THE PARTY
Rub-N-Tug will be returning once again to Los Angeles on Saturday, November 10, 2007. They will be playing from midnight to 6am. This party is produced by Sarcastic and A-ron the Downtown Don.

The event will most likely be in a downtown Los Angeles location, we're working hard on getting the best place. That's only 3 weeks away! Please check back to this site as we will be adding new music, photos and so on. We'll keep updating as the event gets closer.

UPDATE!
New audio from the Rub-N-Tug guys in the listening station...



Featuring remixes of Minimal Compact, Wild Rumpus, Zero7 and Roxy Music. Also two of their recent DJ mixes from Fabric and aNYthing for your listening pleasure.

WHO ARE THESE GUYS?
Thomas & Eric

Rub-N-Tug are Thomas and Eric D. They started out using Rub-N-Tug as the name of their now-legendary NYC based after-hours parties and it eventually stuck as the name for the duo. Their first mix cd was released as a promo item for the aNYthing clothing company. Since then, they have released a second mix cd for aNYthing called "Better with A Spoonful of Leather", as well as a mix cd for Fabric of London. Rub-N-Tug have DJed all over the world in such distant locations as Japan, Germany, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Austria and England.

They also have done a night called Campfire which was held at Gavin Brown's Passerby gallery/bar, located in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. The party spawned its own compilation for Eskimo records.

In addition to their DJing, Rub-N-Tug are in-demand producers who have remixes for Zero 7, Minimal Compact, !!!, LCD Soundsystem, Out Hud, Sly Mongoose, David Gilmour Girls, Roxy Music, and Coldplay under their belt.

Thomas is formerly of the SF based Wicked crew. He's a busy lad, in addition to Rub-N-Tug, he is one half of Map of Africa (a project band with DJ Harvey), and is the guy behind Bobbie Marie, Otterman Empire edits, and even had his hands in the origins of A.R.E. Weapons.

Eric has done tracks with DJ Spun under the name How & Why?. He likes chili cheese fries from Tommy's. A LOT.

Rub-N-Tug played in Los Angeles April 2006, here are some photos of what went down:



SO WHAT DOES IT ALL SOUND LIKE?
Click this link to check out the unofficial Rub-N-Tug listening station.

WHAT'S BEEN SAID
from iD magazine, 8.2004: "rub it, tug it, watch it grow. New York nightlife, as we all know, is in the doldrums. Giulliani shut the whole shop down. Light up a Lucky Strike and you'll find yourself at the wrong end of a 911 call. Fortuitously, nobody told Thomas Nicholas Allen Bullock and Eric Z Duncan. Their Rub n Tug moonlighting aliases are doing some heavy shift work in re-locating the vibe that shaped the city in the first place. Their parties are already the toast of the town. "They feel like a hot bath in a dark room. Volcanic." Howdy, boys. We're already feeling your flavour. "When I was about nine, my teacher asked me to bring in my record player and a couple of 45's so we could have a disco in the classroom. I played Another One Bites The Dust and The Bitch is Back. I got really into it and jumped about like crazy. It's surprising how little we change," says Thomas. Partial fans of the superclubbing experience their immediate surrounds have dictated a more back to basics approach. "Club life has died here, but in return heads have found their place in dive bars and lofts. In these joints it's even more lawless than before which is, of course, pleasant. It suits us and in turn we've developed a sound that suits it." The sound in question is a call to dancefloor arms. The boys aren't afraid of a cross-fader or indeed crossing genre. Old Italo house rarities shuffle shoulders against lean post-funk workouts. Electro Led Zep oddities are thrown down against acid rock. The glitterball has regained consciousness in their hands. In the grand Ming tradition, Rub n Tug are extending their delightful ventures in NYC nightlife to the mixing desk. First up, their banging rerub of !!!'s Hello? Is This Thing On? Next a mix CD that fuses their signature eclecticism to an unfettered understanding of what moves the ass. In the meanwhile, they'll continue to derange the nightlife that the world once looked to, until it does so all over again." Paul Flynn

LINKS
· official Rub-N-Tug website
· Rub-N-Tug myspace page
· aNYthing official site
· aNYthing Myspace page
· Whatever We Want records — released Map of Africa, Bobbie Marie, Otterman edits
· Japanese language interview with the duo over at Jet Set records.
· press release for the Fabric mix.