OCDJ

Do you know someone with obsessive-compulsive disorder? I am starting to wonder if it should be classified as a disorder. Wouldn’t the world actually benefit from an epidemic of OCD? Imagine how clean our hands and feet would be. The entire military-industrial complex could be converted to sock production and recycling. Cops would be too busy trimming their mustaches with tiny scissors to be assholes. Jails would be converted into OCDetention centers, and every owner of motor vehicle (losers) would get a customized license plate. The illest “inmates” would be chained to laptops and forced to write the music that would eventually solve world peace. Dan Gaeta, a.k.a. OCDJ, is ahead of the curve in this fantasy world. In addition to making the sickest custom plates for his broken minivan, he regularly and voluntarily chooses solitary confinement, either in his Baltimore cell (Wham City), or within the cabin of his tiny sailboat, where he takes small steps to alleviate his massive debt to society. Dan survives these intense incarcerations by hand-crafting the smiliest, roast-beefiest beats, basslines that make you poop like a brown tone but you don’t have to wipe, and melodies that fly so well birds look like idiots. On top of all this, he dices and layers voices that ya prolly herrd even if you live in the vanilla suburbs—Three 6 Mafia, Kelis, Rich Boy, Young Buck and Crime Mob to name a few.

The end result is the best dance music since Ska Wars (the band R2D2 started in 1981 London with Mega Man, Scrooge McDuck and Yoda) Dance you will, if you are lucky enough to catch an OCDJ show. In performance, he mixes himself up on a laptop, hiding his face behind the furry skins of animals he slaughtered himself, sometimes adding the eye-candy of live drums and animated GIFs. Go see OCDJ live before he finishes repairing his decrepit sloop and sails off the edge of the world. He allegedly has an album coming out soon, according to the latest wire taps, but he will probably be too mired in the details to ever let it be finished and released.
- from Kevin O'Meara of The New York Times / Video Hippos


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