A member of the Soul Providers Crew
creators of “The Agenda” mixtapes
distributed throughout
www.myspace.com/soulproviderscrew
2004 Vans Warped Tour
Official Live DJ for Reach.
Reach is currently one of the biggest emcees to come out of
-Nominated for The 2006 Pitch Music
Awards for "Best Dance/Club DJ"
-One of
-The only DJ ever featured on the morning television talk show
"Kansas City Live"
-Nominated for the 2007 Pitch Music Awards for
"Best Hip-Hop DJ"
-Winner of the 2007 "Best Hip Hop DJ" in the "Best
Of" edition of the Pitch Newspaper.
National Artists that DJ Ataxic has
shared the stage with:
Boot
Prince Paul
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Aloe Blacc
Blackalicious
One Be Lo
LL Cool J
Sugar Ray
Mars Black
Jeru The Damaja
Louis Logic
The Pharcyde
DJ Vajra
DJ Kico
Joc Max
DJ P
The Strange Fruit Tour
MG The Visionary
Tech N9ne
DJ Wiz (Kid N Play)
DJ Shortee (Urban Assault, Twice As
Nice)
Kev Brown & Oddissee
The Roots
Albums/Credits
Soul Providers Presents…The Agenda Mixtape
Series - 2004
Reach - "The Joys, Disappointments and In-Between"
– 2005
D/Will & DJ Ataxic - "The Oh No Mixtape"
– 2006
DJ Ataxic - "The Warning" – 2006
DJ Ataxic - "The Lab Sessions Vol. 1" – 2007
Reach – “Cornerspeech”
Sampler – 2008
Deuce Fontaine & D/Will – “Resistance Is
Futile” – 2008
DJ Ataxic & DJ Joc Max – The
Lab Sessions Vol. 2 - 2008
Random Articles
Jenee Osterheldt
of the
Locally DJ Ataxic puts a new twist on the music every Saturday as
resident DJ at Skybox in the River Market. He mixes and mashes hip-hop with
everything from Nirvana to the
"I play music that I think is fun and creative," Ataxic
says. "Hip-hop is going through a lot of negative changes, but in order to
realize the good, you have to see the bad. Girls, guns and rims can only sell
for so long. Creativity will come back, and we will stop having so many one-hit
wonders. But hip-hop will never die. It's a culture and a music that is alive
and strong. It will just change, hopefully for the better."
Jason Harper on the nomination of DJ Ataxic for “Best
DJ 2007”
DJ/Hip-Hop
DJ Ataxic
“On his Web site, DJ Ataxic claims, "I really don't
feel like my style is fully developed yet." That's hard to believe,
considering his name is so often dropped when discussing top-shelf KC turntable
types. How he got to that level is no secret. He's been backing up household
names (LL Cool J, the Roots) and spinning full time for local hero Reach and
other members of the Soul Providers Crew for years. If this is what
underdeveloped sounds like, we can't wait to hear the finished product.”
Nadia Pflaum of The Pitch newspaper wrote...
"For seven years now, DJ Ataxic has been thrilling crowds with
his precision needlework on the wheels of steel. He mixes old school classics
with a dance-floor-packing dose of Top 40, and creates his own mashups that consistently call up oohs
and ahhs of recognition. Such consistency behind the
decks has earned him opening slots for icons like LL Cool J and Prince Paul.
Ataxic can regularly be found presiding over an audience at his Skybox
residency or backing up Reach,
Best Hip-Hop DJ (2007)
DJ Ataxic (Bryan Fisk) djataxic.com
The Pitch
"I am not a jukebox," DJ Ataxic reminds readers on his
blog. He need not remind his audiences of that fact, because his lively mixes
and mashups are wonderfully human. "Shout"
by Tears for Fears overlaps with Biggie's "Goin' Back to
Bringing the dance crowd back
By Jeneé Osterheldt
Credit: The
Thursday, May 18, 2006
For the last two years Ataxic has been the man behind the music at Kabal on Saturday nights.
Recently Ataxic flipped the script and is playing music that caters more
to the hip-hop purist, sort of destroying the night and rebuilding it into
something truer to hip-hop's essence.
"It seems like the music that's coming out today is not very
entertaining," Ataxic says. "A lot of it is boring, and it draws in a
crowd that has a bad attitude and a bad vibe in general. I want the party crowd
back."
To do that, Ataxic is now playing the music he loves, everything from
'70s funk and soul to classic hip-hop.
"Something about old-school music brings me back to a point in my
life when I loved music and it was great," he says. "When you hear
someone say, `Oh, I haven't heard this song in years,' it's like they forget
about work and troubles and just have fun. It's about good times."
Besides being a resident DJ at Kabal, he's also
the official DJ for Reach, winner of the national Scion emcee search and on
most Sundays you can catch him spinning at the Peanut. He has also opened up
for LL Cool J.
But Ataxic, born Bryan Fisk, likes to share his shine. When the LL gig
came his way, he invited a few b-boys to do their thing with him. Even with his
success, he's humble, sort of like a people's champ.
"I still feel like my style hasn't quite developed yet, I like to
mix things up and be varied, but I'm still shaping it."
.
Hip-hop's new spin; A revolution
taking shape on the floor of Kabal
By Jeneé OsterheldtSource: Preview
Credit: The
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Edition: METROPOLITAN, Section: PREVIEW, Page 17
The revolution may not be televised, but it's definitely on the
dance floor. An uprising against the radio, particularly the hyphy and the crunk, the misogynistic
and the bubblegum, is taking place at Kabal on
Saturday nights. And it's being led by a DJ named Ataxic.
Sure you can
swing by the Peanut any Sunday and get served some hip-hop for the purists, and
if you're a true lover of Hip-Hop & Hotwings,
you've seen Ataxic spin there on occasion, whipping out everything from LL Cool
J to the
But Kabal hasn't been spinning underground treasures and
old-school classics since the days of Wyld Style
Wednesdays when the b-boys and b-girls could break all night. That was way
before the Molotov cocktails and shootouts, before thugs and wankstas began to congregate at Kabal.
Along with
that crowd came a taste for a certain type of mainstream music that comes with
gold teeth and strippers. Every blue moon guest DJs from out of town would get
unorthodox and spin whatever they wanted, but the resident DJs were often stuck
with a crowd that would rather hear "The Whisper Song" by the Ying
Yang Twins than Lupe Fiasco's "Kick Push."
But as Sam
Cooke sang, a change is gonna come. And it finally
has. Last month Ataxic posted a blog on MySpace (myspace.com/djataxic) calling for
all his hip-hop heads to come out to Kabal on
Saturday nights to help him flip the script as he put snap crap like "Laffy Taffy" by D4L and "Lean Wit It" by Dem
Franchize Boyz to bed. It's
an uprising of sorts. Down with rap's lowest common denominator and up with the
soulful fun of hip-hop's essence.
Ataxic is now
spinning for the b-boys and b-girls on the floor and those of us who like to
shake our booties to the beat. He's also smiling a lot more these days, but
this revolution won't happen overnight.
The first
Saturday the dance floor was sparse, but b-boys like 50 Cal, Vandal, Ray and
Leo came to save the day by breakin' to Ataxic's beats. A small group of people started to form a
circle around them and stare in awe at moves that seem fathomable only with the
help of CGI effects. Between b-boy ciphers, Joe Good and the Soul Servers
served up rhymes to go. Even my sister, 32, who is no big fan of hip-hop, had a
good time.
A few
Saturdays later, the crowd is changing. As the gangster groupies are being
weeded out, a new crop of people is rowing in. Ataxic is playing what he likes.
And that includes everything from BBD's
"Poison" and Rihanna's "S.O.S."
to "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See" by Busta
Rhymes - he'll even throw some Police or Jane's Addiction in the mix to show
there's no limit to his style.
The floor
still isn't as packed as it used to be. It's clear that a certain crowd at Kabal is losing interest. But that's all right. As the club
loses one crop of mean-mugging 50 Cent followers, it's cultivating a new crop
of people to dominate the dance floor - the shiny, happy kind. Viva la hip-hop!