Hello everyone, and welcome to the second installment of Dan’s Dance Party.  I would be Dan, and I’ll be showing up on your glowing rectangle every Thursday to make sure you have been, will be, and are currently breaking it down, with much gusto and vigor.  There’s slightly less caffeine in my bloodstream this week, so those readers who were too old or too tired to handle me last week might have a better shot – to the rest of you, rest assured, I’m just as amped about this week’s column.

Why am I amped, you ask?  Well, rhetorical device, I’ll tell you:  I’m super stoked because I’ve got an interview with electro up-and-comers PANCE PARTY, a face melting trio of dudes from the mean streets of San Francisco’s SOMA/Tenderloin neighborhood.  Seriously, mean streets – they once saw crackheads fucking on their apartment building’s doorstep, which explains a lot about their music (not really).  My own romance with PANCE PARTY started when I met Ben Swardlick, a.k.a Swardy (pronounced Swurd-ee), 1/3 of P.P. and a hell of a dancer, when we both attending UC Santa Barbara.  It has been my distinct pleasure to witness (from the left, in the photo) Andy, Eric & Swardy’s rise to power in the last year and a half, as they’ve ridden huge distortion and head-banging beats to the forefront of the new electro vanguard (doesn’t that sound fancy?).  After topping the Hypemachine charts with their remix of Chester French’s “She Loves Everybody,” PANCE PARTY is now seeking world domination with a brand-spanking-new remix of Felix Cartal’s “Skeleton” (download below!), and the three madmen are cackling maniacally while crafting their new original material.  Although I know PANCE PARTY as friends, I am 100% serious when I say that I like their music in and of itself, and would like it even if they turned out to be R.Kelly-type urine fetishists.  Without further ado, Dan’s Dance Party presents:

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