DJ Mehdi’s Black Black & Black Remix Mix
- story Peter Macia
FADER favorite DJ Mehdi has a new compilation coming out on November 2nd filled with many fellow Frenchies and a few familiar regular people. To get everyone hyped for the cosmopolitan electro pop on that, Mehdi made this mix of his remixes of a bunch of classic rap and an Uffie song. See how that works? It’s like an alternate dimension. Download below and see the tracklist on Coolcats.
Download: DJ Mehdi’s Black Black & Black Remix Mix (via A Silent Flute)
Around the World with A-Trak, Part XIV: The Return
- story THE FADER
Hello Fader friends! I took a couple of weeks off from my Around The World column because, well, I wasn’t going around the world that much. I was mostly recording, first finishing up my Infinity +1 and Fabriclive mix CDs that are both dropping in 2 weeks, and then starting cooking up some new material for the year. I did travel a little bit. I went to visit my family in Canada.
A-Trak Does Not Sleep, Ever
- story THE FADER
Perhaps you already surmised A-Trak is one of those people who can subsist on <1 hour of sleep per night, but he is about to exceed all our scientific expectations. hopefully, without going Altered States on us (because, let’s face it, no one looks good with full body hair [sci fi nerd inside joke]). Monsieur Trak is embarking on the Infinity +1 tour with constant companion DJ Mehdi, kicking off this Saturday in NYC at Studio B with your boys Nick Catchdubs, Dave P and JDH. And because President Obama has ruled that no real world thing should ever occur without being documented on the internet, A-Trak is doing his patriotic duty as a Canadian in America by blogging it all on the INFINITY +1 TUMBLR where you can also win stuff because A-Trak is addicted to gambling. MEMO: one-off Tumblr accounts are the new statement shoe! Details and tour dates after the jump.
Le Blog Fou d’Ed Banger
- story THE FADER
A member of The FADER editorial staff spent part of his holiday break in Paris, and the one thing he bemoaned more than anything was the lack of English-language French blogs about French people doing things in America that he could read while he was in France. He’s back now, and wouldn’t you know it, an English-language French blog about French people doing things in America started up the day he got back. What a PWN. It’s written by Paris’ coolest dudes and a gal — Busy P, So Me, DJ Mehdi and Fafi — and it’s called Cool Cats le Blog. On any given day, you can learn things like who Mehdi’s J-gurus are (Jay-Z, John Le Carré, Jerry Seinfeld and John Lennon), what Pedro Winter’s torso looks like, which Kid Cudi video So Me is now working on, and whether Fafi is really as annoying as some people would like you to believe (she doesn’t seem to be). Updates are pretty frequent and, of course, there is a store where you can buy t-shirts and stuff.
Freeload: DJ Mehdi, “Pocket Piano (Chewy Chocolate Cookies Remix)”
- story THE FADER
Other than providing FADER superstar blogger DJ A-Trak with a place to stay in Paris for the last month, DJ Mehdi has been spending time recently on the release of his next single for Ed Banger, called “Pocket Piano,” on December 10th. You can hear the original version over on his MySpace, but Pelski just posted the remixes, all of which are good, but especially the Chewy Chocolate Cookies take, which actually isn’t included on the single. We find it hard to believe that a DJ would actually choose that name out of all the words in the English language, but we’re not going to let that take anything away from how good this remix is.
Download: DJ Mehdi, “Pocket Piano (Chewy Chocolate Cookies Remix)”
