Pushing (lotsa) Buttons

Here's Araab Muzik of the Dipset Crew showing you why he gets called the Neil Peart of the MPC:

In Case You Needed Proof

Here's J.Rocc (World Famous Beat Junkie Crew) showing why they call him The Funky President, and every hip-hop DJ ever calls him King of Doubles:

I'm the Difference Between Endo and Oregano

As you may know, I'm a huge fan of J. Rocc from the Beat Junkies. I collect his tapes and study his technique to try and figure out some of his tricks. This mix right here has been on repeat for a minute now while we play Super Street Fighter 4 at the house. Go ahead and click the link, download, and enjoy. And while you're there, check out some of the other great tapes posted on pipomixes. Happy Friday.

Embarrassed I Just Discovered This...

So as the title suggests, I'm pretty embarrassed that I just found out about Giant Panda's Plus Bonus Party Cut. Shit came out in 2006, so I'm pretty behind the curve... but I heard this while listening to my People Under the Stairs station on Pandora. Also, I found out it was released on 12" with an accompanying instrumental; so you know I'm gettin doubles with my next order from UGHH. Anyway, enjoy a four-year-old jawn that I just found out about... and be sure to front to your people like you knew about this for a minute and all that.

Jeff ET Doin Big Thangs

My roommate (and a fellow Charleston DJ/collector) just released a new mixtape last night. It's called Beach Housin' in Outer Space. Check it out HERE for a mix of everything from hip-hop to electro to house, and be sure to big em up on his twitter and shit.

Oh, So True

Nicholas Sparks is a tool. And so is anyone who enjoys his trite-ass fill-in-the-blanks romantic madlibs books and movies. I can't believe I never noticed the similarities in themes as well as movie posters before.

Something to Start Your Week With

Some real talk:

Tin Roof Recap

Hunter and I had a great time this weekend avoiding the downtown bridge run crowd and getting ready for/performing our set at the Tin Roof on Saturday. From the beginning:

After getting off work on Friday and hanging with Rob and Keenan at my place for a bit, I went out to Hunter's to practice. We practiced our set until around 11, then we headed out to Folly to meet up with Jess, and some Clemson friends of ours who were in town. After a couple beers, we headed back to Hunter's where Jess and Hunt cooked up a bevy of drunken delights that I was happy to dig into. I crashed on their couch in order to avoid downtown craziness due to the bridge run on Saturday morning.

We got up pretty early Saturday morning in order to squeeze in a few more hours of practice before the show. We got to Tin Roof at 4, set up our equipment (while chopping it up with a Tin Roof regular who recognized us from Kulture Klash), and had some lunch at Hometeam BBQ. Here's what the setup looked like:

There were some great friends out at the show. Of course, Rob and Keenan made it out; as well as Rebecca, Josh, Patty and Annie, Tara, Flatbroke and Allison, Sonar, and KJ. Even Charleston's most fashionable superfriends (Dalia and Ayoka) made it through on the late tip. As expected, Sean and Lesley from Tin Roof made everything super easy on us, and paid us before we even went on... I don't think that's ever happened before.

We had a good time playing the set... although we were getting kinda tired towards the end. There was definetely some watch-checking going on during the last hour. I had forgotten how tough it can be to pull some of these blends off live at such a high stage volume and without being able to hear what's coming from the headphones. It was nice to get back on stage and do a set with Hunter tho. I taped the set (like literally, with a tape deck. If you look at the pic above, the tape deck is on top of the monitor box next to me) and after I listen to it--and if it's any good--we may put it out for your listening pleasure.

We got asked some questions by a very nice girl from the City Paper. She took some photos and got our contact info. Keep an eye out for us in the next issue of City Paper (I think they come out on Wednesdays) cause we might be in it.

Come Check the BGBs Tomorrow

Tomorrow (sat, March 27th) the Bubbleguts Bros. will be playing at Tin Roof from 5 to 8 pm. No cover, $1.50 PBR drafts, snacks and shit, and if you bring your own T-shirt you can get an original screen print on it for $10. Come through and check our first show since Kulture Klash V.

Return of the Blog

Sorry for the extended absence of the blog lately. I got kinda tired of just posting youtube videos of songs I like. Anyway, I'm gonna try to continue posting here and not slackin off.

In addition to this being a return of the blog post, it's also a return of the Bubbleguts Bros. post. Hunter and I will be playing at the Tin Roof this Saturday in support of a few bands as well as a John Pundt screenprinting party. More details to come later in the week.

I Got No Words For This... Just Watch

Upwardshandsplashesalldayson.

Monday Wake-Up Jawn

This past week has been (in the words of the illustrious Dude) ups and down, strikes and gutters. I've been abiding it all so far tho. Today's wake-up jawn is a sleepy slow-burner with great drums. It's kinda moody... but I've been working on a moody downtempo mix this past week that I may end up releasing sometime close to the new year. I got some new records from Turntablelab with my date guap from Kulture Klash, and I'm trying to make a stay under the covers on a cold winter morning mix using lots of the new wax. Anyway, this is Bonobo's remix of Jon Kennedy's track Tell Me How You Feel:

Melsontwitternow... checkhimout.

Monday Wake-Up Jawn

Today's jawn has a little bit of a story behind it. One of my top 3 De La Soul songs of all time has always been Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey), but laying hands on the original mix of the song has been most difficult despite years of record collecting. You see, there have been so many De La releases that include a version of Ring Ring Ring... from comps, to 12" singles, 7" singles, CD singles, the shitty one LP pressing of De La Soul is Dead, and many others. As always, the only way to get the good version of Ring Ring Ring (without the saxophone) on wax that you could actually play out at a show was to find the elusive promo (AND 2LP VERSION THAT INCLUDES ALL THE SONGS) copy of De La Soul is Dead.

Well with my payment from Kulture Klash, I bought some new records, and I now got my own copy of the promo De La is Dead 2LP, so I can play the original version of Ring Ring Ring:

Hopethatwasnttoohardtofollow... thatssomerecordnerdshit.

Kulture Klash 5 Video

In my previous post, I mentioned Adam and Aaron from Jewell&Ginnie filming us on stage. Well, they filmed a lot more than that at Kulture Klash. Check the slick editing and how they gave us some serious shine:

Kulture Klash V from Jewell&Ginnie on Vimeo.

Bigupstothosedudesforsure.

Monday Wake-Up Jawn (Post KK Edition)

Today's song to get you awake is Breakadawn by De La Soul:

Kulture Klash was crazy fun, but I'll start this story at the beginning... After getting off work on Friday, I stopped by Alex's (of Spaced Invaders fame) office on Broad St. He was projecting art work from the Fr3sh crew on the Daughters of the Confederacy building, and it looked amazing. Julie of Cavortress (who is a big fan of the BGBs) was also meeting Alex at his office to drop off some clothes for him. I might have to get her in my pocket somehow so I can get her to find me some clothes. Anyway, Alex and I walked down to the beer exchange and got myself a growler of this, which was awesome. After hanging with Alex at his office for a bit, I went over to Hunter's to practice our sets, which went really late into the night, so I crashed with him.

Hunter and I were up early on Saturday to sneak in some more practice sessions before heading over to the Kulture Klash location at noon. Jess made us a great lunch; and after picking up some equipment at my house, Hunter, Jeff, Dave, Alan and I made our way out to Kulture Klash. We got set up and sound-checked with no problems thanks to everyone from Big Hair Productions. After hearing the sound-check from the main stage, I was a little worried that we wouldn't be able to get loud enough to match the huge set-up they had; so I talked to Gustavo and Alex, and they got us enough sound to calm my concerns. Big ups are indeed due to Gustavo and Scott (who organized the event and made sure we had everything we needed all night and kept us having a good time), Alex and Jason of The Spaced Invaders (for running projections for us... see pictures below, editing together a visual Roc Raida tribute to go with our set, and hanging with us when we weren't playing), BadJon (official photographer for the event, and a super telanted dude), Jeff ET (who played brilliantly, more on that later), and everyone that showed up and partied with us on the loading dock stage.

Here's some photos courtesy of BadJon:

Loading dock stage before doors opened

Once the show got going

Hunter warming up for our first set

Hunter and I opened the show at 8 with lots of instrumental jawns, a good bit of cutting, and a couple remixes (most notably D'Angelo's Left and Right). Adam Boozer from JewellandGinnie shot video of us spinning. I'm really looking forward to seeing what he shot. We came off stage at 9 very happy with the set and our performance of it, and Righcus came up and rocked it with DJ R-Dot. Hunter and I got back up on stage at 10 for our second set. This set went particularly well (especially the 10 Crack Commandments remix we did) until THE POWER CUT OUT FOR THE WHOLE VENUE. At around 11:25, at the height of our set's hypeness, everything shut off at once. I ran around the stage cutting everything off to protect all the equipment from a surge if the power came back on. After a couple minutes of talking with lots of people who liked our set and chillin with the Spaced Invaders in what we were calling the A/V tent, Gustavo came over to tell us the generator blew and a new one was on the way. The power came back on a couple minutes after midnight, and I re-routed all our equipment to the new power source. Basically, I wanted to be up and running before any of the other stages started, and that's what happened. Jeff went in from the start with one of my favorite Red Astaire songs, and he tore it down until 2 when the show got shut down. After packing up, and hitting the after hours VIP (Gustavo, true to form, gave me enough after-hours wristbands to take care of everyone that helped us break down equipment), we all went back to my house for an early-morning Street Fighter tournament.

Crazyweekend... Imgladthestressisover.

Monday Wake-Up Jawn

I hope everyone had a great Halloween weekend. I had a great time despite having to work at the library on Saturday and Sunday. This week, Hunter and I are in full-on Kulture Klash V prep mode, so if you don't hear from me before the show, I'm sorry. To wake up today, I bring you the Jay Dee remix of D'Angelo's Me and Those Dreamin Eyes of Mine:

Seeyouatkultureklash.

Friday Jams

First off, I hope everyone has a safe Halloween weekend. Don't eat unwrapped candy from strangers before letting mommy inspect it and shit... you remember the rules. If you see your boy, make sure to give respect in the form of a caucasian. Lemme start your weekend off with even more People Under the Stairs (I know, the blog is real one-dimensional right now). Here's PUTS with The Joyride off the Question in the Form of an Answer LP:

And here's PUTS representing the chill head-nod tip with Plunkin Em off the ...Or Stay Tuned LP:

and off the super rare (only 1000 copies pressed) American Men vol. 1, this is Pulp Fiction ft. Murs:

And although this is a repost, I'll never get sick of The Bomb Combo that only appears on the Best of LP off Om... but I couldn't embed it, so you'll just have to click the link.

Lastly, here's PUTS spittin the positive vibe on Give Love a Chance off Question in the Form of an Answer:

sowhenchasingthegoldgetsroughandsayslifesucks... remembertheliningssilverandthatsalwaysgoodenough.

Monday Wake-Up Jawn

Such a great weekend... more on that in a minute, here's People Under the Stairs with Listen off their new album Carried Away:

Got down to south Florida at 3pm on Friday. After dinner with my parents, I went to meet up with Sean. We caught up for a bit and made our way downtown to get a couple drinks. I ran into lots of St. Thomas folks, but it was great seeing Mike. I finally made it home to my parents' house at 5:30 and fell into bed.

I woke up at ten on Saturday and had breakfast with my parents. I scooped Sean up around one, and we made our way to the Clemson v. Miami game with my parents. Great game, and we had great seats to watch Clemson edge by the U in overtime. There were lots of funny stories involving a certain Miami fan who was talking mad yang to me and ended up crying when I "reinvented swagger" on my way out of the section. Afterwards, Sean came to dinner with us, and then he and I went out to a local pub to hang. Once again, I made it home around 5 after Sean and I drove around late night like we used to do in high school... then I flew home Sunday Morning.

Rollindownthestreetbumpinbeatssmellinlikebeer.

Monday Wake-Up Jawn

Had a great time in Clemson this weekend. Shouts to everyone I saw out there... we should do that again real real real real soon. Today's jawn to get you up and goin is Acid Raindrops live in New York by People Under the Stairs:

Suchanillysleepybeat.

Friday Jam

I only got one jam for you today. I've been listening to it for a few days straight. Here's People Under the Stairs with the last (and title) track on their new LP; Carried Away:

Forserious... gocopthealbum.