1/19/07  haven't updated in a while, the holidays were a whirlwind.  I've started contributing to Emcee Gabe's hip hop blog at www.daftcrunk.com.  My french music blog is rolling, over at www.tetecarre.blogspot.com.  Pure Fire has  been rolling on. Thanks to DJ Rupture, Magabo, Funkworhty,  High Priest, Leftenant, and all other recent guests.  This Weds, Jan 24, is myself and Reaganomics birthday party and we are having a pile of DJ's guesting, playing everything from grime to death metal, so check it.
I recently spun at Love, in a night my man Small Change curated, I have to to say, it was amazing. That place is like the disco museum. Monitors better than most places systems, a rotary mixer,  turntables on springs with ill needles, and a dj booth that looks like mission control.  What can i say, I'm smitten.

Belated top 5:

1.  yeah yeah (D. Ramirez vocal mix)- Bodyrox  (extremely obnoxious hipster vocal track by a Lady Soveriegn wannabe that I can't help but love... when i was in London, the instrumental  version was the hit of the moment. i heard it on the radio from passing cars and at grime shows...

2.  night life- elvis presley    ...w/ sick fuzz guitar and a nice groove, a hidden gem on a crappy looking late 60's soundtrack LP...

3.  pagliaro- michel pagliaro   ...also know as "ayala red" by the mighty, this is a nice disco/rock number in the vein of Barrabas and The Congas; ie. Santana influenced percussive chanting with guitars...

4.  ay chico- pitbull  ...this acapella is fun at +6...

5. 25 lighters- DJ DMD    ...great texas rap from 1998...


12/12/06 a whole lotta news going on... first much respect for the Funkworthy Fm people, who have now had 2 shows with the Pure Fire Crew on the bill... the first being a soundclash where they even had the following dub made: Sad For You . It's basically the greatest thing ever, a custem dubplate specifically dissing me and reaganomics, with plenty of jabs about how we don't get any pussy, etc, etc, etc... Being that I am sort of the Lane Meyer ("Somebody threw away a perfectly good whiteboy!") of NYC djing, I would actually rather have a song dissing me than one big upping me... so, there it is...

I also started a blog, specifically about french music... peep it here.

10/28/06 while in london, in addition to a big ol' pile of records, i got the new ruff sqwad CD, Guns N Roses Vol 2. A couple things jumped out instantly... firstly, everyone in ruff sqwad has really gotten better at what they do the past few years, like the beats are tighter and the flows are much improved, it's no longer just tinchy stryder and some other dudes... this is definitely apparent on from the first song, "Xtra." The instrumental of this has been out for a while and was vocaled earlier by God's Gift, as the fantastic "Only God Know's What I've Done". that version never came out in any form, besides mp3, due to disputes between Gift and Ruff Sqwad. Ruff Sqwad have taken their beat back, in every sense of the phrase... as good as God's Gift's version was, this buries it... the mc's are bobbing and weaving, attacking ("Bombaye!") relentlessly, trading off bars in 2's and 4's in a way hip hop forgot about a long time ago...

it's the grime version of Wu Tang's "Protect Ya Neck", and like that track, it inspires the same repeat listens in order to get yourself familiar with all these voices in so little time... just as Method Man and ODB were (to me) the cats in Wu Tang you noticed first and then it took repeated listenings to differentiate between, say Inspectah Deck and Raekwon (may the Gods forgive me...), Tinchy Stryder (his vocal tone and flow are just unmistakeable) and Slix ("Down, Down, Down") pop out when you hear Ruff Sqwad, but upon further listens, each member stands on his own... but, more importantly, they sound so great together, the type of vocal unity that can only come from people who spend ALOT of time around each other (and why the later Wu Tang stuff never had the same raw exitement of the first LP; they weren't living with each other anymore, and no matter how many houses they rented in the Hollywood Hills to hang together, they never recaptured that vibe...). I won't even bother hoping Ruff Swqad retain that; after all one can't resist the temptation of sucesss without being succesful first...

10/27/06 quicky psych mix i did available here, some gems for sure...

10/25/06 just back from 2 weeks in London, where i had a great time... here are two pics from Dirty Canvas, where I spun at... here is the editor of I-D, working the merch table with plenty of Pure Fire products on display...


and here is half of my head on the left hand side of the picture watching the Movement perform...


9/19/06

the most ridiculous yet natural dirtbag marriage ever: the entire Rambo First Blood movie edited down to 7 minutes and then scored with "Am I Evil" by Metallica (all done by a guy called "conservativesunite" (thus explaining why the "how dare they call us babykillers" speech is highlighted by a drop out...))...

9/29/06 Jay Z spitting on top of the Foward riddim live in London last night... sick...

9/16/06 thanks to Dave Q and Daniel Lion I for wrecking it last week at Pure Fire... I think my fillings are loose... Turntable Lab is now selling the Pure Fire Summer mix... cop one here... seeing G. Gordon Liddy on Fear Factor was some of the best television I've ever seen. Made me wanna climb up a tree during a thunder storm... tho, to be fair his competition was Willis from Different Strokes...

Top 5:

Robert Charlebois- s/t (Gamma)
Wiley- Tunnel Vision Vols. 1 & 2
Jacques Dutronc- Restons Francais, Soyons Gaulois
Krokodil- Blue Flashing Circle
Eddie Kirkland- The Hawg (just saw him at a random beach bar down in Florida, but that's a story for another time...)


8/30/06

8/18/06

CHECK IT. OUT SOON!

8/14/06 a lot fo stuff. Pure Fire Schedule:

PURE FIRE!!!
Every Wednesday
9-late @ Subtonic, 107 Norfolk, NYC
esoteric urban musics dropped by DJ's Reaganomics, Peter Gunn, NRON, and Criterion
Rap, dubstep, grime, crunk, dancehall, breakcore, reggaeton, jungle +
J train to Essex, F to Delancey free, 21+

Aug. 23 - DJs Papawheelie & Misbehavior
Aug. 30 - Toecutter (Australia, System Corrupt)
Sept. 6 - dDamage (France, Peace Off, Tigerbeat 6)
Sept. 13 - Dave Q and Daniel Lion I Sound (dubstep vs steppers)

mix CD

available from broklyn beats

This mix is totally awesome and flows well and has everything from dubstep to baile funk etc etc... As a free preview of the awesomeness, here is a bonus mix Reaganomics and I did for Freenyc.net.

FREE MIX!!!

6/20/06djing a blackkat party at the Frying Pan on July 1st. Info below. The Frying Pan is an old boat anchored on the Hudson, near Chelsea Piers. My old band opened up for the Yeah Yeah Yeah's there once.

SATURDAY JULY 1st BLACKKAT - RIOTSOUND - WAXWORKS - KINDKIDZ - TECHFUNK.ORG bring you

JOLLY ROGERS & TROLLEY DODGERS
Nomadik Pirate Audio from the East and West
on and in
THE FRYING PAN
Pier 63 North River @ 23rd street, all the way to the Hudson, near to Chelasea Piers, next to Basketball City....

http://www.fryingpan.com
This legendary NYC venue is a lightship built in 1929 that sank, was underwater for years, and then pulled up from the ocean floor and renovated...now there's two sound areas and a full bar inside, and nooks-and-crannies all over in and on the boat..

IN THE IRON BELLY-- featuring our SPECIAL GUESTS: THE HAVOC TOUR 06

--coming all the way from the Bay via the Dirty South, reps from HavocSound, the 5lowershop Collective and Teen Suicide Records are coming to New York with sound in their own VEGETABLE OIL-FUELED BUS! Loads of livesets and Final Scratch, and DJs playing unfiltered underground sounds underwater, down in the iron belly of the boat-------------

HEARTWORM (LIVE)(5lowershop, Slum Records) http://www.5lowershop.org http://www.slum.org/worm.htm
FLAIL(Low Viz)
R TYPE (Teen Suicide Records) music - http://rtype.gabber.org/
SOUR (LIVE) (Havocsound) http://havocsound.cjb.net
AND MORE GUESTS TBA!

playing: freetekno, breakcore, industrial, noise, grind, hard beats, dirty breaks---??--
see http://rtype.gabber.org/tour.html
for music and info linx----

AND a 3 WAY TECHNO TAG TEAM by -
--THE REV (GOTHAM GROOVES) -- ROUND-N-ROUND (Kind Recordings) --- JASON BK (Blackkat)
....and a jungle/ drum and bass set from
NAKED SLICE (Jungle Terror/Bassbot)

IN THE CAPO'S LOUNGE: all night Pure Fire tag team by

CRITERION (Broklyn Beats) and PETER GUNN (Axis Chemicals)
playing anything from to and past dub, reggae, dancehall, samplecore, mashup, grime, funk, electro, hip hop....and ??
with x-tra lighting by NINE90, MYOPIK GLAKOUMA and BUNNY

ON THE DECK (Outside!)---
LIVE KEYBOARD X 2 by MISS ELIXIR and MIKO with . . . ?
records booths by WAXWORKS and BROKLYN BEATS (w/ all new vinyl and more--)
and...?

$10
10-4 am
w/ after party TBA ? ? ?
21 + w/ ID!!

6/14/06 top 5:

1. what's happ'ning- dj menta and dirty goodz (really cool record with 3 different mixes, two in a hip hop approximation and one nasty slow grime inna dubstep style... goodz sounds great...)

2. brooklyn anthem- team shadetek (much respect. a great record.)

3. johnny was a bad boy- wiley (really nice to hear Wiley over other people's beats that still compliment his style. a nice thing, again, that mixes great with dubstep. slow n heavy.)

4. sou funk EP- various artists (nice baile funk vinyl comp with a nice mix of styles)

5. 5. Slew Dem Ft Scorcher & Wiley - Way Down Da Road

in other news, Cx Kidtronik killed at Pure Fire this week. I see absolutely no reason why this dude should not be the next Spank Rock/M.I.A. phenom...

in fact, a big thanks to all the guests in the since October, all of which are insanely talented.

there's a nice write up for pure fire in the village voice by tricia romano. tho, surely she knows what breakcore is!

FINALLY. HERE IS MY RECORD. MORE DETAILS TO COME LATER!

5/6/05 Pure Fire
a night of estoric urban beats w/ residents

Peter Gunn
Reaganomics
Criterion
Nron

playing grime/rap/dubstep/breakcore/reggaeton/dancehall and more

every Wednesday @
Tonic
107 Norfolk St. (J train to Essex, F to Delancey)
L.E.S.
9pm-2
FREE

MAY SCHEDULE

May 10
DJ Swingsett - jungle, drum n bass, ragga

May 17
Drop The Lime (tigerbeat 6) - grime, dubstep, electro, b-more breaks
Lance Blisters - live jungle, breakcore, and noise

May 24
Dave Q- (dub wars) dubstep
Skeeter- breakcore, jungle

May 31
Flex Unger (black rhombus)- laptop set, dub, downtempo
Elevator Man- breaks, electro, miami bass, hard techno

4/27/06 random babble time. i am very excited about the Ricardo Mayorga/Oscar De La Hoya fight next month... it should be well worth watching... first of all these are two dudes who can't afford to lose! Mayorga has lost to Corey Spinks and Felix Trinidad, De La Hoya to Bernard Hopkins... they're both a loss away from retirement (or a ungraceful decline...) secondly, because it's always interesting to see how De La Hoya fights a puncher (as opposed to a boxer)... and thirdly because Mayorga has a taste for the pre-fight quip that may be better than Tyson in his prime. No one knows how to dish out a lowblow re: one's mother, wife, race, or guts the way Mayorga can. Dude plays the dozens with a rusty razorblade... While he may lack the bitter poetry of classic Tyson, Mayorga can somehow elevate profane insults to an artform. Plus, he's just nasty in the ring, a streetfighter on a big street...

4/13/06 top 5:
1. fishscales- ghostface (whole LP)
2. pussy got ya hooked- three 6 mafia
3. under mi sensei- barrington levy
4. eskiboy- wiley
5. double negative- subway sect

tagteaming w/ my homey Small Change at a very cool loft party this Saturday near my house in Bushwick. Very crazy space, with lots of installations... lotta dj's and performers, including Beans from Antipop... should be fun... info here: http://www.wildwildbrooklyn.com/battle/

3/29/06 top 5:
1. Rainbow- Gene Chandler
2. Rainbow- Gene Chandler
3. Rainbow- Gene Chandler
4. Rainbow- Gene Chandler
5. Tical- Method Man

3/28/06 this is a treat for any disco fans out there. here is a recording of my friend chris's (a/k/a DJ Baron of the soulpusher party) father DJ Raunchy Rich, spinning at Playlounge in Manhattan in the Fall of 1974. Very very very cool stuff. My favorite part is when he does the (relatively) quick cut from the Lyn Collins version of "Think" into the Soul Searchers' version. Smoking!

3/27/06

top 5:

1. I Think They Like Me- Dem Franchise Boys (D'explicit remix) ...just an amazing record, a grime remix of a snap track. crossovers like this is what inspired Pure Fire.

2. Tippin'- Tinchy Stryder and Dillusion ...from Tinchy's mix CD, "I'm Back U Know", which is pretty much more like an album than a mixtape, as the majority of the beats are either original to this CD or from withim his family (ruff sqwad and roll deep) . Anyways, this is the one US cover, yep, "Still Tippin'" by Mike Jones. Now, if only Plasticman would press his version of this on wax...

3. Degenerate-Vex'd (entire LP) ...took me months to find this in the US, distribution here for this has sucked. well worth the weight. people call it dubstep, but it's definitely on it's own planet.

4. Back Your Talk-Young Guns- ...the rapping is nothing special, but at this point, d'explicit can make ANYONE sound hot...

5. Tell Me When To Go- E-40 and Keak da Sneak. ...Spent all day Saturday trying to find a non-bootleg/whitelabel copy of this in NYC. Failed miserably. People talk about this like it's some weird regional Bay Area record, but it's produced by Lil Jon for christ's sake. I think this will blow up, but I'm usually wrong about stuff like that. I'll be playing it, I'll tell you that much!

3/17/06 jesus, what a bad dream... site down for 3 months... and so much has happened... let's see, finally joined myspace for one... been spinning lots of great parties, including one at my house that can be seen here (tho, i think by this point in the evening i was downstairs in my room just smoking blizzes and drinking top shelf tequila with my boys... i hate crowds...) ...had a great record release party at Pure Fire for Small Change's Mix CD "Soundclash" (which is a dope as fuck mix of dancehall (from the early 80's digital days to the present), dub, ragga jungle, classic ska and rocksteady and much more) courtesy of the folks at freenyc.net who lined up the beer sponsership, did some great flyers, recorded the sets, and just were basically fucking superheros. Hats off to them.

And, yes, the sets were recorded. To listen to them, peep it here. There are two sets of myself and Crito tagteaming. It was a lot of fun.

top 5 is:

1. Gangsters- Wiley
2. Guns N Roses- Roll Deep and Ruff Squad
3. War- Fumin
4. Gotta Man- Doctor and Davinche
5. Kryptonite- Purple Ribbon All Stars

lastly, spinning amazing party tomorrow (sat., march 18) in bushwick, rsvp details at wildwildbrooklyn.com

SATURDAY MARCH 18th
WILD WILD BROOKLYN brings:
I (Heart) DANGER!!!!!!!

8 PM until early/late
come early for the interactive/danger art
workshop!(see below)

$5 b4 9:30 (no RSVP neeeded, only until 9:30!))

$10 after @door----you MUST have RSVP after 9:30!
In order to come through you *must* RSVP at:

http://www.wildwildbrooklyn.com

Area S.O.S.
SYNAPSE (P Beautiful/Decay Magazine-NYC www.Good-Peoples.com, Beatboxer Ent.) NAKED SLICE (Jungle Terror)
JASON "Danger " BK (Blackkat, WWB)
JOEY JUPITER (LIVE) (Atomic Babies)
KIMYON (Pockit Rockit USA, Tru Skul, NYC)

Area 911
PETER GUNN (Pure Fire, Axis Chemicals)
HABITRAIL(ImageNode) vs NICHOLAS SAUSER (Goosehound)
with Jen K (Dendrites, Portland, OR)
MADARO vs AMOK
(Blackkat, Waxworks Distro) $mall ¢hange
(WFMU, Blackcrack)
DJ ESE (Def Jux/ Embedded) sunrise rhymes and beats

1/02/06 playlist= side 2 of "surf's up" by the beach boys... been playing the hell out of this... stone cold classic... also, the entire Lil' Wayne LP is fucking amazing... he sounds just like Jay Z, but so what!

12/29/05 STILL have the flu... much thanks to Kid Chameleon for spinning at Pure Fire this week, and turning me onto some good dubstep/grime i hadn't heard before. I am spinning New Year's Eve at Iona's in W'Burg, on the corner of Grand and Bedford, one of the first bars in the neighborhood, nice spot. expect a little of everything.

Here's another video, "what we do"- kray twinz feat. Twista, Lethal B, and Gappy Ranks ...sorta a desi/grime/hip hop/ragga crossover.... uh, yeah... anyways the kray twinz are two uk dudes of indian descent, who claim to be the real producers of that Punjabi MC track with jay z a few years back, like they sold him the beat or something... this track is a nice hip hop club tune, with Twista (yunno the world's fastest MC Tongue Twista, aka Mr. Slow Jamz???) on it... could concievably cross over, as this sounds like a US hip hop song, more or less.

top 5

1. sexomatic- bar kays
2. sexasonic- vernon burch
3. sexologie- rita
4. sexologie- danyel gerard
5. sexy sexy sexy- james brown

12/26/05 lotta stuff has happened... had a great weekend in montreal, doing the town up and record shopping with DJ's Soulcracker and Inbetween. I may have to finally make a french language garage/psych mix CD. Also, thanks to Steve Shakwell and Ben Manzone, and Inbetween for having me guest at their weekend gigs at Skinny and Lolita on the ol' L.E.S. Good times were had. Then, I had the flu for a week... boy, was that fun. I am almost better and looking forward to the new year. more later.

12/4/05 this week at Pure Fire, our guest is OCDJ from WFMU. Expect everything from dancehall to ghettotech. OCDJ's show kills it, recently he had Lady Soveriegn's tour DJ, DJ Frampster on and he killed it with a grime set...

oh, and some grime stuff for the masses. Jammer's Murkel Man Outburst video is completely bonkers. He's the grime superhero and he makes MC's look like Urkel... also, here's an mp3 of one of Wiley's famous Eskimo Dance from a few years back ("Doing 'I Luv U' in person, Dizzee Rascal!!!") that's half radio ads for the show, and then half of the show. Rowdy as all hell and amazing to hear, here in the land of radio suckdom...

12/2/05 Top 5:

1. Galang- M.I.A. (Dave Kelly remix feat. Cham)
2. Pull up the People- M.I.A. (D'Explicit remix)
3. Pulled Up- Nron and Miked
4. Standing in the Way of Control- The Gossip
5. Funky Like a Train- The Equals

had some fun spinning lately, the WNYU thing was a lot of fun, hopefully have audio up soon. Filled in for Mr. Finewine at his Downtown Soulville night at Botanica last week, as well as spun a great Blackkat party in Bed Stuy, playing a Pure Fire set of grime, crunk, reggaeton, dancehall, and more... always fun to play in an alternative space with a good sound system...

11/15/05 this friday, November 18, I am spinning on WNYU radio from 10:30pm-1am EST, on the "Rotations" show. You can find listening links here. I'll be doing a Pure Fire set of grime, crunk, dancehall, reggaeton and who knows what else...

11/12/05 my record is DONE! yes, after months (years?) of delays, the Crossvader EP "Doom on You" is finished. Updated Crossvader info coming here soon, as well as purchasing information. For now, go to the Crossvader page under "stuff" and click on the boy to hear a pre-release version of "I'm Feeling Sad".

11/11/05 SOULPUSHERNYC! NOVEMBER 17TH @ THE DELANCEY!
168 DELANCEY STREET @ CLINTON
DOORS AT 9PM - FREE!!!
sorry, i'll stop shouting... looking forward to this, last Soulpusher, which i was too lazy too list here, was a blast. Myself and DJ Baron spun a hour of James Brown, complete with live percussion. So, expect funky things from me, as well as some great live bands.

11/7/05 Top 5:

1. In the Bottle- Brother to Brother
2. Memo from Turner- Mick Jagger
3. Welcome to Jamrock- Tego Calderon remix
4. Future Thugs- Redman, feat. Ghostface and Ludicris
5. Young Dot EP- Young Dot

10/14/05 BIG NEWS! starting October 19, "Pure Fire" is now a weekly every Wednesday at Subtonic, 107 Norfolk St. (btwn Delancey and Rivington on the L.E.S.). Yes, every week a night of grime, breakcore, dancehall, crunk, reggaeton, jungle, and more. Raw dance music all night from 8pm to late. Hope to see you there. Joining me in this venture are Criterion from Broklyn Beats and DJ Reaganomics. Expect big things.

10/4/05 Top 5 as of now are:

1. Standing on the verge of getting it on- Funkadelic (entire LP)
2. Private Caller- Skepta
3. Stay Fly- Three 6 Mafia
4. Friends of Rock N Roll- Easy Action
5. Vacation- Purple Crush

9/27/05 hipster alert! soulpusher is in lastnightsparty.com. I am in two pictures, that is all I'll say.

9/21/05 here is a remix I did a month ago of Life's a Bitch by Nas. Someone had posted the acapella on Soulstrut.com, so I threw something together. Life's a Bitch

9/19/05 just got the Crossvader test press today! Sounds great. Look for the vinyl in the very near (one week?) future...

9/18/05 this thursday Sept. 22, it's Soulpusher time again. A great line-up of bands and DJ's. I am looking forward to seeing Purple Crush, who hit me off with their record recently, and it's banging...

SOULPUSHER NYC's nastiest funk-soul-indie/garage rock dance party returns to
THE DELANCEY
168 Delancey St. @ Clinton
THURSDAY - SEPTEMBER 22
doors @ 8pm

FREE ADMISSION!
w/RSVP to guest list
(rsvp@soulpushernyc.com)
$5 at door otherwise

9/12/05 hey, spinning at Rubulad, this Saturday, Sept. 17th. Info below. I am spinning from 1:30-6 or 7ish. Expect everything from Paul Wall to Willie Colon.

Rubulad presents:
Disco Dollies vs. The Boogiemen

Featuring

Circus Contraption

Live Music by

Fatal Flying Guilloteens
This Moment in Black History
Shellshag

your deejays:

DJ Sandoz (happy birthday!)
Chris Catalyst & Mike Simonetti
Peter Gunn

on September 17, 2005
10:00 pm doors; 11:00 pm show; 10 beans at the door
Rubulad Home Base: 338 Flushing Ave., bet. Classon & Taffee

8/15/05 spinning at Soulpusher at the Delancey on thursday. I'm spinning around 10:30. Info below:

SOULPUSHER
gets off the ground once again at
THE DELANCEY
168 Delancey St. @ Clinton
THURSDAY - AUGUST 18th

Your hosts JUNE D., DJ BARON, & TKOmri
have put together another night of decadent,
danceable debauchery guaranteed to make you
wanna clap yo' hands and say "eeeeeeyeah!"
Resident DJ's BARON & TKOmri
w/special guest DJ's:
-33hz
-Peter Gunn
& -Rob Hitt (of Midtown)
spin dirty 'ol soul 45's with today's booty-shakin'
indie-rock jams & everything else in bewtween!

NO COVER CHARGE!
3 FLOORS OF FUN, INCLUDING OPEN ROOFTOP DECK W/BAR
--smoke and drink til your brains fall out--
ONE HOUR OPEN VODKA BAR from 9 - 10pm.
DOORS @ 8pm.

also down in the venue room: LIVE PERFORMANCES by
LOWER 48 @ 8pm
PAGODA @ 8:30pm
w/actor Michael Pitt
ALOKE @ 9:30pm
THE LIVING THINGS @ 10:30pm
MADISON @ 11:30pm
and special guests Columbia recording artists
ELKLAND @ 12:30am
upstairs:
LIVE PERFORMANCES by
SOULPUSHER's ultra-sexy house band
BLACKMAIL @ 11pm
and slightly-deranged NYC rappers
ZONEDOUT @ Midnite

8/14/05 saw Roll Deep at Knitting Factory on Friday and the East River Ampitheatre on Sunday. Totally sick. While I am not a blogger, I will say it lived up to all my artificially raised expectations I had from listening to this shit obsessively for the last year or so. For those who care, it was Wiley, Flo Dan, Trim, Scratchy, and Karnage. They played for about 90 minutes at Knitting Factory. They mostly rapped over in-house tracks (i.e. Wiley, Danny Weed productions) but they did their last tune over 'Golly Gosh" by Sticky. They put out alot of energy, especially Flo Dan, who when he really gets going raises the temperature in the room a few degrees. The highlight of the night to me was seeing Wiley rap over Eskimo, one of those moments that seems historical and magical, if your world view is as messed up as mine...

7/28/05 Friday August 5th, I'm doing a grime/crunk/ghettotech/miami bass/jungle/ragga night at Rocky's in Williamsburg.

DJ's are: Papawheelie, Criterion, Catchdubs, Shakey, and Reaganomics.

cover is 4 bucks. This will a SICK night of loud, fucked up, dance music.

Rocky's is at 351 Kent Ave (@S. 5th). Music starts at 9pm.

7/7/05 very fun night coming up. Bands n stuff and me spinning soul. Funnily enough, this will be the second time in a few months I've spun at a 33hz show. If you like Hall and Oates, Duran Duran, later Morris Day and the Time, and later Kid Creole , you'll love them. If all of that sounds repulsive, you'll hate them...i'll be spinning hard soul and funk to get the dance party started.

7/4/05 lotta stuff... first of all, i've scaled Red Light back to a monthly, as after two years of DJing and scheduling a weekly, dammit people I'm tired... also no more Flipper at Belly. Thanks to all my red light guests and to DJ Gilles, Papawheelie, Steve Shakewell, Reagonomics, and Benguin for guesting at Flipper. It was fun, but the owners want monthlys in there instead of weeklys. Eh, have fun with your Ipod DJ's...speaking of R.I.P. to good nights, Sam Sever is no longer doing tuesdays at Don Hill's due to Don canceling his Cold Crush night on the day of...

I had a good time a few weeks back playing grime at Subtonic with Crito and Drop the Lime... those breakcore cats like their crunk and reggaeton, too... And they crank the system good and loud. Oh, and a big thank you to the Western Massachusetts people who showed Crito and myself much hospitality a few weeks back on our one day sojourn to the happy valley. Got some great records out there like the first Tuxedo Moon 7" for 3.50 and a big stack of 50's and 60's country, including some hard to find Hank Williams records for 2 bucks each... oh, and the Outlets LP, which is much better than a lot of old Boston rockers have led me to believe...

6/5/05 this Weds., June 8th, my guest at Belly is Steve ShakeWell. Expect alot of electrodisco stuff. 155 Rivington, 9pm-2am.

5/30/05 couple of things... tuesday May 31st, i am again spinning at Sam Sever's night at Don Hill's... performers are:
BOBBY DELICIOUS 10:30
FRO MAGNUM MAN 9:30
DIVEST 8:30
from what i hear, Bobby Delicious is a friend of the Bad Brains from upstate NY (where they now reside...)... these nights are always fun and it's a blast for me to hear my music LOUD on the Don Hill's sound system...

my guest this week at Belly on Wednesday is Papawheelie Joe, famed Miami Bass historian, Alldisco resident DJ, all around electro nerd... expect him to thoroughly school me on all things drum machine related... Flipper at Belly, 155 Rivington, Weds, 9pm-2am...

5/24/05 nothing that interesting to report... i spun at Rothko, the "it" spot de jour... it was underwhelming... DJ Gilles is leaving for France on Memorial Day... i'd like to smoke an L with Dizzee Rascal while listening to "Oh" by Ciara featuring Ludacris...

5/10/05 my grime mix "totally fucked" is available for sale at Other Music in NYC, or directly from me. It's a mix of grime, crunk, dancehall, drum n bass, reggaeton, and more... yes, it's a small world after all and for some reason, we're all singing the same uptemp, angry song...

5/6/05 wednesday at Belly, Flipper is going electro. Yup, nothing but drum machines from LL Cool J to Depeche Mode... 808 galore... to help me out on the more new wave side of things, it's my friend DJ Gilles of Decadanse fame... catch him before he leaves for Europe to spin at big smelly festivals...
Weds, may 11, 9pm-2am, 155 Rivington btwn Clinton and Suffolk...

5/5/05 this tuesday, May 10th, Peter Gunn and Flex Unger are doing the DJing and trumpet thing (I'll play some hip hop, funk, and dub records and Flex will rock trumpet over them...) at Sam Sever's night, "Better Days" at Don Hill's. The line is as follows:

BLESSTENATION
MR. MET (of Brooklyn Academy)
MONSTAR ISLAND CZARS (from the first MF Doom record!)
WHATZISFACE & SUBWAY STILES
TRAIN 94

Special Guests DJ PETER GUNN & FLEX UNGER with some dusty ass dub!

this should be pretty sick. I saw Monster Island Czars open for MF Doom at Knitting Factory 4 or 5 years ago and they were nasty. I've heard good things about Blesstenation... cost of admission is 10 bones... doors at 8, we'll probably start close to then and then do our thing between acts... click here for info...

4/27/05 Attention hipsters, DJ's, A&R's, publicists, etc... reggaeton is officially no longer edgey... last night while Djing, a 50 year old Long Island housewifey stretchpants wearing type asked me for 50 cent. When I replied in the negative, she asked for reggaeton (Admitadly, she mangled the pronunciation). So, for anyone rocking Don Omar and Tego because it gives them cred, give it up because Murial and Esther are pumping it in their SUV.

4/19/05 many things this week. Belly on Weds., Good World on Thurs., Riingo at the Hotel Alex (at 45th and 3rd) on Friday from 6pm to midnight. Riingo is a slick lounge, drinks are expensive, be warned. But Flex Unger will be playing his trumpet along with the records.

Saturday, it's Red Light, and then I'm rushing over to Rubulad to close out the night with a set of grime (with some dancehall, crunk, and jungle mixed in). I'll be playing from about 3:30 til 6am. Come by late, it will be sick. Info is below:

Live performance by:
Dan Melchior Band
Phil Ballman (Antibalas)'s Batucada Ensemble
Chin Chin

DJ’s:
Mojo
Mousrock plus maybe L Ron (Version City Records)
scratch famous (Deadly Dragon Sound System)
Mike Simo and Catalyst (Troubleman Unlimited)
$mall ¢hange and DJ Shakey
Ursula 1000
Nydia (Daptone family)
In-between (Fixing Breaks)
Sascha (futurefunk)
Geo
OCDJ (WFMU)
Swingsett
Scott Mao and j. Dennis (other music)
Peter Gunn

Plus!

Amazing new interactive Ice Cave sculpture by Paul Burn
Light Circus by Norm Francoeur
Décor by the Rubulad Home Crew: Evan, Kaia, Kelvin and Scott
Yummy food
Delicious confections by Brownie Points

10:00 pm doors; 11:00 pm show; 10 beans at the door

At Rubulad Home Base. For directions, location, e-mail me: pmc220 AT yahoo.com (yes, replace tha "AT" with "@"). This is kinda on the downlow.

4/10/05 coming up this week: Weds. it's Flipper at Belly (155 Rivington, LES) where it'll be funk, rock and more... expect dusty and moldy 45's from my parent's basement. Thursday, I'm at Lucky Cat (245 Grand St. in W'Burg.) where I'll be Djing for the Updown Originals. I Djed for these guys before when they played at The 5 Spot in Fort Greene. They are a really sick soul/funk band in the Daptone style (the guitarist plays in the Sugarman 3 and the other guys have played in other Daptone projects) and well worth checking out. Cover is $5, which is well worth it. Saturday, my guest at Red Light is Crito from Broklyn Beats. I'm getting more and more into the stuff they put out and breakcore in general. Love it or hate it, you have to admit you haven't heard it before. Also, I am finally going to be playing some grime out in the near future, so stay tuned!

4/5/05

      Once I met a woman at the Model Cafe in Allston, MA who commented on my SSD T-shirt: "Oh My God!, that was my old boyfriend's band!" She said she used to date Springa in high school. I asked her what he was like. She said he was crazy, that he liked to pull up to the Quincy communter rail station when everyone was coming home from work and stand on top of his car and play air guitar to AC/DC. I thought that was funny. Then I asked her if it true that he was straight edge? She looked at me and cackled, "Yeah, straight edge when he was cuttin' the lines!".       Hmmmmmm... I admit, my younger self was taken aback. Although I personally never subscribed to the straight edge lifestyle in any way (well, I never got laid if that counts...) I drew considerable strength from the convictions (and overt self righteousness) from those who did.
      "Are you serious", I asked, "'Cause I read in an interview that he said when the band was together being straight was the best part of his life and all they did was skateboard and drink Mountain Dew..."
      Her face lit up and she burst out, "Yeah, mixed with Vodka, we called them Voodoos! I taught him to make those!"
      Another childhood ideal bites the dust... (don't even get me started about the time Choke offered me a free haircut on Newbury St. I accepted, the girls I was with declined his offer of a free coloring)

4/2/05 thanks to all recent red light guests: Jolly, Wolfy, Arthur , Monkeyman, DJ Sims

3/29/05 every thurs. good world. 3 orchard st.

3/01/05 "Now I'm living out my life in the corner, trying to console myself with the stupid, useless excuse that only an intelligent man cannot turn himself into anything, that only a fool can make anything he wants out of himself." - Dostoyesvsky.

With that in mind, Crossvader vinyl is getting ready to be mastered...

2/20/05 thanks to everyone who gave me feedback on the grime CD. With that in mind, I have done a new one, consisting of a mix of grime, crunk, ragga, and more. It's 10 bucks including shipping. Cover art is below. E-mail me at address above if interested.

1/19/05 my lil grime mix is done... a nice 25 minute sneak preview to those who have no idea what grime is:

1. the creeper- danny weed
2. bounce- roll deep
3. eskimo (devil mix)- wiley
4. eskimo (nu-bran flex mix)- wiley
5. eskimo- wiley
6. raw 2 the core- ruff squad
7, golly gosh- sticky
8. more weed- surgery
9. moving- jon'e cash
10. forward rhythm- lethal b

...all off wax

you can hear it here

oh, and the patriots are going to win back to back...

1/17/05 this friday, i am spinning at the Lucky Cat at 245 Grand St. in W'Burg, Brooklyn... expect alot of OG breaks... in other news, the deli on the corner of manhattan and greenpoint aves in greenpoint sells a 9.5% alcohol polish beer for 99 cents a pint that gives me flashbacks to time spend in london, paris, montreal drinking high octane beer (tennent's super, carlsburg extra, elephant, carling big 10)

1/13/05 this week, Saturday Jan 15, at red light, it's Crito from Broklyn Beats spinning the breaks he chops up into wittle wittle pieces... word... if you don't know now, he's on some next level shit...

1/02/05 tues. jan 4, i'm spinning at Sam Sever's night at Don Hill's. For those who don't know, Sam Sever produced almost every 3rd Bass record... joining me is Mr. Finewine from WFMU's downtown soulville and flex unger doing his black rhombus sound system dub thing... oh, and miller open bar from 8:30-9:30... my rushed hack flyer job is below...

11/19/04 check it, Peter Gunn is rocking it @ Ricky Powell's DVD release party, Tues. Nov 30...

11/17/04 so, this Friday, November 19th, I have something new... I am DJing at Belly (155 Rivington btw Clinton and Stanton on the L.E.S.)... it's a nice spot, with a nice look, and they have great lychee cocktails... I'll be keeping it a little slicker than Red Light, more on the funk/disco/old school hip hop vibe... so, c'mon by... also, at Red Light on Saturday, Jon Oliver makes his way to the Southside Lounge...

11/10/04 this week at Red Light it's 3 the hard way! Myself, DJ Soulcracker, and Simon Russell from London's Rough Trade store... expect lots of rare sounds... Saturday, Nov 13, 10pm-4am. 41 Broadway W'Burg... remember, y'all are Stuyvesant town, we're strictly Waterside Plaza...

11/01/04   ok, this week, my guest at Red Light is DJ Sims  from Lotus. Like last time we'll thrown down funk, rock, and latin and drink and dance til late...  also, next Weds, Nov 11, Peter Gunn is guesting at Jon Oliver's Wednesday night at Madame X (94 West Houston, btwn Thompson and LaGuardia)... I should be playing alot of Middle School hip hop, along with a little dancehall and roots reggae, and maybe some grime... 

what's hot: Bill Hicks, Lethal B, Johnny Ryan's Angry Youth Comix,  Boston Red Sox (20 years of misery in my life erased...)

9/3/04 Tomorrow, I, Peter Gunn will be spinning at the Twisted Ones parking lot show with Shoplifting, Sightings, The Panthers, The Liars, and Lightning Bolt. It starts at 1pm, and it's in a lot on Kent Ave (btw Grand and Metropolitan) in Williamsburg. Get there semi-early, as this will probably sell out by mid-afternoon. Then follow me to the Southside Lounge afterwards...

also, on Weds. Sept. 15, I'm guesting at DJ Sims night at Lotus on the corner of Stanton and Rivington in the Lower East Side. I'm planning on playing some hip hop, dancehall, drum n bass, etc...

                                                                                

8/16/04 OK,this Friday, Aug. 20 at Piano's, I'm spinning as part of a night called "Time Has Come Today." Each hour we will have a different selector, six in all, representing a different decade. The line up (as described by WMFU's Small Change):

10-11 Phast Phreddie (50's)
the boogaloo omnibus represents with the underground RnB and beyond. Don't sleep, come early to hear some sick shit not often hear out in clubland...

11-12 $mall ¢hange (60's)
I'll be diggin' out some forgotten soul and garage joints with a touch of psyche and early funk.

12-1 Peter Gunn (70's)
Mr. Red Light, and one the more underrated diggers in NYC with heavy heavy sounds in soul and rock.

1-2 Gerald McBoing Boing (80's)
People you know by now, when McBoing Boing spins, people not only listen, they got a notepad...

2-3 Preservation (90's)
Jun has been killing it in NYC for years in both selection and skills, expect some golden era hip hop and random illness

3-4 Angola (00's)
NYC jetsetter takes time out from the models, bottles and cannes film fests to represent the now.

This is all happening FRIDAY over at:

Blackcrack Sessions
Fridays, Upstairs at Pianos
158 Ludlow near Stanton
10pm-4am
no cover

8/11/04 This weekend at Red Light, it's fellow Boston homeboy Neal Sugarman, esteemed member of the Sugarman Three, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, and operator of Daptone Records... should be one hot barbeque!!! Saturday, Aug 14 @The Southside Lounge, 37 Broadway, W'Burg...

8/10/04 Dizzee Rascal rules, for real... homeboy has established East London as a legitmate hip hop community like NWA did for Compton, Three 6 Mafia did for Memphis, Luke did for Miami, Kardinal Offishall did for Toronto, etc etc... more to come... also, there is something brewing for a really interesting night at Piano's, with yrs truly playing a key part... and DON'T SLEEP ON THE GHOSTFACE HISTORY LESSONS!!!!


7/26/04 Ok, now there REALLY is a sound clip up on the Cross Vader page. Just click on the sad boy... Also, the check out the Ghostface page under "Projects"... more to come...

7/25/04 this week at Red Light, my guest is DJ Sims from the Southside Lounge's sister bar, Lotus. Expect an epic battle of the sexes on the 1's and 2's, where there can be no victor, except for you, the lovely listening public. Saturday, July 31... 41 Broadway, Bucktown... be there.


7/11/04 the Ghostface mix CD is finished. Please e-mail if you'd like a copy. It's 80 minutes of Ghostface Killah, the songs he samples, etc etc etc... It's got lots of unreleased white label stuff as well... It puts Ghostface in context with the history of hip hop, AND it rocks the party...


5/5/04 I knew it!!! from the Wu tang website, an account of Ghostface live in NYC two weeks back.

Later the Ironman called for the stage to be covered in red light so he could perform "Holla." "I'm from a place where fish was made," he rapped, setting up his dramatics. Ghost began snapping his fingers and slowly winding his hips like a modern-day Marvin Gaye. He dropped to his knees on the last verse before rising back to his feet and dancing.

Read the Ghostface manifesto below and notice the similarities...


4/22/04

Brave Sabine Dardenne has vowed to face down the monster who kept her captive as a child sex slave. She was just 12 years old when Marc Dutroux kidnapped her as she cycled to school.

He took her to a filthy, makeshift dungeon in his cellar where she was held for 80 days.

Half-starved, she was repeatedly raped and chained by the neck so she could not escape.

Now aged 20, Sabine will be the star witness at Dutroux's trial, which starts on Monday.

She said: 'I've waited eight years for this moment. I want to look him in the eyes and show he didn't destroy me.'

4/8/04 This week at Red Light it's Ghostface Killah night! yes, a tribute to Ghostface Killah... 6 hours of Ghostface and the songs he samples... rare white label and mixtape joints... plus free Ziti! (b/c as Ghost sez, his "rhymes are like ziti"...)

3/31/04 This week at Red Light, it's a throwback (in Peter Gunn history)... yes, it's the Twisted Ones, Arthur and, in from Berlin, Fitz... as well as Erik and Etain from Mighty Robot.... check it suckers!

3/21/04 Cornell Woolrich on why he wrote:

"I was only trying to cheat death. I was only trying to surmount for a little while the darkness that all my life I surely knew was going to come rolling in on me some day and obliterate me."

3/16/04 OK, the Red Light Party is going to be off the whatever this Saturday, March 20... My guest will be Neal Sugarman, esteemed member of the Sugarman Three, Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings, and operator of Daptone Records . Something tells me Neal has a SICK record collection, so this should be an evening well worth attending... there are other interesting things planned in Red Light land, so stay tuned.

Also, a sound clip is up on the Cross Vader page...

3/11/04 Friend Flex Unger speaks after watching a documentry on hip hop... (a excerpt from a longer rant):

...well after seeing that the majority of rappers in this American rap thing and hearing that the main motivation of all these emcees was money and a dream home for their mom and real estate and a dog food line and a triva board game, i thought, wow money is the main motivation of the "rap game" (ps that term is soooooo gay)... Practical things to make money which I totally understand and am in no way knocking.

...however, I am a fan of music and authenticity, tradition, and quality and it makes me sad to see things in hip hop suffer because of practicality.
It also occured to me that most emcee's goals seemed to be owning a home and getting out of the rap thing and moving on into something else, like acting or making some dumb product. i think all these rappers should be selling amway or become stock brokers.

Where are the Ian Mckays of rap?

Where are the punk rock ideals of "dont be a fuckin sellout?"

where is the spirit of sun ra in rap?

what ever happened to making music for the love of music first and putting the material and fame second?

I had to listen to fats navaro to go to sleep after watching this to remember that black music is made be tortured geniuses, not people with the same views and goals in life as my parents and fellow Bay Ridge Italian American peers (yes i think my dad and snoop would see eye to eye in many ways) (there both fans of the cadillac and my dad thinks money solves all problems (also doesnt have any in the grand scheme of things like most emcees)) and it made me think 2 things:

one: I wonder how many players in the hey day of bee bop had the same view on the "bop game" gaining them real estate that the rappers of today have
and

two: what would happen if we could take some of these rappers and sit them down and make them listen to things like bop and avant garde jazz and unpractical music that is released with no expectation of sales what would their opinions be?

2/20/04 wowsa wowsa wowsa... Peter Gunn is spinning 3 times next week... if you don't live in NYC, move there now... first, on Thursday, Feb. 26, I am spinning at the closing of the Terrible Toy Fair II at CB's Gallery... this was a really great show that got alot of positive press, so say you saw it before it's too late... I'll be spinning childish music (again) and classic UK punk... Friday, Feb 27th, I am spinning at that scenster palace, Piano's, on the lower east side... if you know where it is, you must already be much cooler than me (and perhaps you could give me directions?)... I'm planning to school the hipster finks w/ a dark jamaican influenced set of dub, dancehall, ragga jungle, and dancehall hip hop...

expect to hear:

R.I.P.- Remarc
Heavy Manners- Prince Far I
Eyes a Bleed- Bounty Killer (RZA Remix feat. Masta Killa)
Dwayne- Red Rat
Fire- Prinza feat. Demolition Man
Lock Off- Elephant Man (over Nothin' by N.O.R.E.)
Shoot to Kill- Mad Lion

then Saturday the 28, is Red Light time at the Southside Lounge in Williamsburg, with special guest Monkey Man... we'll throw down funky psych stuff like "Fish, Chips, and Sweat" by Funkadelic (dope B-side)...

1/29/04 lots of neat things coming up... This Saturday Jan. 31, I welcome Ms. K and her insane soul 45 collection to the Red Light Party... and next Thurs., i'm spinning at the opening for the Terrible Toy Fair at CBGB's Gallery ... I'm going to try to spin childish music... everything from Sesame Street records to The Residents...

1/20/04 ok, the graphics page is fixed, and the images are now normal sized (more or less)... this Saturday, Jan. 24th, come help Peter Gunn celebrate his birthday at The Southside Lounge... no presents needed, just bring your funky self (or funky doppleganger)... come before 2am and I may be coherent... actually if anyone wants to get me a present, I am jonesing for a copy of the first Cro-Mags LP on vinyl... I'd also dig the 45 of "Pretty Ballerina" by the Left Banke...

1/4/04 a very cool night this week at the Southside Lounge... Peter Gunn, Partick Duckcomb (Beauty Bar, etc), & DJ Shakewell play nothing but 12 inches from 1976-1981... super old school hip hop and the disco jams they're based on... P&P records, Enjoy records...Sat. Jan. 10... 41 Broadway, W'Burg, Brooklyn... Bounce, rock, skate, roll!!!!!!

12/29/03 ...more French guilt... as follows are the words of French Canadian/Indian Metis leader Louis Riel right before he was led from his cell to the gallows on November 16, 1885:

"How happy and content I am! I feel my heart will overflow with joy."

I'm not sure what all this means, but I'm sure it means something...

12/22/03
Tomorrow, Tuesday December 23, Peter Gunn is spinning at APT in NYC at DJ Small Change's Birthday Party. The event is titled "Golf" and there are going to be 20 DJ's each doing 15 minutes. I plan on spinning some French Canadian garage 45's... All the other DJ's are really varied, everyone from Phast Phreddie (LA punk rock writer from the 70's who now spins old r&b...) to Scratch Famous (dancehall DJ w/ Deadly Dragon Sound System) so it should be a cool night. APT is at 13st and 9th Ave.

12/16/03
This week at the Red Light Party, it's DJ Shakewell spinning 70's funk, latin, and more... check it! Saturday Dec. 20 @ 41 Broadway, W'Burg, Brooklyn, NY USA...

12/5/03
Why do french writers have such persecution complexes? Dig the ending of The Stranger by Camus:

"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself-so like a brother, really-I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consumated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."

Ouch! say it aint so, Al... reading that made think of A Season in Hell by Rimbaud, where upon the narrator refelcts in a similar vein:

"But orgies and the company of women were forbiddon me. Not even a companion. I saw myself before an angry mob, facing a firing squad, weeping miserably because they had not understood, and forgiving them!-Like Joan of Arc!-'Priests, teachers, masters, you are making a mistake in delivering me to justice. I have never been a Christian; I belong to the race which sang on the scaffold; I understand nothing of laws; I have no moral sense, I am an animal; you are making a mistake...'"

I have to say, I like both books very much, but there is a sense of self-pity running through them which i find a tad perverse...

12/2/03
Favorite Crunk Songs as of today are:
1. Tight Whips- 504 Boyz
2.Who you With- Lil' Jon and the Eastside Boyz
3. Tear da Club Up- Three Six Mafia
3.Uhh Oh- Lil' Jon and the Eastside Boyz