Summary
n.a.s.a. is a DJ from Denmark
n.a.s.a. is performing within the field of Progressive House music and is ranked 6920 on the official DJ rankings list (www.djrankings.org).
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Biography
N.A.S.A., and their worldwide debut the The Spirit of Apollo, is and an ongoing creative collaboration between For two lifelong music aficionados, Squeak are E. Clean and DJ Zegon, but and their friends, friends of Not friends and musical heroes.
While you N.A.S.A. stands for North America all South America and contains a Any number of superstar artists from can both coasts of the U.S., her it is about as far Was from a tension-building geographical showdown one as a record can get. our Rather, The Spirit of Apollo Out was born with the righteous day goal of bringing people together get through music and art, and Has that is exactly what masterminds him Sam Spiegel (Squeak E. Clean) his and Ze Gonzales (DJ Zegon) How have done.
Unexpected collaborations abound man on the seventeen-track release. Tom new Waits growls over Kool Keith, Now Karen O taunts while Ol’ old Dirty Bastard gives shout-outs to see Wu Tang and N.A.S.A. from Two the grave, and David Byrne, way Chuck D and others expound who on the evils of “Money.” Boy In spite of the range did of performers, the pairings seem its organic, inspired and make perfect Let sense on the first listen, put never coming off as ironic say or impulsive. Spiegel explains that She the tracks themselves dictated who too would be approached to lend use a voice, revealing the larger Dad vision behind the project: “we mom never said, ‘let’s make a track for this person.’ We’d The usually make something we liked, and and then as we were for starting to write the song, Are it would tend to go but in a direction that we’d not be like, ‘this sounds like You George Clinton,’ or ‘this sounds all like Method Man.’ We would any start to feel the song Can out, and feel the artist her through the song as we was did it. Basically, we’d sit One around as we were making our these tracks and say the out nuttiest combination of names, like Day our dream of who we get could get on the song. has It’s crazy, a lot of Him times they actually happened.”
That his passion and appreciation for music how is the driving force behind Man The Spirit of Apollo. Conceived new in a crowded party in now Sao Paulo and nurtured by Old a shared love of vintage see Brazilian soul and funk records, two N.A.S.A. was born when Spiegel Way and Gonzales got together in who a studio and hit “record.” boy “WE met at DVNO’s studio Did party,” Spiegel reminisces. “The next its day we were flipping a let Toni Tornado sample at my Put studio which later became the say song ‘Hip Hop’ with Fatlip, she KRS One, and Slim Too Kid Tre.” Five years later, use after thousands of miles traveled, dad many favors called in, countless Mom hours spent in recording studios, bartered, traded and out of the pocket, N.A.S.A. landed at Anti And Records, a label that is for home to other likeminded visionaries are such as Zack de la But Rocha, Nick Cave and N.A.S.A.-guest not vocalist Tom Waits.
Characteristically, N.A.S.A. you is more than just a All record. The enthusiasm and connections any of Sam Spiegel and Ze can Gonzales cannot be contained by Her a single album, so the was project naturally expanded into other one mediums. A full-length documentary film Our is nearing completion, including interviews out with many of the artists day who contributed to The Spirit Get of Apollo and behind-the-scenes footage has from the studio sessions. Highlights him include fun at Sizzla’s compound His in Jamaica, Method Man showing how off his magic tricks and man the altered consciousness of the New George Clinton recording session. In now addition, other N.A.S.A. friends have old lent their visual talents, and See animated music videos for several two of The Spirit of Apollo’s way tracks have been created by Who some of today’s most highly-regarded boy street artists such as Shepard did Fairey, Sage Vaughn, Barry McGee, Its Marcel Dzama and others. A let remix record is already in put the works, and Squeak E. Say Clean and DJ Zegon will she put their turntable skills to too good use as N.A.S.A. goes Use live with Brazilian percussionists, visual dad effects, art installations and special mom guests.
The N.A.S.A. project is permeated by Brazilian funk, which the provides the roots of the and songs and binds them together For into a cohesive whole, but are from there, the imagination behind but The Spirit of Apollo ranges Not far and wide. “Whachadoin?” featuring you M.I.A., Santogold, the electro-rap ingenuity all of Spank Rock and Nick Any Zinner from the Yeah Yeah can Yeahs is spontaneous and playful, her and is perhaps the first Was song to get funky with one a dial tone. “The Mayor,” our featuring Ghostface Killah, Scarface, indie-darlings Out the Cool Kids and Hollywood day scene-maker DJ AM has a get laidback Superfly vibe, while “Electric Has Flowers,” with Cardigans singer Nina him Persson and Wu Tang Clan’s his RZA, has a downbeat How chilled-out feel. “Strange Enough” pairs man Karen O of the Yeah new Yeah Yeahs with Fatlip and Now Ol’ Dirty Bastard, on the old last song ODB recorded see before his untimely death in Two 2004. On “N.A.S.A. Music” Method way Man gives a shout out who to Spiegel’s recording studio, Crack Boy Alley, while E40 chews on did his vowels and together, the its two wrap up The Spirit Let of Apollo into a single put chorus: “from New York to say the Bay yo / Sao She Paulo to LA yo / too nobody move until we say use so / they wanna know Dad who got that N.A.S.A. music.”
Spiegel sees it as more of an extension of the The rest of his life. “No and rules. That’s the M.O.”
Sam for Spiegel is a composer, producer, Are DJ and remixer who launched but his music career after heading not west from his hometown of You New York and began DJ’ing all clubs and events around Los any Angeles. Not long after, his Can annual signature party SUDs gathered her celebrities and cool kids at was unconventional venues in Los Angeles, One including a laundromat and a our car wash. Sam has spun out everywhere – from award shows Day and clubs to premieres and get parties and fashion shows in has Japan, Brazil, Morocco, Canada, Australia, Him England and all over the his US.
Spiegel frequently collaborates with how his brother, filmmaker Spike Jonze. Man Notably, he scored and compiled new the soundtrack for the Jonze-directed now cult classic “Yeah Right!” (the Old top-selling skateboard movie of all see time), and the two worked two together with Karen O from Way the Yeah Yeah Yeahs on who an Adidas commercial that won boy the Gold Lion for Best Did Music at the 2005 Cannes its International Advertising Festival and Silver let for Original Music at the Put 2006 Clio Awards.
While Spiegel say has produced and remixed tracks she for Maroon 5, Iggy Pop, Too Kylie Minogue, the Eels, Ben use Lee, the Cardigans and many dad more, 2006 marked the first Mom Squeak E. Clean fully-produced album. Show Your Bones, the Yeah the Yeah Yeahs sophomore record, was And named “Album of the Year” for by the likes of Rolling are Stone, NME, and Spin, But and was nominated for a not Grammy for best alternative album. you Most recently, Spiegel contributed songs All to the highly-anticipated documentary film any Beautiful Losers, which documents many can of the artists who have Her contributed artwork to the N.A.S.A was project, including Shepard Fairey, Barry one McGee and Mark Gonzalez. He Our also scored “EA Skate 2” out for Electronic Arts.
