Champaign-Urbana, IL - Musician, producer, composer, audio designer, and DJ Larry E. Gates II has played hundreds of stages across the nation and has shared those stages with the likes of Chuck Berry, G. Love & Special Sauce, 30 Seconds To Mars, Local H, Superdrag, Trombone Shorty, Brother Ali, The Nappy Roots, Blueprint, DJ Rare Groove, Illogic, and many others.
Monday, February 18, 2013 at 12:53PM I'm super late with it today, I know - but dig this trippy track by Oh No feat. Blu & MED (courtesty of Wandering Worx).
Blu, Disrupted Ads, Jones's, MED, Oh No, Stones Throw Records, Video, Wandering Worx in Madhouse Mondays Friday, November 16, 2012 at 8:40AM I know I've gone on and on about The Stepkids but I'm so completely in love with them right now. Dig this video for "Legend In My Own Mind". Feels good.
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 at 9:00AM Breakstra is a 10 piece breakbeat orchestra from Los Angeles. Tasty throwback grooves with breaks for days. Dig it. It's way gone, y'all.
Wednesday, July 20, 2011 at 9:14AM I may be late to the party on this but one of my more recent discoveries is the hipster-soul of The Stepkids. Looks like they landed a deal with Madlib's own Stones Throw Records. Dig it. It's way gone.
Madlib, Stones Throw Records, The Stepkids, Video, Wonderfox in Way Gone Wednesdays Friday, June 24, 2011 at 9:00AM It's the first week of summer and the Cool Kids have teamed up with Mayer Hawthorne to give us the seasons first big jam, "Swimsuits". We all know the Cool Kids as Chicago's proudest sons since Lupe. But it's Hawthorne that gets me. Some may know him as DJ Haircut - but when he showed up at the Stones Throw Records office with an album steeped in Motown goodness, everything changed. Since then, he's stayed on the road with his band (The County) and is dropping guests hooks like this one left and right. His debut, Strange Arrangement, by all accounts should have been dismissed as a goof. But Hawthorne's efforts to make it a genuine collection of motor-city era love tunes allowed it to get over. I still put it on about once a month.
Dig.
