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Best Solo Music Artist

OCDJ

www.ocdj.org

Posted 9/19/2007

The city's most exciting DJ wears fuzzy animal heads, occasionally adds a live drummer for extra party-starting oomph, and spins his own self-made remixes that sound like old-school Nintendo composers decided to start deconstructing popular urban hits. Dan "OCDJ" Gaeta's keyboard melodies--as also heard on his recent album, the aptly titled Hooray--are as simple as Kraftwerk and as sugary as the Archies. When he combines them with sawn-off Baltimore club breaks and gleefully looped hip-hop and R&B samples, the result makes club kids start dancing like overcaffeinated rugrats in Garanimals. The most fun you can have in a cramped hipster bar, which is saying something.

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Other Awards for Best Solo Music Artist:

Daniel Higgs, 9/20/2006

Dan Deacon, 9/21/2005

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