Party Ben

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Party Ben

Background information
Birth name	Ben Gill
Also known as	Dean Gray
Genre(s)	mashup
Occupation(s)	DJ
Associated acts	Team9
Website	Party Ben Information Systems

Party Ben is a DJ in the San Francisco area who spent many years working at local radio station Live 105 and is one of the more notable figures in the mashup scene.

1 Radio
2 Collaboration
3 Bootie
4 References and Notes
5 External links

[edit] Radio

From June 2003 to December 30 2005 Ben hosted the Sixx Mixx on Live 105, a weekly program consisting of a continuous half-hour of mashups. After the Sixx Mixx ended, he began airing half-hour mixes on KJEE-FM in Santa Barbara, CA and 91X in San Diego. Party Ben was also a member of the short-lived Untitled Friday Night Show along with Madden and Miles the Intern.

[edit] Collaboration

In late 2004, Party Ben created the "Boulevard of Broken Songs" mashup, featuring elements of Green Day's "Boulevard of Broken Dreams," Oasis' "Wonderwall," Travis' "Writing to Reach You" and Eminem's "Sing for the Moment." (A later version replaced the Eminem with the original source of the audio clip, Aerosmith's "Dream On.") The track became his most widely-spread work and received worldwide attention, including that of Green Day's Billie Joe Armstrong, who mentioned in an interview that he thought it was "cool." "Boulevard of Broken Songs" was the impetus for Party Ben to work with Team9 on the American Edit album under the alias Dean Gray, where the two mashed up the songs from Green Day's American Idiot album, much like DJ Danger Mouse's The Grey Album. Recently he mashed "Every Breath You Take" by The Police and "Chasing Cars" by Snow Patrol to create the popular mash-up "Every Car You Chase". The mash-up has been played on many radio stations and got the attention of Snow Patrol. One of his earliest works include a collaboration of "Ohh La La" by the The Wise Guys and "Summer Nights" from the hit movie, Grease (Film).