NYC: Bacardi B-Live Pre-Show With Egg Foo Young
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Last night at Greenhouse in Lower Manhattan, a cavalcade of party-lovers and dancefloor freaks convened to pregame for the upcoming Bacardi B-Live tour in NYC, going down June 17. Amid the sparkle of flashing lights and a jilliion tiny discoballs hanging from the ceiling like rave stalactites, FADER-beloved DJ Egg Foo Young played a fire-y selection of house, R&B, and dancefloor beats. Photos were shot. Mojitos were imbibed. The world’s best-selling soprano was randomly in the house. A certain FADER editor may have been coerced by her coworkers into having a vogue-style dance-off with a raver chick. It was four hours of awesome and we’d do it all again. More photos of the madness after the jump, and follow the rest of the tour right here.
Exclusive Freeload: Daedelus, “C’est Super” (Michna Remix)
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Meeting of the minds! F43 soul/weird jams/whatever dude Daedelus is remixed by F56 Gen F superstar Michna. First office reaction is that it sounds like the music from Doom. Not sure if we’ve reached a consensus on that one, but we do know that Michna flips the vintage disco throwback vibe of the original (from the Daedelus/Jogger collabo EP slash label mission statement Friends of Friends Vol. 1) and replaces it with a bassline so thick it sounds like the strings are about to break. If you want to get weird, it kind of sounds like a bouncy ball. We’re not going to go nuts and hate hard on the original or anything because it’s pretty good, but this remix is a lot better.
Download: Daedelus, “C’est Super” (Michna Remix)
NYC: A Bunch Of Random FADER Artists Decide To Do A Show Together
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Want to see a whole bunch of FADER artists hanging out under one roof? Tonight at Webster Hall the most motley crew ever will convene in the name of Ultimate Jams. Running down the list, there are DJ sets from Michna (F56), Wajeed (F28), Daryl Palumbo (F38) as well as the live debut of Cubic Zirconia (aka Todd Weinstock, Nick Hook and F38 Gen-Fer Tiombe Lockhart). We predict a full night of good times as well as a potential Glassjaw reunion. No just kidding, that would be weird. We’re serious about the good times though.
Live: Michna and Nick Catchdubs at One Step Beyond
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Friday night we braved the cold and headed uptown for the unofficial holiday edition of the totally official One Step Beyond at The American Museum of Natural History. Coming right from work, we checked our coats at the door and joined the crowd amid all the models of planets. FADER fam Michna and Nick Catchdubs spun, accompanied by out of this world (Wokka Wokka) video footage from System D-128 for those moments between dancing and drinking. Was it the best place to to be on a frigid Friday night? Um, yeah.
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posted on Nov 24, 2008 in MUSIC NEWS tags Catchdubs, electronic/dance, FADER, hip hop, Michna, One Step Beyond, System D-128
One Step Beyond: With Nick Catchdubs and Michna
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For this installment of One Step Beyond, we enlisted dude for life Nick Catchdubs, and F56 Gen Fer Michna to play music while we dance with the stars at the American Museum of Natural History. If you’ve been to these things you know that they are never not fun. If you haven’t been, why not? Buy tickets now.
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posted on Nov 13, 2008 in FADER tags Catchdubs, electronic/dance, FADER, hip hop, Michna, One Step Beyond
NYC: Michna + Others DJ In A Loft
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If there’s one thing we want more of in our lives, it’s loft parties, but not because we’re nostalgic for a New York we never lived in or anything. We just think they’re fun and spacious, and this Friday, F56 Gen Fer Michna will be DJing in a Clinton Hill loft to celebrate the release of his bazonkersly beautiful new album on Ghostly. We have a little FADER love affair going with Michna’s elegant electro and, when he takes on his other persona DJ Egg Foo Young, his mixtapes that are actually cassette mixtapes (limited edition, just enough for those who still own a Walkman). He is debuting his record-baby in a small debutante affair featuring some of FADER’s favorite DJs: $mall Change, Blu Jemz, Lloydski, Nick Hook and Woodman. Turntable Lab, we see you! Clinton Hill, stand up! Let’s loft!
RCRD LBL: Stream Michna’s Album In Its Entirety + F56 Gen F
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We’re just going to throw it out there that Magic Monday (out today on Ghostly International) is the sonic coming of age story of Michna. Of course, we’re saying that because we know from our own magazine that he used to play horns in a ska band, and when “Swiss Glide” comes on and the beat is built around skateboard wheels and—surprise—horns, it’s like we’re reliving the time we played Reel Big Fish too loud out of a Discman on the 4th of July, which was a bad idea on every level. What we’re saying is Michna’s album is about growing up, and some noise somewhere in there is going to remind you of some stupid thing you did as a kid, too. While you you’re listening, click more and read Hillary Kaylor’s Gen F on Michna from F56.
Stream: Michna, Magic Monday
Live: FADER 56 Party With Rodriguez and Michna
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To warm up for Rodriguez’s third ever appearance in the United States (that’s a big deal considering his essential album came out in 1969) at our Issue Number 56 party, we sipped on spirits generously provided by Bass Ale, Black Swan Wine, and JC Cognac while F56 Gen-Fer Michna played a diverse DJ set. Michna also chicken scratched “FADER 56 RELEASE PARTY” and “RODRIGUEZ” up on the projection screen some weird video pad. It was approximately 92 million degrees inside, but we were still pretty content. Then Rodriguez came out to play a set of his forgotten, if ever discovered, classics from that 1969 album, Cold Fact. We’re going to go ahead and say it: we totally thought he was Slash for a second. But no, he is Rodriguez—philosophizing between songs, and randomly shouting “FREEDOM OF THE PRESS!” Right on, dude! Just when it was almost too hot to bear, he launched into his weed appreciation anthem “Sugar Man,” and before we knew it, we were cooling off outside, smiling huge and heading home. We’ll have some video of the night up soon, but until then, appreciate the stillness of the photos after the jump.
Freeload: Michna, “Triple Chrome Dipped (12″ Version)”
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We were flipping through the archives over at RCRD LBL, because we are big proponents of familiarizing ourselves with history, even recent history (and recent vintage). And we realized that way back on April 21, we somehow overlooked “Triple Chrome Dipped,” a lovely understated fantoma-house* track by Michna, a DJ/producer with a storied bio that includes 1. knowing Diplo before he was famous (obvs) and 2. most importantly, public trombone-playing. He also likes skeeball which means that, hey!, we like him.
*copyright 2008 by dr. j. escobedo shepherd
Download: Michna, “Triple Chrome Dipped (12″ Version)”
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posted on May 1, 2008 in MP3 / STREAMS tags electronic/dance, fantoma house, freeload, Michna, skeeball
