Viewing Archive for February, 2010
Free download from Adam Kesher
Our French buddies Adam Kesher (that’s a band not a dude) are coming out with a new album on Disque Primeur, the label that released some of my mix CDs a few years back like Oh No You Didn’t! and Sunglasses Is A Must LIVE.
This album is a family affair, I actually mixed 2 songs myself and my brother did some work on it too. The song they’re offering here, “Hour of the Wolf”, was mixed by the great Philippe Zdar (whom I spoke about in this post).
Download it HERE.
DJ Mehdi & Riton are: Carte Blanche
Don’t you love a good collaboration? Like uh, hello, Method Man & Redman were dope the first time around, before the deodorant commercial. So I am very pleased that Mehdi & Riton have announced their Carte Blanche project, because I’m super duper into it, they’re on some classic Chicago house meets Trax On Da Rocks tip and I think this is much needed in today’s overproduced hybrid climate. Back to basics. Let’s do it.
Download the first joint “In The Mix” here.
Catch Kid Sister on tour in the US
If you don’t have the Kid Sister album by now you ain’t no friend of mine. As most of you know I executive-produced Ultraviolet, her début album which came out in November. You can still grab it of course, and redeem your friendship.
But I digress. She’s currently touring America. Go check her out!
Whitney Biennial 2010 edition featuring Aurel Schmidt
Every two years, curators from the Whitney Museum of American Art (in New York’s Upper East Side) gauge the pulse of art in America with an exhibition called the Biennial. This year marks the seventy-fifth edition, simply titled 2010. It opens tomorrow, February 25th, and will run until May 30th. 55 artists will show one piece each.
In reading up about this event I was particularly drawn to Aurel Schmidt’s work. You can watch a video interview that the NY Times’ T Magazine conducted with her before Art Basel here, and read more about the Biennial here and here.
More images from Aurel Schmidt after the jump.
Source: Eye On Art.
Exclusive! BeatauCue February 2010 mix
French duo BeatauCue have made their way in many a DJ’s playlist in recent months thanks to a blitz of remixes for the likes of Noob & Brodinski, Sound of Stereo and Solo. Their sound is easily recognizable: big booming kicks, tribal drums patterns and bouncy, demented synth leads. It is with great pleasure that I bring you, as an exclusive to djatrak.com, their February 2010 mix.
Download from the Fairtilizer player (using the arrow).
UPDATE: you can also download here.
Tracklist after the jump.
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Watch my performance with Chilly Gonzales!
Often times it’s the casual shows, the “oh I’m just doing this on the side for fun” shows that end up being my favorite ones. Maybe it’s because I love to improvise. Or maybe it’s because these are shows I do with my friends, which is fertile ground for creativity. Last year it was my set at the Do Over. This year so far, my favorite performance was this little guest spot I did at Chilly Gonzales’s “Piano Talk Show” at Joe’s Pub in New York last Thursday. It was barely rehearsed, only 15 minutes in length, and we were both coming in from long flights with little to no sleep. Watch the result, I hope you enjoy it!
I strongly recommend Gonzo’s new mixtape, Pianist Envy. Trust me, you’ve never heard anything like this. Download it here!
Big thanks to Nicky Digital for the video clips.
Mustard’s first interview
I’m so proud of my horse! He just did his first interview. It’s for the conceptual Five Takeaways blog. He gave some travel tips. Such a wise horse.
I’m playing Sasquatch
The line-up for this year’s Sasquatch! festival has been announced! Go check their website. I’m playing on Sunday May 30th. Tickets go on sale Feb 20th.
Here’s an anecdote about Sasquatch: back when I was DJing for Kanye we played this festival in May of 2005. Kanye was just a few weeks away from finishing Late Registration. I hadn’t seen him in a while because he had been in the studio for so long. He was working on “Golddigger” and felt like testing it out live that day even though it wasn’t quite finished. I knew the song before it was recorded. Now that it was coming together, I told him I wanted to lay some scratches. I said “I want to scratch on ‘Get down!’ in that part where you say ‘get down girl, go ‘head get down’.” To prove my point, when we performed the song live (for the first time, with no rehearsal) I grabbed the sample and tried that scratch in front of this festival crowd of thousands. Kanye liked it, we flew to LA a few days later and the rest is history. Check my post from 2005 that shows a pic of the festival followed by a pic of me, Ye and Jon Brion in the studio.
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