RJ will not be playing alone this Wednesday @ the Summit.

RJD2 will be using an MPC and turnables. If you’ve seen RJ live at Wexner or Skullys, you know that he can work that out well.

Tomorrow’s Columbus performance will be a one-time special collaberation with drummer Adam Dietch from Break Science. Adam got his start at the Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe playing drums for people like Erykah Badu. He at some point played in the Average White Band, John Scofield’s band and with Wyclef.. So dood is obviously in weird lane as a musician. He has done beats for the GZA and 50 Cent at another point.

RJ described Adam as thus via text,
“He’s a drummer that thinks like an mpc. I’m a producer who thinks like drummer.”

RJ knows drummers. Think about how well Sam Brown beasted at Skullys February with RJ.

It’s kinda fitting that RJ and Adam are gonna collide at the Summit a place known for hosting experimental music projects.

Perhaps only Skylab would be more.

When RJ told me that Wednesday’s show  will be a real unique musical moment for him and Adam, I asked “oh so it’s not a dance party”.

RJ smirked at that through his phone. So even though this is a musical interaction between drummer and a man on a sampler and turntables, it will still be a dance able party.

RJ and Adam will hit the stage at ten.

Titonton Duvante will play at 9.

DJ Inform and Mister Mike will provide music at other times.

The Summit
2216 Summit St
Columbus OH
$10 Doors at 8:30

Ages
18+

Blizzaard or lack of presale kept you from being one of the 800 people that paid 15 dollars to see RJ’s epic performance at the Donewaiting 7 year Anniversary pictured below?
Don’t fret. He is coming back to rock a ST Patty’s Party on a Dejay level. Dood is going on at Ten so be there early.
(Which is good for people with Jobs)

This Wednesday:

RJD2 DJ Performance with Adam Deitch of Break Science. Basically this is a one-time special collaberation between RJ and an accomplished man in his right Adam Deitch. More on that in a second.

Titonton,DJ Inform and Mister Mike will provide music at other times.

The Summit
2216 Summit St
Columbus OH
$10 Doors at 8:30

Ages
18+
More info forthcoming soon.

Here is a Post-Apoclyptic video for my second favorite song on RJD2’s new album The Colossus>. If you like futuristic sounding synth instrumental music then you probably will like this song, more tourdates including an Ohio show after the jump (more…)

MP3: RJD2: The Shining Path Alan Wilkis Remix

Alan Wilkis Remix of RJD2’s “the Shining Path” that feature Grammy nominee Phonte of Foreign Exchange and Little Brother singing.

The Glow is making fun of plastic, tan people. So the video has a bunch of dolls in it.
Second video off of RJD2’s album the Colossus

rjd2 on twitter about his columbus show

Thanks bustown, last nite was all the way live. Word to the wise: if your chest is hella will farrell, jumping on stage w no shirt=bad look.

rj twitter again:

@wesflexner @donewaiting thanks for setting last nite up PROPERRRRR.

Keep reading for more photos. (more…)

We knew Elizabeth Lessner, she who has brought Columbus my favorite restaurants: Surly Girl Saloon and Dirty Frank’s (to name a few), went way back with RJD2. We asked if she wanted to share anything for the site in prep for tomorrow’s anniversary show and here’s what she wrote:

In the early 90’s, Rj and I became surrogate siblings living out west in San Francisco. On weekend mornings we’d eat breakfast at a place called Spaghetti Western (an early inspiration for Surly Girl Saloon) then go shopping for records on Haight Street or over in Oakland. On nights when we could afford it, we frequented a small, dingy nightclub called Club Deco in San Francisco or a place called Your Mama’s Cafe, a nightclub/coffeehouse in Oakland. We were always on the lookout for DJ Shadow or members of Digital Underground family. The music scene in San Francisco and Oakland at that time was quirky, fun and incredibly accessible.

In those days we both worked a minimum of three jobs at any given time due to the high cost of living and working low wage jobs. Our outlets were record shopping, eating breakfast, dreaming and frequenting our favorite local dives. Since then, I don’t know much has changed for either of us.

Show update: Online presale is sold out but tickets are still available at Magnolia’s and Roots as well as some tix available @ the door.

All Photos by Dan McMahon except the Holy Roller.

As we have said repeatedly on this website. RJD2 is headlining our 7-Year Anniversary at Skullys this Friday Feb 5th. Ticket info and line-up here

RJ is an old friend of mine, so in this informal interview we chopped it up about his brief graffiti career,walking the tracks near the Ohio State Fairgrounds, the passing of Howard Zinn, RJ’s new album The Colossus and his theme song for TV’s Mad Men.

I remember when I first heard your name in Hip Hop discussions around town, graff writers were like…thats RJD2 blah blah he is down with A-Team? A-Team had pieces at the convention center and CAP that hit you up… This question is more for the graffiti dorks but…?

so i moved to the bay area after dropping out of college. i had my records and turntables and stuff, and one of the dudes who i stayed with shortly was down with the a-team guys, this dude cliff. he was the only guy i knew in the city at a point, and then he left too. so the only people i knew in SF were cram, esa, this kid beaver who i cant remember what he wrote, but he would do these “god is love” pieces all over the city, and a few other guys. so they sorta inducted me in as the unofficial a-team dj or whatever. those were the only kids i knew in the city, really. so i’d hang with them, maybe go out a little here and there with em while they painted, but not too much. i later found out that esa had a columbus connection. and then cram moved to philly after i’d been here a while. small world, basically. and my friend cliff lived near and was friends with mike giant, and looked up to him-in 95 SF graff world, he was a really big deal, up there with twist and amaze and the like upper echelon of bay writers, so i met mike thru him. esa later moved to LA, and i think she was doing fine art or something. cram actually was doing public murals for a living for a long time. i guess mike giant got involved in tattoos, but i havent spoken to him in a loooooong time. but in short, all the a-team guys were just cool people, no ego shit, just real friendly folks.

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RJD2 is playing the Donewaiting.com 7 Year Anniversary Friday in Columbus.

RJD2 has always had great video collaborators, for both his live show and for short films about his songs. The Horror is still my favorite (below).

More RJD2 videos after the jump. (more…)

With the help of On the Floor Productions and our man Wes Flexner, we’re super excited to be a part of the RJD2 show next week in Columbus.

Click here to purchase tickets online. You can also get them in Columbus @ Mags and Roots.

Check out Clinton Reno’s screenprinted poster he’s done for the event:

MP3:Mhz freestyle 98 on the Stretch Armstrong & Bobbito Show 89.9

(Via The Bustown Stomp)

Writing about the MHZ is weird for Donewaiting.com cause, do I say…RJD2’s rap group. Do I say the late Camu Tao’s rap group? Copywrite’s?

Regardless, on what would be the rock fan’s reference point, the Mhz spawned a good chunk of what Columbus Hip Hop became nationally recognized for.

The above freestyle was from when Tage, Camu and Copy apprearred on Stretch & Bobbito. We had been for years savoring bootlegs of the infuential NYC radio show.

I mean Columbus rappers were on the same show that had become infamous because of Big L and Jay-z freestyles? The same show that broke Wu-Tang’s first single?

I just being amazed how many times they said Columbus during this program. Still bugs me out listening to it now.

It was like….”Bobbito knows where Columbus is…no way.”

(Directed by Thom Ghunt)
One of the funniest videos in a minute..
. RJD2’s-Let There Be Horns is a good sign that RJ’s new record, The Colossus, will be, well, good. The Colossus drops 1/19.
I like the shitty look RJ gives the bull. Ima guess this isn’t the last we have seen of the bull.

Regardless, you can catch RJ @:

Donewaiting.com’s 7 Year Anniversary Line-up in Columbus on Friday, February 5:

RJD2
HAPPY CHICHESTER
DJ DETOX
THOUGHT COLLECTIVE
KENAN BELL

$15

Tickets available in Columbus at

Magnolia Thunderpussy
1155 N. High Street
Columbus,Ohio
43201
614-421-1512

Or you can buy them online.

Reno poster coming soon.

MP3:RJD2 – Games You Can Win (featuring Kenna)

RJ’s first single ,off of his upcoming album The Colossus out 1-19-10, draws upon a pretty trust-worthy adage, play only “Games You Can Win”.
Two applications come to mind:
LIke don’t play dice with people that have more money than you because they will play big bank take little bank.
or
Like, you took the girl to Bono or whatever the new pizza jump-off is. You got your cardigan and button-up on. Now, you would like to put on the “Stapleton Sex” Ghostface song with all that raunchy stuff.
But that won’t be romantic.

So you throw this song on, and be charming. Turn Dareejening Unlmited on the flatscreen and whathave you.
The song itself features Ethiopian-born perenial star of the future Kenna who has worked with the Neptunes, Lupe Fiasco and the Cool Kids in the past.
The song is alot less crass than my analogies.
(Hence the cardigans and charm.)
The lyrics actually have some decent advice like “hold your cards close like you have a glass chin”.
A Nicolay remix is rumored and someday there will essays written exploring songs like this and groups like Foreign Exchange as natural progression for Hip Hop doods. Right now it does’nt really have an outlet that’s defined its context besides the Okayplayer message board.
Stay tuned to RJ’s Electrical Connections every Monday for new songs. Last week he gave away an unreleased Soul Position song..

RJD2 will be playing the Donewaiting 7 Year Anniversary 2-05-09 at Skullys, here in Columbus, Ohio.

RJD2 is headlining Donewaiting’s 7 Year Anniversary February 5th in Columbus and we couldn’t be more delighted.

In the past our anniversary’s line-ups weren’t slouchs. Last year’s event was the start of a pretty good year for quite a few of the performers:

- Envelope became CD101’s favorite rapper.
- Adulture moved to Chicago and formed a disco- house group Le Principle which promplty signed to Tommy Sunshine’s Brooklyn Arts label and will be on comps with Felix da House cats.
- And of course DW bloggers Two Cow Garage jumped on tour with The Hold Steady. That’s just one year.

What about Blueprint and Brainbow? The various Fat Possum groups. Sinkane? DW has been quite blessed with the artists that fuck with our site

While we are real proud and honored to have such good talent willing to play our showcases, obviously RJD2 is our biggest show yet. RJ bounced to Philly from Columbus a good while ago. Since then he became the “next DJ Shadow” to the point you could argue that Josh Davis is in RJ’s shadow. Doods done Hip Hop classics. RJ’s remixed Radiohead.

In addition to his released catalog , the Clintonville kid’s music has provided licensed sound scapes for everything from a Rodney Mullen skate video to the Emmy-award winning TV show Mad Men.

Of course y’all know the name.

RJ has sold out the Wexner and Skully’s every time he has played since moving. Despite being one of the most critically acclaimed and musically successful people ever to graduate from Fort Hayes, RJ has made it a point to never lose contact with his friends and family in Columbus.

He eats at Surly Girl with his BFF Liz Lessner.

Dood still plays music with old roommate Derek Dicenzo

Rj organized a benefit for his father when his pops was injured in a bike accident. And the superproducer marched in the Daymon Day Parade a few years. Irregular Dood still stays grounded doing regular people things.

Just last week he recommend “Global Brain” by Howard Bloom to me. Book is blowing my mind.

The Donewaiting showcase at Skully’s will double as the release party for RJ’s new album The Colossus which hits stores January 19th. Is that MLK Day?

More details about this album and the Donewaiting showcase will be revealed as we near the February 5th show.

Why are we talking this early about it? Well Pitchfork leaked RJ’s tourdates yesterday. Even misspelled Skully’s(shucks). So we figured the cat was gonna get out of the backpack anyway. Lock-in to DW and RJ’s website.

PS: Brooklyn anniversary show to be announced soon, too.

Above is a trailer showing the MHZ alumini, RJD2 making a cobbler for some British guy for a VBS show called “Electronic Indpendence” thats prolly about making music with Eletrconics at your house.

Beside baking for blokes, RJ’s been putting lots of good things on his website.
Y’alll been following Monday Madness on RJD2’s website RJ’s Electical Connetions? Every Monday, the Fort Hayes Graduate gives away records, MP3’s, as well as talks tv and in general offers anyone even with the mildest interest in RJ’s music incentative to look at his website.
(I check it right after my email, facebook and donewaiting.)
I stole this mp3 from it today

RJD2-The Perfect Occasion

RJD2’s new album Colossus drops January 19th.

RJ dropped a limited boxset last week: (more…)