
Q-Burns Abstract Message - Club Queso Valentines Ball - Feb 2008
Genre: House
Date of Set: Feb 2008
Filesize: 102.82 MB
Total Downloads: 2
Biography of Q-Burns Abstract Message
Michael Donaldson AKA Q-Burns Abstract Message is one of the United States' most dynamic and eclectic DJs. His sets have been moving dancers around the globe for many years now and Q-Burns' fan base includes many die-hard devotees. His sound is that of a big party going down, unique and diverse house tracks glued together by pure funk.
Donaldson has been DJing for over ten years. Inspired by funk pioneers such as Kool and the Gang, Earth Wind and Fire, and Marvin Gaye, Q-Burns sought to move his crowds with current house sounds in the spirit of classic soul music. His DJing style developed during extended stays in San Francisco where he found himself influenced by the 'good time + anything goes' attitude of his friends in the Hardkiss and Wicked crews. Now, Q-Burns DJ sets are tightly wound coils of funk and house, with Donaldson himself found moving and waving around as frantically as the dancers on the floor.
Q-Burns Abstract Message's DJing career has had many impressive highlights. Q-Burns has toured as a DJ in the US with artists as renowned as The Chemical Brothers, Fatboy Slim, Gus Gus, Josh Wink, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Lo-Fidelity All Stars. He has also toured internationally in such countries as England, Germany, Iceland, Chile, Australia, and Russia. Q-Burns Abstract Message was actually the first US DJ to ever play in Siberia.
With the June 2001 release of his second album for Astralwerks (Invisible Airline), Q-Burns' fan base will grow even larger. His DJ gigs will also include many exclusive remixes from the album as well as unreleased tracks.
Additional Data:
-Based in Orlando, Florida but also partly based in San Francisco.
-Q-Burns Abstract Message is signed to Astralwerks as a recording artist, and co-owns Eighth Dimension, his own record label.
-Q-Burns A.M. is a rare DJ who can play a number of styles to suit the event... from deep house to downtempo, breakbeat to funky techno.
-Named one of the 100 best DJs in the world by Sweater Magazine.
-Was the tour DJ for Icelandic 4AD band Gus Gus in the Autumn of 1997, and with the Chemical Brothers for a short stint in Spring 1997.
-Toured as part of Om Records' 'Deep Concentration' tour with Cut Chemist, Peanut Butter Wolf, and Prince Paul in Fall 1997.
-Did full US tours as a live PA supporting Meat Beat Manifesto + Josh Wink (November 1998) and Lo-Fidelity All Stars (June 1999).
-Named one of 22 best American electronic artists by Spin Magazine.
-Voted 'Best DJ of the Year' two years in a row (1997 + 1998) by the Orlando Weekly.

Atnarko - Club Queso Valentines Ball - Feb 2008
Genre: House
Date of Set: Feb 2008
Filesize: 102.82 MB
Total Downloads: 2
Biography of Atnarko
Atnarko’s own sleek productions—which he describes as “funky and fun”—have been pressed for U.S. underground imprints like Movim Recordings, Tango and Detour Recordings. He joined Patrick Turner for “Explicit Theory” and has worked with folks as varied as drum ‘n’ bass eradicator AK1200 and house-diva DJ Heather. His collaborations with British house-legend Huggy as “Formidable Force” for the 2020 Vision label has indeed landed in the record crates of the world’s top house DJs who prize their quirky, yet floor-movin’ vibes.
He’s also an in-demand remixer and renowned club DJ who wants nothing more than to drop a groove down your spine (and inspire a smile on your face).
His long-time relationship with the like-minded Q-Burns Abstract Message continues to renew his creative energies. Their monthly “Club Queso” event is known as one of Orlando’s most notorious (and intoxicated) nights of four-on-the-floor debauchery. Things do tend to get pretty crazy there, and costumes are usually warranted. Fittingly, the pair has also recently launched EIGHT-TRACKS, a vinyl-only label dedicated to releasing conceptual house music with a post-modernist—read: subversive—slant.
Oh and yea Atnarko is my real name. Atnarko is a river in Canada and the valley in wich i was born. Feel free to check the less then detailed map in my pics section. ps my parents were hippies can u tell??