My Chicagoan brethren have a new video for their song “Big Bills” with homegirl from Chairlift. Check it out! Word to Curt’s glasses.

Time for one of my long-winded tour novelas. I recently wrapped up a European tour that spanned the whole month of May, one which I arbitrarily named the Upper Crust Tour at the last minute, in honor of that beloved chain of sandwich shops found in almost all train stations. After doing a whole bunch of tours with other people — the Fool’s Gold fam, Mehdi, Kanye, etc — I felt like going off to clubland (Europe) and back to raw DJing practically every night for 4 weeks. Of course I wasn’t literally by myself the whole month. In most cities I was sharing bills with friends from either continent. But it did feel like a pilgrimage to the land of the DJ, and on off-days I would often link up with other producers and work on music. I loved it. I started a Flickr page towards the beginning of my trip so you can catch my full set of pics here. Let’s dive into it.

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OK kids, here comes a big announcement. Are you sitting down? Of course you’re sitting down, you’re at the computer. Who computes standing up? Maybe you should get up to sit back down, just to get that “this is serious” feeling. You ready? Alright, I’m going in. (pause)

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It’s that time again! Break out those reading glasses, I’ve got some stories to tell. First of all I just finished this mixtape that I’ve been working on for the past 2 months! Oh what a feeling. It’s called Dirty South Dance and it’s coming out through Obey just in time for SXSW. I made a gang of remixes using bits and pieces of new electro tracks, crunkdafied acapellas and adding some production, and then made a mix out of the whole shebang-a-bang. If you heard those “Walk It Out” and “Stuntin Like My Daddy” remixes that have been up on my myspace page, those are taken from the mixtape. I ended up having to finish it in random hotel rooms, whenever I’d have some downtime between sound checks and shows, setting up my little one-turntable-plus-serato-plus-Mbox mobile workstation on hotel desks across the land.

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Last time I wrote I was close to finishing up the Kanye tour overseas, where we hit festivals in no particular order and slept half-hour nights like it was going out of style. Yes, it was a hard one. We did manage to end it off on a grandiose high note. Our last show was in Nice, France (in a surreal field full of olive trees that obstructed the view of the stage). Kanye had decided to splurge and stay at a different hotel in Monte Carlo, and late that night we all went to meet up there, had a bacchanalian good time and drove back to catch our early-morning flights home.

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