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"Take you on a musical journey" is a cop-out statement used by dj's to say "it will be good in a minute" Clubbers are responsible for their own journey from the jacket queue to the dance floor.
I wanted to be a graphic designer and/or a computer 3D graphic artist so a friend hooked me up with a pirated copy of 3D Studio Max, he fired on some music sequencing software just for fun and to fill up the CD. Long-story-short, 3D Studio Max never left the CD and remains at the bottom of that meter high stack of used CDR's in the corner of my bedroom at my parent's house.
A couple of years were spent making bootlegs and arranging beats and generally messing around. I built up an impressive collection of bootlegs under a different dj name. Notably Electrochemie Lk's 'Schall' vs 'Tainted Love' (horrible lo-freq sound quality but great bootleg). I recently discovered that Thomas Schumacher (one half of Electrochemie LK) had heard my bootleg and since re-made it with his expensive pro equipment. Still waiting for my cut Thomas! Eminem's 'Lose Yourself' vs. the theme from Kill Bill. This remained number 1 on a bootleg chart for over 2 weeks. A rare feat at the time!
Antoine Clamaran's 'Get Up, It Doesn't Matter' changed everything. When I heard this track I knew I had to play it to folk. Then I wondered: "what if I could find other great music and play them to folk as well in some sort of continuous musical arrangement."
And that's the story of how I invented 'the mix tape'.
As bootlegs had no place in the kind of DJ set I was programming I stopped and gave up this project in order to move forward. I have since put Tiga's 'Louder than a Bomb' acapella with Dave Clarkeís 'Before I Was So Rudely Interrupted' I use that in sets because it sounds fierce.
I had been building up my local profile and created my own night at the Soundhaus. This was just getting off the ground when I became a dad for the first time and my music/dj output came to a near stop. Sadie is now nearing her first birthday and the start of the year 2008 marks a new dj guise (The Antagonist).
I'd say Electronica is my music style as it sits neatly between Electro and Techno. The tracks I select must sound special and they must stand the test of time. Unfortunately all the great music is hidden amongst a lot of crap and sometimes even I let a mediocre track slip into my sets. The important thing is that I recognize this and immediately jettison those tracks into the center of the Sun by way of a giant catapult I keep in my kitchen next to the toaster.
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