Redfoo: The DJ Who Invented Party Rock and Outsourced the Beatmatching
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Before Baby Driver turned his life into a soundtrack, Ansel Elgort spent years as Ansølo, producing, charting on Beatport, playing Ultra and Electric Zoo, and insisting celebrity DJs who only press play are doing fuck all.
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