About
"I am a constant changing..."
:: Naked Funk - "The Fan"
I have my musical gravitations, somewhat reflected by the "sets" on here but I like a lot of music, so I try not to limit myself.
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 one day found myself in the right place at the right time, 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 competitive club environment, and also spent several hours per week looking over his shoulder in his studio - "Hittmix Studios" and assisting in the production of cheer and "Aerobic Mixes" that were produced and sold, mainly at International Cheerleading Competitions - associations with which he held the Sound Reinforcement contracts...This was a big operation he ran, so I got a lot of good experience there, in many aspects of the field. Mark was involved in many aspects of it. I had access to several longtime professionals, with so much/many varied backgrounds and experience. So I was fortunate to be part of that operation, even though I only got to experience a fraction of it, I saw and retained much, or saw the light, as it were, as time passed... :-) I know I wouldn't be near the DJ had I figured out what I could - all by myself... ??
I eventually became a resident at the most popular club in the area by being somewhat sober while Eddy G was on a binge (then by winning their contract for Mark). Later, we got word that the area was getting re-zoned, so they wouldn't be able to update their license for the next year, and that was about the same time I started getting booked for parties and raves and 'club nights'... So, a bit 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... That chapter was very good, with hella fond memories, but the story better for another forum.
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...
During all that confusion, 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
dude's amazing...
@The Beat Gremlin: Nice! No prob...
@The Beat Gremlin: Thx m8!
Greetings!
nice one kenny!
@DOOBERMAN: Thanks bro!!! :-)
Oh, here it is right here! Yes, nice...
Lovely! I was just cleaning up a recording of a classic mixtape (among a large regional circle here in the US) that an old friend originally recorded in 96, and Jazz Trippin' begins the flipside (side B, as it were). I'd recently reconnected with him online and now we're in a new circle of friends, but I had promised him back then I'd digitize it and put it to a CD-R for him, as I was working for a studio that was doing digital audio, but it was a bad timing/events thing and it never happened. So, I'm trying to make good on my promises, or thereabouts, 16 years later... :-) So refreshing! So, with 16 years on the shitty cassette, heat and the fact I had to disassemble it to reattach the tape to the leader twice to get a good recording... :-) I also have the vinyl on this, and it was in the first short stack of records I bought as I was leaving the clubs as a mainstream/Top 40 jock. Maurice really was/IS the master blaster producer, and you did a bangup job on this one. Brings back great memories... 'Lords..' was what got me interested in the first place, being from just this side of rural America, we needed exactly that here to pull us out of the mainstream and industrial/heavy metal... Lords was the entry point for a generation here. It was the perfect mix of elements at the perfect time... See? You have NY, LA, S.F., Chicago and "the rest" of us... Include Chicago in 'the rest' of us now... Nothing there worth anything now. I see ME/PK is back at it in a big way again. :-) Acid might have come from the US, but we didn't get to enjoy it... or hear it for that matter... By the time we figured out what was going on, you guys were already well into the Breakbeat movement... 140+ and that. Acid had been done for 2,3,4 years by then... For me, past what was going on here, it was Lords and "The Experience" as an import CD at $100 a pop.... I've really been neck deep in it ever since, and lady... you really are the unsung collaborator... What's up with that??? :-) "Life is A Series" is lovely, BTW... Heard it yesterday on Youtube... Nice one! I've always been one of those label decoding DJ types... I know exactly who you are... :-) Neat to find you here like this...
@BREAKNECK: Cheers Neil!!! Appreciate that!
@sonorescent: Glad you like, J!!
@garcon-sauvage: Dankeschön
@DOOBERMAN: I'm glad you think so D-man... Thank you... This one did fall together pleasing way... I appreciate it.
@Mr.Luigi: Thanks bud!! :-)
@KOM: Appreciate that Kathy!
@Krewshul: Thanks bro... :-)
@DOOBERMAN: Thanks bud... Means alot... ;-)
@DOOBERMAN: Glad you approve bro!
@KOM: You know? It wasn't until you first said something that I figured out they had a remix contest going on... Glad i/we didn't know about it....
@dj_moon: Appreciate it Ben!
@sonorescent: glad you like, Justin! :-)
@BREAKNECK: Tell me how it goes over...
@Jt Skyy: yeah... :-) Thanks James!
@KOM: Nice words. Thank you!
@S.L.A.T.: thanks bud... I appreciate that.
@S.L.A.T.: Dude, that's how they 'suck you in'... Caveat Emptor... ;-)
@KOM: That's Extrawelt "DistTheme" kicking into Peaches "Stuff Me Up"... :-)
@djhaze1: thanks Billy! :-)
@KOM: demon purger, yup... :-)
@KOM: Glad u like Kathy, thx... :-)
@DOOBERMAN: May take me a minute on that, but of course... :-)
@gotgrooves003: I see you're a man with a discerning eye... :-) (If I had something for sale, I might try to sell you something at this point.... ;-) Pretty sure BREAKNECK is the big-brain of the project.... I just wanna be a DJ when I grow up, so I'm doing my part...
@DOOBERMAN: Taken you this long to figure that out??? :-)
@DOOBERMAN: First time you've heard it??? :- Thanks... I was really pleased with this one... Still... Tried something a little different on this one, and all that was simply instead of 'other' things, selected and arranged based on how tripped out the grooves were together... I like how it takes on a totally different character with the volume knob on 11 than it does "in the middle" somewhere... ;-) Thanks again.
@Bobby Rainmaker: Lovin' the comments! Owen called me yesterday, talking about Summer... We'll see what happens... ??? but YES... PROPER!!! Sounds good!
@dj don d: Thanks Don!! :-)
@THRESH: Thank you so much Gabe. Cool!! :-)
@TurntableActorChloroform: thank you! :-)
I just picked a track that wasn't covered up... Great sound! Top to bottom... Really nice. Watching for your name now! :-)
Nice dude!!
Love your music!!! I don't want to compare it directly because it doesn't compare directly but it reminds me of somewhere between Flula Borg and Trondheim (Trondheim Music - not the band...).
It's very good, I like...