Djing was always the best thing in my life. My mom used to volunteer at the thrift store associated with my high school and at one point she brought home turntables to feed my gradually increasing hip hop addiction and I never looked back (thankfully the hip hop element died). I used to go out with my friends till 12 or 1 or whatever and come home and literally dj until I saw the sun, loving it. Which explains my poor high school GPA but made me happy in rather unhappy times.
I worked at a full service gas station and I would have enough tips everyday to buy a new record and believe me I would. I scoured the whole island for thrift stores/vinyl and man did I get a serious collection… My grandfather took me to a Goodwill in Mililani/Pearl City one day and picked out an old speaker set for like $25 a pair of four foot technics, and I ended up supplementing that with smaller speakers, subs, receivers etc from years of thrifting and I wired my own surround sound in my room. At night I’d dj in headphones in day with the best, most satisfying sound system ever. I LOVED djing. When I looked out at the lights of Tantalus as the sun rose, spinning Charles Webster or whatever I was rocking at the time, life was complete.
I was never particularily amazing at it. I kept going through college, and then finally got good when I first moved to New York and because I couldn’t get solid design work I spent literally 8 hours a day plus djing at the apartment before gigging at night. That’s when I first heard electro, the summer after college, and I was literally at Studio B for the first time like WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS. Followed quickly by WHO MAKES THIS, and even more quicker by I MUST MAKE THIS. That’s when I got deep deep into djing again and we started Silver Medallion. It’s been slim pickings on me spinning ever since just because of time commitments and then Carnegie grabbed the dj reigns, but since I live alone now, I’ve foregone sleeping pretty much completely (its 5:42am ugh), work is kinda slow and I have no AZ girlfriend I have the time to spin a few hours a day, and the sickness has returned.
So in the name of my recently several times ravaged and rebuilt heart, I made an emo electro dance mix full of juicy mainstreamish electro remixes, something ok for the non-heads who don't listen to this kind of stuff. This justified me as a person, I’ve been bumping it constantly since the week I made it. DJ mixes for me have always been so much more than dope mixes, but gone into content, material and how the songs really sound together not just mix together and this is me taking that to heart and making something dope (with the exception of Kick Out the Jams, but it mixes so good into Little Boots…) Without further ado- “Electro is The Loneliest Number” mixed by Silver Medallion. This is the story of my bleeding heart, as heard through hipster bullshit and DTTT remixes.
1. Gives You Hell- All American Rejects (Bloody Beetroots Remix)
2. Sex on Fire- Kings of Leon (Richard Sarkey and Peter Sar Remix)
3. Little Bit- Lykke Li (Death to the Throne Remix)
4. Kick Out the Jams- Dave Nada (Dave Nada Remix)
5. Stuck on Repeat- Little Boots (Fake Blood Remix)
6. Whatchadoin- NASA ft. MIA, Santogold and Spankrock (Villains Remix)
7. That’s Not My Name- The Tings Tings (LA Riots Remix)
8. Hardcore Girls- Rye Rye (Sinden Remix)
9. Somebody Somewhere- Cazals (Blamma! Blamma! Remix)
10. Fancy Footwork- Chromeo (Death to the Throne Remix)
11. My Heart is Set on You- Heads We Dance (Geek Chic Remix)
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Thanks for listening.
