MixRevolution Blog

So for a long time we have been talking about doing music mondays over here at Mix Rev and we finally got our SH#T together. So every week on mondays we will be posting a dj set from some of our personal favorite DJ’s from around the world across all musical genres. To Kick things off right we are bringing you a the latest mixtape from L.A.’s Own Dan Oh. For those of you who don’t know who this guy is, crawl out of that hole you have been living in for the last six months and walk yourself toward Cinespace every tuesday night in L.A. and go check this kid out. So with out further delay here is his latest mix Dan OH is legend

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Here are the official flyers for the first Gong Battle of the year!
Wednesday May 14
Knitting Factory
DJ sign up and doors open at 9:30pm
ALL AGES
$15 at the door
Hosted by Lord Sear and Lord Finesse
Music will be provided by Boogie Blind
Performance by Joel Ortiz

You know I’ll be there and you know my short self will be making my way to the front and center!!!

The other day I got a bit angry about the fact that Aaron posted the Coolio video below because I thought I had already done a post about it and it got deleted. I was tired and now I find it funny because today I was looking at my drafts and look what I found in there. So I know this isn’t news but I wanted to post this anyways! Read on:

Speakin’ Of Food!!! My Next post will be all bout it!!! Read on!

So I am bored right now sitting in the Vegas Airport while waiting for my connecting flight to Salt Lake City. It’s 7:45 in the morning and I have slept about an hour, which was on the flight, in the past 24 or more hours. I can’t imagine how you, the touring DJs of the world do it, day in and day out. I am probably setting myself up for the 2nd freak out of my life.

Well while I am sitting here searching my Blog Reader I am noticing a reoccurring topic catching my eye, restaurants and food. So since I am slowly become a jet setter myself, I thought it would be fun to share a few of my favorite eats of the past few weeks and some fo my all time favorites for you all to check out and maybe try some day!!! Here goes my list:

Le Tub: While out in beautiful South Beach, I had the chance to meet up with a close friend from home, who lives out there as missionary. The kid has really knows the local sweet spots. I sent him an email saying I would take him to lunch while I was out there but he had to pick one of the best spots he knew of in the area. What a way to come through. I had their famous Sirlionburger with Swiss Cheese. Sorry In-N-Out but I have a new favorite burger, so does Oprah, GQ and many other magazines who have written excellent articles on the place. Read up and get some grub!!!!

Larios On The Beach: Since I am on a WMC kick I will also mention a great Cuban place, DJ I-Dee took us to. Larios On The Beach right on Ocean Drive in South Beach. I told I-Dee I really wanted some good Cuban Food and he came through. All I need was my “Yucca Frita” and I would be set. It was delicious. Oh and the Pollo was great too. Try it!!! You won’t regret.

In-N-Out: I am not going to say more than this, “That’s What a Hamburger’s All About.” Even “Super-size Me” couldn’t deny it’s greatness.

Well these are three spots I highly recommend. Up next week, I will have an actual review of a In-N-Out wannabe I had in Utah last week. Interesting! Until then, eat up and poop out! Ha!

Today temperatures hit the mid 70’s, and tomorrow it’s goin to be nearly 80!!! OMG you know i’ve already got my toe nails done BUT my finger nails AREN’T matching! ANYWHO with the spring comes all these exciting releases, new projects, just a bunch of new things. Let me fill you in on the things I’ve learned these past few weeks.

*A-Trak has been workin hard with the Fools Gold Tour so to fill in Craze is DJing for Kanye West
*One of the hardest working DJs I know, DJ Neil Armstrong from the 5th Platoon is currently the official DJ for the Heart of the City Tour. YES that’s the Jay-Z, Mary J. Blige tour!!!
*DJ I-Dee has been hard at work on his album.
*DJ Fat Fingaz has getting those gigs here in NYC.
*DJ Complex released a mixcd called Touchy Feely which I should have a lil more info about in a week or so, but by the title alone you know it’s goin to be a baby makin mix.
*ILL INSANITY released their album Ground Xero and have been touring like crazy.
*The track “Terrorism” from Rob Swift’s last solo album War Games is going to be in Academy Award nominated director Morgan Spurlock’s second film “Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden”. FYI the film that Spurlock was nominated for was “Super Size Me”.
*Roc Raida’s Gong Battle will kick off it’s East Coast heat on Wednesday May 14 at SOB’s!! Don’t worry I will be posting all about this in another week or two! West coast date TBA!
*NYC Tools of War Park Jams kick off June 5 with Turntablist Sessions in Queensbridge.

AND LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST… the biggest most awesome thing that could happen to the turntablist community happened just a few weeks ago!!!! DMC World announced their new DMC US events coordinator…..Christie Z-Pabon!!! YES Christie the woman in charge of DMC US when CRAZE brought the DMC WORLD TITLE HOME 3 years in a row. Make sure to hit up Christie if you can make a regional happen in your city… right now the cities confirmed are San Diego CA, Hartfort CT, Philly PA, New Orleans LA, Baltimore MD, Chicago IL, Portland OR… NYC is on July 23rd… US DMC FINAL is already set for August 30 in NYC!!! For any more info contact Christie Z-Pabon at toolsofwar@gmail.com

I promise next week will be a more exciting post… this was all info that I just HAD to share…. how excited are you about DMC!?!?!!!! ooo wait hold up I’m hella excited that the first Turntablist Session is the day AFTER MY BDAY with none other than 5th Platoon night… yes Neil Armstrong, Daddy Dog and Roli Rho all in one night =)

So I love eating. I love food, and when I heard that COOLIO CAN COOK… I just had to see for myself. And after watching him how to teach us cook stir fry, I realized thats why Coolio isn’t on the Food Channel or even on tv….just Youtube. That stir fry looks horrible, I should know, I’m Chinese. Anyways, check it out, his sidekicks are sort of entertaining….

So Miami was great. We met with countless incredible DJs and made some cool connects to move MixRev back into the world of the DJ. So let it be said MIXREVOLUTION.COM IS BACK AND WE ARE HERE TO STAY!!! WORD TO BIG BIRD!!!!

So here are the first 3 videos I cut up from Last Week’s Footage. Enjoy and check out the new YouTube discovery I made. Just add &fmt=18 to any video and it shows up in it’s original quality with now loss. Cool huh?!!! Enjoy. More videos to come and the complete footage will be on the site by week’s end.

But scour the web for cool videos and work on posting MixRev videos all weekend. Before I do that I found this while checking out a few of the blogs. If you haven’t seen it then get ready to laugh at what the vocoder has done to pop culture!!!