I’ve written and rewritten this post I don’t know how many times since Monday, wanting to post this before I posted anything else.
The picture above eventually came through twitpic that night. AM was supposed to play at his residency at Rain in the Palms in Las Vegas Friday night. At Dusk, a club he co-owned in Atlantic City, they closed for the night in honor of his memory. AM had only recently spun at Dusk on Tuesday the 26th and the previous Saturday. Sadly, I never had the chance to see him play. Last time I was close to see him was last December at the Borgata. Stretch, Jeff and Kid Capri played in one club while AM played at Mur Mur. The line for Mur Mur was ridiculously long at 10PM. Meanwhile the other club wasn’t nearly as packed until later. The only other time I saw him was nearly 3 years ago to the day. AM was booked to play at McFaddens. After his set he came over to the, short lived, Social Club where Cosmo Baker and Catchdubs were playing. Needless to say, he was one of the greatest DJ’s ever. His skills likely surpassed and definitely impressed your favorite DJ. Lets just let the skills speak for themselves. After the jump there are hours of live mixes to download and listen to.
Philly DJ Day last year with everyone wearing DJ AM shirts. He missed it last year after the plane crash while touring as TRV$DJ-AM.
DJ Live at the Do Over - June 22, 2008
DJ AM Live on Power 106 part 1
DJ AM Live on Power 106 part 2
DJ AM at Banana Split 05/06/07
DJ AM vs JFK Live at Banana Split 2 year anniversary
DJ AM @ Shiro I Shiro (Berlin, 09.09.08)
AM @ Shiro I Shiro part 1
DJ AM at Serato X from Serato Audio Research on Vimeo.
Many of the mixes from here
Phrequency had just posted an interview with him, Village Voice with reactions from many DJ’s, Diplo at Mad Decent, Miss Info, Premo on AM, Thee Mike B, A-Trak on AM, Drama, Stretch, Green Lantern and more on AM
Flamin Hotz Record Club
4 responses so far ↓
1 Joseph // Sep 4, 2009 at 2:43 am
Word…this is an amazing post. The video hit me as he started spinning Biggie. 2009 has sucked…RIP everyone.
2 Santiago // Sep 5, 2009 at 6:29 pm
… great dj, i can only hope he is in a better place.. this post is thoughtful. As a DJ i can say he will be forever missed..
3 noname // Nov 16, 2009 at 8:27 am
pt2 of the power 106 mix is:
http://fiftyonefiftyone.com/trax/mixtape/AM/DJAMPower106pt2.mp3
(link above is same as pt1)
4 noname // Nov 16, 2009 at 8:52 am
does somebody have working links to the berlin mix? those myspace-links are offline…
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