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In July 2002, The
Rub began with a simple goal: the creation of a classics and hip-hop
party to be held on the first Saturday of every month at Southpaw.
However, it was the approach that has made it click. We do it Brooklyn
style: great dance music mixed well, affordable drinks, and real people;
no dress code, no bottle service, no VIPs and no celebrity DJs. The
combination of great music, a hot and sweaty dance floor, and phenomenal
word-of-mouth buzz for the party brought the people there. The unparalleled
mix of hip hop, disco, 80s, reggae, funk, house and everything in between
keeps them coming back.
The Rub has been widely recognized as the best club night in New York
City for several years. The Rub was named both "the
best party in Brooklyn to dance sweatily to smart music" by
the Village
Voice and "the
best party in NYC" by The
New York Press. Ayres, Eleven & Cosmo have also been also featured
on MTV
Mixtape Mondays, in The New
York Times, Spin,
Vice,
XXL,
XLR8R,
Urb,
The
Fader, The
Wire, RE:UP,
Tablist, Hip-Hop
Connection (UK), Spray
(France) and on countless websites. In addition, the three DJs have been releasing mixtapes at a breakneck
pace, traveling to gigs across the country and around the world, and
put out four official Rub CDs and 8 records. In 2006 DJ Ayres and Cosmo
Baker won Scion's Free
Your Mix Contest.
Over the last few years, The Rub boys have DJed in over 50 cities in
the Americas, Europe, Asia, Australia and everywhere in between alongside Public Enemy, Chemical Brothers, Slick Rick, Diplo, Mark Ronson,
Moby, A-Trak, DJ Premier, Blonde Redhead, MSTRKRTFT, Justice, Spankrock, and Grandmaster Flash, to name a few. .
To book The Rub to DJ at an event, email get@djeleven.com.
Site design by Mike Davis for Burlesque
of North America.
All material copyright The Rub 2002-7.
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