MixRevolution Blog

The MixRev crew was at Klever’s Sloppy Seconds party in Atlanta @ MJQ this January, here is just a little footage from the event.

OK OK I’m NOT FROM BROOKLYN but I couldn’t think of a better title for this entry. FYI I’m from the birthplace of Hip Hop… the South Bronx… SOUTH SOUTH BRONX!! I’ll stop now I’m gettin carried away, but DON’T FRONT YOU KNO I GOTCHU OPEN!! Ok that was really the last one… they were just flowing out of me like word vomit. Moving along.

SOOOOO, I’m sitting here listening to my favorite DJ Neil Armstrong mixCD Sweeet reading through emails and I said to myself “CRAP Marilyn go write that blog about the Sales!” After going through drama trying to log in, damn you wordpress, I AM HERE! You know why I will rock your socks today because not only do I have some awesome goodies to tell you about, I HAVE A CONTEST to tell you about, a contest like no other!!

To commemorate the 10 year anniversary of the 5th Platoon’s existence they’ve teamed up with a few people to bring you the following:
THE 5th PLATOON x ADIDAS B-Ball Equipment Sample Giveaway
PICK UP the 10 year anniversary Tee for a chance to win 1 of only 5ive LTD Ed Sample pairs of the BBALL EQUIP kicks & 1 pair of the Final Version in your size!!
RAFFLE WINNER ANNOUNCED APRIL 4th 2008

$30, orange or white designed by the good people at UNDR-CRWN and sizes Medim to 3XL!
For more info and to pick yours up go HERE. Make sure to hold on to that TAG it’s your raffle number!!!

Next item on my list is here just in time for Valentine’s day! Whether it’s for that lovely lady in your life or just a treat for yourself these next two items are PERFECT FOR ANY MUSIC LOVER. Make sure to put that order in by FEBRUARY 7th the latest so that you can get it in time!!

To pick up yours click here
You cannot go wrong with these sets. When the Sweeet series set was released a few years back you know i brought mine with the quickness AND it came with a tee and an awesome cereal box designed especially for the set by UNDR-CRWN ! I love these mixCDs so much that i own two copies of them each. Each is unique, tells a story through music and the song selection is full of classics, remixes and mashups that will have you cheesing it for days. WarmFuzzy is from the ALL OUT KING series in which Neil proves his AOK status in puttin together yet another mixCD to make babies to!! The last track… classic!!!

I’ll be back to hit you off with a few 5th Platoon videos i found around the way AND to let you know about an amazing tour that’s going down in a few SELECT US cities. Will one of those cities be yours?!?!?!?! OOoOOO MAN!

January is gone… like me….

Most of the time this actually works. If this doesn’t, try bringing a box of vinyl of bull*$# records and let them know you work for a record label. I’ve done that plenty of times.

While we are not the first to tell you about this crazy new all in one dj mixer and internal player. We thought we needed to give those who missed this little devil a sneak peak at what the future might be.

The player is handheld, has up to 120 GB hard drive, supports mp3, wav, flac, aac, ogg, flac and will be perfect for house heads. For more info check out the companies site, www.pacemaker.net, they ship out sometime in Feb of 08.

…and now the wait is over!!!

The funny thing is MixRev may try to get an exclusive on this!

I know People had the exclusive on this but what are all your thoughts? I know the Moms will be loving this, “Loving it Forever!”

Here are some vids to enjoy!

In the Major Leagues of Hip-Hop and Music itself, the City of Chicago could have been seen as League Champions. With the huge success of Mr. West’s third effort, Lupe’s excellent sophomore effort and the underground and blogs of the world constantly chatting about the vast talents coming from the Windy City. Look to 2008 to be even greater for the Chi, with a few huge events and talent that is ready to take on the world.

Last night I spent some time with three future Chicago prospects at Cinespace in LA. Look for the upcoming video of the night’s insanity brought to you courtesy of Million $$$ Mano, Hollywood Holt and Mic Terror. Mic gives up his true life’s passion. Holt discusses the mean streets and life of his Moped Gang. Then Mano gives up the secret to sustaining his lavish lifestyle and the future collabos he is brewing to change the RAP GAME!

In the meantime get a feel for some of my favorite new rappers in ‘08 by visiting their myspace pages! My fellow DJs, forget the radio crap and start spinning some artist with a true love for the art because some of these Hip-Pop rappers ego’s are too big! Hit up Mo from The Movement to get some of the guys tracks!

http://www.myspace.com/milliondollamano
http://www.myspace.com/holtgoestohollywood
http://www.myspace.com/micterrormusic

Peace!

Who would have thought that the last MAJOR artist to come from Seattle was all the way back in the 90s… Sir Mix Alot?! Well it’s finally time to see the NW get some more shine. Checkout Geologic and Sabzi (Blue Scholars) rock the mic on the following clip and tell me what you think!!!

This is one of their music videos that I’m feeling. Real dope…

So it is official today! I will be burning up at the “Poor Man’s SXSW”, quoting Sarah Morrison, otherwise known as THE COACHELLA MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL, this April 25th-27th. The official line-up was made today! You know what that means, it is time for a 2nd Annnual MixRevolution Coachella After Party in the Ghetto! Yes!

Here is the line-up!
Friday:

Jack Johnson, The Verve, Raconteurs, Breeders, Fatboy Slim, Tegan and Sara, Madness, Swell Season, The National, Animal Collective, Slightly Stupid, Mum, Pendulum, Sharon Jones, Stars, Battles, Aesop Roc, Midnight Juggernauts, Does it Offend you yeah?, Minus the Bear, Spank Rock, Dan le sac vs Scrubious Pib, Diplo, Adam Freeland, Santo Gold, Jens Lekman, John Butter Trio, Vampire Weekend, Dan Deacon, Architecture in Helsinki, Sandra Collins, Busy P, Cut Copy, Black Lips, Datarock, Proffesor Murder, Reverend and the Makers, The Bees, Porter, Rogue Wave, Modeselektor, American Gang, Lucky I AM

Saturday:

Portishead, Kraftwerk, Death Cab For Cutie, Cafe Tacvba, Sasha and Digweed, Rilo Kiley, Dwight Yoakam, M.I.A., Hot CHip, Cold War Kids, Stephen Malkmus, Devotchka, Floggin Molly, Mark Ronson, Turbonegro, Scars On Brodway, Islands, Enter Shikari, Calvin Harris, Boyz Noise, Junke Xl, Cinematic Orchestra, Jamie T, The Teenagers, VHS or Beta, Garbon/Silicon, Erol Alkan, Yo Majesty, Little Brother, Bonde Do Role, St. Vincent, Akron Family, MGMT, Institubes DJS, Surkin, Orgasmic, James Zbiola, SebastiAn, Kavinsky, Dready, The Birds and the Bees, Grand Ole party, New Young Pony Club, 120 Days, Yoav, Electrick Touch, UFFIE

Sunday:

Roger Waters, Love and Rockets, My Morning Jacket, Spiritualized, Justice, Gogol Bordello, Chromeo, The Streets, Metric, Danny Tenaglia, Simian Mobile Disco, Booka Shade, Murs, Dimitri From Paris, Autolux, The Field, Lintop Kwesi Johnson, Les Savy Fab, The Cool Kids, Sons and Daughters, Sia, Holy Fuck, Black Kuls, Black Mountain, The Animals, Kid Sister feat. A Trak, Mon Man, Duffy, Im From Barcelona, Manchester Orchestra, Deadmau5, The Horrors, Austin TV, Shout out Lods, Plastiscenes, Brett Dennen

So after almost dying of dehydration last year and not really enjoying myself for the first time, aside from Justice and Hot Chip. It was the heat’s fault not the musicians. I am only going to go one day to the actual event. Which day should I choose!

On to another issue. We spent the weekend at NAMM. Look out for Aaron’s overview and some awesome video spots!

And tomorrow will be a day spent with Hollywood Holt, Mano and Mic Terror! Look out for the info and vids! Have fun this week and keep on mixing!

I found this on MC Lars, last MySpace blog. I think all you DJs and Production heads will find this interesting! Enjoi! Amen Brothas (& Sistas)!

NOVA

So I have been meaning to post all this up since Wednesday but due to the fact that my landlord hates me and I had to go to Orlando this weekend, I didn’thave them time. But if you have come out from underneath your rock lately, then you would know that MySpace has proven it is still cool, even if it is owned by an Ol’ Fart now, by making Justice the headliner of it’s latest MySpace Music Tour. It’s time to come back and pledge my alegence to them again, sorry Facebook.

The tour will include on various dates a few of my personal favorties, NYC based Canuck’s CHROMEO, Sarah’s favorite DIPLO, and the and fellow Ed Bangers Busy P, Medhi and Fancy.

If you haven’t experience a Justice live set, not a DJ set, then it is a must do for your Bucket List. So come out and look for the tall white MixRev poser in the audience jumping like a gitty school girl. But I will pump my fist to prove I am still a man! HA! Check out the dates below, which include all their live dates from here through the MySpace tour.

Upcoming World Tour Dates:

01-23 Osaka, Japan - Big Cat
01-24 Tokyo, Japan - Studio Coast
01-25 Tokyo, Japan - Yellow (DJ set)
01-30 Copenhagen, Denmark - Vega
01-31 Gothenburg, Sweden - Tradgarn
02-01 Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser Medis
02-02 Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
02-07 Manchester, England - Academy 2 (NME Brats)
02-08 Middlesbrough, England - Empire
02-09 Sheffield, England - Plug
02-13 Nottingham, England - Rock City
02-14 London, England - Astoria (NME Brats)
02-15 Oxford, England - Academy
02-17 Bristol, England - Academy
02-21 Berlin, Germany - Huxley’s
02-22 Cologne, Germany - E-Werk
02-23 Hamburg, Germany - Docks
03-03 Austin, TX - Stubb’s Bar-B-Q *#
03-04 Dallas, TX - Palladium Ballroom *#
03-06 Orlando, FL - The Club at Firestone *#
03-09 Baltimore, MD - Sonar *#
03-10 Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory *#
03-11 New York, NY - Madison Square Garden *#^%
03-12 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club #^
03-15 Boston, MA - Paradise #^
03-16 Montreal, Quebec - Cepsum #^
03-17 Toronto, Ontario - The Docks #^
03-19 Detroit, MI - Royal Oak Music Hall #$
03-20 Chicago, IL - Riviera Theatre #$
03-22 Denver, CO - Ogden Theater #$
03-24 Seattle, WA - Showbox SoDo #$
03-25 Vancouver, British Columbia - Commodore #$
03-26 Portland, OR - Roseland Theater #$
03-27 San Francisco, CA - Concourse Design Center #$
03-31 Los Angeles, CA - Mayan Theatre #$

* with DJ Mehdi
# with Fancy
^ with Busy P
% with Chromeo
$ with Diplo

On a side note. Supposedly the once genious and now moronic people at Fabric, London’s Cool Dance Mega Club, rejected a recent Justice mix for it’s FabricLive series. Well they decided to not let the fine gem go to waste and mailed it out to their friends as a Christmas gift. Since we are not cool enough to be part of that list, URB, posted it on their latest podcast. So head over to URB.com to download it and burn a whole in your bed from all that fancy footwork. Just head to the link below:

http://www.urb.com/podcasts/ or here (Thanks Discobelle) to download it.

TRACKLIST:

01 Sparks – Tryouts For The Human Race – Virgin
02 Rondo Veneziano – La Serenissima - Universal
03 Goblin – Tenebrae - Cinevox
04 Daft Punk – Ouverture - Virgin
05 Surkin – Next Of Kin – Institubes
06 Symbolone – Love Juice - SymbolOne
07 Korgis – Everybodys Gotta Learn Sometimes – Angel Air
08 Midnight Juggernauts – Ending Of An Era – Mindight Juggernauts
09 The Paradise Ft Romauld – In Love With You – Vulture
10 Justice – TTHHEE PPAARRTTYY (Acapella) – Ed Banger
11 Chic – Everybody Dance – Atlantic
12 Frankie Valli – Who Loves You – Warners
13 Das Pop – Underground – Das Pop
14 Julien Clerc – Quand Je Joue – EMI
15 Daniel Balavoine – Vivre Ou Survivre – Barclay
16 Richard Sanderson – Reality - Barclay
17 Zoot Woman – Grey Day – Wall Of Sound
18 Fucking Champs – Thor Is Like Immortal – Drag City
19 The Rave – Mother – The Rave
20 Fancy – You Never Know - Fancy
21 Frank Stallone – Far From Over - Universal
22 Sheila – Misery – Warners
23 Todd Rundgren – International Feel - Warners