reOPENed returns featuring special guest MANNIE FRESH!

reOPENed: Just Blaze, DJ Soul, DJ Gravy, Max Glazer, Micro Don

EVERY FRIDAY

10:00 PM 21+

$10 before 11pm, $20 after

You can't hold a good party down. When your headlining DJ is such a demanded producer that even his friends try to snatch up his beats, you know you have a movement on your hands. After a months hiatus, reOPENed returns with a vengeance on December 3rd, this time featuring yet another titan of beatmaking.

Mannie Fresh’s beats were perhaps the most important factor in setting off the Cash Money revolution that began in the late 90’s and is still being felt today. His signature style, utilizing analog sounds and booty popping percussion to create dense, layered habitats for drawling rappers, has become synonymous with New Orleans and is echoed in the work of nearly every active producer. Fresh began his career in the group New York Incorporated and followed up with a cult favorite duet project with MC Gregory D. His mainstream success resulted from becoming the in-house producer for Cash Money, crafting classics like “Ha,” “Bling Bling,” “Back That Azz Up,” “Get Ya Roll On” and “Real Big” which are now part of hip-hop canon. His newer sound, as featured on the Imma Get Mine LP incorporates jazz, bounce, dancehall and soul. Behind the wheels at Santos Party House, he will bring a New Orleans twist to New York’s best party.

Monsterpiece Theater: Ted Leo interview, Just Blaze in the studio, BLK JKS on CNN

Elliot Aronow, creative director for free music purveyor RCRD LBL, have been filming the variety format Our Show in our underground level, featuring some of the most influential and thought provoking artists alive today. Hisham Baroocha (Soft Circle)leads the house band. Yesterday they released a teaser for some of the shenanigans headed our way, featuring technological educator Max Silvestri and pharmacist Ted Leo.

Beach House - Master of None

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Just Blaze, who holds down our Friday night residency REOPENED, has produced for nearly every notable hip-hop artist of the past decade, and is currently working on a number of projects with the likes of Eminem, Kidz In The Hall and Jay Electronica. Here we have some footage of him (getting some footage of his own), building in his lab with microphone virtuoso Rhymefest.



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We've talked here quite a bit about the South African indie-prog-dub alchemists BLK JKS and the video they filmed here, but CNN just took it to another level. Click here to get up on it.