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.

DJ mOma – Heavy Warm Vol 12

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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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!

My Mixpak FM just came out – a mix that includes dancehall, uk funky house, moombahton, jungle, grime, dub and roots reggae. You should already be familiar with Mixpak, the label behind Vybz Kartel & Dre Skull, Melé, Koyote, Sissy Nobby and a plethora of others. I’m really proud of how this one came together and their write-up is very flattering. Stream and download here, tracklist after the jump.
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“This set was recorded live from The Do-Over Oslo at Fugazi on August 13th this summer and I was on after my Juicy-partner Chris Stallion set off. WIth a party like The Do-Over where all the best DJ’s in the world have played I figured I had to DO something different so I played a set with DO in all songs (titles). I was playing before Do-Over boss Chris Haycock, The Rub’s incomparable Cosmo Baker and last but not least Kingdom, so I wanted the set to build from Rap and R&B, through Soul and Disco up to Club levelz. Enjoy!”

Patski Love (Juicy) – Live from The Do-Over Oslo (ALL DO set) mediafire download

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I’ve been making a concerted effort to get back on my dancehall shit in the last six months or so, from recording with Natalie Storm to remixing Federation to spinning on the Deadly Dragon show on EVR. Here is a short piece I wrote for the newly relaunched Large Up site on Okay Player, about Cutty Ranks:

largeup.okayplayer.com/2011/10/13/throwback-thursdays-dj-ayres-on-cutty-ranks-the-stopper/

You can listen to my set on Deadly Dragon in their archives, just click on October 3. My set is in the second hour. And here is my remix for Federation:

FEDERATION SOUND FT. BLING DAWG – CUT OFF (DJ AYRES REMIX)

I wanted to do a bounce / dancehall track and the Federation Sound dons Max and Kenny said no samples, so I recreated the Triggaman drums from scratch on the 808 kit in Battery and put a huge sub bass underneath. Big up to Nick Chacona for mixing it down with me. My favorite mix from the release is DJ Theory’s moombahton remix of To-isis, this shit is bananas! Max played the whole remix album on Federation Invasion (also on East Village Radio – click October 12).

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A few years ago my friend from Philly Pittsburgh, DJ Apt One, sent me demos from his project, RCMP. To my surprise this wasn’t edits or mashups, it was full fledged original disco tracks by Apt and his man Paul aka Relative Q. I’m a big fan of Italo disco so I loved it and played the hell of the vinyl when it came out. Since then I’ve been working a lot with Skinny Friedman (Apt One’s partner in Philadelphyinz), playing parties together in Philly and in New York, and kept up a friendship with RCMP as well.

This year we talked about putting their new EP on T&A, a discussion which evolved into me jumping in to help out with Young Robots, the label they started a few years ago to put out RCMP and Philadelphyinz related music. We relaunched the label this fall and we’re on a roll, from disco and house to moombahton to weird remixes of rap and whatever the fuck we’re feeling. So I’m really excited to present this DJ mix, which features a bunch of the recent records we’ve put out plus a few exclusives which will be out in the coming months, starting with RCMP II this Tuesday, October 18. Tracklist after the jump, and be sure to check out their insane new video as well.

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DJ Ayres – Cats, Snakes, Chickens, Ducks, Elderly People & Twerkers (Mannie Fresh Mixtape) by T&ARecords

Oh man, this is a treat.  Club vet DJ Rok One went all out for the Heavy Warmup series, bringing the slow jams, disco and 80s singalongs, forgotten 90s rap gems (Ten Thieves? Grav? wow) and even a Nine Inch Nails record.  Catch Rok making it hot at The Rub this Saturday, and do yourself a favor and ask to subscribe to his email blast (rokone@gmail.com), which is always hilariously on point.

The Heavy Warm-Up Series: Rok One by The Black Russian Party

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