SAR Q&A List

B’O’K
February 5, 2007

*Name: B’O’K

*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: buttress o’kneel

*Do you use a pseudonym? Yes! When yr making illegal and/or anti-governmental music, it's probably best to keep under the radar.

*Members: buttress o'kneel. I'm not a band, just a person.

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: Mostly digital. although, a decade ago, it was all tape work - but now it's pretty much all done on the computer. It just seems the fastest way to create high quality pieces.

*Another genre descriptor: Well, musically, I've coined the word "compop" (as in "composted music" - audiomulch that keeps getting remixed into itself to fertilize the
brain) to refer to most of my non-political musical pieces. I use "hyperpop" for some
of my cut-up multi-layered pop stuff, "memecore" for the bastardised breakcore pop-destruction, "megabastard" for my megamixed-multi-bastard-pop music, while "docubreaks" and "audiodocumentaries" are the terms I most often use for my more overtly political stuff. But, as I am fully aware that all humyn words are fabrications superimposed on the "real,” I try to come up with as many new terms as I can. New words = new brain paths = mind-freedom from the reptilian-grey agenda. My little intro-phrase on my myspace page at the moment calls me the "p!nk of hard hyperpop memecore docubreaks"... So there you go.

*Location: Australia. America's lil geek brother who'll do anything to get big bro
on-side.

*What is your creative/artistic background: Sampling. With media-sampling, instruments are obsolete. If you hate your tv, make your own. If pop is trying to destroy your mind with jingles, use those jingles to create art. My art is a battle. My music is a weapon. Is
this the kind of answer yr after? My background is that I've been doing it for ages.

*History: I started doing tape stuff a decade ago... forever ago!

*Born: Let's just say my physical being was born in the mid seventies, and my creative being was born about ten years ago.

*Motivations/Philosophy: Again, it's the necessity of it all. Basically, sampling IS existence. We ARE BIOLOGICAL SAMPLERS. When a child learns a word, it is sampling the word (sound/image/etc) into its biosampler, for use later on: When we
speak, we are recontextualising old samples. Creativity of any sort is sampling: When Michaelangelo painted, he wasn't inventing the brush, or the paint, or the idea of applying chemicals to a surface to alter that surface's perceptual-colour to the humyn brain: He was just using all that had come before to rehash in a new way. All culture is sampling! I'm probably ranting here, but it seems so clear to me, and so unmentioned by anyone
else. LIFE IS RE-USE! THOUGHT IS SAMPLING! There, I've said it again.

So, that said, I do what I do because it's all anyone can do. But the BATTLE aspect of what I do is a choice. Basically, when we interact with the greater world, we make a choice: Do I accept what is there already, or do I use it to make something else? When a song has been designed to be “catchy,” or "popular" (as all "pop" music is), it has been designed to take control of your brain! To brainwash you! To get stuck in your mind and
repeat itself again and again - this is what the notion of "catchy" is! It uses psychology and trend-analysis and basic brain-washing techniques to lodge itself in your brain and LIVE there. So, do I accept this? Or do I use this and try to free my neurones? I can't help but choose the recontextualising path of freedom. This is a battle of the mind, and it's a
battle I'm determined to win.

*How would you like to be remembered: I don't think I will be remembered! In the geological scale of things, when this planet has been eaten by the expanding sun and humyns (as they currently exist) no longer inhabit the solar system, I doubt ANY of us
will be remembered. But, as far as short-scale humyn memory goes, I'd like to be
remembered as someone who was on the side of ACTUAL freedom, a bio-anarchist,
post-feminist, grrlcore electroactivist who did her best not to succumb to the reptiles.

*Web address: myspace.com/buttressokneel

ATOM
July 23, 2009

*Name: ATOM

*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: ATOM aka Precious Roy aka Matt Inconiglios

*Do you use a pseudonym? Yup - see the first two questions above.

*Members: My full name is Matthew Adam Inconiglios

*Founding Members: Just me, and the voices in my head.

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: Digital deconstructions.

*Is there a story behind your name? The story behind "ATOM" is this... way back since I was a little kid, I used to draw pictures of techy things like jets and cars, etc. I figured my projects should have a name of some kind. While thinking of names, I thought my middle name, Adam, might work. It didn't look techy though. But then I realized when I said "Adam" it kinda sounded like "atom"... and there you have it.

*Location: Stamford, CT... about 40 min. outside of NYC, USA.

*Original Location: New York.

*What is your creative/artistic background: Artist: sonic & visual. DJ/music self-taught. Graphics via Paier College of Art.

*History: About 10+ years now.

*Born: Mineola, NY. My birthdate is 04MAY72.

*Motivations: Because I hear wiggly bouncey sounds and I need to get them out of me.

*Philosophy: Make something interesting and have fun.

*How would you like to be remembered: An impatient perfectionist, with a penchant for all things fun & odd.

*Web address:
http://www.myspace.com/atommatt
http://www.fusionthink.com

Antediluvian Rocking Horse
January 15, 2006

*Name: Antediluvian Rocking Horse

*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: ARH, DJ1

*Do you use a pseudonym? DJ2 (Paul Wain) and DJ3 (SM King)

*Members: Paul Wain, Susan King, Ollie Olsen

*Founding Members: Paul Wain, Susan King

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: Dada. Anti-art. We are Sonic Culture Actuality Reabsorber Satellites.

*Another genre descriptor: Opaque music

*Location: Melbourne, Australia

*What is your creative/artistic background: Paul Wain is a sculptor. SM King is a writer and visual artist. Ollie Olsen is a musician.

*History: ARH formed on April 23rd, 1994.

*Born: We were all born in or near Melbourne between the years 1958-1971.

*Philosophy: Folk music, random occurences, bricolage. We use whatever is at hand, live and in the studio, to produce sound. Analogue cassette, radio and TV, reel-to-reel, various keyboards, turntables, CDs, effect pedals, and drum machines have all made their way into our sets. When we play live we use no headphones and rarely tell the other what we have in our audio arsenal. Anything can happen. We like to have as many sources in the mix as possible, to find the point at which DJ1 has taken over and neither DJ2 or DJ3 can determine what sound is from which source - an unpredictable 'third record' of sorts. Our recorded output has more structure. We take inspirations while playing 'live' - how different elements conversed amongst themselves, back to the studio to create tracks for our CDs. Our basic motivator is "Do whatever you can with whatever you can get your hands on." ARH is administered by the Potential Fossil Assemblage and underwritten by the Cultural Mechanics Institute.
How would you like to be remembered: As...."those people who used to play really weird s*** at parties that did my head in."

*Web address: http://www.starttransmission.com

Animals Within Animals
February 20, 2006

*Name: Animals Within Animals

*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: We generally abbreviate it AWIA. Personally I'm not big on using uppercase letters so I abbreviate it awia. We're cool with however you want to spell it, but I like to spell it that way because it lets me rip off the logo from the aiwa corporation.

*Do you use a pseudonym? Generally, all the group's collaborators use pseudonyms. Obviously stAllio! is not my given name (though I understand Stallio is Italian
for Stanley, and in Italian, Laurel and Hardy are called "Stallio e Ollio").

*Members: AWIA is a loosely organized collective. Membership rules are very relaxed. Some of our members do little other than collect (or create) a few samples. Other members (like me) also put in a lot of time actually producing the music that we release. As such, it is very difficult to give a true (and meaningful) number of band members
without categorizing them into groups such as active, inactive, potential, etc. If we included everyone, including those who have technically not done any work yet, it would be something like 30-40 or more people, but only a small number of us play a significant role in the group. When we play live, we typically have 2-5 or so get together onstage.
only a handful of the 30-40 people have been involved with our live shows.

*Founding Member: The band was founded by me and Lander Kitt. For years, we promoted Lander Kitt as an extremely reclusive artist who never traveled, appeared in public, or even answered his email. There was an interview with him around '99 or so, but that was the extent of his public communication: http://www.geocities.com/animalswithinanimals/interview.html
Eventually it was revealed that Lander Kitt was in fact a brown tabby cat, which was why he never left the house or answered emails. Lander eventually passed away this January.
http://www.animalswithinanimals.com/stallio/2006/02/rip-leland-lander-kitt-19982006.html
http://www.animalswithinanimals.com/stallio/2006/02/friday-cat-bending-in-memoriam.html
I must note that anytime Lander was credited with performing in a track, the track did involve sounds he'd generated, whether by meowing, walking across a keyboard/sampler, purring, etc. I even thought about releasing a Lander Kitt solo album, but he was a quiet cat and not easy to record, and with his passing that will now never happen. It might
have been interesting, though. Other members from those early days include Dr. Butcher M.D., murkbox, Mainline Crux, and Chicklet McSexy. They are all humans.

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: We're more digital than anything else, but …different members work differently. We have some members (like unszene) who work primarily with tape. Other members (most notably bobby vomit) work mostly with vinyl. Our first release, "Yard Ape", was mostly analog, recorded on a 4-track, but our subsequent material has been predominantly digital.

*Another genre descriptor: I generally describe it as somewhere between collage and hardcore/harsh noise.

*Location: Much of the band is located in central Indiana, primarily Indianapolis
but also Muncie, Bloomington, and surrounding areas. All the members of the "live" version of the band generally live in this area, but because of the group's open collaborative nature, we have worked online with a number of people from both coasts as well as Canada. We have never met most of these non-midwestern members in person.

*What is your creative/artistic background: I have a BA in writing and work as a copy editor in the publishing industry. I was always interested in music but wasn't good with
traditional instruments, so I wasn't really able to do much with music until I got into recording tech and computer composition, etc. Several of our other members have art degrees and/or have backgrounds in rock music, dance/rave music, etc.

*History: AWIA was founded in 1999. I'd already been making music for a few
years at that point.

*Motivations: This is really hard to answer. I create because I am compelled to and
it's fun. I make the kinds of music and art that I find interesting (and that I can figure out how to do). I've always been interested in ironic juxtapositions, so when I got into sampling and collage it felt very natural. Hopefully, my answer below gets at what you're looking for.

*Philosophy: I founded AWIA because I'd been making solo music for a few years and I
wanted to collaborate with other people. I wanted my collaborations to be productive, so that if I only made 1 or 2 tracks with someone, I would have somewhere to put those tracks, rather than having 20 unfinished side projects. So, I created Animals Within Animals as a "catch all" project, sort of modeled after the band Pigface, where I could put anything I 'd done with other people and call it a "band".

Not long after that I started to get really into Negativland and audio collage, and so everything I did in that vein got the AWIA name stamped on it regardless of whether other people worked on it. Eventually, I realized I wouldn't be able to keep the collage side out of my solo work and stopped doing that.

Some time after that, AWIA started doing live shows, primarily for the recycled rainbow events in Cleveland. At that point, the band changed again, becoming much more raw and noisy (which was sort of where we'd started out).

It's hard to say exactly what AWIA is or what we're about at any moment. It's partly about doing interesting work and collaborating with other people. We don't always collaborate as much as I'd like--many of our tracks only have one "producer", regardless where the samples come from--but I like hearing what other members are doing, being influenced by that, letting our records go in directions I wouldn't have expected.

I like making stuff that's funny, stuff that's political and humorous at the same time, or stuff that creates cognitive dissonance; and I also like finding unusual sounds and making beats and stuff like that. I don't want to be stereotyped as jokey or novelty music. I really
despise that term "novelty music".

For me, AWIA's music is about samples and noise. Beyond that, it's really about whatever we want it to be at that moment. The stuff we're working on now is kind of about merging the divergent aspects of the group, the meticulously composed studio work vs. the really raw, noisy live version of the band. Part of it is remixing our old live material into new compositions. Right now I 'm really interested in exploring a kind of hyper-editing where I take lots of different little noises and splice them together in a rapid fashion. It's kind of like musique concrete except there's a funny/obscene vocal sample every 15-30 seconds. Other members might put a different spin on it. And after we're done with our new record (tentatively titled "Parts is Parts"), I can't guess what might come next.

*How would you like to be remembered: Fondly. Simply being remembered in a field like this is significant. If people are still listening to AWIA however many years from now, that in itself would be great.

*Web address: animalswithinanimals.com

DJ Angelo
August 26, 2010

*Name: DJ Angelo

*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: My full name is Angelo Tun.

*Members: Just me (and my turntables!)

*Founding Members: Me!

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: Turntable Creations - I’m a turntablist, party DJ, producer/remixer, DJ Tutor, videographer…….video-game enthusiast! After soon getting bored with mixing and blending music, I explored turntablism which satisfied my desire to use turntables to the fullest, and I discovered ways of harnessing the turntable as a musical instrument. I now try and represent the entire art of DJing and have tried my hand at club DJing, DJ battles, producing mixtapes, conceptual turntable compositions, music production, performing with other musicians, teaching DJing etc.

*Another genre descriptor: I describe my sound as “Feel Good Fusion” because when I perform live, I cut and blend a lot of different genres to create good vibes for my audience. Aside from the turntablism, I first and foremost enjoy rocking parties and I try to embody everything that a DJ should be as an entertainer.

*Is there a story behind your name? It didn’t take too much thought! When I was younger, I did use the name “Scratchmo” for about a year before I decided it sounded ridiculous, so just opted for my name to keep things simple!

*Location: I’m based in the UK , currently living in the Midlands, near Nottingham .

*Original Location: I’ve lived all over the UK , starting out in Brixton, London .

*What is your creative/artistic background: Since I was a child, I’ve always been into music and technology so when I discovered DJing, I immediately knew it was something I wanted to do. I’ve also really been interested in video since my father bought a camcorder when I was 7 years old. After school, I studied a Media Technology degree at university and now I guess I’m able to tie all of my passions together.

*History: I’ve been a DJ for about 14 years in total but only went full-time at it 5 years ago.

*Born: I was originally born in Rangoon, Burma but my family emigrated to the UK when I was a baby.

*Motivations: I’m motivated to make a significant impact with people from all over the world, and use the art of DJing to communicate and promote positivity. Having been a DJ for years, I’ve experience first-hand just how powerful music is as a universal language, and the direct relationship it has with human emotion. Turntablism has the ability to convey this on a higher level… I honestly feel that I was destined to be a DJ because, it’s something that came very naturally to me and I’ve loved it since I was at school. Even though I may have ventured on other career paths, I could never contain my love of music and my passion for entertaining people.

*Philosophy: I’m passionate about keeping the “lost art of DJing” alive and showcasing turntablism to bigger audiences and bigger platforms. Despite technology hurtling forward at a great pace, turntablism has and always will be about human skill, creativity, and dedicated years of practice - a culture that surely deserves respect! In recent years, I discovered my ability to teach and inspire others and I now produce popular turntablism tutorial videos for DJ Tutor and YouTube, as well as hosting numerous community DJ classes and workshops. This helps me to share important information about the artform I know and love, to a new generation of DJs. Reaching my own potential is a personal goal and so I always encourage my students to be the best they can be.

*How would you like to be remembered: I would like to be remembered as a genuine all-round DJ entertainer, who drew his inspirations from pioneers such as Grandmaster Flash, Jazzy Jeff, DJ Craze, and DJ Kentaro. In turn I hope to have inspired new DJs to discover turntablism and to continue elevating the artform.

*Web address: www.djangelo.co.uk

The Angel
February 21, 2008

*Name: The Angel

*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: I have two separate recording projects: The Angel - which is left of center urban, (and) 60 Channels - which is electronic and eclectic and features vocalists from many genres outside of the electronic realm.

*Do you use a pseudonym? (yes)

*Members: I feature various guest musicians and vocalists, so there are no set members as such, besides myself. I'm part of what became a new wave of producer/artists that started happening in the mid 90's, where the concept of "a band" with a lead singer and a set group of musicians shifted and it became more about the artist, dj or producer as a band. Guest Vocalists include: Angie Hart, Tre Hardson, Navigator, Divine Styler, DJ Collage, Karen Grant, Rain Phoenix, Monday Michiru, Mystic. Guest Musicians include: Robert Russell (Acoustic and Electric Bass), Louis Russell (Guitar), Katisse Buckingham (Sax, Flutes and an array of exotic Wood wind instruments), DJ Drez (Turntablism, Scratching), Kevin Herlihy (Guitar).

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: Digital deconstructions - I have a musical background as a keyboard player and songwriter, but I also think like a DJ, and have the skills of a true tech head - I always write from pure instinct and feel, not from musical theory or formula. I blend all sorts of seemingly disparate elements from any number of genres and have no fear about distressing sounds and effecting sounds to create something unique. I've pulled sounds from the natural environment, like traffic and urban ambience. I've recorded acoustic instruments in non traditional ways and have blended high end orchestral sample libraries with all sorts of synthetic sounds all in a very irreverent way. I have a real aversion to the purists and a great love for all of the analogue and digital technology at my fingertips.

*Another genre descriptor: Both projects, although different from each other, have been described as dubby, trippy, eclectic with hip hop and drum 'n bass riddims. Since the birth of the tag, dubstep, I've been reminded by many fans that I've been creating what people now refer to as "dubstep" tracks since day one.

*Is there a story behind your name? No not really.

*Location: I'm from Brooklyn, by way of London and currently based in Los Angeles.

*Original Location: Born in Brooklyn.

*What is your creative/artistic background: My creative/artistic background is as a programmer, keyboard player, producer/writer - someone who has embraced many generations of technological progressions... From analogue tape with all hands on deck mixing to fully digital in the box protools mixing. I've progressed from producing records, remixing and now composing for films (including "Boiler Room"and "KiDULTHOOD) and TV ("Standoff"and "WEST 10 LDN").

*History: The Angel moniker was created when I signed to Delicious Vinyl back in '93. 60 Channels was born in '98.

*Born: My guest vocalists are an international group from Australia, the UK, Japan and all over the US.

*Motivations: Writing, recording and playing music creates my safe haven. It gives me the opportunity to escape the world and explore a completely new environment with every project I work on. When I'm working to picture, it is even more all encompassing. I might as well be on another planet while working on these projects - It's inspiring and rejuvenating.

*Philosophy:

*How would you like to be remembered: I'd like to be remembered as someone who was never afraid to try something new and trust her instincts... The good vibes bringer... as I nod my head toward Navigator (MC) who is the original Vibesbringer!

*Web address:
www.theangelsoundclash.com
www.myspace.com/theangelsoundclash

Ruth Anderson
9/30/09

Dear Jon, I went through the questions with Ruth so here are her responses. Plus a brief description of 'Dump' which she wrote back in 1986… Best wishes, Ruth and Annea

*Name: Ruth Anderson

*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: Ruth Anderson is my full name.

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: It is a tape collage (analog). The media are “Dump”s topic and the "dump sounds" were recorded in a studio… Here's a description of “Dump” (1970) written in 1986: "Collage of folk songs, pop tunes and electronically generated "dump sounds" to form a social commentary from World War 1 through the sixties."

*Location: New York based

*Original Location: Kalispell, MT

*What is your creative/artistic background: Composer, flautist, and orchestrator for NBC (1960-66) and Lincoln Center Theater (1966). She designed and directed the Hunter College (CUNY) Electronic Music Studio (1966 - 89) where she also taught composition and theory.

*History: Her earliest compositions date from 1950.

*Born: 3/21/28 Kalispell, MT

*Motivations: Anyone's life at any moment is a collage.

*Philosophy: To be aware in the moment.

*Web address: Here is her entry at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Anderson

Jim Allenspach
April 17, 2007

*Name: Jim Allenspach

*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: Yes, I've used the name "jima" or "Jim A." in the past. The derivations of these names should be obvious.

*Do you use a pseudonym? See above.

*Members: There's just me! The computer doesn't count.

*Founding Members: Me me me! It's all about me!

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: All of my current work is digital, but I did start out with traditional tape editing and manipulation at my college radio station (WRBU, Bradley University). We had a bunch of old cast-off studio equipment and it was always exciting to try and use the tape decks, reel-to-reels, and cart
machines to try and craft something entertaining.

*Another genre descriptor: I like the term "audio collage" because it has a more artistic
connotation. Plus, it also ties in with other collage artwork that I've done in the past.

*Location: I've been living in Chicago since 1995, and I consider that my home.

*Original Location: I've lived loads of different places in the continental US. My family
mostly lives in central Illinois.

*What is your creative/artistic background: Not much in the way of formal training. I had only one art class in school, and no musical training until I was an adult. I do a lot more
drawing and design work than a person of my modest talents should feasibly take on.

*History: I believe I started to create collages in 1997 or '98, when I got inspired by the artists on the Negativland mailing list, Snuggles, to try and work on my own creations. It's been a humbling experience to try and make unique audio art out of samples, especially when there are so many people currently doing outstanding work.

*Born: Late 1960s, central Illinois.

*Motivations: A lot of my motivation comes from the fact that it's just fun to put together different audio samples and create something new out of them. There's an astounding amount of media out there, and technology is allowing us to capture it, to catalog it, and to combine it in ways that were not possible just a few years ago. The possibility of making up something that could not have been heard or seen before is very tempting.

*Philosophy: I don't think too much about the philosophy in my stuff, apart from the
obvious point that you can make new things out of old things. Sometimes there's an ironic point to be made, in the case of political sources, but most of the time the idea is to put two or more sources together and see what it sounds like.

*How would you like to be remembered: As long as possible.

*Web address: My main blog is www.empty-handed.com, but I'm trying to put up some
kind of artwork site as www.manminusone.com. I was hoping to have something up by the time this interview was to be published, but circumstances have interfered with that plan, so I will just put up a token information page at the latter site for you to link to, in case anyone's interested in my other audio/video works.

Aggro1
April 12, 2006

*Name: Aggro1

*Members: Tim Blore

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: Most definitely "digital deconstructions". Adobe Audition1.5 is the only tool I use to create my sonic-offspring. I know lot of mash-up artists are DJ's, but not me. I haven't even owned any vinyl since I was a wee lad in the early 80's. I think it was Olivia Newton-Johns "Physical" record(did I just say that out loud?)

*Location: I hail from the Buckeye state, Ohio, in a little town called Dayton. It's blue-collar, kinda' boring and definitely lacking any knowledge about the mash scene. In fact, besides the people who I play my tunes for, I don't think anyone I know even has a clue about mash-ups. Unless you count that Linkin Park/Jay-Z thing...I don't.

*What is your creative/artistic background: ????

*History: After listening to mash-ups since 2001, I finally decided to get my hands dirty about a year and half ago. In that time, I've made somewhere around 250 mashes. It's almost time to retire and cruise America in a Winnebago, I think.

*Born: 9 months after my parents did their own "mash-up", I joined the world at the end of February, 1973 in Topeka, Kansas. Yee-haw!

*Motivations: Well, originally I picked this up because I wasn't hearing any of the aggressive music(namely metal) I mainly listened to being used in mash-ups. So I decided to do it for myself. But I've branched out a bit more and now only occasionally do those types of mashes. But that's still my main love. Plus, I've always wanted to create music. I play a little guitar, keyboards and drums but not well enough to put something together worth listening to. So this is what the world gets musically from me.

*Philosophy: Keep practicing at this, and someday, hopefully, I'll get paid to do what I love to do.

*How would you like to be remembered: As still alive. And as someone who was pretty prolific yet still retained quality material.

*Web address: http://www.aggro1.com/

A plus D
June 14, 2007

*Name: We are DJs Adrian & The Mysterious D. We produce mashups under our bootlegger moniker A plus D, and we're the creators of Bootie, America's first, and now the world's biggest mashup bootleg party. Our first Bootie party started in San Francisco in 2003, and we have a sister party, Bootie LA, in Los Angeles started in 2005, and this year, brand new Bootie parties in New York (run by us) and in Paris (run by our bootlegger pal ComaR and his posse).

*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: "Poster children of the American mashup scene!" We always loved that one.

*Do you use a pseudonym? Adrian doesn't. Deidre does. (Whoops! We just revealed the mystery behind the "Mysterious D"!)

*Members: Just us ... two (Adrian Roberts, Deidre Roberts). However, Bootie wouldn't be what it is today without the international bootleg community and a tight group of fellow bootlegger friends.

*Founding Members: Us: Adrian & the Mysterious D.

*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: Of those three descriptors, definitely "digital deconstructions." Although, it's more like we're RE-contructors -- we take songs and instead of just taking them apart, we put them back together in new and interesting ways. We're mashup producers/DJs.

*Another genre descriptor: Are we the last ones left who don't think that the term "mashup" is a bad word? ;-)

*Why you use this descriptor: ... 'cuz we "mash" up songs. :-) The name of our club Bootie is actually short for “bootleg,” another word for mashup made popular in the UK. However, if you say you play "bootlegs" in San Francisco, people think it means you spin songs from old Bob Dylan or Grateful Dead live concert bootleg recordings! So the word mashup explains what we do a bit better.

*Location: San Francisco is our home base, although we've got "offices" (ha ha - actually, our friends' apartments) in LA and NYC, where we stay at one weekend a month, almost every month -- to do the LA and NYC Bootie parties.

*Original Location: A is originally from Ohio. D is originally from Texas.

*What is your creative/artistic background: We've both been intimately involved with music since our early teens. In college, Adrian studied art and theatre, while programming the college radio station. After college, he started a rock band, where he was the singer for nine years. D has been an avid music collector and maker of popular "mixtapes" since the word mixtape still meant assorted musical gems mixed together on a cassette. :-) Both of us have a voracious love of music from all kinds of genres and eras.

*History: We've been working together as a DJ team since 2002.

*Born: Adrian was born in Melrose, Massachusetts, in 1968. D was born in Springfield, Illinois, in 1972.

*Motivations: We love music of so many different styles, genres, and eras. And we love to bring it all together. We love looking around at our club Bootie and seeing such a truly diverse crowd of people -- ages, styles, sexualities, you name it -- all smiles and hands in the air, dancing together to the music that we love. We love how our mashup club's music inspires connection between groups of people that might normally not share a dance floor, and how it lends itself to an unpretentious good time.

*Philosophy: To bring disparate musical genres together in an effort to make statements about music and pop culture ... and for the pure pleasure of hearing old and new favorites in a fresh way.

*How would you like to be remembered: As the couple who were instrumental in bringing a wider awareness and acceptance of mashup bootleg culture to the world ... and who threw a great party doing it!

*Web address:
http://www.AplusD.net
http://www.BootieUSA.com