The latest cover-not-cover from Telephoned (Sammy Bananas & Maggie Horn) is this wonky pop take on “Turn My Swag On,” with guest vocals from Telli of Ninjasonik, a man with one of the better Twitter names out there. Download it here and grab other Telephoned tunes here.
Wish a happy born day to our man Sammy Bananas tonight at Savalas in BK, where he’ll be DJing with Caps and probably eating a cake of some sort. Mr Bananas was just over at FG HQ this week playing some new productions, including remixes for Thunderheist and Passion Pit, as well as a new remake from his Telephoned project (which you can preview here) so stay tuned!
Skinny and I put together a mix to help spread the word about Player’s Club, our fortnightly party upstairs at Pianos in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. This 30 minute blend of stay fly music gives you a slice of the Player’s Club neatly wrapped in crisp tuxedo packaging. Please accept this token and we hope you will join us one night where we will be rockin’ that sh*t like… Grab the mix here and check the tracklist below.
SKINNY IN THE MIX
Bad Azz - How We Get Down
Dam Funk - Hood Pass Intact
Notorious B.I.G. - Party and Bullshit (Skinny Friedman Rmx)
Grandmaster Flash - Bounce Back f/ Busta Rhymes
Santigold - Say Aha (TEPR Rmx)
M.I.A - Big Branch
Safety Scissors - Untitled
Mos Def - Quiet Dog
U-Tern - Set Your Flag On Fire
Jadakiss - Who’s real f/ Swizz Beats and OJ the Juiceman
Nice and Smooth - Funky For You
Jay -Z - Money Aint a Thing ft. JD
Skinny Friedman - Crab Meat Party Break
Herb Alpert - Rise
Suga Free - My Dice
SAMMY ON THE CUT
Junior Mafia - Player’s Anthem
Busta Rhymes - Hustler’s Anthem
Busta Rhymed - Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See
C.O.L.O.U.R.S - Everybody
Ryan Leslie - Diamond Girl
Outkast - So Fresh, So Clean
Fabolous - Throw It In The Bag ft. The-Dream
50 Cent - P.I.M.P.
Snoop Dogg - Sets Up
Slum Village - Players
Player’s Club is 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at Pianos 158 Ludlow NYC
This year’s edition of the Fool’s Gold WMC Spectacular was our second consecutive year tearing down White Room in downtown Miami, and we finally got back all the pics and video documenting the fun-splosion. After a packed weekend of shows, we started the day bum rushing the Stones Throw pool party, killed a giant family dinner at the steakhouse, then hit the clurb. Along with all the FG fam rocking on stage (Sammy Bananas, Nick Catchdubs, Treasure Fingers, Jokers Of The Scene and Nacho Lovers - who took over the whole side room for a night of deeeeeeep house and techno) we played host to special guests Steve Aoki, DJ Mehdi, a rare Annie Mac x Fake Blood tag team, and hometown hero Craze, who ended his set by rocking with A-Trak in an epic impromptu scratch session.
We went the whole night long, staying packed long after the other shows closed down (and gave us second and third winds as the party people trickled in). Check the pics and video after the jump, and Ian Meyer’s full photo gallery here. Also peep A-Trak and Mehdi’s solo blog recaps.
Telephoned was born one night in Brooklyn when our very own Sammy Bananas and his singin’ friend Maggie Horn decided to record their own version of T-Pain’s “Can’t Believe It.” It wasn’t a remix, it wasn’t a cover, but it was fun as hell - we premiered it, and “Can’t Believe It” quickly became a DJ favorite, even making it into mix rotation on Power 106 in LA! “Pop Champagne” is their follow-up, turning Ron Browz’ rap hit into a spacey dancefloor gem (”Bottle service electro meets Triplets Of Belleville” says Ms Horn). More reworks are on their way, but grab this one now thanks to our friends at RCRD LBL.
Download Congorock’s contribution to shutterbug Nicky Digital’s “Pre Party Jamz” series here. “I just did a ‘party’ search on my iTunes and grabbed the best ones,” says Rocco of the tunes.
You can also grab PPJ mixes from Nick Catchdubs and Sammy Bananas on Mr Digital’s site, and check some pics from last Friday’s epic Crookers / Congorock / Annie Mac show at Webster Hall.
And in other Congo news, check our boy in LA this Friday playing Control at the Avalon!
Photo from C-Nugget Flickr
The Fool’s Gold After Dark showcase in Austin last week was insane in every possible way, from the turnout (line down the block and around the corner all night!) to the tunes, as the whole roster dropped stellar sets packed with new joints and dence detonators. Even when the sound unceremoniously got cut during Mehdi’s set due to arcane Austin liquor laws, he still managed to smash it! Kid Cudi came through and surprised us with a quick set, fans and well-wishers included everyone from Clinton Sparks and Steve “Buddy” Aoki to MCs like Curren$y, Mistah FAB and Izza Kizza, and an amazing time was had by all.
Thanks to everyone at Scion, Palm Door/Beauty Bar and Red Stripe for lending a hand, and thanks to all the shutterbugs who put their pics on Flickr to make this wrapup possible, Catch lost his camera while crowdsurfing shirtless later in the week (smoove….) but the FG Flip cam made it back alive with video.
If you have more pics or video from the night, send em in! Now hit the jump for the goods! See you next year AWWWWWWstin!
Photo from Skeet Skeet
Photo from Trizzy
Photo from Skeet Skeet
Photo from Electropopwhore Flickr
Photo from Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images - if you can get us the real version please holler!
Photo from Mookielove Flickr
Photo from Mookielove Flickr
Photo from Daniel Boczarski/Getty Images - if you can get us the real version please holler!
Photo from The Ground Above Flickr
Photo from The Ground Above Flickr
Photo from Skeet Skeet
Just like last year, Fool’s Gold is taking over White Room in Miami on Saturday, March 28th for an packed evening of party mayhem done our way during Winter Music Conference. Fam, friends, surprise guests… and it’s FREE, so come check us out! Lineup and more info after the jump.
SATURDAY 3.28
FOOL’S GOLD WMC SPECTACULAR
WHITE ROOM
1306 N. Miami Ave (Downtown), Miami FL
21+, 10pm - 5am
FREE! NO RSVP!
A-TRAK
DJ MEHDI
ANNIE MAC
TREASURE FINGERS
JOKERS OF THE SCENE
NACHO LOVERS
SAMMY BANANAS
NICK CATCHDUBS
(AND SURPRISE GUESTS…)
When I was Down Under a few weeks ago, I had the great pleasure to spend an afternoon volunteering with Heaps Decent, the Aussie music outreach organization set up by Diplo and run by Andrew Levins and Nina Agzarian. Heaps has been involved in a number of projects over the past two years and one of their current focuses is a weekly class at Key College in Sydney, a high school run by the organization Youth Off the Streets. Click through for the full story and to hear what me made!
Levins and I arrived as the school day was winding down and set up my laptop, an mbox and speakers in the music room. We all introduced ourselves when the small class of 5 sat down and I launched into my lesson. Actually, I had no idea what I was doing or going to talk about and was super nervous! It quickly became apparent that I should go with something that I know in my bones, and that of course is The Mashup (shout to Certified Bananas!)
I started explaining the process of matching an acapella to an instrumental when a student named B looked up from playing with her phone and chimed in “Is that like that really terrible song that has Cream with Soulja Boy on it? I hate that one!” Levins and I immediately burst into laughter, knowing the inimitable Dave Nada to be the author of that mashup. After we told B about this, she said “Tell him he’s a disgrace!” Dave, you’re not a disgrace.
Once we got things under control again, Josh (who proudly was rocking a healthy amount of makeup, “It’s Estee Lauder” he said) asked if I had the acapella for “Finally” by CC Penniston. Everyone agreed that this was a good choice, and we started looking for a beat to match with it. I’m sorry to say that my instrumental game is not what it once was, but after talking about what artists we liked, the group settled on Rihanna’s “Disturbia”, mostly because they didn’t like her vocals.
I worked in Pro Tools to construct this idea while explaining the basics of what I was doing. It was clear that Josh and B were the most interested and though I tried to involve the whole group, eventually they left to do something else. Almost as expected in this magical world of pop music, “Finally” and “Disturbia” turn out to be in the same key and are almost the same speed as well. I took cues from the two musicians on timing and layout of the song, and soon enough we had something that might just be good enough to fit into A-Trak’s infamous “Bottle Service Electro” playlist! B had been playing hardstyle and gabber selections off her phone during the workshop, and suggested that we make a version of the song for those fans as well. Through a little time compression wizardry, we got it.
In order to be an internet success these days you need more than just a hot song, so we quickly came up with a catchy name for Josh and B’s crew and took a promo photo of the two artists with their producer. For some reason there was a pamphlet on the table advertising a waxing combo deal, and the two suggested Sac N’ Crak. B suggested we change it to SKNKRK (”so that is was like MSTRKRFT”).
So without further ado, here is the debut from SNKNKRK “Finally Disturbed” in both the House and Gabber versions.
SKNKRK - Finally Disturbed (House Mix)
SKNKRK - Finally Distrubed (Gabber Edit)
Whoo! It’s that time of year again…
The entire FG family is headed down to Austin, Texas next week for schmoozin, boozin and CHOOONS! Check us (and our pals!) at Fool’s Gold After Dark, going down late night Thursday (3/19) from Midnight to 5am at Palm Door (401 Sabine St).
It’s free with RSVP to foolsrsvp@gmail.com so get your names in and get to the spot early - entry is subject to capacity. Full details after the jump.
Thursday, 3/19
Scion presents
FOOL’S GOLD AFTER DARK
with
A-TRAK
KID SISTER (LIVE)
LITTLE BOOTS (DJ SET)
DJ MEHDI + MAPEI (LIVE)
NACHO LOVERS
LA RIOTS
TRACKADEMICKS (LIVE)
JOKERS OF THE SCENE
TREASURE FINGERS
SAMMY BANANAS
NICK CATCHDUBS
(AND SURPRISE GUESTS…)
PALM DOOR
401 Sabine St
Austin TX
FREE W/ RSVP
Midnight - 5am
21+
Complementary beverages (while supplies last) from Red Stripe
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