Last April for Coachella weekend, Fool’s Gold teamed up with Stones Throw for a party at the Ace hotel. The idea behind it was basically: “come hear some music that you won’t hear elsewhere this weekend”. No electro, not even any rap, just classic disco and old school house. It was our first collaborative project with Stones Throw, which is surprising since I’ve been tight with those dudes for years — they even released my first record back in 1999.

The party was a success and left us wanting more… So we decided to do a lil’ tour. We’re doing a boat party in Vancouver, playing by the waterfront in San Fran, doing a Lollapalooza afterparty in Chicago and, well, getting tax-free goods in Portland.

Check the full show listings after the jump. Come see us in your town. Bring your best dancing shoes. We’re here to move your hips. And if you have an artificial hip, we’ll make it squeak. I’m not really sure what that means.

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SOUNDCLASH in Palm Springs!
We’re teaming up with one of my favorite labels Stones Throw for a side party on the Friday of Coachella at the Ace hotel. RSVP here, it’s free.

Speaking of Stones Throw, did you see the packaging on their new J Dilla x Serato vinyl? Kudos, gentlemen… Designed by Studio No.1.

You can count on Stones Throw to keep the beat diggers happy…

Secondhand Sureshots is a filmed experiment in creative sound recycling. Dublab directors Bryan “Morpho” Younce & Mark “frosty” McNeill sent beatmakers Daedelus, Nobody, J.Rocc and Ras G on safari into L.A. thrift stores with orders to make new music out of five finds while the cameras filmed the whole process. The result is a mini-documentary about putting new life into old vinyl. Over 2 hours of footage, music & bonus material.

More info on stonesthrow.com.

By the way, in less dusty news… don’t sleep on J.Rocc’s classic early 90’s house and techno crates. We had a lil’ session last week.

I’m a little late with this but once again Stones Throw comes correct with the packaging.

45 Live is a set of 18 hip hop classic songs on 7-inch, re-edited by Peanut Butter Wolf and available on 7-inch for the first time. A mixed CD version of the box set drops in September.

Great interview with PB Wolf talking about some key releases in the Stones Throw catalogue. Wolf has been a dear friend for over 10 years. He put out my first record, Enter Ralph Wiggum, a 45 in 1999.

Does anyone have his first album My Vinyl Weighs A Ton on mp3? If you could post a download link in the comments that would be much appreciated!!

From Crate Kings

The song ain’t bad either!
Seriously, I’m feeling Mayer Hawthorne & The County. But Stones Throw really snapped with this item. Find out more about it here.

Stones Throw just released a new promo mp3 from James Pants’ “Crystal Lite” single, a remix of “Ka$h” that’s a total FG family affair courtesy of myseft and XXXChange. You can download it for free here or go and purchase the 320 version and/or vinyl 12″.

I ended off my summer with a 2 week string of shows in the Old Continent, which I guess could qualify as the European (and final) leg of the Sunglasses Is A Must tour. My first show was a the Hip Hop Kemp festival in what I thought was going to be Prague. In fact it was 2 hours away, in rural Czech Republic. I don’t remember the name of the city but I couldn’t really pronounce it anyway, in all honesty. Really, I was picturing going to Prague and recreating the “Diamonds from Sierra Leone” video by myself. Instead I had a driver who blasted a Tiesto live mix in the car while dropping such jewels as “I stop at petrol station to roll joint with other driver, OK? You want sandwich?” The show itself was dope, though. 20,000 people in a field. The next day I did the Lowlands festival outside of Amsterdam, which had a great lineup but I didn’t get to see much because of heavy rain.

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The last weekend of June / first weekend of July was pretty coocoo for me. I started off playing in Toronto on the Thursday, at a Jurassic 5 show. I saw J-Rocc and Madlib pop up in the crowd while I was playing — they were in town for a Stones Throw show the night before. That’s always good. And here’s a picture with my homie Pro, who was travelling with J5…

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