“I did this remix over the summer, and when I was close to finishing it I played it to my friend, the irreplaceable DJ Mehdi. We often played each other our productions for feedback. As it turns out he and Riton were visiting New York so they stopped by my apartment. I was working on the main version of the remix, the vocal version. I knew I would make a few alternate edits during the mixdown. The funny thing was, Mehdi’s favorite part was the ending! He and Riton suggested that I have that part come in earlier. My reaction was: that would work well for the dub version. And sure enough, when I finished mixing it down I made a dub with their suggestion. When I sent it to Mehdi shortly after, he responded (as a joke) that I should call it “Dub For Mehdi”. He included it in his “Tunisian Summer” mix. And then, as we all know, the unimaginable happened and we lost our dear friend. The least I can do now is name the edit after him. This one’s for you, Memed.”

How Deep Is Your Love?  (A-Trak Dub aka Dub For Mehdi) by DFA Records

Fool’s Gold Radio – July 2011 Mix by A-Trak

Tracklist after the jump.

1. Kid Gloves – Music Power (A-Trak Intro Edit) – Fool’s Gold
2. Rogerseventytwo – You Take Me Higher – Fool’s Gold
3. Marble Players – Let You Go – Marble
4. Alexander Technique & Junior Sanchez – One Day They Love You – InHouse
5. Kid Gloves – Below The Belt – Fool’s Gold
6. Carte Blanche feat. Alexis Taylor – With You – Ed Banger
7. Deadboy – Wish You Were Here – Numbers
8. Tripmastas – Roll Dat – Magnetic
9. Duck Sauce – Big Bad Wolf
10. Santiago & Bushido – Rhythm For Me – Relief
11. Kry Wolf – Lost In Tremé
12. Roska – Abrupt – Hotflush
13. Dexter – Fat Skinny People – Clone Crown Ltd.
14. The Count & Sinden – Future (Canblaster Remix) – Domino
15. Sound Pellegrino Thermal Team – Bassface – Sound Pellegrino
16. Dr. Gonzo – Dushi – Southern Fried
17. 1984 – Arabesque (NT89 Remix) – Discobelle
18. Arnaud Rebotini – All You Need Is Techno (Gesaffelstein Remix) – Blackstrobe
19. Bart B More & Tommy Sunshine – Body Work – Secure
20. Felix Cartal – The Joker – Dimmak
21. Bassjackers – Mush Mush – Musical Freedom
22. D.I.M & TAI – Ion – Boys Noize Records
23. Clouds – Numbers – Turbo
24. Jaymo & Andy George – Tension – Moda
25. Siriusmo – Feromonikon – Monkeytown
26. Icona Pop – Manners (Style Of Eye Remix) – Kitsuné
27. Para One & Tacteel – Always – Fool’s Gold

Lovely people at Scion Audio/Visual have started new series, where artists show around their studios and discuss the technologies they use to create their sound. This time we take a look at already legendary DJ A-Trak‘s studio! More to come!

Indestructible (A-Trak radio edit) by robyn

Playlist for this saturdays episode will also feature a 10 minutes minipartymix created exclusively for the show by Kill Frenzy plus new sounds from Foamo, A-Trak, Shit Robot, Symone and many more. Discobelle fam NT89 will close the show with his personal Top 5 chart and the host Carlo Pastore and resident dj His Majesty Andre will make you feel good for 90 minutes straight.

You can stream the show live by clicking right here or you can stream it anytime over at the Babylon website.

On the Babylon Soundcloud page you can stream or download everyone of the Minipartymixes that were especially created for the show.

You should also follow the Babylon crew on Facebook and on Twitter for all the latest news and shenanigans.

This track is what came out of it.

Read more about this wonderful project on the Heaps Decent site.

“Heaps Decent is a really cool project that was established in 2007 by Sydney DJs Nina Agzarian and Andrew Levins with American DJ/producer Diplo (Wesley Pentz). Heaps Decent is an initiative committed to finding and nurturing the creativity of underprivileged and Indigenous young people and emerging artists. By providing resources and opportunities, Heaps Decent supports the development of high quality Australian music with a unique identity.”

Here is a little mix that they did of snippets recorded at different Heaps Decent workshops in the last 3 years. To get your juices flowing, the first minute happens to be a new track that A-Trak produced that’s coming out next month.

Heaps Decent – 5 Minute Mix, 3 Years Of Workshops (YSI)

Heaps Decent – 5 Minute Mix, 3 Years Of Workshops (drop.io)

Tracklist after the jump.

PLAYLIST (ALL SAMPLES)

1. 0:00 – 2009: Anywhere But Here (Produced by A-Trak) – Heaps Decent feat. MC Huz and the Rivo Crew form Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre
2. 1:15 – 2010: Juniperina Raps (Produced by Chris Devlin) – Heaps Decent feat. The Mimosa Ladees from Juniperina Juvenile Justice Centre
3. 1:35 – 2010: Detours and Detination Raps (Produced by Nina Las Vegas) – Heaps Decent feat. Jake and Mitchell from Lomandra High School
4. 2:00 – 2007: Smash A Kangaroo (Produced by Diplo) – Heaps Decent feat. the Rivo Crew from Riverina Juvenile Justice Centre
5. 2:30 – 2010: Reach For The Sky (Produced by Nina Las Vegas and The Banksia Ladees) – Heaps Decent feat. MC Kura from Juniperina Juvenile Justice Centre
6. 3:15 – 2010: Gabba Raps (Produced by Nina Las Vegas and he Mimosa Ladees) – Heaps Decent feat. The Mimosa Ladees from Juniperina Juvenile Justice Centre
7. 3:30 – 2008: Koori Girls (Dre Skull Remix) – Heaps Decent feat. The King Sisters and Pase Rock
8. 3:35 – 2008: Koori Girls (Produced by Chris Devlin and Ghostdad) – Heaps Decent feat. The King Sisters and Pase Rock
9. 4:18 – 2010: Doof Rats (Produced by Diplo) – Heaps Decent feat. The Banksia Ladees and The Mimosa Ladies from Juniperina Juvenile Justice Centre

Teki hit us up with a little something to make us smile but we’ll let him do the talking.

“Here’s a little gift from my friend Gonzales (who as some of you may know is currently wrapping up his next album produced by none other than Boys Noize). It’s some sort of piano remix of the old 50 cent hit “Many Men”. It’s taken from his piano mixtape “Pianist’s Envy” dropping soon on the interwebs, on which he plays piano over rap instrumentals, remixes rap acapellas with piano on top, and re-arranges house songs piano/orchestra style, it’s pretty unique and amazing. Here’s a word about it from the maestro himself

“Chilly Gonzales presents the first-ever piano mixtape “Pianist’s Envy”. You know those rap beats and electro songs with almost nothing in them? “Tipsy”, “Grindin’”, “A Milli”, “Rollin’ and Scratchin’”, “Single Ladies”? Chilly goes all Liberace on these beats with his piano and his orchestra. Claude Von Stroke, 50 Cent, Kelly Clarkson, Rocky Balboa and Gonzo himself all make cameos. Dropping mid-February 2010 via chillygonzales.com.”

50 Cent – Many Men (Gonzales piano version) (zShare)

Tracklist for the mixtape + tourdates for the piano talk show after the jump.

Tipsy
Many Men
Touch It
Vocal Chords (Claude Von Stroke)
A Milli
Grindin’
Rollin’ and Scratchin ‘
Single Ladies

Gonzales will be in doing his “piano talk show” in NYC at Joe’s Pub every thursday with a different guest:

Feb 4th (with Sia)
Feb 11th (with Andrew WK)
Feb 18th (with A-Trak)
Feb 25th (with Princess Superstar)

A-Trak gives us a killer remix of fellow Canadian, Toronto rapper Drake and his track “Money To Blow”. (Via October’s Very Own)

A-Trak x Drake – Loonies To Blow (Mediafire)