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Music has been a place of inner peace and I hope you enjoy my sharing of it! Born and Raised in NYC and now in the ATL. I have been mixing since I was 14 years old. As a young fella I can remember watching DJ Starski, Grandmaster Flash, Kool Herc, DJ The Red Alert to name a few hooking their equipment to the lamp poles in the parks in the South Bronx and Harlem it was on. The MCs were hyping or moving the crowd for the Deejays. When I moved from the Bronx to Queens, I joined the Gemini Crew and I was DJ Johnny Quick on the 1 and 2 with the cross fader. My Dad owned a night club in Brooklyn, so music was everywhere. As I got older and started going to the club scene in NYC there was one DJ that was such a technician and I often called him a Scientist the Legendary DJ Larry Levan famous for the Paradise Garage. He told a story when he mixed -- depending on current events, highs and lows in the City. As a DJ we must feel the mode and pulse on the crowd and provide them with a theme...
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I've been a DJ of one sort or another since 1978 when I played a load of reggae 12" discomixes at a school disco, causing much puzzlement! Played at many a house party and also for sound systems in Norwich in the 80s, then got into the Rave scene in early 90s, was resident DJ at Offyerface Norwich for 10 years playing techno and house... moved to Cumbria then after a break, started playing at parties and festivals again, Dubstep under the name League Against Dubstep, then reggae with Jambeater Sound and others... currently however I seem to be on an Afro-House tip, and by Afro House I don't mean the Brazilian latin stuff, although that's good too, but I'm talking about house from Africa, mainly South Africa but with many diverse collaborators thrown in... It's just got that dreamy trancy wide-open-spacey vibe, beautiful soaring harmonies and almost but not quite clashing chords, mad sub bass lines and of course the endless shaker beat and pounding kick drum underpinning everything, hardly a snare drum or a hi-hat to be heard, superb live instruments and majestic vocals, I don't know what they are singing about but I don't care!
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