A PLUS D -- NEWS

AUGUST 2010: EXCLUSIVE A+D ROBYN MASHUP ON NEW YORK POST POPWRAP
Why isn't Robyn's "Dancing On My Own" a hit in the U.S.? It's a summertime smash over in Europe, but America has been slow to catch on. Perhaps by mashing it up with a #1 U.S. single from five years ago – in this case, the over-produced pop-rock of Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone" – we can help Robyn's chances of making it in America. At least we can try. Click here to get to the exclusive download, which is a remix of the original version, which can be found in the Mashup Downloads section.

MAY 2010: A+D BRING BOOTIE TO ASIA & BRAZIL! The world tour continues, as we bring Bootie to Hong Kong (KEE Club on 31 April) and Singapore (Zouk Club on 2 May), come home to San Francisco for a week, and then head off to Brazil, where we will help launch the debut of Bootie Rio (Fosfobox on 14 May) and then play the 12-Year anniversary of Grind at A Loca (16 May) in São Paulo! We've been working on some Brazilian-themed mashups, which we'll be posting after the tour.

FEBRUARY 2010: A+D EUROPE TOUR ANNOUNCED FOR APRIL! Yup, we're taking most of the month of April to galavant around Europe, launching new Bootie parties, playing a few one-offs, and of course, playing the already-established parties in Berlin and Munich. It's the "Bootie European Expansion Tour!" CLICK HERE for all the dates.

FEBRUARY 2010: Adrian & Mysterious D interviewed in the SF Weekly's "Hey DJ!" column. As the writer succinctly puts it: "On the eve of their red-themed Valentine's Day party, A Plus D teach us about making the perfect mashup, crafting a successful club night, and falling in love with classic rock through freshly mashed singles."

DECEMBER 2009: After seeing the Lady Gaga show in San Francisco, we mash her up! We just HAD to do SOMETHING with "Bad Romance" and so here we are, finding common ground between two songs nearly 28 years apart. May we present "Don't You Want My Bad Romance," where early '80s electro-pop pioneers Human League get a hot new singer! CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD Lady GaGa vs. Human League (AplusD MashupMix)
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AUGUST 2009: Adrian & Mysterious D voted "Best DJs" and Bootie voted "Best Club Theme Night" in the SF Weekly "Best of San Francisco 2009" Readers Poll!
Thank you so much to everyone who voted for us! We are elated and extremely grateful to have the best crowd a club could ask for!JUNE 2009: A Plus D mashup gets over ONE MILLION VIEWS on YouTube!
Beethoven's Fifth Gold Digger (Kanye West vs. Beethoven vs. Walter Murphy)  

MARCH 2009: A+D mashup – "Stardust Kids" (David Bowie vs. MGMT) – appears on Ziggy Stardust Remixed album.

VIDEO by AJ "HatPerson" Mazur (co-creator of "Cooking By The Book" A Lil Bigger Mix). MP4 video download here

FEBRUARY 2009: A+D return to China on March 5-7 for another Bootie Beijing!
Adrian & the Mysterious D will be flying to Beijing, China the first week in March 2009 to play a series of shows at the famed nightclub Centro, at the Shangri-La's Kerry Centre Hotel. The duo will be playing three nights from Thursday-Saturday, March 5-7, as part of a special presentation of Bootie Beijing, with Adrian's live mashup rock band Smash-Up Derby and DJ Beau Toxx.

AUGUST 2008: Revenge Of The A+D Show at Bootie on Saturday, August 9th
To celebrate Bootie's 5th Anniversary, Adrian & the Mysterious D presented "Revenge Of The A+D Show," a sequel to last year's epic multimedia mashup extravaganza, which featured their own mashups in a stage show combining mashup videos, drag numbers, live performances, go-go dancers, an audience sing-along, and even a live Guitar Hero mashup. The performers in the show were a veritable "who's who" from the SF underground. It was an hour-long feast for the senses, performed in front of nearly 1500 people ... TONS OF PHOTOS FROM THE SHOW HERE!

MAY 2008: Adrian & the Mysterious D interview in Time Out Hong Kong
There's a little interview of us in the Hong Kong version of Time Out magazine, plugging our Bootie Hong Kong party at Club JJ's at the Grand Hyatt. Read it here!

MAY 2008: A+D European Tour Journal posted to the Bootie Blog
We just returned from a 17-day European tour -- 7 gigs in 5 cities! You can read about our tour adventures on the Bootie Blog: www.bootieusa.com/blog

MARCH 2008: A Plus D article in the Salt Lake City Weekly
We got a nice feature write-up in the Salt Lake City Weekly to plug our appearance in SLC in March 2008. Check out the article here.

FEBRUARY 2008: "Smells Like Bootie" – Audio Porn Central interviews A plus D
It's everything you ever wanted to know about A plus D and our club Bootie, but were afraid to ask! It's all posted over at here at Audio Porn Central.

JANUARY 2008: A plus D interviewed on Some Assembly Required
We just did an online Q&A for Jon Nelson, the host and producer of the nationally-syndicated radio program, Some Assembly Required. You can read the interview on their blog here.

AUGUST 2007: Photos from "The A+D Show" posted!
On August 11, 2007, at the Bootie 4-Year Anniversary Party at the DNA Lounge, we staged "The A+D Show," a multimedia mashup extravaganza. This was no mere DJ set. We showcased our own mashups in a stage show which combined mashup videos, mashup movie shorts, go-go dancers, and several live performances including: live singing, drag performance, an audience sing-along, and even a live Guitar Hero mashup. There was something different for every song. The performances featured many of the "who's who" in the SF drag scene, and even had it's own theme dancers, The Glitter Hotties. Photos from this epic event can be found here!

JUNE 2007: Digital Bootleggers – The Mash-Up Scene In San Francisco
Bootie DJs and creators Adrian & the Mysterious D are interviewed in this new 6-minute video by filmmaker Michael Adrian, who has begun work on a documentary showcasing SF's mashup bootleg culture. Lots of shots of Bootie in action! Click here!


MARCH 2007: We're on Idolator! Or rather, our hot-off-the-laptop mashup, "Standing In The Way Of Connection," which mashes up The Gossip with Elastica, just got blurbed about on Idolator. For some reason, I will always associate this track with our first Bootie NYC party last weekend. You see, we went to New York the week before to promote for the party, and it seemed like every indie party we went to, it wouldn't be more than 15 minutes before some version of "Standing In The Way of Control" by The Gossip would get dropped. This song has been out for well over a year -- why is it getting so popular NOW? Anyway, we made this on our laptop on the plane flight over, and debuted it downstairs at Bootie NYC last Friday. It's indie-licious!

FEBRUARY 2007: Two A plus D tracks featured on the album, Mixed Emotions - Tunes for Valentines Day. Mashup Industries has just released this internet-only double album of mashed-up love songs, and we contributed two bootlegs, the Bootie sing-along favorite, "Don't Stop Believin' In Planet Rock," and a number custom-made for one of our midnight mashup shows, "Heart of Puppini." They can both be downloaded at right, or click on the cover at right to get to the whole album.

DECEMBER 2006: Our Sarah Silverman holiday mashup appears on Santastic II: Clausome! When San Francisco performance artist Foxy Cotton told us he wanted to perform Sarah Silverman's irreverent "Give The Jew Girl Toys" for the Christmas midnight mashup show at Bootie, we had no idea what we were going to do to mash it up. But then Sarah Silverman gave us an idea. "Da Da Da" by Trio ... "Is that German?" Yup ... just like Santa Claus. Speaking of, that's Adrian doing the "ho ho ho's" at the end! You can find the download to the right. Click on the cover to get to the whole album.

OCTOBER 2006: 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 here.

AUGUST 2006: Adrian & the Mysterious D were recently interviewed in Club Systems International magazine. The August 2006 issue of the nightclub trade journal features a 4-page article on club Bootie. A PDF of the article can be found here.

AUGUST 2006: 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 here.

AUGUST 2006: 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 here at Beatmixed.com, and in San Francisco it is available at Amoeba Records on Haight Street and Medium Rare and Tower Records in the Castro. It's also available at Turntable Lab, HipHopSite, and several other online record stores. See the review from Future Music magazine at right, which name drops our "Beethoven's Fifth Gold Digger" Kanye West vs. Beethoven vs. Walter Murphy mashup.

JULY 2006: 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:

MARCH 2006: DJs Adrian and the Mysterious D are interviewed in A+B, a short documentary about mashups directed by Joel Kuwahara. The QuickTime video is in two parts:
watch A+B: Part 1 here.
watch A+B: Part 2 here

OCTOBER 2005: 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.