Don’t you love a good collaboration? Like uh, hello, Method Man & Redman were dope the first time around, before the deodorant commercial. So I am very pleased that Mehdi & Riton have announced their Carte Blanche project, because I’m super duper into it, they’re on some classic Chicago house meets Trax On Da Rocks tip and I think this is much needed in today’s overproduced hybrid climate. Back to basics. Let’s do it.
Perhaps you’re aware that there has been a swirl of rumors about me producing the next Madonna album. Here is my official statement on the matter, as presented today to Pitchfork:
“Those Madonna rumors started from a joke my boy DJ Mehdi made in an interview. Then it spread to Madonna fan-sites. Then the Daily Starfabricated a quote from me. Next thing you know it was on NME and MTV. I’m not opposed to the idea, but it’s all fiction for now. By the way, DJ Mehdi is producing the next Britney record.”
I’ll be ringing in the new year (I never really understood this expression) in LA this week, and frankly you can’t really beat this line-up. Sometimes I dread NYE because I feel like too much to juggle, too many people to please, but not this year! I’m gonna be DJing my arse off with a big smile on my face. If you’re in the LA area I hope to see you there. I think there’s just a few tickets left, they’re going fast. Grab them over at Hard’s website.
Set times:
9pm: Destructo
10pm: DJ Mehdi
Midnight: A-Trak (new decade, hooooooo)
2am: Boys Noize
The only way you can be excused from coming to this show if you’re in town is if you’re checking out Chromeo at Club Nokia. Either way, Los Angeles, spend NYE with a Macklovitch. If you don’t you’re a bum.
To welcome Uniqlo on the french market the brand decided to create a new ad campaign. They selected some cool French dancing DJs influentials, including our boy Mehdipedia as well as Sébasiten Tellier, Nadège Winter and others.
My vacation buddy DJ Mehdi has a remix compilation coming out on Monday entitled Red Black & Blue. Over on his section of the Cool Cats blog he’s been running a countdown for about 2 weeks now, every day leaking a song and its accompanying artwork panel with detailed storytelling. For example above he reminisces on finishing his Holy Ghost! remix in a Belgian hotel room with feedback from myself and Sebastian. Listen to it below and make sure you cop the comp next week!
Brother from another mother Mehdi made a very useful edit of Erol Alkan & Boys Noize’s seizure-inducing “Death Suite”. Here it is, courtesy of the Boys Noize Recs blog!
I talked about this cardboard cut-out of Mehdi and me as Men In Black in my Pitchfork Guest List so lots of people have been asking to see it lately. When we got it as a gift at an LA show, my idea was to take pictures of it all around the world like in Amelie. But then we lost it the next day. We still got enough shots to make this gif though. This was on the first Fool’s Gold tour in October 2007.
I gotta give a give a big shout out to the artist who made this, his name is Busc check him out!
Back on the road for another odyssey, this time for the entire month of May, literally from the 1st to the 31st. I was home for a few days last week, just enough time to touch base with reality and throw out the rotten clementines in my fridge. For some reason when it’s wintertime and I buy one of those wooden cases of clementines I get really psyched for a few days and then I forget about them. Then I might open the fruit drawer a month later and they still look the same so I keep them. Next thing you know I leave on tour, come back and it’s only when there’s a thriving ecosystem growing on them that I remember to toss them out. Can you blame me? Anyway, I promise I kept myself occupied with more than citrus fruit. I never socialize much when I’m in my hometown. I did, however, peep Catchdini DJing at Izza Kizza’s mixtape release party. I also finished a collaborative EP which you may or may not have heard of, dropping this summer. More on that soon. And I tied up a few loose ends for the last couple of songs that we’ve been recording for the much anticipated Kid Sister album. With that, I packed my Tumi and crossed the Atlantic.
