Since we're posting Halloween events...I'm DJing at a dim sum restauraunt inside a mall in Chinatown tomorrow with Turntables on the Hudson crew, and the crazy Albanian Buyrum crew from Kosovo. This is COSTUME only, and its gonna be nuts.
The last time we all did a loft party like this was 5 years ago, and here's what i rocked:

berba is an awesome player,
but he just doesn't look stylish on the pitch...
this however is sick

Only one day left and still no costume. The best ideas come last minute anyway.
This guy has the right idea. I've always wanted to get real drunk and yell, "I'M THE JUGGERNAUT BITCH!"

Anyways, if you're in Williamsburg tomorrow night, check out our special edition Halloween party going on in two locations within walking distance!

Drinking and dancing till dawn in true BK fashion.

a message from T-Kat:

TONITE
Chico Mann (Marcos Garcia, Tkat, Ticklah, Mayteana Morales, Vinia Mojica, Caito Sanchez) + DJ Spinna + Rich Medina + James Brown + Fela + Best Sound System in NY = Love. Please come through!

This year Halloween fell on a weekend.

get it

I found this gem from 1979 at the Oakland swap meet during my recent sojourn in San Francisco. Cat selling the pamphlet only wanted a dollar but it was early in the day and the pickings so slim elsewhere I couldn't find anybody to break a twenty so he told me to just take it. I wasn't able to find out much about it online other than the publisher was part of the underground press.

As the saying goes, the best things in life are free. Except for crack and sex..

congrats to P-Gorgeous
for crossing over to the Popular Mechanics crowd...
check the article

and in other news,
how to create the Ukranian Meatball + Kielbasa Combo Plate at Veselka
1) you order the meatballs
2) have your co-conspirator order the kielbasa
3) order an extra side of gravy

bravo!

wednesday video box:

HELP WANTED NY STORE
- 2-3 days a week, full days only
- knowledge in music and clothing
- will work both in dj shop + annex
email resume to djsabo gmail

WOW SORRY IF SOMEONE POSTED THIS ALREADY, JASPER JUST PUT ME UP ON IT LAST NIGHT. FROM THE GREAT MINDS OF FLYING LOTUS AND ERIC WAREHEIM!!!

IS THIS THE NEW WINDOW LICKER??????



This video below contains some explicit cartoon scenes, flashing lights and is FOR OVER 18's ONLY.


Directed by Eric Wareheim (Tim & Eric) in association with Warp Records and Warp Films. Music by Flying Lotus. Co Directed/ Animation by Devin Flynn. Co Directed/ Edited by Eric Fensler. More info at dancefloordale.com

sometimes i wish Al Gore never invented the internet....

Run My Game Productions & Open Road of New York presents "Halloween Hell Rasier Skateboard Showdown". Hosted by Billy Rohan & Alex Corporan. $3000 best trick contest. $100 for best costume. Location: New Design High School. Rooftop of Seward Park Campus on the Corner of Essex and Grand Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Saturday Nov 1st 12-6pm. Free.

Halloween Hell Raiser Contest NYC from Got'Em on Vimeo.

-NN

For those of you heading to the Stones Throw/Red Bull 45's Event Tonight at the Echoplex,
the Red Bull Big Red Bus will be leaving from Turntable Lab LA@ 7:30.
Good way to skip the parking hassel of the Silverlake area . . . Free Drinks on Board.

Be in front of TTL LA around 7 pm to get your seat on the bus!

424 1/2 Fairfax
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Did the damn thing yesterday. I hope ya'll do the same.

Pretty Schmoove tune...go to sleep and wake up to this one if you know what's really good for you...

-NN

Since I've been back in NYC I've been back at EVR with or without Ronson doing the old Authentic Shit show on Fridays from 8-10PM. Last week The Arab Parrot, sTERRYo, O-Spindles and some homies took over the show with me and I have to say it was the most awesome show ever! Wait till you hear The Parrot on the streets "are those 36 D's?"

DOWNLOAD


Family Reunion this Saturday? (dress appropriately)

Next Tuesday I'll be with Nina Sky (sexE) at Roxy's party for that Red Bull contest, she's pulling out all the tricks for this one...

Tonight (Friday) check out Lacrate & Delicious Vinyl's party at Webster Hall.

HALLOWEEN

Yo Producto:

Beats, Rhymes and Life on 7th st...

JUNCLASSIC - Live Freestyle in NYC / Damu on the MPC from jnota on Vimeo.

-NN

Huge shout out to Jay-Z and Beyonce who happened to stop by our disco/house party every friday night at East River Bar in Williamsburg. I'd have to say I was super impressed that NY's notorious power couple aren't above chillin' out at our low-key bar to celebrate Beyonce's friend's B-Day. In this bloggy blog world, this would probably be big news and although I regret not getting pictures with Hova, the whole bar was mad respectable with no flashes going off, which kept everything casual. Plus, seeing Beyonce shotgunning virtual deer on the arcade was too precious. I was just pleased to see the word of mouth reaching so far. For Halloween, our crew is getting extra hype. Gonna throw down again for an all out disco, boogie, funk, house vinyl extravaganza at East River Bar in conjunction with an all night loft party in walking distance. Please come and join all the freaks, freaking all night long. More info coming soon...

LAB RADIO UPDATE!

Lose yourself in a vortex of piping hot new disco jams, dance tracks and lost classics

Can
Eclipse
Fernando
Gwen McCrae
Intrigue
Jahwobble
Jaques Renault
Lymnan Woodard Organization
Madlib
MD X-Press
Morgan Geist
Nacho Lovers
Osborne & James T Cotton
Phantom Slasher
Scientist
TC Curtis
Try To Find Me

Gotta a whole slew of new arrivals for fall. Check some of these sweet styles.

Twelve Bar


Enjoi

Staple



Penfield

Stones Throw does it again with the ill package on this special boxset.
Madvillainy 2: The Box

also, a huge shout out to Michna for the release of his new album. It's been a long time coming. Props!
Michna
Magic Monday CD w/ Michna T-Shirt

and about Roc's last post, who do you think will buzz in first on Morrissey Trivia?
For 200, Morrissey was president of this band's fan club as a teenager.(a true fan won't need the internet either).

easy...

Let us not forget in all this mess of electronics and drugs and whatever else you fucks are into, lets not forget that the Morrissey comeback a few years ago was one of the illest moments in music in ages... Im so sick of hearing "day and nite" when i go out.....

big tings a gwan this upcoming weekend. it seems the crew has been invading the midwest lately. a few weeks ago Sabo and I were in Lawrence, KS at the same time and played on different nights [his being teh dope]. not only am i back in this town but i actually moved here [shhhhh!]. the only catch is, this weekend Diplo's spinning the same night as me. my genius self; i'm going to try and break up my sets with my other dudes so i can run down the street [literally] to catch some of his set since its been a while. i'm a man of many hats.

also that night i'll probably be swingin an after party prior to the hotel lobby, at my loft right there on the same street. Dip'set, holler at the kid.

and Pete, that game sounded like pure madness. don't front on Albania...

i wish there were more leagues like that around the states on the real so my predators won't just collect dust all year long. respect.

an oldie but goodie...

Where's Dave been? Who knows, but it looks like he's been working out...

gotta love it when the cowboys get their asses handed to 'em by the piece of shit rams
i know ph & the boy g relish in sweet tears of joy
it's really unfair

its really unfair

Better get hip to this one fellas...

-NN

while TTL Madness is on winter hiatus, i joined a full field squad that plays its games all over ny on sunday mornings. this weeks game was in astoria, queens. after more than 10 years in the city, i had never been to this part of Queens before... always interesting to see different parts of the city. ny is unique in that there's so many central areas.

at the end of road, there was this dust bowl of a field. no grass, just loose dirt and rocks. we were playing a team of Albanians. most of their players were stocky and strong like the bogman. i shook the hand of the guy i was about to cover... he had the meatiest hand I've ever shook in my life. in days leading up to the game, we offered our nice turf field in the city for the game, but the Albanians declined, boasting "we've never lost on this field before."

so we should have known we were in for it. ground passes were impossible here and the Albanians knew it. they worked one touches in the air which resulted in the first goal. they were also kicking up the dirt to cause mini-dust storms, blinding our defenders. touche.

second half started no better with 2 early goals. 3-0. but in the last quarter we started to figure things out like any ball to the outside of the penalty area is a good ball here... and Albanian men get tired. we scored 2 ugly, quick goals. in the final minutes, the biased ref ignored a blatant hand ball in their box, and the score didn't change.

although we lost, no one was really upset. we had just played Albanians on a dirt field in Queens on a sunday morning.

You can call this hipster hop or whatever the current term of the moment is but i'm feeling this shit. Dude kinda sounds like Jim Jones on blow with the flow...taken from the grammy award winning album "It's a Tensta Thing." Sweden stand up...

-NN

Q-Tip Listening Party In-Store at Turntable Lab LA

Q-Tip shows up and opens up the event with what felt like 20 minutes of just talking. Talking about everything possible. Talking about Hussein Obama, that other vanilla face, hip-hop, LA, whatnot. He proceeded to play a few cuts from his album, talking about his thought process or explaining stories/influences inbetween tracks. Not gonna lie, it felt good to hear the abstract on record again, it was such a throwback flashback feeling.

What was awesome (and the best part), was the 'town hall' style question + answer period Q-Tip insisted on having, urging the crowd to ask him more and more questions about anything. Someone asked about how he managed to do work on Mobb Deep's Infamous album, and Tip proceeds to do an incredible Havoc impersonation full of "naw what I'm sayyan"s and a Prodigy, full of chewing noises and the deep voice. Someone asked about a rumored Common + Q-Tip collabo album in the future and he confirmed it true. Best question of the night was from a wankster who asked if it was true if he dated Nicole Kidman. Instead of a Sarah Palin duck-and-dodge answer, he gave the people some straight talk and said "Yeaaaah. That pussy was right too." Nah, he didnt say that, but he thought that.

I miss the days when record shop walls looked like this.... Raekwon's 3rd single from Cuban Linx on the wall!? These arugula-eatin, Prius-drivin, latte-sippin, Obama-votin Hollywood elitists had no idea what was going on.

Vote Barack Hussein Obama

For the better part of 2008, the hardworking print team here at Burlesque has been screenprinting thousands of Obama posters for Upper Playground. Their huge series features poster designs from Ron English, Cody Hudson, David Choe, Morning Breath, Grotesk, and many others.

We ended up having a bunch of scratch + dent posters and miscellaneous less-than-perfect leftovers hanging around the studio, so we convinced a few Twin Cities business to let us do storefront window displays of all of these Obama posters we'd been printing (along with a grip of the ubiquitous Shepard Fairey designs) which will be running through election day.

Here are the highlights:

Treehouse Records:

PUNY / Pink Hobo:

PUNY is responsible for the artwork and animation for the "T-Pain Calls Akon" cartoon and they also do alot of great animation work for Yo Gabba Gabba. Pink Hobo is their art gallery, named from leftover letters from the old space "LIENS BOOKSHOP"

Pink Hobo detail:

Fifth Element:

The best rap record store in town, owned by Rhymesayers.

Big Brain Comics:

Minneapolis' one-stop for comics and graphic novels and other nerdy art-related book things.

And if you'll be in Minneapolis on October 25th, we're hanging all of our weird one-of-a-kind test print versions of the Obama posters up in our gallery:

the TTL Madness soccer club won the chinatown league championship this past saturday. After a inconsistent regular season, the team stormed through 3 dominant victories in 3 hours and hoisted the cup to the jeers of park drunkards and old chinese men. P-Gorgeous marked his place in NYC sports history as the only person in the world to win both the soccer and bike polo championships at Sarah Roosevelt Park.

left to right
Evgeni - the easter european talisman who heroically subbed in as goalie
Matt - the energetic wingman
PH - apparently I am a "dirty player"
P-Gorgeous - the enforcer
Luis Fernandez - the quintessential playmaker
Blake - the midfield engine
David S. - the best pure striker in the park

until spring 2009...

Tease. . .tease. . .tease. . . tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, tap. . . tease, tease, tap, tap, tap, rest. . . WHAM! WHAM! WHAM-WHAM-WHAM! Fin.

My interpretation of good House music (something that I knew nothing about). Until Roc's party @ Love.

Park, pay, climb, drink, drink, drink, shake, drink, drink, shake, shake, air, air, air, smoke, smoke, air, talk, talk, talk, rant, talk, shake, shake, shake, jump, jump, dance, make-out, shake, dance, drunk.

My interpretation of my friday night at the Lose Your Shit party for Michna's release @ BK loft.

Music is alive.

Thank you kindly: Roc, Nick, Michna, Jemz, Lloyd, Jamal, Woodman

More Than Honorable mentions: IXL, Elle, Rikki, Sabo, Neil Nice, Erock, Paul

-Rainey

Just Announced:

Q Tip "The Renaissance" Album Listening Party
Wednesday 10.15.08 7-9 PM
@ Turntable Lab LA
424 1/2 N. Fairfax
Los Angeles CA 90036

Free Drinks
Free Entry
Give A Ways

LUNCH TIME LOVE - CANADA STYLE

spent some time recently in Montreal and Toronto, and being originally from Wisconsin and having a love for cheese curds, i had to drop in on a few dishes of POUTINE while there. start with a dish of fries, add cheese curds on top and finish off with some hot brown gravy.

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Vote Scratch

BTW is everyone aware of the BANKSY installation in NYC till Halloween? FYI.

Check my boy Jonny's dad in this BBC recap. He's Marty the "shop keeper."

This is how my crew rolls..

Thanks Mikey.

NEW LAB RADIO

(click box, duh!)

This month my guests were…

XXXCHANGE

More and more I feel like if my favorite shit isn’t coming from Eli Escobar right now, it’s coming from this guy XXXChange. Ever since he dropped that Thom Yorke remix he seems to be able to do no wrong. I bugged him with questions about being in the studio for the early LCD sessions and his equipment/production secrets. He played a bunch of his latest work as well as a few big room bangers he said he was really feeling for the production quality?

DANNY DAZE

Not only does this guy dress shmoove, he is shmoove! I went by his studio in Miami (an extension he literally built on to his Mom’s crib all by himself) and wasn’t disappointed for a moment. You may be familiar with his production as one/third of the electro-reworkers DiscoTech, who’s trax are download platinum over on Crooklyn Clan Dot Com. What I didn’t know was that he was also a super intense, super tough dj, with a deep appreciation for all forms of Electro. The mix he recorded was truly above and beyond, I’ve been listening to it non-stop.

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

iTunes → Radio → Dance → Turntable Lab LA Radio

Pretty much back in NYC full time now…

Lloyd-Ski, O-Spindles and I are starting a new weekly Saturday night party just to have a good time called…

GOOD TIMES
Every Saturday!
87 Lounge
(below Delancey)

Make sure you come by Michna’s release if you’re into fun…

LOSE YOUR SHIT (BK LOFT PARTY)
Tonight (Friday)
172 Classon Ave @ Myrtle

Lastly… Tuesday Oct 14th

SCION RADIO 17 PARTY

PLAYGROUP
HOLYGHOST!
DESIGNER DRUGS
FRANKI CHAN
& JEMZ

@ PLAN B
339 E 10th St
11PM FREE

he hits the 7th octave when both feet come off the ground

Nice post Pete, let's not forget about the music and how it influenced much of what we love today...

Along with dudes like Lee Perry, Scientist and King Tubby, Prince Jammy was one of the originators of dub...

-NN

fellow designers,
hope that your designs will age this well.

early - mid seventies studio one dub albums
think they have some originals of these at deadly dragon.

You got to be kidding me.
Are you trying to lose your young customer base?
Like McCain, brother, you are 'out of touch'.

proper fall listening...

even better fall listening...

good fall listening...

also, tying up some loose ends
- roc's party tonite at Love... see the Lab characters in real life!
- tickets to the Diesel - MIA thing are available for FREE at the Annex (while supplies last)
- stop the madness, register to vote THIS WEEK
- i would officially like to dead the term "kind bud"
- how bout dem skins!
- and last but not least, check out the Lab office listening feature at this cool new-ish design website, designrelated

http://view.break.com/581294 - Watch more free videos
DUDE... I LOVE THIS KID.(GOOD LOOKIN LIL RONDA)

Lab Radio Update! - a potent mix of heavy new tracks and savory classics - 20x!

Brand Nubian
Brooklyn People
Cloud One
Cosmic Force
Cure, The
Dimitri From Paris
Eddie Drennon
Esther Williams
Flying Lotus
Hector Lavoe
Herbie Hancock
Jimi Hendrix
Johnson & Johnson
Madlib
Magnum Force
Michna
Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
Phantom Slasher
School of Seven Bells
Tame Impala
Tim Love Lee
TM Juke & The Jack Baker Trio

whoa, the Roc turned 30? my oh my how time flies. i was just speaking of him this weekend with Sabo, word. cheers my dude, and thanks for letting me use your needles when you were like 20-21. big things are poppin for you.

now Boy Genius, where you at? i think only you and your brother will feel this shirt...

Nicely executed...looks like Diesel's putting up some big bucks for Saturday's Rock & Roll Circus in BK. Hot Chip, NERD, MIA are all scheduled to perform (word has it even the one and only Chaka Khan might be making a very special surprise guest appearance.)...

And here's your DJs for the evening...Oy Vey...

-NN

So this week is the big one. Roc's 30th on Wednesday, and my album release party on Friday.

What can i say about this? Well, originally I wanted to do the nyc release party at a roller rink. By the time my record came out every roller rink in nyc had closed. Option 2 was laser tag. A quick google search showed that the one big spot in manhattan was now closed. So then I thought about Coney Island options, maybe a warehouse, but the only thing I came across were Russian and Italian bar/restaurants. In steps $mall Change and Meanred and hook it up lovely with the secret loft spot in Brooklyn. As you know, its VERY hard to find good spots in nyc, but I can definitely recommend Love and 12 turns 13 this week...Extra shouts to my man Pert Minus for hooking the flyer up using strictly scissors and tape! Oh did i mention that all the dj's above will be playing vinyl ONLY ?

John McCain is paying for that sandwich with a check.

watch this repeatedly, it just gets funnier...

life is tough as a haitian weatherman...

IT's Official, IM OLD!!!!!

I just turned 30 and Im out to celebrate and do it as big as i can!

We have a a lot of different people working on this, from my crew to Mean Red and John Davis of Body and Soul fame, I hope its like 22 year old skaters wasted next to drag queens next to hollerboarders next to old men on films dudes and maybe even some real live women but dont get your hopes up!!!! should be legendary.... Im extending the olive branch to everybody come kick it with us and make some new friends and jack your fucking ass off....

Mike Dunn Interview...

http://www.5chicago.com/features/february2008/mike-dunn.html

Classics....

So, I dj'ed the Aspen Snowboard Film Fest last night (which was FRESH) and it brought to my attention all the ladies that are snowboarding. Not only are they cute, THEY ARE KILLING IT ON THE SLOPES.

Especially this one...

On the skrength of last night's set, hopefully I will be in Aspen again soon...

Need something new to listen to? Peep Z-Trip's Obama mix. Click here.

every now and again pop culture leaves us with an overlooked gem.
i gotta think this was about the same time as the late 80's afrocentricity
movement in hip hop and the rise to domination of (H)akeem "the dream"
Olajuwon. Bring the two together and what did Vince McMahon come up
with?
Akeem "the african dream"!
this must have been the reason olajuwon changed his first name to hakeem

Hey Mike Tyson here speakin with Joe Biden over here.
Yo Joe Biden, your main objective out here is to do nuttin but
eat eat eat eat Sarah Palin, for lunch, breakfast...
Hey man, they been playin me all my life man
You know I won a title a couple a times, ya dig right?
No, but they can't hurt us man
We gonna do it, get up in this ring man, put on these gloves
Let me show you how to handle this li'l nigga

Yo Biden, man you gotta hit harder than that man.
You don't want no bitch ass niggaz hangin out wit me man.
We're warriors man, when we go into battle
we come out, or don't come out at all!

Get 'em JOE

WOW
stones throw really did it up proper for the Madvillain 2 box...

supa-deluxe!
BUY IT HERRE