A group for friends and fans of Dave Shayman aka Disco D.

http://www.discod.com/2005/
http://myspace.com/gringolouco
http://www.youtube.com/dshayman
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21405295@N04/sets/72157603340359982/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_D
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=164283925&s=143441

For information on suicide and suicide prevention please visit:
http://www.save.org
http://www.afsp.org/
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
1-800-273-8255


Donations in honor of Dave can be made to the Neutral Zone, the Ann Arbor teen center:

http://www.neutral-zone.org/


article from the detroit free press:
BY KELLEY L. CARTER
FREE PRESS MUSIC WRITER
David (Disco D) Shayman was the kind of young musician who would lend a shoulder to his friends when they were going through life's low moments. It was nothing for Shayman to repeatedly check in and offer encouraging words.
The Ann Arbor-bred DJ and music producer who made his name as an innovator and DJ in the ghetto-tech scene -- and went on to work with big-name hip-hop stars such as 50 Cent and Chamillionaire -- was found dead on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. He was 26. The cause of death was an apparent suicide.
"He inspired me and was a counselor to me and a mentor to me about how to make it in this business," says Sam Valenti of Ghostly International, an Ann Arbor electronic music label with an international following. "He was never too busy to be a part of your life. I wanted to see us succeed together. It's sad to me that I'm never going to see that."

Shayman became known in the late '90s for his production and DJ skills in a style known as booty bass or ghetto-tech, a Detroit-specific, souped-up, fast-paced brand of electronic music that features relentless beats and suggestive overtones.
In some quarters, ghetto-tech became associated with strip clubs, but it was also a mainstay at underground dance parties and more mainstream nightspots. It was often played late-night on popular pop, R&B and hip-hop stations -- giving local DJs who were leading the pack a chance to get their music heard.
The style remains popular in dance clubs around the country.
Shayman was a student of the ghetto-tech scene, learning from DJ Godfather, Brian Gillespie and Gary Chandler.
Like other Detroit area DJs, including DJ Assault, he had anthems that received regular radio airplay, including "Where My Dogs At," "Need Another Drink" and "Hands Up for Detroit."
"Every ghetto DJ wishes they were Dr. Dre. That's like their dream. That's the guiding thing. Disco D had achieved that," says Brendan Gillen, an electronic producer best known as Ectomorph. "He had produced 50 Cent and through a long chain of events, 50 Cent is a prodigy of Eminem and Dr. Dre. He actually achieved the ghetto-tech dream."
In recent years, Shayman relocated to New York with the hopes of breaking into the tough commercial hip-hop scene. He succeeded when one of his tracks landed on rapper 50 Cent's hot-selling "Massacre."
His work was featured on two Grammy-nominated albums. For the past three years, he'd composed the music for VH1's "Hip Hop Honors."
"For him to come from Detroit and break these major labels and do these remix projects, it meant a lot to us here in Detroit because he was representing us," says Rick Sadlowski, also known as DJ Dick. "It was like the same feeling you got when Eminem got signed or when Kid Rock got signed."

More articles:

Pitchfork:
http://pitchforkmedia.com/page/news/2007/1/23/Producer_Disco_D_Commits_Suicide#40672

Scratch magazine:
http://img505.imageshack.us/img505/3862/scratchdiscodfq3.jpg

XLR8R on the Disco D DVD:
http://xlr8r.com/features/2007/10/disco-d-and-fred-armisen-dvds (read less)

A group for friends and fans of Dave Shayman aka Disco D.

http://www.discod.com/2005/
http://myspace.com/gringolouco
http://www.youtube.com/dshayman
http://www.flickr.com/photos/21405295@N04/sets/72157603340359982/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco_D
http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?id=164283925&s=143441

For information on suicide and suicide prevention please visit:
http://www.save.org
http://www.afsp.org/
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:... (read more)