DJ DIRT MONKEY

BEATMAKER, ROUTESETTER, BOOTYSHAKER

Patrick Megeath, aka Dirt Monkey, 23, hails from Sacramento, California, where he started climbing some nine years ago. Now living in Boulder, Colorado, he routesets at the Boulder Rock Club by day and spins at clubs, gyms, and comps by night. Megeath plays a combination of dubstep (“like a 70bpm breakbeat, rooted in dub reggae, with super-low bass frequencies,” Megeath explains) and his own music, which he produces on his laptop with apps like Ableton Live and Logic. For downloads and more info, go to soundcloud.com/dirt-monkey and dirtmonkey.net.

Where’d you come up with your DJ alias?
I had my fi rst gig coming up, so . . . I called myself DJ Poop, ‘cause I couldn’t think of anything else. After a while, I was like, ‘I need a new name,’ so my girlfriend Heidi [Wirtz] and I came up with Dirt Monkey.

What type of climbing are you most psyched on?
I’ve been climbing outside mostly. Whatever anyone else wants to do, really. I haven’t been trad climbing as much, just ‘cause I watched some dude deck, and that kinda freaked me out. He broke his back, his leg, and his arm, and shattered his helmet. He fell 40 feet into talus.

Do a lot of climbers come to hear you spin?
I definitely bug the shit out of all my friends who are climbers to come out to gigs. And I DJ all the comps around here.

Is it true that climbers are lousy dancers?
No! Climbers get down. Heidi, she gets down. Matt Wilder and his girlfriend Sandy — Matt and Sandy are the go-to gang if I want to go out and see some music. Chris Weidner ... that dude ... holy shit. Jonathan Siegrist — gotta throw J-Star in there. He’s got some serious moves going on, and he brings all the ladies, too.

Anything weird happen when you’re out late for a gig?
I was packin’ up from the b.side lounge thing I do [Breakin’ & Eggs], and I was looking down 13th Street toward Pearl . . . it was, like, straight out of a Stephen Segal movie: some guy comes running into the frame and just dives face-down, like the concrete was a Slip N’ Slide. It was impressive that he got back up. That’s the best part of being out late with a gig, when everyone’s all wasted, talking shit outside of the bar.

A Snippet Of Goodness.......... by Dirt Monkey

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