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A-trak at Studio B in Brooklyn: Whoa!

Yesterday it was a birthday party for a few friends, originally planned for the roof top at Delancey. Unfortunately the fire marshal had other plans and shut down the roof for good until they install another fire escape (it’s been open for years without this requirement). The Delancey, however, hooked us up and bussed the party to Brooklyn’s Studio B for free and extended the free well happy hour to 2 hours.

This deal would have been sweet enough since Studio just re-opened their roof top again and the happy hour but Sat was the opening night of A-Trak‘s Infinity +1 tour – his mix goes live for purchase March 31st. Sweet!

The bar was well received saving me easily $100+ on booze for me and the lady. We were warmed up for the show and headed down for the set with DJ Mehdi and A-trak rocking the decks at the same time. Hard crunk electric beats had the crowd going nuts most of the time.

Sebastien Tellier – Kilometer (A-Trak Extended Dub)
[audio:https://www.box.net/shared/static/pvsbbsxb4o.mp3]

MSTRKRFT – Bounce feat. NORE (A-Trak Remix)
[audio:http://fakepennycomics.com/blog/MSTRKRFTfeatNORE_Bounce(A-TrakRemix).mp3]

A-Trak – Say Whoa (Boys Noize remix)
[audio:http://www.schoolofmix.com/music/sp-whoaboy.mp3]

Good times!

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Finaly the Kings of Tomorrow

Seriously… if you’re a true house fan, you can’t deny that this track rocks crowds, eyes closed on a beach somewhere…

Always in the bag:

So tell me how do you do
Finally I meet you
You don’t know what I’ve been through,
waiting and wondering about you
I had a dream my trip would end at you,
and now I know paradise.

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Sampling for the future

As a technics mixologist and music lover, I have no problems with sampling per say. A DJ has no soul for creativity if he’s not hashing up two sounds or blending two tracks to create a new dancable or audible sound. Some of our modern artists wouldn’t be where they are today with out learning, practicing and playing from music they’ve heard before. Next generation electronic artists as well, wouldn’t be here today if earlier musicians didn’t pave the way with their great hooks, beats or tracks. The development of DJing has its roots from original hip hop artists that looped and sampled the best part of a track or break and rhymed, danced, breaked or rapped over the result.

I also see the need to license and pay your way for the use of samples if you’re going to profit off them yourself in your music, however, there needs to be a standardization and limit to this because there’s so much good shit out there, you can’t throw roadblocks up like paying for licensing for up and coming artists that can’t afford to pay such royalties.

In the case of Daft Punk, an electronic artist I’m familiar with and a fan, they have paid their licensing on sampled music and here’s a video mixing both the DP track with the original artist for you to get an idea of where the sample came from:

The samples were spotted by http://www.ishkur.com/samples/ and the music was collected by http://palmsout.blogspot.com/2007/02/. http://www.musicthing.co.uk did the video editing.

Here’s to more sampling in the future…