Artist Biography

Vampire Weekend bassist Chris Baio is setting out this summer for a few festival DJ gigs, with August sets at Australia's tenth Field Day and London's Underage, and he's released a great, disco-centric promo mix to celebrate. It's light and nostalgic, deftly working in a new elite of forward-thinking, retro-sound-preserving artists like 6th Borough Project, Pional and In Flagranti. Baio's mixing is wisely conservative, making great use of a handful of existing remixes, like John Talabot's dreamy take on Teengirl Fantasy's "Cheaters," which pairs Talabot's beat refix with in-key, pitched-down Love Committee "Cheaters Never Win" vocals. In a way, Talabot did the heavy lifting, but Baio's impressive track selection and his own musician's ear let him roll the track in and out like it's child's play.

-Fader