Friendly reminder::Wanna watch planes from a boat? I’ll be playing party jams alongside DJs Skratchie Robinson, Scenery and 2Shea. Tickets almost sold out, click the photo to get ‘em before they’re gone!
Yo all homies of DJ Limbs, do somethin for the kid and vote for him to play at Lollapalooza! The process is easy, click the link below and vote. You might have to sign up but it’s all good, they don’t spam, and you might find out about a cool event you’d wanna hit up in the process!
http://do312.com/remix/dj-limbs
If you need any live example of what you’re voting for, here’s ur chance this week:
Thursday at Fat Cat for Soul Night 8-1AM FREE
Friday at Crown Liquors with The Ruckus, Nasty Nod, El-Train and for “Heat Wave” a house music night 10-2AM FREE
Saturday at Citizen Bar 9-3AM FREE
Sunday at Power in Numbers B-boy jam at Alternatives 3-9PM $5 with flyer, $7 without
For the Sunday gig, here’s the flyer so you can get pizza w/ the $2 you save!
I think my remix came out well so if you dig and wanna see me rock the Perry stage, vote!
I also highly recommend voting for my boy DJ Belly who’s also in the running. Us two should be in the final hands down yakno?! Peep his killer dubstep remix and vote for him here:
http://do312.com/remix/dj-belly
Vote once everyday until July 1st! Voting starts today (June 20th) at some point. Seems like Lolla still needs to get everything together but should kick off this afternoon I’m hoping.
Thanks yo!
You Ain’t!
With DJ Solo, DJ Demchuk, DJ Limbs, Abstract Science DJs
April 21st
Abbey Pub
8PM
10 presale/12 door
Tickets available here
I’d very much like your presence here. Not only is Kentaro a one-of-a-kind super-humanly talented turntable performer, but I’m planning out a set to hold it down with the rest of the talent I’ll be playing with. It’s just begun!!
I’m feelin good about music right now cause I recently won the beat making competition thrown by Vocalo.org of WBEZ for the 3rd Annual Winter HipHop Block Party.
Competition was tight with over a hundred submissions and the top three, Paradigm, Madlab and myself all had ill compositions. Here’s mine:
DJ Limbs - Vocalo Competition by DJ Limbs
Thank you Jesse Menendez for hosting the competition and sampling workshop. Thanks Chicago Urban Arts Society for hosting such an amazing weekend of ill hiphop and house.
Music is the Weapon was one of the first events in Chicago I put together and still one of my favorites. The concept’s pretty simple - it’s a DJ dance party that benefits local non-profits and promotes collaboration between the featured groups. We’ve benefited local NPOs such as Connect Force, Rumble Arts, Original Change Project, CHIRP and En Masse. Since doing MITW, I’ve had the privilege of joining The People’s DJ Collective and doing similarly themed events with them such as EMPACT and Beautiful Struggle. The original flier design by Edit17 has caught a lot of eyes and many friends were asking for shirts. Well, thanks to DJ Junior at Recordbreakin’ Music they finally can. And to keep the MITW tradition going, 50% of sales go straight to an educational/art related non-profit picked by Junior in his current base, Philadelphia.
Shirts are available here:
Men:
http://www.recordbreakin.com/rbm_weapon_men_shirt.html
Women:
http://www.recordbreakin.com/rbm_weapon_woman_shirt.html
They look dope:
To celebrate the shirt release, I put together a mix. I used to do a mix for each Music is the Weapon event featuring interviews from the non-profits and socially charged tracks. This one keeps the musical theme and features some of my favorite releases from Recordbreakin’. It’s a revolutionary, social uplifting, self-actualizing themed mix. Starts up stirring you up, asks some questions, gives some hope and ends with in introspective meditation.
Peep the mix here:
DJ Limbs - Music is the Weapon Recordbreakin Mix by DJ Limbs
Tracklist below, enjoy!:
20th Century Steel Band - Heaven And Hell Is On Earth
I, Ced - Another Look @ You vs Gil Scott Heron - The Revolution Will Not be Televised
Leroy Heptones - Revolution
The Pimps Of Joytime - H20 (Ft. Cyril Neville)
D’Angelo, Femi Kuti, Macy Gray - Water Get No Enemy
Lifesavas - State of the World / Apocalyps
Joy Jones - This Too Shall Pass (Spinnerty Remix)
Erykah Badu - The Healer
Ta’Raach - Liberation’s Lullabye
Mark de Clive-Lowe - Heaven (Ft. Bembé Segué)
Pointer Sisters - Yes We Can, Can
Cymande - The Message
Shapes of Broad Minds - Changes
John Robinson - Black Gold
Typical Cats - Justice Coming
Raphael Saadiq - Lift The People
Zeph and Azeem - Time to Wake Up (Ft. Joyo Velarde & Tony Moses)
Willie Williams - No One Can Stop Us
Flying Lotus - MmmHmm (Ft. Thundercat)
Bitone Troupe - All is Full of Love
I’m really happy to see my record popping up in many stores in Japan. Ruth from Butter’s dream is to perform there and she’s been telling me that they’d love her, and I think she’s right. A lot of these reviews are fun to read, maybe it’s because Google is doing a poor translation job, but I also like seeing how they categorize the tracks. Here are a few that wrote their own reviews:
via Dovewax:
“Chicago DJ, beat maker = DJ Limbs And Butter debut, depending on how your muscles are one pint at a variety of genres! !
The debut release from Chicago will now work with DJ, beat maker = DJ Limbs And Butter the 7inch. This is one interesting piece of genre-less! ! After bouncing back from a lovely refrain, but that beat is BreakBeats tempo Drum n Bass track expanded into an adjustment, they Sumushi there in numbers Vocal Jazzy mysterious woman Nokkaru the “Mad Jazz Noodle”. Hip Hop and B-Side is Down Tempo ~ Instrumental ~ a mellow yet even here the tracks are a Jazzy Vocal effective edge that even the future “The Wimp” recorded? ! This is how it goes, depending on a variety of genres”
via Ban be:
“This is quite unique! Ennui abstract jazzy pop! !
There are 70 ~ glance this impact is also quite like the cartoon cover girl of the 1980s comedy series did not add sound or lose! [Jazzy 』while, and the unique gems to stick quirky sound heard! Or rather dreamy fluffy EMI release it from the B side too!”
via Jet Set:
“Sun Ra Jazz vocal tour de force of abstract electronic taste flat. Introducing Chicago’s hot stock!
Chicago DJ Limbs and Butter Brazilian band have collaborated with female vocals. The flurry of unconventional electronic sound and vibe suspect A, folk soul tears space B, are both great!”
via Technique.co
“Limited 7-inch! ! Based in Chicago, continues to DJ Limbs & Butter is the debut single by new label’s first single as Butter arrives! ! Zara tracks with a unique texture, vibe, Key tone of acoustic instruments, such as a mixture Eucharis Varella exquisite and funky vocals by jazz breaks thrilling finish is reminiscent of the soundtrack! ! B memorable psychedelic jazz sound track is also nice for the B-side fly! !”
Can someone in Japan hook us up with a gig?!!
