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DJ Mehdi models for Uniqlo
Countdown on DJ Mehdi’s blog
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!
Some goodies from DJ Mehdi
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!
Erol Alkan & Boys Noize – Death Suite (DJ Mehdi Simple Acid Edit) (right-click save-as)
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While we’re on the topic of Mehdipedia, here’s a new Karmaloop interview:
This deserves a re-post: the cardboard cut-out
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!
Around The World, pt. 19
As posted on the fab Fader blog.
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.
FOX plugs me and Mehdi
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!
Around the World, pt. 16
As posted on the fab Fader blog.
Sorry for the late report folks! I usually do these blogs on Mondays but this week has been nuts. The madness really hit overdrive when I went to Miami for Winter Music Conference last week. I was just coming off of two press days in LA where my personal highlight was the combination of driving in the city of cars for the first time, twittering about how bad I drive especially in a rental Jeep, and getting @replies warning me that I’d get a ticket for texting and driving! As you’ll recall, WMC marked the final stretch of my Infinity +1 tour, having been on the road for 2 weeks.
Around the World, pt. 15
As posted on the fab Fader blog.
Week 2 of the Infinity +1 tour! After the overall awesomeness of the New York show on the first weekend, I knew it would be smooth sailing for a while. I guess New York has this sort of make-or-break-ness to it. So picking up where we last left off, I took the train to Boston for a show on St-Patrick’s day, last Tuesday. It’s pretty rare that you get to take trains in North America compared to Europe, and it’s such an easier way to travel when the distance isn’t too bad. At Penn Station I was already seeing a bunch of dudes dressed in green, ready to double-fist some brewskis. The potential for obnoxiousness was pretty high, I’d say it was level orange. Arriving in Boston, I went to sound check with Mano and Hollywood Holt who were also performing that night and we realized that the club looked like a big boudoir. Jiggy clubs: another setting where bitchassness is very likely. The more velvet you see, the more likely you are to run into dumbbells. We went to eat a big lobster dinner and came back for the show. I guess it’s a good thing that I hadn’t played Boston in years because in the end I think that brought out my real audience and we beat out the evil forces of jiggy clubs and wasted jocks and had a really fun time! Everything else was a false alarm.
Around the World, pt. 14
Taken from the fab Faber blog.
Hello Fader friends! I took a couple of weeks off from my Around The World column because, well, I wasn’t going around the world that much. I was mostly recording, first finishing up my Infinity +1 and Fabriclive mix CDs that are both dropping in 2 weeks, and then starting cooking up some new material for the year. I did travel a little bit. I went to visit my family in Canada.
