When Danny Masterson is not making his way around Hollywood’s backlot (you might remember him as Steve in That ‘70s Show), he gets his hands dirty dropping wax as a one of LA’s hippest DJs. That’s DJ Momjeans to you, the indie-electro punk who’s been starting parties all around the USA, sharing stages with Steve Aoki, and apparently, working on his own sick remixes. And after all that, he gets to go home to Bijou Phillips. So if anyone knows anything about getting sh*t and schedules sorted, it’s he.

How’s it going, Danny?
Well… I’ve been shooting a film called The Rooster with Carla Gallo and getting ready to start a new TV series called Playing With Guns. Music-wise, I just finished the sickest remix of Broken Social Scene’s “All To All”.

How did you get into DJ-ing?
I’d built a good vinyl collection and started doing a night in the late ‘90s in LA at 3 Of Clubs. It was two DJs going back and forth to see who could play the worst (amazing) songs to get people dancing. It was definitely one of the first open format nights in LA. We’d go from Whitesnake into The Fat Boys into Milli Vanilli. It got popular really fast and began my DJ career.

We understand you’ve also had a bit of fun with your DJ handle, like didn’t you used to be called Donkeypunch?
When Puff Daddy publicly announced his name change to P.Diddy, it inspired me to take the next step in transforming my DJ identity. So I announced that Donkeypunch was dead and now birthed as DJ Donkeypizzle. That had me laughing for a few years. When I tired of that moniker, I opted for an old joke of ours… the Momjeans.

And when you’re not Momjeans or Danny Masterson, you are…
A Wiffle Ball extraordinaire. I’m also pretty good at shampooing my hair and I can sleep on airplanes.

The rest of this interview can be read in the September issue of JUICE, now out at these spots.

www.myspace.com/djmomjeans

Text: Min Chen
Image & interview courtesy of: Indochine