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  "name": "DJ Nate",
  "description": "DJ Nate appears 2 times in our Juke and Footwork and The Waxonia Desk — Footwork Travels lists, placing as high as No. 7. Hand-curated, with a reason for every pick.",
  "updated": "2026-08-29",
  "url": "https://waxonia.com/artist/dj-nate/",
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    "first": 2010,
    "last": 2010
  },
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  },
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      "trackUrl": "https://waxonia.com/track/dj-nate--hatas-our-motivation/",
      "title": "Hatas Our Motivation",
      "year": 2010,
      "label": "Planet Mu",
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      "whyItMatters": "Made on a phone-era budget and released to an audience that had no context for it. The strangest record on this list, and the one that convinced Europe something genuinely new was happening.",
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          "exact": false
        },
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      "title": "Hatas Our Motivation",
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      "whyItMatters": "The first footwork signing a foreign label made, found by following YouTube uploads back to a contact address. The distance between hearing this music and being able to release it was the whole problem.",
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