I Love Vinyl

Big ups to our very own OP! on this great video profile of him produced by the dj and production school Dubspot , where he teaches. And a warm thank you to Dubspot for including I Love Vinyl in the mix. Dubspot offers a comprehensive curriculum of dj, music production, and sound engineering, classes at its flagship location on West 14th Street in New York City, as well as offering online classes and opening a new location in Los Angeles. As one of the senior instructors at the New York location, OP! works with a large number of aspiring DJs of all ages and skill levels. Now you know! Check it!

Our very own OP!, alongside Cosmo Baker, opens for the "Master of Records" himself, Afrika Bambaataa at Le Poisson Rouge this Saturday Jan 4, courtesy of Giant Step . All-vinyl set by OP! Bam recently donated his 40,000+ record collection to the Hip Hop Collection at the Cornell University Library so your guess is as good as ours as to what media he will be playing on. But we can't help hoping he's been making good use of his Cornell library card...

More amazing pictures from LP48 at the Brooklyn Museum to share. Two sets from our great photographer, Seher Sikandar . And one from longtime I Love Vinyl extended family member (he may have been the very first photographer to shoot our party back in 2009) Clay Williams aka Utraclay!

Another beautiful set of photos, from our last party at the Gallery at LPR, courtesy of our six-sensed photographer Seher Sikandar . It was so dark in the party that she couldn't see anything through the camera. But she pulled it off swimmingly, as you can see. Brings new meaning to shot in the dark...

This Saturday marks four years since the very first I Love Vinyl party at the Gallery at LPR back in 2009, so we are throwing ourselves a Birthday Party, and you are all invited! To make things more festive, we have invited a few talented friends to join us. Natasha Diggs of Mobile Mondays will be joining us on the decks. And Dee Phunk of Rare Form/Donuts Are Forever  joins us as special guest Master of Ceremonies. Four years is a long time in club land these days, so we feel very lucky to still be here. That wouldn't be possible without you, so, THANK YOU! We look forward to showing you our appreciation the best way we know how... See you Saturday!

Another beautiful set of photos, from our last party, courtesy of our amazing photographer Seher Sikandar .

Another great set of photos from the Gallery at LPR in November. As usual, props to our amazing photographer Seher Sikandar for making all these ugly people look so pretty : )

Awesome photos from the last party at the Gallery at LPR on 9/22/12. Big thanks to our amazing photographer Seher Sikandar !

Legendary tastemaker, BBC Radio host and record label owner, Gilles Peterson is first and foremost a consummate record collector and dj. His far-reaching tastes have taken him all over the world, and made him a household name in quite a bit of it. On Thursday, October 25, he will be making his (annual, if we're lucky) NYC appearance at our very own, the longtime home of I Love Vinyl, Le Poisson Rouge. We have a lot of respect for the guy, and he is a friend of, and has played host on his radio show to, at least a couple of the Dream Team djs, who are themselves music makers and purveyors. So we can recommend this event without hesitation. And we are pleased to be able to offer you a pair of tickets to the event, courtesy of our friends at Giant Step, who has been putting on great parties in NYC since the early 90s that influenced some of us as DJs growing up here. So it's all in the family! To win a pair of tickets, tweet a link to this post, tag it #gilleslovesvinyl (he do...

Part of the 'East Village After Dark' series for the New York Times' Local East Village blog [ eastvillage.thelocal.nytimes.com/]

We are giddy with excitement about this fantastic (and fantastically funny) short video that the gifted and talented Captain Blyth has created for us, just in time to celebrate our 3rd anniversary . We think it's just perfect. Hope you think so too : )

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Mixes and Visual Playlists from the last three months, starting with the most recent party. Listen... Look... Sorry the pictures are so dark and blurry in this one!

Been holding these back because of some technical issues getting the recordings of the live mixes up for you to stream. We like to put them up together so you can listen and flip through the covers at the same time. Working on it. In the meantime, you can flip to the mix in your head. Also included a visual top 10 to play of 2012 list from Scribe. And here's OP!'s top 10 from 2012: 1. Marilyn - Floating Points (Eglo) 2. Rolling In The Deep (Jamie XX Shuffle) - Adele (XL Recordings) 3. Far Nearer - Jamie XX (Numbers) 4. Dancing - Omar & Zeb Bias (Tru Thoughts) 5. Special (ATJAZZ Remix)  - Maddslinky feat. Omar (Tru Thoughts) 6. Bloodfire vs. LTD - Daz-I-Kue (Bloodfire) 7. Who Is He (TSS TSS Remix) - Bill Withers (GAMM) 8. Gardens Of Eden ft. Zonke - Black Coffee (GoGo Music) 9. Pharaohs - SBTRKT (Young Turks) 10. Tell Me (George Fitzgerald Remix) - Amel Larrieux (White Label)

This mix was recorded live at I Love Vinyl at The Gallery at LPR on November 26, 2011. The Dream Team djs played in the following order: OP!, Jon Oliver, The Twilite Tone, Scribe, Ge-Ology, and Amir. Sets were roughly 55 minutes each. Click through the Visual Playlist as you listen to the mix for way more information than we should be giving you!

This mix was recorded live at I Love Vinyl at The Gallery at LPR on October 22, 2011. The Dream Team djs played in the following order: Amir, Jon Oliver, The Twilite Tone, OP!, Ge-Ology, and Scribe. Sets were roughly 55 minutes each. Click through the Visual Playlist as you listen to the mix for way more information than we should be giving you!