Amy Yvonne Yu

To prove there's life outside the walls of advertising, Amy Yvonne, ATTIK San Francisco art buyer and traffic co-ordinator, has been named San Francisco's Best DJ in a contest hosted by SF Weekly and East Bay Express.
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Yvonne will now join the rest of the regional winners and travel to Miami's Bicentennial Park to mix with The Killers, The Prodigy, Paul van Dyk, Hot Hot Heat, Hard-Fi, Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox and Perry Farrell.

In staff member Amy Yvonne Yu, San Francisco ad agency Attik has more than just an art buyer and traffic coordinator: It also has the best DJ in San Francisco, so named by SF Weekly and East Bay Express, two alternative newsweeklies.
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"Since I do get all the promos from all the independent electronica labels, I generally have unreleased tracks six months in advance, so I can share them with [group cd] Simon [Needham] and say, ‘Wouldn't this be hot for [insert client here]?'" Yu will compete for a national title in the Ultra Music Festival in Miami on March 25.

Amy Yvonne Yu, Art Buyer & Traffic Coordinator,
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ATTIK'S ART BUYER AMY YVONNE YU IS BEST DJ IN SAN FRANCISCO

SAN FRANCISCO - (Mar. 16, 2006) - Global creative and brand-engineering agency ATTIK (www.attik.com) is very proud to announce that Amy Yvonne Yu, the agency's art buyer and traffic coordinator, has just been named the Best DJ in San Francisco by the music editor of the SF Weekly and East Bay Express alternative newsweeklies, both of which are published by Village Voice Media.

The annual competition is held in cooperation with the Ultra Music Festival, which began in 1999 and will present UMF 8 in Miami on Sat., Mar. 25.Through the competition, the music editors at affiliated newsweeklies in the top metropolitan markets across the U.S. chose the winner from their regional entries.Yu was chosen from the submissions made to SF Weekly and East Bay Express, and now, she and the other regional winners are set to mix at live events as part of UMF 8, joining The Killers, The Prodigy, Paul van Dyk, Hot Hot Heat, Hard-Fi, Paul Oakenfold, Carl Cox, Perry Farrell and scores of other sensational musical artists at Miami's Bicentennial Park.

"Amy is a perfect example of one of our staffmembers," said co-founder and group creative director Simon Needham.
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"After listening to me ask over and over whether or not certain songs would go together, he finally broke down and taught me," Yu explains, with a laugh."He actually won the Best DJ in San Francisco title last year," she added.

ATTIK'S ART BUYER AMY YVONNE YU IS BEST DJ IN SAN FRANCISCO

Five is a collaboration between Amy Yvonne Yu and: Colin Price, Jimmy Soat, Kelly Tunstall, Kris Chau, Larissa Martin, Melissa Anderson, and Trevor Rogers.
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The project involves 5 photographic prints from Amy Yvonne Yu.
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Amy Yvonne Yu is a hyperactive child.She works at ATTIK during the day and lives secret lives as an editorial/commercial photographer, a house DJ, and a conceptual sculptor in her spare time.She plans on retiring in a Villa in Florence drinking lots of espresso with Sergio, their English bulldog, and their cat Tiger.Until then, you can find her all over San Francisco doing who knows what.

b.. DJ Amy Yvonne Yu :: Featured @ Vertigo, Studio Z

In staff member Amy Yvonne Yu, San Francisco ad agency Attik has more than just an art buyer and traffic coordinator: It also has the best DJ in San Francisco, so named by SF Weekly and East Bay Express, two alternative newsweeklies.After clarifying the efforts she makes to keep her musical pursuits from affecting her jobâ€"for example, not booking gigs on weekdaysâ€"Yu details some of the perks her side-interest brings to her day job at Attik."Since I do get all the promos from all the independent electronica labels, I generally have unreleased tracks six months in advance, so I can share them with [group cd] Simon [Needham] and say, ‘Wouldn't this be hot for [insert client here]?'" Yu will compete for a national title in the Ultra Music Festival in Miami on March 25.