Zack Darling

Regularly spinning at night clubs and parties large and small, including Decadance, Space Cowboys, Mystic Beat Lounge’s Techno-Tribal Dance, as well as some of the biggest clubs in San Francisco, like 1015 Folsom, Sea of Dreams and Kelly’s Mission Rock. He also played many large festivals, including Burning Man, Burning Man Decompression Street Fair and Harmony Festival. Zack has played every year as a headliner at Earth Dance Festival for a decade now, and was the first electronic dance music DJ to play the main stage at Reggae on the River, where he frequently co-hosts the legendary after-hours night beach parties.

After a short hiatus during which he transitioned from vinyl and CDs into digital files and learning Serato, a popular laptop based record collection & DJ software application, Zack has recently emerged from his music studio with a dedicated passion for DJing Mashups, Remixes an Bootlegs which he has been fervently collecting since the 90′s. He finds this a musical genre through which he can express all of his influences and tastes, and that appeals to several generations and dance floor crowds. He feels he is breathing life into music that was not written for the dance floor and has not been widely heard for many years.
              
Zack’s new CD releases are expressions of the alignment between the Mashup and dance floor worlds. Zack is moving forward into a style where he can follow all of his passions, old and new, merging Breakbeats, House, Dubstep and Mid-Tempo Hip Hop, with Reggae, New Wave, Folk, Funk, Soul and especially classic Rock favorites – remixed, retooled, repurposed for the dance floor.

The emerging name for this unique musical flavor of bass-heavy dance floor bootlegs? Mashstep.