AILSA CHANG, HOST:

All proper. There’s a new contender for the most well liked track of the summer season.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “PLANET OF THE BASS”)

CHRISSI POLAND: (As Ms. Biljana Electronica, singing) The entire dream…

KYLE GORDON: (As DJ Loopy Instances) Come on, come on.

POLAND: (As Ms. Biljana Electronica, singing) How does it imply…

CHANG: It is known as “Planet Of The Bass,” and it has all the trimmings of these Eurodance hits from the Nineteen Nineties – proper? – together with a catchy beat and, sure, an aggressive DJ.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “PLANET OF THE BASS”)

GORDON: (As DJ Loopy Instances) Alert. Alert. DJ Loopy Instances.

CHANG: DJ Loopy Instances is a personality performed by comic Kyle Gordon. The track and the music video got here out this week.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “PLANET OF THE BASS”)

GORDON: (As DJ Loopy Instances, singing) Life – it by no means die. Girls are my favourite man. Intercourse – I am wanting extra. Inform the world cease the battle…

CHANG: And Kyle Gordon – I imply, DJ Loopy Instances joins us now. Welcome to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED.

GORDON: Thanks a lot for having me. I am glad to be right here.

CHANG: (Laughter) We’re so glad to have you ever. OK, so you place out a clip of “Planet Of The Bass.” It turns into this large viral hit. And we’re speaking greater than 100 million views – proper? – throughout every kind of social media platforms. What has the previous few weeks been like for you?

GORDON: Yeah, I imply, the previous few weeks have been fully nuts. You understand, I used to be actually pleased with the track, and I believed it was actually humorous. However did I believe that it could discover a fan base thus far past followers who’re nostalgic of ’90s Eurodance music? No. So it has been – I have been fully blown away by how massive it is gotten and the way a lot folks appear to be loving it.

CHANG: And though that is DJ Loopy Instances’ first large hit, he is been round for some time. Are you able to simply introduce us to the person? How did you give you this character?

GORDON: Yeah, DJ Loopy Instances is definitely, humorous sufficient, most likely the oldest character I’ve completed. You understand, individuals who have been following me on social media for the previous few years know that I do a ton of various characters. However DJ Loopy Instances – I’ve really been performing that character since faculty, and there is really a CD that I put out with my acapella group…

CHANG: Oh my God.

GORDON: …In faculty from 2013. Yeah. And DJ Loopy Instances does the intro, like – (as DJ Loopy Instances) you are listening to the Denison Hilltoppers’ album.

And there is, like, crappy beatboxing beneath it.

CHANG: Wait, so within the Nineteen Nineties when, like, Eurodance was large, you had been – what? – 10, 12?

GORDON: Like, 5, 6 years previous? One thing like that.

CHANG: Oh, OK. OK, so even youthful. And, like, was this music, for you, simply completely gripping or one thing? Like, why did it imprint on you the best way it did?

GORDON: Gripping is an efficient phrase as a result of it solely ever would break by way of on American pop radio now and again. And it sounded nothing else like American pop music or pop or rock music. So my greatest recollections of this music from that point could be, like, going to the bar and bat mitzvahs of my buddy’s older siblings – you already know? – ‘trigger that is the one time I might be on a dance ground. So if I used to be going to listen to one thing like “What Is Love” or “Blue Da Ba Dee Da Ba Di” or…

CHANG: Yeah.

GORDON: …”Barbie Lady,” you already know, that is the place I might hear it. And it sounded so unusual.

CHANG: Effectively, I need to speak about your massive stage debut as a result of the Jonas Brothers are on tour, and so they introduced you and Audrey Trullinger, the unique Ms. Biljana Electronica, on stage to carry out “Planet Of The Bass” in entrance of an enormous stadium, proper? How did that really feel? What went by way of your thoughts within the second?

GORDON: It was fully surreal. We knew that it was going to occur lower than 24 hours earlier than we really received on stage. Earlier than that night time, probably the most I had ever carried out in entrance of was 400 folks. So the concept of performing in entrance of 20,000…

CHANG: Oh, man.

GORDON: …It is, like, you possibly can’t even – the best way I described it was, like, I used to be simply taking part in fake like I am an 8-year-old, like, taking part in rock star. So I simply – it did not even really feel actual.

CHANG: OK, in order we are saying so typically on the present, earlier than I allow you to go, I’ve another query. DJ Loopy Instances, do you might have a message for our NPR viewers to hold them into this weekend?

GORDON: Completely. I believe DJ Loopy Instances would say, (as DJ Loopy Instances) bear in mind, when the fervour of the night time change into the brand new method of the morning, let the rhythm change into the best way to go to heaven tonight.

CHANG: (Laughter) That was comic Kyle Gordon, aka DJ Loopy Instances. Thanks a lot for becoming a member of us.

GORDON: Thanks. Thanks for having me.

(SOUNDBITE OF SONG, “PLANET OF THE BASS”)

GORDON: (As DJ Loopy Instances, singing) Increase, hear the bass go zoom. Have a physique, really feel the groove. Cyber system overload, all people motion.

POLAND: (As Ms. Biljana Electronica, singing) The entire dream…

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