The Professor's been busy, class! With this year's TBM Records releases out of the way and no Burn taking up all my time in August, I finally got a chance to dig into the "Tracks to Edit" folder that lives on my desktop. It's deep. I've barely started, but here's the first run. Download any of these tracks for free by clicking the little arrow to the right of the waveform. I decided to start with Bob James' "Take Me To The Mardi Gras," one of my all-time favorite hip hop breaks (we miss you Jam Master Jay!). I wanted to give it a newer, leaner, loopier vibe while trying to keep as much of James' original genius intact as possible. Thanks to FreeBreaksBlog for posting it up, and massive ups to Dan Wilcox for the KCRW drop! BOB JAMES - TAKE ME TO THE MARDI GRAS [PROFESSOR LACROIX RE-EDIT]

I don't normally do hip hop or mash-ups, but I'd been sitting on all these insane Rakim acapellas for a while, and then one day I pulled Newcleus' "Jam On It" instrumental. The original completely blew my 7-year-old mind, it was one of the first records I begged my mom to buy me, and it's always been at the top of my go-to electro tracks. Cosmo D's vocal will always be groundbreaking in it's amazing cartoony way, but Rakim just elevates this track to a completely different space. My 2nd mashup just kinda happened. Good times. NEWCLEUS + RAKIM - LET THE RHYTHM HIT 'EM / JAM ON IT [PROFESSOR LACROIX MIX]

GROOVE ARMADA + GREG WILSON + CHIC - GIRLS SAY GOOD TIMES [PROFESSOR LACROIX MIX]

With all the odd stuff of the way I finally set off on my massive, ongoing, as-yet-unnamed classic disco funk edits series. The first three cuts are right here -- and there's so much more to come! Peace, thanks so much for listening! S.O.S. BAND - TAKE YOUR TIME, DO IT RIGHT [PROFESSOR LACROIX RE-EDIT]

GRACE JONES - PULL UP TO THE BUMPER [PROFESSOR LACROIX RE-EDIT]

IMAGINATION - BURNIN' UP [PROFESSOR LACROIX HOUSEFIRE RE-RUB]

This month the VIP AREA welcomes our very first guest mix by good friend and TBM Records label-mate Nassau! Get ready for a mind-bending hour of genuine Italo time-travel with classic tracks by G.G. Near, Hypnosis, Timerider, Paul Sharada, Cyber People, Sandy Marton, Image and more! Almost every track is pulled from the man's own personal bank of edits and re-rubs for that extra special touch. Enjoy this month's mix, and check out Nassau's Errol Flynn EP, out now everywhere with remixes by Bottin, Altair Nouveau and Professor LaCroix.

If you know me you're probably familiar with my deep & endless love for Italo Disco. That's why I'm super-psyched about this next TBM Records release from Nassau. It's pure stripped-down no frills Italo space disco, a gorgeous hook gliding over a steady, driving bassline. And it kills! Get the remix ep with Bottin, Altair Nouveau and me exclusively from Beatport October 11 [Oct 25 everywhere else]. In the meantime check out the Professor LaCroix Remix below, and poke around my Soundcloud page for more new edits & remixes & stuff. Nassau - Errol Flynn Professor LaCroix Remix

The new Professor LaCroix record with Kestrin Pantera is finally out in an array of popular high-quality formats from all your favorite legal download sites and then some. The five-track EP with remixes by Rodion and BlackLodge is available now on Beatport, Junodownload, iTunes, emusic, Amazon, DJdownload and pretty much everywhere.

But HOLD UP, there's more! If you buy from the TBM Records web store, you can get the EP in high-quality FLAC or Apple Lossless formats, or go for the special DIGITAL DJ PACK with 1.25GB worth of 24-bit loops & unmixed stems, plus the exclusive full-length Extended Version and Bonus Beats! That's a lotta Gold, son! And if you want even more, in honor of our lovely vocalist Kestrin and her {RV}IP Lounge mobile karaoke party there's even a free Legend Gold Karaoke Video that you can download and bust out at your next bowling alley birthday jam. Big love to Kestrin & Tony & Doug for gettin' down with me, I love you guys!

We went out to the desert for the Rapture on May 21... we got left behind. The angels said we were "too raver-y," whatever that means. Keep up on all my new mixes, podcasts and tracks by following me on Soundcloud and Facebook.

If you're a fan of stoney slow-mo disco beats, this Eddie Mars & Dr Midnight EP is about to change your world. Gemini is one of those tracks that just wraps you in its telepathic coils and won't let go. It's one of my favorite tracks from the last few years. So we packaged it up on TBM Records along with the Dub mix and remixes by Pink Stallone and me, Professor LaCroix, into one massive 4-part opus of spacey cosmic disco-funk. Get it now exclusively in the TBM Records Web Store and on Junodownload. Wide release June 13th. Check out the Professor LaCroix Remix right here --

I'm pretty suure my year just peaked on Tuesday when I busted out my full DJ astronaut gear and played a bunch of slow-mo space disco for friggin Buzz Aldrin, dude! It's gotta be all downhill from there, cuz that's DOPE. But the 2nd guy on the moon wasn't the only VIP at our Yuri's Night World Space Party, as this photographic evidence reveals. The Official L.A. party with Subtractive, InSpace, 62 Mile Club and Space Frontier Foundation was wall-to-wall awesome people throwing down great vibes in celebration of 50 years of Human Space Flight! Thanks to everyone who danced everybody who stopped to say "hey." We can't wait to see you all again... IN SPACE!! (space... space...)

Many many sincere, heartfelt thank yous to {RV}IP Lounge, Subtractive and our friends at the TEDActive conference in Palm Springs for helping us drop what was apparently the livest party this TED dude has ever seen, despite complications with both the terrain and the Palm Springs police force (who were actually very cool, as usual). Everybody was fun as hell, and the spontaneous relocation only made us party harder. So thank you to everyone who came to get down. We want more of you. Seriously, skip WMC next year and come rock it at TED. These nerds know how to get the fuck DOWN. Believe! And if you happen to see a mobile, RV-based lounge & karaoke-cabaret rolling around Austin at SXSW this year, you are hereby instructed to get on board, or wonder forever.

It's been a long couple years but I'm finally about to release my 4th record this spring on TBM Records. It's called "Legend Gold" and I recorded it last August in Santa Monica with my insanely talented friend Kestrin on vocals, who totally nailed it and made it amazing. Since then, this video happened of when I played it in the middle of the desert last Halloween... and one of my personal favorite dudes Rodion just turned in this amazing dubby italo prog disco trance remix that you're gonna love, but you can't hear yet. What you can hear right now is this advance ep from TBM Records with tracks by myself, Eddie Mars and Nassau. Check it all out in the player right below here, and if you enter your email you can download all 3 tracks free, plus be first in line for the remix EPs when they come out this spring. Tell all your friends, get your free disco jams right here --

Last October we took our Halloween party out to the middle of the desert and debuted our new live band Casanova USA before embarking on a Legendary all-night-and-into-the-next-day facemelting conference (click the links for pics). Pumpkin helmets and Karl Lagerfeld wigs kept heads warm from dusk til dawn while a bevy of drop-dead gorgeous DJs burned the dancefloor to a smoldering crisp, and by morning there wasn't a drop of Tequila left in all of Southern California. Check out the moving pictures below to remote-view the first ever public Casanova USA jam live from the surface of the moon, and a bit of my next record Legend Gold from the beginning of my DJ set --

Part 1 - Casanova USA

Part 2 - Casanova USA > Professor LaCroix

TBM Records and Ahimsa Beauty are hopping into bed with Subtractive Inc. and the amazing {RV}IP Lounge this holiday season to bring you another Mondo Holiday Party! Come get friggin' jolly with us all night long in Silverlake at Tantra while TBM DJs Professor LaCroix, Farmer, Spock Rock and Harvey Wallbanger kick out the jams, and party elves offer up a chance at any one of our fabulous door prizes. In-between cocktails, you can fully bonestorm the {RV}IP Lounge outside (you'll see it) and show these fools how to karaoke for real, or get hypmotized by astronaut artist Ryan Stuit's live visuals on the big screen. Best of all, we'll be collecting your $5 suggested donation to support the ASPCA, so come heat up the dancefloor while raising money to help puppas & kittehs in need! You can RSVP right here on Facebook.

Today I'm super psyched to post a new remix for my boys Matt Diehl & Steve Nalepa aka Cassette Wolf. They've been cooking up a new album this year and brought in myself and Marine Parade artist My Faust to remix their first single "Disco Content". Below is a first listen at the Professor LaCroix Remix, and you can check out the rest of the single on Myspace. Keep your eyes & ears out for the Cassette Wolf album "The UFOs of Summer" in 2011. Cassette Wolf - Disco Content [Professor LaCroix Remix]

True story: when I was 12 years old I applied for a job as a DJ at the local Roller Dome. I didn't get the job, probably due to some child labor laws or something, but they humored me through the application & interview anyway, and I got my first view ever from inside a DJ booth. Changed my shit forever. This year at Burning Man I did one better courtesy of the Black Rock Roller Disco - I rolled up and played an evening set at an outdoor rink in the middle of the desert in a full whiteout dust storm for THREE HOURS, in my underwear. "Epic" doesn't begin to describe it, but it's as close as I can get using actual words. Massive and eternal thanks to the Godfather D Miles and the whole BRRD camp, and everyone who came through to skate and say hey. It was a lifetime hilight, and I can't wait to do it again next year. Til then, here it is: Professor LaCroix at Black Rock Roller Disco, aka "Dusty Tears" -

Before I get down to posting my Burning Man 2010 mix series, here's a new VIP AREA disco set for September, which includes among other goodies a rough mix of my new track "Legend Gold" with vocals by my dear friend and co-legend Kestrin Pantera. Look for the single early 2011 on TBM Records. This month's mix also features my personal #1 track of 2010 so far: Aeroplane's "I Crave Paris," a white label remix combining the vocal from Flight Facilities' "Crave You (ft. Gazelle)" over Aeroplane's own instrumental remix of Friendly Fires' "Paris." It's insanely good, and makes me impossibly happy every time I hear it. It's also available to you for FREE! Enjoy! More to come...

It's been quite a summer. New remixes (official and unofficial), new podcasts, new collaborations on new records... and now I'm off to Burning Man in a week and a half. Needless to say it's all I can talk about right now. I'll spare you the usual burner lovefest gush-ologue about how you have to go, but it's been two years for me and I'm super playa playa Homeslice, playa playa playa, Spacecats. Anyway, stay posted here & on Facebook for Burning Man set dates & locations as they're added, and I'll see you on the dustfloor doin' it live! [Spoiler Alert: for camp locations, hilight the paragraph below] BLACK ROCK CITY 2010 Th 9/2 . evening . Spacecats . 3F Fri 9/3 . afternoon . Spampirish . Misfit Burner Radio 92.1 . 4A Fri 9/3 . sundown . Homeslice . Disco Robots to the Rescue . 4G Sat 9/4 . afternoon . Black Rock Roller Disco

TBM Records and Subtractive Inc. are dropping the first-ever SHOCKWAVES ElectroDisco Thursday April 29th in Downtown L.A. Come get dirty at Señor Fish in Little Tokyo with reigning king of italo disco Bottin [Italians Do It Better, BearFunk, Eskimo], Daniel L'Amour, and TBM DJs Professor LaCroix & Harvey Wallbanger on the decks, plus live video mixing by Astronaut Ryan Stuit, $2 tacos all night... it don't get any better than this. Señor Fish 422 E 1st St 90012 . 8:30p-2a 21+ . $10 door . $5 list

In between finishing up new tracks and starting in on other projects, I've been working up some edits and remixes and re-re-edit-edits for my own sets... it seemed wrong to keep them all to myself, so it's all up along with new episodes of the VIP AREA podcast on SoundCloud! Check out edits & remixes of tracks by the Gap Band, Prince, Escape From New York, the Bee Gees, Blondie, Groove Armada & Greg Wilson and a bunch of other stuff. Listen, download and say 'hey' while you're there. Don't miss that train.

That's right kiddies, you can finally come out from under your covers. 2009 is over, and in its place stands a shiny new 2010... What should we do with it first? While we mull that over, let's take a listen to this massive 3 1/2 hour 43-track end-of-the-decade VIP AREA New Years jam featuring music by Golden Bug, Drrtyhaze, The Juan Maclean, Soulwax, Fake Blood, DJ Kaos, Altair Nouveau, In Flagranti, Woolfy, St Etienne, Prince, Rodion, The Hasbeens, Still Going and tons more, including some brand new early-preview 2010 LaCroix shit. Bang. Done. Now let's get on with it. 2010!!! Welcome to the future everybody. Available on iTunes and Soundcloud, or from the Podcast page.

The TBM Records / Ahimsa Beauty / Opus Oils holiday collabo on December 4th kicked this season off right! Thanks to everyone who came out, thanks to all the DJs, and a huge thanks to Opus Oils for hosting all of our holiday-lovin' asses at their joint. See pictures of the debauch--um, holiday cheer here and here! If that looks good, you're gonna want to come out to Santa Monica on Wednesday 12/16 when we do it again for the Subtractive Party at Air Conditioned Supper Club. See you there...

Come out on December 5th for INFINTY: Create:Fixate's 8 Year Anniversary. It's a giant downtown gallery space with two huge rooms and a loft packed with art, photography, sculpture, multimedia installations, live painting, fashion, jewelry and more. All that plus indoor and outdoor Audio Labs featuring live music and DJ performances by Gavin Hardkiss [Hawke], Jeremy Sole [KCRW], Professor LaCroix [TBM], Healamonster & Tarsier, Vealchop [Fresh Cuts], Dave Hughes [Playloop], Justin Paul [Playloop], Eduardo Castillo [The Electech], TattoeJoe [Moontribe], and Dave Dolphin [Distinct Vibrations]. Don't miss it! Saturday December 5th 2009, 7p-2a - $15 before 10p/$20 after October 21.2009 All New R.I.P. AREA Podcast for Halloween It's been a couple months since the last podcast, so this month it's another special Halloween Edition R.I.P. AREA mix for your haunted house party. Just set up some multi-colored Fulci lighting and raise the dead to tracks from LCD Soundsystem, Bottin, Yacht, Glass Candy, Woolfy, Altair Nouveau, Golden Bug and more. This years' R.I.P. AREA also features a gang of new LaCroix tracks and remixes, including the "Tall Boy" remix and the unreleased Original Club Mix of "Shock Waves." CLICK IT. Check out some more new edits and stuff in the MySpace player, and keep an eye on the Soundcloud page, now that I can't stop remixng stuff. October 13.2009 Har Mar Superstar TALL BOY Professor LaCroix Remix Out Now Har Mar Superstar is back with an awesome new album! Order "Dark Touches" now and get the Professor LaCroix remix of "Tall Boy" free! Check out the PINK 180g VINYL at the bottom of the page. Bad ass. CD & vinyl both come with a full instant download of the album, plus bonus tracks "Just The Tip" (collab with Jacob Thiele & Clark Baechle of The Faint) and the Tall Boy remix. And check out the video featuring Eva Mendes, Alia Shawkat and Eric Wareham, and created by Tomorrow's Brightest Minds -- I worked on that too. April 20.2009 Professor LaCroix "DISCODISC" EP Hits Radio College Radio is forever changed this week with the arrival of Professor LaCroix's "Discodisc" EP. Collecting five tracks from the first three LaCroix singles, "Discodisc" debuted at #4 on the CMJ/RPM Adds chart in its first week, hot on the heels of Prefuse 73 and the Pet Shop Boys! The promo-only CD includes I Want My Eight Years Back [Disco], Delirio, Shock Waves, a new edit of We Come In Peace, and the thumping Alexander Robotnick remix of Ion Drive, all ready to stream wildly from your clock radios. Dial up your favorite college DJs and late-night mix shows and request "I Want My Eight Years Back" tonight! Then call them back and say it again but with a different voice, and then keep doing that until you run out of voices. Thanks for supporting! January 14.2009 I WANT MY EIGHT YEARS BACK Digital & 12" - 01.20.09 Still pissed about the Bush years? Professor LaCroix says "Party through it." Old-school electro bass, stabby synths, microarpeggios, acid blurps and a saxophone get together to create a dark, emotionally charged protest-disco record that parties. Just work it all out on the dance floor. Vinyl is on shelves now at Turntable Lab in New York and Los Angeles, and through the new-and-improved TBM Records webstore going online very soon. Downloads are available at iTunes, emusic, DanceRecords.com, JunoDownload, and fine music retailers across the internet. December 28.2008 Professor LaCroix's Top Ten on LAist.com In a pleasant twist on year-end lists, LAist.com decided to hit up some of their favorite Los Angeles artists for their 2008 Top Ten lists. Profesor LaCroix's best-of is online now along with lists from Darker My Love, Broadcast 2000, Earlimart, The Western States Motel and a ton more, including the LAist staff's own picks. December 01.2008 WE COME IN PEACE 12" Out Now The new record is out! WE COME IN PEACE is the electro-disco sci-fi companion to the SHOCK WAVES horror double-feature, and includes some fantastic remix work by original Italo all-star Alexander Robotnick. Vinyl is on sale now at TBM Records webstore, with downloads available at iTunes, emusic, Napster and Rhapsody, with uncompressed WAVs at DanceRecords.com and JunoDownloads. October 15.2008 Special 2-part Burning Man Edition VIP AREA podcast Miss the Burn this year? Might have been but don't recall? Pretend you do with this special massive 2-part 38-track 2h-45m-plus electro-disco-house-electro workout. Drop it at your next pajama party and show em all how to freak the fug out. Subscribe to the VIP AREA podcast on iTunes, or keep up by RSS. June 23.2008 "SHOCK WAVES" Vinyl In Stores The "Shock Waves" vinyl is finally in and it wants to feel your slipmats. Grab it at Turntable Lab, or order from the TBM Records online store and get a free TBM Records sticker! WOW. For music lovers on-the-go, DJ-quality WAVs and 320k mp3's can also be downloaded from DanceRecords.com and JunoDownloads, with various other formats available on iTunes, eMusic and Rhapsody.