FOTR: Uproot Andy
Posted: January 23, 2018 Filed under: Friends of The Rub | Tags: fotr, Uproot Andy
Uproot Andy is one of our special guests this Saturday for The Rub at The Bell House. He’s been murdering the scene on the global beats vibe for years and we’re extremely stoked to have him at The Rub. As founder of Que Bajo, he’s helped maintain New York as a multi-cultural dance haven. In addition to the festivities Saturday, he’s dropping his new Studio 189 mixtape/16 track remix album on Thursday at Esther & Carol in Manhattan. And while we wait for his flood of new content, check out his Boiler Room set from August of 2017 below. Give him a follow on the socials as well.
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FOTR: Makossa Brooklyn Cookout
Posted: December 19, 2017 Filed under: Friends of The Rub | Tags: fotr, Makossa Brooklyn Cookout
FOTR this is week is our special guest crew in the front room for NYE this year. Makossa Brooklyn Cookout is hands down one of the best summer daytime jump offs in the city since 2010. With resident DJs Wonway, Tara and Shinobi Shaw, along with host Dee Phunk + special guests, Makossa has become an institution since being birthed in backyard of Fresthetic in Williamsburg some eight plus summer’s ago. Bay Area roots from Wonway connected with Rare Form in NYC to create this bi-coastal connection that Time Out has rated as one of the best daytime parties in the city. Expect Tara and Shinobi Shaw to bring the best of all vibes to the front room NYE to light up the room and put a smile on your face as we close out 2017. Check out some vibes from one of their end of summer parties earlier this year below and follow the crew on all the relevant socials. And cop those tickets for The Rub NYE party RIGHT HERE NOW!
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FOTR: Statik Selektah
Posted: December 12, 2017 Filed under: Friends of The Rub | Tags: fotr, Statik Selektah
Veteran dj/producer Statik Selektah is our FOTR (Friend of The Rub) this week as he celebrates the release of his latest solo album, 8. This dude just continues to stay out there and busy at all times. Multiple radio show residencies (including his current stay at Shade45), now 8 star-studded solo albums and too many collaborative projects to really count have all contributed to this consistent hustle. With features from the likes of Run The Jewels, G-Eazy, Curren$y, 2 Chainz, Joey Bada$$, The Lox and so many others, 8 is out now and you can stream 6 tunes from it below.
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FOTR this week is Nick Hook. This producing chameleon has a new project, 50 Backwoods, dropping next week with DJ Earl on Fool’s Gold and it’s shaping up to be an interesting release. The killer first single featuring vocals from Wiki just dropped last week. Nick and Earl are also heading out on a tour starting this week and hitting 9 cities total through the 23rd. Make sure to peep this new single and project (album is due this Friday!) and catch Nick out on tour.
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FOTR this week is one of the baddest (if not THE baddest) DJ on the planet. The resume should be well known already but this dude is as technically gifted on the decks as it gets. 3X solo DMC champ in a row (the only DJ to ever to accomplish that feat), multiple team titles with The Allies and a stack of Youtube vids showing off his skills that millions and millions of views. Not to mention his continued push to play and feature the dopest and most forward thinking turn up anthems in his sets. He’s also one of the dudes running Slow Roast Records, which is an imprint that’s been cranking out killer content for years now. Catch this recent showcase of skills, next level tunes and some Slow Roast catalog in Craze’s amazing Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1 from a couple weeks ago. You’ve got just under 3 weeks to stream this bad boy. Check it out and link with Craze on all the socials outlined below.
DJ Craze – BBC Radio 1 Essential Mix
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Our first FOTR this week and one of our special guests on at our November edition of #itstherub is Santurce, Puerto Rico’s finest: DJ Velcro. In addition to being an accomplished MC and producer, Velcro is also a versatile DJ who just smashes parties. If you’re ever in San Juan, PR on a Monday night, you NEED to stop through his long running weekly party.
Check out his most recent single and video below and get ready to hear him rock on Saturday with us at The Bell House!
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FOTR this week is DJ Riz. Riz has reached legendary DJ status in the game and his skills have always been nothing less than WOW inducing. The Crooklyn Clan founder has been a huge influence on our DJing since, well, basically since we started DJing. Easily in our top 5 NYC DJs of all time and it’s dope to see him continually out there working week in and week out. He was just featured on Funk Flex’s 5 mins of Funk just last week and you can peep the video below. Check it out and connect with Riz on all the socials as well.
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Our second FOTR this week is our other special guest on Saturday, Zephyr Ann. She’s an active member in all things culture in NY (by way of Cambridge, Massachusetts) and has been active for a number of years now. Whether it’s via her DJing, working at Turntable Lab, contributing think pieces for Okayplayer or teaching youth with the Building Beats team, Zephyr is constantly sharing her voice about things she’s loves in a passionate and proactive way. She’s played rooms all over the city like House of Yes, Good Room, Our Wicked Lady, Mad Tropical and more and we’re so stoked to have her join us for the first time at The Rub for our annual Halloween jump off. Check out a recent mix from her and all her relevant links below and don’t miss her on the decks this Saturday at The Bell House!
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Our first FOTR this week is DJ Kayper out of the UK. She’s one of the most versatile DJ’s you’ll find anywhere as she has legit turtablist level skill, BBC Radio hosting experience and over the past several years has become an accomplished producer. She’s DJ’d all over the world, performed at festivals such as Coachella and Glastonbury and very recently was a finalist for the first ever Goldie Awards put on by A-Trak and Fool’s Gold. She’ll be making her first ever appearance at The Rub this coming Saturday for our annual Halloween bash and we couldn’t be more excited to have her. Check out her latest EP and all her socials below and don’t miss her set this Saturday at The Bell House!
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Watch this video below of DJ Eclipse tearing it up on Funkmaster Flex’s turntables and you might guess he has a superstar attitude to go with his massive skills, but E is truly the nicest dude in the world. We met him at Fat Beats in the 90s, the brick and mortar epicenter of underground hip-hop, where he was the manager. Despite burning the candle at both ends, co-hosting The Halftime Show and DJing for Non Phixion, Eclipse always greeted us with a smile and a pound, and 20 years later, he’s still that humble, friendly guy. You can still catch him burning up the airwaves with the best hip-hop records you’ve never heard before, on Sirius’ Hip Hop Nation (Rap is Outta Control on Monday nights), and follow him on all the socials:
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