DJs/musicians/labels:

OCDJ
some loser who wants to travel around the world in a canoe.

Daptone Records
new new school heavy heavy funk. Shitty is pretty sound. Possibly the best soul/funk label of all time.

DJ Soul Cracker
crazy NYC digger...love those funky Turkish sevens!

Bastard Jazz
Shouts to DRM and crew for dubbing it out stateside...

DJ Sims
her 'popular corner' party was one of my favorites in manhattan...quality peepholes.

Broklyn Beats
Crito and Doily have been fuckin' up your world for more than a minute.

Axis Chemicals
home of Peter Gunn and the Pure Fire crew.

Rich Medina
legendary NYC/Philly selectah. Good morning Richard!

Raw Fusion
Stockholms funkiest crew always comes correcht!

DJ Vadim
from USSR to UK to the USA...big up big up.

Mr. Scruff
The fucking man. Don't test the knowledge or the cartoon skillz.

Warp
Killin' shit since the early 90's. Which is like 100 years in electronic muzak. Nuff respeck.

ABB
Beni B is one of the realest mofos in the game. Keep hustlin'...


Zines:

Re:Up Mag
san diego based downtempo ting.

Wax Poetics
the best tome on dusty music, period. They run tings.

Friends of Sound
dope online web-zine run by Coolhands

xlr8tr
US dance zine still keeping it surreal


Radio/Mixes:

WFMU
freeform as fuck and still killin' it.

Giant Step
longtime promoters of real shit around the globe. Now doing a lil' radio with some local folks (including myself)

AOL Electronic/Dance Mixes
more than a few DJ mixes up in here (including a few of mine)

Beats in Space
home to my man my mellow Tim Sweeney and his eggzellent radio show, chocked full of ill guests.


Spaces and places:

APT
trying to keep things still surreal in the meat packing district, which has turned into stinky south beach.

Nublu
remember the east village back in ze day, where you can play some dope shit and have a roomful of people dancing? Czeck out nublu sometime.

Black Betty
great spot in Williamsburg, home to monkone, brazilian beat party, rev. vince Anderson, etc...


Rekkid stores:

KSD Music
west coast distributor doing good tings

Wrecked
raw electronic platters

Other Music
Great source for underground sounds of all styles and genres, plus a big supporter of local DJ mixes. Whatup duane!?

Turntable Lab
quality US rekkid store. Say wassup to the Romanian master digger Gypsy Bogdan.

Piccadilly Records
quality UK rekkid store

Deadly Dragon Sound
nuff respect to Scratch Famous and crew who have schooled me on many a JA jam. Check the selector's resources for all your lo-budget sound efx needs (lasergun, ufo, bomb, etc)


Blogs/bulletin boards:

Soul Strut
crate diggin' and graemlin culture.

Cocaine Blunts
Noz has been killing this blog shit for a minute, obscure and overlooked hip hop of all flavors.

Soul Sides
oliver wang aka o-dub's longtime funky filled blog

Jon Oliver
quality sounds courtesy of NYC seletah Jon Oliver

Mudd Up!
DJ rupture's blog, quality fucked up downloads


Resources:

Discogs
fairly complete dance muzak discog.

AllMusic
'all' the music. Everything there ever was. Sorta.

The Breaks
who/what/where of muzak sampling. Take that shit to the-breaks.com!

DJ Collective
NYC centered group trying to make life better for club DJs out there...czeck them!

Riddim Base
highly useful site for determining dancehall riddims

USPS Postage Calculator
figure out how much to ship your box of rekkids


Wedding Peeps:

Dustin Ross
Longtime professional cameraman, shoots a lot of quality music folks.

Assemblyline Studio
a collection of talented indie filmmakers that also shoot weddings. (Video)

Mamas
an East Village staple for a decade, the definition of comfort food.

Chef Rossi
Chef Rossi and I have worked together on many events, and her food is da shizzle!

Find a DJ for your wedding or special event
WeDJ Wedding listings service, I'm buried in thurr somewheres.