Best of Dante’s Picks of the Week 2011

2011 was a year for the outliers elbowing their way into the mainstream. If you turned on the radio today, you would hear Avicii’s Levels, Skrillex remixes, and indie bands like Foster the People holding the #1 spot on top 40 charts. 2011 was the year music in the mainstream began to change. House music made it’s way back to America, dubstep shook the dance halls of college bars, and suddenly underground bands were no longer underground, but brought to the public with services like Spotify and Pandora. Over the past year we have provided you with a weekly music selection, of all kinds of tracks, from hip hop to electro. Today we bring you songs that most represent what music was like in 2011, and where we think it is going in 2012. Some will want to critique what we selected, but we would rather you sit back and enjoy some amazing sounds, which hopefully trigger some amazing memories from beautiful nights out in Chicago. Everyone have a wonderful New Year’s Eve, and ring it in the best way possible. With music.
- Dante & DJ Bomber
PS- I would like to give a special thank you to my asst DJ Bomber for helping me out the whole year with these picks of the week. Without him I wouldn’t be able to get all this great music to you.
This pack includes everything from the best remix of “Pumped Up Kicks”, R3hab’s best work of the year, the breakout smash from my boy Sammy Adams, and my favorite song of the year, “Feel So Close” by Calviin Harris.
About the author
In a era when just about anyone can try to be DJ, Dante, also known as Dante The Don does more than try. He excels at providing the soundtracks to the nights you won't remember, but the one's you never forget. Raised outside of Boston, Dante transplanted himself to Chicago and quickly became one of the Midwest's most requested and talked about talents behind the turntables. His vast knowledge of music, present, past, and even future, has set him apart from others as he always has the right tune to play at any given time. Aside from spinning Dante is also a partner in a very successful event marketing company based in Chicago, Premier Event Marketing Chicago. His firm puts on and hosts events in Chicago's top venues and attracts some of the best crowds in the city; one never knows who they might run into at a party with Dante The Don. Dante has performed with some of the most well-known names in the game ranging from: the late great DJ AM, Mixmaster Mike, Rev Run, Lil Jon, Ludacris, R. Kelly, LMFAO and Kid Cudi just to name a select few. In addition to working with an array of high profile corporate clients, Dante was also asked by the Chicago Bulls to create mixes for their Pre-Game and Halftime shows and most recently became the official DJ for recording artist, Sam Adams in 2011. He is also a top selling artist on world famous remix and DJ site www.crooklynclan.net Whether Dante is performing in venues in cities like Chicago, Boston, Providence, New York, on tour with Sam Adams, or one hears his programming at a Bulls game, his skills and immaculate taste in music will be sure keep the energy high and the crowd asking for more.
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