Jason Forrest

Jason Forrest

American electronic music producer, born April 5, 1972 in Fort Mill, South Carolina. His style is an eclectic mixture of breakcore, experimental electronica, drill-n-bass, IDM, mash-up and other fast rhythms and club elements. Until 2004, Jason Forrest mostly released his music under the name – as an allusion to a famous disco singer. Since 2008, he started using this pseudonym actively again, now as [i][b]DJ[/b] Donna Summer[/i]. He created Cock Rock Disco label in 2001 to release his own and friends' albums and also co-founded Nightshifters label with New York DJ in 2008. His music is largely produced on a single computer and many of his tracks includes digital samples from various other artists, found sounds, etc. While performing live only with laptop and a mic (in most cases), Forrest is known for his vicious and extremely energetic performances, with a lot of action and rock-n-roll/hard-rave inspired stage routines. Jason Forrest released a bunch of CDs, LPs, and 7-12" mostly on Sonig, but also his own CRD, Broklyn Beats, HOSS Records and several other labels. Music videos [i]Steppin Off[/i] (directed by Jon Watts, 2005) and [i]War Photographer[/i] (director – Joel Trussell, 2006) were highly praised by audience and critics, mentioned as a video of the year by Res magazine and Pitchfork Media and winning several awards at international film and video festivals. Forrest was also hosting "[url=http://www.wfmu.org/playlists/su]Advanced D&D with Donna Summer[/url]" show at radio WFMU in 2002-2005, playing primarily unreleased new musicians and CD-R stuff, which took up to 80% of his repertoire. The archive of the show is currently available at WFMU site. After relocating to Europe, in 2005 Jason co-founded [b]Wasted[/b] festival with DJ Pure and Club Transmediale, focusing on breakcore and related genres. Mini-festivals took place in Berlin, Hague, Riga, Prague, Toulouse, Marseilles and other places. In 2011 Jason Forrest designed and launched with Greg Sadetsky an online TV broadcasting website called [url=http://networkawesome.com]Network Awesome[/url], which is now the largest curated video site in the world.