15-Min Flash Mix E14: KiDG Unleashes Mash-Up Mania With This Ride Of Classic Hits

The indie veteran delivers a clothesline of choons (Credit: Eatmepoptart / Colossal Photos)

Get ready to rumble because it’s time for some mash-up mania. In DJ-ing, you’ll sometimes come across elements that you wouldn’t expect to hear together, but produce miraculous, eureka-worthy moments when smooshed together perfectly. This is the art of the mash-up, and showing off his chops with unruffled mastery is Robin Chua.

The respected vinyl buff – who also shaped the musical direction of audiophile bar, Vertigo26 – adopts his longstanding KiDG persona for this episode of the 15-Min Flash Mix, tossing samples into one another like a musical mosaic. The outcome is a delightful hodgepodge that gives nods to the revered eras of classic rock, Brit-pop, ’80s hip-hop and even big beat. You know, all the stuff you’ve missed.

As KiDG, Robin Chua is one of the resident selectors of indie party series, Eatmepoptart (Credit: Eatmepoptart / Colossal Photos)

With a stroke of genius, KiDG weaves in hits from the likes of Bon Jovi, Rage Against The Machine, Beastie Boys, Grandmaster Flash, LCD Soundsystem and Cornershop, just to name a few. The Eatmepoptart resident even slips in a boogielicious Mando funk relic, teasing the passion of his other DJ alias, Tiko Jackson from his Tiko Disko events. This is a nostalgic micro-voyage that saunters down a walk of fame, inviting you to spot all the stars in this mix. It’s a thrill ride of all-too-familiar guitar riffs, beat blitzes, and vocal motifs that will get you both mental and sentimental.  

Now crank it up to 11, and get ready for a clothesline of choons with this 15-Min Flash Mix.

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