Great idear Adrian... I"ll ride the "it's Lloyds 23rd B-day, so you have to come thru to HIS PARTY!" It's gonna be 76 and sunny this Sunday on the Gowanus Canal with Prins Thomas. It's at the same place where this went down:

On the subject of Pyrite. Here's my obligatory pict of Trizzy. Why not? Everyone else is posting on A-trak, so here's my go.... Dust and I bumped into him the other morning coming back from Idaho looking for our bags at La Guardia... complete baggage debacle!

In Fact, our whole trip back from Idaho was a debacle. layovers....

But Idaho was great (thnx Scion). Too much fun hangin out and rafting with the other tastemakers.

Droppin Lime was working the portside.

Had to put this on, whilst driving the new Scions.

Not to mention, flying across country in a Gulf Stream is never a bad look...

Being stuck in Chicago... this one goes out to the one Strug Rock...

oh snap! is it really lloyd's birthday party tomorrow night?

even wes was like "where's this party gonna be at?"

i was all "you know this video? we're doing it at the same venue" (289 kent ave, BK, if you don't bring a birthday present don't bother coming)
on the decks will be me, woodman, and special guest from shanghai, dj kamikaze. Kami is part of the bananas crew in china, but also spins frequently in russia, germany, and australia. he recently did a mixtape for russian artist Timati, who (your boy) scott storch has taken interest in producing for.

to koppeltop the whole event we've booked luke stiles (he'll get ticked if i bill him as "mayor of the fixed gear scene") to host this whole throwdown. (cracker jack fact #23 luke's brother jared is the sax player in this band)

Someone Great by LCD Soundsystem

My high school sweetheart and I broke up when we were in college. Then, sometimes, we would be unbroken up. This was not easy for me, I had a soft face and confused head. I was taking writing classes and very exact. I remember, vividly, seeing her for the first time in months after she went away for the summer, came back calmer with longer hair and looser clothing. It was nice to see her, easy. Then (and less now, but still; now) I was too eager to be taken with grandeur, prone to unnecessary loftiness, the kind of person for whom everything is experiential. This is all embarrassing (what I am telling you, the fact that it’s possibly still true). Then, though, unaware and self-important, I went and wrote about her and I, called us “synchronized swimmers” and lamented not only the loss of that synchronicity, but the lackadaisicalness towards her it was replaced with. This poem wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t good. Regardless I brought it to my poetry class, had it lauded; my twenty-year-old success, accolades from worse-than-me student writers and a teacher who published in Ploughshares! This was it, this was the end: I described a thing as another thing and people understood the thing as it was. Synchronized swimmers, huh? It’s like automatic closeness, elaborate showiness of natural movement that masks the mechanical practice and struggle needed to create such glorious dual fluidity! That was us! Who needed descriptions, bright and accurate, of my skin tone in the morning, of the grim carpeting of her dorm, of the way she sushed me when speaking to her mother? None of these things brought the experience as close as synchronized swimmers. So, then, I stopped writing about how things were and started writing about how other things things were like were. When I wrote a magazine review like this about this song (in its instrumental form as part of LCD Soundsystem’s mix for iTunes) the editor told me to talk about how it sounded. I changed it, a little. When the magazine ran, the review wasn’t there. I’ve not written for him since, unable to become specific and grounded. Here I write of willows and wingdings for free and on end. There I am losing ten cents a word and my name in print. I am unsure who is missing out.

Tourist Trap by White Rabbits

I thought I had pesto but I was out, but I’d already cooked the pasta so I ate it with olive oil, sea salt and pepper, talked to my sister on the phone about her new dog (“The vet says I can’t name him Noah because it sounds like ‘No.’”) and, in all ways already sated, then I went to see White Rabbits. They started at ten; I got there at ten. Apparently things start on time now, before time, even, and a billion prompt sweating losers stood in front of me blocking the band, so Liana and I got beers and listened from the sidewalk. When the café owner asked us politely to not drink beers on his sidewalk because he feared arrest we chugged and threw them away. He didn’t mind. When he came back later and saw us beerless, he smiled and waved. I waved back. I hopped a little mini-fence and watched White Rabbit through the fogged window amidst brambles and potential mosquito nests. They looked overdressed and kindly Midwestern; they are Midwestern. They gave people maracas, people sang along. I waved to the guy in the band close to the window; he cocked his head back at me, I climbed back over the fence to the sidewalk and my friends and was like, hey, this is fun.

A-Trak and I posted up at Kanye's party for Graduation last night. Spectacle! He played the album in full, complete with smoke machines, Daft-lite strobe effects, and video loops (Akira, Wong Kar Wai, Old Boy, Tron, anime titties). The record was phenomenal, alternately triumphant and sad - I was not expecting how emo it was gonna be. There's not much in rap that's a precedent for this, experimental shit that still knocks. Anyway, enough gushing. The promo shades were major.

My dude Adam Garcia just started a new website called We Are Digging For Fire, a bloggy kinda site featuring interviews with visual artists and designers about their creative process. There are already features on Lab homies Jeremy Fish and Aye Jay, with many more on the way. Bangy.

New Lab Radio! - exclusive Blaqstarr remix, Kanye x Daft x A-Trak, MIA + a bouillabaisse of assorted bangers. See what's good.

here's a nice little remix that will make everyone feel all nice for the summer...

Paul Johnson - Feel My M.F. Bass (DJ Dan-O REMIX)

Trizzy's uptempo remix for Kanye's "Stronger" is out now on the interwebs. Download it here. "Me likey."

old video dating tapes + youtube = comedy gold.

pay close attention to jeff's closing comment towards the end. you'll know the one i'm talking about...

Unemployed??? Blogs In His Sleep...

Peep the SUPER BAD bootleg he brought with him in the background, so Brooklyn right now.

Him and Eli came to do the radio show... pretty ill...

remember this record from waay back in '01?

To stay in the mood of the Madlib release and party last night at the LA store, I thought I'll post something on the Big Bad City. That's right, the one and only: Mumbai a.k.a. Bombay, the schizophrenic city with 2 names which is more prolific than any other at the moment. Not only does it produce more movies than LA, it also ridicules New York's reputation for being a rude city (This is not me saying it but the very respectable "Reader's Digest", quoted in wikipedia.)

To put things in context, Mumbai is India's most populated city and the country's financial and commercial capital. As you might have heard, China and India are the new giant players in the global game. Both countries are growing and urbanizing at unprecedented rates. While political dictatorship (to call things by their name) in China allows bureaucrats to tear down old neighborhoods, plan new cities and redevelop existing ones without having to deal with local opposition, things are a bit more messy in India.

Despite being notoriously corrupt, India has a lively democracy that could well serve as an inspiration to other countries (including some pretending to democratize the world by dropping bombs on it). True, Indians elect Bollywood stars to high political positions once in a while and that might look a little immature, but then again the richest state in the US has the Governator.

So much for politics. Here are a few shots from recent urbanological expeditions in Mumbai, starting with images of Dharavi, a 500 acres informal settlement in the heart of the city. Probably the most densely populated area in the world. Just to give you an idea, the population density of Dharavi is 4 to 6 times higher than that of daytime Manhattan.

These photos are all daytime shots.

Kids are always smiling and happy to see a lost foreigner passing by. A feeling you don't get in Dharavi is that people are sad or depressed. Quite the opposite. People are up beat.

A new plan by the government and the private sector to "redevelop Dharavi into a world-class township". People are looking at the poster showing a green field with a little bird. How cute. But what about them and the place they built from scratch?

Made some friends. They didn't mug me I swear. Actually Dharavi is really safe.

Summer sports

In order to keep up with the massive influx of immigrants from rural areas to the city many things have been tried. Ghandi said let's help people where they are, in the countryside so they don't have to come to the city and live in slums. Some has been done but not enough to stop people from pouring in. Others like the self-styled nationalist Hindu leader Bal Thackeray believe that "Sons of the Soil" deserve more rights than those who are not from Mahashtra (Mumbai's state). This ideology mainly resulted in inciting ruthless violence against Muslims communities, some of which have been in Mumbai since before it was called Bombay by the Portuguese.

Bal Thackeray, another villain politician with style.

Taking it in their own hands urban planners started using their calculators and aggregating numbers. "The city needs mass housing" they said. "Let us build many high-rise concrete housing buildings!" (Yes the same kind that failed miserably all over the US and Europe -ever been to East New York?) Developers could not agree more. People need high-rise. So they built them on the edges of the city. Here are few shots from New Bombay and Mira Road.

New Bombay same old story.

Mira Road is a little more messy and human...

... but still has fenced windows and sorry sights.

The Indian urban masala quickly takes over though. That really saves it.

And as a special bonus, here is a short video of a crowded commuter train. No doors, no mercy. People are often singing together. Imagine that in New York subways? At the end of the movie you can hear the voice of ttl idol Frogman, saying he wants some more.

More images and texts on Mumbai here.

This Saturday, The Rub & Meanred are throwing an all day outdoor BBQ with a special performance by Black Sabbath cover band Sabbra Cadabra! $3 to get in, BYOB, we'll be grilling and drinking by the lovely Gowanus Canal. It's Sabbath in the Park 4!

Sabbath in the Park 4
Mad Beer + Nuff Weed + Animal Sacrifices Grilled Meats all day!
$3 / 3 PM - 10 PM
The Yard is at 400 Carroll btwn Bond and Nevins in Brooklyn

To get in the spirit of evil, download Cosmo Baker's Wicked Mix 666 right here. Over an hour of Black Sabbath with exclusive Sabbath in the Park interviews!

Some pictures from Sabbath in the Park 1-3:

Sabbath in the Park 1, CMJ 2006, Fort Greene Park

Sabbath in the Court (case dismissed!)

Sabbath in the Court Afterparty, Southpaw, Feb 2007

SITP3: More Fire, SxSW 2007, Austin TX

When I was 6, all I knew how to do was fart and watch Spiderman cartoons.

thanks to dj bozack for pointing out that the dude IXL is battling is actually Infamous... good thing this isn't 1999 or I would have gotten slaughtered on some message board, perhaps an Alias post... ha-ha...

anyway bozack also gave me some info on the allies for those who care: "develop is making beats for juelz and i think infamous was in an all acoustic band (hisself on guitar) based outta miami (pronounced me-am-me)..."

one more observation: what's up the philipino dudes always in the background of DJ videos? that's some weird hierarchal shit, you rarely see white dudes on stage... always a phlip with a 6 panel cap, sitting on a speaker (or a nerdy black dude)... i think the big dude with the glasses in IXL video is especially classic... he adds so much too the performance... especially his "i just peeed my pants look..."

for those who frequent the manhattan shop... you've probably seen a guy named Eddie working there... he's the real quiet asian dude that looks like he slept too much...
but did you know? in a previous life he was battlin' DJ IXL?
check him pubify Develope back in the day at the ITF
(for all the non-scratch nerdus, his opening is a diss of Develope's famous routine, which sounded good, but was not that difficult technically)... also check the "slow down" part...
will this shit ever come back?

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much as I hate to post videos, I love this sequence so much that, after I did not find it on youtube, sat in front of my computer and recorded it myself.

what did i tell you... navy on navy = hot! DGS promo shirt (defunct clothing label from Rostarr and French Joe), navy Marc Jacobs pants, and Wallabees (so Wu-Tang!)

What's new? Ima let you know.

Obey's got gear for days. Check the whole line.

Just got a slew of new bags and restocks from Gravis too. This Prime Pack is the elite pick.

And if you don't know about 10 Deep's maniacal mascot, say hello to Murko!

Peace! (like they used to say)

This tuesday Aug 28 LVHRD is
throwing another one of a kind event for the creative types...

Check the details:

LVHRD presents Bi-FOLD CNFLCT, a forum for presenters and members
to discuss the way conflict shapes their artistic narrative, in both theory
and practice. Given the broad topic of 'Conflict', two presenters will have
the ability to address their own creative process with the opportunity for
our LVHRD audience to engage in the discussion.

Our host for the evening will be Anthony Lappe. the executive editor of
GNN, Guerilla News Network, an online source for news and critical
commentary curated by GNN members. Lappe is a film producer and
author whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Details, Paper,
The Fader, Vice, among others.

Music By:
Turntable Lab DJs TELEKINETIC KAT & LEFTY (aka SINGE LIFE)

Check https://lvhrd.com/event/review/30 for more info and tickets...

between watching this video and downloading the demo of "skate." for xbox360 last night, i pretty much need a new setup, a better hip, and a lot of free time.

magical! (just ignore bernard's shorts, terrible singing, and sloppy guitar playing...)

it's all about the benjamins... even for aphex twin...

ARSENIO DISSED US BUT THE CROWD KEPT CLAPPING

dam hippies....

Dudes. This new Fog album is serious. You might have seen this Minneapolis musical powerhouse performing in your city, mistakenly booked on electronic blip-hop night with some random space rapp group opening up, or you might have picked up the first CD of experimental turntable-driven indie rock and then completely crossed them out of your musical radar zone.

Well it's time to revisit these dudes. They've ditched the turntables and are now coming the fuck with it in a full-steam-ahead rock trio format. Guitar + drums + bass + hella effects + awesome song writing + psychedelic darkness + garage rock mayhem. Waste some time here.

+ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + +

Unrelated: If you're up in the Austin TX area, come say what up this week.

it's crappy, gloomy, rainy day in dumbo...

emma isn't feeling it...

this makes it better... Rikki started ordering munchies for the office with our staples orders... can you resist the lure of a blow pop?

WITW!!!

navy is the new black...
boxfresh promo shirt, BR jeans, and navy (yes, navy) new balances... that's fashion!

tony was visiting frogman on the vineyard friday, so we skip to monday...

ekelon cassette shirt, bannana republic jeans, brown pumas... the shirt is pretty significant in lab history, as it's from when we first opened the Lab back in 99... we were still running the operation out of my apartment on 12th street... we only sold a few shirts back then like Alphanumeric (remember dem?), LRG, and random designs like this one... this girl named monica and her boyfriend sold us these shirts, which we probably sold 50 of, which was pretty incredible for back then... monica and her boyfriend broke up shortly after, so they stopped making shirts...

BONUS WITW!

cmish with the St. Mark's mexican death metal special...

this is sooo minimal man...

tkat ... the revolution will not be televised... it will be printed on eco-friendly t-shirts...

snack ... not so undercover comic book nerdus...

and me... old money studies piano overlord shirt we gave away with the album... disgusting dirt around my mouth... and a delicious pretzel stick ....

Sunday was the last of the free Pool Parties at McCarren Park in Brooklyn. The Rub and the BBC played rackords and brought out their friends to do some raps. Kid Sister, the Cool Kids, Santogold and "surprise guests" Spankrock and Amanda Blank all played. It was a real soggy, real fun family reunion.

Inglish from Cool Kids found a disc of songs bootlegged off their MySpace. "I guess this means we 'made it?' What are these bubbles on the cover?"

Some girl said Amanda's look was "very Grey Gardens," which I had to look up on the internet. THE LITTLE EDIE BEALE OF RAP! Dude in the shorts is Benny Blanco, who produced tracks on the Spankrock EP that's coming out in October. It's real major.

Almost as major as Chris BBC's Panda Bear shirt.










No Cosmo (dude was in Helsinki) but Sammy Bananas (High Top Fades EP out on Fool's Gold this fall!) busted out the now infamous Rub banana costume.

Runners up in the fashion statement department: Santi's Jim McMahon blades and J2K's Freeway beard (dude is gonna fuck around and get put on the do not fly list.)

These high school Kid Sis fans all had their shirts off and were wilding on the waterslide. No R Kelly.

Rhianna jokes were plentiful.

this is weird...
1984 here we come!

it wasn't me,
Shady Dude

Intern position at the Brooklyn Warehouse.

- 3 days a week
- must be detail oriented
- knowledge of current fashion trends a plus
- unpaid with travel stipend

send emails to david //at// turntablelab.com

your monday morning soul grunt... ungh!

managed to michna my way into the q-tip vs moby soundclash. they each had a pair of decks, and alternated song for song. the first half was hip hop and lots of dva dva scratching, and some sloppy beatmatching , but it was in spirit with the improv of it. they did go from top billin into i get money, everybodys doing it. which brings up---whos album is gonna sell more? new kanye or new fiddy?
"nacho" veal slice insisted on this look
i haven't taken any graff flicks since about '96, and i figured today was a good day to start back up. its actually more of an attempt to appreciate my surroundings and become unjaded by nyc.
like the doo doo style, and that "e"

this one tag has been running on essex st for a while. i remember when I-95 (the best highway) used to be covered, and there were some Pea Soup and Vert (IMOK) tags 25 feet up on a 40 foot wall in new rochelle. They used to say IMOK stood for If Mother Only Knew, i think the best thing about back then was everything you learned was word of mouth, no internet. (i'm still trying to quit internet, my roommate says "don't worry in 20 years there will be no internet)
if i had a car, i could see myself joking about getting a FEAR THIS custom license plate, and then actually getting one. plus the car would probably be a delorean.

I just got back from a weeklong cruise with my extended family, going from Alaska to Canada. If you have never been on a cruise let me just say that it is very entertaining as well as slightly depressing. It's basically an old-people haven, and all the activities correspond accordingly: shuffleboard, mini-golf, hot-tub, karaoke-contests, wine with every meal, etc.

The highlight, however, is the fact that there are on-board artists who peddle their schlock to middle-american families who literally don't know any better. Here is just a small taste of the geniusness on-sale:

What's this piece that features a kid picking his nose while staring at breasts?

Why, it's Young Art Critic, with a starting price of a mere $10,000? I was going to buy a new iMac but you offer a persuasive argument, Barry Leighton Jones!

Let's walk a bit further shall we? Here is a controversial piece featuring grapes swimming in wine, then coming out to take a breathalyser from a cop.

Someone's been reading my dream book!!

But of course I've been saving the summum bonum of high art for last. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you JIM FUCKING WARREN. Already considered a "living legend in the art world," Jim's impressive oeuvre features such recurring themes as Amazonian women, avalanches of snow turning into galloping horses, simultaneously erupting volcanoes, and of course cloud-people who are in love.

Here is an exciting piece in which a woman's hair is also a waterfall!

Or how can we forget this devastating masterpiece, in which a 100' tall woman emerges from the sea, while the smoke from a smoldering volcano becomes not one but EIGHT giant bald eagles?

And no discussion of Jim Warren's genius is complete without his greatest hit, Romantic Day.

Is your mind intact, dear reader? It may not be by the time you finish viewing this:

The attentive art critic may have noticed the following:

*two lovers walking hand-in-hand into the ocean
*two lovers, as generated by the crashing waves, making out
*two dolphins, inexplicably surfacing from the water
*two volcanoes, simultaneously erupting
*two lovers in the clouds, also about to make out
*and, most mind-shattering of all, it is SOLD!

If you are disgusted, gentle reader, look away. However, if you are ready to gaze unblinkingly into the unstoppable powerforce of the FUTURE ITSELF, you can view Jim's website.

Make sure your speakers are on, or you might miss the sound of the whinnying horses that accompanies the page loading!

the fortune cookie industry has me hangin my head today :-/

i thought i needed to buy new clothes. it's been a year since i've clocked in at the Lab, and i recognize every single article of Tone Loc's clothing.

it's been a little bit cuz i was upstate. got caught on the wrong side of a situation and had to go away for a little while. All i'll say is, jail's not as bad as Sizzle made it out to be. i'm ok now though. been out for a few months. to celebrate, i took a vacation.

on my vacation, i flew through Reyjavik. i took a picture that i feel captures both joy and irreverence. largely irreverence. perhaps joy. please, enjoy it.

seriously tho. jail is not so bad.

this was written on the Berlin wall, the fragments that were still standing along the Spree River.

in Berlin, i ran into this guy Brian, who actually did a tattoo for me when he lived/worked in Brooklyn last year. We ran into him randomly on the street in Kreuzberg. He works at Fur Immer in Friedrichshain now. Such an awesome and talented dude.

i'd been waiting my whole life to see Iceland. i enjoyed the approach.
i brought Lloyd back a keychain with an Icelandic cartoon sheep on it. Good timing, he said.

i saw Blu Jemz on the street in Brooklyn near his dad's house last week. Same old Blu Jemz. i hadn't seen him in so long. Man, was he a sight for sore eyes. Keep it moving, papi.

witw...
i skipped yesterday... how funny it is how a little fame gets to the head so quickly... tony was rocking some promo fluorescent streetwear shirt yesterday... that ain't tony...

this is tony...

slightly faggy, ultra-preppy pink button down with a couple buttons loosened for the ladies, worn navy shorts, and those damn rainbos!
tony's mood: hot (i kept turning the AC off), a little agitated, but generally upbeat...

tony told me what brand these shorts were, but i never heard of em... the crazy part is that the back is designed just like the front... only tony...

also, this came into my mailbox today... new album from our reclusive friend Scott Herren... i like the nostalgia-themed cover...

Lab Radio Update!
A smorgasbord of soul and funk
selected by Lab's newest CS member - Mike (aka Goldenrod).

Get it!

Fool's Gold art maestro Dust La Rock has been building a custom BMX for the past few months and just got this schweet logo nameplate back from a mysterious jeweler in Chinatown. More pics as the build progresses...

Huge free outdoor party Sunday in Brooklyn:

Nice one Struggle. That throwback hip hop Carlton post just made my day.

Here's more funky nostalgic looks from Free Gold Watch.

Also, welcome back Gravis to the gear section...

And these BNN Patterns & Scrap Books are a treasure trove.

Coming soon: bags from Gravis, more from BNN, and Arktip: Kaws...

only $19.99

For being two dudes from Canada, Chromeo's first album had some cuts that perked the attention of the West Coast pop lock/ Boogie genes in my blood.

She's In Control had packaging that was elegant, subtle, and gave off a classy vibe. Just look at the perfect retro airbrushing a la 80's grown & sexy albums. Nice.

Fancy Footwork is their newest album and is way more "hype" with a pop feel. I'm finding more and more of my friends like it and the response at shows is sweaty(a good thing). The only thing is, when I first saw the CD cover from far away I thought Dave P and P Thug were exposing some sexy legs!

But as I got closer I realized what was going on.

But then I started to get scared. I started to get the hots for the sexy synth legs. What the hell is this feeling? Do I wanna spend my saturday with her? How would I make love to that thing? What will my parents think when I bring home a kinky keyboard?

Anyways, groups change and a new look is more modern I guess. This video for "Tenderoni" proves they're still fun and kickin' though.

If it were up to me I'd stick with the cut-off living leg theme and mash it up with with that freaky video for The Escape Club's "Wild Wild West".

That's my lil' dut on that and...I'm out!

that's our governor

old soul rebel shirt, polo shorts, those rainbos...
i am adding a new twist:
tony's mood: happy and excited

this show is the definition of a guilty pleasure...
back in the day, I might tool on Mystery, Matador, and J-Dog... but I really want to see what they are about... if that little blond dude with the streaks (aka J-Dog) can get tang... i'm going to go buy a pair of goggles tomm...

and coming soon...

wtf?

*Turntable Lab* needs an intern!!! 2-3 days per week...
> (based out of Lab HQ in Brooklyn)

Customer Service Department is looking for someone to help with general office work. data entry and the like. we need someone who knows how to use a computer, and has some excel experience. not glamorous work by any means, but chill office and fun work atmosphere.
> - daily travel stipend provided (plus promos and other perks)

email rikki///at///turntablelab.com

VS.

week 1
Pete it's on

more to come

Here's my new mix.
There's a Justice song on this mix.
Realness = endangered.

ELECTROBLOG

Tracks available here

some observations about Arsenal's opening match
1) Bacary Sagna is has quickly established as one of my favorites... super-solid and the hair... Wenger is probably the best at discovering quick, athletic wing backs...
2) speaking of quick wing backs, Gael Clichy is almost there... he just needs to work on what he does in the last quarter of the field
3) Flamini playing holding mid-fielder yesterday showed why Gilberto is so valuable to the team... they need Gilberto's simple, decisive passing and imposing presence in the middle...
4) hleb has definitely stepped his game up during the offseason, but he still lacking something... still not a fan...
5) rosicky is probably the guy who kills it in practice, but can't deliver in games... i think he needs some competition for his position...
6) eboue will come around in his new position... he's just too good...
7) walcott? the perfect sub, but definitely not a starter... needs better D
8) van persie... not a fan... he should score 20 this year, but he won't
9) Nicklas Bendtner... what a showing... Arsenal have not had a player like Bendtner in a while... did you see him almost head the ball in off a pop-up? size, strength, decent skills... finally a forward who can take a cross and put a body on the central defense...
10) toure + gallas = beastly center defense... strong, fearless, and fast...
11) eduardo da silva better be the answer, these guys still are lacking in the attack... if he isn't, look for a battle for fourth again...

and... not quite as super-hero gay porn
here's is what tony is wearing...

promo soul fire show, polo sky blue shorts, rainbos...

so...its time for a little story about "urban exploration" in detroit...

for those of you that aren't from the area or aren't detroit techno history elite, the packard plant is one of the oldest ford motor plants in detroit. they built a lot of the early engines there, made some ww1 engines for fighter planes, and, after it had long been abandoned (and its still abandoned - good job city of detroit!), its now home to some of the cities best graffiti (random photoset here / entertaining tour of the plant).

well, after its rediscovery by smart rave promoters, it turned in to THE spot to have a party at. many of the cities most history events took place at the packard plant. you name it, it was there - and it was fucking awesome!!!

anyway...apparently it is being used for other...umm..."interesting" activies when its not being bombed with spraypaint, hit up by explorers, or generally looking fucking ugly on the detroit skyline.

enclosed is a set of photos that some friends took. basically...if you can't deduce it from their reduced sized...they stumbled upon a gay porn being shot involving superheroes. i'm going to let that sink in for a second...

the packard plant...is now hosting video shoots...of gay porn involving superheroes...

i am more embarrassed of this than any you can possibly imagine. i'm envisioning these guys going there trying to remember richie hawtin parties, too much acid, and walls of sound enlighting their youths...and they find this.

*sigh* detroit...what have you done to yourself?

hilariously enough...there's something jaw-droppingly funny about regular spiderman giving black spiderman a blowjob.

ok, y'all probably read 10 blog entries about how Daft Punk ruled Coney Island yesterday... we'll here's another...

bogman drove us out there via local bk route... drove through like 7 neighborhoods... there's something majestic about the double-wide bk aves...

the obligatory shots of nathan's... pretty good, but everyone agreed, not as good as gray's... those corn dogs look like sad penises...

barely eating 2 hot dogs in 10 minutes made us truly appreciate the hot dog eating contest... check the statistics... from 9 1/2 in 1984 to 66 in 2007... that's some conspiracy theory shit... also check the period of no progression and years where numbers actually went down... hmmm.

frogman + bogman... all we need now is...

... woodman for the "man" sandwich... speaking of man sandwich, check the ambiguous DJ duo... love the matching black button-ups un-buttoned to show some bird chesticles. ditto Roc's camera poses, he's got like 20 different "looks." that's why he's a professional...

i hated giving the satisfaction of taking the picture of this foo-foo, but i did it for the blog... i present to you: "your boy"

they put a giant black curtain and slowly lowered it to start the show, DP had all details correct... check the old Coney Island ride to the right... that shit is beautiful ugly...

witness the baddest light show known to man...

i heard it's cool to post pictures of dj language... here's mine....

the crowd was incredible...

ok,
here is where i was gonna write a clever mini-dissertation about how Daft Punk is historically significant, but it's friday and i gotta get out the office... maybe next time... buy this or this in the mean time...

oh yeah... you thought i forgot...
in another historic addition to the What Is Tony Wearing saga...

tony throws a curveball by not wearing a promo-item or rainbo flips... Penguin shirt, leather belt bought in oklahoma city, levis jeans, and brown pumas...

have a good wknd...

It's like they picked my brain and made this. Check the custom details on the
Shadow Conspiracy X Invisible Man 24" BMX Cruiser...

And from street art to street wear, brand new summer hoodies from Obey.

Fear not the trends, The Wild Style: The Sampler Book has all the freshness sealed in - behind the scenes, mad rare photos, inside scoops, all that...

Rock steady folks...
I'm off to see Daft Punk!

on the subway to the office, about 40 camp kids got on the train... i would trade places in a second...

and you can stop holding your collective breaths,
as we have another exciting What Is Tony Wearing entry....

WESC promo polo, khaki shorts, aged rainbow flip flops...

A quick vinyl mix I made the other day, tracks are mostly from the early 90s.

No homo, but this mix is pretty homo.

FIERCE!!!

Tracklisting here

This past Sunday in Baltimore, System D128 was filming a video for Blaqstarr pal Rye Rye (that's her on "Shake It To The Ground") at teen night at Paradox. All the kids were wearing extra smedium Abercrombie tees and shredded up American Eagle hats, and the biggest songs of the night were late 80s/early 90s slowjams ("If you can't get a girl's number by the end of this song, you homo!", said Buck Jones, right in the middle of SWV's "Weak").

showdown! (keep watchin...)

and in a new Estoy Con Estupido segment
we have the inaugural What Is Tony Wearing Today? entry...
(yup, we are reachin)

promo ubiquity shirt, khaki short, aged rainbow flip flops....
(for those who don't know, tony aka stony, is the check-writer at the Lab)...

Last weekend Cosmo played at the Guggenheim First Fridays party, The Rub was Saturday, then we played between sets at the McCarren Park Pool Party. This weekend I'm in Vancouver, Columbus, Austin & LA (with DJ AM, Steve Aoki, ?uestlove, Stretch Armstrong & Mike B - crazy!) and DJ Eleven is in San Francisco, San Diego & LA. If you can't make it to that stuff, listen to us online at Scion Broadband and Brooklyn Radio.

Guggenheim crowd

Crazy Tron shit at The Guggenheim

From Barcelona - they brought 21 people over from Sweden. There are 29 total in the band!

Blonde Redhead did an incredible 2 hour set)

Pool Party Crowd

maaaaan...

fuck subway flooding. kinda turns the entire city in to a gang of hermits.

in other news...

Kavinsky and Kid Sister


Pedro from Ed Banger has been posting from the Daft Punk tour over here. The pyramid stopped down in Chicago for a few days ("where the music we love is coming from. Names like Dj Sneak, Dance Mania, Paul Johnson, Cajmere, Roy Davis JR, we owe them so much, they are House music. Being here is kind of a pilgrim for us.") and you know dudes had to catch up with the Fool's Gold fam.



Inglish (Cool Kids) and Pedro


A helmet-less Daft Punk and some rapper guy

i spend too much time on the interweb watching videos of dances that i can never seem to figure out how to do. heres some random dj nate / heat squad stuff ive been peeping lately...

New Lab LA Radio episode posted...

This month I enjoyed the company of...

DJ ASSAULT

Not only did he kill his DJ set with mad new shit, but when I started playing instrumentals to interview him over homeboy came with the crazy freestyle session! Thanks for keeping it real Mr. Diamonds and making those other 130 bpm rappers look like boarding school spring breakers. After the freestyle session came the interview, which we NPR'd to death with topics that ranged from beef with Detroit producers to his studio set-up. Really tho check his set... crack-a-lating!!!

DARK ALLEY

Hands down Dark Alley is one of my favorite dj's/nigga's in LA! We actually go back to the late 90's in Brooklyn when our girlfriends at the time introduced us to each other (i think he even came to one of my mom's infamous X-Mas parties). Homeboy is from Detroit (which is really the only other city besides NY i give props to if your from there) & he proved it with this nasty Shari-Vari style classics set that I still listen to almost every morning to help me face the world. If your in LA come to one of our Ass N' Titties parties, they're by far the best shit in a legal club out here (Ass N' Titties presents M.I.A. this past week was beyond off the meat rack).

GINA TURNER & DAN-O

Always gotta put on some young folks and these two are some of my favs right now, plus they're in love. Gina works at the Lab out here, but her talent is only being wasted at the store. She's honestly one of the best ravathon/house dj's in LA right now (she absolutely murdered the Dafter Party). Dan-O does Tuesdays with Aoki and Them Jeans at Cine-Space. I'm not sure if I've ever heard a full set from him (I'm at Winston's on Tuesdays... game tight!), never mind tho cause it's really Dan's production that made me pay attention. I had to twist his arm to drop some of his own shit on this show, but I'm glad I did. Step up son!!!

If your in LA i'm playing both Do-Over and Banana Split on Sunday and than I'm ghost till September so come thru!!!

Here's some more "Crank Dat Urkel Dance" videos, the MySpace page for the group who made it, and some backstory on the "Crank Dat..." phenomenon (all thanks to this guy, who parlayed snap songs and writing on his sunglasses with a white-out pen into an Interscope record deal).

Dirty South Joe and Low Budget should do a sequel to Snap Or Die composed of nothing but "Crank Dat..." variations. "Crank Dat Fun Dip" will be a fan favorite (Snackmaster I see you!), but "Urkel Dance" will be the clear highlight of the disc.

How could it not be?

Q - Q and Not U - Wonderful People by Schnipper

This is a terrible story. The song is good. I recorded a full day of anecdotes in Ayres’ living room while he looked at hip hop songs on a Xeroxed sheet he had an intern prepare for him. I was wearing a flannel shirt, the only time I ever wore that shirt, and tried to be jovial while talking into a microphone and looking at a computer screen. Later Ayres smoothed out every time my teeth hit the microphone and we watched Jaws 3-D, the whole thing. I took a cab to a birthday party and it wasn’t fun. Happy Birthday Nancy

Rise Up in the Dirt by Voxtrot

The reason I write about music I like is because there is so much music I don’t like. Most music. There is so much music and most of it is bad. Some of it is okay. Like Mims or something. Eventually, who cares. There is plenty I like that I don’t talk about, but why do you want to read about me riding for tracks on side C of Christinia Milian’s album (Peanut Butter and Jelly! What a simile [and metaphor!]!)? But sometimes there is something that is good that other people think is bad or something that is so good everyone thinks is good or something that is good that only some people like and I am one of those people and I don’t like the other things the other some people like and that’s difficult for me sometimes and that’s Voxtrot and I am always stumped. Okay because look, I hate the Smiths and Spoon is doodoo but this is a good medium for me! I said this sounded like Ben Folds Five once and that wasn’t wrong but now I guess I like them and what am I supposed to do with that? Other people think this is precious and overwrought and genuine. They’re not unwrong but they’re not right, either. This shit is total fine line genius. What line it’s walking, I’m not sure. Why do I like Voxtrot? He says “When you are free from the work of this house/you know what to do with your hands/or at least I’m sure you’ve got a few ideas.” I know this because I have listened to this song 21 times (number 19 on my top 25). I’m at home and what I’m doing with my hands is flipping over Nelly records to listen to Neptunes instrumentals. Is that what he meant?

Saturday at the LA In-Store

pete... gettin hype for a kicker? pretty gay, no wonder your favorite player is this guy....

Grown men wept in the streets of Boston yesterday.

President - In the Sun mp3
President
Friends
online, 12" September 4th

get hyped...

Peep the first selections from newcomer, La Carrera!

Mas! Mas! de No Mas!

And Learn the art of clean in this Supersonics: Visuals For Music book!

More summer treats coming soon...

Downtown Minneapolis looks like the final scene from Ghostbusters right now. Shit is NUTS.

This Village Voice Disco D story has been making the internet rounds today. I just saw the cover of the physical newspaper after leaving the Lab and I gotta say it's really fucking tasteless. They should be ashamed of themselves.

And here I thought the first FG post was gonna be some funny ha-ha YouTubery or a picture of A-Trak's new hat...

New Lab Radio! - New Tracks by Diplo, Simian Mobile Disco, J-Rocc, and whole slew of new disco.
Shake it Shake it Shake it.

get it, get it!

Damn, C*dy you beat me to it.

But building off that, Showbiz Pizza was the illest. For an 8ish year old young buck, there was nothing better than pizza, the Star Wars video game, and the animatronic puppets singing weird hillbilly animal versions of oldies bangers. I still have the 45 of the Rock-a-Fire Explosion covering "Do You Love Me" and Sam Cooke "We're Having a Party."

I tried going to Chuck E Cheese like three years ago to try to relive a small percent of the magic and it was an utter disaster. All of the video games were just shitty Chuck E Cheese ticket games. The puppet shows were like 5 minutes long and had intermissions of Veggie Tales Christian cartoons. Do yourself a favor and just enjoy the memories.

Showbiz Pizza holdin' it down on Myspace