Noah Levine

It can be argued that DJ collective The Rub don’t so much take their name from the legendary Brooklyn monthly they created, as they just transplant the whole damned party to wherever it is they happen to be supplying the beats at the moment. And because they’re so good at figuring out what beats to supply, those wherevers are just about everywhere and the moment, just about all the time. For The Rub DJs (represented well on this night by DJs Ayres and Eleven) it all starts with a strong hip-hop foundation that shows equal love for the early classics and golden-era jams as it does for the bass-saturated beats hogging the airwaves today. But it hardly ends there. When it comes to The Rub, it’s anything goes to get the party going, and they’re likely to work in servings of house, rock, soul and anything else they happened to dig up before the night’s done.

The Rub featuring DJ Ayres & DJ Eleven, with Intel & Pickel (4 table set) and Willy Joy at Darkroom, 2210 West Chicago, (773)276-1411, on November 23, 9pm-2am. $8 with rsvp to going.com/rub. (2007-11-19)

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