R.I.P. DJ AM

This is really a sad year for music as another great musician passes away. Not much to say with words. We must remember what he gave to the world and celebrate his life. Amazing turntablist and party rocker, he inspires a generation.

Haven’t had the pleasure of hearing him play? Here’s one of his flawless, thoughtful, and maddeningly creative live mixes:
DJ AM live set from Banana Split 07 LA

His mixtape with Travis Barker
download.

Sad sad sad……

A small show of artists from around the country (Boston:: Enamel Kingdom. Margaret Singer. Kenji Nakayama. Massiel Grullon. NineRevolutions. Sarah Laws “FunCupcake”. Frantz Cadet. Deme5. Problak. Kwest. Marka27, New York:: COPE2. Lichiban. Pen Tha Black Krayon, Los Angeles:: David Flores. Kofie. Sherm. Werc Alvarez, San Francisco:: Jesse Hernandez ) is opening tomorrow nite….

Sunday, June 21, 2009
at Achilles Project
283 Summer St., Boston
Private Showing: 4 – 6pm
Public Opening: 6 – 11pm

Fear no Art #3, an exhibition curated by Marka27 & NineRevolutions is dedicated to promoting and exposing underground art forms to a larger audience by bringing together some of today’s best artists from Boston, Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco

I’ll be djing w/ T-wrexx from NY..

Boston:

ninerevolutions

pro blak

marka 27

Los Angeles : WERC

Lichiban(NYC)

Deme5(Boston)

SHERM (LA)

FunCupCake(Boston)


Jesse Hernandez (SF)

Massiel Grullon (Boston)

Kwest (Boston)

And Judi Rotenberg Gallery has a really good show up right now…..

Do-Ho Suh, “Karma,” 2008, paint on paper, 59.75″ x 41″. Courtesy of Lehmann Maupin Gallery.

Roger Andersson, “Quebec Sucks,” 2002, watercolor on paper, 28” x 21″, Courtesy of Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY.

Orly Genger, “Untitled,” 2008, ink and collage on paper, 22.5” x 30.25”, Courtesy of Larissa Goldston Gallery, NY

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  R.I.P. Iz the Wiz , All City Pioneer…great

Last, DJ BabyYu just dropped this amazing mix :B.I.G. – A Tribute To The Greatest Rapper Of All Time…
download here

Tracklist
1. Diddy Introduction
2. Bob Marley – Johnny Was
3. The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Bob Marley – Hold Your Head
4. The Notorious B.I.G. – Dead Wrong
5. Al Green – I’m Glad You’re Mine
6. The Isley Brothers – Between The Sheets
7. The Notorious B.I.G. – Big Poppa
8. Supercat feat. The Notorious B.I.G. – Dolly My Baby (Remix)
9. Herbie Hancock – Watermelon Man
10. The Notorious B.I.G. – Me And My Bitch (Live)
11. Zapp & Roger – Computer Love
12. Isaac Hayes – Walk On By
13. The Notorious B.I.G. – Warning
14. Edgar Winter – Dying To Live
15. The Notorious B.I.G. & 2 Pac – Runnin’
16. Diana Ross – Missing You
17. The Notorious B.I.G. feat. 112 – Miss U
18. The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Method Man – The What
19. Junior M.A.F.I.A. feat. The Notorious B.I.G. – Player’s Anthem (Remix)
20. Minnie Riperton – Memory Lane
21. Junior M.A.F.I.A. feat. The Notorious B.I.G. – Get Money
22. Sylvia Striplin – You Cant Turn Me Away
23. The Notorious B.I.G. feat. R. Kelly – Loving You Tonight
24. The Notorious B.I.G. feat. 112 – Sky’s The Limit
25. Bobby Caldwell – My Flame
26. DeBarge – Stay With Me
27. The Notorious B.I.G. – One More Chance
28. Lou Donaldson – Who’s Making Love
29. Craig Mack feat. The Notorious B.I.G., Busta Rhymes, LL Cool J & Rampage – Flava In Ya Ear (Remix)
30. Les McCann – Valantra
31. The Notorious B.I.G. – Ten Crack Commandments
32. The Honey Drippers vs. R. Kelly – Impeach The President with My Body
33. The Notorious B.I.G. – Unbelievable
34. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – I Put A Spell On You
35. The Notorious B.I.G. – Kick In The Door
36. The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Diddy & Busta Rhymes – Victory
37. Bill Conti – Going The Distance
38. Black Heat – Something Extra
39. Lords Of The Underground – Chief Rocka
40. The Notorious B.I.G. – Machine Gun Funk
41. David Porter – The Masquerade Is Over
42. The Notorious B.I.G. – Who Shot Ya?
43. The Notorious B.I.G. – I Got A Story To Tell
44. Lil’ Kim – Crush On You
45. Jeff Lorber Fusion – Rain Dance
46. The Notorious B.I.G. – Gimme The Loot
47. James Brown – Coldblooded
48. James Brown – Blues & Pants
49. The Notorious B.I.G. – I’m Jus Playin’
50. Betty Wright – Clean Up Woman
51. Mary J. Blige feat. The Notorious B.I.G. – Real Love
52. Total feat. The Notorious B.I.G. – Can’t You See
53. James Brown – The Payback
54. Mtume – Juicy Fruit
55. The Notorious B.I.G. – Juicy
56. The Notorious B.I.G. – Hypnotize
57. Herb Alpert – Rise
58. Jay-Z feat. The Notorious B.I.G. – Brooklyn’s Finest
59. Ohio Players – Ecstacy
60. The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Luke – Big Booty Hoes
61. Idris Muhammed – Crab Apple
62. Puff Daddy & The Family – It’s All About The Benjamins
63. The Jackson 5 – It’s Great To Be Here
64. Last Poets – When The Revolution Comes
65. The Notorious B.I.G. – Party & Bullshit
66. Deodato – Skatin’
67. The Notorious B.I.G. – Nasty Boy
68. Diana Ross – I’m Coming Out
69. The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Puff Daddy & Mase – Mo’ Money Mo’ Problems
70. The Notorious B.I.G. – Going Back To Cali
71. Zapp & Roger – More Bounce To The Ounce
72. Diddy Outro

Amazing album cover from Mickey Moonlight on Ed Banger. SoMe’s art direction is such large reason for the label’s success!

Sat in with Jesse from Apollo Sunshine for his early DJ gig at the Middlesex the othernight… hipped me to a Mickey Moonlight version of Sun Ra’s interplanetary music….

Mickey Moonlight – Interplanetary Music from T.A.M. Corp. on Vimeo.

Jesse learned his way around the turntables from Edan the Humble Magnificent , who coincidentally just got his own radio show for download here. Odd thing about this city, Edan was Wire Magazine’s Hip Hop artist of 2005, but still didn’t have a following here…. Still the only emcee I’ve seen who could juggle two records with one hand and hold the mic & rhyme with the other hand (although I hear J-live can do it).

We bounced out to check the ICA Experiment with Dan Deacon. It was originally going to be outdoors, but the weather didn’t hold out. The video /perfomance by Ultimate Reality was really dope, but technical problems during Deacon’s set turned the show into a great big ball of suck Bostonist has a pretty good review of the soundsystem debacle and why it was ultimately big swindle.

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  Matthew Africa is giving away his Best of DJ Quik Mixtape here.
• Got caught up with every album of 2008 by streaminghere. Heads were right about the fleet foxes album being aiiight.
• Future superproducer Natural Curezjust posted some new tracks… Them arrangements need more tension & release!
• The Selvedge Yard picks mid century design classics… Jens Risom’s prefabricated vacation house is a must have.
• Our homie Jamie from Stones Throw records has brought in crazy talent to the summer sunday LA series the Do Over. Great live sets from PBW, Rhettmatic, Dam Funk, Adam12, Neil Armstrong, Nu-Mark , Mike B and Cosmo Baker all catalogued for downloading pleasure.
• Free sticker printing!?
• Hey Berlin, our friend Ivo Gretner has a solo show opening June 19th at PM Galerie.