Warning! I'm about to be name dropping like a motherfucker. If you aren't into that sort of thing, skip this post.

This year at Winter Music Conference, Scion put us up at The Raleigh, a super fancy hotel right on South Beach in the middle of everything. Last year, Eleven and Cosmo and I all stayed in one room at a Holiday Inn about ten miles ($30 cab) away. We felt like we were balling when Big Black Matt treated us to dinner at The Raleigh. This year my room service was $200! It was so worth it just to be able to dip out of the fray for an hour and take it easy.

Thursday afternoon we djed at the Scion Penthouse party at the top of the Raleigh with Andy Smith, MSTRKRFT and Justice. It had a crazy balcony that wrapped around the entire penthouse. Jay Simplefly, Spankrock and DJ Contra were chilling.

Thursday night we went to a dinner hosted by Giant Step, The Fader and Levis for the Mizell Brothers and a whole bunch of DJs including Danny Krivit, Jazzy Jeff, Masters at Work, Ed Banger dudes, Stones Throw dudes, King Britt, Vikter Duplaix, Gilles Peterson, etc, a block away at the Delano. The entire list and all the pictures are over at the Giant Step website. The Fader blogged about it, too.


Then we went two blocks up to the Turntablelab party and really got it in. The Shore Club has a beautiful pool surrounded by huge cushions where you can chill and drink under the palm trees. Unemployed Lloyd was mixing without headphones, Chromeo played almost lounge music, and Blu Jemz and Roger Yamaha were on that Second Cousins shit, playing a lot of bugged out dance music I could never get away with. We did our thing, then Egg Foo Young sealed the deal with a bunch of Miami Bass music that nobody outside of South Florida knows about. We missed Roctakon play because we were DJing outside when he was DJing inside, but we did get some sunglasses.


Friday we went to another Scion party, this time on a yacht with Masters at Work, Jazzy Jeff and DJ Haul spinning. It was pretty amazing- I wrote all about it over on the Fader website. Friday night I had dinner with the French Canadian homies A-Trak, Dave One and P-Thug, then met up with Cosmo, Dante Ross and everyone over at the Ed Banger party at Studio A, which was intense as fuck.


My wife Veronika flew in late Friday night to hang out for the weekend, which made me really happy. Saturday afternoon we played some music at the Remix Hotel / Mackie party, right after Chicago legend Roy Davis Jr, which blew my mind and reduced me to a babbling fanboy.


We'd been trying to do something with Mr Supreme for a while, so when Shore Club booked us for Saturday night and let us pick the other DJs, it was only natural to finally make it happen. Dude did not dissapoint, throwing down one of the best sets I heard in Miami all weekend. Inside, our homies Sake One and J-Boogie held it down for the Bay Area. Sunday we were worthless but we powered through it, playing an intimate party downtown with Contra, Flosstradamus, Franki Chan, and Smalltown DJs. I've been back in NY for four days and I'm still not fully recovered. But we never stop! NYC, check us out at the Canal Room with Shy Child on Saturday:

Full Miami wrapup, more pictures, parties and tour dates at The Rub website.

Big double release party at 205 Club tonight, with SOUND|iNK's Team Shadetek (meanest grime producers in the States) and Hight Priest (ex-Anti-Pop Consortium) both bringing out new albums. Drop The Lime is DJ'ing too, and Snack & C'mish tell me that dude is not to be missed.

And after that ends, make your way over to Hiro Ballroom for the coolest, Frenchest show of the year (except The Presets are playing, and they're Australian, but we ain't complaining). Pretty sure it's sold out, though, so make sure to bring like 10-15 girls and some extra $$ for the bouncers.

this one is so good it needs no caption... let your imagination go wild...

Spring gear is rollin like Fabo's eyeballs.

You know you'll need these for that forthcoming heat...

...and a whole new shipment by UNDR CRWN.

This one's for all my production headz out there. Novation does it up.

More coming soon...

couple quick shots of the wmc experience:

STRAIGHT OUT OF CAMPTON!

GASLAMP KILLER SCREECHING LIKE A HOWLER MONKEY! ANDY TWIDDLING AWAY HIS LIFE ON HIS SIDEKICK! (not shown: worst pizza in the world)

PETE, LITERALLY SLEEPING AT A PARTY! SHADY! (anthony has the "seriously?" look on his face)

My full review of wmc on my blogmagog

okay, I hate to give props to Roc cause he's already got a jainormous head, but dude is probably the (non-house/trance) club dj in the world. I would definitely bet money on it... anyway, he slayed the crowd in the Redroom at our party, lab heads were huddled around the turntables, getting tarded and making weird noises, you can even catch Roc smiling... observe...

okay, i thought Roc killed it, but then we headed to the trance club and saw the realness... seriously, trance djs are like puppetmasters sent down from the gods... the dj here was some buff swedish blonde dude, and he would make ridiculous poses (like pointing his guns straight up) and the crowd would eat it up... this shit made our party look tame..

ok, enough with the i got picked last in gym class,
so now i hate sports talk on the blog...
go hoyas!

the lab's wmc party was a big success, thanks for everyone that came...
i have a ton of photos and videos i have to sort through, give me some time...
the coolest thing about the party was how much of the Lab family showed up, everyone dj'ed, we all went out afterwards together, and we all grubbed out on bad miami pizza at the end of the night...

anyway, to further illustrate the lab characters (who strangely all have nicknames), i will give you some history how all these randoms are related to the Lab....

aahh... the newly unemployed woodman. his first WMC... woody first entered lab consciousness by entering a "take pictures of your setup contest" on the old-school lab site. then we dj'ed at his college spring party and he introduced himself and we gave him an internship. he did a stint in shipset, then the store... he met life partners Kev, Roc, and Lloyd working at the lab....

our first employee... we hired alison when we were running the operation out of a windowless closet-sized office on Greenwich street. she stopped working at the Lab around a year a go and now runs her own label Dirty Trick Records....

me and ayres go way back... we met when I would dj up at Vassar where he was a student. I was a scratch nerd and he was into making indy hip-hop mixtapes.

we hired james to help grow our production equipment biz, but instead he turned into the godfather of the production squad. when we opened up the LA store, we sent james to be the manager. now he's a big LA scenester DJ and working on some music that we'll put out on money studies some day. random factoid about James is that he was the emcee with the Dub Pistols or somebody back in the mid nineties. I always asked him to bring in the record, but he never has...

Yas started off as an intern at the Lab, then moved into the production squad... he sat next to james and the two became good friends, and formed Second Cousins.... Yas moved back to tokyo and runs the Lab-brother store Moonwalk Records... there's a chance it could grow into ttl tokyo, but it's still early...

we met Sabo through Tone... he was always a friend of the Lab, but then officially joined the family when he started working at the NY store... he holds it down there with The Bogman...

everyone knows about Frogman... he showed up solo to miami after an 8 hour drive from his Dad's place... this shot was taken when he first walked into the party... look at that face... dude is high on life... if you will be in argentina this summer, holler at your frogman....

we first heard of GLK through his downtempo mixtape he put out through Sound In Color (one of the best downtempo tapes ever), then Frogman befriended him in LA and asked him to work at the LA store... now he's gonna be putting out some music on money studies... he's a crazy dj and seems to know a lot of people...

the people's champ. Roc was in the DC turntablist crew The Goonies... we carried his mixtape and he told me he was moving to nyc... I gave him a job at the nyc store, but that's before I knew he was such an asshole.... haha... you can still find Roc hanging at the store, talking smack like none other... he took over the nyc bottle club scene and now he's a big wig, money gigging travelling dj playing in Vegas, LA, Miami, etc... this kid is gonna be famous...

roc and lloydski used to work at a record store in DC together. we needed help in shipset, so Roc suggest we hire lloyd, and we did.... lloyd left the Lab over a year ago and has taken on the identity "unemployed lloyd," catch him djing at the W or straggling into parties...

we met Roxy through Diplo and Low Budget before anybody blew up. i think we threw the first Holletronix party in nyc together, it was at the Tribeca Grand hotel....

before Spank got signed, Roxy and Diplo were telling us about em... telling us we should do something with em... frogman slept on em for a second, and they were snatched up by big dada, but not before we put out a couple releases on money studies.... look out for XXXchange edits 12" coming out on money studies coming out soon...

ok, more coming soon....

The Hoya Paranoia is def. back in this bitch. But fuck UCLA, I want Florida as Georgetown's opponent in the final, and only for one reason: This Man...........





Quite possibly the best sports related dance ever. Of course, nothing is better than the Ray Lewis Superbowl dance.

screw wmc, it's all about gtown right now...

ever notice the resemblance between Wire's Dukie and Jeff Green?

top moments from gtown vs. unc...
1) summers dunking over hansborough in OT. i was thinking to myself: is he gonna do it? he did it.. tyler had the best view from the ground... btw, tyler looks like he took a lot of ritalin as a kid..

2) wallace draining the ice-cold three to tie it... Rick Majerus brought up an interesting stat... pointing out that wallace is a 180 pt. player (shooting, 3 pt, and free throw percentages equal over 180) and citing that he's in the top 1 percentile amongst college players...

3) ewing jr everytime he steps on the court. he is crazy energy and you can tell the team feels more confident with him on the court... he just has everyone's back... not to mention his extreme hoppage

4) all three post-game analysts on espn predicted after the game that gtown would beat ucla in the finals... when's the last time a dc team has been jocked so hard?

5) before the game, i was thinking that gtown was outmatched beyond green and hibbert, but they proved me wrong. Summers is going to be a beast in the next seasons, Sapp had a Cassell-esque performance and showed incredible discipline for an nyc guard, and Wallace was flawless....

6) JT3 totally out-coached RW. UNC had no definition... it was like RW just let them do whatever they wanted... That has worked most of the year because of their sheer talent, but towards the end of the game, I couldn't even tell who UNC's point guard was... they definitely had more individual talent, but as a team, they needed direction.

7) dream re-match: hoyas vs. gators in the finals... Ewing neutralizes Joakim... Green takes MVP...

hoyas win! hoyas win! hoyas win!

help wanted in LA store...
part-time sales person
1) must be knowledgeable about lab catalog
2) must be personable
3) no stoners!

email - jay <<< at >>> turntablelab.com with resume

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i almost forgot, tonight is my birthday party @ Purdy Lounge in miami. (insert air horns here)

So the story goes (there are many different versions), my friends Jake and Contra used to live in Coral Gables. Jake got up one night in his sleep (he denies this), turned on the faucet of the second floor bathroom, washed his face, and went back to bed. Little did he know the sink was clogged. The next morning the kitchen ceiling caved in and the entire first floor was flooded with water. If anyone touched the water you would be electrocuted to death, (dude on couch alerted everyone to this) so people decided to hop on sliding furniture to survive. Long story short, the landlord said get the f out, and the boys moved north, and set up camp at the One More Day Mansion . To set off wmc proper it was only appropriate to invite lab family and friends. There were a ton of other people not pictured (Peaches, Woodman, etc...) but I think those photos will come when everyone recovers from this week...

Gear-magedeon!!!

Mishka's spring line just bust in the door and it is heavy!

Gotta love this take on TMNT.

Also, Burton and Analog gots the lock on bags.

And if you missed it new Syndrome, and Triumvir.

Lots more heaters on deck...

it's finalized....

see you by the shore club pool...

your magic ticket to get you in secret hangout...

SXSW festival in Austin Texas last weekend was a tremendous amount of fun. We had seven gigs in three days and tons of obligations but despite running all day every day, the whole weekend was totally energizing. Nothing beats hanging out with friends from all over the world in 70 degree weather, seeing a whole bunch of incredible musicians and djs for free, eating great food, and staying in a nice ass hotel on someone else's dime. Highlights: Ghostface Killah, The Melvins, Federation, Redman, Amy Winehouse, SWOLL, DJ Day, Mike 2600 King, Morse Code, Diplo, King Most, Catchdubs, DJ Mel, Prince Klasson, Smalltown DJs, Flosstradamus, A-Trak, Kid Sister, Vyle, Cool Kids, Federation, UGK, Rakim, Hier, DJ Haul, Revolution, Boris, Amanda Blank, Solico, RJD2, Nasa, breakdancing, bbq and Sabbath in the Park.

Pictures and commentary on The Rub, A-Trak & Kid Sister at SXSW up on The Fader blog. Photos from SXSW by Ian Meyer, Mike 2600 King, Drink Moloko,Catchdubs. Video here, here and here.

We're in Miami all weekend at Winter Music Conference - party dates here including Turntable Lab's massive party!

TEXAS.

Turntable Lab Radio - vol. 9: New club tracks, forgotten treasures
and advance Chromeo & Ed Banger joints. Spring forward.

You know that ridiculously huge Mad Decent party that was supposed to go down in Austin on Friday? Yeah, it got shut down by 5-0 after about 45 minutes. On top of that, Blaqstarr couldn't come because of some legal troubles, the only picture I got before my camera broke was the flick above, and I'm sitting in my apartment right now waiting for American Airlines to find my luggage (and praying the huge, unopened bottle of Maker's Mark in my Lab / Gravis roller bag gets here intact).

This is why I never leave Brooklyn.

The valuable lesson here? Don't make your "unofficial" party more awesome than all the official SXSW shit, or the indie rock fun nazis will get butthurt and rat you out quicker than Bubs from The Wire.

Even with all that, the trip wasn't a total wash. Had time to hit up the NASA party on Thursday, and saw Kid Sis, Bonde Do Role, Flosstradamus and Spank Rock. Friday, we caught Plastic Little at Beauty Bar, and they WRECKED SHOP AT 3PM! (I just kinda assumed those guys didn't wake up 'til the sun was down.) Then, after the no good shenanigans at the IHEARTCOMIX / Mad Decent party Friday night, we ran over to The Rub's outdoor party, where my dude Cosmo Baker did a James Brown tribute that stopped the show (literally).

Anyway, the Mad Decent party getting shut down just gives us an even better excuse to do it extra, extra big in a couple weeks at Studio B, right here in BK. DJ BLAQSTARR just got added to the show (go get that SUPASTARR EP!!) and I hear he's bringin' Rye Rye with him. SHAKE IT TO THE GROUND, MUHFUCKAS.

(Buy tickets online here - it's gonna sell out.)

if you happen to be in the boston area tonight - come by the Enormous Room and check out Lab alumni DREW2, Amphibious, C'mish + me rock it.

567 massachussets ave.
cambridge, ma
only $3!

more info

BOOM-SHALOCK-LOCK-BOOM!

So I've been pretty slow going through all my India crap, but more posts to come, including details on the last remaining "dancing bar" in Mumbai- Indian gangster dudes making it rain on fully clothed girls!

Anyway here's some of the records I brought back with me. Didnt really do much record shopping but I saw this one guy with a stand of a couple hundred bollywood joints and couldnt resist. Mostly just bought blind based on the 3 composers I know- Kalyanji Anandji, RD Burman, and Bappi Lahiri. Got some cool shit



Bappi Lahiri

To all the vanilla-faces that read this blog (including Irishman Sean Patrick Carroll of Rockville, Maryland pictured above), wear your Green gear and enjoy St. White Man's Day. Watch... one day, Koreans will have some sort of drinking holiday, and we all can wear red like this...

I think I might have posted this before, but it needs to be done again- yall need to feel the power of mister Rodigan. Life affirming shit.

That dance.... those arms.... that bald head and button down!!
You think you can pull this off when your 60 plus?

And dont tell me some David Mancuso shit either because as much as I can vibe out on that, this is clash and David Rodigan in clash is like Garrison Keillor, great story teller. plus a super good dj, and a pentacostal preacher pulling people from the pulpit with ridiculous dubplates stretching back to the 60s. Dude is amazing.

I watch this as many times as I can (weekly, daily?) just to make myself feel good. You should do the same.

*ps: study up Rodigan if you dont know- and take this extra piece from Amazura last november.

Mexico police in $205m cash haul

Huge shout to the commonwealth and all my friends and fam that went to VCU.
mothafukabluedevil...

PS. I know sport posts are lame.

finally downloaded my pics from vancouver...

vancouver (minus the dope problem) is a model of modern urbanism... super-clean, happy people, and very diverse. if it weren't for the weather, i'd consider moving there.

everyone drives cars like this in vancouver, i swear.

everyone uses these things called volcanoes there, i swear.

before we hit the road to Whistler, the guys took me on a mercy visit to the local strip. At 3pm, Cecil's was surprisingly busy... but a no lap dance policy and an extended break between stage shows (seriously, there was a 15 minute gap between dancers)... and we left before we could finish our drinks... one of the waitresses, who saw the hungry look in our eyes, directed us to Number Five... this place is highly recommended by the group, but watch out for random police walk-ins (they ruined a frogman dance and interrogated one of my friends).... but overall a fine establishment...

another vote for Vancouver: the drive up to Whistler is awesome...

late nite poker was a definite highlight, I took down BG in the all-in final, check his weak stack....

outclassed in poker, BG and Frogman resorted to $20 games of war... one game lasted several hours, it was a sad site...

on the final night together, we hit up Whistler's finest steakhouse. Many things went down there including Shwan blacking out and harassing the waiter, and the culmination of Willystyle's candy bar binge... he downed this entire rack of lamb and immediately ran all the way back to the hotel (someone called it "like the Flintstones")... we sent BG as an escort...

The Rave was a sight to behold! We went until 7 AM. Rave til dawn for real! Huge thanks to Jen Lyon, Cosmo, Eleven, Sinden, Tittsworth, Star Eyes, Pase and all the ravers doing it so big. The Rave 2 - somewhere outdoors this summer? More photos here (Thanks Ian!)


The Rub on Serato, Egg Foo Young on Trombone


Sassy girls.


Me, Scott Sasso (Ten Deep) and Stimulus (Real Live Show).


Dancing girl.


Girl on stilts.


This guy was so high on drugs he was dancing upside down.


This week we're off to Austin for SXSW! All dates here

mid week debauchery.

jamal and saheer are getting loose again in the basement of 205 this tuesday this time under their new moniker Super Family. its gonna be a celebration. a birth of whats to come
pretty people, pretty club, pretty music.

GET INVOLVED!

sweet logo by the way.

on a lighter note. i used to shit on tracy morgan. i didnt get the guy. its not that his humor went over my head in fact the total opposite happened. i thought the guy was total shit. i thought only dumb people thought he was funny. maybe it was SNL. i dunno. anyway, my little brother sent me this clip of him on some live show in el paso tx. im not mad at the guy anymore. getcha money TM.

now that i think of it i should have known this guy was pretty rad when he came to gig of mine over a year ago, walked in, bought a bottle, took his shirt off and hoped from table to table (think lily pads) in the vip section. sometimes the "truth" is staring you right in the face. oh well. lesson learned.

you know who else im not mad at right now???

a man after my own heart. im a firm believer in bullshiting especially when talking to the opposite sex. bullshiting to the point where its obvious youre bullshiting. if your really good at it (like ben here) instead of being deceitful and malicious it becomes charming, cute, endearing and most of all non threatning. ill be honest with you. i have absolutely no game. NONE WHAT SO EVER. but i can talk some shit and deep down everyone loves a bullshitter.

FUCK YEAH BEN AFFLECK.

always,
unemplyed lloyd

There's a new addition to the Turntable Lab / Money Studies familia...

FOOL'S GOLD is the new label from A-Trak and Catchdubs, and Catchdini says he wants it to be "the modern version of what labels like Sleeping Bag and Nervous were doing back in the 80s and early 90s. They would put out house records and freestyle records at the same time as Black Moon or some experimental Arthur Russell shit, and it all made sense.”

First up is the Control single from Chicago's Kid Sister, and it's and it's a pretty frickin' good start -- "Control" is produced by XXXchange, and "Damn Girl" on the flip is produced by A-Treezy with a juke remix from DJ Gant-Man!!

There's gonna be a single from A-Trak with blends off his new Dirty South Dance mixtape, an EP from Gant-Man, a single from GLC, some stuff from Cool Kids (who you need to hear if you haven't)... needless to say, we're pretty geeked.

You can check out some upcoming sounds at the label's MySpace page, and keep your eyes on the daily 'cause that first 12" is right around the corner...

(Oh yeah and it's goin' down at SXSW next week...)

here's a little video I did from a rooftop in Mumbai. Youtube made the shit really dark, but you get the idea- phalanx frogger madness!! Usually no lights, crosswalks or rules at intersections, but it all works somehow. I'll try to post some more india stuff later.

The Rub was super fun last weekend.

L-R - DJ Eleven, Persia (White Rapper Show), Pase Rock, me, Lord Sear,
then in the background Lord Sear's brother, Amir & Blu Jemz. Shout out
to Marc Hype, not pictured. Lord Sear tore it down!

Last night we played at a semi-private birthday party for Black (Premier's right hand man) in Fort Greene with Evil D, Tony Touch, Brucie B, Red Alert, Lord Finesse and a bunch of other old-school heads. I didn't get any pictures though. It's still a little crazy to me that we get put on at stuff like that. Not that we can't rock it, it's just that I grew up listening to all those dudes and now I'm playing parties with them. I mean I still get gassed that Stretch Armstrong is friendly with me when I think about listening to him spin on the radio and going out to hear him in the club when I was 19. I'm not sure I'll ever get used to it.

Tonight we're in DC -
Friday, March 9
The Rub, Smalltown DJs, Tittsworth & Fort Knox 5
Club Five - 1214-B 18th St. NW
Washington, DC

i never thought it would happen, but i'm handing over front cover duties for the next money studies release to someone else... i wish i had time to design, but it's just not happening right now... but luckily, Noah Butkus has got my back, he's come up with a sick illustration around the idea of Secret Hangout, which is a new EP and future LP (i hope), consisting of tracks from the Lab circle of trust....

the premiere EP features tracks by Blu Jemz (one sick club track and one strange beats one), Gaslamp Killer (throwback downtempo), Snack + Cmish (a polished final edit of that Dougie track), Egg Foo Young (a lean dancefloor bass track), and new Labhead Eliot Lipp (with some swirling downtempo electro)....

look for it dropping sometime this spring....

other factoids.
1) yes, I got sick in v/v, but I had an incredible time nonetheless. glad my friends had fun.
2) vancouver is a cool place, but one part of the city is literally Shaun of The Dead, zombie junkies everywhere, walking up to your car, deals going down in plain sight... it was like Hamsterdam from The Wire....
3) trailer park boys is an awesome movie... now i must track down the tv episodes....
4) p-gorgeous one punch ko'ed someone during the last diner boys soccer match
5) whistler is heaven for snowboarders
6) don't take off your board while on a slope
7) willystyle ate 6 candy bars within 10 minutes
8) that's that BC shit!!!
9) these shoes are awesome...
10) Hibbert went to same high school as me and BG... go motherfucking hoyas!!!

ATTENTION ALL APPLE LAPTOPERS

Apple is recalling a bunch of G4 laptop batteries for overheating. Since my battery was included I figured some of you other Serato bitches are having the same problem. Check the Apple site here for details. YOU GET A BRAND NEW BATTERY!

In other news finally got a grip on the Lab's line up for WMC this year and it feels massive: SPANK ROCK OXY COTTONTAIL A-TRAK CHROMEO THE RUB XXXCHANGE BLU JEMZ & ROGER YAMAHA MONK ONE PASE ROCK EGG FOO YOUNG ROCTAKON THE GASLAMP KILLER ALISON TARA CONTRA LLYODSKI & a special appearance by one rouge Lab founder...

IT'S WHERE I WANNA BEEEEEEE!

Just about due for a comeback:
DJ Spin-Laden

so it was hahnboy / nightmare's bachelor party trip and everything was great the first night we got there- raided the mini bar, great view from the hotel, boy genius presented a gift jersey (he wore about 10 different soccer jerseys on the 4 day trip)....

then pete came down with a stomach virus the next day. Didnt stop me, stony and boy genius from going on an outing to junkie heaven - a 10 block stretch that's literally like night of the living dead with 40 year old half lives walking around and swarming on any living body for life sustenance (change). We checked out this place but had to leave after getting hairy eyeballs from everybody and a string of money questions from a scary junkie mom.

Headed straight for lil’ amsterdam. Weed smoking is basically legal up there and there’s bars where you can smoke (buy from the guy upstairs, stand on the X on the carpet), BG actually fell over passed out in the smoking room. That's that BC BUD!! Plus we found a cool bookstore with a café full of vaporizers… pay $5 and sit as long as you want. Stony was psyched.

Pete never got better so we had to storm his room after finishing off the Blue Label that Will brought for him. Luciano with the abuse.

Ceremonially hit up the strip club the next afternoon, cause you know, we had to. Pete looked grey but maintained. Sorry to report that the quality of Van strip joints has gone way down in recent years… maybe a pic of the signed poster will pop up- anybody got that?

Boy Genius was on his A game with the snowboard gear. 50s helmet and Portis jersey.

Willystyle was on his A game with the snacks and day time drinking (no mountain for WS). +/-46 is Shwan’s estimate for the over under for Willy purchases from the candy machine. At one point 40 bucks was offered for a Twix.

Pete went snowboarding one of the days, but lost his board on the mountain. Disastrous trip for the bachelor- sorry dude. But we still had fun right?

Unbelievable. I remember singing this when I was 11 years old. I am literally in tears. Enjoy, fellow Le Boulez fans....

just got back from vancouver/whistler....
will try to get you guys the update...

What goes around, comes back around. All new Lab Radio 08 with Snack & C'mish.

Brazilian Beat Brooklyn presents:

Brazilian Carnaval vs. Mardi Gras
Sunday March 4, 2007
10pm
Black Betty
366 Metropolitan Ave at Havemeyer
718 599 0243

Wax Poetics DJs McBoing Boing (LGK) & Monk-One (WBAI) representing New Orleans- square off against residents Greg Caz and Sean Marquand in a 4 turntable competition pitting Brazilian Carnaval classics agains the funk, soul and party music of The Big Easy.

"Kick in the door, wavin' the 4/4...", Big Poppa is in the building.

Also get your spring threads early...

...this is just the warm-up.

Turntable Lab & Plastic Little present...
Remix of the Remix of the Remix of The Remix Remix Contest

*** Friday, March 2nd - Friday April 20th, 2007 ***

Calling all deejays, remixers, mash-up artists, breakdancers, art school students, unpaid interns, coffee shop employees, advertising hacks, out-of-work actors, ex-reality show contestants who lost, and parents. Plastic Little has teamed up with Turntable Lab to host a contest with real prizes, including a Serato software package, Turntable Lab goods and a chance to have your remix included on The Remix of The Remix album, to be released Fall 2007 by Free News Projects/ToneArm Records.

Dirty dancing in NY questa sera
Bring a female friend, leave with two~

Tonite! Come get down with the Egyptian Lover at the LA store.

Good work by my friend Jeroen Koolhaas (aka Jeruniverse) and associate Dre Urhahn in Vila Cruzeiro, a hardcore favela of Rio. They want to paint every house on the hill to make a huge urban fresco. So that's a start. Art belongs to the street.

The painting represent a kid flying a kite, a hugely popular pass time in pre-playstation cities from Rio to Bombay. Below is a picture I toke in Dharavi, Bombay. Once a year all kiteflyers come up on the roofs and fight to death, cutting each others' rope. Only the slickest survives.

favelapainting's website
Vila Cruzeiro seen from India

So, haven't posted shit in a bit, so get ready for a doozy. Last weekend the NY Comicon hit the Javitz Center and just happened to take full advantage of the TTL buyers pass.

So much cool shit, I don't know where to start. You know the C'mish needs a break from all the lab gear, hot singles, and parties to really dig deep for the freshness.

Right as I walk in, I spot this beauty... Nice gloss finish, definitely an original. Where is he? Where is he....

A-ha!!! OBEY playa!

Oh snap, the debut of Urban Voice Comics. Whattup Roca Raida part 2! Keep spinnin' them R&B joints for the next gen.

Damn, do you know about this show Heroes? Its the only one I watch pretty religiously and I don't even have a TV(thanks Bit Torrent) Here are some beautiful portraits of some of the stars. I see you lookin' Lemon-Red.

Afro Samarai. I tried to stay non-music related but RZA's downtempo - samarai beats are meh. The animation and the new toy line on the other hand, are buffed.

First Hollertronix 6 and now this. Didn't know that Money Studies made such an impact. Although Sloth is the only one pictured, they're releasing all the characters soon. Beautiful resin casts waiting for final approval.

Its Flav-o-rama! Your own reality show is one thing, but having your own urban vinyl toy? That's official. You don't see the White Rapper Serch toy yet, but now that I typed it, it's probably halfway into production.

Speaking of Flav, he left his mufuckin' homie Chuck D stranded saying he was stuck in traffic! That's the lamest NY excuse I've heard. You can't live here you're whole life and expect that one to work. Here's Snackmaster givin' it up to the man himself.

Yo Lloyd, look who's trying to bite' yo steez.

You will always see people in hero gear, but when you see a triple Spiderman + Black Cat in a photo shoot pose-fest, its too epic. Black Cat lookin' kinda hot tho!

And of course comics, riiight. Got plenty of those. Instead of running through all my nerdy picks, lemme show you some horrid comic titles of yesteryear that will never again see the light of day. Perfect example.

And last but not least, this one's for the DJ's.
Here are the "Girls of the Con"!

And I'm out!

Money Shot tonight at Pawn Shop in Miami!

Dug up some photos of our friend Luke's roommate Phil who makes synths. These photos barely touch on the state of their crib, but you get the idea, I'm standing on solder.



Also saw this gem on the couch, sunglasses required for operaton