Ben showed me this when I got back from miami.

Fucking incredible.

Also, tonight at Beauty Bar.

The homie Morse Code, agreed to do a Mac Dre tribute at our "Toast to the kings" party especially for me and unfortunately as he was about to play the LAPD shut us down... Peace to RAPID RIC for doing a special PIMP C tribute set for us while thizzin', anyways MORSE CODE being the super DJ he is still put together a Mac Dre mix of some of my favorite tracks and is giving it away for FREE! THANK YOU DJ MORSE CODE AND REST IN THIZZ KING MAC DRE, WE'LL NEVER FORGET YOU! - Young Mac Mestizo

DJ MORSE CODE - CAN'T FORGET MAC DRE

http://www.divshare.com/download/4072739-63e60 MIN

all songs by Mac Dre unless * noted

1. The Coldest MC
2. Clap
3. Let's All Get Down
4. Boss Tycoon
5. What We Do feat. Romper Room
6. Stupid Doo Doo Dumb
7. Ice Cream (feat Brotha Lynch Hung)
8. Playa to Playa feat. Mac Mall
9. Can't No N***a
10. Somethin' You Should Know
11. La 2 Da Bay
12. Stupid Pt. 1
13. Get Stupid (Remix)
14. She Neva Seen
15. Gift 2 Gab
16. Uninvited
17. * Mac Mall - Thizz Hop
18. Thizzle Dance
19. Rapper Gone Bad
20. Bleezies and Heem
21. 2 Hard 4 The Fuckin' Radio
22. Feelin' Myself
23. I Need An Eighth feat Miami and Rott Wilder
24. All Damn Day
25. My Chevy (B.Cause Edit) feat Mac Mall
26. Dollalalala Lotsa Paypa
27. California Livin'
28. Dredio feat E-40
29. Game 4 Sale
30. It's Rainin' Game (B.Cause ALRIGHT rework)

This was inspired by playing a tribute set to Mac Dre at this party the other night:

Thanks to Vin Sol, B.Cause, Mestizo, and J Nougat for putting me up on some joints I was missing...Peace and God Bless!

In honor of opening day let us take a look back at former major league pitcher Dock Ellis. Dock's career spanned the years 1968-1979, he played for 5 teams (including both NY teams), had 138 career victories, won comeback player of the year in 1976 and most impressively threw a no hitter against the Padres on June 12, 1970 while "tripping balls".

Here's what Dock had to say about his LSD induced hitless victory:
"I can only remember bits and pieces of the game. I was psyched. I had a feeling of euphoria. I was zeroed in on the (catcher's) glove, but I didn't hit the glove too much. I remember hitting a couple of batters and the bases were loaded two or three times. The ball was small sometimes, the ball was large sometimes, sometimes I saw the catcher, sometimes I didn't. Sometimes I tried to stare the hitter down and throw while I was looking at him. I chewed my gum until it turned to powder. They say I had about three to four fielding chances. I remember diving out of the way of a ball I thought was a line drive. I jumped, but the ball wasn't hit hard and never reached me."

one last post about the Mad Decent vs. Turntable Lab party TONIGHT...
reason #57 to be there:

Mad Decent x Mishka x Turntable Lab
UZI SQUIRT GUNZ...

remember,
there's gonna be some crazy special guests that we can't announce
(on top of Santogold, Spank Rock, and DTL)....
for the flyer check previous post.

also,
word on the street is that the TTL room at last night's Wish You Were Here Party was the best thing in WMC thus far... jemz, woodman, llloyd, mike B, and eli going 1 for 1 disco records, then ending the night 95 style with classic hip-hop? Jemz is a jugganaut.

it keeps getting bigger

special guest #2
Drop The Lime from Trouble & Bass crew
playin the late set

special guest #3
Money Studies affiliate Spank Rock

more guests coming...
remember this party goes until the sun comes out.

this WILL BE THE PARTY OF WMC.

frogman thinks there's an outside shot that diddy might even come.

special guest announcement #1

remember when we had MIA make that landmark performance a couple years back at our WMC party... before she really blew up?

this could be part 2 with Santogold gracing the Mad Decent vs. Turntable Lab WAREHOUSE party.

ps. still working on special guest #2, whom you'll not want to miss!

pps. TIESTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO might be there!

New Annex storefront visual.










Moths, meet Mr. Light.

-Rainey

Download all the MP3s from this new 45 King remix project for free: Zip File

new feature on the blog,
i'll be posting some images that inspire(d) the lab and money studies...

lab graphic inspiration 001

nice one...

ps. i'm still in Thailand.
afraid to post stuff i'm into now.

Shady Dude

thanks to erock for brightening up my day...

tang of the moment...
lecktra
(excuse the hipness)

RSVP here for free entry

that's right, it's a warehouse party.

hooked up a lab exclusivo deal for
people interested in purchasing Traktor Scratch

go there

too bad the lab decent jumpoff is on the same night as this (way to go jasper! i keed, i keed...) but im sure you fine WMC folks can get someone to chauffeur you the three minute drive between events.

So normally, when I'm not at The Annex, or on the injured reserve bench of life, I'm out sauntering through the city. Today was no different, and guess who I wind up bumping into, shooting for a new Fendi campaign, down on the Old Fulton Street pier?

Freakin' none other than the Daft Punk of the fashion world himself, Karl Lagerfeld. You know, Mr. Chanel, blah blah, mysterious weirdo with the classic white hair, black shades, and OJ gloves.

Anyway, after watching the shoot for about 15 minutes, peeping the official wine-glass-holding assistant, the countless do-nothing "gophers," and Mr. Lagerfeld in all his glory, I couldn't help but to conlude that. . .

"Damn, some people get paid f*ckloads of $$$ for doing absolutely nothing!"

Cheers to you, shady cool man with the killer gloves and bad-ass, extended bank account!

-Rainey

P.S. Not that I'm hinting at the slightest sprinkling of any salt-like residue on ANY playaz game.

STUDIO GANGSTER

Leave it to your boy Cosmo to come up with the new series to keep you straight in these crazy times of politics, parallel universes, hotdogs and whatnot. He told me and C'mish he was gonna write some shit up, but I had no idea how thorough it would be - so next level! so anyway, without further ado -- here is the debut edition of

What's good, people? It's your boy Cosmo Baker coming back to drop a gem on you with this new series called "Role Model Of The Week." You know, this is a wild and crazy world that we all live in, and things sure do seem to get rough and tough out there. It's kind of hard to figure out what the do, where to go, and how to act sometimes, especially for the seeds out there (who are the ones that need our guidance the most - they are the future.) So with the feature I'm just trying to shed some light on human beings, animals and other things that are doing it real big on the tip of the type of shit that you need to be getting your levels up on. Self-empowerment, internal realization, power of refinement, that's what we all should strive for ever day and passing these (and other) lessons off to the seeds is just one of the things that is my life's work. Just ask the dudes at The Lab - I'm always dropping knowledge when I come through on my monthly "enthusiasm workshops." My repertoire isn't limited to push-up reps or having breakdance clinics to Brass Construction.

So anyway let me talk about this week's role model: Dolph "Wrecking Shop" Lundgren.

First of all, I always thought this dude was a German, but he's not, he's Swedish. That's cool with me. Secondly he's a big motherfucker - I mean we all could see that when he played Ivan Drago and went up against Rocky. But on the real, let me get deep on this Dolph Lundgren tip for a second. I always thought that dude was just another big motherfucker that was supposed to be an Arnold clone. I'm gonna put it this way - Arnold may be the Governor of California but I don't think he's that bright. But when I went to do the knowledge on Dolph here I found all sorts of ill things about the boy. First of all, dude is a graduate of the prestigious Royal Institute Of Technology. After dude graduated he went and got a masters degree in chemical engineering from the University Of Sydney, after which he was awarded a motherfucking Fullbright Scholarship to M.I.T. Doing it fucking BIG.

But the thing is, Dolph decided that he had enough schooling and wanted to become an actor - and that decision was the right one because check it, he became one of the biggest and best of his generation. "Universal Soldier," "The Punisher," "Rocky 4" - the list goes on and on. I mean fucking for real, this dude IS HE-MAN.

Off screen dude is as ill as he was on screen too. He was in the Swedish equivalent of the Navy SEALS, so he'll fucking do some real damage. He's a black belt in Kyokushin Karate, and he not only was the captain of the Swedish Karate team but he won the European and Australian tournaments, as well as placing high in the world tournament. Dolph also was the Swedish team leader for the Olympic Games in his event, the Modern Pentathalon (which is a sport that he actively still promotes. That shit seems tough.) He gets in shape and does his physical fitness. Also THIS motherfucker speaks English, Swedish, French, German, Spanish, some Japanese and Italian. Illmatic.

PS: Dolph got a strange power over the ladies. It's interesting, don't know what that's about but I won't deny it.

So yeah, Dolph is no joke. Also peep game - dude went out with Grace Jones for a while which is a trip. I mean, you know, who knows, that's a look right there and all. So yeah, DOLPH LUNDGEN is this week's ROLE MODEL OF THE WEEK, which means that he's a dude who's LEVEL YOU WANT TO GET UP ON.

So tune in next week when I bring you the next installment of COSMO BAKER'S ROLE MODEL OF THE WEEK. Until then, stay focused and keep your levels correct. 100,000!

DOLPH GOT STYLE

He's a good actor (but you know, USA #1!)

alright i wave the white flag in the almighty name of the weiner

When's the next lab bbq?

my daily routine when i wake up is to open my blinds and check out the people waiting for the bus on 1st ave. you can generally tell the weather by what they are wearing and their postures. it's also a concrete manifestation of the city's rat race. there's a line like this at 7am, and it doesn't end until noon.

the people movers come by every couple minutes and take the rat people away... then it starts all over again...

and minimal, parallel universe will never die!

remember, back in the day, ph called for a cease-fire on the over zealous flyer posting?

think we can rock a moratorium on the parallel universe shenanigans for a minute? that shit got hammered hard, and...yeah. it lost its funny. fail.

So... here is how mos def feels about our Presidential Candidates, This is just too good.

mos def.

I love you.

Struggle,

I had the distinct pleasure of eating at The Wiener's Circle when i was in Chicago for a wedding last year. I'm into the toppings, too. And the Chicagoans who took me there were really proud of it.
Gray's Papaya, NY's best in my opinion, is way more derelict. it's good when you're drunk/high/broke/not hanging out with girls.. .and combined with "tropical" fruit juice gives you some crucial gas.

-P

all right peoples, just to clarify the world of encased meets for you. what i was showing you before was a pork sausage (similar to a brat or a polish). it is typically shorter than a hot dog (but props to the commish for the graphic). also i do enjoy an occasional NY dog while out visiting your fine city and don't want to open up a NY vs. CHI hot dog war, but for me it comes down to the toppings and a traditional chicago style hot dog does it every time for me.

and after reading the hooves and lips comment, it got me so hungry that i ran out to Hot Doug's to snag a traditional dog (which ive now nicknamed the trife dog (no relation to phife dawg)) so i could get a photo of it for yall.

now a little history...

A Chicago-style hot dog is a steamed or boiled all-beef hot dog on a poppy seed bun, which originated in the U.S. city of Chicago, Illinois. The hot dog is topped with mustard, onion, sweet pickle relish (usually neon green), a dill pickle spear, tomato slices or wedges, sport peppers, and a dash of celery salt; but never ketchup. It is taboo to put ketchup on a Chicago hot dog; some hot dog stands don't even stock the condiment.

Many sources attribute the distinctive collection of toppings on a Chicago-style dog to the "Depression Sandwich" originated by Fluky's on historic Maxwell Street in 1929. Vienna Beef frankfurters, the most common brand served today, were first sold at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.

Chicago-style hot dogs are boiled or steamed before adding the toppings. Less commonly, they're grilled and referred to as "chardogs." The typical dog weighs 1/8 pound and the most traditional type features a natural casing, providing a distinctive "snap" when bitten.

I know Mr. Producto already talked about this record, But it needs to be brought up again, because the Tocadisco Remix is fire. I'm def going to be playing it, at least twice...maybe three times.. in Miami this week.

It makes me feel like this:

(and yes, I believe he is doing the infamous "guido fist pump")

Another record that deserves mention is this

ALSO!!! TONIGHT @ The Standard in Downtown Los Angeles. 9pm
.BLU JEMZ&DAN OH&GINA TURNER TAG TEAM SET.
(we just got matching shirts. its cute.)

Lax Murda will be our official Cheerleader

No offense to the production powerhouses behind:

and

But I'm going to go out on several limbs to say that the '07-into-'08 skate cake goes to Krooked's Naughty.




- Rainey

I know this is super last minute, but aren't most bomb ass parties?
Snack, Danny C, Ponk and I are spinning all funk, disco and boogie 12"s all night - Free!

If you're in the Willy B tonight, please come and get funky ya'll.

time to empty the memory card...

cold, hard american steel. this stack of elevator weights has been in our hallway for weeks. i always try to see if i can move it just an inch, but it's immovable. maybe p-gorgeous could move it with his mutant calves.

i have found it: the nicest public restroom in new york city (restaurants not included). this one is semi-hidden in a shop in flatiron. you won't want to leave this cocoon.

comes equipped with... remote control toilet... make it pulsate.

ray and the hamburger eyes crew are everywhere right now! good thing we got a show in with em.... they currently have a exhibition at powerhouse gallery in dumbo, so go check it out...

i also went to check out Cut Copy, but at Mercury Lounge... they were pretty damn good. aside from the traditional instruments, they used one of those akai midi-pads to trigger all their samples. pretty awesome to see them re-create the songs from Bright Like Neon Love. "Zap Zap" was definitely the highlight of the night... that song is wicked live. oh, and the lead singer has one of the hardest head shake moves i've ever seen...

went boarding with Sabo last week up at Hunter. dude is a major SHREDDER. it was one of the best times i've had snowboarding even though there wasn't much snow. when boarding with this dude, you're forced to push it to the limit. he also has good tang stories...

went to see Michna play trombone last nite at nublu for his birthday. apparently, he has orchestra level trombone skills and could have played professionally. he killed it.

check the solo (you can't see, but you can listen)

It's Friday and thanks to Cary, I think I'll leave early and hop on the path train 1 stop to Fatburger. It's only 15 min away from the city and there's always cuties on the train at this time.

Check the newest in dance and funk...
Dirty Funker
Future Remixes (Banksy) 12"

Fallin' Off The Reel, Vol.2 CD

and the good 'ol boys are back in town at the Hollywood Bowl!
DJ Shadow & Cut Chemist: Hard Sell at the Hollywood Bowl DVD

travel in style with your pick of the 6 new Burton Bags we just got.

and this is in perfect timing for those spring/summer rides. Time to break my nose wheelie record...
Crailtap.com Complete Skateboard

More jernts coming soon.

fuck a hotdog that shit is trife. yeah it tastes all good n shit but once you've got the knowledge of the beef hooves and lips ingredients there is no turning back.....haven't had one in like 15 years.
but anyway, NYC really needs a FatBurger.

FatJew 1
Kingburger 0

Sorry, Struggle. I'm all for exotic mayonnaise and cheese you get from Trader Joe's, but when it comes to hot dogs I have one pet peeve - Short Dogs! I pay for an expensive dog, and have to tear off an inch of bun? Mabye I'm just too used to the NY style, but Maaaan....Funk Dat!

damn, that "atomic bomb" special looks so good. wish they had a Hot Doug's in NYC... all we have is the "recession special" at Gray's Papaya.

i hate to break away from the parallel universe theme here but i couldnt find anything that looked like a hot dog (or at least anything i wanted to post here), so instead check out the "atomic bomb" special from Hot Dougs

spicy pork sausage w/ chipolte mayonaise and applewood smoked cheese

Jess Jubilee and I made a mix. It's super poppy and fun and then out of nowhere there's a song by Jesus Christ* and then it goes back to normal, then later all of a sudden there's a Drum & Bass song. It kind of rules and it's edged Fleetwood Mac out of my ipod rotation...

part 1 here

part 2 here

*Tiesto

New Lab Radio! - Gimme a break, "OK!"
Yes, Snack and I are kicking back this week to let the lab's own Chris Lemon-Red and Rikki select their tastiest jams. Personally, I like strawberry and mixed berry, but you can sample the new exclusives by Kid Cudi, Fully Fitted, Count Of Monte Cristal, and tons of reggae heaters. Fiyah haffa bun!

been re listening to this album lately, there's only a few cuts I like on there, this being one of them. But, if you are a Richard Buckner fan its worth checking out. There are lots of interesting facts about Buckner which have become somewhat household jokes around my place.
- He's been described as a recluse, a nomad, and a troubador.
- he'll fluctuate in weight and looks. in some pictures he looks like Jesus and some he looks like Cougar Melloncamp.
- Does a lot of touring absolutely solo (just him and his truck) and uses guitar effects very well (ebow, loops, etc) and carries them all in a red toolbox. (my roommate had a framed picture of just the red toolbox)
- If you ever start boxing, most of his songs can be used for training rounds. you punch at 130bpms for about 3 minutes.
- He's so obsessive about making music that he bought a Playstation for self help, to try to learn how to do something else. He never played the playstation.
- He doesn't talk (to the crowd) when he performs, not one word.
- He's notoriously cheap, (we think) when we met him he told us how after being dropped from MCA he records at home (on what sounds like a fostex 8 track) and told us how Merge "doesn't give advances" This is a shame cause I feel if he had access to a Neve board and some Neuman mics he could benefit from it greatly. Merge, give him an advance!
-and if you get the chance to see him solo (without the 6 parts 7)- do it, sometimes in the club everyone sits on the floor.

Dear Internet;

I am not a good interview-er. But you should watch these videos anyway...

With treasure fingers and craze.

MIND FUCK

Not to beat any parallel dead horses, or get one of Minimal Man's late "1999" memo's (ouch Michna), but I just gave a listen to Gaslamp Killer's stuff. Right on man, I dig!


Clutchy Hopkins


Gaslamp


*cough, cough*


-Rainey

more parallel universe

we finally got all our sxsw pics and video up last night

http://www.foolsgoldrecs.com/blog/2008/03/18/fools-gold-sxsw-recap/

jemz - you'll have more fun next year, just make sure they spell your name right

hey michna...

if you think you're on some next-level shit with that parallel universe of armand van helden and ali g, you might want to give 1999 a phone call and tell him you just got the invite to the party. tell him it got lost in the mail.

You know BOY GENIUS had to weigh in on the Parallel Universe shit....

michna's parallel universe, vol. 1

BOOYAKASHA!

Ok, ok, last one from me!

Twelve Bar shirt

Tanya Chalkin poster

PARALLEL UNIVERSE!

Roland Gift from FYC

Egg

Here's a couple jams to start off the week,

If you're a fan of Malcolm Catto, DON'T SLEEP on this MRR-ADM

also, Dilla's still the baddest...

Twelve Bar gives you the best of both worlds, freaky and clean.

And Arkitip generously gives you the best bonus gift ever - a Image3-D viewer!

and this will get you carried away,
Surfing Photographs From The 70s Book by Jeff Divine

Stay strong brethren,

Enjoi's Cairo Foster

The Frogman


Ahem. . .

-Rainey

you can close another chapter on TURNT(L)ABLE relics.
from this moment on, all our audio samples for vinyl + cds play with our MP3 PLAYER!
... really!
now you can say:
"i've been down with the lab when they had Real Audio samples...."
damn.

this comes to you from the same great site that introduced search function in 2005!
(how many multi-million dollar ecommerce sites do you know that didn't have search for the first 6 years?)

tons more (less obvious) stuff coming.

- the mgmnt

Today is going to consist primarily of looking at SXSW pictures on the internet.

If, however, you need a distraction from that, my dude Dave over at Grain Edit has put up an exclusive mix and extensive graphic design feature / interview with yours truly.

Check it out at grainedit.com

The Rub's Hip-Hop History series is back up and running with new shows for 1997 and 1998! Next Tuesday we'll be celebrating the completion of 21 shows of hip-hop history along with DJ Lindsey at APT, sponsored by Turntable Lab! This week Cosmo and Eleven are headed down to Austin for SXSW and we'll all three be at Winter Music Conference, be sure to check out our dates if you're planning on going to either.

Tuesday, March 18
The Rap Party
The Rub & DJ Lindsey
Free!
Downstairs at APT
419 West 13th Street
Sponsored by Brooklyn Radio and Turntable Lab. Flyer by Mike the 2600 King for Burlesque.

If you missed them, download all the 90s Hip-Hop History shows:

http://therub.crewcial.org/history/TheRub1990.mp3
http://therub.crewcial.org/history/TheRub1991.mp3
http://therub.crewcial.org/history/TheRub1992.mp3
http://therub.crewcial.org/history/TheRub1993.mp3
http://therub.crewcial.org/history/TheRub1994.mp3
http://therub.crewcial.org/history/TheRub1995.mp3
http://therub.crewcial.org/history/TheRub1996.mp3
http://therub.crewcial.org/history/TheRub1997.mp3
http://therub.crewcial.org/history/TheRub1998.mp3

Grab all the tracklists and all the 80s Hip-Hop History shows at The Rub Radio page.

SXSWORST...

Yo word up, if I never see another wristband, eat another piece of BBQ, go to another showcase, walk another mile in the sun, see another rock groupie, get sucker punched by another reality show star, fly South West or drink another Shiner I’M GOOD!!!

But since my new life-style is “Strictly Positive Irie Vibes!” I’m only gonna focus on the positive sides of Austin.

BLU JEMZ’S TOP 3 SWSW PERFORMANCES

(1) GASLAMP KILLER / OBEY at BARCELONA BAR

There wasn’t a wack moment at this event. Everybody deystroyed it! Pube$, Wes Gully, Nosajthing (crazy!), Free The Robots and Shepard Feary. But when it was time for Gaslamp and Flying Lotus at the end of the night history was made. Yo Willie you gotta post that video!!! Give the world a taste of what Gina Turner calls “the Genius of our time.” Romes, you did it, the beats are bizack!!!

(2) CUT COPY at IHEARTCOMIX / MAD DECENT PARTY

Yo WTF??? Why isn’t Cut Copy blowing up? People really prefer watching Justice barely use a CDJ than a real band like Cut Copy? Hands down my favorite group right now, live set, on a roof at dusk? “Hearts on fire I reach out to you tonight!” You can get the new Joakim remix for that single on their blog.

(3) SPINDRIFT at RED EYE FLY

Pube$ put me on to these guys from LA. Amazing shit!!! Couldn’t fit the whole band on the stage…

RUNNERS UP
Santo Gold wherever she played and Motorhead at the Scion show.

For real I wouldn’t have made it thru that shit without these people…

Me + Pube$ + Das Boot compliments of Spectre…

Stacatto always make it a party…

Dan-O and the Parrot, it takes work to look this good…

NoMSG & Nate, MORE ICE!!!

Small Town: Big Brain…

Lotus: The Future…

This man can never do wrong…

Always Mr. Positive…

Philly’s Finest….

Dave P: SXSW Afterparty King!!!

Grayskull, Juice & Frogman…

The Sheriff of SXSW…

Shrimp Cocktail ass eating motherfuckers…

Glenjamn, Mel and Nana sorry I didn’t have any pics…

For the record BLU JEMZ & NoMSG by the pool at the NYLON party last night of SXSW... KILLED IT!!! Strictly Positive Irie Vibes!

Now lets get ready for the real shit….

MIAMI HERE WE COME!!!

Behind The Scenes...

8AM

10AM

NOON!

Launched my new Sol*Selectas website last month.

Lots of new music, travel pics, full CD and Vinyl store, jukebox, FREE mix downloads, charts, email sign-up, etc.

Check it out, and feel free to email your love / hate comments to djsabo@solselectas.com

Your boys making a come back...
Come thru tonight, take a break from all the crazy electro party's over saturating LA right...
Rap party's are best served cold and tonight our boy Rapid Ric Texas favorite DJ who backs up Chamillionarie and Bun B to name a few will be doing a special Pimp C tribute set tonight downtown LA!
Our good homie Morse Code will be doing a tribute set for the late great Mac Dre and last but not least the one, the only GASLAMP KILLER will be playing a tribute set to beat GOD J DILLA!!!
Come thru, its gonna be grimey...

PARTY AT A NEW LOCATION DOWNTOWN TONIGHT!!!

I also got my answer to electro rap on my myspace page YEEEEY

www.myspace.com/mestizoid

its ME putos!

Maybe its because of this crazy Zodiac age, or that Mayan Calendar stuff, but this Parallel Universe thing is getting way outta hand!!

Dj Mehdi - International Dj Extraordinaire


Rainey - Local Turntable Lab Annex Employee


But hey, no complaints here.

Somebody holla at me about some of that stunt-double money!


-Rainey

add to friends

It's Friday peoples. You can find me chillin' with a brew and some of these.

Downbeat The Ruler
Killer Instrumentals from Studio One 2LP

Snoop Dogg
Life Of Da Party / Neva Have 2 Worry 12"

Collie Buddz'
Blind To You

Gary Higgins
Red Hash LP w/ Bonus 7"

Mad Decent Hollertronix Shirt

Hoolie Short & the 420 Kit

The Jungle Book by Upton Sinclair

Oh yeah. All the weekend warrior tools covered...

erock:

I've been going through all my records this month... something I haven't done in about 6 years. Basically I've been listening to a lot of stuff that I'd either forgot about or forgot I even had. Anyways, I might try and do a top ten DJ vinyl singles this weekend but until then:

My Top Ten SERIOUS Bands.
1. The Cars
2. Cream
3. Tom Petty
4. Grand Funk Railroad
5. The Who
6. Deep Purple
7. Neil Young
8. Jefferson Airplane
9. James Taylor
10. Led Zeppelin (maybe)

My Top Ten NOT SERIOUS (but fun to listen to on the Pod) Bands.
1. Veruca Salt
2. Soundgarden
3. Alice In Chains
4. Mogwai
5. Rage Against The Machine
6. Smashing Pumpkins
7. Dave Matthews Band
8. Sneaker Pimps
9. Beck
10. Steve Miller (maybe)

cat:

Part One

I almost have an album done. Here's an older snip I made back in Jan. Here.

Here's an older track I did in 2003 that's been sitting on my desktop. Here.

Part Two

How do you feel after having masturbated? How does it change the way you think and feel?

My libido temporarily ceases to exist and I don't care about the hot porn I was fapping to a second ago. Well, that's what happens half the time anyway. Sometimes I'm so horny that I recharge in half a second and I'm fapping again.

this was a portrait of me drawn but an h'd-out woman. i was sitting on the steps of my nyu dorm, and she came up to us for money (quite regular back then). we had none to give, but she drew a picture of me anyway, and i was so touched i went upstairs and gave her all the food i wasn't eating in my dorm room. little did i know that junkies don't eat food.

i totally don't remember keeping this. this was the first lab computer. we ran the company on this for almost 2 years. we had an ancient PC laptop to do ups shipping, but this did everything else. no USB (parallel ports, remember those?), floppy drive (iomega zip drives, remember those), 64MB of ram, etc...

the boxes started taking a personal turn, but what the heck. these are my experimental photo class prints. i was in my "constructivist phase"... what a retard...

in college, you get obsessed with shit... girls, music, art, whatever... i was obsessed with mowax singles, swiss design dudes that wore black turtle necks, girls with glasses, and things with no intrinsic meaning. like i said... what a retard.

a box of bills and old paystubs... sweet.

i was thumbing through, just so i wouldn't miss any randoms that got shuffled in there and i saw a christmas card with the present still in there... 6 large... what i find. i'm goin to sizzla!

Spring forward players...
here's a diverse basket of jams for the week,

Diplo - Fuji Ouija 12"

Mighty Dub Katz
Just Another Groove (Tocadisco & Ashley Beedle Remixes) 12"

Chicago Boogie Vol.1(almost broke my chair jamming to this)

Fresh looks from Quiet Life

and the slick new Analog Siphon Backpack

and for those that want to learn all the tricks, Peeeep it!
ISkin Protouch Keyboard Protector for Serato

kill 'em with the know!

PS. more fliers pleeez!

coming up on Fully Fitted / Money Studies...

my first 1200
MONK

what was your first turntable / setup?
First? Well there was this lil' suitcase-type thing I had as a kid that came with a bunch of picture books and 45s. You'd put the single on and read the book, turn the page when you heard the 'bing!' Then in high school I had one of those all-in-one joints (tape deck, radio, record player) that I took the top off and tried to cut records on. Didn't know about slipmats. I still have my "Top Billin" 12-inch with nasty circular gouges on the flip-side.

My first "real" turntable was this audiophile Denon joint that weighed like 50 pounds. I bought it from my dad's friend. That thing was amazing, the first deck I could really scratch on. I remember bringing the ultra high-end needle in to Bate's electronics on Delancey to replace (after tearing it to shreds) and the guy looking at me in horror like "you're not actually back-cuing with this are you?"

at what point did you get your first technics turntable(s)?
Probably '93 or so. That was when I started getting a little more serious about spinning. For the longest I had that Denon on one side and the Tech on the other with a little Gemini 2-channel mixer in the middle.

did you get the 1200(s) from a store? how did you get the money to pay for the 1200(s)?
I got it on Canal Street somewhere. I worked as a cook.

how did you feel when you got your first technics turntable(s)?
Like fuckin' Kid Capri.

what is your favorite feature or aspect of the technics turntable?
The pitch control - when you learn on that, nothing else feels right. Oh and I always loved the dense rubber lower half. Solid.

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bonus behind the scenes...

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NEW LAB LA RADIO

Being that it was SXSW & WMC month, Scion asked me to bring out the big dawgs. So I asked my slightly bigger brothers…

RONSON

& GE-OLOGY

I asked Mark a bunch of questions about his first Djing gigs and that accent that keeps creeping out of him since he’s been hanging in Grammy land. He gave me some new tracks to play including the Loving Hand remix of “Just.” Ge-ology did a 5-track live Record Check that went from Joe Cocker to Derrick Mayday. You might not no this but Geo moved from Baltimore to NYC in ’88. He saw the club scene be born first hand as a teenager in B-More and had some pretty funny stories about it.

I played almost entirely new tracks from Gaslamp Killer, J Electronica, XXXChange, Dam Funk, Metro Area, Snack N Commish, my man Sample 208 and myself. It was hard to follow up the ROC episode, but I’m quite happy with this one.

Still in NY for a couple more gigs before its off to Austin to hang out in my Hotel Room for 4 days.

I can’t front, for some reason Sway is always mad fun for me when I dj …

Hooking up with my old homie Kweli for his afterparty on Wednesday…

SELF PROMO = NO HOMO

lil woni

you tube all day every day..

New Lab Radio!
We sweat so you don't have to, here's more of what you love. Exclusives by Fully Fitted, U-Tern and Men & Women, along with the usual surprises...Can you feel it?

more finds from the lab boxes

a box of binders... a vestage of our pre-digital e-commerce days. why the hell we kept these for so long, i don't know. anyway, to say we knew shit about business when we started the lab is an understatement. our first mixer sold was a fraudulent order. price margins? we calculated them wrong. and keeping track of orders... i think we kept a notebook where we'd write down your name and have check boxes like processed, shipped (with a bunch of check boxes in between)...

then my roommate, who worked at Other Music, told me that they printed out all the orders, put them in binders by order number, and stamped them when orders were shipped. this was better than the notebook, so we aped it. so everytime yall called about an order, we'd have to locate the correct binder, locate the order in the binder, and hopefully there was a stamp on it. at the peak, we had 100 of these binders in the office. it was paper-induced madness with pages falling out and binder rings breaking. i'd like to think we've come a long way....

who the hell keeps a funkmaster flex sticker for so long?
when i first came to NY, the term "quality of life" wasn't around yet. every flat surface downtown was bombed with hip-hop stickers. packs of grimy kids (aka the Street Team, Moe Choi ran one) went around slapping stickers everywhere. i'd walk around with my head up looking at all the cool shit that would change daily... it was really effective too: everyone knew when the next GZA or Mic Geronimo album was dropping (thanks to giant 8.5" x 11" stickers everywhere)...

De La's Stakes Is High campaign was one of the most fruitful for the hip-hop nerdus. They put out all sorts of limited edition shit like those 12"s they only had at Fat Beats, those Rocksteady lanyards, import Dilla remix... one week, the streets were bombed with the blue version of the sticker above, then a couple weeks later they came these orange ones with the words flipped...

these aren't graf stickers, i found these in a market at Thailand. i still don't what they say. some lucky lab customer will get these in his box...

haha... early computerized graf sticker. i made this in the computer lab at Stern (the business school at NYU). i was using paint bucket or something and there was no anti-aliasing, so it was basically pixel art. this was our crew Freshman year... all city we weren't.

club kids were HUGE when i first came to nyu... they ran the city... shit would never happen now. one of the dudes in my dorm was Baby Joe, who was a key player in that whole Limelight scandal (he later started that avant garde fashion store, 7, in soho), he got us into a some clubs... and we'd hear crazy stories about Disco 2000 parties where'd they would pass out twinkies laced with MDMA... shit was weird, no one drank back then...

finally, a keeper...

ok, one more for today... this was a pic from our first office in my apartment on 12th street. this was like the meeting of the turntablist powers! sugarcuts, excess, p-trix and his crew... plus Frogman.... they're holding up the Tableturns shirt I designed... that was like the second shirt i designed (the first was the TURNT(L)ABLE one)... there was probably a major skratch sesh that night and probably passed a blunt of some garbage weed... haha

It ain't easy being a Boss Playa 4 Lyfe.
With Gina Turner being the closest thing to a Mrs. Producto in my life(which is this blog), I'll let you in on a lil secret...

wanna check the new threads?

The sick new mutations from Mishka

and a fresh new wave from Quiet Life

And have you seen this? All lasers sonn!!!
Geoff McFetridge
Monster (Nieves) Dice

and for the art-philes...
Cover Art By: New Music Graphics Book

P.S. - Got more big room house vinyl in the vinyl room at my Big House...

Love music? Hate vowels? Check the two new Fool's Gold downloads on RCRDLBL.com today: Kid Cudi's "Day 'N' Nite (Crookers Remix)" and Jokers Of The Scene's "Juggle It (William Russell Remix)"

Grab the free downloads over at foolsgold.rcrdlbl.com

my first 1200
SNACKMASTER

what was your first turntable / setup?
It was in '95 and I had the Linear Tech belt drives with quarters taped to the headshells and a jank Gem Sound mixer with 5 second sampler.

at what point did you get your first technics turntable(s)?
I worked at a ghetto arcade/pizza place at the time (like a bootleg Chuck E. Cheese) and I told a co-worker of mine I recently got turntables. He told me his Dad was a radio DJ in the 70's and that he might have an extra turntable in his garage. We went to check it out and it turned out to be a SL-1200MK2... I seriously couldn't believe it! He ended up leaving it at my place since I had the mixer and another turntable on a condition that he could come over whenever and practice scratching on it. So for about a year or so I had a bastard setup of 1 Technics and 1 Linear Tech, but it was good enough for endless beginner scratch sessions till my cuticles were all raw from trying to "crab".

did you get the 1200(s) from a store? how did you get the money to pay for the 1200(s)?
I finally bought my own 1200 at K&K Music in San Jose after saving all summer from the Pizza Arcade and getting some money from djing some yuppie kids' bday party (my first paid dj gig). I still remember the 45 minute drive home from the store and just staring at it with anticipation in the passenger seat as if it were a hot date. I was equally mesmerized like this about a year later when I drove home with a Vestax PMC-05 Pro.

how did you feel when you got your first technics turntable(s)?
Bad ass. Like "Now I'm playing with power!"

what is your favorite feature or aspect of the technics turntable?
I like the fact I feel I can "trust" the pitch control, and of course the reliability and sturdiness. I've transported my pair in the most unprofessional, ghetto ways imaginable (no case under the arm, wrapped in a sleeping bag in a card board box and shipped on a plane, etc.) and they still work great - 10 years + and not a trip to the maintenance guy.

Three large parties poppin' off at SXSW, brough to you by the folks at Burlesque of North America, Turntable Lab, Obey, and XLR8R.

(Click for full view)

It's all going down at Silhouette (718 Congress Ave)
8pm - 1am each night.
Admission is FREE with RSVP to doittoit2008@burlesquedesign.com

THURSDAY MARCH 13
Cosmo Baker
Dave Nada
Smalltown DJs
Bird Peterson
Prince Klassen
DJ Mel
Mike the 2600 King

FRIDAY MARCH 14
DJ Day
DJ Zebo
DJ Magneto
Willy Joy
DJ Diabetic
DJ Donna Summer

SATURDAY MARCH 15
Devlin & Darko
Pandemonium Jones
Co-Op & Hunnicutt
Bird Peterson
Mike the 2600 King
Paper Tiger
DJ Huggs
Cee Plus & The House of Bad Knives

Thursday night's festivities include the release party for the DO IT TO IT 12" SINGLE, featuring red hot remixes from Dave Nada, Smalltown DJs, Cosmo Baker, Bird Peterson, and myself. Here, just watch this...

Can't make it to Austin? Vinyl will be available right here shortly after SXSW.

the world used to be a more simple place...
take me backkkk....

ps. check the bear keyboard playa.

my first 1200
PEANUT BUTTER WOLF

what was your first turntable / setup?
I had a Realistic mixer, a Fisher turntable with no pitch control and a Panasonic turntable with pitch control. This was when I was 14 in 1984.

at what point did you get your first technics turntable(s)?
I used to use my roommates for several years, but didn't have my own pair til around 1995. I think I bought them one at a time in a 2 year period. Even the scratches I did on the album I did with Charizma in the early 90's were done with some off-brand turntable.

did you get the 1200(s) from a store? how did you get the money to pay for the 1200(s)?
I got them new at Guitar Center up in the Bay Area. Don't remember where I saved the money up from, but it was probably my job at a record distributor. I still have the same pair today and have never had to bring them into the shop. Besides the lights burning out, they're still good.

how did you feel when you got your first technics turntable(s)?
I was excited because my when you scratch with them, it has a certain sound that you can't create as easily with other turntables. I got to really practice my mixing more as well. I started as a DJ, but when I started getting drum machines and samplers in the late 80's, I got more into making beats. When I got the 1200's, I got back into Djing again. Making mix tapes and spinning at clubs.

what is your favorite feature or aspect of the technics turntable?
It's not even so much about a feature. It's just the way it feels when you use it. It's really responsive. I've tried other turntables from every major brand and they don't compare.

new segment...

ADVENTURES IN BISCUIT LAND

For those un-familiar, Biscuit is a self proclaimed homeless record dealer who has been a part of the Lab LA store since it first opened. Just about every employee has had some type of run in with him and for most of us they've ended in screaming battles. So why do we keep letting him back in our lives? The only used records worth mentioning that I've bought since I moved here were from him, I mean really good. He even once told me James Murphy bite Lloyd-Ski's old disco mix for his Fabric Live mix (as far fetched as it seems the similarities are uncanny). Anyways thats just to say for a guy who claims to live on the streets, Biscuit knows whats up....

As of late the records must be drying up, because Biscuit showed slanging children's books the other day.

Fat Lip and his boy Dave Yetti were hanging out at the store when he came by...

This is what they bought...

LA, you just can't beat the life style...

TONIGHT THO....

This was a tape Lloyd and I made years ago... "The Neverending Party part 2," for which there was never a part 1. We recorded it on Modemmex's borrowed Tascam 4 track and mastered it live by bringing levels up and down manually. In order to record we would have to rewind and play with the headphones on, mixing live and being sure to not include the back-cuing in the final mix. There was a sheet of paper that looked like a treasure map with all the notes of how to mix both sides down.

The only reason I know about new wave at all is because my older sister gave me all the tapes she made in college. Depeche Mode, Alphaville, Anything Box and Squeeze in the house!

I don't know where I got this but there were only a handful of hiphop tapes I had because I basically forced myself to like hiphop, but this one definitely stays in the top somewhere... Let me pee on you!

This is part 2 of my "They Might Be Giants Ultimate Mixtape" series.

This is a tape a friend of mine made me in college. I used to swap tapes with people all the time to find out what other good music existed (the internet at the time was limited to email and porn), and hearing all this trip-hop and "realness hiphop" in '99 was basically what made me get into Mo Wax/Ninja Tune. Whither thou, Clifford Gilberto Rhythm Combination?

Dear Baby Jesus,

Thank you for sending more big room house vinyl to Turntable Lab, and more specifically the LA Store.

(The Bart B More Remix is soooo fire)

Love,
Gina

from the arsenal website:
Cesc Fabregas ranks his goal at Milan on Tuesday as one of the best moments of his career so far.

The 20-year-old, who is fast approaching 200 games for Arsenal, let fly from distance with five minutes left to give the visitors a vital lead in the Champions League Knockout Round second leg at the San Siro.

Although Emmanuel Adebayor added another at the death, it was that fabulous Fabregas goal - and the celebration that followed - which stick in the memory.

"It was one of the best moments of my career and I went straight to the boss because without him I would never have had the chance to play in a game like this," he said.

"Maybe I have not been at my best since my injury, but now I feel great once again. This performance has been very important for my confidence. After I had started the season so well and then had an injury, I was not playing the way I used to and I was a bit upset. I needed a performance like this.

"When you look back on your career, these are the nights you are going to remember.

"We have to be very proud of what we have done. We went over to our fans, and you could also see some of the Milan fans clapping. You could see they like this kind of football and that we played well.

"The Milan players all said: 'well done, we hope you win it now'. In Italy, they have a lot of respect."

tkat is going crazy in the office, re-organizing, re-arranging shelves, and forcing me go through all my old boxes throughout the office... god bless him. it got me thinking about the pack rat nature of djs... collecting all sorts of weird shit with weird intrinsic values... here's a peak at what i'm finding...

box #1 - old cassettes

this is one of many boxes of cassettes i have laying around the office. all those grey ones? those are probably turntablist mixes i tried to make without a 4 track... i would start off with a solid 5 minutes of material, and inevitably things would go to shits... and i would just start with a new tape (just in case, the next one was the one!). the one never came...

93 til infinity.... i bought this in 93... im freaking old. and that clear case? that's where i kept my favorite tapes...

i spent a couple summers in seoul. they had this record shop in Intaewon (it's like the bootleg-GI district of Seoul). they had bootleg tapes of all the new wave stuff. they even made color covers from the originals. they had the tape duplicators running out in the open in the store. i bought a ton of good tapes there...

in my opinion, reggae sounds best on tape... think i bought this one in San Diego with frogman... it has all the classic Studio One dubs...

boy genius made me this one... it probably had a bunch of Green Day, Hootie, Dave Matthews, Weezer and Soundgarden, and Jock Jams... mtv was a powerful thing.

this one is going straight into the lab Volvo...

the inevitable Stretch + Bob tape... this one reads "Supernat"... that dude used to be huge amongst rap nerds... but looking back he was doing the equivalent of stupid human pet tricks.

i used to love this band... Ride was like the second coming of My Bloody Valentine to me... every year i try to go back and listen to their stuff, but the heavily accented vocals make me want to barf...

ladies and gentlemen, i present to you the CASSINGLE! this one even has the instrumental on the b-side... useless!

here's a keeper. during the funk boom, the daptone guys had an incredible show on Columbia radio... they did this James Brown festival for days (?), bringing in original JB collaborators and playing the most incredible JB stuff. I think i recorded a couple tapes worth....

i actually bought this one not too long ago at a store in Williamsburg... i thought it was cool to have on tape...

probably one of the albums i anticipated the most... Nothing's Shocking was my teenage skater wheelhouse... this was sadly disappointing, especially the sell-out "Been Caught Stealing"... however, over the years, the entire b-side has matured into something magical... "Three Days, Classic Girl, Then She Did" ???

this wasn't my shit or anything, it just goes to illustrate the bane of promo stuff... i don't know why it used to be so hard for me to throw promo shit out... i still have illstyle live lps, finley quaye 12"s, and other totally useless things... i am throwing this shit out as we speak....

more to come...

my first 1200
NICKODEMUS

what was your first turntable / setup?
2 Gemini Belt driven turntables & that weird stiff mixer with the 2 channels (with yellow meters) & the click in the middle on the crossfader.

at what point did you get your first technics turntable(s)?
About 1990

did you get the 1200(s) from a store? how did you get the money to pay for the 1200(s)?
I threw a few parties in recording studios & American Legion Halls until I had enough money. I bought them at Rock & Soul- they had the best prices & you could haggle a lot with them.

how did you feel when you got your first technics turntable(s)?
I felt like I finally had the secret weapon that allowed me to scratch & juggle beats like I've seen my favorite DJ's do.

what is your favorite feature or aspect of the technics turntable?
Their sturdiness! I still have my same pair & they're been on flights, buses, cars, backyards, beaches & clubs for about 18 years.

my first 1200
ELI

what was your first turntable / setup?
Two gemini's and a scratchmaster DUH!

at what point did you get your first technics turntable(s)?
Mad late, like after I had been djing for maybe 6 or 7 years. I could never afford them before that and was way more into blowing my money on records ironically.

did you get the 1200(s) from a store? how did you get the money to pay for the 1200(s)?
I worked at Bobbito's Footwork and when the store closed Bob let me have the store 1200's for like maybe 600 buck or something. By then I was already making pretty good money on the club circuit.

how did you feel when you got your first technics turntable(s)?
I don't really remember actually. By then I was way over practicing or trying to be good at scratching or anything like that.

what is your favorite feature or aspect of the technics turntable?
Um, I'm not sure I really understand what makes them so great besides the fact that you can use them for djing... They seem pretty sturdy though I suppose.

my first 1200
EGGFOO

what was your first turntable / setup?
Around 1992 I got heavily into writing, mainly due to my new "friend" Jason. Jason quickly went from stealing paint to stealing everything, and for $50 bucks could get you ANYTHING.
He got me one direct drive Technics BD-35 and one belt drive Sony. He threw in some busted up records like Doug E Fresh, Schooly D, and Captain Sky. I bought a Gemini Scratch Master from Sam Ash in White Plains, NY. The best thing was the 10 second loop/sampler in it and I learned how to make loops with that. Then in 1994 the turntables were stolen from our bands rehearsal room.

at what point did you get your first technics turntable(s)?
Basically from 1994 on all I wanted were 1200's. But I kept spending whatever bits of money I had on car stereo equipment or bikes. So finally in 1997 I became a camp counselor and saved up.

did you get the 1200(s) from a store? how did you get the money to pay for the 1200(s)?
I found an ad in the classifieds of the village voice. It said "Two 1200's for $650" I drove out to Long Island and met this reggae dj and the tables were pretty beat. Cigarette ashes and slightly bent tone arms. I gave him $600 and drove home the happiest kid.

how did you feel when you got your first technics turntable(s)?
It was like christmas everyday for a while.

what is your favorite feature or aspect of the technics turntable?
The dot pattern flowing like liquid, the pop up light, the feet, the rubber bottom, the way it looks like a silver and black spaceship.

This week:
The current rotation on my iPizzle,

the digi-release for Muscles

Part 2 of the J-Rocc & Dilla saga

Supra's superb release of Impossible Dreamers

Escort X Metro Area = Arcade Lovers

Also, brand new bumps from In4mation

Shiny new Krink Stickers

and the unfadable Krink Mop

and finally, my last pick for the ballers.
The MacBook Air 13-inch 1.8Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo

stop dreaming...

my first 1200
SABO

what was your first turntable / setup?
2 belt drives, one was a technics 1800-something and it had a pitch knob, the other was some no name without pitch control. i can't remember what mixer it was, but was just 2 channels and no EQs. i used to practice like 4-5 hours a day on that set-up.

at what point did you get your first technics turntable(s)?
end of summer '93. I worked construction all summer framing development houses. the guys on the crew thought i was gay b/c i had those little silver hoop earrings in BOTH ears.

did you get the 1200(s) from a store? how did you get the money to pay for the 1200(s)?
I bought my first Technics 1200s set up used, at a pawn shop in North Philly. I went with an older skater friend of mine, and he talked the guy down to $550. They were European 1200s with a voltage converter on the plug. I also got this sick 4 channel Numark mixer with the deal, that had an 8 band EQ with volume faders. It was great for tweaking, but the fader was stuck like glue. That shit was like 2 feet wide and heavy.

how did you feel when you got your first technics turntable(s)?
so excited like i just shotgun'ed 8 Red Bulls.

what is your favorite feature or aspect of the technics turntable?
i used to trip out on the patterns the dots make on the platter. But definately the fact that they don't stop working, and never lose there value. I sold that same set up 5 years later to someone for $500, and they were psyched.

ed.note:
the visuals

in my once every two years activity,
i went to go check out the museums by the park this wknd...
went to the Cooper Hewitt National Design museum (yes, things like this exist!)
and checked out the Campana Brothers exhibit. This brazilian design duo went through the Cooper Hewitt collection and picked their favorites, and I was quite amazed at what they came up with.

Any sucker with a couple design books can pick out some Swiss posters or cool German packaging, but these guys picked brilliant, unexpected stuff. the most inspiring were these plates by some french guy named Seguy. These plates are collectively titled "Insectes". The color and detail is incredible, but I really like how the insects are arranged within the rectangular frame.

i immediately went home to check if you can purchase these things, but doh, an incomplete set will run you close to 4gs
, but i'd say it's worth it...

at the Annex in Manhattan

- Tuesday to Saturday
- knowledge of current street fashion and design a plus

email erick//at//turntablelab.com

my first 1200
PH

what was your first turntable / setup?
It was a Pioneer belt drive from my parent's console system + a gemini scratchmaster + records from Music Now in NE, and Tower on the pike

at what point did you get your first technics turntable(s)?
it was about 1995, the day couldn't come any faster. I was gonna buy a pair of Linear Techs (worse than Gemini) from a college buddy, but i decided to wait for the real thing.

did you get the 1200(s) from a store? how did you get the money to pay for the 1200(s)?
my boy Shwan met a random dude at this club we used to go to called the Vault, next to Fifth Column in DC. Shwan's the type of guy who instantly becomes friends with anybody. He told Shwan that he could get Technics cheap from a warehouse in Virginia. We were all skeptical, but I gave Shwan a couple hundred bucks that I earned working for the Korean American Olympics, and he came back with 2 new 1200s and a copy of Cypress Hill's first album. One of the happiest days in my life.

how did you feel when you got your first technics turntable(s)?
The first couple nights i would go to bed, get up like 5 minutes later, turn on the lights, play with em, go back to bed, repeat... almost like when i first discovered masturbation...

what is your favorite feature or aspect of the technics turntable?
definitely the start/play. i love the click of the on/off button, and how quickly and silently the motor gets up to speed.

my first 1200
COSMO BAKER

what was your first turntable / setup?
My first turntable setup was an old deck that I don't even remember what kind it was. It was one of those that had the mechanical arm where you could stack records on them and they dropped down. Shit was so jenky. It was that and some Panasonic straight arm turntable with no pitch. Absolutely terrible. Somehow I got my hands on a Technics SL-1300 so it was that and the Panasonic turntable and, with my trusty Radio Shack mixer I swore I was hot shit.

at what point did you get your first technics turntable(s)?
I got my first 1210 after about a year of working on that original setup. It sent my shit into overdrive.

did you get the 1200(s) from a store? how did you get the money to pay for the 1200(s)?
I bought both my turntables from the legendary Armand's Records. I got them about a year apart from each other, and it was after working mad hours in a grocery store cutting lunch meat for old people.

how did you feel when you got your first technics turntable(s)?
Like I was ready to go. Seriously it's like driving a Geo Metro for years and then getting behind the wheel of a Cadillac. Or better yet, a Sherman tank those things are built so fucking tough.

what is your favorite feature or aspect of the technics turntable?
The overall complete creative control. You can make the 1200 do anything you want it to do once you learn the ins and outs of it. That and the fact that it's so damn sturdy and reliable. I've had mine for over 15 years and I've only have had to get them serviced once, and it was for minor wire wear. It deserves the title of "Industry Standard."

So Louisahhh and I aka STACCATO recorded a big room mix a few weeks ago, and her man Andrew decided to put the mix to some visuals that were done for boost/claw money/ mad steez.

I suggest you watch this with all the lights off, volume up.... and boys, maybe in private due to the possibility of an arousal that might occur.

my first 1200
AYRES

what was your first turntable / setup?
It was a Realistic Belt Drive in 1995 I think.

at what point did you get your first technics turntable(s)?
1996

did you get the 1200(s) from a store? how did you get the money to pay for the 1200(s)?
I got a Japanese 1210 from Rock and Soul Electronics for around $500 probably. My roommate had a 1200 and we shared a setup so I didn't get my second 1200 until 1999. That one I brought from Turntable Lab's first "warehouse" (more like a closet), in Chinatown, from Jasper.

how did you feel when you got your first technics turntable(s)?
I was so stoked! It felt really substantial, heavy and shiny.

what is your favorite feature or aspect of the technics turntable?
I still have both of them, so my favorite thing is that they are solid as a rock.

introducing a new ttl blog expose....

my first 1200
ROCTAKON

what was your first turntable setup?
2 Gemini joints not belt drive but still hella shitty

when did you get your first technics turntable(s)?
about 2 years after from this dude "Blunt" they had 4 feet between 2 turntables and both only played out of the left channel i ran a splitter from each I had those till i got the ones i have now...

did you get the 1200(s) from a store? how did you get the money to pay for the 1200(s)?
Working one of a gazillion shitty jobs including but not limited to Lifeguarding, Making Hoagies, Waiting tables, Stock Room, etc etc etc

how did you feel when you got your first technics turntable(s)?
Cloud 9

what is your favorite feature or aspect of the technics turntable?
Stop Start Button... and the Fact that when you turn it off the audio still plays as it slows down... no other electronics work that way... so dope...

Rest In Peace Snoop

The most badass chick gangster ever.

Damn, what a sad sad sad season this is of The Wire... so awful, no sense of fulfillment. its like getting a blowjob from a girl whose head-game isnt up to par... so forced, terrible, almost godawful and painful at some points, and you just want the damn thing to be over and done with already. But I wouldnt know, cause I only fucks with the best. I am the Mayor, you know? Anyways... I know I'm not the only guy who has a secret crush on Snoop either.... dont lie, you would fuck her too.

Sexy ass Snoop.

I got some random shit for you Boy Genius Bloggermaniacs to check out...

Gucci Mane might have the sickest chain in the game right now.

Awesome pic of Reggie Bush + Kim Kardashian. Kim, Reggie Bush is def. an upgrade from Ray J. Good for you.

You know what? I like Mike. I think he is a great guy, sorta feel bad for him, he is a great speaker and a genuine guy, plus he is sick at the bass guitar and he is hilarious. More conservatives should stand up for him. Note to Mike Huckabee tho...

Didn't you watch Chappelle Show? Black people dont like guitar... they respond to the drums.

Look at this crazy crackerasscracker

and finally by popular demand...
The Next Leader of the Free World....

Barack Hussein Obama

No YouTube. No ugly ass party flyer.
Boy Genius runs this blog shit.

NYC WAS GREAT!

lloyd forgot ani was in deee-lite. he was like club dj ani? i was all no, its "On-E" heh, heh --and doing hi fives with supa dj dimitri in the park during peak 90's nyc summertime? priceless! .... Still waiting for him to drop off deadstock of the EP he produced with Craze that Zoo York shelved in '99 (or something?)

bonus: '98 us dmc final- i'm in audience for 1 sec at the end, also you can hear me go "OOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHH!"
true story: craze blames me for getting him into dnb. ha! whatevs i still rewind tracks.