FOTR: Nina Las Vegas
Posted: April 12, 2016 Filed under: Friends of The Rub | Tags: fotr, Nina Las Vegas
FOTR this week is Nina Las Vegas. Nina is an Australian native who cut her teeth on Triple J, Australia’s huge government funded radio station that promotes alternative music and culture to teenagers and young adults in Australia. Through this relationship, she became involved in the Heaps Decent artist support program with Diplo and company, released multiple chart topping mixes and helped usher in the current breakout of Australian music across the globe. She’s been notably stepping out on her own in recent years releasing her own original music and touring all over the world DJing. Just a few days ago, she released her awesome new EP on her own NLV Records and you can stream it all in full below.
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FOTR: Fool’s Gold Records
Posted: April 5, 2016 Filed under: Friends of The Rub | Tags: Fool's Gold, fotr
FOTR this week is the team that is Fool’s Gold Records. Founded by A-Trak, Nick Catchdubs and Dust La Rock (RIP) in 2007, they’ve branded themselves as a true innovator and tastemaker in terms of the music they release and how they present themselves as an entity in the business. They’ve always been super supportive of The Rub and we sincerely love them for it. This past Friday they released a massive new compilation, Night Shift, that’s bursting with new dancefloor focused heaters from label heads A-Trak and Catchdubs, as well as other notables like Sammy Bananas, Brenmar, Gladiator, Rome Fortune, Alvin Risk, and many more. Peep Night Shift in full below and make sure to link up with Fool’s Gold on the socials if you haven’t already.
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FOTR: DJ Nick Bike
Posted: March 29, 2016 Filed under: Friends of The Rub | Tags: DJ Nick Bike, fotr
FOTR this week is the Vancouver based DJ Nick Bike. He’s a technically gifted open format DJ who’s a two-time regional winner in Red Bull’s Thre3style competition and he’s cranked out a number of bootlegs that have received support Z-Trip, Skratch Bastid, Four Color Zack and Grandtheft. What may be the most fun part of his resume though is his 45 game. Whether it’s the four he’s personally released (one in collaboration DJ Hedspin) or his ability to mix them in the most deft way, he’s got a knack for making these records really sing. Check out his recent all 45 mix for The Motown Party at The Fox Cabaret for proof below along with his other links to keep tabs on all his moves.
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FOTR this week is our guest for March, DJ GetLive! Born and raised in Queens, GetLive! has been djing since 1999 by sneaking into clubs and jumping on the decks at 16. He’s known for his party rocking djing style that features a diverse and eclectic music selection on top of slick turntable skills that makes classic records you may have forgot about sound incredibly fresh and new again. Peep his set from the Boiler Room 5 year anniversary event below from back in December for proof. You can check his Midnight Rockers Express duo with Lee every Wednesday night at Kinfolk 90 and definitely make sure you do not miss his set this Saturday at The Bell House.
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FOTR this weeks is the disco house music duo, Solidisco. DJ’s Dstar and Biacco rose in the Buffalo, NY music scene on the solo tip but eventually combined forces over their shared love for classic house and disco years a number of years ago. Their productions have been supported by the likes of A-Trak and Laidback Luke and their rise is well documented with releases on a number of prominent labels, with a good portion of those tracks charting on digital retailers such as dance music staple Beatport. They’ve just released a new single, Get In Love, which you can stream in full below. And make sure to catch them out on tour starting this week in Atlanta for a full run of dates with Gigamesh.
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FOTR: Burlesque of North America
Posted: March 8, 2016 Filed under: Friends of The Rub | Tags: Burlesque of North America, fotr
FOTR this week are the good folks at Burlesque of North America. This art and design collective based out of Minneapolis, MN has been steady killing it for years designing some incredibly fresh art and posters you’ve probably seen before at venues and on the internet. This time of year also brings their yearly trek down to SXSW for the amazing Flatstock exhibit, which is always accompanied by their annual Do It To It Party. As always, these events are free and loaded to the brim with DJs we love here at The Rub. Be sure to say hi to them if you’re in Austin next week and click some links below to get the full spectrum of everything this crew does so well.
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FOTR: The Beat Junkies
Posted: March 1, 2016 Filed under: Friends of The Rub | Tags: fotr, The Beat Junkies
FOTR this week is The World Famous Beat Junkies. You may know this crew made up J Rocc, Babu, Shortkut, Mr. Choc, Rhettmatic, D-Styles, Melo-D, Icy Ice, Havik and Curse. They have been around for 20+ years, won countless DJ competitions, made some of the most influential mixtapes ever and are legends of the DJ world in every sense of the word. In recent years, they’ve been building out their website as a record pool that’s totally taken off with working DJs all over the internet. A couple days ago, they dropped their most recent freebie pack of 15 joints to fill up your digital crates. Grab the latest Fifteen For Your Crates and keep up with this legendary crew below.
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FOTR this week is our special guest this Saturday, Rok One. Rok has been holding down NY nightlife for as long as we can remember as he’s constantly playing out multiple nights of the week all over the city. He’s been a guest of The Rub a handful of times now and it’s always a pleasure to have him play with us because he’s such a solid DJ! In addition to DJing on the solo tip, he’s also been developing his Black Russian production project with Mike Dextro over the past several years with a grip of releases under their collective belts. Check out Rok’s latest mix for February’s edition of Rub Radio below along with all his relevant socials.
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FOTR: Bird Peterson
Posted: February 16, 2016 Filed under: Friends of The Rub | Tags: Bird Peterson, fotr
FOTR this week is Bird Peterson out of Austin, TX. He’s been cranking out tunes on the reg for what seems like forever and he originally caught fire on the legendary Hollerboard before eventually releasing tracks on basically every dope independent dance label of the last 10 years. He’s also got his own Teenage Riot Records, which just saw the release of his latest project Meal Ticket along side a couple other FOTR’s in Mike 2600 and Sammy Bananas. Check out this fresh new EP below and keep up with Bird on all the relevant socials as well.
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FOTR this week is Austin’s DJ Mel. Mel’s been holding anything and everything down in Austin for what literally feels like forever. Whether it’s been his Rock The Casbah 80’s themed special events, his insanely long running weekly Monday party at Nasty’s or being the official DJ for University of Texas Longhorns basketball, he’s certainly embedded himself in Austin’s music scene. What’s brought him to a national stage in recent years is his work djing events for President Obama in the past and now for Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. You may have seen and heard him dropping classic tunes on the Iowa Caucus TV and online coverage last week. Check out a recent mix from Mel and all the links to his socials below.
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