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....