"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