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In my reveries walking to school, I've often wished for a genre that blends indie rock and hip-hop, much like rap-metal blends, well, rap and metal or the way Will Oldham and David Grubbs blend indie and country. While I often imagined the bastard child of The Olivia Tremor Control and DMX, The Statesman's "XLent" supplement has a story this week on DJ Jester, who says, "I want my records to sound like Pavement records, to have this melancholy hip-hop feeling." That sounds pretty appealing, and his "Riverwalk Riot," which combines artists as diverse as Willie Nelson, Yo La Tengo, and the Outkast into a single mix sounds pretty interesting. Dangerous, have you or anyone else in the browsing audience heard this DJ Jester? I'd go to his show tomorrow, but I don't really have the funds.