User:Flatluigi/Party Ben
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Party Ben (Ben Gill) is a DJ, mash-up artist and music producer based in San Francisco. He works at the radio station LIVE 105, KITS, where he serves as Creative Director, is assistant director for the station's show Subsonic, and runs the weekly Sixx Mixx. Each Sixx Mixx show is approximately a half hour long, and is comprised of one mash-up of between ten and thirty individual songs.
Party Ben not only creates each Sixx Mixx, but creates "regular" mash-ups as well. By far, his most famous is "Boulevard of Broken Songs", made up from samples of Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams", Oasis' "Wonderwall", Travis' "Writing to Reach You" and Eminem's "Sing for The Moment" (which itself contains samples from Aerosmith's "Dream On"), which he made under the pseudonym Dean Gray. His other works include "Hate To Smack My Bitch", "Led Snoopelin" and "Smells Like Emerge". Besides the Sixx Mixx, Party Ben is responsible for over thirty stand-alone mash-ups and remixes.
In addition to his work at LIVE 105, Party Ben is also resident DJ at Club Bootie, a monthly night in a San Francisco club dedicated solely to spinning mash-ups.
The Sixx Mixx is no longer being aired, but Party Ben is devoting his time to other shows (including a new show) he's spinning at Live 105.
The new show is called "Untitled Friday Night Show" and runs 8pm- midnight on friday nights. It is co hosted with Live 105 DJ Madden and Live 105's Miles the Intern.
