I’m going out on tour for a couple of weeks with DJ Mehdi and Riton, who have a new project called Carte Blanche on Ed Banger records. Here is the video for Gare Du Nord, with classic dance footage from Detroit.
Blu Jemz will be joining us; he’s an old friend from Brooklyn who has at least 10 different things going on at any given time, including but not limited to his post-Dilla beats projects, dance-rap group Da Hardy Boyz, goth group Dark Dreams, Turntablelab Radio and on and on. He’s a sweetheart and a maniac and a hilarious dude. Here is his remix for Drop The Lime, which just came out on Trouble & Bass:
Drop the Lime – Sex Sax (Blu Jemz in Mellow Remix)
You must RSVP to attend the Scion Radio 17 parties.
DJ Mehdi, Riton, DJ Ayres & Blu Jemz
Tuesday, June 22, 2010 – Tampa
Wednesday, June 23 – Minneapolis
Thursday, June 24 – Bloomington
Wednesday, June 30 – Kansas City
Thursday, July 1 – Cleveland
I did a guest spot on Snacky Tunes yesterday – check it out right here. They’ve conveniently broken up the show so you can listen to individual sections – just click on “DJ Ayres Live Set” to jump right to the music. The whole show is interesting, with guests talking about local food, a new cookbook, urban gardening, and more. The Heritage Radio Network is in the back of Roberta’s pizza restaurant in Bushwick, Brooklyn, and they gave us free brick-oven pizza, so that was awesome. My tracklist:
Pumpkin Patch – Grooveberry Jam
Cassius – 99 (Tim Green remix)
Rampage & Nader – Get Up (coming soon on T&A!)
T.I. – What You Know (Doc Adams edit)
Ciara & Ludacris – Ride
Simian Mobile Disco – Cruel Intentions (Joker remix)
Over a year after starting on the project, the song that I did with the homie Mike Baker The Bike Maker has finally hit the (digital) record stores (and their virtual shelves)! Vancouver’s Kutcorners contributed a great bassline for the original version. Mike2600, Illo + Keam, and DJ Ayres (you may have heard of him) all flipped great remixes! And, Kalani did a fantastic job freakin’ the artwork.
If you look on down below the artwork, you’ll see more than a couple places to buy it!
Turntable Lab or Gigacrate or Juno or Amazon or iTunes
Download Rub Radio April 22, 2010 (right click “save target as”)
I’ve been meaning to do a new hip-hop mix for a while, but it kept getting swallowed up by mixes for our other Rub Radio show on Scion broadband. But I got a few months ahead on the other show, so I had some time to bang this out. Tons of new shit I’m feeling right now, and I threw in a few non-hip-hop selections to give it some flavor, but you know I had to start it off with Gangstarr. Tracklist after the jump.
Natalie Storm
I remixed my friends Business Class, and you can download the MP3 for free! The original is a hybrid bass-pop jam (get it right here). I turned it into a house tune, somewhere in afro-jack-beats territory. Download right here:
Business Class ft. Natalie Storm & Tifa – Running (DJ Ayres remix) (Sendspace)
Burlesque Design dug this remix so much they put it on their Do It To It 3 CD – a bunch of our friends have great tracks on it, and you have to see how insane the packaging is:
My favorite tune on the CD is Pumpkin Patch’s remix of the Doobie Brothers – that’s coming out on Young Robots sometime soon.
Blogging about blogging! I’ve put a recap of my Canadian tour up on the Turntable Lab blog. Go look at pictures and read captions here:
Canda tour blog part 1
Canada tour blog part 2
Flashing Lights finally has a proper website. We’ve been putting up tons of photos, mixes and MP3s from ripped from my record collection every Monday. Check us out!
Ayres x Catchdubs x Jubilee.
Tracklist after the jump!
We’ve been doing parties and stuff with Fully Fitted for years: our buddies Alex XXXChange, Pase Rock, Devlin & Darko, Ghostdad and Prince Klassen. They’ve been doing these Live At Home mixes for a while now, and when they asked us to participate we were happy to rock for them. The idea is to record a dj mix live in one take, playing music you like to listen to at home. I stepped up for volume 26, which you can listen to, download and read about over at the Fully Fitted blog. Lots of funk, soul, disco, a little hip-hop and latin and so forth. Groovy shit!
DOWNLOAD HERE
Dj Ayres – Live at Home pt 26
Tracklist, commentary, and streaming player at Fully Fitted
If you missed it, be sure to grab DJ Eleven – Live at Home Pt 21
Back in December I did a guest mix for Breakanomics radio. Download it here (right click “save target as”) or stream below:
