16-year-old Washington-based DJ Alex Young released a new track featuring an edit of kuduro powerhouse Buraka Som Sistema's remix of Dance A$$ by Big Sean. I don't always listen to hip-hop, but the track is easily a club hit with it's infectious rhythm and a beat that'll get your own a$$ on the dance floor — It's a guilty pleasure.
Young only began making music in 2011 but has landed one of the biggest gigs in any aspiring musician's career: EDC Las Vegas. He cites his music as very hip-hop influenced, but is able to seamlessly fuse it with electronic creating a symphony of beats and melodies. The point of creating remixes isn't to make the song better, but to make the song appeal to a different set of listeners — If this kid could make me appreciate hip-hop a little more than I did before, then he's definitely going places.
Young's EP is set to drop sometime this year, until then I've got high expectations.
You can find Alex on Facebook, Twitter and Soundcloud.
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