Total heaviness at Fabric tonight. Celebrating the release of “Elevator Music” they’ve booked a very impressive lineup. Todd Edwards, Hudson Mohawke (LIVE), Rustie (LIVE), Jackmaster, Spencer, Nelson, Goodhand + MORE in room one. Room two with 2562, Headhunter, dBridge, Instra:mental, Joy Orbison, Jack Sparrow, and Sigha. Then Untold, Shortstuff, Hot City, xxxy, Mosca, and Vista in Room Three.
Damn.
You can purchase “Elevator Music” on the Fabric site now and get into the madness tonight for free.
My favorite alt-pop-country band of brothers (some by blood and all by PBR,) are starting their residency at The Echo tomorrow night. I feel like a proud older brother, these guys work as hard as any band I’ve ever known and they get better every time I see them play. Should be a packed house and they’re down with the clown!
I was asked to do a mix for the popular mixtape series “Pre Party Jamz” on Nicky Digital’s site. Past mixtapers include Crookers, Jokers of the Scene, Drop the Lime, Andrew W.K. and a zillion others. My favorite moment would be the transition between the first two tracks has Steve Miller singing his ” doo-doo-do-do’s ” over Shazam’s excellent boogie funk ” Hello Cat. ” Tracklist available after the jump.
My bros to the north Smalltown DJ’s compiled a mix of their top tracks for 2009. By no coincidence am I posting this because they included my remix for The XX. Tracklist after the jump.
My Norcal bros over at Solid Bump tipped me off to these awesome drum sample collections, both featuring live drums, multisampled, and mic’d through preamps to 2″ tape and all that good nerdy stuff. Even though to Brother Reade dudes record their own drum samples, I figured all my other producer homies could always use more ( live ) drums. They’re setup to pop in to your logic exs24 sampler, but if you’re an Abletoner like myself, you can just drag and drop your samples straight into the sequencer, into your simpler sampler, or your drum kit. Enjoy!
“Crossfaded Bacon is very proud to present Brother Reade’s *THE DRAMA EP* and its profound look into the eccentric present/future of music while remaining deeply indebted to its past influences and traditions.”
Featuring remixes by Philly legend Emynd, BxB’s own Them Jeans, and Scott Matelic.
You can find the track list and 10 minute promo mix after the jump.
Let’s start this week off correctly, set the tone and you know, “get your mind right”. A selection off of David Axelrod’s incredibly influential “Songs of Experience”. You’ll easily recognize the phrase liberated by another highly influential producer.
The Human Abstract – 320
*Bonus - Here is a 2001 article from The Fader where Egon, PB Wolf, and Madlib sit in on a recording session with David Axelrod at Capitol Records.
I did a mix for DJ Haul and Scion Radio last month that just went up. It’s a scattered mix of deeper disco, Cluster, and Dam Funk closed out with the latest from Funkineven 1956 – Kleer feat. Fatima (Which is such a jam). Tracklist after the jump.
Louisahhh takes the second half with an all vinyl Disco / House set.
First, I get a call that my computer is back from Apple Repair HQ in Texas, I brought it in because it would turn on but screen was pure darkness and unresponsive. Not awesome. The nice “Genius,” told me that it was probably the video card and I had nothing to but it “Couuuuld be the hard-drive,” WHAT! O’ and he informed me that my Apple Care ended three weeks prior, WHAT!! Well he way was off, to our surprise they had to replace the mother board and my super-drive. And for some insane reason, THEY DIDN’T CHARGE ME! WHAT!!! I basically have a brand new computer for free.
Here’s where the above photo comes into the play. Riding this high I decided to check out Penny Lane Records in Pasadena. I proceeded to come up on the one of the, if not the most eclectic batch of records in all of my days. Plus, I didn’t even know the Sebastian Tellier and Suicidal Tendencies records were color vinyl until I got home! WHAT!!!!
