ECHOES OF Linkwood Family - Miles Away 10"

Time for another installment of Echoes with your boy Herb P. This time around I'm cupping my ear to the Firecracker Recordings reissue of Linkwood Family's 2004 limited-run underground burner Miles Away on 10" wax.

CLICK HERE to BUY(restocking)

ECHO 1: Miles Davis' On the Corner

The cartoon/comic strip soul sista cover art and use of "Miles" in the title immediately threw my mind to Davis' groundbreaking 1972 release. Called "the most street record ever recorded by a jazz musician" by Allmusic.com, On the Corner was decried by purists and pundits at the time for its unapologetically trailblazing forays into the future sounds of drum and bass loops, concrète production techniques (which would come to epitomize hip hop and all sample-based musics), electronic timbres and -- perhaps most presciently of all -- a licentious infidelity to genre so familiar and inoffensive to consumers of popular and avant-garde music today. In my and many other people's opinion this record is a masterpiece, so it's not a bad reflection to bear in your own work.

ECHO 2: Theo's Righteous Rant

Also on the topic of the cover art... After realizing that this label and these dudes are all based in the UK (and so I'm assuming they're white, sue me. ...there's no pics of them on their myspace and I'm betting it's more because they look like the aristocracy than because they're on some UR-styled anonymity thing), the next thing to rush into my mind was a tremendously on-point rant by Theo Parrish when questioned by Moodmat on the topic of white theft of black arts. A pointed excerpt:

We don’t have a lot of protection against thieves because their aren’t a lot of lawyers, because there’s usually just enough money for the artists to survive on, unless you helped father the form. There aren’t managers suggesting to artists to do white versions of black songs, but there are white artists with labels doing it on their own. This is one of the few places a thief will try to copy your music, then send it to you calling it a tribute in hopes of you endorsing it. They’ll find the sources of your samples if you use them, and use them verbatim, then try to cash in on your previous successes. The Black producers in this form are a lot closer knit, so there’s a lot of respect for the other producers doing it, and there’s a shared philosophy of innovation as a supreme ethic, you simply would lose respect from your contemporaries if you tried to use the same sources as they did for sampling. The thieves, usually white, are typically the culprits of this phenomena. Its almost as if they want to convince the buying market that since they sampled from where you did then they must be just like YOU, only white! Once they get it ready to put out, they’ll use pictures of little black children, and black women with afros- things they never could be, and never have been -on their cover art to help complete the illusion of having a truly down, soulful product to offer the market. Sometimes they’ll outright sample YOUR song, and copy your drumpattern, send it to a magazine and some adjective limited writer will say the copy sounds ’so-and-so esque’, never making that artist stand on their own, letting the thief who made it ride on the back of original artists.

Saturday, December 23, 2006
STEAL

Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination.

Devour films, music, books, paintings, poems, photographs, conversations, dreams, trees, architecture, street signs, clouds, light and shadows.

Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic.

Authenticity is invaluable.

Originality is non-existant.

Don't bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it.

Remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to."

*I stole this from author Paul Arden who stole it from Jim Jarmusch.
Currently listening :
You Are What You Is
By Frank Zappa
Release date: 02 May, 1995

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There are a few non black underground dance artists that simply have gravitated to the form because its as free a musical form as you can get. They don’t even care who their music sounds like, they are just trying to express themselves honestly and truthfully. I’m not talking about them. They are rare and appreciated. They are original. Whatever success they garner is deserved.

*props to Emynd for posting this interview on the hollerboard, where I found it.

ECHO 3: Sun Ra's "Fate in a Pleasant Mood"

This one's pretty literal. I'm 99.9% sure that the AA2 track, "Fate," samples a version of Sun Ra's composition, "Fate in a Pleasant Mood." Specifically the version from Ra to the Rescue (1982). Let's just hope Theo didn't sample this one first.

OBAMA OBAMA OBAMA!
blah blah blah
before we speak on President OBAMA we must realize that the pussy
democrats have let the last two elections get swindled by the local
yocal repubs in bumfuck states like Ohio and Florida. Nice election
system USA, Hey populous vote go fuck yourself. are we gonna be on
the edge of our seats this year waiting on the votes to come in from
Oklahoma? the neo cons/religious right/whatever you call these people
have a nice vote tampering thing going on and no one is saying shit.
tens of thousands of votes get "lost" or negated from poor hispanic/black
communities nationwide. and it ain't no coincidence most of these
people ain't pullin' a vote for McPalin. Have your house foreclosed in Michigan,
Nevada or Ohio? good luck trying to vote. So before you start bitchin' about
President McPalin in 2009 be prepared and know why it happened.

PAUL/VENTURA in 2012

Looks Kansas will be the jump off this weekend. I'll be down there Friday and Saturday, and then Thursday in Omaha (yep - Nebraska) as well!!

Stackswell - don't think we've ever met, but hit me up if you wanna link up.

in celebration of sunday night's victory, i present to you a mix you can use to funk up your workweek. all tracks selected by Chief Zee himself... well no, but i bet he would approve. you get the picture.

*** CLICK TO DOWNLOAD ***

also, if you know any tricks or trickettes that live in Lawrence, KS or go to KU, i will be spinning the fonk with my friend BSears at the Eighth St Taproom this friday the 3rd. plaese to show me a good time while i'm in town.

Your boys been hard at work...
I hope you got nothing but love for this post, I'm sheading light on the fam...
Meaty Ogre, Nelson and Myself are opening our brand new Boutique in the devils time share Phoenix, AZ
called "Grandiose". If your in the area in the big ass artwalk frist Fridays come thru we'll be partying.
Rare records and clothing of all kinds and we'll be hosting all the fam that comes into town.
Frog man told me not to and I did it anyways...
Zo

Ahhhh.... what a fucking good weekend.
I don't know whats more enjoyable to me:
The slow torturous descent of the McCain campaign
or
The slow torturous smashmouth football the Skins put on the Cowboys at Dallas
(Did I mention I was in Vegas this weekend as well?)
You ready for another Boy Genius mile-long post, bitches?

First, the Chocolate-face Junior Senator from the Land of Lincoln:

And finally, the 'Boys jump up to get beat down....

I am Boy Genius, and I approve of this blog post.

Let's take a trip down memory lane to 1992 with Digable Planets Where I'm From remix. Peep the intro filmed right here on 7th st. Notice the now defunkt Stu's Record shop which used to be right next door to turntablelab...came up on a few jems in that place...

Mccain 08'...Funk Dat!!!

-NN

Go get him tonight Barry, give 'em hell.

NO TEXTING ON THE DANCEFLOOR!

Somebody's gotta re-make Midnight Star's "No Parking On The Dancefloor" with a modern version - "NO TEXTING ON THE DANCEFLOOR!" Seriously, how many times have you gone a party and seen all these wallflowers chillin' and texting. You can be spinning the most bad-ass jam and the biggest response you can get is people looking up from their phones and going, "That's my jam!" before going quickly back to perfecting their wpm with their thumbs. Talk about lame. When most of our parents were young and going out to clubs, they were drinking, doing stimulants, screaming their heads off, sporting fashion that we can only try to "bring back," and most of all...they were dancing. I know if my old skool NY neighbors who partied at the house clubs in the 80's saw this generation's parties, they would think we're pathetic. Going home before 4, talking to only people that you know, and texting in the club can all be filed under BORING. If you can't out-party your parents, what does that say about us? Just food for thought the next time you see that certain guy or girl busting out her phone in the middle of the jam. Real sexy right?

Also, if you care at all about art or have watched the Vice Guide To Travel, you've probably heard of my friend Dave Choe. Last night I went to his house to chill and eat BBQ, when I got to meet the esteemed BK photographer Boogie. Dude is one of the most daring photographers in the biz and was just real nice to meet him in person. They were talking about a big art show(going on as I type this) on Houston and Bowery. It's a collection of some of the hottest new artists right now(check the flyer) and I heard the opening night RSVP just reached 1000 people. Make it down there if you can. I heard there's a possibility it might get shut down early due to a very controversial piece in the front. It's by an royal portrait painter from Europe who's hired two hot assistants in his studio to cut and assort the dicks and pussies out from over 15,000 porno mags, which he 's used to construct a royal portrait of our one and only Georg Bush. Should be quite a show.

Lastly, I know I don't really post too many parties on here, but truth is Snack & I have been holding down a party every friday at East River Bar in Willaimsburg since December. We roll deep in an 8 DJ crew who are all extreme vinyl heads in the disco, boogie, funk, soul, house, UK Garage, world and it's been nothing but good times. They replaced some speakers and we rock all vinyl sets until the early morn. This week, Snack, myself, Frantz from Greenpoint's legendary digspot The Thing and Paul Choe(aka Ponk the Boogie Murderer) do it again and would like to officially invite all of you. Bring a friend and your dancing shoes.

another day in the Do Or Die...

Lab Radio Update! - Flashin' you with more of that funky stuff.

2AM/FM
Bronx River Parkway
Chain Reaction
DJ Catalist
Dolle Jolle
Ethel Beatty
Giorgio Moroder
J Rawls
James Pants
LCD Soundystem
MGMT
Morgan Geist
Ralph Falcon
Ripple
Runaway
Samiyam
Spyder D
Tim Maia
Triads

Fall is the shit and you know this. You get to layer up in your freshest gear, hot coffee tastes good again and tipping back shots to keep warm just feels so damn good. Of course, it sucks that all the hotties are go back to fall wardrobes, but then again, nothing can replace the feeling of making out in brisk air. With that said, here's another round of personal highlights by yours truly...

Six Pack gives shine to Noah Butkus & Morning Breath, check!

Rogue Status

In4mation coming more proper than ever

Wore this last night...killed it!
Crooks & Castles

I say WTF now, but my kids will probably be doing shows on this. Welcome to the future...
Stanton
SCS.3D Control Surface

Cheers,

"Fuck a Vice Presidency, ima drink me a Presidente!"

Str8 from DR, wuuuuuuuut.

-Rainey

Wanda Sykes with some goodness on Leno.
Its a badly recorded clip but still worth watching.

and remember kids, invest in weed, the prices never go down.

Not a fan of video posts, but this is pretty amazing. Via Pretty Titty.

Man, I'm pretty much a clean freak. So when I got an email with this link today, it had me buggin'...

All you folks here in (or from) Texas will appreciate the Whataburger.

Click here for the madness.

GNAR GNAR!!!

Earlier this morning....

THE MF.GLK FOR WEMAKEITGOOD.COM! FREE DOWNLOAD!

GLK x SABO BACK TO BACK RELEASE DATES!?
GOTTA LOVE TUESDAYS IN THE RECORD BIZ...

After a very long wait, my full length album with partner Zeb is released today on several digital sites!!! The album was a 2 year project and is an eclectic mix of downtempo, dub, nujazz, house, and disco, and features the incredible vocal talents of Mariella and Andrea Monteiro. Here are just a few sites where you can purchase the album digitally:

iTunes Store

when I saw this I literally LOL'd.

via the hollerboard

Niiiiiiiiiice! I fucks with the Saab Man!

Yo Saab, when we gettin up for that Bachata B'more track that I wanna put down?

Dominican MAgic!

-Rainey

PS Yea, I just turned this blog into an email, but so what? f*ck you.

Sabo played at Flashing Lights on Friday and threw down some Jungle at the end of his set. We managed to get part of it on video:

Special footage courtesy Andrew Fistfight

This Friday we've got the NYC debut of Nadastrom (Dave Nada and Matt Nordstrom) playing joints off their forthcoming Dubsided release and Gina Turner playing some BIG ASS HOUSE, and of course me, Nick Catchdubs and Jess Jubilee pouring the Rave Juice. As always it is FREE at Public Assembly. And if you missed our Flashing Lights mix #1,download it here.

So my comics site peroxidecomics.com has been revamped... I was using Squarespace to design it which is weird to figure out but then once you get the hang of it pretty easy. Anyways all my old comics are up there and if you like Dan Clowes, Peter Bagge, Evan Dorkin, girls, music, neurotic ramblings etc then there should be something in here for you. Plus there's archives, a search function and you can leave comments... check me out in the 21st century!

Here's a couple quick links that I think would appeal to DJ/TTL blog readers, hope you enjoy:

Represent by Nas
Part Of Your World
Escape From Friend Zone Game
Evolution of Music

I like these guys, buy the album!

I woke up this morning to hear that DJ AM and Travis Barker were the sole survivors
in a tragic plane crash in South Carolina.

It reminded me on how much of an influence AM has had on the DJ world,
and on my own personal DJ inspiration.

On behalf of the Turntable Lab LA Store, I wish both AM and Travis Barker
a rapid recovery from their injuries. Please keep them in your thoughts,
as well as the families of those who didn't survive.

Hey! What's up, folks. It's DJ Mel coming at ya with some Southern representation. Some of ya'll might know me, if not, I'm homies with Ayres, Catch and that dude Mike 2600. Daps to Pete for putting me on! So if you're ever in Texas, HOLLER. We'll do it properly...

My part of the country isn't really known for fast Miami sounding joints, but this Austin record was pretty big regionally back in the day. Using all the best elements of Funky Drummer, Debbie Deb and that GET BUSY sample that was on everything in the late 80's/early 90's makes this track hard as nails. Good luck finding this record, it's tough to find...

I GOT DOUBLES.

Do people still buy doubles nowadays?

I guess it doesn't matter anymore.

Anyway, If you're in Seattle this weekend, I'm throwing down with FOURCOLORZACK & DV ONE @ THE WAR ROOM.

Ok, the weather is nice (below 90 degrees) it's time to take this for a ride...

ages ago, juan angel chavez and myself took a little road trip to indiana to visit tribune showprint. tribune showprint is a letterpress print shop that opened in 1878. It is the oldest continuously running letterpress print shop in the USA (actually opened one year before famous hatch show print in nashville).

so much good type.......

summer is the busy time with all the carnivals and street fairs

there is a whole room full of the old etchings they use to print photos, so basically in this building there is probably a dated press photo engraving of every band or performer that ever played a midwest county fair

juan and fe digging through years of "clip art", lots of cowboys, fireworks, clowns and balloons

stacks of pre-printed posters waiting for final layer of type

hand setting the wood blocks into the "yeah buddy (round ball)" print we made

taking some notes and planning out some prints

setting up the art show print

the tribune office wall

it was a pretty amazing yet sad trip. on one hand it was amazing to see all this old wood block type and all the old presses but at the same time it was sad to think that there are very few of these old spots still around. hopefully they take care of themselves and can keep the doors open long into the future. it would be sad to see all these old places and the great old printing techniques disappear.

juan and i made 8 different 14x22 prints at tribune showprint that trip (either by setting the art/type while we were there, or having the crew complete our ideas after we left), we are selling a few of them through turntable lab this month.

these 2 based off of my experiences at the maxwell street market while living in pilsen

we tried to find every large circle in the place and put them on one print, at the time we didnt even realize that one of them was actually a globe.

this one was just too good not to do. somethings just speak for themselves....

tastes better than a bacon cheezburger

Sick Dayz

Being sick is kinda like being old and senile, in that it ultimately sucks but it's got a unique silver lining of being able to get away with shit you'd never get away with otherwise. When you're old these silver lined perks include: overt perversion, discounts and farting in public/shitting yourself with impunity. Being sick I find that I, myself, and other people hold me to similarly lower standards of behavior.

People understand when u slack off some at work, even admiring your fortitude for working under such duress (I make a head cold seem like Leukemia to all outward appearances, whatever); it's seen as polite when you deliberately avoid people you despise ("I'm sick as dog, best to stay over there, overly-happy-for-7:05 AM-religious-nut-job-with-a-bunch-of-pamphlets"); and also you can spend countless hours on your ass eating takeout in front of the TV, "recovering," and feel like you're doing the responsible thing. Roommates will even bring you things like the personal servants you always saw them as if you play it right.

Yea...being sick is kinda the good life; it's like all the best parts of being disabled except you get to walk afterwards and you don't need someone else to clean the drool up off your chin.

Anyway, I meant for this to somehow artfully segue into talking about upcoming Fall seasonal TV I'm pumped on, but I don't have the energy, *cough*, so I'll just get to it.

Even though Project Runway is wrapping up I'm so psyched on TV for the fall.

First of all, it's football season and the birds look good:

Also, season two of the Sarah Connor Chronicles has kicked off proper.

...getting the mood right for Terminator 4: Salvation coming next May.

As if that weren't enough....IT'S ALWAYS SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA new season STARTS TODAY!

Youtubes cleaning up the copyright violations, I couldn't find my favorite clips but if you know then you know...

Let's get it Autumn.

On 9.18, Cinefamily's Hip Hop Film Series continues with a screenings of:
Style Wars
Stations of The Elevated &
All City

Check out cinefamily.org for more info.

been feeling the iphone camera recently,
i like the immediacy, vertical orientation and the mid-heavy colors.

hole in street on the walk home...
right before i ran into the homeless frog man (not to be confused with The Frogman)
anyone seen this guy in the east village? bulging eyeballs the size of baseballs and blood filled eyelids, no joke.

i practically gave up on nyc bbq spots, but Blue Smoke, although pricey, is the real deal. Texas style salt & pepper ribs tastes like beef jerky.

drink of the moment:

hitachino japanese beer

If I ever make an album, this right here will be the title:

-Rainey

SCION RADIO 17 PARTY TONIGHT

MIDNIGHT
JUGGERNAUGHTS
BAG RAIDERS
TITTSWORTH
DJ AYRES
DJ HAUL
BLU JEMZ

Looks like Jimmy's still working the beat.

SORRY TO BUM U GUYS OUT BUT... THIS SHIT NEEDS TO BE WATCHED.

been keeping things low key in chicago this summer and haven't been posting much but ill drop a quick flick of todays lunch on yall........

(the BLT) Bacon Sausage with Avocado Mayonnaise, Lettuce and Cherry Tomatoes
at Hot Dougs (of coarse).

Wow, came across this on my homegirl Soosan's blog today. Had to pass it on.

I loved Jigga and Kells, Q-Tip & The Beasties, Nas & Lauryn, Marvin & Tammi and even Lil' Weezy & T-Pain. But this is now officially my favorite collabo of all time!

JAMES BROWN & PAVAROTTI???

I apologize in advance Boy Genius Bloggermaniacs, you know I hate youtube posting on this blog, but this is a MUST see...

NEW LAB RADIO

(click box, duh!)

This month my guests were…

NOSSA

File these guys under "cool motherfuckers." I don't know what it is but I always get hyped when were on the same bill or I see them walk thru the door. I went by their (lucky duck) ultra plush Dumbo studio a few weeks back, when the heat was still giving those "I can't believe I came all the way to Brooklyn" wannabe model types something to sweat about. They switched up the style a little since the last CD the Lab was selling and it's all good. Now were looking at some Baile-Big Room? I don't know what to call it, but they played a bunch of it on the show and I think you'll like.

I also decided to put a little more work into my show than usual and dropped the "Out Of Africa Mix" for you. The only reason I called it that is cause it starts with bongos and ends with bongos, whatever I like.

Don’t forget you can now listen to the show on iTunes...

iTunes → Radio → Dance → Turntable Lab LA Radio

Been meaning to recap some of the parties I've been up to lately... so here goes.

UNEMPLOYED LLOYDS' B-DAY BASH? What a bash it was. Sorry no pictures cause were too cool for that shit. It was so much fun that for once we were content without having to after-party (except sTERRYo who somehow ended up getting a second degree burn on his foot from bacon grease at like 7am, homie's still laid up in the bed with one of those Velcro shoes). Best memory of the night? Neal Nice falling "asleep" at the helm while djing and later apologizing to Lloyd that he never got a chance to spin. Hahaha you spun for like a half hour motherfucker!

ANIMAL PRINT PARTY (MIAMI)? A couple trips to Miami ago Jake Jefferson and I came up with the genius party theme of "Animal Print." It brought all those wild South American Chiquita's out in droves with some of the hottest outfits we saw all summer. There are a lot of pics around but this was my favorite (headbands by you know who).

RONSON'S B-DAY PARTY (LONDON)? I flew out to the UK to honor my good mate Mark on his 33rd B-day last week. Set in a mansion one-hour out side of London, this was like the party of all parties if you're into the 'epic' sort of thing. The theme was "dress as your favorite album cover." You know English people, they're so fucking clever, some of the costumes were brilliant. For me the cake went to a guy who dressed like the Stone Roses LP by covering an all white outfit in Jackson Pollack-esque paint splatters. I was kind of late to the game so I was gonna go as one of the Jungle Brothers (cause I had to shop for everything in the Dalston area, where African medallions are still available in large quantities). After I had gotten my whole costume together, Prince Terrence calls and says him, Santi and Naeem need me to be Ice Cube to complete their NWA (luckily that kit wasn't hard to find in Dalston either). After spending literally an entire day on these two costumes Naeem decides to show up as Santo Gold and the whole group thing gets fucked up. Fuck it at least I wasn't Eli, no one even told him it was a costume party. Here's Santi (Eazy), Lacrate and I.

Speaking of Lacrate here's a funny video thing about him and B-More, I might have to go on record (maybe the first) and say this guys alright with me.

If your in Philly tonight (Friday) I'm playing there for the first time on some boat party with Brendan @ Paperstreet’s Mojito Party @ Moshulu.

Next Tuesday i'll be spinning with MIDNIGHT JUGGERNAUGHTS at the Scion Radio Party at Plan B (NYC)!!! So Psyched!!!

While reading hipsterrunoff.com (very funny btw)

I found this gem

my crush:

shout out to roc, AmericanApparelObama would win my deep v contest.

MSNBC's newest primetime show goes to its #1 piece of tang....

Rachel Maddow!!
America's hottest lesbo tang

MSNBC's hottest straight tang?
Old cougar Andrea Mitchell, hands down. I'd give her the business.

And let's not forget about this guy's two cents on current politricks...

-NN

current crush:

other crush:

congratulations to the simian species for their first political TV host:

smoking doobs at work is a great benefit of owning your own business.

congrats willy!
awesome show...
that host is ridic, sounds like she's got a rabbit going under the dj booth.

Today at Ground Zero

The Four Star boys are back in the New York groove...

-NN

Another "MASSIVE CHOOOON!". Cause we don't love them hoesss..

as a korean dude, it's inevitable that i hang out with finance guys. probably more than half my friends work in the industry. they're annoying as hell with their expense accounts and 500k+ bonuses (side note to all youngins: if you want to make money in your life, go into finance, it's that simple)... what the hell do they do at work i always wonder?

so my friend pulls out this book on a weekend trip to the beach. my reaction: "is this for real"?

look at that picture... that's what you're striving for? i want to be that filthy rich, soul-less, balding, Oriental dude with the terrible suit, so i am gonna to study the fuck out of this phone book to pass some test to further my career (there's 3 tests in this particular series, this book is for one)... for real, i know a couple guys that resemble the dude on the cover (and they're super successful)

but i maybe i'm just jealous? maybe i want to be that dude with that cushy 7 figure job, fuck the hair, the t-shirts, and the constructed self-image...

Geee I really think what this blog needs is more fucking graphic designers to post on it.... Here is somthing graphic im feeling, the only design is gods, he gave us the "Giant Pussy" and "inviting asshole" he is the greatest designer of them all....

CURRENT CRUSH

Since I mentioned apocalyptic bangers in that other post, and PH brought up the fact that the world may end on Wednesday, I thought I'd pull up some of my favorite songs for a soundtrack to the apocalypse.....you know....just in case.

Kurtis Blow - America. Original (incredibly ill) video version HERE, embedding disabled.
I really wanted "Nervous" by Kurtis but it wasn't on youtube and PH says the man is watching so I can't post mpthrizzles here.

David Bowie - 1984.
Self-explanatory.

Nina Simone - 22nd Century. LISTEN HERE
I was obsessed with this song for a minute before I found the original version by Exuma, a Bahamian who moved to NYC in the 60s at age 17 to study architecture, ended up dropping out and making voodoo folk and collaborating with folks like Bob Wyld, the manager of the Blues Magoos, and touring with Curtis Mayfield and others. Read about Exuma here and the wiki.

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Warriors.
I got a gang of more jawns but I'll go with Frankie cause the ill animated video makes it seem like a rejected entry for the intro theme of Captain Planet.

P.S. if you watch the Captain Planet intro....whats up with the South American dude who's special power is "heart"??? Everyone else gets elemental forces and this dude gets "heart"? PSSSHHHHHH....affirmative action at its worst!

Lab Radio Update!
Time to get transported to the land of the good groove with another session full of ecclectic heaters.

Candi Staton
Ennio Marricone
Flying Lotus
Free Blood
Inner Life
Kerri Chandler
King & Hound
Kode 9
Koushik
Kudu
Madvillain
Marvin Gaye
Pepe Bradock
Research
Sir Victor Uwaifo
Soul Messangers
Walter Jones
Wee

88% of D.C. 8th graders can't read

Step yo education up Chocolate City.

Big Bang experiment creates excitement, fear

"Deep underground on the border between France and Switzerland, the world's largest particle accelerator will recreate the conditions immediately after the Big Bang. Scientists hope the Large Hadron Collider will help understand how the universe was formed. Skeptics fear it will lead to the Earth's demise."

Seriously, im kinda afraid of this...

read more

today i hit the listening station at my ol trusty dance music spot on avenue A, and stumbled upon this gem:

wait for 1:33, then yell "MASSIVE CHOOOON!"

Bulldozer

Rough night for Redskins Nation, but hope is there... It didn't help that John McCain's painfully awful speech followed up that game... Bloggermaniacs, help me. Vote Obama - Biden.

http://www.turntablelab.com/vinyl/0/0/45969.html

This elegantly simple and effective Bozo Meko edit of the classic Take 6 acapella joint "Spread Love" got me thinking about early 90s nu-doo wop (doo-hop?), which got me thinking about one of the illest musical sequences in cinematic history.

From 1991's New Jack City:
(the volume is real low but it's the only version I could find)

I tracked down the soundtrack and this acapella version aint even on it! LAME.

NEW FREE WEEKLY PARTY! B.Y.O.G.S. (Bring Your Own Glow Sticks)

I'm not sure which is fresher, dude's matching Haro gloves/pants or the reporters hair at the end.

This Saturday is the Jam. EVR has been powering the Turntable Lab Radio show for over a year now and is by far the baddest independent internet radio station in NY. This show has been in the works since March and is the big end of the summer jump-off with tons of live acts, DJ's and most importantly good food! Also, along with Lab favorites like Flying Lotus, Hypnotic Brass, and Devin the Dude, Mark Ronson was just added to the bill. See you there!

WELCOME TO NAZI GERMANY!
2008 edition

Summer was fun. Fall's gonna kick even more ass. The weather is cooler, the parties are off the hook, and everyone's mojo is at an all time high(maybe that's why I know so many b-days in June?). Here's some picks to keep you up-to-date and fitted.

Some new top notch looks and graphics from Mishka

political commentary like only 10 Deep can do...

and more sweet supplies from Krooked

For the DJ's, these two products should sing away all your fader/headphone blues...
Audio Innovate
InnoFader Non-Contact Fader

Ortofon
O One DJ Headphones

If you need me, I'll be tipping back a few here tonight...

(Shout out to Lloyd and crew. The party @ Love last Sunday was off the hook.)

Tomorrow 9.4 @ 8 at Cinefamily:

Part of a weekly Hip Hop In Cinema through September.

Sneak peak of the 2009 Presidential Inauguration....

Obama parading down Pennsylvania Ave, backed by The Morehouse College Marching Band.
White People, get scared.

Sorry for being MIA, my Boy Genius Bloggermaniacs, I've been too busy bringing sexy back. Happy birffday chocolate face. And if anybody asked, I knocked up Bristol Palin...

big shout to everyone who copped the pleasure boys 7 " pic disc