New Music: DJ Donna Summer: "Sweet Assed Child O' Mine" (Guns N' Roses remix) [MP3]
Whenever I think of Jason Forrest aka DJ Donna Summer my mind immediately goes to "10 Amazing Years", the closing track of his 2004 album on Sonig The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash. It's one of my 30 or so favorite tracks of this decade, and probably my favorite mash-up/remix/collage-type thingy of all time. Forrest combined the Who, the Beatles, Van Halen, and a few others into a pounding anthem that served as a monument to the joy of listening. Forrest is a busy guy and he's released plenty of music under his own name and his Donna Summer alias since; he also runs the Cock Rock Disco label and issues a steady stream of unauthorized sugar-overload remixes just for fun, like this one. There have been dance remixes of this track before (and hey, in some bars people used to dance to the album cut, believe it or not), but Forrest puts his own stamp on it, and kinda makes you wish Axl would look him up for remix help on Chinese Democracy.