In July 2002, The Rub began with a simple goal: the creation of a classics and hip-hop party to be held on the first Saturday of every month at Southpaw. However, it was the approach that has made it click. We do it Brooklyn style: great dance music mixed well, affordable drinks, and real people; no dress code, no bottle service, no VIPs and no celebrity DJs. The combination of great music, a hot and sweaty dance floor, and phenomenal word-of-mouth buzz for the party brought the people there. The unparalleled mix of hip hop, disco, 80s, reggae, funk, house and everything in between keeps them coming back.

The Rub has been widely recognized as the best club night in New York City for several years. The Rub was named both “the best party in Brooklyn to dance sweatily to smart music” by the Village Voice and “the best party in NYC” by The New York Press. Ayres, Eleven & Cosmo have also been also featured on MTV Mixtape Mondays, in The New York Times, Spin, Vice, XXL, XLR8R, Urb, The Fader, The Wire, RE:UP, Tablist, Hip-Hop Connection (UK), Spray (France) and on countless websites. In addition, the three DJs have been releasing mixtapes at a breakneck pace, traveling to gigs across the country and around the world, and put out four official Rub CDs and 8 records. In 2006 DJ Ayres and Cosmo Baker won Scion’s Free Your Mix Contest.

This is the most definitive hip-hop mix blog I’ve seen. Out of control

Get on this shit and bliss through the weekend.

Props to Shabana for the hookup.

My new dig.

A big thanks to Dan Shifter for a rocking job on the wheelset, and putting it all together. Legend.
If we bump on the streets, say g’day.

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I’m going back to Japan in June, and I can’t fucking wait.

Our homeboy Sutu has just dropped Nawlz :: Issue #4 the most elaborate and detailed online comic in our young history. Word is born.

Limited edition prints from the Nawlz series will be available to purchase online at NiceProduce very soon. Hold tight.

Big ups Sutu, this issue is a cracker!

We turned my old apartment into a studio today… results to follow.

And well said, too.

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We here at Nice like to spend our weekends dressed fresh, riding high and drinking the best we can get our grubby little hands on, and we don’t do things in halves. Check the 1965 Chevy Impala, straight 300 block.

24 bottles of Victoria’s finest plonk.

We love it.

While you were sleeping, I rocked the club with Miss Janette Slack from London. This shot from around 5:30am.

And someone started showing their face back on the streets of Melbourne…

You snooze, you lose.

We had the absolute pleasure of hosting Hong Kong x London mixtress of breakbeat Janette Slack play down in Melbourne with us over the weekend. She took the scissors to a NiceProduce Woman’s Classic and did a damn fine job at customising the fit!

We will miss you Janette! Save travels, and see you soon!

Pic from 10.15.

So I have the awesome job of moving house. Again. In the midst of cleaning out my studio, I found unopened boxes of Trexi Series 1 and Series 2. They’re back on NiceProduce so get on them, they are 3 years old and rare as. Gotta love the little gems.