The results are in for the 2009 Beatport Music Awards and my remix of Boys Noize “Oh!” won best Electro House Track! Coooooool…. next year I’m going for Best Chill Out Track.
Also in the Fool’s Gold family, Kid Cudi “Day N Nite (Crookers Remix)” won best Indie Dance / Nu Disco Track.
In the latest episode of FOX’s TV show Fringe, at the 37 min. 31 sec. mark, you see the flyer for my last Studio B show with DJ Mehdi. They’re hip!
It was only a matter of time before someone came up with an alternative to those record frames from Urban Outfitters. This Art Vinyl frame is different in the sense that you can remove and replace the records without taking the frame mount off the wall. Maybe you actually want to record to those records! More info on the site, it’s also available in white.
Now let me take a trip down memory lane. Who here knows about Obscure Disorder? Before Kanye, before Kid Sister, even before the Allies, my first affiliation was with this Montreal rap group. Obscure Disorder was produced mostly by my brother Dave 1 (sometimes by me), and the 3 MC’s were Dave’s high school friends: Troy Dunnit, Eclipse and Logic. Between 1997 and 2002 we released 5 singles on Audio Research, the defunct indie hip hop label that Dave and I ran together. The highlight was a collaboration with Non Phixion called “2004″.
Troy was the de facto frontman of the group, the only member to release a solo single on Audio Research while the group was still active. OD never really broke up, everyone just grew up and moved on to different projects. We had an album about 75% done but never finished it… Maybe we’ll dust it off the shelves one day and let you hear it.
In the meantime, check out Troy Dunnit’s latest offering, a collaboration with fellow Montrealer Lotus entitled “New Flava” (produced by Lotus).
The Telegraph reports that this horse (Alfie is his name) grew a mustache and won’t let anyone shave it. Actually they write “moustache” because they’re British. I just wanted to post this picture.
OK this picture is kind of a bigger deal than the content of this post. Of course it’s Damon Dash, me and Kanye, but this is the first time I met Kanye, right when he asked me to come on tour with him. Dame was actually trying to get me to DJ for Samantha Ronson but Kanye snatched me. This picture has never appeared online. Straight out the shoebox. (May, 2004)
Anyway, the reason for this post is I wanted to link an article on Damon Dash written by this guy Combat Jack. Not sure who he is, he says he “repped” Dame in the mid-90’s. Just by coincidence there’s also that video that surfaced today of Dame spazzing out… but the article is much more interesting. Watching a guy spazz is pretty one-dimensional. I actually have a lot of respect for Dame and am a bit fascinated with the early days of Roc-A-Fella since I run a label myself. So, read up!
Shout out to DJ Soul for the twitter referral.
As posted on the fab Fader blog.
As I sit back and nurse the knockout that all these criss-crossing flights served me, I’m starting to remember what took place in the two weeks since I last wrote. I was halfway into my European tour, leaving Paris. I headed back to London, only to go to Brighton for a gig at Digital. Everyone in London was psyching me up about that club, its sound system and the fact that it’s right on the beach. “The beach, Jerry!” I think there’s a back door that opens to a pier. Might be a bit dangerous for the late night stumblers. Also, London DJs have this way of doing gigs in neighboring cities and driving back the same night after the gig, rather than getting a hotel. I shared a ride with Riva Starr. On the way down he played me his new klezmer-techno album. If you saw this post a few weeks ago you’ll conclude that this is an interesting new trend. On the way back I just tried to sleep, but there’s no way around the fact that I got in dangerously late.
Dizzee’s new single is produced by the one and only Armand Van Helden and it’s really grown on me… It’s pretty clear from the video that the label is reaching for the kids with this one, but I f*cks with it.
Watch this, it’s a clip of Q-Tip working a sample for a Consequence track, in the studio with Kanye and them. But the way Tip loops the sample just by needle dropping is ill!!
UPDATE: Something seems to be wrong, this damn Kyte player is playing the wrong episode of Cons TV… ugh… bring back the needle drop!
Shot the weekend of my LA gig at Avalon… As seen on both ThisIs50.com and Kanye’s blog… ha!
