I wanted to hip DBJ family to a site called Legitmix.  This is a site that lets you sell edits and bootlegs through a pretty simple and equitable model.  The buyer purchases the bootleg but, incorporated in that purchase price, is a purchase of the original source material through iTunes.  The buyer gets the edit [...]

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I have so much unreleased music. I really don’t know what to do with most of it. Some of it will be out soon, some of it may never come out. I play some of it out, some of it I have never played for anybody. Some of it was written for Calvin Klein commercials [...]

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I have a new remix out today for Philly-based One Era. I got hit up out of the blue to do this one and couldn’t say no after listening to the original material. Really good stuff from a group that is gonna go places. This one is kind of a dark number – a long, [...]

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A few weeks ago, Daft Punk put out the first of two teasers ahead of their May album Random Access Memories. God damn if it wasn’t funky – a really organic, warm groove. What does the rest of it sound like? Where does it go from here? For lack of a full song to listen [...]

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If you’ve been following me for a while, you probably know that one of my most successful and most beloved projects is my group RCMP – a duo with Pittsburgh’s Relative Q. In a nutshell, we made a bunch of space disco in the late 2000s before that started to get cool, we put it [...]

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I have an original track on a new compilation from LA’s PYT Records. The compilation features some slo-mo and laid back disco cuts from some of my favorites in the game like Venice Beach and Solidisco. I’m really excited to get this new record out there, I have been sitting on it and playing it [...]

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What kind of Valentine’s Day is it gonna be? For the first time, get free downloads of Mustache Love by RCMP, my edit of Because The Night and more. A Love Hangover? Any Time Is Right For Makin’ Love? One for the Mustache Lover in You? A Night for the One You’re Crazy Bout? I’ll [...]

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Young Robots Mixseries Vol. 5 – DJ Apt One’s Lovecast (Live) by Youngrobots on Mixcloud I put together a live mix of love favorites as a party favor for guests at my wedding in 2011. These are tunes that mean a lot to me and to my wife Erica. With Valentine’s Day coming up, I [...]

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Last week I tweeted that I would release a free edit on soundcloud as a token of thanks for reaching 3,000 followers. So, as promised, here’s a tune from my vault of recent edits and bootlegs I make for my DJ sets. This is a bootleg of a tune from Kris Menace’s recent LP, Features. [...]

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In 2012 I put out two remixes for Gregor Salto’s new Downpitch imprint – one a remix for Gregor’s “Bouncing Harbour” and one a remix of Shakalakazoo’s Balkan jam “Zica Memo.” In December, Downpitch put out a year-end compilation with one of my tunes and some great stuff by Team Jaguar, Gregor Salto, DJ Sabo [...]

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