http://www.rollingstone.com/videos/new-and-hot/duck-sauce-big-bad-wolf-20111024

Duck Sauce ‘Big Bad Wolf’

“Big Bad Wolf” “is pretty simple, and it can mean anything, really, so we wanted the video to have its own narrative,” says A-Trak, one-half of the dance duo Duck Sauce, along with DJ Armand Van Helden. “Remember when dance music videos used to actually be creative? Like when you think back to Aphex Twin, Fatboy Slim and Daft Punk… I don’t know why the genre’s videos became so generic in recent years.

“When Keith [Schoffield] came up with this idea of ‘crotchfaces,’ we just thought it was hilarious,” A-Trak continues. “He started coming up with all these gags and describing the characters living in this sort of parallel world, and we were sold. He wasn’t sure if we’d be down to play the leads, but our take on this was, if we’re going to do this, we need to go all the way. So we played the dickheads, essentially.”

Very sad hearing DJ Mehdi passed away yesterday. I was just listening to his and Thomas Bangalter’s track; “Signatune” today, when I was rehearsing my new dj system. 

It has been reported that DJ Mehdi has died following a fatal accident in which he fell from a roof at his home in France. The incident happened last night and has shocked the dance community. Two other people have also been hospitalised. DJ Mehdi was 34-years-old. Taken from -> http://www.mixmag.net/2011/09/13/dj-mehdi-rip/

Found some comments from famous musicians; Firstly, my close friend in Amsterdam, Joost Van Bellen tweets - RT @joostvanbellen wishing all Mehdi’s friends and family lots of strenght and sending big big love to all. and he updated Rauw Blog also. - http://www.rauwblog.nl/?p=5362

Some other tweets are; 

• RT @ShinichiOsawa if its true totally sad….. RIP
• RT @daspop DJ Mehdi. Sad, sad news.
• RT @atrak I have no words. My heart is completely shattered. Not this.
• RT @oizo3000 saddest news ever I have no words
• FB_Mixmaster Morris RIP DJ Mehdi

Too young to die. We lost many talented musicians n’ DJs this year, for example, Japanese people encountered shocking news of Rei Harakami in July, and that made me feel loss and end of adolescence.  (I payed tribute to him at my “Happiness” compilation.) 

Please don’t stop playing his nice tracks, deejays! Of course, I won’t stop doing that. Rest in peace, DJ Mehdi. - Kota. 

DJ rehearsal that I did today. w/ playlist. 

1. -Knight Moves gonzales
2. -Baby Can’t Stop lindstrom
3. -Mirror Neurotic cornelius + salyu x salyu
4. -Summer’s Day Song (inst) mccartney2
5. -Swan Lake m.arfmann
6. -A Fifth of Beethoven soulwax rmx
7. -Guilty of Love ‘05 mylo
8. -Heaven Can’t Wait s.gainsbourg
9. -Happy s-seltmann
10. -’S Wonderful brian wilson
11. -Shall We Dance? taeko onuki