Bro, I couldn't agree any more.



Korea soccer is very nice as well (Somewhere Will Choi just dropped his pants).




Nelly Furtado reppin' DC United is pretty nice as well.




But that is why I am a Redskins fan.

it's so easy to jump on the Argentinian bandwagon...

What. The. Fuck.

No Ordinary Monkey @ Love tomorrow night

Then PS 1 season opening party with DFA crew ( Tim Sweeney + Goldworthy, Shit Robot,Juan McLean and Invisble Conga People live ) on Sat afternon/evening

and Prins Thomas around the corner at the Water Taxi Beach for more deep space trippin on Sat night after 9..

Almost as good as Melody's summer ( Jamal found, Rok blogged ,Angel cried, Ayres deleted,people askin for more )

Hot Damn! Summer in the city...

Nossa brings BIG back with a new colorway and reggae greats get "marauded."

Also Triumvir gets wicked with the throwbacks...

...and this is for those gettin' serious. Propellerhead's true to the original Abbey Road Keyboards!

don't Slumberr.

best thing about nyc is you can see all your la and miami friends in a span of 1 week

thurday june 21 in nyc was pretty nuts. seemed like every park was having parties, and bands playing in the streets of bk. 700 skaters at the bedford L stop. first i hit mccarren park, this guy recorded us (to cassette)

then cutmaster dc at queensbridge park

meanwhile, Syntax had a big move. I asked mike whats the future of the music biz and he said "i'm looking into solar panels"

then sunday was dantes mega roof jam. tons of euro blipsters and girl performers. (insert hip act name here). all of the acts were good tho!

i introduced jake jefferson to bjork. jake is a hit making machine from miami.

monday after lab hit up the secret saki bar on 7th between b & c. I like that going east of avenue b is kind of an idiot filter.





then monday night was the invasion. miami, bmore, and philly all at sway. and big birthdays for k. lim and josh reup.

One person died, 41 people were injured and 78 arrested as the second-leg of Argentina's promotion/relegation play-off between Nueva Chicago and Tigre was marred by violence.

Leading 2-1 in the game and 3-1 on aggregate, Tigre were on course to be promoted to Argentina's top flight when they were awarded an injury-time penalty.

However, the visitors were prevented from taking the spot kick that would have confirmed their ascension as Nueva Chicago's fans invaded the pitch.

The situation soon descended into chaos as a fight that began inside the Nueva Chicago Stadium spilled onto the streets, causing a large traffic jam on General Paz Avenue.

The 41-year-old man, who was not named, died after being hit on the head by a stone thrown by a supporter according to reports.

Director of emergency ambulance service SAME Doctor Alberto Crescenti added the man 'was admitted to Santojanni hospital in a very critical condition and died very soon afterwards.'

Chief of Police Claudio Marcelo Stabile, who led the security operation, revealed 78 fans had been detained and the Nueva Chicago stadium was shut down immediately. Ten policemen were also hurt.

Momma I'm Sorry by Clipse

I haven’t written anything because all I talk about now is yoga. This isn’t about yoga: put this song on and listen all the way through. Then go to the two minute/thirty-three second mark where Malice finishes the chorus with a slack “Miami Vice…” Because it’s the way the song started it has the effect of a round and you expect to hear the chorus repeat. Instead, Pusha comes in hard half a beat before you think they’ll start up again and says “Sorry heavenly father…” and it gives you that little impish energy jolt, like after a low dip in yoga but rap; he did it, you did it, and there’s just a lot of unexpected success.

North North by Project Pat

If you have read the Turntable Lab website for a long time you remember Bob Bannister. Not the first time I met Bob Bannister but not far from the first time I met Bob Bannister we went to his house and listened to this song. He likes flannel and was wearing flannel. He rapped this song; walked up and down his long studio apartment like he was the singer of Iron Cross or a dog guarding his territory. He knew all the words like they hadn’t been written, like Project Pat had looked to him to ghostwrite the future. Rolled up sleeves and maybe jean shorts, maybe not. “Cracking n---a’s jaws/running hoes into walls/n---a’s yelling north north/hoes screaming north north” and then Juicy J ends the song saying “fuck these crosses, fuck these crosses” and he felt it, Bob, like a Mississippi Burning moment. I was new to New York and I wasn’t sure that was what it was like. It turns out it’s not and that’s all our loss.

ALL DAY EVERYDAY!!!

YOUR SUMMER BODY BETTER BE READY!!!

so i hooked up with this soccer team this summer called the Cebolitas (Maradona's first youth club). aside from the old Kendis team (let's get the team back together!), this has been the most fun group of guys I've played with... i have to throw in a dreaded phrase, but this shit "happens only in ny..." the core of our team is made up of 3 guys from argentina including 2 korean-argentinians. there's also players from Spain, France, Ukraine, Uzbekistan (not a joke), amongst other places...

we play pick up a couple times a week, if we get kicked off the main field we head to the roof...

the main field, a sight of beauty...

had to gloat a little, champions bichez!!!

oh yeah...
what the hell is gonna happen to the gunners?

Appearantly, calling "The Church" and telling them your friend is interested in joining is NOT a good prank to play. Especially, if you're on the receiving end of this... Now, I get these notes a few times a week, and am scared to look out my windows. Thanks Ana...

So Nemiss became one of the Host for Jump Off! TV out of the UK recently her first assignment interview the Shop Boys and Lil Wyte.

Shop Boys

Lil Wyte

THe best interview is Lil Wyte. That ones for P Gorgeous!!!

what about weng weng... he's kinda asian, but maybe he's not... he looks kinda tough and kinda cute at the same time... and he's definitely mad exotic...

here's some shots of Noah's work
it is available for sale at the LA store (well-priced if you ask me)
and soon, it will be available online to purchase....

some pics from the anniv...

we weren't making a hipster statement with the PBR, that shit is 50 cents a can! JJ showing Gina how to properly ice beers...

we were geekin over Egyptian Lover's benz, but it turned out to be JJ's friend's car...

gaslamp killed the first set... didn't know he was so good on the mic... check for his new psyche CD coming to the Lab very soon....

Egypt's 808 death box

Egyptian crowd control...

some of Noah's work on the next post....

in my eternal dilemma to move out west,
i try to figure out which coast has the best food...
snobs say NY, but my last trip has me leaning to the west...

ok, it's common knowledge that either LA or Seoul has the best Korean food in the world ... which says a lot. we headed to redondo beach to go what is known as the korean crab shack. it's located on a dock giving you nice views of pacific...

the specialty, giant crab... big enough for two...

specialty #2, fish stew... one of the best i've had and not for the weak

a couple of my friends told me to check out Father's Office for what might be the best burger. this place was pretty cool, complete with arcane seating and ordering system... the burger was definitely one of the most unique I've had and the texture was a cross between a steak and burger... don't ask for ketchup, they'll shoot you down...

So this is a video of an older song of mine, that is finally seeing the light after many malfunctions with the homeboys camera.
Pure gorilla underground style video, but I think some of you will enjoy it.
I will be on tour in Japan next week so if you live near by, come to a show watch me rock and buy something, cause shits hella expensive out there, I need yen for nudie sushi. Just note that, this is not gonna be club nerd music, it will be g'emo rap and maybe some club nerd buisness. Anyways enjoy, oh and yes I did a photoshoot for freshjive, I am all those things pete named, I look quite handsome I might add and I got a whole new wardrobe out of it. I gotta keep up my rep as the best looking TTL LA employee, Can't hate a peeemp for wanted to look sharp as an arrowhead.
uunnhuuh out.

ARTIST: MESTIZO & MIKE GAO
SONG: UNSECURE IN NATURE
ALBUM: BLINDFAITH
LABEL: GALAPAGOS4
DIRECTOR: ACE FILMORE

so i got the Fresh Jive catalog yesterday and they have this new model...
check out this guy,
he's mad exotic... he's kinda asian, but maybe he's not... (that's the shit right now)
he looks kinda tough, but he looks like he's a family man at the same time...
that stash is... i don't know...

sorry JJ, I couldn't resist....

there are many pros and cons to owning a magazine.

con - getting an endless supply press releases.
pro - being the first to know any tiesto announcement.

Gear refreshments.

No Mas takes you deeper in the game.

Urban abstractions from Subware...

And welcome the baddest one of them all - the Xone 92!
and his brothers, the Xone 62 & Xone 32. They're a heavy bunch.

Get ready for domination.

thanks for all who attended our anniversary parties...
the instore was all that i could have wanted. Noah's work was excellent, Adam came through with the Stussy-Lab shirt, the store crew was solid as usual, and Egypt killed it and turned out a full show complete with 808 and mic...

more pics coming, here's some video to begin...

Egypt's patented backward spinning (motor off), then mixing in a second record....

Egypt rocking the 808, history in the making...

halfway into his 2 hour set, Eygpt surprised us all and busted out live renditions of his hits... Sexy Style...

tonight.

we sing @ 205. come.

thanks cary

unemployed lloyd

We're off this week to let Bogman (NY store manager/ Elite disco oracle)
turn up the disco burners to groove you into outer space. Get ready for take-off.

We had a new art show open up at our gallery over the weekend. Aye Jay has been mailing out his 6 year-old son Cohen's watercolor paintings to artists to have them draw, paint, and doodle on them and then send them back. He's collected about 100 collaborations from folks all across the board - Shepard Fairey, Kaws, Mike Giant, Gary Baseman, Rammelzee, Mark Ryden, and Mad magazine's Jack Davis. We showed about 50 of them and the show turned out pretty fresh. Here are a few flicks...

Cohen signing posters

Aye Jay + Cohen = Baby Birdman + Lil' Weezy.

Doze Green.

Shepard Fairey, me

Chris Ware

Devi, Kevin Boettcher

Aaron Horkey

Witt from the Walker Art Center, Horkey, legendary Def Jam art director Cey Adams, Aye Jay, M. 2600

The next generation

Scandinavia was really nuts. You go in the club at midnight and it's not dark yet, then when you come out it is already light again. Combine that with jetlag and Tittsworth and I slept about 2 hours a day. But the parties were bananas fun, The Rumble in Malmo in particular - I don't think I've ever seen that many people go nuts to Baltimore Club in my life. To give you an idea, the biggest song of the night was DJ Class "Stop Snitching!" All the parties were great - peace to Sampo in Helsinki, Jaywalker crew in Oslo, Saurabh and my man Stefan in Stockholm and of course Sweet Fred and the Discobelle crew in Malmo. Tittsworth murdered it everywhere we went, and I just tried to keep up! We ran into 50 Cent at the airport in Copenhagen and he was real nice. Now I'm home playing catch up for a few days, then heading up to Montreal on Friday. By the way, buy our shit!

Like, dislike, indifferent towards.... Michael Moore's new documentary Sicko can be viewed in entirety on google video. It's an interesting watch i.e. insurance or not we're all fu#%3d.

I'M BACK.

This probably sums up my whole weekend...

...and it's not even Sunday.

so apparently pete has a line of clothing stores in austria. go figure.

If you don't do it for yourselves, at least do it for the rest of the world.

Fun weekend ahead..

Rong Music party @ Apt tonite , with Spun & Eric Duncan ,everybody's favourites hairy boys

then Chairman Mao has Jazzy Jay over tomorrow night for his Grand Groove soiree

Sunday stars early - No Ordinary Monkey party in the park from 2

then Moodyman @ Shelter

and then I'll be at Nublu on Monday w/ the mighty Nublu Orchestra conducted by the always inspired Butch Morris ; they just started their 5th Anniversary week for the place, every night should be a blast of magic dust

And now you know ~

THANK GOD FOR THE U.K.

so the reports from last week's anniversary party keep rolling in...
saw lloydski at the store yesterday, asked him for some details, and he said he was blacked out the whole time... people tell me that the Do-Over (LA's outdoor Sunday party with Stones Throw) was sort of a continuation of the after-party with Low Budget, Lloydski, and Diplo djing with PB Wolf and others... word on the street is that Lloydski killed it with his disco set, even getting a shout on PB Wolf blog post...


Roc was in the house... Lohan posing with the drink... Lloydski has no idea where he is... ps... that asian dude flexing his "gunz" is not me...

damn, missed Karen O at the party, pictured here with Blaqstarr... read Fader's take here

remember this saturday, part two... this girl will be there:

headed over to bushwick (realtors call it east williamsburg), home of snack n cmish amongst others, to check out samples of our new Money Studies shirts...

love these things... and print shops in general...

ah... you looking good mr. t-shirt...

this place is right up the street. i want to go there...
something about the name, sign, and building takes me back to puberty...
bad shit prolly goes down in there...

drove through the old hood on the way back... before dumbo, ttl offices were located on berry and north 11th... sillysburg, USA... passed by this punk record store, good to see that they're still around (RIP Smash on M street)...

stopped at Two Jakes (cool used furniture store on the southside) and picked up a chair for the apt...

Cosmo broke the cycle of the lazy DJ, and lost mad weight! How'd he do it?
Here he is doing something that I never thought I'd see at the Lab.

If pushups ain't your thing, then there's always this...
Special event!!! Kitsune / Disque Primeur/ Vicious Pop / Money Studies TTL
all under one roof for FREE!

come sweat it out and JAM!

yes, im pounding this shit...

we have several leftover boxes of dewars...
noah has some ill things to show you...
egyptian lover will spin records backwards...
i will have the asian red face...

and thanks to blu jemz
we have an informal after party:

the informal afterparty at El Carmen
8138 W 3rd St (btw. Crescent Heights Blvd & Sweetzer Dr.)
dj merkury plays the music...

Ever been to San Tropez?
Seen a brother play a mandole?

LRG's ballin' like a yachtsman!

and Reason's got new styles from Chuck Anderson and others.

also, get Punked here.

Keep it clean, folks...

Dated but classic

Kayes-Ba by Boubacar Traoré

Brian moved in with me after he came back from Africa. He had a Fulbright in Ghana and when that ended he came to New York. In our weird storefront apartment he would look for a job and log his hours of African rap interviews. He’d come home from Ghana and elsewhere with a small plethora of cassettes; all colorful colors, bad recordings and hand-me-down flannels. I used a Walkman at the time and, though he told me not to, I would borrow the tape this song comes from and listen to it on the train. Boubacar Traore, I later found out, was a former Malian rock star, singing revolutionary songs in leather jackets in the late sixties. Then he got poor and sold everything, working unsuccessfully as a street vendor until a friend became his patron and bought him equipment. Older, he softened and sang in Malian French, bemoaning everything. I watched a short movie about him, watched him walk around in orange sands and sit on stumps, always carrying a guitar and singing with his voice mild and head down. It’s a lamenter’s music, either about his hometown or dead wife, unpurposefully and ineffably lush and miserable, sort of how I try to live.

La Ritournelle by Sebastien Tellier

My friend told me this song sounds like the Party of Five theme song. That is why I like it. When it played in yoga class I pressed my ear to the mat and tried not to lip synch French broken English; quick snare and corrected posture. Slipping on someone else’s sweat isn’t so bad when I listen to this. Tonight we listened to Lion King soundtrack music and I struggled with the core exercises, lost grip on my binds. I could have used a broken-hearted Parisian.

We discovered this song in the shipset one day while I was checking out my boy Del's Myspace page. We've been playing this ever since. Funny as hell. I didn't know Alanis had humps? Shake that Junk Babygirl!!!!! -Boogs

THe Future is upon us. THe time that your dungeon master promised you is here. Get prepared you LARP (LIve Action Role Play)/Dungeon and Dragons/Comic-Book collecting/ Furry Animal Dressing/ Living in ya mama's basment/ 30- 40 year olds still keeping it Fantasy!!!!! Enjoy!!!

THEGASLAMPKILLER.COM IS UP NOW!

... hiccups are the cousin of death

It is a fact: trance does mash up your brain (and can even cause breast cancer).

Ph,

you read my mind !!
i see a TTL / Gravis / Heelys collaboration in the making.
i'll bet Tony would even be into it for a week or two.

-p.gorg

ps. Pitts, i see you player!!!!! lemme see yer tongue ring! is it rusty?

Me and Tittsworth were interviewed on MTV in Canada a few weeks ago:

Here is the YouTube link and the Daily Motion link. We're going to be in Scandinavia this week so we made a mix for Discobelle. They haven't put it up yet but the streets couldn't wait (download here). If you happen to live in Stockholm, Malmo, Helsinki or Oslo, come party with us! We'll be playing a lot of teh Balmer club musics.

the worlds greatest tattoo...

yep. golden girls.

a blow to Arsenal fans everywhere:

French midfielder Franck Ribery will join Bayern Munich this summer, a source close to the club revealed on Friday, in a deal believed to be worth close to $24.6 million.

nice mug.

bike jock P-Gorgeous
replies to Shady Dude's post about track bikes:
"trackbikes are the new skateboards, not rollerblades. i'm getting an adult tricycle, fuck these lame ass bitches!!!"

....

trackbikes are kool, but won't be the new skateboards
because trackbike tricks are not that exciting...
ever seen a fixed video? that shit is like watching a dude do an ollie, boneless and powerslide for an hour...

but really,
2007 is all about

heelys...

the report on part one of our LA anniversary was that it was one of the best parties of the year....
here's some pics that i found on this blog...
also we video taped the whole thing, so look out for that...

the crowdy

lohan

internet celebrity, the k-fed of the lab

formerly known as dinosaur

not to be confused with flowbee

PART TWO, THIS SATURDAY!!!!

summer in the city is unbeatable....

weekend afternoons... gotta visit the famous Dumpling House in the lower east side....

there's always a line... you gotta jockey and hustle to get your order in...

recommendation #1: sesame pancake sandwich

recommendation #2: fried pork + chive dumplings (5 for $2!) with the watered-down hot sauce...

hugo the wonderdog was going crazy with all the Chinatown smells....

ran into this strange city creature one block away...
the infamous Dr. Pitts aka DJ Swans Crossing...

wow, you can find anything on tube...
when i was a pee-wee, i remember they once showed this Vision Street Wear thing right after the morning cartoons at about 12pm. i couldn't believe they were showing "sk8" shit on tv, and i popped in a vhs, recorded it, and watched it everyday that summer...

startling similarities, huh?

"Great Leader Berry Sick"

U.K. Daily Says Kim Jong-il Very Sick

North Korea's reclusive leader Kim Jong-il is so sick that he can't walk 30 yards without a rest, according to a report on Sunday by U.K. daily the Telegraph. The report cited Western government sources and was datelined Beijing.
"Diplomats in Pyongyang are increasingly convinced that the dictator needs heart surgery to restore his apparently flagging health," the Telegraph said. Kim must be accompanied by an assistant with a chair so that he can sit and catch his breath when he goes out, the paper said.

Rumors that Kim's health is seriously deteriorating began to spread when six doctors from the German Heart Institute in Berlin visited Pyongyang for eight days last month. Western diplomats believe the combined medical and surgery team treated the North Korean leader, but a spokesman for the German team denied the speculation.

The newspaper wrote that Kim's illness may explain why he has appeared keen to choose his successor. He has apparently put two of sons, Jong Chul, 26, and Jong Woon, 23, through a series of military inspections to ascertain who performed best.

been gaining some good experience buying on the streets of shanghai...works best if you negotiate in chinese... (Induce calls this "The Haggle") ($1.00 = approx 8 rmb)

You: "how much?"
Salesman: "120 rmb"
Y: (squinch your face real tight, whip out some small bills and say) "I'll give you 20."
S: (watch his eyebrows raise, and jaw drop.) "huh??? 80!!"
Y: (immediately walk away and wave your money) "Too expensive! 20!
(feel free to yell "too expensive" LOUD, and raise your eyebrows)
S: (now chasing you down the street) "OK, OK, 60!"
Y: (walking faster, make sure to push one or 2 blocks) "25!"
S: (eyebrows raise even higher) "60!!"
Y: (stop and look at some one else's merch) "25!"
S: (smiling, now following you for almost 3 blocks) "OK, OK, 35!"
Y: "OK"

Mr. Stokes took me to the electronics market-a 3 floor department store/flea market of madness, and we found some odd bins of vinyl. Your choices were basically J-pop, C-pop, and random cut out bin stuff (Lisa left eye solo albums, children music lps) my choice was some flexidiscs.

tennis racket? croquet? fly swatter? NO! Its an electronic mosquito griller! double A's go in the handle. 28 rmb

The dvd haggle: Woodman and I learned that dvd prices are pretty fixed. 5-10 rmb. they just can't slash prices like on wallets. good score was the tyson dvd.

I bought the RC helicopter, and enjoyed all the eyebrow raising it caused flying it. Total Eclipse got nice on the controls, and I learned he was a Tamiya head probably about the same time I was. But he took the cake by saying "I still got mines"

pearls ranged from 200 - 3000 rmb, i bought these in a "legit" macy's like dept store. I learned that the more expensive pearls are rounder, cheap ones look squashed. After the Haggle, 600 rmb

Tried to buy a fly pair of HIKE's, but they didn't have size 13's. 48 rmb

a gift for somebody??? 1 rmb

Track Bikes are the new Rollerblades!

forever yours,
Shady Dude

FUCK YEAH LA.

never ever stay up two days in a row, spend an intire day preparing for an afterparty, go to a party youre supposed to host dead tired and try to over compensate by drinking black top sparks and doing mad drugs. (not everyone can be the lindsey lohan of turntable lab). bad bad bad. shout out to everyone else for taking on the hosting duties at what was probably the best party LA's ever had. if you missed it...tuff! if you were there i hope you made it to the after party cus it was even better. shout out to low budget. he definitely gets the mvp award for the night. you'd never know it unless you were back stage but homie was laying in a dark corner sick as fuck until it was time for him to dj. mike b too. for doing what he was supposed to do. he definitely had the most fun. jeah!

always,
Unemployed Lloyd

ps.san francisco...ive been there 8 times and had fun once or twice. i dont think its me anymore.
ps. yea, i know...the spelling.

shout outs to reza for making me look skinny.

new york. step outside, today is like no other.

Homeboy Smallchange just hit me with this last night - I'm covering for somebody from 10 to midnite ( and later maybe) at this workshop/BBQ/sunset party @ 3rd Ward tonight.Summer's here,see you by the grill maybe..
Info :

"It's an open house and free workshop
series with the added flavor of bar-b-que, booze and good music to
make it an awesome day in that classic Brooklyn way. Seeing as so
many of you are working creatives this event is made for you. Come
check it out if you can or forward it off to anyone who might be
interested.

The details are:

We Create @ 3rd Ward Brooklyn : Saturday : Free

You are in this city for a purpose. Now make something brilliant.

Now is your moment and this event will help you build it.
You are invited to participate in free hands-on workshops
for artists and professional creatives. Learn: Welding &
Metal, Digital Design, Woodworking, Video Editing, Sound
Engineering, Ice-Sculpting, Fire-Spinning and much more.

Plus cheap booze, bar-b-que & music by dj's $mall ¢hange,
Emskee, & th Bogman.

Schedule of free workshops:

2pm : Woodworking for Artists & Professionals by Todd McCollister
3pm : Metal, Welding & Making Stuff That Lasts Forever by Eric Whitenight
3:30pm : The Art of Digital Animation by Irene Kotnik
4pm : Sound Design & Beat Creation With Protools by Julian Silva
5pm : Design Like You Give a Damn by Andreo Abero & William Etundi
6pm : Recenter Yourself with Yoga by TJ Hanna
6pm : Professional Photography & Using a Cyclorama by Sam Isom
7pm : Ice Sculpting by Henry Wallace of Empire Ice Carving
8pm : Fire Spinning Tricks & Safety by SamIam

6pm to Midnight : Rock the courtyard with dj's $mall
¢hange, Emskee, & the Bogman

Saturday, June 9th
From 2pm through Midnight (or later)
195 Morgan Ave. - Brooklyn
Take the L train to Morgan Ave. and walk 4 blocks North

For more information see: http://www.3rdwardbrooklyn.org

Everyone is welcome, this event is $free."

Gunshot!!! Boh! Boh!

Hefty new lines from lab newcomers, Natural Born

and the long awaited debut of Plain Gravy.

Oh, can't forget the exclusive TTL / Headliner collabo for all you serato heads!

It's gettin major...

i almost peed in my pants watching this...
via : lordsofapathy

sorry for long time no posts.... Im down in Buenos Aires at the moment went to a Boca Juniors match last night which was crazy. 3-0 Boca, crowd was going nuts the whole time... I got some decent footage. Futbol matches are obviously the move when you are in pretty much any foreign country, but this was super fun. Plus I got a boca scarf and glove set for 6 pesos (2 bucks) and learned some of the songs, which basically break down to calling the other teams (esp. River Plata) bitches with really catchy chants. Even got to throw a couple of these receipt paper things:

get your pre-sale tickets at the LA store!!!

part two is a FREE IN-STORE next saturday....

The limited edition Justice CD's are here and they look (and sound) amazing...

Get it here with a free mix CD, with a free D.A.N.C.E. 12", or solo at a special low price.

ah... something about dood brings out the hater in me... it's just too easy...

possible captions?
1. nts = not too sweet
2. he needs to visit the bedstuy with that shit on
3. woodman can beat up nigo!!!
4. still no muscle?

Full-time Customer Service position at the Brooklyn office.

Ideal candidate will be:

- smart
- organized
- able to work and make decisions independently
- good at solving/preventing problems
- currently living in the NYC area

- computer, office, and communication skills are a must
- music/production/catalog knowledge a plus

Send resumes and cover letters to liz //at// turntablelab.com

Picts from the Lightning Bolt show we hosted a couple weeks back. Lots of sweaty people. Kinda uncomfortable. More picts here.

Also, you won't want to miss this tonight:
BiggaBush from Rocker's HiFi + Nickodemus at APT.

In White Rooms by Booka Shade

I stayed out too late on a Wednesday to see Booka Shade in Greenpoint, Brooklyn at a big club. I’m always tired, sleep a lot, but they live in Berlin so I thought I would trek. I’d heard they play drums and keyboards, make the music live. This wasn’t untrue. Mostly they have Madonna headphone mics and shirts with sequins. I do love this band, but live it was more like play-acting through their own songs, an enthusiastic mimicry of something that doesn’t exist in the first place. What was weirder than them, though, was how much everyone tan was feeling it, and how everyone was tan in the winter and how those people felt the need to go to Booka Shade. Where was I? I’d brought some Reese’s Pieces Buttercups not wanting to drink much on a weeknight but wanting something, so I ate those and watched everything; a mixture of Twilight Zone, Poland and an all ages club in the suburbs. When I wandered to the front of the room dudes with bad shape-ups touched whatever butts they could. On stage, Booka Shade told New York they loved us. I kept waiting for them to play the Oh Superman song, but they never did, just kept hitting drum pads. I know they played In White Rooms but don’t remember when because their songs sound similar and each time I thought I heard it also thought I was wrong. To make the distinction I bought their record a week or two after that show, for which I left early. I don’t much listen to it, but I’m glad I tried.

Justify My Thug by Jay-Z

Once I was driving with my friend and this song started playing and she started laughing and I asked her why she was laughing and she wouldn’t tell me. I asked her again and she wouldn’t tell me and again and finally she said “You don’t want to know” and I said I did and she said no and I said yes and she said okay and told me she had sex this morning and this song came on and you know what? She was right; I didn’t want to know. When this happened, I think we were in New Jersey.

damn, this thing was six months in the making, but it's finally here...
Money Studies' first Secret Hangout EP

for a little backstory, let me tell you the process of making this thing.

1) Snack N Cmish were throwing around this wicked bmore version of the Dougie Howser theme in the office, which got me to think about the talented people that make up the Lab.
2) about December I email Lab heads to send in some tracks for a compilation.
3) on unrelated matters, Eliot Lipp started sending me MP3s of his new stuff, "Slow & Smooth" caught my ear immediately so I asked him if we could use it.
4) january, Gaslamp Killer sends in his track.
5) january, Eggfoo sends in his track.
6) january, Snack N Cmish send a new version of their track
6) feb-march, I have to get on Blu Jemz' back to get something to me... I heard his myspace track was the jump-off (i just used "jump off" as a noun), so I ask him for that. His boy in BK has to deliver the track, it get's lost, so Jemz gets me the track on a trip to NYC. We extend the deadline so he can bang out his second track "Turn Away" midst late night gigs and historical hangovers.
7) feb-march, Cody Hudson post some blog thing about Noah Butkus' website. I dig the illustrations so I ask Cody for Noah's address... Me and Noah go back and forth on themes, and he produces the wicked shit you see on the cover. Big up to Noah for being on time!
8) i take the typcial Money Studies type layout, run it through a crappy fax machine with some extra movements, and voila... back cover is done....
9) send it in for mastering etc in mid-april, it gets pressed somewhere in Czech Republic...

it was no easy feat putting this shit together, that doesn't even include the time it took the artists to create their tracks...

but honestly, I think this is one of the best records you're gonna hear for a while.
i am super-proud of the artists and how the thing came out in general...
remember, one side fast, one side slow....

buy this junx

ps...

volume 2 forming now....

if you guys didn't see yesterday's daily yet, it was a whomper!

in addition to the Secret Hangout EP,
we got Justice's "Cross" (the limited edition import version)
available for pre-order with exclusive value adds:

w/ FREE Exclusive Justice Tour Shirt

w/ FREE Ed Banger vs. Institubes CD

w/ FREE D.A.N.C.E. 12"

or just the CD by itself at a ridiulously low price!

PLUS we got Bonde Do Role's debut CD with FREE 7" (featuring the super funky CSS remix) !

get it!

HELP WANTED

we are looking for someone to help me execute a new retail project, which entails renovating and building out a space.

this is unpaid, portfolio work.

applicants must be able to produce CAD drawings, source fixtures and lighting, problem solve etc.
- please no graphic designers without build experience
- rendering a plus
- architects, industrial designers preferred...

please email resume AND portfolio links to: jay /// at /// turntablelab.com

perfect for a monday morning rainy day....

Lab Radio Update! - more Secret Hangout exclusives! Justice album cut! Elvis Goes gangster!

Some info for all of you fans and groupies from all over the world who are wondering "what the fuck is Jasper up to these days?"

He was last seen wearing cocaine dealer outfit on the very exclusive Martha's Vineyard island, which is well know for being favorite hangout spot of East Coast billionaires.

According to some insider information he ran away from New York after emptying the coffers of Turntablelab. He is now said to be in exile in Argentina, operating under the new name of "Jasperino de la Rana".

wow, dont really know where to begin on this one. been in shanghai for 3 weeks, learning a lot of stuff about china. i've hardly been on the internet, and feel great. i think when i get back to ny i'm gonna disable airport, and just have a desktop pc in the hallway that lets you check internet for 15 minutes a day.

i've been eating everything out here, the chicken feet are good, - flavorful but too much cartelidge and not enuff meat.

you can get unreal singapore curries out here

the club bon bon out here has a funktion one soundsystem, recommended

been rooming with this guy, the locals love him, and call him "Toto"

Toto Ecripse in action

the home practise has been reduced to this, been sharing one turntable at the crib, note the banging "shengdu" karaeoke monitors.

there are a lot of frenchies and aussies living out here, more at 6.

Summer is here,store is mellow ; SuperFamily got back from China with stories about dog burgers,cat casserole and tofu-made escorts( still waitin for Saheer to come clear the details of that, turning down 3xfree love massage is a little suspect);Sabo left for DR on a djin and MamaJuana smuggling weekend mission ; Eddie IXL is about to bring reverse-orbits back in style;Elle is still spooked by the guy from the Sunday singing church across the street that stalks her every Sunday morning with gum and sweaty palms; and I'm still waitin for the (kinda)funny lady that called lookin for controllers for Ableton.
Then goin to the dark side tonight:

vogueing special on Tue night @ Apt

Romanian tang before,in-between + after ~

Hirst unveils 100 Million Dollar diamond skull

The diamond skull Artist Damien Hirst has unveiled a diamond-encrusted human skull worth $100m - said to be the most expensive piece of contemporary art.

The 18th Century skull is entirely covered in 8,601 jewels, while new teeth were made for the artwork at a cost of $20m. The centrepiece of the 41-year-old's creation is a pear-shaped pink diamond, set in the skull's forehead.

The skull, which was bought from a shop in Islington, north London, is thought to belong to a 35-year-old European who lived between 1720 and 1810.

Hirst said his piece, called For the Love of God, is "uplifting, takes your breath away".

"It works much better than I imagined. I was slightly worried that we'd end up with an Ali G ring," he added.

"You just want it to be flawless, like a diamond is a flawless. We wanted to put them everywhere," Hirst said of the skull.

"They go underneath, inside the nose. Anywhere you can put diamonds, we've put diamonds.

"I wouldn't mind if it happened to my skull after my death," he added.

The artist said that he was inspired by an Aztec turquoise skull at the British Museum, and hopes that his work will eventually be displayed at the institution.

Art expert Charles Dupplin from specialist insurer Hiscox called the skull "another bold move" from Hirst.

"This is a spectacular piece and undoubtedly the work with the highest intrinsic value in modern and contemporary art," he added.

more info

that's the equivalent to 16.6 million orders of shrimp fried rice