caption website years_active alias birth_place label background birth_date instrument genre image article_title name occupation
jason , 2008 . forrest preparing for birthday party berlin , aug -lsb- http://www.networkawesome.com www.networkawesome.com -rsb- 2001 -- present dj donna summer fort mill , south carolina united states cock arc , mewe le disque , broklyn beats rock disco , irritant , sonig , deathbomb non_performing_personnel 05 april 1972 laptop / dj breakcore jason_forrest_in_tiger_costume . jpg jason forrest
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jason forrest

jason forrest is an electronic music producer known for noisy experimental electronica and breakcore incorporating many ideas of mash-up and rock and roll .
largely produced and performed on a single computer -lrb- including live shows -rrb- , his songs tend to be constructed from digital samples of found sounds and other artists ' music .
until 2004 he recorded under the name donna summer , an allusion to disco singer donna summer .
in 2005 `` res '' magazine named forrest 's `` steppin off '' video , by director jon watts , music video of the year .
in 2006 `` res '' magazine named forrest 's video `` war photographer '' , directed by joel trussell video of the year , and online magazine `` pitchfork media '' also named it in their top five videos of the year .
both videos have won several awards at various international film and video festivals and have both been widely viewed , downloaded and acclaimed .
forrest has released on many labels , but primarily on sonig , the köln , germany based record label .
he also has releases on irritant records -lrb- uk -rrb- , omeko -lrb- jp -rrb- , mewe le disque -lrb- be -rrb- , mirex -lrb- de -rrb- , broklyn beats -lrb- usa -rrb- , and hoss records -lrb- usa -rrb- .
some of the more conspicuous samples of other artists to be found in forrest 's work include ones from laurie anderson , the who , supertramp , steely dan , joe jackson , elton john , creedence clearwater revival and pat benatar .
this -lrb- along with his former stage name -rrb- shows his interest in appropriation as an artistic concept .
along with many images featured on the cock rock disco web site it also shows his interest in recontextualizing popular culture from past decades .
forrest grew up in south carolina , has lived in atlanta and new york city and now -lrb- winter , 2009 -rrb- resides in berlin .
he has a ba in photography .
he previously worked as a professional artist as well as an art critic for the atlanta journal-constitution news paper .
besides being a fan himself , there is no connection between forrest and the pop music/disco artist , donna summer .
in a 2003 interview with the cbc radio program , `` brave new waves '' , he stated that by being a middle class white male using this name he was `` subjecting people to a fake issue of diversity '' and forcing them `` to consider gender a little bit more . ''
