I had sort of an industrial beginning as a DJ...I'd been playing around with music and was a big clubber in Austin, TX in the early nineties and there started experimenting w/ turntables... I moved to Fayetteville, NC in 1994 and took an apprenticeship under Mark "The Hitman" Pezzella...For him I began as an understudy in local clubs where he held their entertainment contracts, to learn the ropes of doing things correctly in a competetive club environment, and also spent 6 hours per day, 6 days a week in his studio producing "Aerobic Mixes" to be sold at, mostly, International Cheerleading Competitions, associations with which he held the Sound Reinforcement contracts...This was a big operatiion he ran, so I got a lot of good experience there in many aspects of the field.
I eventually became a resident at the most popular club in the area (by winning their contract for Mark).I'd put together somewhere around 34 of those silly mixes, and after some time in the big club, the area got re-zoned so they couldn't update their license, and that was about the same time I started getting booked for parties and raves and 'club nights'...A few months later, I moved back to Arkansas, put out the first mix of my own (I knew how by now), started Mindtribe Productions and started throwing parties...

Somewhere along the way I'd hooked up w/ Justin Johnson (NY/SF), Chris 3PO O'Connor (NYC/Buffalo), Johan Afterglow (NYC/Malmö, Sweden) and Tom Grin (NY/CT), and together we unofficially became "Mindtribe" the crew, playing all over the country together, trashing towns, creating indelible memories among us and the locals we left there to clean up after us... :-)While not always steady, this continued on until 9/11 and the terrorist activity in NYC...

Soon after this, I re-entered the Army and between '02 and '09, spent a total of 4 1/2 years in Afghanistan with the war...
Since the return from my last deployment, I've been in the process of picking back up my music career, and rebuilding what I've lost by disappearing for so long...Lately I've been remixing for one or another of Justin's labels (Cable Recordings/Barely Legal Records) and just trying the best I can to re-establish myself...The World has changed...The environment has changed...Some for the better, some for the worse... but it's nowhere but up from here...I love music.What else can I say?
Cheers!BR