http://www.myspace.com/djplaturn
I learned how to scratch and mix with some success and I finally decided to release some mix-tapes to local record stores when I was 18 or 19. It was amazing to get paid for something that I put together myself. Music that I had created by reworking and re-imagining songs that I loved. I was playing with new genres and discovering the science and the skill that it took to make these sounds work together.
My friend Kim, http://www.keempoo.com/klog/ has always been a big supporter of my musical endeavors and has decided to host a couple of my old mixes on her website. The first one, titled "semi-tuff" is actually my most recent unfinished attempt at making a CD, from about 5 years ago. The second one. "turnstile" is the very first thing I thought was good enough to transfer to CD back in 2001 (which was a huge ordeal back then!) So go check em' out! Their free and about half an hour each. Tell me what you think.
http://www.keempoo.com/hello/aquafresh/
I'm fairly pleased with how these were starting to sound. I always wanted to make something that sounded different. I din't just want a "party mix" of one popular song after the other. I wanted to take some weird old samples and crazy breakbeats and 80's and funk and jazz and scratches and mix it all into a big gumbo pot. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't :)
After releasing these mixes I went on to work with my old friend Leile, aka Mr. Salty to make a full length hip-hop album. And then just a year or so ago I was DJ'ing back home at a local dive bar called the Missouri Lounge. So yeah, thankfully I was able to keep music in my life to some degree. Even if i'm not world famous...yet. I hope after all this school baloney to one day get back to doing what I really love.
1 comment:
Anonymous reader here. I listened to some of your mix. Really like the sped-up part of Outkast's "B.O.B." The other stuff is rather good. I like the oldschool feel, reminds me a little of Z-Trip's Future Primitive album.
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