The latest Foolcast comes to us courtesy of Style Of Eye, who put together this mini-mix of groovy, quirky jams to go along with his newly-released single (in collab with Slagsmålsklubben) “Homeless.” There’s some SoE originals and remixes, appearances from FG family and friends, and surprises. Dig in!
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Duck Sauce - Barbra Streisand
Sky Ferreira - One (Style Of Eye Remix)
Style Of Eye & Slagsmålsklubben - Homeless
Mom & Dad - Judas (Dem Slackers Remix)
The Martin Brothers - Steal Drums (Riva Starr Remix)
Midnight Magic - Beam Me Up (Jaques Renault Remix)
MVSVM - French Jeans (Style Of Eye Remix)
Tony Senghore - Burnin’
Catchy goes intercontinental this week for shows in Hong Kong, Singapore, Bali, Seoul, Busan and Beijing (the last show is a blowout for the Intel/Vice Creators Project, which you may remember from their FG feature earlier this summer). As a parting gift, he left us this new mix Round’n Round’n Round’n Round’n Round’n, which you can download from SoundCloud. Tracklist after the jump.
Justin Martin & Arlan - Mr Spock
Coldcut & Hexstatic - Timber (Seiji Remix)
LA Riots - The Drop (Duke Dumont “Thudding Like Elmer” Remix)
Cajmere - Percolator (Major Lazer Percumajor)
Bobmo - Bring It (Hot City Remix)
Idiotproof vs Eats Everything - Can You Jump
Klever - Let The Music Play
Squarepusher - Cryptic Motion (Mr Oizo Remix)
Harry Choo Choo Romero - 80 Degrees
Brenmar - Taking It Down
Busy Signal - Real Gallis (So Shifty Remix)
J-Wow & Toy Selectah - Mo’chaxo
El Negro 5 Estrellas - Plomo Plomo
Donae’o - So Fly (Redlight Remix)
Outkast - Spottieottiedopalicious (Nacey Remix)
There’s a lot to cover so get ready for a hefty whirlwind recap (penned by Ms Maggie Horn) of our experience on the almost totally sold out tour!
We began in my home city, Washington DC. Growing up going to the 9:30 Club as a feisty teenager, this was an exciting way to start our travels. The show was fun and energetic and we got our first taste of the amazing performances from Holy Ghost! and Chromeo that we would be lucky enough to watch so many more times from the side of the stage. The show was a success, sold out and a blast.
Check out more pictures and a review from DC right here.
After another show in Philly, we had a brief but jam packed stop at home in New York. Wednesday saw us celebrating our new mixtape, Keep Their Heads Ringin at Ella with Nicky Digital and our NY fam.
Following up that terrific Wednesday, we performed at the Bowery Ballroom - another sold out show, complete with our new merch! Our shirts just came in that day, along with hundreds of CD copies of the new mixtape just in time to hit the road for real.
Next stop was Sammy’s hometown, Boston. A third sold out show, the touring was chugging off to a great start! The crowd was excellent, and even Ma and Pa Bananas, as well as some of the other extended Banana family got to attend!
The next morning we picked up our trusty rental car, Che-Vy Co-Balt Mu-Sic, headed north and soon smoothly crossed the border into Chromeo’s home town of Montreal. It was an extra special show because it also was P-Thug’s birthday (and mine the following day!) Neon Indian was in the house for this one and played a psychedelic, terrific set featuring Alan flexing his Thermin skillz. The night ended with a entire birthday cake shaped like the infamous Chromeo lady legs keyboard stand.
After other great shows in Ottowa and Toronto (shout to our hosts Drastik and Grahmzilla!) we came back down to the states for a fun one on our own in Cleveland.
The next day in Detroit, we got a special tour of the infamous studios where Eminem recorded his first smash hit albums. Then it was on to Chicago for general Lollapalooza festivity-related madness. Sammy played an all-house DJ set in the Hard Rock Hotel and we went to the Chi-Town stop on the Stones Throw x Fools Gold Discotheque party.
Following a few days off we headed out for the West Coast leg of the tour! First we hit Calgary (and cameo’d in the upcoming Smalltown Romeo video), beautiful Vancouver was next up for yet another sold out show.
Holy Ghost! rocked another great set and finished it as they did every night with their amazing new “Song for Jerry.”
After an eventful trip back down to the US which involved a car chase at the border and a hot tattooed woman in a bikini serving coffee out of a shack at a truck stop (the place is called Foxy Lady cafe), we arrived in Seattle. The Pacific Northwest was so very good to us. Our first show in Seattle was quiet eventful. I hate to harp on “sold out” but it really was exciting and inspiring to be performing for such big excited crowds.
For more pictures and an excellent review by the prestigious KEXP, look over here. The crowd was so crazy for Chromeo at this point, the crew had to hold the lighting to make sure it didn’t fall from their quaking and jumping!
In Portland, we had what would prove to be our second best show thanks to another full house with loads of energy to spare! They showed lots of love for us at the end of our set.
San Diego proved to be an awesome sold out venue just before a few days off in Los Angeles. We managed to find a very Cali way to spend the time…LVLZ!
After fun times at the beach, in many pools, hot tubs, rollercoasters at Magic Mountain and stuffing our faces constantly, we headed back home to some weather that was not quite as forgiving.
The Pool’s Gold Jelly Pool Party turned out to be wild with a wonderful lineup. The day suffered from mega showers and wind, but the fans of Fool’s Gold and Jelly NYC waited quite some time (though somehow happily!) through the rain to see the great performances. Ours in particular was a bit hairy. At one point I was chasing down records and slipmats on a wet stage that had blown off Sammy’s tables in a gust of wind. Punk rock! The show must go on… until it couldn’t anymore because you can’t use a computer while its getting rained on.
Finally, it was off to the south for our last leg of the tour! The first night was a hot and sweaty sold out crowd at Stubb’s in Austin. In Dallas we had the best BBQ of the tour (best ribs of our entire lives???) and on the trip from Dallas to Nashville we got to ride in the Tour Bus and got to see what really goes on behind the scenes…
After that it was off to Honky Tonk land, the one and only Nash Vegas! Nashville’s Cannery was a house full of southern charm and friendliness. We ended the night honky tonkin’ and catching a terrific Rockabilly band on Broadway.
ATL was the last stop on the tour, and we spent a little rooftop pool time with the man Jackie Chain!
The final, sold-out show in Atlanta was hands down the best show we’ve done. An emotional send-off to the tour, all the bands pulled out all the stops. The crowd was positively bubbling with excitement and very welcoming.
It was a perfect ending to frankly, a nearly perfect tour. Every member of the bands and crew were a pleasure to work with and be around and the music inspiring to watch every night. We’re gonna miss these guys.
Early the next morning we pulled up to the airport in tour bus reeking of Tennesee moonshine and bacon maple bourbon. I had no time to change (or was this the plan all along?) and showed off what Chromeo refers to as “Airport style”. (#airportstyle)
Thanks to all the bands, and most of all to all our new fans, the hundreds and hundreds of people who came up to personally shake our hands to tell us the love what we are doing. Thanks also to everyone else who supported us buy buying T-shirts and CDs!
We’re off to the studio for the next month or so, with some shows peppered here and there, but we’ll be back for you again America (and beyond!)
Our bros Chromeo have a new LP called Business Casual coming out on September 14th, one week from today. But why wait? Stream it now thanks to NPR, and pre-order the album on the Chromeo website in a variety of gift options. Classy!
Putting a giant exclamation point on another summer of smash singles and packed-out parties across the country, Fool’s Gold - the trendsetting indie label founded by DJs A-Trak and Nick Catchdubs - is throwing a free DAY OFF party on Labor Day. It’s going down from 2-8pm in NYC at City Winery Backyard (155 Varick St, backyard entrance on Spring between Hudson & Varick) and the all-ages event will feature guest raps from Yelawolf, Pill and Donnis, DJ sets from The Brothers Macklovitch (A-Trak & Dave1), Just Blaze, Craze, Klever, Kill The Noise and Nick Catchdubs, and a live performance by The Suzan. It’s truly a family affair, with their friends from Scion, The Fader, LTD+, Slow Roast, Jelly and more on board to make it a can’t-miss party!
DAY OFF comes hot off the heels of Fool’s Gold’s sold-out Discotheque tour earlier this month in conjunction with Stones Throw, and the FG curated “Pool’s Gold” event with Chromeo, Kid Sister, Telephoned and more at the Jelly Pool Party. DAY OFF is yet another showcase for their continually expanding catalog of forward-thinking, genre-blurring club music from the likes of Congorock, LA Riots, Kingdom, Kid Sister, Nacho Lovers and others.
Keep your eyes peeled and your ears open for more Fool’s Gold music, including the Fools’ Gold Vol. 1 compilation LP and The Suzan’s full-length Golden Week For The Poco Poco Beat this fall, along with a massive CMJ event (doubling as the label’s 3-year anniversary), a US label tour, and many more new singles and surprises.
So to recap:
Monday September 6th
Fool’s Gold Presents:
DAY OFF
featuring
Yelawolf
Pill
Just Blaze
The Brothers Macklovitch (A-Trak & Dave1)
Craze
Klever
Kill The Noise
Donnis
Nick Catchdubs
The Suzan
City Winery Backyard
155 Varick St
(Entrance on Spring btwn Hudson & Varick)
2pm-8pm
FREE!
ALL AGES!
Food, drink, surprises…
Head over to 5 Chicago to check a Gant-Man video interview and download two free songs, “J-U-K-E-I-O-U” and “Poquito Spanish, Poquito House.” If you couldn’t tell, one is juked out and one is housing! For more Gant-Man, hit Beatport to pick up his new remix of Cajmere’s “Percolator” (alongside new takes from our buds Major Lazer, Riva Starr, Claude VonStroke and more). Chicago!
For this week’s recipe we are passing the mic inter-office style to FG’s own Rachel Etheredge, who is going to school us on making Greek Orzo pasta salad. Rachel writes:
This is great as a side dish or main course. Just remember to prepare it a few hours before you intend to eat. It may feel weird to cook something and not eat it immediately but just ride with it and let the flavors do their funky thing. Also, as you are prepping your ingredients be mindful that the star of the show should be the orzo. The other key players all have VERY strong flavor profiles so don’t go nuts on any one ingredient and aim for a beautiful, colorful balance. Enjoy!
Greek Orzo Salad
1 lb Orzo pasta
1 block (approx a cup and a half) goats milk feta, cubed (Note: this MUST be the creamy kind, not the usual dry, crumbly kind. This is important, yo.)
1/3 cup of pine nuts, toasted golden brown at 325 degrees then cooled
1/4 medium sized red onion, sliced and roughly diced. Remember this will be served raw so you don’t want the pieces to be too big.)
1/2 cup Kalamata olives, pitted and halved
handful or two of fresh washed + chopped spinach for garnish and some nice color (do it)
Dressing:
1/4 cup nice quality olive oil
1/4 canola or grapeseed oil
1/3 cup good quality Balsamic vinegar
salt + pepper to taste
Recipe:
1. Cook orzo in a large pot of very salty (like the ocean) water for approx 8-9 minutes or until tender. Allow to cool and then refrigerate.
2. In a small bowl, mix oils then add vinegar and salt to make the dressing, pour over cooled pasta.
3. As the dressing & pasta get to know each other, toast pine nuts in 350 degree toaster oven or cook over medium heat until golden brown, approx 6 minutes. Pine nuts can cook REALLY quick towards the end so keep an eye and nose out. Reserve on paper towels.
4. Throw chopped onion into the cooled pasta, stir and then add your Kalamata olives. Stir again.
5. Add your pine nuts and cubed cheese, being careful not to overmix things. It’s best if you keep the cheese cold so it is easier to slice.
6. Add chopped spinach and drink some wine. Check for seasoning but be aware that the olives and cheese will be plenty salty after marinating in the fridge.
7. Let all the flavors get disco with each other and find the love. The longer you let the flavors marry in the fridge, the better this will be.
I hope you give this a try! It’s easy and quick and keeps perfectly for about a week.
Just when you thought it was safe, the FG releasemania continues…
“Homeless” is the unexpected collaboration between techno trailblazer Style Of Eye and synth maniacs Slagsmålsklubben. The two forces came together to craft one of the most intoxicating dance records in recent memory, stacking electronic riffs Jenga-style atop layers of shuffling, stomping tribal percussion and spaced-out chants. As experimental as it is undeniably funky, “Homeless” comes backed by an appropriately mind-bending package of remixes: Ed Banger chief Busy P and Neus link up for a “cadavre exquis” version “remixed for the girls by Busy P and tweaked for the clubs by Neus,” while rising young producer Canblaster contributes a hyperactive, video-game inspired remix, complete with it’s own announcer! All three tunes sound like nothing else out there, making it only natural that “Homeless” would find its home on Fool’s Gold.
