DJ P

DJ P (D.J.P) is Danny J. Phillips, a Hip hop DJ hailing from Springfield, Missouri.
He won the Disco Mix Club (DMC) Midwest Championship and competed against the country's top turntablists in San Francisco at the 1999 Disco Mix Club US Finals. He dropped Bruce Hornsby's "The Way It Is" over the beat from "Jam On It" by Newcleus, aiming the song's "they can't get a job" lyric at his competitors. Then he dropped Tom Petty's "Don't Come Around Here No More", assisted by a fat break-beat, as a warning to the other DJs to step off. Ever the b-boy, P topped his performance off by coming out in front of the tables and breaking and popping. He was the only DJ who received a standing ovation that night at The Palace of Fine Arts where there are no seats.
D.J.P plays all sorts of different music: 80s New Wave music, classic and alternative Rock, even Drum 'n' Bass, as well as the usual can't lose Hip Hop favorites, old and new. He can mix Pat Benatar's "Love Is a Battlefield" over the Pharcyde's classic "She Keeps On Passing Me By" and turn it into a mix about love lost that blends both rock and hip-hop. He can play Jane's Addiction's "Jane Says" over a dusted Mobb Deep beat, or Eminem's "Without Me" over "Billie Jean".. His underground Hip Hop mixes of Journey's "Don't Stop Believin'" and U2's "With or Without You" have become word-of-mouth classics with underground DJs.
DJ P has also released several albums as well. "Uneasy Listening Vol. 1," his 2001 collaboration with DJ Z-Trip, blended everything from Phil Collins and Del tha Funkee Homosapien and The Who to Madonna's "Like a Prayer" and the famed "Apache" breakbeat. Although it was only released in a limited 1000-copy pressing in 2000, it showed up everywhere: in constant rotation on Kid Rock's tour bus stereo, in England where it was bootlegged onto vinyl, and on critics' Top Ten lists (New York's Village Voice, etc.). Rolling Stone even named "Uneasy Listening" as one of the "Top Musical Moments" in 2002-two years after he and DJ Z-Trip released it. DJ Z-Trip has since went on to do bigger and better things.
P's has released several subsequent discs including "Out of Control," "Assholez and Elbowz," What's For Dessert" and his Halloween-themed "Hell on Wheels" series. "Hell On Wheels Vol. 2" took Biggie Smalls, Mystikal and the Beatles and "monster-mashed" them into a favorite disc of 2003 in critics' polls from New York to Portland, Oregon, where the disc has been praised - completely solicitedly, mind you - in the local media.
D.J.P has played everywhere-from basement potties at colleges to huge outdoor venues. He has been touring the country for almost a decade, beginning with MTV's 1999 Campus Invasion Tour with alt rockers Garage and Lit, and in the summer of 2003 with 311.
DJ P has held club residencies at New York City, Springfield, MO and Portland, OR and most recently he had a resident DJ position in Las Vegas, where he was seen every weekend at Club Moon and the Playboy Club in the legendary Palms Casino Resort. His resume also includes gigs with Ice-T, Tone Loc, Sugar Hill Gang, Rahzel from the Roots, Cher and Cindy Lauper, The Pharcyde, Del tha Funkee Homosapien's Hieroglyphics, DJ Premier, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Snoop Dogg, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Green Day, and the Beastie Boys
DJ P performed at North East Sticks Together in 2005.
Related Artists
*DJ Shadow
*DJ Z-Trip
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*311
*DJ Q-Bert

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