DJ CAMS // The Blog: Don Rimini

Straight outta Paris...my man Don Rimini. Dude is rapidly emerging as one of my favorite DJ's out there. (In case you missed it, he provided one of the Young MC remixes below.)

Here Mr. Rimini provides us with a very special Christmas mix he did exclusively for Playboy ...something I'll be spinning well into 2009 as well. Here's the rundown:

"Parisian DJ, remixer and producer Don Rimini is known for his ability to cross the jackhammer utility of electro-house and the funk and swagger of hip-hop. Think of it as crunk on speed. Or just credit Baltimore. Huh? That’s right: The hottest DJ in Paris is a devotee of the ghetto-tech Baltimore sound.

In addition to his sweat-inducing deejaying, Don Rimini’s own tracks have also caught on in the DJ world, becoming regulars in the sets of Digitalism, A-Trak, MSTRKRFT, 2 Many DJs, Diplo and Ed Banger label founder Busy P. (Check out Rimini’s recent Kick‘n’Run EP for a taste.) And no wonder. His stuff is ace. Just wait until you hear the way this mix segues from hipster electro of Guns’n’Bombs to the old-school chant-along of 2 Live Crew’s “We Want Some Pussy” and you’ll get the Don’s aesthetic.

“This mix tells a story,” Rimini says of the mix he put together for Playboy. “A love story, of course.” He’s not kidding; he really did have a narrative arc in mind as he spun this mix. The story begins as “a French-style pimp arrives at the club,” he explains, where he quickly realizes this is not just another night out. Soon enough he’s pulled a girl and they consummate their carnal attraction—again, French-style, he says, naturellement—as Shena’s “Electrosexual” throbs on the dance floor. The night is just beginning, however, as tracks like “Ecstasy (Take Your Shirts Off)” make clear. And there’s a happy ending, too. The girl will forever have fond memories of her crazy night with a “Sexy Boy.”

And by the way, though he says any resemblance of the characters in the above story to real people is purely coincidental, Don Rimini mixed this live in a studio where he had assembled a party of his own, complete with undulating, undressed women to set the proper mood. Draw your own conclusions. But one thing’s clear: This is the real deal—a surefire stocking stuffer, if you will."

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