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My minimix for Annie Mac
Ahhh the art of pulling old photos using iPhoto’s “Faces” feature.
Anyway.
I did a minimix for Annie Mac’s radio show last week. For those who don’t know, 1) Annie Mac has the best show on Radio 1 in the UK, and 2) every week she asks a DJ to make a 5 minute “minimix”. So this aired the day before my London show at XOYO.
Annie Mac Minimix 07-15-11 by A-Trak
My Yeah Yeah Yeahs remix: preview
Here’s a rip of Annie Mac premiering my remix of “Heads Will Roll”… coming soon!
Preview the Duck Sauce Mixmag covermount CD
The next issue of Mixmag will have our good friend and longtime supporter Annie Mac on the cover. Armand and I made the covermount CD (as Duck Sauce). All disco house! New and old. Fun times.
Here’s a preview: the first 3 songs of the mix…
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Preview Tracklisting:
1. His Majesty Andre – Spades
2. Mr. Oizo – Gay Dentist (JFK edit)
3. Armand Van Helden & DJ Sneak – Psychic Bounty Killaz
Okay Annie!?
I just found this pic on Flickr (tagged A-Trak). This was at the club in Bournemouth where Erol and I did the live taping of our BBC Essential Mix. We were driving back to London that same night so we couldn’t stay for Annie Mac’s set. Evidently it went well for her and she crowd-surfed… onto the ceiling! I’ve never seen anything like this…
Around the World pt. 7
As posted on the fab Fader blog. More pics here.
Last week I went back to New York for a few days for the mtvU Woodies. I was DJing the event and they also had me announcing one of the categories with Kid Sister. For those who aren’t familiar (get familiar), the Woodies are MTV’s award show for lumberjacks and carpenters. No, no, that’s a bad joke. It’s an award show for bands who “sell wood,” i.e. cool stuff for college kids! It was at Roseland Ballroom, and I basically spent the whole day there Wednesday. They had me doing interviews in the afternoon, including this virtual thing that I didn’t really understand until I got there. In fact it was a bona fide chat room! There was a Dell laptop with a virtual A-Trak character (I could pick the clothes) and I went into a “party” and talked to people. I realize that I sound like a grandma right now but I was completely out of my element. It was pretty funny still. I think my favorite thing about award shows is the seating: in the afternoon they have pictures of the “celebrities” to mark their seats. I was meant to sit next to Debbie Harry and Moby but I never actually saw them at the seats. Anyway, I was DJing a lot of the time.
Gelato And Rainboots
I was only back from Europe for 2 weeks when I boarded that cheap charter flight where they fed us President’s Choice TV dinners and headed back to Ye Olde Continent. First stop, Paris. I was booked to play a Vice party with that tall frenchman known as Busy P. Before the gig they had an Ed Banger in-store at Virgin where a special guest was advertised. That was me, I’m special. Hard to keep a surprise when I’m the only guy on Serato, going on stage to make sure they have the turntables plugged right. The Virgin Megastore is really big and it was fun to have an all-ages audience. They had us playing on a mixer that I don’t know and I spent my whole set looking for the “crossfader on” switch, but aside from that it went well! I found out Kanye was also in town and tried to invite him to our gig but he was in a deep jetlag-induced slumber. We headed over to the club. As I got there I saw my boy leaving the club and he was like “yo let me introduce you to Keith Murray!” I’m not sure why Keith Murray was at my party but I was very surprised that he knew who I was. He kept saying “A-Trak, you’re crazy man, you’re on some shit.”
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