I’d Fuck Me is still getting heavy burn in a lot of DJ sets… here’s a couple of choice tunes in case you missed them:

RCMP – “RCMP II Remixes”

Here’s a new mix I did for Wasabeat, along with a Top Ten. Lots of T&A stuff – house, rap, moombahton – and a few exclusives! This debuted on FM radio in Japan last Friday. You have to click play on their site, underneath my picture.

Plus a live drunk mix from Fortune Sound Club in Vancouver, this one is more hip-hop but with plenty of other stuff thrown in (and a couple of transitions that overlap with the Wasabeat mix – if it ain’t broke…

DJ Ayres live at Happy Ending Fridays by Fortune Sound Club
Tracklists after the jump.
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Hip-Hop History by Brooklyn Radio on Mixcloud

Brooklyn Radio got the entire 31 mixes of The Rub History of Hip-Hop up on Mixcloud!  Click the left and right arrows on the widget above to go to previous years in the series, or jump to Hip-Hop History for the mixes on Mixcloud with full tracklists.   Download any and all of the shows right on the Brooklyn Radio website.

I’m super proud of this EP. A few years ago after doing strictly dance records for a while, I got back into making rap beats. As a hip-hop DJ I’ve done a lot of shows with a lot of rappers but a standout for me was GLC, from the Sunglasses is a Must tour that Cosmo Baker and I did with A-Trak. He was on Kanye’s Spaceship and Drive Slow and had some really good records with A-Trak and with Three 6 Mafia. So when I had a rap beat I felt good about, I had A-Trak put me in touch with GLC and we did “Got Me Gone,” which kind of came and went. But then GLC hit me up and said he was getting good feedback on it and wanted to do a video.

He also said “send me more beats,” so I did, and after a few more months he hit me back with four finished songs on the first four beats I sent him, from me and my friends Nacey, Lunice and Derek Allen (aka DJA). Rhek knocked out a great cover, Sammy Bananas helped me tighten up the mixing and boom, here we are! The EP came out yesterday and it’s $2.99 on iTunes / $7.96 on Beatport. The Fader called it genius, and who am I to argue?

DJ MOMA – Heavy Warmup Vol. 12on Mixcloud

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DJ mOma is one of our closest Rub affiliates, and a hell of a DJ. Whether you saw him win the Red Bull Threestyle competition two years ago or play with us at The Rub NYE 2012 party, you know how he gets down. The Heavy Warmup series is all about finesse, and Mo’s set does not disappoint.

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Come celebrate with us at our new spot!  The Rub is going to be bigger and better at The Bell House, with special guests Max Glazer (Federation Sound), DJ Sureshot, Scott Melker & Kool Kear in the front room, and DJ Ayres, DJ Eleven and Cosmo Baker in the back.  Then starting in April we will be at The Bell House on the last Saturday of each month.

Ten years ago Mikey Palms told us he was opening a bar in Park Slope in an old 99 Cent store with his childhood friend, Matt Roff. As soon as we saw it, we immediately knew we wanted to throw a party there. The Rub started the first summer Southpaw opened, and after an unprecedented run of over a hundred monthly parties, we are sad to report Southpaw is closing.

Simply stated there would be no Rub without Southpaw. Before Fifth Avenue had any sushi restaurants, yoga studios or boutiques, Mikey and Matt took a bet on the neighborhood. They helped us connect with a community of people who wanted to stay in the Slope and party with their friends to quality music. Southpaw was an oasis for Brooklynites who didn’t want to go to Manhattan and spend half a paycheck on bottle service while some asshole played The Strokes off an iPod. And they didn’t just invest in the neighborhood, they invested in three DJs who were dying to find a big room were we could play cool shit for a crowd who loved music as we did.

We were talking about it the other day, and Mikey put it in perspective when he said “remember, when we opened, you could still smoke in bars.” This was just six months after Bloomberg took office – before mash-ups, before 50 Cent, before Serato, before all-over print and skinny jeans, before any of us had gone on tour or released a record. If you were there in the beginning you remember Roger, and Uncle Moe, and Marissa, and Bill, and Alex (RIP). You remember when Mark Ronson Djed on Halloween in face paint, when Diplo and Low-Bee played in a blizzard, when DJ Premier dropped in for a surprise DJ set and when Dave Nada tore the room wide open with Baltimore club. You remember when a couple fucked the sink off the bathroom wall, when Pumpkinhead got in a fistfight at the end of the night and rolled around on the dancefloor, when the winner of the White Rapper Show threw up and passed out on stage, when we got shut down and had to move to Bar Reis because Southpaw didn’t have a license to serve lemons and limes, when Jeru the Damaja hopped on stage and performed “Come Clean.” There was a special feeling every month, like a big house party, loud and sweaty and thrilling. And in the last few years, you also remember waiting on a long ass line around the block. We could have moved The Rub to a bigger club plenty of times, but it was such a special feeling and a perfect crowd, and besides we were loyal to Mike and Matt.

This Saturday will be the last time The Rub is at Southpaw, but it’s not the last Rub. Mikey and Matt are going to focus on their Williamburg club, Public Assembly. Eleven, Cosmo and I are taking The Rub down the hill to Bell House, a beautiful venue very similar to Southpaw in a lot of ways, but a little bigger, with a little better sound, and a little off the beaten path. We looked at a bunch of clubs in Brooklyn and talked to a ton of our friends, and everyone agreed that this feels like the perfect room. The gang’s all going to be there, with Rahnon and Matt at the door, and me, Eleven and Cosmo on the turntables. We’re switching it up to the last Saturday of every month, and we hope you’ll help us spread the word so we can keep it up for ten more years. Please please please sign up for our email list, follow us on Twitter and Facebook, and ask your friends to do the same. And if you don’t have anything else to do this Saturday, come to Southpaw (EARLY, to beat what will surely be a crazy line) and join us for the first Rub of the rest of your life!

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More: 10 years of Rub Flyers!

Tribe of Issachar – Junglist
Tribe of Issachar – Original Junglist
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artwork by Rhek (Sharks & Hammers)

DJ Ayres – New Years EVE by T&ARecords

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Get it?

1. Let’s Talk About
2. Double R What
3. Got It All
4. Ryde or Die, Bitch
5. Ryde or Die
6. Brotha Pt II
7. That’s What It Is
8. Blow Your Mind
9. Like This
10. Gotta Man
11. Caramel
12. Butterflies (remix)
13. 1 Thing (Remix)
14. Who’s That Girl
15. Tambourine
16. Everyday Coolin (Codes Remix)
17. 4 My People
18. Get Em
19. Fire
20. Hot Boyz
21. You Got Me

I’ll be spinning at Southpaw with The Rub and DJ mOma on New Year’s Eve, get your tickets before they sell out!