Around The World: European Vacation Tour
Posted on Dec 23rd, 2009
Hit A-Trak’s blog for a great recap of the FG European Vacation tour, with tons of pics and more.
Hit A-Trak’s blog for a great recap of the FG European Vacation tour, with tons of pics and more.
A-Trak’s smash reworking of the YYYs anthem “Heads Will Roll” is out now in a limited-edition white-label vinyl pressing. Grab it at Turntable Lab while you can!
It’s still coppable on iTunes and Beatport for all the digital folks out there. Also shout to Karen O and friends for the nomination. Grammy family!
The first ever FG euro tour wraps up with a bang this Saturday (12/12) in Paris at Nouveau Casino, a two-room extravaganza featuring A-Trak, Nick Catchdubs, Jokers Of The Scene and Congorock alongside local heroes Surkin, So-Me and Arthur King. Don’t miss it!
Hit up URB Magazine’s “Best Of The Decade” survey to vote for Fool’s Gold as “Label Of The Decade” and A-Trak as “Artist Of The Decade” – lofty titles, to be sure, but hey!
You can also vote for A-Trak as “Artist Of The Year” and “Electronic Artist Of The Year” – as well as casting a ballot for Infinity +1 as “Compilation Of The Year” – in their 2009 Year End Readers Poll.
Our very first European label tour kicks off this week in Hamburg, then continues across the continent with A-Trak, Jokers Of The Scene, Congorock and Greenmoney forming like rave Voltron from city to city. If we skipped your town on this inaugural run, don’t worry, there’s more where this came from (plus – the limited Dust La Rock-designed tour tees will be up on the FG webstore for everyone to cop, regardless of locale).
Photo by Al Meyers
In case you missed em: download A-Trak’s costumed set from “The Boo Over” right here, and a recording of his I Love Techno set at Annie Mac’s blog. And if you’d like to hear our bud talk with more than his hands, check out this East Village Radio show where Trizzy pontificates on the state of independent labels with the heads of Glassnote, DFA and French Kiss.
A-Trak! Jokers Of The Scene! Congorock! Greenmoney! And more, all going down at the end of the month. We’re coming for your hard liquor and elegant desserts, details to follow…
We threw two parties in NYC to celebrate the label’s 2nd anniversary during this past CMJ fest – if you missed em, you missed out! Fortunately, we scoured the interweb to collect all the photo galleries, etc (hit us up if you have any more).
Check out Karmaloop’s great recap of Night #1 at 88 Palace above, which featured sets by Kingdom, Donnis (joined onstage by fellow ATLien Pill), Treasure Fingers, Sammy Bananas (who even rocked some Telephoned tracks with partner Maggie Horn), Trackademicks and the Honor Roll crew, and – a first for FG! – live band performances by Vega and The Suzan. Hi-Fi Cartel, Metromix, and The Culture Of Me got some pics, Billboard spoke to A-Trak for a video interview, and Beatcakes had a nice little blog post highlighting The Suzan (“probably one of the best shows I have seen in my life”).
For Night #2 we went with an all-DJ lineup at N8 in Brooklyn, featuring Jokers Of The Scene, LA Riots, Nacho Lovers and extended fam Udachi + Jubilee (Jamie from the xx was slated to play as well, but his band’s set ran late – we’ll get him in the mix soon enough!). You can check pics over at Driven By Boredom. Special thanks to Chicago’s own Thunder Horse for providing live projections / bugged visuals for both nights of festivities! See you for the 3-year bash soon…
New Trizzy tour diary up on thefader.com, live and direct from OZ. For the children!
Update: more Australasia!