Mix Master Mike has been in the Beastie Boys and opened for Metallica; he\u2019s playing Rifflandia this year (photo by Noel Vasquez\/Getty Images).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nBack home in Los Angeles after a world tour opening for Metallica, Schwartz says he has been incredibly busy of late, going beyond the studio to get his hands into just about everything.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am everywhere,\u201d says Schwartz. \u201cI\u2018m not going to lie to you. I\u2019m just keeping busy on all these projects. We just did the premiere for the Teen Titans<\/i> movie. I did a mix on the theme song. I\u2019ve been doing a lot of movie work, a lot of animation work, a lot of commercial work… I\u2019m writing a chapter in the Beastie Boys book with Ad-Rock and Mike D\u2026 and then shows in between, you know what I mean, until I go on the road with Cypress Hill. I just signed a deal with Cypress Hill, so they\u2019ve got me on as music director and DJ. We start the world tour in October.\u201d<\/p>\n
Schwartz says that after three decades on stage, he has become a chameleon. Whether it\u2019s a festival or a stadium show, Schwartz says he tries to match the energy of his audience.<\/p>\n
\u201cMusically, it\u2019s pretty much all over the place,\u201d he says. \u201cRight now it\u2019s hip hop, but it\u2019s morphed into a whole different thing. It\u2019s a little bit of drum and bass and a little bit of electro, but it\u2019s got that hip-hop feeling. It is performance art. Live performance art. It\u2019s live remixing, right before your eyes. The camera is on my hands, so there is no visual, except you\u2019re watching the music unfold. It\u2019s all improv, and you\u2019re watching it go down live. No sync buttons, no bail-out buttons, it\u2019s just turntables and a mixer. That\u2019s the way it started. Now it has transcended to what it is today, where all of these forms of music are mashed into one.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019s come a long way, but Schwartz has taken all the fame, fortune, and accolades in stride. He says he just wants to give people something they can talk about.<\/p>\n
\u201cI encourage people to get their phones out and record it,\u201d says Schwartz. \u201cShare it, because you\u2019re not going to get that experience again. I encourage people to break out their video cameras and take something home. The difference between myself and other artists is that I don\u2019t know what I\u2019m going to do. It\u2019s kind of like they\u2019re logging my history for me. When they post it, I can look back and say, \u2018That\u2019s what I did.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Rifflandia
\nVarious times,\u00a0Thursday, September 13 to Sunday, September 16
\nVarious prices and venues
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