Coming soon to Amazon, AOL, Yahoo, MTV, MSN, Napster,
Juno, etc.
New mix up for Ayres's Australia tour - Feel My Wallaby (Download - Divshare / ZShare)
Twista & Pharell - Give
It Up (Smalltown Mike & DJ Ayres Drumline remix) *
Dave Nada - Kelly Bundy **
Dave Nada - Back It Up **
Tittsworth - On And On
Top Billin - Make Me Cream
Caps & Jones - Put Your
Leg Up remix
Switch - A Bit Patchy (DJ Ayres party break)
Jimmy Jones vs Debonair Samir - Watch Out for the Big Girl
(DJ Ayres edit)
DJ Ayres - Go Back
DJ Ayres - Give It Up or Turn It Loose ***
DJ Ayres - Nu Nu *
DJ Ayres - Everybody Everybody (Quiet Storm remix) *
* Coming soon on the "I Like Make Dance" EP
** Out now on the "Kick Out
the Jams" EP
*** Coming soon on Gamm "Doin
James - Part 1" EP
"New
Baltimore Club EP: Tittsworth & Ayres present Dave Nada! "The
sixth release
from the en fuego T&A Records comes courtesy of Baltimore's own Dave Nada. If you don't know Dave,
he's played in a bunch of hardcore bands around the Bmore/DC area, produced with
one of the guys from Q & Not U under the name Rubber Bullets, and now holds it down as a resident at
Taxlo with his DJ partner, Tittsworth. The six heavy Bmore remixes here
not only feature some sick production from Mr. Nada, but also some original
synth
work(!)
a la Blaqstarr or old Samir shit.
A-side has the MC5 remix Kick
Out The Jams, the Biggie-sampling Where
Brooklyn At and the Queen / Ying Yang jumble Fat
Bottom Girl. B-side
wins, however, with remixes of Unk's Back
It Up and Screamin Jay
Hawkins' Spell
On You, plus "Bonus Beats," featuring crisp
Bmore drums and some of that tasty synth."
I started
recording this set as a Rub Radio show but I liked it so
much I put extra work into it and made it a CD. It's
basically a bunch of the
songs that I play in my new house sets, minus most of the more obvious
joints (A Bit Patchy, Beeper) but still keeping some songs that are
pretty big (Dr Pressure, DANCE remix, I Want Your Soul, Shake and
Pop) along with lesser known joints. I also threw in a
few exclusive new
remixes and edits (my Kid Sister remix, A-Trak's Digitalism remix,
Herve's Thriller). The vibe is poppy and druggy. Huge shout out to
Sinden & Josh, I stole their idea from Beeper for the theme.
You can buy the CD at Turntablelab or via Paypal onat my website,
and if you just want to download it, paypal $5 to itstherub@gmail.com
and I will send you the link.
1. Soulwax - Krack
2. Justice - D.A.N.C.E. (Justice remix)
3. Matty C - You Used to Exceed Me
4. Apt One - When I Here Medhi
5. Chromeo - Fancy Footwork
6. Armand Van Helden - I Want Your Soul (edit)
7. Mylo - Dr. Pressure (remix)
8. Mr Hudson - Ask the DJ (Count of Monte Cristal & Sinden
remix)
9. Egg Foo Young - Up It
10. Claude Von Stroke - Chimps
11. Das Glow - Weiss Gaz
12. Alter Ego - Rocker
13. Green Velvet - Shake and Pop
14. Kid Sister - Pro Nails (DJ Ayres remix)
15. Herve - Cheap Thrills
16. Digitalism - Idealism (A-Trak remix)
17. Stephan Hinz - Ending Up Flipping Burgers
18. Mr. Oizo - Patrick122
19. Booka Shade - In White Rooms
Also - congratulations to the homie Queen
Majesty on the release
of her new mix CD, "Trilla". Jamaican covers of American tunes from the '80's & '90's.
It's not too be missed! Buy it at Deadly
Dragon; coming soon to Turntablelab and stores worldwide.
Tuesday, September 18
Tittsworth and I have a good interview up on Inquiring
Mind.
Friday, September 14
New Vinyl - The Rub Party Medleys Vol 1
Eleven and I were djing together on two turntables in Boston a few
months ago and we were going back and forth a lot and we started running
out of options for real vinyl to play while switching computers. I
said "somebody should make a record for switching computers, one record that never
leaves your bag, with stuff everyone plays, at a bunch of different
tempos."
This is what we came up with, four party medleys on one EP. The one record for
Serato DJs that never leaves your bag. The 6 minute medleys are linked
with quick 2 bar acapella skits so you can play each side for 12-13
minutes through if you need to, say if your computer crashes or you
have to run to the bathroom. The songs are quick mixed, playing for
about a verse and a chorus each, with no fancy West Coast production
extras (sorry LA hip-hop dudes), just regular NYC quick mix party style.
If this sells well, we'll be doing more like it with different types
of music.
A1. 80s Medley listen (Prince - Kiss, Michael Jackson - Billie
Jean, Rolling Stones - Miss You, Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That) ~ 112 BPM
A2. House Medley listen (Stardust - Music Sounds Better With You, Robin S
- Show Me Love, Nightcrawlers - Push the Feeling On) ~ 122 BPM
B1. Crunk Medley listen (Lil Jon - Bia Bia, Lil Scrappy - No Problem, Ludacris
- Move Bitch) ~ 80 - 90 BPM)
B2. Dancehall Medley listen (Shaggy & Rayvon
- Big Up, Shabba Ranks - Batty Rider, Cutty Ranks - A Who See Me Dun,
Mr. Vegas - Heads High)
A few years ago Milk Bar in San Francisco approached me
and Nick about setting up a rotating residency - every month would
be me or Nick plus a special guest, so for example Nick and Low-Bee
one month, me and Paul Nice the next, Nick and Morse Code the next,
and so on. We threw around a few ideas for themes and I came up with
Super Friends, and Nick liked it because it meant he could flip comic
book covers on the flyers, and he came up with a super hot logo. We
went out and DJed the first party and it went well. Milk liked the
name and flyer concept so much they decided to make Super Friends a
weekly, with resident DJ Vin Sol. Nick continued to design the Super
Friends flyers but our monthly residency wasn't to be. It's all love
though. I'll be back out at Milk in October for the first time in almost
two years to DJ at Morse Code's CD release party.
Nick and I have been talking about doing a mix CD together
for a long time, and when we finally got our shit together, the vibe
we agreed on was dance rock records - some new wave, some punk, some
newer electro shit. We did it as Super Friends because even though
we aren't as involved in the party as we originally planned to be,
we did come up with a hot concept and Vin Sol and Morse Code are our
people and were into it. Another person I have to acknowledge is Scott
from Ten Deep - he and I were planning on doing a rock mixtape, but
we're both so busy all the time it never came together. I got a few
of these records from him when we were planning the Ten Deep mixtape.
Blonde Redhead at the Pool Party (photo
by Anna G Dickson)
Blonde Redhead at the Pool Party (photo by Aaron
Headley
Heavy Summer Rotation:
Tuesday, July 31
I
was
out on
tour opening for Ghostface all last week. It was a little bit of a challenge
because I didn't play any dirty
south hip-hop, house, club, 80s or
whatever else I'm used to playing, but I had fun with real schitt hip-hop and
classic soul and reggae. It's pretty awesome getting a room full of backpackers
to sing along to Gloria Jones "Tainted
Love."
Cappadonna killed it with those long breathless verses from Winter Wars and
Daytona 500. When he's 48 bars in and still going the crowd just loses it.
Rhythm Roots Allstars unloading from the bus. These dudes kill it live, staying
faithful to the original Ghostface instrumentals and freaking shit like Nautilus,
No No No and La La Means I Love You. The old guy is our bus driver; he's normally
the driver for Good Charlotte.
My bunk on the bus is the size of a coffin but has its own DVD / CD / radio
player. Scion puts us up in four star hotels but we don't even sleep there.
To get from St Louis to Minneapolis for example we had to leave at like 3 AM
so the hotel was just a really expensive place to shower and change clothes
after the show.
Mike the 2600 King showed me around Minneapolis and took me to the Burlesque
Design studios.
Wezz and Mike were printing MF Doom posters.
Kid Sister & Sam brought me cupcakes for my birthday
in Chicago!
The Rub European tour
is going swimmingly, thanks for asking! Just one day left then we'll be home for a couple of days. I have to say the
highlight so far was playing with Sinden,
Switch, Kool Keith and South Rakkas crew at Fabric. So nuts!
More pictures soon-ish.
Eleven and I won't be back in time for McCarren Pool Party
Saturday so Cosmo is holding it down along with Kennan & Mikey Palms so go! I'll be at Highline Ballroom Monday with Ghostface but I think the RSVPs are already full up. But in the meantime check out the video for Escort's "All Through The Night."
Be sure to check out the newly redesigned Brooklyn
Radio. The Rub's weekly show is now available as a podcast! This week we put up me and DJ Soul's best of Ghostface mix, Chamber Music! I have some tour dates coming up at the end of the month with Ghostface:
Monday,
July 23
Ghostface Killah / DJ Ayres
431 West 16th Street
Highline Ballroom, NYC
free! rsvp
here
Wednesday, July 25
Ghostface Killah / DJ Ayres
6504 Delmar Blvd
Blueberry Hill,
St Louis
free! rsvp
here
Thursday, July 26
Ghostface Killah / DJ Ayres
1308 4th Street SE
Varsity Theater, Minneapolis
free! rsvp
here
Friday, July 27
Ghostface Killah / DJ Ayres
3730 N. Clark Street
The Metro, Chicago
free! rsvp
here
Sunday, August 19
