Danger Zone!

This was an article about tonights show published in the College newspaper today.
http://ocolly.com/2008/12/05/danger-zone-2/
By Nathan Poppe
Entertainment Editor
Published: December 05, 2008

DJ Danger Granger, known in the real world as entrepreneurship senior Granger Brown, has been spinning in Oklahoma for about eight months.

He got his start playing live with Beatpunks, Granger’s partner in crime Justin Laughlin, at the Stonewall Tavern.

The two DJs are set to spin at Eskimo Joe’s tonight at 10.

Brown paused his music to give a short interview.

O’Colly: What’s the strangest place you have DJed?

Granger Brown: Probably just little ghetto house parties. The best place I played was in Oklahoma City with Dance Robots, Dance!

They had Clever, who is from Atlanta. (He is) nationally known … I would say world-known DJ. I had only been DJing six months, and I got to play with him.

OC: What can people expect from your Eskimo Joe’s show?

GB: A lot of my stuff is lyric-driven and remixes of Bloc Party and indie bands like that. I think (Beatpunks and I) will throw in a little bit of hip hop.

OC: How do you decide what music you will spin at shows? Do you just hit shuffle?

GB: Oh no, it’s all on the fly. It’s kinda like chess, almost. If you wanna make a good set, you’re gonna have to string it along. You have to be a couple songs ahead of what you’re playing.

OC: When I hear music, I dance “Footloose” style. You would never want to see me dance, but how do people usually respond to your music?

GB: Honestly, at first a couple will start kinda going out there to get it going. People are really shy about dancing. But when you got a bunch of people dancing together you can’t really tell how people are dancing. Maybe you got a couple of people that are really good.

It’s not necessarily normal grinding and freak dancing. It’s just moving to the beat. The greatest thing is when I talk to people and they’re like, “Man, we came out and I’ve never danced, and I danced.”

OC: Explain to me your involvement with independently exposed.

GB: It’s my radio show on 93.7 Sunday nights from 8 to 10 p.m. I play a little bit of dance music on there but mainly its indie and underground music.

I’ve been DJing that for I’d say like two years now.

To learn more about Granger at http://www.independentlyexposed.blogspot.com.