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TOUR DATES
10.10 Brooklyn, NY - Magic Monday release party
10.16 Poughkeepsie, NY @ Vassar College
10.24 Baltimore, MD @ The Hexagon
10.25 New York City, NY @ Le Poisson Rouge (CMJ)
11.04 Gainesville, FL @ Common Grounds
11.05 Miami, FL @ PS1
11.13 Los Angeles CA@ The Purple Lounge (Standard Hotel)
11.15 Los Angeles CA @ Downtown Warehouse (after hours)
11.21 New York City, NY @ Natural History Museum
additional dates TBA
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* MICHNA interviewed in TIME OUT
* MICHNA interviewed in MAP MAGAZINE
* MICHNA interviewed in the FADER
* MICHNA interviewed in REMIX
* MICHNA interviewed in DJ Concept (Spanish)
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Michna (born Adrian Michna) is a world traveler, seeking knowledge at all points along the way. He has gigged everywhere from Shanghai to Budapest, and has spent most of his life between the extremes of NYC and Miami. In return for his adventuresome spirit, these travels have blessed him with musical influences in spades.
New York City is the place young Michna cut his teeth. Whether DJing parties with tapes as a teen or sneaking in to play with his band at CBGB a few years later, Adrian found his way as a DJ under his Egg Foo Young alias, earning him a URB “Next 100” nod in the process. Production gigs for Bonde do Role and Diplo followed, allowing Michna to put his deftness at both the drum machine and the trombone to good use, creating tracks out of dense blankets of sound and texture.
Apart from the tightly woven musical amalgam of hip-hop, booty and electro, it’s the detailed process that makes Michna’s debut album, Magic Monday, move. Perhaps the most exciting aspect of the album is its rich element of musicality; in an era when hip-hop tracks have devolved into two-note keyboard loops, songs like “Skunk Walk” live up to their name with full-bodied funk and live horns. When Ghostly owner, Sam Valenti IV, asked Adrian which samples to clear, Adrian replied, “What samples?”
With its solid backbone of sound collage, Magic Monday pulls together Michna’s variety of influences to reveal the sound of New York City in transition. At a time when so many New Yorkers complain that their fair city has been sanitized beyond recognition, this is a record that keeps a nice layer of grit beneath the fingernails. After all, it’s the details that matter in the end.
Tracklisting
01. Triple Chrome Dipped
02. Swiss Glide
03. Believe In It
04. Skunk Walk
05. Bumper Car Masters
06. Levitation
07. Raw Paw
08. Redline Flights
09. Do What You Want To Do
10. Italian Visitors
11. Avante
12. Third Orbit
MICHNA's list of equipment used in the making of "Magic Monday"
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BIO
Growing up in both NY and Miami, Michna (real name: Adrian Michna) is that unique breed of artist that draws from both the urban and the tropical. As a youngster, Adrian started DJing parties with cassettes and playing trombone in a band on the NYC bar circuit including the infamous Lion’s Den and CBGB’s.
After moving to Miami in the mid-90’s, he co-founded the pioneering Secret Frequency Crew, who deftly mixed instrumental hip-hop and electronic into a coherent whole. Their appropriately titled 12” “Miami Eyes,” became an underground hit and caught the attention of a then-unknown Diplo who would ask him for production work. SFC’s debut LP “Forest of the Echo Downs” also put Adrian on Ghostly’s radar as it was one of label founder Sam Valenti IV’s top LPs in 2004.
Currently based in Brooklyn NY, Adrian Michna (aka DJ Egg Foo Young) has become a staple in the NYC club scene, known for his chameleon like abilities. Outside of the club, he has been able to pursue a few hobbies such as building furniture, bicycles, photography, skeeball, and gloss lustre collages. While working on his solo album, he also found time to remix the mysterious Jandek (the only artist ever to do so) and produce on Brazilian group Bonde Do Role’s debut LP for Domino/Mad Decent.
It seems Adrian has found his stride as a solo artist, bringing together his myriad influences into a succinct sonic personage. His debut LP “Magic Monday” and the elevating single “Triple Chrome Dipped” are works of distinction and taste, getting asses on the floor in style.
Michna also appears on the FREE Ghostly International / Adult Swim album GHOSTLY SWIM - Available Here
