Adrian & the Mysterious D (A Plus D) were an American DJ duo who helped popularize
mashup and bootleg music in America. The duo consisted of Adriana Roberts and Deidre Roberts. Based in San Francisco, the duo founded the
Bootie club night in 2003, the first mashup bootleg party in the United States. In 2005, they started a sister Bootie club in Los Angeles, and in 2007, launched Bootie parties in New York City and Paris, and in 2008, Munich and Boston. Bootie Mashup parties and one-offs in other cities followed.
Under their mashup producer moniker, A Plus D, they created dozens of mashups between 2004 and 2012, often utilizing underground and alternative artists for their creations.
They were nominated twice – 2004 and 2006 – in the "Best DJ" category in the
SF Weekly
''SF Weekly'' is an online music publication and formerly alternative weekly newspaper founded in the 1970s in San Francisco, California. It was distributed every Thursday, and was published by the San Francisco Print Media Company. The paper ha ...
Music Awards and in 2012 won a local "Nitey" award in San Francisco for "Best Club Promoter".
During their 15-year career, they staged "The A+D Show" several times at the
DNA Lounge
DNA Lounge is an all-ages nightclub, restaurant and coffeehouse, cafe in the SoMa district of San Francisco owned by Jamie Zawinski, a former Netscape programmer and open-source software hacker (free and open source software), hacker. The clu ...
, a multimedia mashup show that mixed DJing with video and live performance.
The duo also toured Europe and Asia many times, with gigs in London, Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam, Munich, Copenhagen, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Sydney.
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In early 2018, Mysterious D left Bootie Mashup to pursue other business interests, leaving Adriana A as the sole owner of the brand.
External links
Official siteSF Weekly feature articleSalt Lake City Weekly: "Shake that Bootie!: A Plus D solve the mash-up equation"NPR interview on "The California Report"Club Systems International feature article
References
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American mashup groups
American DJs
Musical groups from San Francisco