Pop That!, my party with Shantan from Stolen Records, is back again this Saturday night at Goodgod Small Club.
We’ve got a pal from Brisbane playing with us – Mr Sampology! He selected a few youtubes for Oyster Magazine and put ‘em up in this sweet post: http://oystermag.com/oyster-playlist-sampology
Also I made a couple of award winning short films which you can view in their entirety here: http://youonlyliveonce.com.au/pop-that/
See you on Saturday! Or not, you jerk.
We gave these out at our wedding with crayons. The knees in these photos belong to Michelle, my new 22 year old Aunty in law (seriously).
The front cover is a rip off of The Amazing Spiderman Annual 21, aka the wedding of Spiderman and Mary Jane.
Hey! I got married on the weekend, to the girl of my goddamn dreams BIANCA.
We made a mix of all our favourite love songs that we have played the hell out of over the 5 years we’ve been together. We gave the mix out to our wedding guests but here it is for YOU to enjoy.
These are the songs we like to dance to, to fall asleep to, to sing to each other in the car, to play to our friends at 5am. It’s a mixed bag of cute jams from a lot of different genres.
Obviously I had to get a Wavey Davey B intro as well.
Levins & B – The Soundtrack 2 Da Wedding
Tracklist:
Wavey Davey B Intro
Sleepy Brown – Me, My Baby & My Cadillac
Slum Village – Fall In Love
50 Cent feat. Nate Dogg – 21 Questions
Jay-Z feat Beyonce – ‘03 Bonnie & Clyde
Cassie feat. Diddy – Must Be Love
Justin Timberlake – Strawberry Bubblegum
Spectral Display – It Takes A Muscle To Fall In Love
Rufus Wainwright – Tiergarten (Supermayer Remix)
The Juan McLean – Happy House
Larry Heard – The Sun Can’t Compare
Lykke Li – Breaking It Up (Pocketknife Remix)
Ghost Town DJs – My Boo
Alessi Brothers – Seabird
Hot Chip – Take It In (Osborne Remix)
K-Ci & Jojo – All My Life
BONUS BEAT: The Apology Rap!
My amazing friends Nina and Charlie (Nina / Nina’s Dad took the photos in this post too!) put together this incredible song featuring raps from all my international friends who couldn’t make it down for the wedding – including my cousin Patrick, B’s old friend Lucy, Heaps Decent affiliates Erin and Lucas (and their little baby Miles!), plus superstar DJs Jess Jubilee, Nick Catchdubs, Diplo and Anna Lunoe with her husband and best rapper on the whole track Hendo. Nina and Charlie produced the whole thing and sang the hook, which has been in my head since the wedding!
The wedding was the best day of my life. I highly recommend everybody get married and spend all the money and time putting on the hugest party of their dreams. We added a lot of cool personal touches to the day which I’ll put up here over the next couple of days, along with 4 billion photos of me kissing the cutest gal in the universe.
Good news! I made a sequel to my WILDLY SUCCESSFUL 1 Million IQ mix from earlier in the year. It features almost 20 triumphant jams that have been proven to increase your IQ in a very cool way. It’s called 2 MILLION IQ. Thanks to Bobby Gelato for doing that art and of course to Wavey Davey B for them drops.
TRACKLIST
WAVEY DAVEY B INTRO
RICH KIDZ popping shit 2
SEQUENCE feat QUEZ thinking of you
RICH KIDZ feat YUNG BOOKE i know ya
ROSCOE DASH hard work
PRINCE CY HI go outside
FUTURE double cups and molly
SOULJA BOY feat KWONY CASH and J MONEY zan with that lean
ONE CHANCE cowabunga
F.L.Y. feat BAND GEAKZ party time
TRAVIS PORTER party time
YOUNG THUG thinkin’ out loud
RICH KIDZ nun else 2 do
K CAMP she got it
SOULJA BOY for my money
KWONY CASH thinking
YOUNG THUG feat HELLACOPTA foreign
TROUBLE molly world
WAVEY DAVEY B OUTRO
Check out 1 Million IQ!
Hey so my book Diner is out! Did you read about it yet?
One crushing piece of feedback that I keep getting is that there aren’t enough photos of me in the book! To help rectify this situation I have put together this sheet of stickers of me for you to photobomb all your favourite recipes with!
The stickers are free when you buy a copy of Diner from The Dip. The stickers will also be coming away with me on tour at my launch parties in Perth, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Adelaide! Those dates will be announced in the next few days!
Hi, welcome to another instalment of THINGS I DID.
One night in late September last year I had just finished DJing at Goodgod. I was sweaty and the dulcet tones of R Kelly were ringing in my ears. A lady approached me and instead of congratulating me for what was surely the best DJ set she’d ever heard, she told me she liked The Dip and that she wanted me to write a book for her. ‘Of course!’ I exclaimed, thrusting a business card into her hand before I made my way to the bar and forgot what a book was forever.
The next week I received an email from this lady and she was legit! She wanted me to write a cookbook for her – in 3 months! So I didn’t write shit for two and half of them, then stayed up till 6am every night for 2 weeks writing what would become Diner, a book coming out TOMORROW.
Diner features pretty much all the recipes for the dishes I serve every night at The Dip – pulled pork, hot dogs, burgers, nachos etc – plus a stack of recipes I used to cook at all the wild BBQs I used to host before we opened The Dip. Really fun recipes that are good for parties, groups or just being a fat glorious turd by yourself.
So I’m an author now! What a slashie asshole I’ve become. You can pick up Diner at bookstores WORLDWIDE or order it online at Amazon or Book Depository. We’ll also be selling it at The Dip with a special something that you only get it you buy it from us!
I’ll be going on tour next month doing launches in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide where I’ll be DJing, cooking and signing books! Triple threat! I’ll be putting these dates up here in the next week so stay tuned! It would be good to see some cool people like you there being cool like you always are. Also if you’re overseas and think I should come there maybe I will!
Please buy my book. I would love some of your money.
A few years ago I wrote about going to Wilcannia for the first time. It was a quick visit but I managed make a sweet little song/video and made several efforts to return.
I’ve been to Wilcannia with Heaps Decent twice so far this year. We received a grant to fund six more visits over the next 18 months which is fantastic. We work with the public school, the drop in centre and, for the first time, a primary school. You can read more about our first Wilcannia trip this year here.
We usually work with young people between 15 and 20 at Heaps Decent so working with primary school kids was quite a change. After two visits we have eight songs that wouldn’t sound out of place on Sesame St. In our workshops get the kids to come up with a subject then we help them write quick, simple verses. We sampled them playing percussive instruments they had in their classroom and made a beat out of it. The finished songs are cute, fun and educational!
After our first trip we got back to Sydney and one song, Dinnertime, stood out as the strongest. I asked my friend Georgia Perry to animate a clip for the song which you can watch at the top of this post. When we returned to Wilcannia last month we played the kids at St Therese’s the animated video and they watched attentively, singing the lyrics in unison as they flashed on the screen in time to the music. I filmed their reaction to the video, it was priceless. Made me feel warm and fuzzy inside. We’ll be making a lot of songs like this in the future, please share this video around. If you’ve got kids show it to them.
I made a new mix of all YUNG/DUMB/FUN rap anthems that I have been listening to a shitload of lately. A couple of years ago Rico Uno and Eric Devereaux did an amazing mix for Mad Decent of this kinda shit and this is kinda similar. It’s a mix of new and less new (the oldest song here is about 3 years old), mostly from Atlanta, mostly by young ass dudes. I ripped a few of these joints off youtube, these kids couldn’t be more than 13 years old!
Anyway I’m probably gonna do a few of these over the next year because it’s my favourite shit coming out at the moment. There are a few rappers on here a few times (Young Thug rightfully features three times!) and most of the production is by DJ Spinz, K.E. On The Track and London On Da Track. Naturally I had to get Wavey Davey B to do the best intro/outro that he’s done for me yet (shout out to his wife too!). The dude Bobby Gelato did the fine artwork.
Sooooo… please enjoy 1 MILLION IQ!
WAVEY DAVEY B INTRO
CA$H OUT – i got it
TRAVIS PORTER feat J MONEY – uhh huhh
RICH KIDZ feat YOUNG THUG 100 dollar autograph
YOUNG THUG feat CAPOKAM & KUMTIE oooorrr
SMASH SET (CLOCK & TAY) headlines remix
RICH KIDZ bend over
BAND GEAKZ feat MOOK well alright
BANDIT MARCO feat YUNG TONE thangs you do
BRYAN J feat TRAVIS PORTER lemme take you out
ROSCOE DASH feat JARED EVAN all i know
F.L.Y. out yo league
CA$H OUT cashin out
YOUNG THUG keep in touch
FUTURE turn on the lights
SOULJA BOY my city
YOUNG L sex is dope
WAVEY DAVEY B OUTRO
Do The Dip! by Levins on Mixcloud
MY INCREDIBLE EVENT BLURB FOR THE NEXT HALFWAY CROOKS PARTY WAS DEEMED “TOO REAL” BY ONE OF MY “BUSINESS ASSOCIATES” AND I WAS FORCED TO CENSOR MYSELF FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MY FACEBOOK BLURB WRITING CAREER. MAYBE HE THOUGHT THE BABY BASH REFERENCE WOULD TURN PEOPLE AWAY AND “DAMAGE” OUR “BRAND”, I DUNNO. HERE IT IS FOR THE PUBLIC TO CHERISH AND PASS ON FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. WAS IT A TOTAL BRAND DAMAGER? I’LL LET THE FUTURE DECIDE.
Halfway Crooks is back like that herpes you got last year. That special herpes that played all those cool rap songs and made you dance so much that you almost forgot about how itchy you were. You bought all that topical ointment and applied it liberally on all your crevices and sure you looked a lot prettier without all that rash on your face but damn if you didn’t miss the good times you and your herpes used to have. You still flick through the pages of the scrapbook you kept while you and your herpes were together and struggle to hold back the tears. Yeah your friends didn’t approve of him but fuck your friends they don’t know the real you. You’re a party animal. A real maniac on the dancefloor. You might be doing well at your new job with only a few more months left of your masters degree but deep down all you can think of is your old mate herpes sprinting down your hallway, kicking the door in while holding a boombox over his head, blaring “Baby I’m Back” by Baby Bash featuring Akon. You always loved that song, especially the hook. You remember when everyone was mad at Akon for throwing a kid or something and how they overcame their hatred and learnt to accept Akon for who he was. You wonder if the world is ready for herpes again as he reaches for your laptop and clicks “attending” on this Halfway Crooks event. “See you there, herpes” you laugh. “I hope they play Niggas In Paris”.
Andrew Levins (known to all as Levins) is a DJ, chef, writer and Dad. He is behind the monthly 90s party The Rhythm of the Night, and is one of the DJs behind Sydney's long running rap party Halfway Crooks.
Hear him every week on the podcasts Hey Fam and The Mitchen.
