Because A-trak knows what’s good for a dance-floor, he got a bunch of his buddies together for a series of evenings across the country called the Stones Throw x Fool’s Gold: Discotheque. The Rules: Strictly Disco-Boogie and House Music.
I had the pleasure of attending this past weekend in Chicago and all I can say is, what an epic line-up. Although this will change a little from date-to-date, the core elements in DJ sets by Stones Throw’s Peanut Butter Wolf, and Fool’s Gold’s A-Trak make the journey. Portland’s Line up is as follows:
A-Trak
Nacho Lovers
Peanut Butter Wolf
J Rocc
Check out some photos from last night after the jump, and consider this your motivation to make the show this coming Saturday. After Chromeo Friday, and this show Saturday, I fully expect to hear about some hellish hangovers.
Chromeo
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Posted By David Hutchinson
Do you live in the Pacific Northwest? Do you live far away but like to buy impulse plane tickets? There is a bunch of notable amazement in the next month. Here is a partial guide to sweaty rooms and beer fueled friendships.
Samiyam
Splatinum
Nordic Soul
Tyler Tastemaker
Friday August Sixth
The Crown Room
205 NW Fourth Ave
Right now, this is happening pronto. Fresh VS Decibel festival.
Chromeo
Friday, August 13th
Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th ST
Night by Night…
Distal
Ben Tactics
Lincolup
Friday, August 13th
The Crown Room
205 NW Fourth Ave
Check Distal here.
A-Trak
Peanut Butter Wolf
Nacho Lovers
August 14th
Rotture 315 SE 3rd AVE
If you don’t know A-Trak…
JD Twitch (Of Optimo) (Glasgow)
Honey Soundsystem DJs (San Francisco)
Linger & Quiet
Thursday 19th of August
Holocene
1001 Southeast Morrison Street
Optimo is pretty f’n amazing.
Flosstradamus
Rude Dudes
Lionsden
Serious Business
Cory O
Saturday, August 21
Rotture 315 SE 3rd AVE
Block party, almost.
Dubstep Weekly, Every Tuesday
Come meet us.
The Crown Room
205 NW Fourth Ave
& Electro every third Thursday at Beauty Bar
Other admins should add on to this with their own picks, yeah?
Posted By Sasha
If I had a dime for everytime I, listened to, fucked to, worked out to, came down to the original Dirty South Dance, I’d have probably made much more than A-Trak did in releasing the album. It’s a banger in every sense of the word.
Now he’s released Dirty south Dance 2, and you can download it for free in its entirety right here:
A-Trak – Dirty South Dance 2
Posted By David Hutchinson
Turns out we’ve written quite a bit about Steve Angello’s tracks in the past. This particular track comes to me via A-Trak’s twitter, where he claims it is the “Biggest monster” in his playlist.
It is intense as hell.
I don’t know what you call this stuff… (rave?) but it had my whole house fist-pumping and begging for more. All I can find is a rip from a Tiesto mix (who just played PDX 2 nights ago!) but even with the abrupt ending, this leaves plenty to be desired.
Check it out!
Posted By David Hutchinson
A-trak is the best DJ in the world. Not because he is Kanye West’s touring go getter, not because he was winning scratch battles in his teens, not because he remixes the hot electro bangers but simply because he made an album called Dirty South Dance. This did what 2-Many Dj’s had done years ago, seamlessly mixing pop into a something elegant enough to be called music, genuine art and no empty mashup. The breakthrough was the meeting of indy and hyphy, New Young Pony Club was now a team player with 36 Mafia. It was like Girl Talk thirty second spazz genuis had mellowed out and found a real adult home.
Now Aoki on the other hand…
A respected rich kid with a record label a clothing line and decent electro sets for faces like Paris Hilton and the really exclusive after parties finally dropped his full length in 2007. A bit outdated, easily likable and a complete rip off of Dirty South Dance with the most hipster title yet know.
“Oh!” Boys Noize (A-Trak Remix)
We are rockstars feat. spank rock & amanda blank with does it offend you yeah (Aoki)
La musique (Sinden Remix)
The interesting part is that these two gentleman are playing a show three hours north in two days. And they happen to be playing with Sinden, La Riots, Pretty Titty and Sammy Bannanas.
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