The Rub consist of Cosmo Baker, Dj Ayers & Dj Eleven

The Rub have finally finished the History of Hip-Hop series! 1979 – 2009 featuring all your favorite hip hop cuts and rap records. All mixes are downloadable, tracklists are available and are pretty dope! Check out the Golden era in particular – 1980 right through to the end of the 90′s for a trip down memory lane. Also check out the interview with the crew involved in this project below who consist of Cosmo Baker, Dj Ayers and Dj Eleven – pretty tight crew!

The Rub Interview on Brooklyn Radio

The Rub History of Hip-Hop Mixes, 1979-1989

The Rub History of Hip-Hop Mixes, 1990-1999

The Rub History of Hip-Hop Mixes, 2000-2009

A special podcast from the Fruitman has just arrived.  We’ve been waiting for this for a while and glad it’s here.  Download below via Soundcloud…

Fruitman aka Darren has been contributing to the ChoiceCuts website and DJing at our shows for sometime now.  A regular face in front of and behind the counters of various record stores around Dublin city and beyond, Fruitman is well known for his ability to drop the right records at the right time.  Check out this podcast Fruitman recorded for us – perfectly jumps through boogie and disco hoops while keeping everything smoothly paced.  And in case you forget the name, just listen to the intro…

Fruitman ChoiceCuts Podcast by ChoiceCuts

TRACKLSTING
1. Twighlight – Dance With Me
2. Pinch – Shot Out
3. California Executive – I Can’T Forget You
4. J.D Hall – I Wanna Get Into You
5. Cojo – Play It By Ear
6. Glass Pyramid – Whos Girl Are You
7. Aretha Franklin – Jump To It
8. Carol Shinette – Cyanide Love
9. Cheryl Lynn – Say You’ll Be Mine
10. Billy Ocean – Nights
11. Donny Mccollough – From The Heart (Kon Edit)
12. Alicia Myers – Dont Stop Doing What Your Doing
13. Earth, Wind & Fire – Runnin
14. Brass Fever – Time Is Running Out
15. Doug Carn – Time Is Running Out

Soulful boogie vibes from none other than Krystal Klear, hailing from Belize this mysteryman has been catching the attention of Benji B, Hudson Mohawke, Moovmnt Blog and a lot of the leading tastemakers around. This music is laden with boogie vibes and 80s electronica and is reminiscint of the Dam Funk material which came out in 2008/9. From the feedback he has been receiving, a promising future awaits.

All City have signed him up for the first release, so with that stamp of approval expect Olan & Co. to do a proper job in putting Krystal Klear on the map, one to watch for sure. Let us know if you feeling this.

Also…Krystal Klear will be Djing with us on St. Patricks Eve – Tue 16th March at Pygmalion. It will be free doors and music will begin at around 9pm and go til very late….you have been warned!

Krystal Klear – Since Then by ChoiceCuts

Qool DJ Marv is the DJ’s DJ.  When he’s not busy in New York, he’s busy in Europe.  A regular at Friends & Family in Manchester and a frequent visitor to Ireland to DJ with us Marv is no stranger to the regular ChoiceCuts crowds who frequent our club nights.  Here’s Marv’s top 10 Boogie/Disco tracks that are on his turntables at the moment.

Marv is a profilic DJ and he plays some of the best parties in NYC.  If he’s not wrapping up the Soprano’s End of Season afterparty he’s celebrating with the cast of the Wire on the dancefloor.  A HBO party planner favourite Marv records almost all the gigs he does and they’re all available here so you’d be just slightly crazy not to take a look…

*chart*
[ Raw Silk | Do It To The Music | West End | yes]
[ Luther Vandross | Sugar & Spice | Sony | yes]
[ NYC Peech Boys | Life Is Something Special | Island | yes]
[ Roy Ayers | Can’t You See Me | Urban | yes]
[ The Time | Get It Up | Warner Bros | no]
[ Alexander O’Neal & Cherrelle | Saturday Love | Tabu | yes]
[ Atlantic Starr | Silver Shadow | A&M Records | yes]
[ The Jacksons | Blame It on the Boogie | Atlantic | yes]
[ Chaka Khan | I Know You, I Live You | MCA | yes]
[ McFadden & Whitehead | Ain’t No Stoppin Us Now | Philadelphia International | yes]

Dam Funk speaks about his inpsiration and influences here. D-F is coming to play with us at Revolution next friday week, October 23rd in conjunction with his album launch and Dublins DEAF Festival. We cannot stress how good this is going to be, so get your tickets asap!

Interview with Jeff Weiss of Los Angeles Times, published in latimesblogs.latimes.com

Though he’s frequently tagged as “the ambassador of Boogie,” Dam-Funk (pronounced: “Dame” as in his first name Damon) doesn’t make “boogie music” — the post-disco amalgam of funk, electro, New Wave and disco that lit up discotheques and roller rinks from Los Angeles to London throughout the early ’80s. Not content to traffic in polite revisionism, the Pasadena-raised, Leimert Park-based Stones Throw artist describes his brand of chromatic tripped-out soul as “modern funk,” which is arguably the most accurate description of his syncretistic meld of P-Funk and Prince to drum machines and post-house groove.

Rest assured, if you catch Damon Riddick putting needles to wax at his fabled Funkmosphere Monday night residency at Carbon in Culver City, you’ll hear a host of obscure boogie (and funk and soul) 45s culled from his 5,000-plus record collection. But lately, the former session keyboard player for Westside Connection and MC Eight has been making waves for his own musical output — perhaps most notably a funkadelic remix of “Summertime Clothes,” from indie icons Animal Collective.

There’s been a revival of the boogie, post-disco and early electro sound in recent years. What do you think it is about the music that’s allowed it to sustain such longevity?
People just want funky bass lines and synthesizers in their listening experience, with really melodic chords. Over the years, dance-related urban culture got harder, with hip-hop’s influence being predominant, but as time goes around people want to hear interesting chords with the beats.

I was influenced a lot by Slave, Aurra, early Prince, anything on Prelude Records, the stuff that tended to get ignored once hip-hop came in, and crate-diggers started to look for harder, James Brown-type funk breaks. For a long time, the ’80s sound was considered cheesy, and it’s nice to see it regaining credibility. At one time, it was deemed unlistenable. Now with the rise of Daft Punk and Kanye, everyone wants to do it.

How would you describe boogie music to someone unfamiliar with the genre?
First of all, the name was created in the United Kingdom by cats like Norman Jay in the 1980s, right before the Soul II Soul era of the late ’80s. Most of it was put out on labels like Prelude and Brunswick Records — that West End-style soul. It’s a type of music that never fails to move a crowd. I think of it as post-disco, sandwiched in between funk and disco, not P-Funk but not the Bee Gees. Sometimes, it has the 4/4 beat and the 2/2. A song like “Bounce, Rock, Skate,” is a perfect example of a boogie song.

How did you end up hooking up with Animal Collective to remix “Summertime Clothes?”
Animal Collective’s manager reached out to me because the group wanted to collaborate with me. I dug their material and we agreed to do something. I studied their song, I didn’t just chop it up and put effects on it — I studied it hard, and shaped it around the vocal to take them to the dance floor, but still have something that you could ride around with your girl and listen to. I understood that the band’s fans are sensitive to the source material. It’s like Prince — if someone remixed Prince back in the day, I would’ve been waiting with baited breath.

I was pleased that the majority of people seemed to like it. When I saw Animal Collective at the Troubadour, one of them told me that he couldn’t stop listening to it on repeat, and that meant a lot to me. I really respect those dudes and wanted to get down with them. For lack of a better description, they sort of remind me of Talking Heads, how they were into expanding their sound and collaborating with George Clinton. I love that aspect of collaborating with different types of artists. Nite Jewel has become a good buddy of mine, because we like those same type of chords. No matter what type of genre, if it’s beautiful music, that’s what we’ll lean towards.

Dam Funk plays Twisted Pepper for ChoiceCuts as part of Revolution with DJ Scope on friday 23rd October and in Cork’s Pavilion venue with Stevie G & Co, on Sunday 25th October

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A treat for monday, it aint all that bad people

Dam Funk comes through with a ode to the haters and busters out there

Dam Funk is playing Revolution in The Twisted Pepper on Friday 23rd October and The Pavilion, Cork on Sunday 25th October courtesy of ChoiceCuts, more news next week!

Qool DJ Marv is the DJ’s DJ.  When he’s not busy in New York, he’s busy in Europe.  A regular at Friends & Family in Manchester and a frequent visitor to Ireland to DJ with us Marv is no stranger to the regular ChoiceCuts crowds who frequent our club nights.  Here’s Marv’s top 10 Boogie/Disco tracks that are on his turntables at the moment.

Marv is a profilic DJ and he plays some of the best parties in NYC.  If he’s not wrapping up the Soprano’s End of Season afterparty he’s celebrating with the cast of the Wire on the dancefloor.  A HBO party planner favourite Marv records almost all the gigs he does and they’re all available here so you’d be just slightly crazy not to take a look…

*chart*
[ Raw Silk | Do It To The Music | West End | yes]
[ Luther Vandross | Sugar & Spice | Sony | yes]
[ NYC Peech Boys | Life Is Something Special | Island | yes]
[ Roy Ayers | Can't You See Me | Urban | yes]
[ The Time | Get It Up | Warner Bros | no]
[ Alexander O'Neal & Cherrelle | Saturday Love | Tabu | yes]
[ Atlantic Starr | Silver Shadow | A&M Records | yes]
[ The Jacksons | Blame It on the Boogie | Atlantic | yes]
[ Chaka Khan | I Know You, I Live You | MCA | yes]
[ McFadden & Whitehead | Ain't No Stoppin Us Now | Philadelphia International | yes]