[Delayed Post]: Song #4: DJ Steve Porter - "You Play to Win the Game"

Song #4: DJ Steve Porter - "You Play to Win the Game" (2010)

Porterhouse Productions

"We go out, we hit people in the mouth, number one. Number two, we cannot give them the game. Number three. Hello? We suck!"

DJ Steve Porter is a DJ known for his complex and entirely immersing remixes he compiles together, usually for ESPN or "The Today Show." His remixes range anywhere from one-minute to three or four minutes, and compile a montage off the regular/post-season highlights of sporting events or of popular TV show moments. While most of his remixes are sports related, one doesn't have to be incredibly in-tune or immersed in the sporting world to just admire the incomparable artistry and talent in his remixes.

My favorite remix of Porter's is "You Play to Win the Game," a remix featuring the famous rants of NFL coaches, like Herm Edwards' famous line, which is the title of the remix, Jim E. Mora with his famous "Playoffs?" line, which has now become a regular sports soundbite, and Mike Singletary's old school rules for his then-failing San Francisco 49ers. The remix is so finely mixed, artfully constructed, and musically potent that it functions like your average song, with a chorus, specific verses, and an explosive/revealing final verse.

The song is one of my favorite motivating tunes, mainly because hearing so many people heated and speaking entirely in the moment makes on replicate similar feelings, and my go-to tune for when I'm angry or agitated (right after Plies' "Shit Bag," number sixty-two on "The One-Hundred Songs of Steve Pulaski"). Not to mention, the song compiles such incredibly musicality, to material that isn't inherently musical, which is an unbelievable achievement on part of Porter. He not only made a great song, but did so by meticulously measuring, emphasizing, and perfecting things like sound mixing, instrumentation, speed, and pitch to, in turn, make an amazing song that rightfully deserves more recognition than it has merited, even by the standards of DJ Steve Porter remixes. 

Give "You Play to Win the Game" a listen, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLlIdZikDk