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This coming week I'll be in New York-- seeing friends, walking around, buying records and seeing what's really good with the new crop of NYC pizza and fried chicken restaurants (hey, Momofuku! you and your electronic reservations system are playing with my emotions!).

I'll also be DJing a bunch:


Saturday 11/14 at APT for Grand Groove with Chairman Mao
Monday 11/16 at 105 Rivington for Good Spot with DJ mOma & Stimulus
Tuesday 11/17 at Savalas for Lost & Found with Jared Boxx (who'll be celebrating his birthday!)
Thursday 11/19 at Von Kellar for Fam with DJ Eleven
Friday 11/20 on East Village Radio from midnight to 2 for Never Not Working with hosts Radio Rios & Oskar Mann

Apropos of not much more than the title, here's a relatively overlooked Larry Mizell production:



Bobbi Humphrey: "New York Times" (Blue Note, 1974)

It's the shoes b/w party time

I can't believe Reebok did a deal with some nice dudes.


This Friday at 4, Shoe Biz SF is having a release event for a line of Quannum Projects-themed Reeboks. In addition to appearances from Lyrics Born, Lateef, Gift of Gab & Chief Xcel, they're giving out tickets to a Mighty Underdogs show the next night and, I think, a promotional mix that Quannum had me do a while ago but which for one reason or another never got released.


Matthew Africa: "Quannum Projects Mix" (2008)

The tracklist is this:

Pieces of Peace: "Yesterday's Visions"
Lifesavas: "Freedom Walk" ACA/Tommy Guerrero "Molotov Telegram"
General Elektriks: "Coming Up for Air"
Curumin: "Kyoto"
Honeycut: "Tough Kid"
Lifesavas: "Tailormade Razorblades"
Joyo Velarde: "Certain Special Way"
Pigeon John: "Money Back Guarantee" INST
Honeycut: "Exodus Honey"
General Elektriks: "Requiem for a Neo-Con"
Curumin: "Dancando"
Tommy Guerrero: "1966"
Pigeon John: "As We Know It"

Oh, and, Friday night I'm celebrating the third anniversary of my party, Hubba Rock.


To make it more special, I've invited DJ O-Dub of soul-sides.com, Boogaloo[L.A.], etc. to join in the celebration, so he'll be dropping a guest set at some point during the night.

Hubba Rock takes place each Friday at Kitty's, which is at 6702 Hollis in Emeryville.

So excited

Recently the homie Serg invited me to mix volume 4 of Hard As Fuck so right now I'm in the process of trying to take about 60 songs about subjects like stomping haters out, mean mugging, whooping on a trick, bowing haters up, looking for ana, leaving Nike logos on a fool's forehead, etc. and trying to condense them into the single hardest CD known to man.

The mix won't be ready in time for the gig above, but I'm psyched to play a bunch of rowdy shit in a club with Mr. Whut-It-Dew, Shane & Swayzee.