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Year
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What happened?
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| 2007 |
Started Sat night Residency at Varsity
, Loughboroughs ex Barracuda bar. I get to use a Kaleidovision VJ
system as well as my own CD Decks as usual. The music is everything
from pop, dance, RnB, speed garage and trance.
Weekday slots to cover the popular Pound Party nights as and when needed have been done. |
| 2004 |
Started Fri/Sat night Residency at Reflex
, Nottinghams no.1 80's bar. I get to use a Kaleidovision VJ
system as well as my own CD Decks as usual.
Mixing 80's pop provides a decent challenge and i'm about the only
DJ in the Reflex / Flares Nottingham setup that does this!
Respect to DJ Jimmy who was my resident partner in crime and also shared
the same vision with the music.
Slots in Flares as and when needed have been done. |
| 2003 |
I have resumed my residency at Edwards and
started a regular set at Arribas. I
am looking to change my daytime career into a more media
based field (radio, broadcast, audio hardware or software). |
| 2002 |
Time away from the UK scene had given
me time to think about the direction I wanted to take
my DJ-ing. I vowed not to return to the club residency
as this was too limited in the style of music I could
play, as well as the crowd becoming more attitude driven.
Edwards was back in touch and I was able to take up a fortnightly
slot at weekends. The music in Edwards is commercial with many
new styles and promos thrown into the mix.
I still produce mix CDs for use in my own sets where a formula of tracks
has been selected from live experiences. Post-production editing (where necessary)
is carried out on a home PC using the same software as 4 years ago! (Soundforge and SAW32). |
| 2001 |
Club residency still going strong, from
the contacts built there I land a residency at the busy "Edwards" bar
in the centre of Nottingham.
Late in the year I quit my residencies and go to Italy with my daytime career. |
| 2000 |
UK Garage blows up big time and
a summer holiday to Aiya Napa lets me experience the
full Garage explosion. On this same holiday, legendary Jeremy
Healy plays a set at the Castle Club which
shows that house music is far from dead, Trance music
is also going very strong and the resident DJ Surge sparks
off an interest to get hold of some of the tracks he
played. Started residency at Zanadus nightclub
(St. James Street, Nottingham). |
| 1999 |
Began my first Club residence in for the
Nottingham Trent University radio station. The play list
was cool, funky house grooves, but this soon changed
to R'n'B/Soul.
With pirate stations playing Underground UK Garage [“???” 96FM]
I soon became interested and began including this in the nights music Programme. |
| 1998 |
Now working in my first daytime career
I met a commercial DJ with which I began touring commercial
clubs around the midlands as support for mix-sections.
This took me to Manchester, Sheffield, Leicester, and Nottingham. |
| 1997 |
Started performing live shows on Saturday
evenings for the Nottingham Trent University radio station.
The stations dance programme which later received an
award from BBC Radio 1.
I got my own show on a Sunday evening, entitled "Boogie Nights" which
allowed me to choose a mix of late 80s/early 90s disco tracks, mostly influenced
by the movie of the same name.
Now experimenting with sequencing mixes using home PC and sampling/sequencing
software. |
| 1996 |
Still at University I bought my first Technics
SL1210MK2 deck. After adjusting to the Direct Drive
mechanism I was hooked, I had to buy another! |
| 1995 |
By now I was mixing from CD to vinyl and
vice versa. At this point my main influences were Jeremy
Healy, Jon Pleased, BT, and Paul
Oakenfold.
Started performing at friends’ parties, mostly getting paid in cans
of beer! |
| 1994 |
Bought my first Record Deck, a SoundLab belt-drive.
In hindsight belt-drive turntables are very hard to use
for beat-matching and require a VERY gentle touch which
can be fu**ing frustrating! |
| 1993 |
Taught myself some basic "beat-matching" by
cueing up tracks of similar tempo and perfecting a much
practised sequence. Also, started using Pro-Tracker on
an Amiga 500 computer to sequence my own tracks
and remixes. |
| 1992 |
Got my first pair of decks (actually two
standard CD players wired into that cheap mixer again). |
| 1990 |
Became involved in a pirate station producing
pre-recorded shows using a combination of hi-fi units
and the cheapest mixer available. |
| 1989 |
First became interested in DJ-ing after
hearing local pirate stations [Rave FM 107.7]
playing underground rave music. |
