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MTV2 247HH Wild Tour Stories
247HH MTV2 Wild Tour Stories: DJ A-Trak Extended Cut from MCM on Vimeo.
Here I am talking about the Kanye performance at the Lady Di memorial 2 years ago, working with janky turntables in front of millions of viewers.
MTV video about DJing
Check out MTV’s special about DJing as part of their “5 Pillars of Hip-Hop” series, starring my homies Rob Swift (someone’s been working out), Excess, Grandwizard Theodore and more…
Video interview for MTV Soundtrack
This was also filmed at the mtvU Woodies. 3 cheers for embedded videos!
Videos from the mtvU Woodies
As you may know I DJ’ed the mtvU Woodies awards recently. I also presented the “Left Field” category with Kid Sister… and Chromeo won!
They sent me some clips. Here we are announcing…
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.
Support the homies
I’m gonna start this one off on a somber note, because I want to bring your attention to two friends of mine who went through some hardships recently.
First off, the big homie DV One in Seattle was the victim of senseless police brutality, along with his daughter. You can read about it here. And I want to point out, DV is one of the most positive and righteous dudes I know, so this news came as a total shock to me. Feel free to show some love on his MySpace page. Hold your head up, DV.
And second, I gotta say my man Trackademicks is one of my favorite up-and-coming producers right now. He’s bringing that hard-hitting slap music and bridging a lot of gaps in an effortless way, which to me is the way to go. So I’m sad to say that his studio burnt down last week. You can read about it on the blog on his MySpace page. I’m sure he’d appreciate your support.
Now if we could change gears for a second, let’s do a little September recap, shall we?
MTV Canada Diary & South Africa
If you followed the Sunglasses Tour diaries (which is a rhetorical question), then you know that MTV Canada was filming a Diary on me in the context of the tour. Well, my friendly canucks, mark your calendars (draw a heart around the date) because it’s airing this week. That’s right kinfolk: July 19th at 7pm, tune in to watch a full half-hour of Trizzy madness. The National Post plugged it in a “Things To Watch” feature, so it’s gotta be good. I believe the show will be available on the MTV Overdrive website, but that’s only for PC squares. For all my Mac loving free spirited cool expressive artistic brothers (irony, people), I’m trying to get my hands on an mpeg of this baby.
MySpace, Japan, and SIAM tour
Alright, that’s it. I had to do it. I’m sorry, I had to do it. I tried to hold off for as long as I could. But then when Illseed got on, I had to get on. Sure I don’t know Illseed but I’m a faithful Allhiphop reader, and I relate to the guy. So… I got on MySpace. It’s been about 3 weeks now so some of yall probably found me already. But if you haven’t… I’m at www.myspace.com/djatrak. You’ll see, the moose is there with me, holding me down.
Now that I got that out of the way… back to tour stories. Last time I wrote I was just getting into Japan for the last couple of shows of the Kanye tour.
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