This year I had much greater difficulty putting together a list of my favorite local albums than I did a non-local list. And that makes me proud. Not proud for myself, of course, but of this city and the wealth of musical talent it produces. There were more genuinely great local albums produced in 2011 than I can ever remember in my eight years living here, and narrowing them all down to a reasonable number proved to be a much more arduous task than I ever could have thought. And yet, here we are. The caveats and criteria [...]
Last Try (deep&dub techno - Forthcoming on Glider Records) by Fingers In The Noise Issho - We'll Make It Through (Original Mix) by Issho Womack & Womack - Baby I'm Scared Of You (Casbah 73 extended edit) by CASBAH 73 Night The Lights Went Out - The Trammps (Dimitri - Paris Re-Edit) by STEVEMILLER [...]
Husky of Random Soul brings his signature house sound to Blockhead Recordings. Chicago Ghetto House Music Beatport Link Download Artist: Husky Title: Blows My Mind EP Label: Blockhead Recordings Cat nr.: BHD033 Genre: Chicago Ghetto House Quality: 320 kbps Source: WEB Store Rls date: 27-06-2011 Webstore: beatport.com Tracks: 01. Blows My Mind (Original Mix) 06:50 [...]
2011 is off to a phenomenal start for Atlanta music. January saw several strong releases, some of them arriving unexpectedly from newcomers making their first waves in the local scene. If you haven't done so yet, do yourself a favor and download the self-titled debut from experimental psych-pop duo, New Animal . Their epic 15-song LP really helped to kick 2011 off right and it set the bar high for all other bands to try and best this year. Not to be outdone, Mood Rings unleashed their own bit of hazy, blurred out pop-shoegaze magic [...]
Hometown Heroes own Jon Lorenzo breaks from behind the cobwebs to give us a super energetic fully charged mix that is guaranteed to keep you moving & grooving from the beginning to the end. Upbeat rap & oldschool music you don't normally hear mixed together. Unreleased (extended) version of my hip hop/electro mix from January 2009. Applications used: ProTools and Serat o I'll say! He even threw yours truly on there rockin over the [...]
Get you dancing ass to The Rub at Southpaw tonite as DJ Anonymous of Top Billin fam is doing a guest set there. Good vibrations guaranteed. Shouts to Cosmo, Ayres, Eleven. AND check Cosmo's new mix . It's wonderful.
NYC producer/dj Cosmo Baker (1/3 of The Rub ) is one of the top dudes around and we're happy to hear this third and final mix chapter of his Love Break series, warm and solid mix to keep you heated amidst all this wintery chaos here in Europe. "I'm pleased to present to you the third and final installment in my Love Break series. It's been a long time since I came out with any mixes and a few months ago I was listening to both the first and second mixes in this [...]
Never shall a mix from Cosmo Baker or any of The Rub guys ever need much of an introduction or second-guessing about whether it's worth the listen. Recorded October 2010 at The Byrdhouse in Brooklyn and here for the sharing today. Enjoy! "I'm pleased to present to you the third and final installment in my Love Break series. It's been a long time since I came out with any mixes and a few months ago I was listening to both the first and second mixes in [...]
Devo x Willow Smith - Whip It Back and Forth (DJ Ayres has no shame edit) New mix from DJ Ayres, and its a good one. T & A has had some great releases this year (Munchi, Starks) and they're gearing up for more. Next up is TNT (Tifa, Natalie Storm and Timberlee) with Hot ... Read more
There's something to be said if you're not familiar with The Rub's History Of Hip-Hop series. It's one of those things you'll want to correct pronto by going to their site and grabbing a few years worth of listening material. I think I own and have listened to every single one of the '90s mixes at least three times but haven't caught up on the 2k's just yet. For the latest HOHH installment, DJ Eleven holds down the controls, handpicking the hits from the year 2009. [...]
Now, many of you may have come across these before but the 1979 version came on shuffle on my ipod whilst I was hoovering this afternoon and I thought why not whack it up here? The 1979 edition can be downloaded here and it features Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, Kurtis Blow, The Sequence, Funky 4+1 and more classics from the year that is widely recognised as the first time Hip Hop was committed to wax. What struck me so [...]
Cool story: an NPR intern gets the chance of a lifetime, to join Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros on stage in concert Brooklyn Radio has a great interview with the DJs of The Rub's History of Hip-Hop crew Ayres, Cosmo and DJ Eleven From Letters of Note, Johnny Cash on his 1964 deal with Columbia : "I'm sure you fully realise that a C/W A&R man must be 'human', 'down-to-earth', like 'one of the folks next door'…… Because non-business, down to earth artists, such as myself, [...]
This Friday, July 30th, Webster Hall will be sculpted into bass heaven with Nero and Gaslamp Killer, while our favorite NYC trio, Ayres, Catchdubs and Jubilee, bring their flashing lights rave goodness to the stage. This is one not to be missed, period. Last time we caught the mother fucking Gaslamp Killer , he delivered an epic sermon of cosmic bass that melted our brains in Brooklyn . Vaulting hip-hop into another dimension, GLK's eccentrically dizzy d j sets wrap riddims around your soul while his hair keeps up the tempo. Have a listen to this [...]
Best new downloads from the month of July (it's July already!) all in one place, guilt-free. 1. Menomena "TAOS" From their new album, Mines , out July 27 (Barsuk), this is a pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootst raps kind of rock song with pop interludes and introspective lyrics. Bonus points for horns at the end. Download track via Stereogum 2. Panda Bear "Slow Motion" One of two songs leaked from Animal Collective member Panda Bear's self-titled album, out this fall (Domino). There are better quality rips floating around, but here they are together. [...]
I have a new single out today on DJ Eleven' s 11-Inch Records - some deep and funky disco jams that will most certainly go well with your mesh tank top and your best dancing shoes. Really excited that Eleven (of the world famous Rub ) gave me the opportunity to get these tunes out there and we'll be celebrating this Thursday, July 15th at Von in NYC (3 Bleecker Street in the basement). The record is available today at iTunes and Gigacrate , and I'll update the site with links to [...]
The Scion A/V monthly rolls into Mpls tomorrow. Dj Mehdi, Riton, Ayres and Blu Jemz are throwing down. Here's a new mix Ayres made for the tour. Remember to RSVP I'm going out on tour for a couple of weeks with DJ Mehdi and Riton, who have a new project called Carte Blanche on Ed [...]
The Rub drops some more knowledge for yall. They know their hip hop, so expect to get schooled. Philly's Most Wanted, Busta, Outkast, M.O.P., Fatip, Latyrx, etc. The Rub does a great job of grabbing good mainstream, and underground tunes. 2000 had some of my favorite tunes. Outkast dropped some of their best work, Reflection [...]
DOWNLOAD [via Cosmo Baker ] Tracklist: OutKast "So Fresh, So Clean" Beanie Sigel "The Truth" Shyne "Bad Boyz feat. Barrington Levy" Fatlip "What's Up Fatlip" Aaliyah "Come Back In One Piece feat. DMX" DJ Shadow "Hardcore (Instrumental) Hip-Hop" Ghostface Killah "Apollo Kids feat. Raekwon" Jay-Z "1-900-Hustler feat. Beanie Sigel, Freeway & Memphis Bleek" Ruff Ryders "WW III feat. Yung Wun, Snoop Dogg, Scarface & Jadakiss" Next "Jerk feat. 50 Cent" Prodigy "Keep It Thoro" The Beatnuts "No Escapin' This" Philly's Most Wanted "Cross The Border" Nelly [...]
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