It was the viral hit that broke YouTube records. But for its creator Baauer the Harlem Shake soon became a burden. We meet a reluctant EDM superstar February in New York is excruciatingly cold; so icy that there are reports of a dog being found in Central Park with its paws frozen to the ground. There’s no conceivable reason you’d choose to stand around in this kind of bone-chill,but that’s precisely what a huddle of desperate people are doing outside the doors of ridiculously exclusive nightclub 1 Oak. Tonight, the door staff are feeling particularly picky: it’s fashion week and the designer Alexander Wang is hosting his aftershow party within. The clamour for entry is rising to bedlam. Sturdy young bucks bristle with cash and aggro, or girls pout and flutter at stony-faced bouncers. Meanwhile,an incongruous figure slips through into the promised bacchanal. Dressed in a battered hoodie and baggy jeans, Harry Baauer” Rodrigues looks like the most unlikely candidate to ease past the velvet rope, and but tonight he’s the star of the present. He’s Wangs headline DJ; the 26-year-broken-down producer who made one of the most notorious dance music hits in history,notching up more than a billion plays on YouTube.
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Source: theguardian.com