MAKJ

Saturday, August 1, 2015

Deorro and MAKJ Drop New Track, ‘Ante Up’

Deorro
Deorro performing at LE’BOOM at Sound Nightclub in Hollywood.
 
Last August, Deorro and MAKJ joined forces for an electro house heater titled, “READY!” The track became a festival favorite and currently has over 3,000,000 SoundCloud plays.
 
Now, nearly a year later, the California natives have returned with another hard-hitter: “Ante Up.” The song is pretty much what you’d expect from Deorro and MAK except for one big difference: it contains a sample of M.O.P.’s hip-hop anthem from 2000 of the same title.
 
For those who don’t know, M.O.P. is a respected hip-hop duo from New York that collaborated with DJ Premier in the ’90s and ’00s. Their 2000 single, “Ante Up,” achieved mainstream success and is now a classic of the era. Considering that MAK is returning to his roots as an open-format DJ, it makes sense that he’d flip a track from a group like M.O.P.
 
Stream and download Deorro and MAK’s “Ante Up” below. You can also grab it on DJcity.
 

 
Related: MAKJ Says He Wouldn’t Be a DJ If It Wasn’t for Hip-Hop

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Sunday, July 12, 2015

MAKJ Delivers Open-Format Mix for ‘Diplo and Friends’

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MAKJ at Stardium Festival in Seoul, South Korea on July 4. (WO2YA)
 
About a month ago, we sat down with MAKJ to talk about his background and love for open-format DJing. The west coast native lived up to his words, though, by dropping a versatile mix for his debut on BBC Radio 1Xtra’s “Diplo and Friends” last night.
 
With over 40 tracks from various genres and eras, MAK’s mix is quite a bit different from the big room and electro house sets that many fans know him for. In fact, his selection includes more hip-hop than dance music.
 
“This is a huge hodgepodge of my past and current plethora of music,” MAK said when introducing himself on the show. Indeed, with everything from Fetty Wap and Damian Marley to Alesso and Beck, MAK’s mix has a little something for everyone.
 
Oh, and it also includes unreleased material from DJ Snake, Deorro, and Timmy Trumpet.
 
Stream and tracklist are below.
 

 
Tracklist:

Deorro vs Hardwell & MAKJ – READY! vs Countdown – MAKJ Intro Edit
Chedda Da Connect vs JumoDaddy – Flicka Dat Wrist vs Black Horse – MAKJ Edit
Big Sean vs Kronic vs Henry Fong – My Man vs Going vs Wine Dem – MAKJ Edit
MAKJ & Timmy Trumpet vs Tag Team – ID vs Whoomp! (There It Is) – MAKJ Edit
Deorro & MAKJ vs Fattman Scoop – ID vs Be Faithful – MAKJ Edit
Black Sheep – The Choice Is Yours
Naughty by Nature – Hip Hop Hooray
Wreckx‐N‐Effect – Rump Shaker
Tech N9ne ft. B.o.B & 2 Chainz – Hood Go Crazy
Sage the Gemini – Gas Pedal
Clyde Carson vs DJ Snake, Yellow Claw, & Spanker – Slow Down vs Baroud Bay vs Twerk Bootleg
A$AP Ferg ft. A$AP Rocky, French Montana, Trinidad James, & Schoolboy Q – Work – Dexterous Edit
Wiz Khalifa – We Dem Boyz (Hol’ Up)
T-Wayne – Nasty Freestyle
Vic Mensa ft. Kanye West – U Mad
Rick Ross – Hustlin’’
Silento – Watch Me
Rae Sremmurd ft. Nicki Minaj & Young Thug – Throw Sum Mo
Future – Commas
Travis Scott ft. Future & 2 Chainz – 3500 – Wellman & Eric D-Lux Trap Remix
Zak Downtown – Kylie Kendall
Drake vs NYMZ & Judah – Blessings vs Way Up – Donk Bootleg
Fetty Wap – Trap Queen
DJ Snake – ID
DJ Khaled ft. Ludacris, T-Pain, Snoop Dogg, & Rick Ross – All I Do Is Win
Damian Marley – Welcome to Jamrock
Beck – Loser
Rusko ft. Amber Coffman – Hold On – Sub Focus Remix
Fugees – Killing Me Softly
Toto – Africa
Oasis – Wonderwall
Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight – Anzo Bootleg Remix
50 Cent – Disco Inferno
Major Lazer & DJ Snake ft. MO – Lean On
Major Lazer & DJ Snake ft. MO vs Knife Party – Lean On vs Bonfire – DJs From Mars Bootleg
The Weeknd – Can’t Feel My Face
Maroon 5 – This Summer – Alesso Remix – Donk Edit
MAKJ & ID – Tease – MAKJ Never Release Edit
Fetty Wap ft. Drake vs Boys Noize & Pilo – My Way vs Cerebral – MAKJ Edit
Kenze – Do You Want – Original Mix
Paul Kalkbrenner – Gebrunn Gebrunn – Special Berlin Calling Edit
Saxxo – Sudoku – Original Mix
Two Em – Manjala – Spektre Remix

 
Related: MAKJ: I Wouldn’t Be a DJ If It Wasn’t for Hip-Hop

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Friday, June 19, 2015

MAKJ: I Wouldn’t Be a DJ If It Wasn’t for Hip-Hop

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MAKJ performing at Control’s six-year anniversary at Avalon in Hollywood. (Oh Dag Yo)
 
Most people think of MAKJ as an electro house artist, but the California native is an open-format DJ at heart and cut his teeth opening for genre-benders like AM and Vice. A prime example of MAK’s versatility was his performance at this year’s Ultra Music Festival. To close his set, he brought out rapper O.T. Genasis to perform “CoCo” for unsuspecting EDM fans.
 
And as the lines between hip-hop and dance music continue to blur, MAK is set on showing the world that he can not only mix multiple genres, but also produce them.
 
DJcityTV’s Styles Davis spoke with MAK at Los Angeles’ Icon Collective Music Production School about his love for open-format DJs and his new musical direction. He also played an unreleased song which can be heard exclusively in the interview below.
 

 
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Related: MAKJ Discusses Collaboration with Hardwell

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Sunday, October 19, 2014

MAKJ Urges DJs to Produce Their Own Music


 
DJ Mag caught up with rising DJ/producer MAKJ who was just ranked sixty-third in their controversial Top 100 poll. Albeit brief, his interview contains a golden piece of advice to up-and-coming DJs and producers.
 

“I was in this position that I was a DJ before I started producing music and once I started producing music, the rest was kind of history. My ability to go travel the world and have fans that came to see me for my music instead of just for my DJ abilities was surpassed the amount of respect I could’ve gotten doing anything else. So definitely, produce your own music, don’t be a DJ.”

 
While there’s plenty of successful DJs out there who don’t produce, MAK’s advice comes as folks look to differentiate themselves in an increasingly over-saturated market. Adding production to your arsenal can only help, and in MAK’s case, jump-start your career and propel you into the DJ Mag’s Top 100.
 
Check out MAK’s interview with DJcityTV about his beginnings as a mobile DJ and collaboration with Hardwell:
 

 
Related: MAKJ Explains How He Co-produced ‘Encore’

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Thursday, October 24, 2013

MAKJ Discusses Collaboration with Hardwell


 
DJ/producer MAKJ discusses how “Countdown,” his massive collaboration with Hardwell, came about and shows us some of the synths and sounds that were used on the track. The California-based DJ/producer also reflects on years of paying dues as a bedroom DJ and how producing music changed his career forever.
 
Download: Hardwell & MAKJ – Countdown
 
Related: Carnage Interview with DJcityTV

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