The Rub – Best Party on New Years Day

Our friends over at the Village Voice have crowned The Rub “The Best Party To Take Anyone To” in their 2010 Sound of the City awards.  I think that roughly translates to “Best Party Ever”, but I may be slightly misreading it.

As tradition dictates, we’re back at it on New Year’s Day 2011 (first Saturday of the month, son!) at Southpaw.  Story is the same as always: 10PM-4AM, come early, $5 for ladies, $10 for gents.  It will be a great party!

Great Minds 2

Big Jacks & I have been talking about a follow up to our first Great Minds mixtape for a while now & ringing in the new year together in Toronto this year seemed like the perfect time to get our acts together.  (And to call up our man Bozack for more great cover art.)  So with no further adieu, I give you some of the best in disco, funk, and boogie, aka Great Minds 2!

DJ Eleven
Convertion - Let’s Do It
Heaven & Earth - I Really Love You
Roberta Flack - Hittin’ Me Where It Hurts
Jeanette “Lady” Day - Come Let Me Love You
Brick - Let’s Get It Started
Luther Vandross - She’s A Super Lady
Rockers Revenge - Sunshine
One Way Feat. Al Hudson - You Can Do It
Shalamar - Right In The Socket
Jimmy “Bo” Horne - Spank

Big Jacks
Candy Bowman – I Wanna Feel Your Love
Circle City Band – Magic
Midnight Express – Danger Zone
J.T. – I Love Music
Lemelle – Something Special
Kreamcicle – Hold On
Jessie Rogers – One Monkey Don’t Stop No Show
Khemistry – I Can’t Lose With The Stuff I Use
Starpoint – Do What You Wanna Do
Trilark – Check It Out
Unique – What I Got Is What You Need
First Love – Party Lights
Jay W McGee – When We Party (Big Jacks’ Maximus Party mix)
Shider Family Band – Keep You Burning

If you’re looking for a one track MP3 version, grab it here.  And for a zipped version with the art, go here.

11 Inch + Matty C = Action

Over at my day job at the 11 Inch Institute for Higher Learning, we just dropped our newest release from Matty C, Vancouver O.G. & all around great individual.  Matty flipped a sample of hair rockers Poison into a disco house banger. (Kutcorners turned in a ill dark post punk remix and DJ Apt One murdered an italo disco version!)   And for Discotheque, Matty took it back to the club.

You can purchase the whole EP at these fine establishments:

Turntable Lab
Beatport
iTunes
Gigacrate

For more info on Matty C, you can check him out on Soundcloud, Twitter, and the amazing White Light Mix series he co-curates.  You can also check out the promo mix Matty did for this release, which includes all the tracks plus other gems from the 11 Inch Vaults, over here.

New Year’s Eve in T.O.

This year for New Year’s Eve I’ll be heading up to the frozen north to rock with the Toronto homies: Big Jacks, Royale, and Bozack Morris.  Head on over to the guys’ blog for all the details, buy links, and them nerding out on all kinds of great music.  Plus, check the blog/site they put up just for the event at www.move2011.com

Star Wars meets The Mulligans

Some ideas are just too silly to warrant explaining.  Enjoy!

Americano Cantina (DJ Eleven Remix) by 11InchRecords

FAM Holiday R&B Party

Mannie Fresh Love

It’s been mad long since I dropped “50 Minutes of Fresh”, my ode to the genius of Mannie Fresh, but the Village Voice picked up on it yesterday and spread a little love to get folks ready for Fresh’s guest spot at reOPENed last night.  In case you missed the mix, here it is one mo’ gin, along with the Voice’s perfect synopsis of the tape.

50 Minutes of Fresh