“You have the BEST music!”

If I’ve heard that from the students in my fitness class once, I’ve heard it a million times.  Seems I have the tunes that get people motivated to lift insane amounts of weights for extended periods of time.

I have always prided myself in my ability to find wicked remixes of popular songs.  In fact, a quick check of my precious iPod reveals over 6,000 mashed-up and/or extended and/or technofied tunes.  (1,200+ of those songs are easily courtesy of Madonna.  Who knew she had so many dance remixes?  Oh wait … I did.)

My life is set at a constant 130 BPM.  Visit my house, hop in my car, snag my iPod and you will always hear the thumping nnsk-nnsk-nnsk of danceable music emanating from speakers.

Seems I’ve got the music in me. And it wants out.

For a brief while, I lived with a DJ.  I would compile a mishmash of my favorite dance tunes, give them to him in a heap and he’d create the most amazing sixty minute, non-stop megamix known to man.  I paid him $25 a pop … which comes out to about forty-two cents a minute for sheer bliss.  Best money I ever spent considering I still listen to those CDs years later.

There are adequate DJs, spintastic DJs and then there are the ones that consistently rock your face off.  The mix-and-match so many snippets of songs you swear you’re having a mild stroke.  Then there are DJs who rev the crowd up to a frenzied peak and keep them there for hours on end.

Take one listen to my friend DJ Edil Hernandez (www.djedilhernandez.com) and you’ll quickly realize what I’m talking about.  The man took his passion for dancing and keeping the beat alive and turned it in to a hobby.  Now he’s setting the world on fire in Orlando … the first stop before he starts spinning to the masses. This kid is amazing, and you can download his mixes for free on his website.  Plus, you can say you knew him when.  Call me a trendsetter.

People always ask … what’s your favorite tune? (And, yes, there is one.)  It’s the one song I’ve listened to every day for the last five years.  It keeps me alive.  It’s Faith Evan’s Mesmerized … the FreeMasons’ mix is an unstoppable three minutes of frenetic, kinetic, milk-shaking, orgasm-inducing viciousness.  There’s even a brief lull in the middle of the song to catch your breath … if you need it.

But why would you?  Stop reading and start dancing.  It makes the world a livelier place.