Hot 97 old-school DJ Mister Cee has been arrested and charged with soliciting sex from a male undercover cop in Brooklyn. According to the Daily News, Mister Cee (real name: Calvin LeBrun) was taken into custody after he solicited sex from a man who he thought was a prostitute at Madison Street and Broadway in Bushwick, Brooklyn. The 46-year-old DJ/producer, who has worked on records for Notorious B.I.G. and Big Daddy Kane, was issued a misdemeanor and released on his own recognizance. This isn’t Mister Cee’s first brush with the law. In 2011, he pleaded guilty to committing a lewd act after getting caught receiving oral sex from a man less than half his age inside a car parked on a Lower Manhattan street. Mister Cee will answer questions about what went down on Funkmaster Flex’s show on Monday.
Acclaimed Rhode Island-based hip-hop producer and MPC whiz AraabMUZIK (a.k.a. Abraham Orellana) was shot yesterday during an apparent robbery. The producer is currently hospitalized and his publicist stated he is “currently alive and well.” George Moore (a.k.a. DukeDaGod), AraabMUZIK’s manager, shared an image of the producer in a hospital bed (see above).
“Rumors have begun to circulate and first and foremost, we want to let everyone know that AraabMUZIK is currently alive and well,” AraabMUZIK’s team said in a statement. “He was out in his neighborhood last night with friends and unfortunately the victim of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. He is recovering now and police are investigating the crime. We appreciate all the concern and fan support and Araab is looking forward to a speedy recovery and returning to the stage as soon as he can.”
Event promotion company Insomniac has confirmed that Electric Daisy Carnival with return to Las Vegas Motor Speedway on June 21-23. An array of over 500 acts (a.k.a. “creators”) including DJs, artists and theatrical performers have been announced for the event taking place at the 1,000-acre complex (see lineup below).
Obligatory press gush from Pasquale Rotella, CEO and founder of Insomniac: “Each year our fans’ inspire us to exceed their expectations – there’s truly something in it for everyone. EDC will feature a slate of original artwork, a Discovery Project featuring emerging names and collaborations within dance music culture. I’m excited for our fans – the true headliners – to experience this firsthand.”
Though the lineup seemingly has something for everyone, the bad news is that tickets for the event are sold-out.
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12th Planet
A-Trak
A-lusion
A*S*Y*S
Above & Beyond
Adam Beyer
Adrian Lux
Afrojack
Alex Kidd
Alex Metric
Alex Young
Altern8
Alvin Risk
An21
Andy C
Araabmuzik
Armanni Reign
Armin van Buuren
Art Department
Arty
ATB
Audien
Audio Punk
Austin Bike Zoo
Avicii
Baauer
Basscon
Bassjackers
Bassrush Experience
Benny Benassi
Bingo Players
Bloody Beetroots Live
Blutonium Boy
Booka Shade
Borgore
Boys Noize
Bro Safari
Bryan Kearney
Caffeine
Calvin Harris
Camo & Krooked
Carl Cox & Friends
Carnage
Cedric Gervais
Claude VonStroke
Clockwork
Cosmic Cowboy
Cosmic Gate
Craze
Crisis Era
Crizzly
Crookers
Crosstown Rebels Presents Get Lost
Culture Shock
D-Block & S-te-Fan
Dada Life
Damian Lazarus
Dannic
Darksiderz
Darren Styles
Dash Berlin
Datsik
David Steven
Delta Heavy
Deniz Koyu
Destructo
Dillon Francis
Dirtyphonics Live
Dirty South
Discovery Project winners
DJ Fresh
DJ Hype
Doctor P
Dog Blood
Dub Phizix
Dubfire
Dyro
Ean Golden
Ed Rush & Optical
Empire of the Sun
Eric Prydz
Etc! Etc!
Fake Blood
Fedde Le Grand
Ferry Corsten
Figure
Flaming Lotus Girls
Flosstradamus
Flux Foundation
Foreign Beggars
Francesca Lombardo
Funtcase vs Cookie Monsta
Fury + MC Dino
Gareth Emery
Gaspo
Gerard Minakawa
Goldspace Creations
Green Velvet
Hardwell
Headhunterz
Helicopter ShoWdown
Hobo
HypKnowTree
Indecent Noise
Infinity Ink
Isaac
Jabba Barge
Jack Beats
Jacques Lu Cont
Jamie Jones
Jen Lewin Studio
John Digweed
Jon Rundell
Juan Muniz
Just Blaze
Justin Martin
Kaskade
Kate Raudenbush
Kill the Noise
Knife Party
Koan Sound
Kostov Design
Krewella
La Roux
Lady Faith
Laidback Luke
Lisa Lashes
Loadstar
Loco Dice
Luminox
Madeon
Major Lazer
Manufactured Superstars
Mark Knight
Markus Schulz
Mat Zo
Matador
Max Vangeli
Metrik
Michael Christian
Morgan Page
Mr. Trixter
Mt Eden Live
Mumbai Science
Nadastrom
Nervo
Nicky Romero
Night Owl Experience
Noisia
Oliver
Opulent Temple
Organ Donors
Paco Osuna
Pete Tong
Philip Lumbang
Poetic Kinetics
Porter Robinson
Proxy
Pushing Daisies
R3hab
Rebecca & Fiona
Rene LaVice
Richie Hawtin presents enter.
Rob Buchholz
Rockbox
Rusko
Sander van Doorn
Sasha
Scot Project
Simon Patterson
Solar Sculptures
Space Islan
Stana
Stereobot
Steve Angello
Subb-An
Sub Focus
Sunnery James & Ryan Marciano
Super8 & Tab
T ‘n’ T
Technoboy
Terravita
The Do LaB
The Space Wench
Thomas Gold
Tiësto
Tiga
Tommie Sunshine
Tritonal
Tuneboy
Umek
Victor Calderone
V Square Labs Digital Art
W&W
Wide Awake Art Car
Wilkinson
Wolfgang Gartner
Yoji
Yousef
Zany
Zeds Dead
Despite LCD Soundsystem releasing the celebratory documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits in 2012 chronicling the end of the band and continually maintaining that the famed dance-punk outfit is now forever in the past tense, rumors have been periodically popping up stating the opposite since the New York band called it a day in 2011. Call these rumblings wishful thinking. With DFA Records’ 12-year anniversary party taking place next month in New York City, frontman James Murphy felt it was necessary to take to Facebook last night and nix any scuttlebutt that the much beloved band would be reuniting. Here’s James’ statement in its unedited entirety. Read it and weep.
pat is in the studio working on his new thing, al is on tour with hot chip and making new things as new build, tyler is off in berlin being tyler and dj’ing and making music and mixes, nancy is dj’ing in europe and working on new music with the juan and others, gavin and matt are touring and making things in the crystal ark, DSS just did that crazy beck sound and vision 360 thing, and i’m home moving furniture and cleaning up today after a stint of doing some dj’ing and producing. all in all it’s pretty good.
i fully respect and appreciate that people miss us as a band–it’s a huge compliment–but i also realize that we the band are just friends and we make things together and eat food together, and STILL ALL GO OUT AND DO THINGS, just not all together as LCD.
some come see us do our various things and say hi! it’s been so nice to get to know a bunch of really good people in a totally different context to the “big-ish band getting bigger” way we were a little stuck in.
thanks to everyone for being so amazingly supportive and nice to us.
i guess that’s my candy-assed thought for the day… now back to unpacking kitchen stuff.
-j
