Ever heard of Rubix ?. This amazing guy comes from the Netherlands and is backed up by none other than Laidback Luke himself. Then everyone would think that he would produce Dutch House like Laidback Luke or Chuckie. But no, Rubix‘s music ranges from Disco-House to Electro. Check it for yourself:
If you looked at yesterday’s Music Tuesdays on Youtube, you probably caught this disco throwback video:
While it may look like it belongs in the seventies, the track is actually the first single from Duck Sauce, the collaboration of two dance music legends, Armand Van Helden and A-Trak.
Armand Van Helden is an American remixer who’s famous for making one of the biggest house tracks of the 90′s, a remix of Tori Amos’ Professional Widow.
Van Helden’s racked up quite a prolific discography, with his European chart-topping singles “My My My” and “U Don’t Know Me,” alongside a slew remixes for Daft Punk, Puff Daddy, Ayumi Hamasaki, and The Rolling Stones. And he’s no stranger to funk either. In fact, one of his biggest singles was this classic:
The other half of this superduo is Canadian A-trak, who from a young age was recognized as one of the world’s most talented DJs. He won the prestigious DMCs World DJ Championship in 1997 when he was only 15:
His list of accomplishments kept piling up. He won five more DJ championships by the time he was 18, developed his own notation system for turntabling, and in 2004 became Kanye West’s tour DJ. In recent years he’s been running the Fool’s Gold label and has turned his hand towards producing, making 2008′s massive Say Whoa and this recent remix of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs:
But that doesn’t mean A-Trak has lost his DJ touch. Actually, far from it:
