Duck Sauce
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A-Trak (left) and Armand Van Helden (right) performing live as Duck Sauce at Wellington Square in 2011.
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Background information | |
Origin | New York, New York, United States |
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Years active | 2009–present |
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Website | www |
Members | Armand Van Helden A-Trak |
Duck Sauce is an American–Canadian DJ duo, formed during 2009 in New York, New York. The duo consists of American DJ Armand Van Helden and Canadian DJ A-Trak.
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History
Duck Sauce's first tracks are "aNYway" and "You're Nasty". The track "aNYway" capitalizes "NY" to signify the duo's New York origins. The song was originally called "A New York Way" but was later shortened. The song samples "I Can Do It" by Final Edition. Duck Sauce's debut EP, Greatest Hits was released on July 15, 2010.[citation needed]
In the summer of 2010, Duck Sauce released a track called "Barbra Streisand", named after the singer of the same name. The track heavily samples the 1979 song "Gotta Go Home" by Boney M., which itself is based upon "Hallo Bimmelbahn" by the German band Nighttrain. The famous hookline is written by Heinz Huth. "Barbra Streisand" was first played at Miami Winter Music Conference in 2010 and gained heavy DJ and radio support in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Norway, Austria, Poland, France, Finland, Romania, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Sri Lanka. The song peaked at #3 on the UK Singles Chart and reached #1 on the Australian ARIA Club Chart as of 12 September 2010. For the Billboard week ending December 18, 2010, the song reached the #1 position on the Dance/Club Play Songs chart.[1][2] On April 26, 2011, the song was featured in Glee's 18th episode of their second season.[3] The song was also featured in the Vitamin Water Revive commercial.[4] The "Barbra Streisand" music video has over 74 million views.[5]
"Big Bad Wolf" was released by Duck Sauce in 2011 on BBC Radio and samples wolves howling. The music video features genitalia replaced by human heads. A-Trak notes "When Keith came up with this idea of 'crotchfaces,' we just thought it was hilarious."[6]
On June 6, 2013, announced via Facebook, a preview of the song "It's You" was shown, with the full song released on June 25, 2013. "It's You" samples the track of the same name from FirstCom's OneMusic library.[7] The music video features a barber shop transformed into a surreal dance party which comes to life with the beat of the song. The music video earned Duck Sauce a nomination at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards.[citation needed]
In October of the same year they released "Radio Stereo". The song is a rework of "Radio", a 1982 hit by UK punk act The Members. The original chorus, "We listen to the radio! It's better than the stereo", is looped over a driving, funky bass and playful sampling.[citation needed] Songwriter Nigel Bennett of The Members was quoted saying that he was happy that Duck Sauce discovered his song and loved what they've done with "Radio Stereo".[citation needed]
In early 2014 Duck Sauce announced a full album entitled Quack, to be released through Fool's Gold Records. The album features 12 songs by the duo, including "Barbra Streisand" and previously released singles "aNYway", "It's You", and "Radio Stereo". The album's lead single "NRG" samples Melissa Manchester's 1985 track "Energy" and was named Zane Lowe's "Hottest Record in the World" on April 3, 2014.[citation needed] The album was released on April 14, 2014.
Discography
Albums
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Quack |
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Extended plays
Title | Details |
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Greatest Hits |
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Singles
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | |||||||||||||
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CAN [10] |
US [11] |
AUS [12] |
AUT [13] |
BEL (FL) [14] |
FRA [15] |
GER [16] |
IRE [17] |
NL [18] |
SWI [19] |
UK [20] |
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2009 | "aNYway" | — | — | — | — | 26 | 38 | — | — | 49 | — | 22 | Quack | ||||
2010 | "Barbra Streisand" | 35 | 89 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||
2011 | "Big Bad Wolf" | — | — | — | — | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | 79 | |||||
2013 | "It's You" | – | — | — | — | 46 | 47 | — | — | — | — | — | |||||
"Radio Stereo" | — | — | — | — | 103 | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
2014 | "NRG" | — | — | — | — | 73 | — | — | — | — | — | 121 | |||||
"Ring Me" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
"—" denotes a single that did not chart or was not released in that territory. |
Awards and nominations
International Dance Music Awards
Year | Recipient/Nominated work | Award | Result |
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2011 | Barbra Streisand | Best Break-Through Artist | Nominated |
Barbra Streisand | Best Best House/Garage Track | Nominated | |
Best Underground Dance Track | Won | ||
2012 | Big Bad Wolf | Won | |
Best Music Video | Nominated | ||
Big Bad Wolf | Best Artist - Group | Nominated | |
2013 | It's You | Best Visual Effects: MTV Awards | Nominated |
Grammy Awards
Year | Recipient/Nominated work | Award | Result |
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2012 | Barbra Streisand | Best Dance Recording | Nominated |
References
- ↑ Dance/Club Play Songs. Billboard.
- ↑ http://www.ariacharts.com.au/pages/charts_display_club.asp?chart=1L50 ARIA Club Chart
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- ↑ Vitamin Water Revive Commercial. YouTube. April 18, 2011.
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- ↑ Big Bad Wolf Rolling Stones Videos. October 24, 2011.
- ↑ OneMusic Track Sampled in Duck Sauce's New Single FirstCom Music. June 25, 2013.
- ↑ https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/playlists/29685882%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-peHa5&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true
- ↑ http://www.foolsgoldrecs.com/releases/greatest-hits/
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