Today XXXChange, the masterfully producer who’s been behind artist from Spank Rock to Kid Sister, is finally releasing his “Bounce” EP on T&A Records! This is XXXChange’s first solo album after working behind the scenes for several years, and it has been greatly anticipated! The “Bounce” EP ranges from melodic and spacey tunes such as “Scrying For You” to more club inspired repetitive tracks with “Panic Panic”. The track that pulls this entire EP together however is “Bounce” as you might have guessed. It also has remixes from Jay Fay, LE1F, Nadus, and Zap! Pow !Die! that are able to give it a new life of their own. Check out the EP here and be sure to buy it on iTunes, Beatport, or Juno today! Also check out the exclusive free download of XXXChange’s “Scrying For You” on XLR8R as a preview for the EP!

Tour Dates:
* May 1st @ DIM MAK Studios Los Angeles, CA
* May 2nd @ EPR San Francisco, CA
* May 4th @ Celebrities Vancouver, BC
* June 8th @ Webster Hall New York City, NY
* June 21st @ U Street Music Hall Washington, DC
* June 22nd @ The Quad Atlanta, GA
* June 23rd @ The Revolution Fort Lauderdale, FL
* July 20th @ Observatory Santa Ana, CA
* July 27th @ Amphitheatre Tampa, FL

With a rack of support from heavyweights such as Skream, Toddla T, Diplo, Dave Nada, Dillon Francis and DJ Craze, Jay Fay presents a brand new EP out now on T&A Records. $$ OOPS $$ sees the St. Louis, Ohio native continuing to build on the distinctively aggresive sound debuted on the Bonkers EP, and rapidly proving himself as a producer to watch in indie dance.

The title track, produced with Ra Cailum, embodies everything that has moombahton fans tripping over themselves to fete him; jammed to the gills with magnetic dancefloor energy, $$ OOPS $$ boasts calypso vibes wrassling with tough bassline electro to create a peak-hour, body-twerking groove. Starlife sees G-Eazy rapping on another huge moombahton track, while Bamboula, whether in its original interpretation or as remixed by rising bassbin rattlers J-Trick and Zombies For Money, is a wild uptempo banger.

EP:
iTunes: http://bit.ly/OOPSITUNES
Beatport: http://bit.ly/OOPSBEATPORT

Everybody loves the Black Bart

Goin’ In never looked so good!

More pics from Michael Khan can be found here

I found this video of Jesse DJing at HARD and you can pretty much taste the bromance happening in the booth! I’m pretty sure taking a champagne bottle to the head felt amazing in the morning!

Finally, here is a quick recap from Jesse’s Instagram of the highlights of the two weeks. You gotta love how the DC rolls deep all the way in Miami!

Our homies from NYC, Trouble & Bass, will be back in DC this Saturday for the first time since September of 2011! The Trouble & Bass showdown will include a Drop the Lime (DJ Set), Star Eyes, & The Captain. Since we’re all excited about the T&B crew finally coming back to UHall, we’re giving away two free tickets to the show! All you have to do to enter is tweet to @DJYorker with #troublemaker before this Friday! You can get ready for the show by checking out the recap from the Trouble & Bass Take Over in LA:

Legend has it many years ago in the Chin State of Myanmar (Burma) the women began to get tattooed with intricate designs covering their entire faces. The story goes that the Rakhaing Princes would come to the villages in search of beautiful women as brides and take them back to their kingdom. The tattoos became their only defense in an attempt to “Uglify” their appearance. But overtime the villagers saw it as a rite of passage into womanhood and no longer about the princes; some girls could not even get married until the tattoos were done. Once the girls reached puberty they were sent to a Shaman. They didn’t fight it; most of the time they couldn’t wait to get the tattoos of the elder women in their tribe. The ink had come from a special plant and was mixed with buffalo kidney. This process was extremely painful as the Shaman hammered the ink into their skin. In the 1960s in attempt for the socialist government to stop this practice they started putting huge taxes on the Shaman. (Eventually the facial tattoos were banned all together). After the first woman was married without the tattoos the practice began to disappear completely. Once a rite of passage; now a distant memory as all that is left of these women are the “Grandmothers”, in attempt to connect to the outside world and raise money for schools; the grandmothers have welcomed tourist to their secluded world. They only receive a couple hundred visitors a year but as Myanmar (Burma) opens up I’m sure these numbers will grow as the people want to catch a glimpse into their world.

The Chin State is closed off to tourist; you can try to get permits which can take up to several weeks and even then… So I did the second best thing. I flew from Yangon to Sittwe in the Rakhaing State, went on a 7 hour ferry ride to Mrauk U and then lastly a small boat to the Chin Villages just along the mysterious state.

The grandmothers of the Chin tribe took my hand as I arrived on their shores; there were five elderly women waiting our arrival. We were guided up the steep hills to their village. Small walkways separated the houses made of bamboo and wood that sat high above the ground. Out of respect we were taken to the oldest woman’s house first. The dark lines of tattoos blended with the wrinkles on her face; she was in her 90’s. All of her grandchildren and great grandchildren joined us as we sipped on tea and chatted back in fourth with the help of a translator. After awhile we parted ways to meet with the rest of the village. Now we met one of the youngest women. She was 60 and the ink on her face was the most pronounced out of the whole village. She told us that when she was 5 she would beg her parents regularly “when was it her time to get tattos on her face”; at the age of 15 she was sent to the Shaman. I asked her if someday these traditions would begin again and she told me; “it was a different time and that she did not want her granddaughters to go through it and wanted them to blend in with the rest of the world”. They are truly the last of their kind. As the day grew and it got hotter and hotter we took refuge on a shaded porch for tea. The Chin women shared with us some of her favorite treasures that they had acquired over their lives. One of the women shared this thought with me; “Sometimes I feel like my parents’ spirits are coming back to me through the visitors”. I felt very humbled from her words. The sky was changing from blue to orange and it was time for us to say goodbye. Once we were back on our boat; the women splashed water on us for good luck and waved to us as we traveled back down the river.

Please do not use these images on websites, blogs or other media without my explicit permission. © All rights reserved Sarah Baker Photography.

To celebrate all the wall-shaking music, the most loyal patrons, and another year’s worth of crazy dance parties, U Hall is kicking off a five-day marathon of musical mayhem tomorrow!  Check out the line-up below, and make sure you visit their Facebook page for a chance to win free entry all week!

TUESDAY // 3.13.12

WEDNESDAY // 3.14.12

THURSDAY // 3.15.12

FRIDAY // 3.16.12

SATURDAY // 3.17.12

I can’t wait to hear tracks like “The Clap” with ETC!ETC! played at the next Moombahton Massive. This is one of those tunes that you need to snatch a girl to dance with the second you recognize the song, because once it drops she’s about to get freaky! I’m also happy to see Codes on the “5150” Remix. Codes is definitely one of my favorites and is always able to inject a funky vibe into any track he touches. This six track EP is full of bangers, but my personal favorite has to be the Jay Fay “Uncrushable” Remix! The drop in that literally goes “damn” with enough power to blow the club away! Download the new “Bros Gone Wild” EP today on Amazon or Beatport and be ready to have your speakers on blast!

The first track on the EP is “Fellowship and Congregate” which has heavy dubstep influences and a mean bass line. It’s a hood track about GLC’s main female, and this definitely something to play while you’re making moves on your girl. “Angry Birds” is produced by our fam DJ Ayres, and as you might have guessed it uses samples from the iPhone game. Despite being a chill out track, this song is actually pretty funny for using Angry Birds samples over a song about upset females. I have to give Ayres props for his production game on this one. The sub-bass and snares are hood as hell, which shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone that knows his Baltimore Club days.

The third track on the EP is “I Can’t Honor That” that’s produced by Nacey, yet another homie that I’m impressed by. The instrumental is very soulful and melodic with a west coast vibe that’s a throw back to the days of Easy-E and Snoop. The final track “Ism Light” is pretty much ghetto feel good music. With the clean drum rack and spacey feel from Lunice, GLC is able to make Chi-Town rappers look real strong. Even though I might not spin this in my next DJ set, you can best believe this EP will be on heavy iPod rotation. Check out the EP on beatport here.