Z-Trip - PROCESSING LIFE THROUGH MUSIC

Zach Sciacca, aka DJ Z-Trip is a conduit for the power of music AND the love of music.

He has a history of working alongside the world’s greatest artists including Chuck D & Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, Biz Markie and the list of legends goes on (check the list of WORKS below*)

His work showcases the connectivity that music brings us across lifetimes, friendships, memories… 

Music is one of—if not THE most—transformational tool we have. 

But when a song gets mashed with another, it transcends everything and becomes something entirely new. 

THAT power is something Z-Trip has mastered and even pioneered, in the truest sense of the word. Without Z-Trip, the modern-day mash-up doesn’t exist in music. His genius shows up in his ability to simultaneously create containers of celebration & containers of healing—both needed. It IS evolutions in music like this that have helped make me who I am today. 

What DJ Z-Trip DOES (for a living and for life) honors the past, present, and future all at once. 

Time is transcended. Feelings are processed. Memories are made and people are remembered. 

I bring him on today as my dear friend and someone I've been a fan of since before our friendship (shoutout Ant Demby for bringing us together at the Playlist retreat)—and let this stand as a reminder that bigging up your friends is always, always the move.     

WORKS: 
- Listen to DJ Z-Trip and support his crazy talent on Twitch, Bandcamp, Spotify, YouTube
- 2009 recipient of the "America's Best DJ Award" (he remains on the top 10 lists year after year)
- Respectively, Z Trip is the “Godfather of the mashup movement” 
- Topped the charts for “Best Album of Year” lists including Rolling Stone Magazine, Spin, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, among many others with his 2001 album, "Uneasy Listening, Vol. 1" 
- He has a history of working alongside the world’s greatest artists including Chuck D & Public Enemy, LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, Biz Markie and the list of legends goes on
- Opened for The Rolling Stones
- Headlined at major shows like Coachella and Rock The Bells
- Produced music for EA Games and Tony Hawk
- First and only DJ to have a remix approved by Nirvana and Kurt Cobain's estate

 

TOOLS:
- What it means to be an entertainer, to transcend space and create containers of healing
- Reminders to let you know the importance of slowing down and reflecting on the impact of your work and life
- The value of having perspective of where you’ve been to see where you’re going
- The beauty of people whose life purpose is to give people a break from the hard stuff
- Reminders of how music gets us through the day and through life
- Advice that guides craters to be conduits who connect creation to audience not audience to your ego
- Metaphors that reflect the balance we need for trust & safety AND playfulness & challenge
- The importance of reconnecting with the core of your being
- Stories that give the gift of gratitude for the music collectors in your life
- Reminders to be a fan of your friends and how they show up in life
- Truths that show us that time and time again, only you can do things your way
- Permission to adapt daily for the sake of creativity 
- Inspiration to be your own student
- Resonance that reflect the truth of how powerful music is as a healer 
- Wisdom that reflects the importance of respecting the culture and the history of your craft
- Inspiration to take what you’ve learned in life and open someone else’s world with it

LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

BETTER is recorded on the unceded and ancestral territory of the hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh speaking peoples, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, and has been stewarded by them since time immemorial.
 

BETTER with Mark Brand is produced by Pamela Rothenberg of I HEAR YOU STUDIOS and Adam Karch with Orbyt Media