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European Tour Journal posted to the Bootie Blog A
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plus D interviewed on Some Assembly Required Photos from
"The A+D Show" posted! Digital Bootleggers – The
Mash-Up Scene In San Francisco
It was A plus D Week on GYBO! The first week of October 2006 was A+D Week, as we released six new mashups on the internet. These new tracks are now posted here, and all are available to download. Check on the right side of this page.
BOOTIE
got listed in the the July 2006 issue of Spin magazine
in their '101 Best Nights Out This Month' section, along with a photo
of Adrian with DJ Zebra. See below:
There's a great article about the local mashup scene, called "Mix and mash-up," in the October 5th, 2005 edition of San Jose Mercury News. Adrian and the Mysterious D are quoted, and their club Bootie is featured prominently. This is the first article that really showcases mashups from the local angle, focusing on many talented Bay Area bootleggers. Best DJ/Selector nominee – SF Weekly Music Awards, 2004 "Vinyl-only DJs may sniff at this pair's hard drives, but Adrian & the Mysterious D certainly know how to rock the party. In August 2003, the dynamic duo started "Bootie," the first ever U.S. club night devoted wholly to the bastard pop form known as "mash-ups" (songs comprised of the instrumental from one tune and the vocal from another, usually downloaded from the web). Inspired by a similar night held in London, the two DJs combed the internet for the best of these illegal bootlegs, then brought them to their monthly party at the Cherry Bar. Besides sending audiences into spasms of joy over boots that mixed Nirvana with Michael Jackson and Eminem with the Smiths, Adrian & the Mysterious D showcased an unerring sense of fun, offering cheap drink specials, midnight pizza parties, pirate fashion shows, and hot go-go dancers during their gigs. Committedly unpretentious and ready to rock, Adrian & the Mysterious D deliver the perfect remedy for San Francisco's occasionally snooty, often staid dance scene."– SF Weekly, October 10, 2004 San Francisco Bay Guardian Best of the Bay, 2004 "Glam couple Adrian & the Mysterious D throw three parties, and each is its own special freak show. At the monthly Bootie, for example, drag queens dress like pirates from outer space, and the soundtrack is entirely driven by bootleg mash-ups (e.g. the unholy union of Madonna and Deep Purple). The Guilty crowd Fridays at the Stud is met with danceable rock and more bootlegs, everybody dances, and half of everybody has taken his or her clothes off by night's end. The Cinch's Thursday night bar party, Smashed, is a mellower affair whose (ir)regulars are a fifty-fifty mix of dirty gay trendoids and older men from the era when Polk was the hot gay part of town. There, Adrian and the Mysterious D play whatever they frickin' feel like between joining the crowd for shots at the bar. Whatever party the two are promoting, however, is a sure bet for a strange crowd and a good time." – SF Bay Guardian, July 28, 2004 |
A PLUS D mashups We create our own mashups under our bootlegger moniker, A plus D. Newer stuff: XMAS
SONG
2008! Dancing Lollipop
Queen Fascination Umbrella Fascination
Machine I
Keep
Forgettin
To
Regulate Believe
In Sexual
Eruption Greatest hits: Pour
Some
Hot
Sugar Decepta-Freak-On Standing
In The Way Of Connection
Beethoven's
Fifth Gold Digger KANYE
WEST vs. BEETHOVEN vs. WALTER MURPHY Don't
Stop Believin' In Planet Rock Celeshake You
Believe Me We
Got
The
Soulja
Boy Sexy
Peek-A-Boo (I'm Bringing Siouxsie Back) Love
Will Tear You Apart (She Wants Originality) Close
To Call
Me Hung Up An
Honest M.I.A. $20
Monday More mashups: Nelly
Furtado's Crazy Oh
Yeah
Yeah! Decepta-Freak-On Dafter |
When
they're not huddled over a hot PowerBook playing with Ableton Live,
or digital crate-digging for the latest bastard pop creations, the
duo can be found at various parties, mixing an eclectic blend of pop,
electro, indie
dance rock, hip-hop, and whatever else moves
a dance floor. Quite simply, they know how to bring the party. They
have played such events as private parties for the Scissor Sisters,
gigs alongside Peaches and Princess Superstar, as well as spinning
at events featuring artists from Lady Sovereign to Nina Hagen to The
Killers. The duo have also played overseas, with gigs in London, Paris,
Berlin, Amsterdam, Munich, and Copenhagen, and most recently Hong Kong. 
Revenge
Of The A+D Show at Bootie on Saturday, August 9th 
Adrian & the Mysterious D interview
in Time Out Hong Kong 
Adrian & the
Mysterious D interviewed in the SF Weekly The
October 18, 2006 issue features a lengthly article called "DJ
Culture 101: the Critical Mash Honors Club," where Adrian and
D discuss mashup culture and their club Bootie. This was the issue
that came out the same day as the SF Weekly Music Awards at
the Warfield Theatre, where A+D were nominated in the "Best DJ" category,
and also spun for the VIP reception. You can read the article 
Bootie
voted "Best Dance Club" in the Readers Poll of the San
Francisco Bay Guardian's BEST OF THE BAY 2006! The Guardian writes: "Dancing to a catchy song at a club just isn't enough for
our readers. They want to dance to two catchy songs — at the same
time. Such is the alluring magic of mashups, and of club Bootie at DNA
Lounge ... Bootie loves to fuck with pop culture, two songs at a time,
every second Friday of the month." You can read more 
Three
A plus D mashups appear on the CD The Best Mashups In The World
Ever Are From San Francisco 2, 
the
sequel to last year's underground compilation sensation. 13 Bay Area
DJs and mashup artists have bootlegs on this new, 19-track CD. It has
great sonic quality, and sounds as if it were digitally mastered, as
opposed to simply burned from MP3s. You can read all about it 
DJs
Adrian and the Mysterious D are interviewed in A+B,
a short documentary about mashups directed by