Immediately after playing Kaulfeuten in Zurich, it was back to the airport to head to London England. After checking into my hotel (located in the Bloomsbury district), I was able to find an authentic barbershop and spend some time roaming the area. The following two nights (Thurs/Fri) I was playing at two of London’s best clubs – Chinawhite on Thursday night and the Playboy Club on Friday Night. It was great to finally connect with my people DJ Sam Young and DJ Smoov, and catch up in person over some delicious Nando’s Chicken. Chinawhite on Thursday was an amazing night.. Management had said the club was slower than usual because of the riots going on at the time, but it did not effect the vibe of the night at all. Great crowd and great atmosphere.. The floor was packed until the very end of the night and I had a great time playing a mix of house, hip hop, and classics! Thank you to James & Sam at Chinawhite for having me and I look forward to being back soon.. The next night was the final night of my 10 day European tour inside London’s brand new Playboy Club. Having played The Playboy Mansion a few years ago, I was curious as to how this would measure up. The Playboy Club is an ultra-exclusive members nightclub, lounge, and casino in one located in the posh Mayfair district of the city. Again, the night was slower than usual because of the aforementioned riots going on at the time, but it did not stop people from dancing, letting loose, and having fun!

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The first stop of August’s 10-day European Tour was Brussels, Belgium. This was my 2nd time in Belgium (the last time I was there was in November 2010) and it was just as I had remembered it: laid back, beautiful, good people, amazing architecture, good food, and a good time. Big shouts out to my man DJ Psar and the entire MP Fam for all of the hospitality! I played 2 great nights in Brussels and Inglemunster Belgium before flying to Norway on Saturday morning..

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MANIFESTO FESTIVAL OF COMMUNITY AND CULTURE
11 days. 13 events. 100+ artists. One city.
September 15th-25th, 2011
Toronto. Canada. 

I’m really excited about this one! The Manifesto Festival is such a beautiful thing and I was upset that I was out of town for last year’s festivities.. This year’s line up is incredible and includes Rakim & Kid Capri, 9th Wonder & Phonte (reunited for the first time since Little Brother split up), ZULU Nation, Mad Decent, Blu & Exile and so many more.. I’m honoured to be playing the main stage between 5:30pm – 7:30pm! Toronto, please come out and support this beautiful celebration of art, music, and culture.

Press Release & Full Information Below

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I really don’t know what else to say other than THANK YOU for all of your support.. This past Monday Night, May 30, 2011 I received awards for 2011 Toronto DJ of the Year, as well as 2011 Fan Choice Club DJ of the Year! Big shouts out to all of the DJ’s, producers, and artists who were in attendance. Also, much love to my 194 family for taking home awards for Club MC of the Year (Sir Lancelot), Female DJ of the Year (Lissa Monet), and Mixtape of the Year (Lissa Monet & P-Plus). Full list of winners and press release below.

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANNOUNCING THE 2011 Stylus Award CHAMPIONS!

Toronto, ON – May 30, 2011. Following a spectacular show, artists and celebrities from across the nation gathered at the 2011 Stylus Awards sponsored by Pioneer DJ to honour the best in the biz. Hundreds of Canada’s supreme talent packed the Queen Elizabeth Theatre to celebrate the 20 presented awards.

A COMPLETE LIST OF WINNERS IS AVAILABLE BELOW.

Kicking off the evening in style, the red carpet was packed with the who’s who of the music industry. Guests mixed and mingled while enjoying a stupendous gift lounge created by VOCAB Communications. Host Trixx dazzled the crowd with his comedic whit as ecstatic nominees were called to the podium. Performers Reema Major (G7/Universal), JRDN (Kuya Productions), Rich Kidd (Ridgeway Entertainment Group), Danny Fernandes (CP Records/EMI) and Aleesia entertained audiences showcasing some of the finest musical artistry on the scene today. A special presentation tonight was the induction of Stylus Hall of Fame Canadian Hip Hop pioneers: Ron Nelson and Wesley “Maestro Fresh Wes” Williams.

The 2011 Stylus Awards sponsored by Pioneer DJ wraps up an incredible SpinFest weekend. 9 of the 29 awards were presented on Sunday evening *May 29th at the Stylus Pre-Award Show Nominee Party Presented by HP at The Mod Club.

2011 Stylus Award Winners Presented by Pioneer DJ

Fan Choice Club DJ of the Year presented by Pioneer DJ
Wristpect – Toronto

Fan Choice Artist of the Year
Drake

Canadian Hip Hop Single of the Year
Drake Miss Me ft Lil’ Wayne

Canadian R&B Single of the Year
JRDN – You Can Have it All

Canadian Dance/Pop Single of the Year
Shawn Desman – Night Like This

House DJ of the Year
JoJo Flores – Montreal

Electro DJ of the Year
Deadmau5 – Toronto

Dance DJ of the Year
4 Korners – Toronto

DJ Remix of the Year presented by HP
Kap n Kirk & Joe Ghost  - Stromae Te Quiero (Kap n Kirk, Joe Ghost remix)

Canadian Producer of the Year presented by HP
Boi -1 da Over, Drake

Female DJ of the Year
Lissa Monet – Toronto

Radio Mixshow DJ of the Year presented by Heineken
DJ Climaxxx & Mocha Set it Off Kiss 92.5 – Toronto

Vancouver DJ of the Year presented by BlackBerry
Hedspin

Toronto DJ of the Year presented by BlackBerry
Wristpect

Montreal DJ of the Year presented by BlackBerry
DJ Hill

Video DJ of the Year presented by Xtenda Mix
DJ Dopey – Toronto

Club MC of the Year
Sir Lancelot – Toronto

Underground Hip Hop DJ of the Year *Presented at Sunday’s Gala
Mel Boogie – Toronto

College Radio Show of the Year *Presented at Sunday’s Gala
Mel Boogie, JJ Rock and Big G Dropping Dimez CKLN 88.1 – Toronto

Club Reggae DJ of the Year *Presented at Sunday’s Gala
Spex – Toronto

Soca DJ of the Year *Presented at Sunday’s Gala
Soca Sweetness – Toronto

West Coast DJ of the Year (British Columbia, Alberta, & Saskatchewan *not including Vancouver)
*Presented at Sunday’s Gala
Smalltown DJs – Calgary

Central DJ of the Year (Manitoba, Ontario, & Quebec *not including Montreal and Toronto) *Presented at Sunday’s Gala
White Gold – Kitchener

East Coast DJ of the Year (Nova Scotia, PEI, New Brunswick and Newfoundland) *Presented at Sunday’s Gala
IV – Halifax

Rated Next DJ of the Year *Presented at Sunday’s Gala
DJ Rych Kydd – Toronto

DJ Mixtape of the Year *Presented at Sunday’s Gala
P Plus and Lissa Monet Love Letters & Broken Hearts Pt. 2

Artist Mixtape of the Year
Rich Kidd – We On Some Rich Kidd Sh*t Vol 4: The Boiling Point

Hall of Fame Inductees
Ron Nelson DJ/Promoter
Maestro Fresh Wes Artist

About The Stylus Group
The Stylus Awards are a unique facet to the DJ and club culture in Canada. As the only institution recognizing the breadth of DJ talent in Canada, Stylus are able to bring a forum that allows DJs and Canadian Artists to display and perform their talent to the Canadian Music industry. The events throughout SpinFest and the Stylus Awards harbour performances, a national music conference, concerts and local events, all allowing Canadian Artists and DJs to flourish and be recognized. For up to date news, rule regulations, and submission guidelines of the 2011 Stylus Awards and SpinFest presented by Pioneer DJ please visit: www.stylusgroup.ca.

Good Day World!

It’s about that time.. The 6th Annual Stylus DJ Awards are around the corner! If you appreciate the time and hard work that I put in to my career, I’d like to ask you for two minutes of your day to place your votes. Thank you all for your continued support over the years!!

Here is how you can help!

1) Log on to http://stylusgroup.ca/votenow
2) Vote ‘Wristpect’ in the following categories

Category #2 – Radio Mixshow of the Year ‘Mixology’ (Download all shows here)
Category #9 – Toronto DJ of The Year
Category #15 – House DJ of the Year
Category #16 – Club Dance DJ of the Year
Category #18 – Electro DJ of the Year
*Please vote for ‘Sir Lancelot’ for Club MC of the Year

3) If you are unfamiliar with any fields you can put N/A

Thanks again for taking the time.. Peace!

In August 2010, I sat down with my people from Just A Lil Hype Magazine in Vancouver. Click the image above to read the full interview or click here.

I’m very proud and excited to announce that one of my good friends – Yale fox, has been selected as 1 of 200 presenters from around the world at this year’s coveted TED speaker series.

“It’s with much honor to announce today that I’ve fulfilled one of my life goals, and have been selected from thousands of applicants for a 2011 TED Fellowship. If you don’t know what TED is, it’s time to find out. TED is a non-profit organization based on forward thinking individuals and ideas that are worth spreading. Past speakers include Sir Richard Branson, Al Gore and Bill Gates to name a few. I’ll be presenting some of my research at this year’s conference.

Here’s a link to the official press release – they actually mentioned me specifically which is pretty awesome. You can find more information on their site here. For those of you that are wondering, tickets for this conference are around $4000 and they sell out a year in advance. Here’s a list of the other Fellows that I’ll be speaking with:

James Patten (US) A US-based inventor who is exploring new ways that physical objects can represent and control digital information

Chris Woebken (US / Germany) A German-American interaction designer whose installations create novel relationships between humans and animals

Yara Shaban (Jordan) A Jordanian electrical engineer who’s working to engage women in technology education and development in the Middle East

Camille Seaman (US) A Native American photographer whose work captures the harsh beauty of remote Arctic landscapes

Isabel Behncke Izquierdo (Chile / UK / DRC) A Chilean primatologist who studies play behavior among bonobos in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Prumsodun Ok (US / Cambodia) A Cambodian-American choreographer and performance artist whose work merges classical Cambodian and modern dance

Sey Min (Korea) A Korean data-visualization designer who works with live data sets to creatively display information

Luke Hutchison (US / New Zealand) A New Zealand-based computer scientist and computational biologist who is looking for the structural blueprints of life

Sumit Dagar (India) An Indian interaction designer and filmmaker working on the Braille Phone, a mobile phone for the blind

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 27, 2010

Wristpect x Blackberry x Maritz Canada Deliver ‘Torch’

Mobile Industry Awards 2010 ‘Best Manufacturer of the Year’, Research In Motion and their award winning BlackBerry brand teamed up with the 2010 Toronto DJ of the year Wristpect, to launch the brand new and highly anticipated Blackberry Torch device in Canada.  Los Angeles, Toronto, Vancouver & Montreal held the only North American events of their sort.

Alongside Maritz Canada, Blackberry recently held national launch events for their Torch device, entitled the ‘Influencer’ and the ‘Rep’.

The invite-only ‘Influencer’ event attracted over 200 high profile Blackberry users to experience the new Torch device. The Rep event was an extremely successful gathering of 400 enthusiastic sales associates who received Torch devices at each of their respective locations. The soundtrack for these events across the country was provided by DJ Wristpect, who also creatively used the Torch devices to deliver his performance.

“It is always an honour to work with such a powerful and prominent brand” said Wristpect. “As a heavy user & advocate of Blackberry devices for over 6 years now, I feel as though this has been a long time coming. I’ve converted hundreds of friends and colleagues into certified Blackberry addicts over the last several years.. I look forward to further developing a professional relationship with both Blackberry & Maritz, and using the new Torch device in my day to day business!”

Teaming up with major brands is not anything new for this young DJ/Entrepreneur; Wristpect has worked alongside brands such as Google, MTV and Hennessy to Sony, Redbull and Playboy.

Most recently, Wristpect was awarded ‘Toronto DJ of the Year’ at the 2010 Stylus DJ Awards. The year before, he was nominated Canada’s #1 Club DJ, joined Clinton Spark’s ‘Smash Squad DJ’ crew, and played club dates across New York, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Montreal, Toronto, Vancouver, Costa Rica, and more.

The Blackberry Torch is currently available through select carriers worldwide. Please contact your wireless provider formore information.

For more information on Wristpect please visit http://wristpect.com & http://wristpect.com/epk

Press & Booking Contact
bookings@wristpect.com

I’m proud to announce my new sponsor.. Ortofon! I’m looking forward to working alongside the Ortofon team with this new partnership! To learn more about their new Serato x Ortofon S-120 DJ Cartridge click here.

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Last weekend (May 28 – June 01), The Stylus Group held the 5th Annual Stylus Spinfest & DJ Awards. The weekend’s events & Monday’s award show brought together & celebrated the deejays, artists, producers, labels, and individuals who help shape and develop Canada’s urban music scene.

Last year I won ‘Canadian Club DJ of the Year’ and thanks to your support, I was nominated for 3 awards this year (Club DJ of the Year, Toronto DJ of the Year & Mixtape of the Year) & ended up taking home 2 – Toronto DJ of the Year & Mixtape of the Year! I suck terribly at acceptance speeches and never remember to say what I want or thank the people I want to, so here goes..

Mixtape of the Year – Bridging The Gap V4 – Toronto to Virginia
Hosted By: The Clipse

Thank you to The Clipse (Malice & Pusha-T), Rick Geez, Geezy, Pharrel, Shae, NERD, Star-Trak, everyone in Virgina (all artists & producers), everyone in Toronto (all artists & producers), Bryan E. of The Legends League for the dope cover art and t-shirt design, my dude’s Bobby Redef & Sir Lancelot for making me scrap the tape & start over, my boy Mattice for his creative direction & ableton help, Mediaphase for their online distribution & support, IdeLL Clothing, Play Cloths, Orisue, Ransom, Nahright, 2Dopeboyz, all of the bloggers who posted the tape, and everyone who continues to support the movement!

Toronto DJ of The Year
Big thank you first and foremost to my parents, for being supportive of me quitting the corporate 9-5 grind to focus on DJ’ing back when it was not looking so promising.. The fact that they let me to pursue my passion at such a young age says a lot and meant a lot to me, and I’m always thankful for that. Thanks to my girl, for being so understanding and supportive as well, and of course, my entire team.. My emcee, Sir Lancelot (we consistently shut parties down together), Mediaphase, all the promoters & corporate clients whom I’ve worked with, everyone at FLOW 93.5 FM, my sponsors (IdeaLL, Orisue, Ransom, Ortofon), Stylus Group, Marc Ecko Watches and finally everyone who comes out to the parties, downloads the mixtapes/podcasts & continues to show love and support in general.. Much thanks!

For a full run down on all the winners from the 2010 Stylus DJ Awards log onto www.stylusgroup.ca

THE NEW FLOW 93.5 IS THE HOME OF THE BEST DJS IN THE COUNTRY!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

TORONTO (June 1, 2010) – The New FLOW 93.5’s DJs, P-Plus, Wristpect and
Jester won a total of four awards at last night’s 2010 Stylus DJ Awards.
P-Plus won for Radio Mixshow DJ of the Year for the 2nd consecutive year and
new to the FLOW 93.5 family, Wristpect and Jester, won for Mixtape of the
Year (Wristpect), Toronto DJ of the Year (Wristpect), and College DJ of the
Year (Jester).

“It’s great to see so much talent in one room and I am especially proud of
all our DJs that were nominated and won awards,” says Wayne Williams, the
New FLOW 93.5’s Program Director. “I would like to congratulate our team
that continues to demonstrate their passion and dedication to their craft.”

P-Plus can be heard on the New FLOW 93.5 weekdays on the Midday Mix, noon -
1pm and Monday nights on the Real Frequency Show, 11pm – 1am. Mixtape DJ of
the Year and Toronto DJ of the Year, Wristpect, can be heard on the New FLOW
93.5 Saturdays from 9pm – 10pm on Mixology, alongside Ritz and College Radio
DJ of the Year, Jester.

The 2010 Stylus DJ Awards were held last night, May 31, 2010, at the Queen
Elizabeth Theatre in Toronto. Over 1000 guests gathered to celebrate and
honour the achievements of DJs and artists throughout the country.

Check for myself, Boi-1da, and Rich Kidd – all featured in the latest issue of ‘Urbanology Magazine’.

On The Record With Wristpect from Stylus Group on Vimeo.

I sat down with Stylus Group last month, and answered several unexpected questions.. How I got my DJ name, embarrassing dj moments, crying during the lion king.. etc! Ah, fun times.. lol