Doulbe-0 7 is here, ladies and gents. Best wishes to you and yours. I hope you all had a restful holiday season full of spinning dreidels and/or waterfalls of eggnog.

I’ve been meaning to announce this for about a month, so I guess this is one of those “better late than never” things: the white label for my “Step Off” track with Little Brother is in stores now! But not for long because we made very limited quantities, so hurry. Hurry, you fiends of vinyl plates!

Now back to the torrid tell-all tales of traveling and tourism.

Last time around I was telling you about the Kanye tour in Australia. We ended that off with quick stops in Hong Kong and Tokyo. HK was nice and action-packed. I went to a restaurant and ordered king prawns, expecting to get large shrimp, but instead got large shrip heads… No bodies, just big heads. And the Kanye show was at this outdoor venue which is actually a drive-in theatre that’s about to open. We were right by the water and had an amazing view on the skyline, as you can see on the pic below. That was the first headlining show we did on that tour, after opening for U2 for almost 3 weeks, so it felt great to do a longer, more involved set. More Trizzy presence! Oh and there was this strange, Voltron-looking buildling right behind us which was like a skyscraper with an opening in the middle of the lower half. If you ask anyone about it, they just say: “Oh that’s just feng-shui, so that when the giant dragon comes to take a drink from the water, he can fly through that opening and the building’s not in his way.” That’s what I thought.

Our stay in Tokyo was also just 2 days. I got me some nice kicks, and we played at this Fendi concert where I met DJ Muro and this new singer you might have heard of, her name is Cassie.

Then at 4am on the last night before our flight out I went to this crazy 24-hour 6-story gizmo shop and bought a gorilla mask and the type of cartoonish horn you would find on Mr Magoo’s car. I’ve been using it to punctuate my jokes lately and it’s been a blast.

When I came home I was faced with the most intense jetlag in recent history. It still baffles me that your body can never fully get used to traveling this much. You just kinda get in an autopilot zone, but it still hits you. All I know is I was falling asleep at 8pm every day for a week. But I was also waking up at like 5am so my mornings were really productive!

Back in New York I did a string of shows in the middle of December (I don’t usually do many gigs in between tours). There was this Nike party for the 25th anniversary of Air Force 1′s where I DJ’d for Kanye in a performance with Nas, Rakim, KRS-One, Kid Capri and LES. That event was like walking into hypebeast, like inside the web.

There’s some clips on youtube, for all you surfers of the information superhighway. Then I played at my homie Dust La Rock’s bday celebration (designer of this fine webpage) at Sway, and also DJ’d at 10Deep’s xmas blowout with Wajeed from PPP.

Then came the holidays. I didn’t do anything for Hannukah, strangely. I was just in NY, which is jewish enough in itself, I must say. And then my brother and I came up to Montreal for the break. I purposefully didn’t DJ on New Year’s eve. I think I DJ’d enough this year. We just did the family thing and then went out to see our homie Mehdi do what he does best. And that he did.

And now the new year is upon us! I’m not gonna lie and say that my resultion is to update this site more often, because I don’t want to be accused of perjury. I will try though. So if all goes well, we will speak soon. Run along now.