ps. kinda reminds me of when jemz dj'ed with Prince...
pps. ross is a real cool guy, i hope he gets his dues....
ppps. even danzig gets short-changed... (via tangfield)

Why Do Club Owners Do Some Real Shady Ass Shit To Cool As Peoples

Thats their story, The Real Story is:

DJ Ross One and His Girl Better Known As Glamor $hots were the ones kicking it With B Spears. But Club owners have their agenda and Fake Jacks. Im saying, with shit like this we can make paper when we get page six mentions, as corny as it is shit like this can = big bucks! Some shady ass shit to pull on a real cool dude who holds it down and was looking real good in swap meet Fendi With Spears. Hold Your Head High, We See You Ross!!!!

SHOW ROSS LOVE ON THE SPACE BY CLICKING HERE

Ive been slacking on these. Been busy.
The Egyptian Lover show was nuts. Some picts...












more picts here



and this short clip from these intellectuals

other probable gays in the NBA

kendall, you ain't foolin anyone

just a hunch

arenas is def bi-curious, it's been hinted in sports media since he got to DC.
god bless him...

mailman=big homo

Nothing's Shocking. RIP Anna Nicole

THIS SATURDAY...

2X ASS'
4X TITTIES'

LOW BUDGET x DARK ALLEY x BLU JEMZ x DJ PUBE$ x ASS SHAKIN CONTEST

RSVP: ASSNTITTIES4EVR@GMAIL.COM

since we're on the topic....

youre welcome kyle.

always,
Lloyd

DICKSET!

John Amaechi

i knew he was gay the WHOLE time!

Next up to step out of the closet and declare themself homosexual....

and remember, you heard it here FIRST from Boy Genius aka P-Hizzle aka The Mayor of Gaithersburg aka Half-Man Half-Korean....

Thierry Henry!

C'mon player, what are you doing, posing like that? You aren't D'Angelo

My brother Pete is gonna get seriously pissed about this post (he practically beats off to the Frenchman).

-BOY GENIUS

Side note: while I was researching Thierry Henry pics on Google, I came across some startling pics, shows you how 'racialist' these european hooligan fans are. Check em out...

TEXAS STAND UP and get your RSVPs in.
burlesquexsw attt gmail.com

Brand New Lab Radio. With special co-host, Chris Lemon-Red, providing goods from the secret stash. Suck It up.

The Rub was this past Saturday at Southpaw. This is DJ Eleven & Cosmo Baker. Jazzy hands!

DJ Premier came through and rocked with us. He was our surprise guest. Nobody in the crowd knew he was gonna be there. That's me on the right.

Primo was real heavy on the mic, hyping up the crowd with each song. He played for an hour and a half and the club was complete pandamonium.

Cool Disco MC Spankrock came to party but he was happy to do a song.

gilbert vs. deshawn
gilbert shoots one-handed 3 pointers from the college line
while deshawn shoots regular 3s from the NBA line
best of 100 shots
check the trash talk

after killing Studio B the night before, the Egyptian Lover and his brother Jamie Jupiter came by the Lab Manhattan for an in-store set. I thought EL would just play records, but he was pulling out all the tricks like playing 2 records backwards at the same time, while keeping beat for an entire song.

EL was super-nice, he did a record signing after his set. that's justin, who along with josh re-up, put the whole EL weekend together. congrats to Justin on his bday and scoring the gig as APT's new musical director. (plug: we will have signed EL albums on the site this week).

good seeing some old lab faces there. this is Dave Tompkins, known to lab-heads as the dude who wrote those mad genius, stream of consciousness reviews on the site a few years back. he's working on a book about the history of vocoders, look for it in the fall.

shipset representatives. dr. pitts aka DJ swan's crossing and resident ableton guru chuck chillout.

nick chacona and the bogman.

dj elle

bogman collage in the back of the store.

lab bathroom graf.
you break it, you pay for it!

remember this? yes, stony's a man of many fads. this pic is from the fall when he was getting into "lap swimming while listening to underwater headphones" phase. i think it lasted 2 weeks. stony's latest venture is boxing. he's started training at the world famous Gleason's gym right down the block from our office. World famous might be an understatement, champs like Ali, Foreman, Frazier, Spinks, Holmes, and even Iron Mike have trained there. From all indicators, this fad seems to be sticking, so much so that Stony took me and the production squad out to the edge of brooklyn to watch Golden Gloves fights.

the fights took place in an old high school gym.

i had never seen live boxing before. there's a crazy energy about it. everytime somebody gets clocked, you can't help but make grunting noises... the whole crowd does it in unison. we were lucky to catch several knockouts, that's crazy energy. this one had us jumping out of our seats.

the locals around us were betting each other on every fight. since these boxers were novices, there's no background info to base your bets on. one dude simply yells out "i like blue," and the betting partner usually takes it. me and stony put a five spot on this one, and stony took the "white dude." i thought it was an easy win for me (i got the black dude with flashy metallic gold trunks), but it turned out this guy was ukranian or polish. don't bet against these type of dudes, they're tough. plus he had this crazy bowl-cut trainer who would do this crazy towel fan technique between rounds.

yes, they even had ring card girls. this particular one had the pro-squad in a stymy.

did i mention they had a dj there too? he'd play the hottest party breaks in between rounds. and the best part? the intermission dance routine. this photo does no justice, these girls were on fire....

see you at the next fight...

Last night was bananas. Pyramid shaped swimming pools and blue lemonade was the icing on the cake. The Egyptian Lover was just what NYC needed. I had almost forgotten how terrible the weather was i.e. cold and raining. Round 2 tonight at Trouble and Bass...

this just in... ORIGINAL egyptian lover 12"s w/pic sleeve!!!
O.G. copies of "The Lover," "Alezby Inn," and more...
buy 'em at the manhattan store this saturday and have them signed by
the lover himself.

ps. Egyptian Lover & In Flagranti will be killing the decks tonight.

How epic is this? Signed copies from the man himself.

Also, just re-upped on 10 Deep...

Gettin' classy on 'em.
Limited stock.