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2007-10-24T12:32:00.001-04:00

Tonight (Wednesday 10.24) I am guesting on DJ Rupture's show on WFMU, 91.1 FM in the NJ/NY urrrea.

Proper updates coming soon...

2007-10-18T04:08:00.000-04:00

WE ON TOUR YALL

2007-10-09T23:20:00.000-04:00

Recap of the Pop Montreal Fool's Gold show here (more links to pics, etc, over here).

NYC NEXT WEEK! Faces will be melted-ed.

Meanwhile, I will be playing twice in Atlanta this weekend. Come through. It will be more fun than the BET Awards.

XXXChange's remix of Thom Yorke's eraser made it's debut on East Village Radio a few months back, now you can grab it for yourself. Check Eli's remix of MIA's "Jimmy" while you're over there.

Vin Sol started a blog on the low. So secretive, dude!

DR WHO THEMES

2007-10-04T08:40:00.000-04:00

TONIGHT!

2007-10-02T11:20:00.000-04:00

Proper update in a sec, meanwhile I'm DJing tonight @ Knitting Factory (Old Office) with Supreeme, Mickey Factz and Melo-X.

If you're hitting the Knit for this, come downstairs and check some raps too.

2007-09-25T12:38:00.000-04:00

Thanks to all the upstanding Canadians who came out and danced this past week. See y'all soon. And see San Francisco sooner - me and Trackademicks hit Milk this Saturday along with erstwhile bros Vin Sol and Morse Code.

Free copies of the Catch x Track WESTERN SLAPADEMIC TENDER SMOBBIN COSMIC MUSIC mixtape to the first 100 people in the door, might throw it up on this here site a few days later...

This Wednesday in NYC: DANTE ROSS HIP HOP TRIVIA NIGHT. "Impress your girl! Son your homeboys!"

"Baseball in New York has now descended into the energetic predictability of mid-career Oasis."

Pandemonium Jones: "DO"

Mashit.com relaunched with more tunes and bloggery.

Also relaunched: Fool's Gold art director Dust La Rock's extra-focused portfolio site.

If you like the 12" pieces of recorded media known as "records," Dave Nada just dropped a pretty incredible one called Kick Out The Jams on T&A Records. The MC5 reference is there for a reason. Check us in Columbus, Ohio Halloween weekend.

2007-09-17T11:29:00.000-04:00

2007-09-14T01:55:00.000-04:00

Playing two shows in San Francisco today, both are free with RSVP.

First up is a release party for the Yo! MTV Raps shoe at the Puma Store, then it's Slap (which just got moved from RX Gallery to Etiquitte Lounge).

Come on out! I'll be back on the 29th to play with Trackademicks at Milk, and we are gonna drop a mixtape that day as well...

Lots of good videos this year but none of them are fucking with Animal Collective's "Peacebone" clip so far. "HOLY SHIT!" Also: "BONEFACE!"

DJ Eli and Pase Rock remix Chromeo's "Bonafied Lovin"

Fool's Gold feature in the new Color magazine

YOOOOUUUUUGHHHHH! Whither art thou, Fuzzbubble?

2007-09-11T23:06:00.001-04:00

I was in Vegas for the first time ever this past weekend to DJ some parties for the MTV Awards, including a Neutrogena commercial shoot where a bunch of 17-year-old concert winners (and their moms and that girl from Heroes) got real live to "Wampercycle."

Here's a bunch of my cameraphone pics.

Here's all the footage from the "Kanye Suite."

Here's Wale performing 20 seconds of "W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E." from our mixtape during a commercial break.

(And if anyone still has those Neutrogena spots on their TiVo, I need 'em for the archives...)

More video: Full Force documentary, slow jams from The Federation (why does Rick Rock look like Sleepy Brown?!?), Dyme Def channeling Beasties and Seattle pride for "3 Bad Brothas," and PEEDI PEEDI

Chemical Brothers samples. The Rub are opening for Tom n Ed next weekend, I will be in Canada but y'all should go and...drink a lot of water.

The homie DJ Nature is starting a reggae night in Dallas and posting some great mp3s in his promo blog post.

My XMU mix is finally up.

2007-09-06T19:33:00.000-04:00

Le tour (not to be confused with Latour, although "People Are Still Having Sex" is jamming) got announced today.

WE ARE COMING TO YOUR TOWN! Depending on where you live. Here's the full spiel:

After a non-stop summer of boombox detonations and stadium invasions, the entire Fool�s Gold roster gets extra-shiny for their Fall tour of the US and Canada. It�s everything you�d want from a night at the club: new-school rap princess Kid Sister, tag team DJ sets from the world-renowned A-Trak and his brother from another DJ Mehdi (Ed Banger), electro madness from Daft Punk�s favorite DJ, Kavinsky, the Cool Kids� back-to-the-future boom, and brand-new jams from Nick Catchdubs, along with surprise guest appearances along the way.

DJs A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs founded Fool�s Gold earlier this year, bringing together the hip-hop and electronic music they play in their sets through official releases like Kid Sister�s debut single �Control� and A-Trak�s Dirty South Dance remixes (in stores now). �This DJ scene that we're a part of in North America has influenced music scenes across the world, but ironically there aren't enough labels that represent it,� says A-Trak. �That's where Fool's Gold comes in.�

Dim Mak Collection will be producing limited-edition tees for the tour, featuring original artwork by Fool�s Gold in-house graphic designer Dust La Rock. The label will use their tour momentum to launch a slew of releases for the rest of the year, including new singles from Cool Kids, Kid Sister, Kavinsky and new signing Kid Cudi, an EP of �90s dance re-edits by Sammy Bananas called High Top Fades, international bass rattlers from Jokers of the Scene (Ottawa) and Bag Raiders (Sydney), and more.

Following these North American dates, A-Trak and Mehdi embark on a two-week European jaunt that the bass bros have dubbed �The DJ Mehdi & A-Trak Spectacular Review.� A-Trak�s also been shaking dancefloors on his own, with thumping official remixes for Digitalism (Kitsune), Bumblebeez (Modular), Architecture in Helsinki (Polyvinyl) and Roc-A-Fella�s own Kanye West.

OCTOBER 2007 FOOL�S GOLD TOUR DATES (NORTH AMERICA)
10/4 � Montreal (Club Soda - Pop Montreal)
10/17 � New York (Hiro Ballroom � CMJ Showcase)
10/18 � Vancouver (Celebrities)
10/19 � Los Angeles (Roxy)
10/20 � San Francisco (Mezzanine)
10/21 � Chicago (Empty Bottle)
10/22 � Toronto (Revival)

DJ MEHDI & A-TRAK SPECTACULAR REVIEW TOUR DATES (EUROPE)
10/25 � Glasgow (Sub Club)
10/26 � Cabaret Voltaire (Edinburgh)
10/27 � Clockwork (Bristol - with Kavinsky)
10/31 � Venue TBA (Paris)
11/2 � Chibuku (Liverpool)
11/3 � Venue TBA (Moscow)

2007-09-04T00:32:00.000-04:00

Tonight (Tues) in NYC the homie Trackademicks performs at the YoYo party at Love (179 Macdougal @ 8th St). Don't miss him!

Diplo mix for Pitchfork is up now, featuring a remix of MIA's "Paper Planes" with new verses from Bun B and Rich Boy. And "Do The Bartman."

These new Coat of Arms jackets are major.

If you dug that Paul Stanley CD, check more banter from the crates at Sneakmove and Fact Magazine, including Venom's "Live At City Gardens" which was pressed to vinyl by Thurston Moore and sampled by the Beastie Boys.

Mountain Dew has a new, ultra-caffinated flavor called Game Fuel. It's orange. This site says it has more caffeine than Red Bull, and also alerts me to the existence of something called Spike Shooter, which somehow out-juiced MAXIMUM STRENGTH NO-DOZ.

I still miss Surge like a girlfriend, though I must say Vault has made for quite the rebound.

2007-08-29T12:08:00.001-04:00

I did 30 minute mix for satellite radio that's going to air tonight on IN-DEED on XMU (XM Channel 43) at 10pm ET, then re-airs Thurs at 2pm ET, and Friday at 6am ET.

~~I'll post it up on the site in a minute~~ some definite "summer's last hurrah" kinda shit, I was thinking about Duffman when I made it. It came out clubby and I like it.

DOWNLOAD XMU MIX

Chuck Brown - Blow Your Whistle (Sussex)
Spankrock - Blow (45 King Remix) (Milkcrate)
Sammy Bananas - Dat Funk (Fool's Gold)
Bobmo - To The Bobmobile (Institubes)
Kid Sister - Control (Catch House Blend) (Fool's Gold)
Proper Villains - Drop With Me (white)
Trick Daddy and the SNS All Stars - Take It To The House (Slip N Slide)
Gigolo Tony - Dance With The Boogie (Parkway)
Gorilla Zoe - Bust It Open (Bad Boy South)
Yello - Oh Yeah Oh Six (Booka Shade Remix) (Universal Germany)
Professor Murder - Dutch Hex (Brothers)
Martin Brothers - Stoopit (Dirty Bird)
The Good Men - Give It Up (FFRR)
Mark Ronson f Santogold - Pretty Green (Allido)

Me and A-Trak were at the Kanye Graduation premiere last night (video and rundown at Miss Info's blog and Le FADEUR) - the album is pretty amazing.

Dope remix of Rhymefest's "Mouth" by DJ Sluggo with some absolutely retarded call and response.

More remixery: Royal Rumble dousing Kid Sister's "Damn Girl" in blog house and bass farts.

XLR8R shouts out me and Ayres' Superfriends mixtape: "a stellar mix...the selections are keen, unexpected, and tightly cut. Stomp your feet."

2007-08-27T00:16:00.001-04:00

A-Trak's "Stronger" remix is up on his MySpace (and downloadable here)

Hysterical collection of Paul Stanley stage banter

More classic rock: the making of Steely Dan's "Peg"

PB Wolf <3 The Beastie Boys

Selected Timbaland mp3ography (I almost forgot how good "Phat Rabbit" was)

DJ Technics has been digitizing his archives and putting them up in his webstore

T-Pain, "Calm The Fuck Down" - when Teddy Penderazdoun gets the multi-disc box set treatment in 2017, the from-the-vaults material (like this Epiphany outtake) is going to melt our brains.

2007-08-24T15:10:00.000-04:00

Me and Ayres are covering for folks @ EVR with a marathon 6-10pm slot. Tune in at www.eastvillageradio.com.

Just to let you know where our brains are at: tomorrow is SABBATH IN THE PARK.

Saturday, August 25
Sabbath in the Park 4!
Live Black Sabbath cover band Sabbra Cadabra at 6PM!
Hosted by The Rub
Black Sabbath all day. BYOB.
Animal Sacrifices Grilled Meats all day!
$3
3 PM - 10 PM
The Yard is at 400 Carroll btwn Bond and Nevins in Brooklyn

2007-08-22T12:45:00.000-04:00

Some pics from the Rub / Kid Sis / Cool Kids / Spankrock pool party this past weekend. More here and here.

My newlywed homie DJ Lindsey just mixed Land Of The Lost Episode, a new tape for J*Davey. Trackademicks produced one of the songs, and there's even a Kardinal Offishall appearance!

More mixes: another soca tape from Double L and El Professor of G13 Sound

Kid America Cherry Coke commercial

Great new David Banner Q&A. I interviewed him two years or so ago for the FADER cover in question (Alasdair McLellan had dude looking like Eric Dolphy!) and I wish we had a chance to talk more about actual production stuff at that time, because DB's ear has always been interesting to me - he still needs more recognition in that department. Check this unexpected "Ain't Got Nothin" remix from his Spare Clips mixtape.

2007-08-20T15:54:00.000-04:00

Ayres and I just put out a collab Superfriends mixtape. You can download it here, stream it here, and if you like actual factual compact discs, buy it here.

We wanted to do a rock mix that wasn't the perrenial joints you always hear out, or the most achingly new blog music - just a cool spectrum of tracks we mess with. Here's some more background info from Urrrs, and here's the tracklist.

Gary Numan - M.E.
Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth
Squeeze - Take Me I'm Yours
Partial Arts - Trauermusic (Alter Ego Mix)
Kaos - My Reputation
The Cardigans - Love Fool (Catchdubs Bongo Edit)
The Gossip - Standing in the Way of Control (Soulwax Remix)
Speaker Junk - Foxy Lady
Adam Kesher - Modern Times (908 Remix)
Wolf & Cub - Thousand Cuts (Phones Remix)
Metric - Handshakes
Tones On Tail - Go
The Kills - Love Is a Deserter (Cavemen Mix)
Pixies - Alec Eiffel
Devo - Mongoloid
The Clash - Jail Guitar Doors
The Presets - Are You The One (Van She Tech NYC Rush Mix)
!!! - All My Heroes Are Weirdos
Snowden - Kill The Power
Maximum Joy - Stretch (99 Records Version)
Pyschonauts - Hot Blood
Harry Knuckles - Blisster
Intriga - Nostalgia Dance Orchestra
INXS - Original Sin
Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
Hot Chip - Colours (Fred Falke Remix)
Robert Lippok & Barbara Morgenstern - Please Wake Me For Meals

2007-08-17T13:57:00.000-04:00

This Sunday McCarren Park will host the last of the free Pool Parties. The finale features the Rub and the Baltimore Bass Connection DJs and a slew of guests including Kid Sister, Cool Kids, and more. Don't miss it!

Live crowd recording of Daft Punk @ Keyspan Park.

New Kardinal vid using nothing but The Wire footage.

Wale! MTV feature, "Big Spender" freestyle.

More on the Fool's Gold bike coming soon...

Bunch of recent tracks and mixtapes courtesy of KMEL's Box Kev blog

Nore on Coors Light: "Man, big up to Coors Light. I drank so much Coors Light I took off my shirt and rocked a wife beater. Haha. Everybody got to see my fatness and I�m leaning towards having man boobs! I gotta get in the gym and shit. "

2007-08-14T09:46:00.000-04:00

A four-song 12" of individual, DJ-friendly remixes from A-Trak's Dirty South Dance mixtape is out on vinyl now (FGR-002!!!!)

We're also posting now and then on the Lab Blog. Urkel Dance musings, Blaqstarr video shoots, Daft/Fool's Gold tour shots. The investigative report on Spiderman pr0n is not ours, tho.

DJ Soul is blogging too

More Schnipper: Norwegian Travelogue #1

BOGLINS

2007-08-09T04:29:00.001-04:00

?uestlove posted up four unreleased instrumental outtakes from Commons' Electric Circus on his MySpace, and blogged about their origins. Two of them (the Salma Hayek joint and the Rosario Dawson joint) are real good.

I said it!

I'm fucking with the Lily Allen song off the Common album too! Played that shit last night! It sounds like "Step Into A World"! I don't care that Common is corny, he makes it work for him! Nobody wears sweaters every day but it's not like you don't have joints in your closet! Pause! I don't want to hear him ethering people, I want to hear him saying "Driving me crazy like the astronaut lady"! I liked "Barely In Love" off the Q-Tip jazz album too! Knit me a kufi! In purple and teal because those shits look good on me!

iPhone NES emulator

Be Kind Rewind trailer

Cosmo Baker, "Still Good" mix (the sequel to the fine "Feeling Good" mix from earlier this summer).

This Saturday I'm DJing at the Brooklyn Day party at The Hook in Red Hook. It's $20 but you get to see a bunch of bands and DJs (plus free beer) and all proceeds benefit the movement for a national health care plan. 18+, come out.

2007-08-08T13:36:00.000-04:00

I'm DJing at G Spa tonight. No shorts!

Not mad at this Cassidy, Drag-On (FIRE TRUCK) and Larceny "Cool Like That" freestyle, tho E-40 and Rick Rock flipped it first (and better).

Juke It Palooza

FLOWER, DRANK, CADILLAC

Friends (aka "Schnipper Label")

2007-08-02T12:35:00.000-04:00

Check the new shows added over to the left. This Friday I'm also back on East Village Radio, filling in for Ronson's Authentic Shit programme from 8-10pm EST. Tune in!

My dude Ian is selling large prints of a Ghostface live shot people asked him to print up. I have other prints from Ian on that crazy metalic paper and they look wild. Reccomended.

Photos from last weekend's Maggie/Ayres birthday party

MY MYSPACE GO (now on iTunes!)

Pinglewood posted about the acoustic gems of Emmy The Great - some clicking around on her MySpace led to this boombox-recorded Green Day cover by Lightspeed Champion. That song is TEN YEARS OLD?!?

A nice companion to those soft jamz is this Caps & Jones mix for XM Radio. Check the track list, white heat galore...

Electric Light Orchestra: Livin Thing
Steve Miller Band: Serenade
Rosanne Cash: Seven Year Ache
The Strokes: You Only Live Once
The Police: When The World Is Running Down, You Make The Best Of What's Still Around
Fleetwood Mac: Little Lies
Phil Collins: Easy Lover
Blue Oyster Cult: Burnin' For You
The Kinks: Motherless Child Of Motherhood
Split Enz: Six Months In A Leaky Boat
The Beach Boys: Surf's Up

2007-07-30T12:27:00.001-04:00

Couldn't really get with the regular version of the 50 Cent single, so I made this one that's more fun to play out. Enjoy.

"I Get Money" (Catchdubs Top Billin Mix)

"Picture New York Without Pictures of New York. Thousands of New Yorkers who love both their city and their cameras may face exactly that if the cumbersome, costly and unconstitutional regulations from the Mayor�s Office of Film, Theater, and Broadcasting go into effect this August as scheduled."

What if the Tiesto tractor-trailer got into a fight with Diddy and Black Rob's tractor-trailer from the "Whoa" video, Transformer style?

Emynd, "Trigger Man Club Theme"

I did a mix for FADER/Subaru that they pressed up to give away at an event later this month. I'll upload it then - meanwhile, you can win some physical copies. Tracklist and entry info here.

2007-07-25T17:28:00.000-04:00

Photo from Crowd Control by Carleton Hall

The Wale/Catchdubs 100 Miles And Running mixtape broke 10,000 downloads today - thanks to everyone who's been checking it out, linking it, and giving feedback.

Here's a new link to DJ-friendly versions of four tracks from the mix ("DC Gorillaz," "Lets Ride" f Daniel Merriweather, "Payback" and "W.A.L.E.D.A.N.C.E.") at a crispy 320 kbps. The zip file also has clean versions of each for the radio folks out there.

Wale Edits (zShare)

Lots of awesome vintage North Face windbreakers (and Wu Wear flannel?!?) at Coat of Arms. If you're in NYC say what's up to Nag and Brian at 43 Clinton St.

200 Bad Comics (via caps)

thatrealschitt.blogspot.com

GrecoRoman

2007-07-20T22:11:00.000-04:00

I'm DJing at Revolver in NYC Saturday night. Come out!

New site coming in a minute. I'm slowly getting my MySpace up to speed as well.

2007-07-13T13:26:00.000-04:00

Thanks to everyone who's been downloading the Wale x Catchdubs mixtape and spreading the word.

Tonight is my LAST EVER episode hosting "The Let Out" on East Village Radio, tune in from 6-8pm for the greatest-hits sendoff.

Later tonight is the big ass party at Rebel with myself, DJ Eli, Scottie B, Tameil, Dave Nada and just-added special guest Diplo (who's rolling over post-gig at the Apple Store). Come out!