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Fool’s Gold x LTD Holiday Party Is Back!
We’re jingling baby! Fool’s Gold and LTD are teaming up once again to spread holiday cheer with our NYC friends and fam. Come get festive at the FG x LTD Holiday Party – a non-stop night of merriment and DJ sets from beat heroes Mannie Fresh and Just Blaze along with FG’s own Brothers Macklovitch (A-Trak and Dave1) and Sammy Bananas. It’s all going down at Tammany Hall in NYC on Friday, December 17th. 21+, RSVP IS A MUST.
Full info after the jump. Get psyched by checking out pics and DJ sets from the last time we were celebrating. (more…)
Farewell Fat Beats
After 16 years of being the mecca of underground hip hop, Fat Beats closed its last remaining stores in New York and LA. I have a lot of history with the company, since my first record label Audio Research was distributed through them. So it was an honor to be invited to perform on the last day of a week of in-stores, last Saturday, alongside many greats like DJ Premier, Just Blaze and DJ Scratch. I did a full set of routines, I think it was about 17 minutes long! That’s like 3 DMC’s, yo. Peter Rosenberg captured some highlights, peep the video… and Fat Beats, I tip my fedora to thee.
DAY OFF! Free NYC Labor Day Party with Fool’s Gold + Friends!
Putting a giant exclamation point on another summer of smash singles and packed-out parties across the country, Fool’s Gold is throwing a free DAY OFF party on Labor Day. It’s going down from 2-8pm in a great outdoor space behind City Winery in NYC (155 Varick St, entrance on Spring between Hudson & Varick) and the all-ages event will feature guest raps from Yelawolf, Pill and Donnis, DJ sets from The Brothers Macklovitch (Dave & me), Just Blaze, Craze, Klever, Kill The Noise and Nick Catchdubs, and a live performance by The Suzan. It’s truly a family affair, with their friends from Scion, The Fader, LTD+, Slow Roast, Jelly and more on board to make it a can’t-miss party!
Fool’s Gold Holiday Party in NY next Saturday
Next Saturday (12/19) Fool’s Gold is throwing a holiday party in NYC with our pals at LTD Mag. Just Blaze will play a house set! Ever since we first started the record label Nick and I have had this idea in the back of heads to do something house-related with Just Blaze. The great Max Glazer will also be on deck duties, as well as @catchdini and a sibling set by Dave and myself.
It’s an early one, starts at 9pm. Come celebrate the non-denominational holidays with us! Free with RSVP.
Just Blaze gives a Logic lesson
Here’s a video of Just Blaze showing how to chop a sample in Logic 8 and load it into the proverbial EXS sampler. It’s a trip seeing someone else using Logic because there’s so many shortcuts and different ways to use it that everyone ends up having their own approach. I started on Logic 7 about 2 years ago and only switched to 8 after I finished my Running Man record this past Spring. Version 8 made a lot of features more intuitive but I still have my traditional habits from Logic 7.
Just Blaze: www.mikechav.com chopping samples in Logic from Mike Chav on Vimeo.
Hurricanes, bowling and more.
Right after my last update, we spent a week in Florida in the heat of hurricane season. I remember one day we almost got hit; we left Jacksonville in the morning to go to Tallahassee, and later that day Jacksonville lost power and had tornado warnings and all sorts of funky stuff. Meanwhile we all went bowling in Tallahassee. I hit a strike on my first try, which is a miracle because I’ve never bowled over 100.
