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Embrace Presents Classixx |
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Status: Past Event!
Type: DJ Set
Venue: Wrongbar
Location: Toronto, ON (CA)
Start Date: Saturday 12 January 2013, 10:00 PM
End Date: Sunday 13 January 2013, 04:00 AM
Agent: Ticketweb
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About the organization Embrace Presents:
Type: Business
Sub-Types: Event Production, Entertainment Promotion, Entertainment Production, Event Promotion, Website, News, Online News |
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Notable Artists: Classixx
Notable Organizations: Embrace Presents, Ticketweb
Notable Venues: Wrongbar, Toronto (ON), CA
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| Classixx is an American production and DJ duo, based in Los Angeles, composed of Michael David and Tyler Blake. They were previously known as Young Americans.
Tyler Blake and Michael David, childhood friends, started a DJ duo in the suburbs of Los Angeles. The name Classixx came from their liking of Classic Compilations of different music. The DJ duo is influenced by a plethora of music, ranging from old school R&B to Paul Simon to Kraftwerk.
Classixx is currently living in the greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. David and Blake are childhood friends and attended the same middle school and high school together.
David spent the first half of the 2000s releasing his own music and touring in a band as a guitar player while Blake attended the Berklee School of Music. In 2005, David left his previous band and Blake dropped out of music school. Soon after, Classixx was formed. In their early twenties, Classixx began to define a new sound for the Los Angeles electronic music scene. A change from the banger-driven Electro that had been dominating dance floors, their smooth blend of disco, new wave, funk, house, and indie rock caught the ears of music aficionados, fans and artists alike. Recent remixes for groundbreaking and diverse artists include Phoenix, Mayer Hawthorne, Holy Ghost, Ladyhawke, Fischerspooner, Groove Armada, Yacht, Beni, Drop the Lime and Major Lazer. According to Chicagoist, Classixx "became staples in DJ sets all over the world".
Pitchfork Media wrote that the duo gave Phoenix's "Lisztomania" "a gorgeously pillowy synth-disco framework". The Los Angeles Times called it "pure disco cotton candy".
Following the release of their debut hit single, "I'll Get You" featuring Jeppe (Junior Senior), in the summer of 2009 on Paris based Kitsune Records, Classixx is now prepping their debut album for release this winter. |
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