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After I graduated high school, I spent the summer of '96 on Long Island, where I befriended a group of misfits who enjoyed hanging out until the wee hours of the morning. They listened to a strange form of music I hadn't heard before: jungle - dark electronics over crazy percussion. This wasn't thump-thump techno, it was something really interesting and exciting.
When I returned to CA, I bought a slew of jungle comps, even some vinyl, and found that several of my friends were also into this music.
It was only natural that I'd try my hand at a jungle set once I started DJing. Considering it was my first go, it came out pretty well.
This is the first installment of a series, with many more to come.
One of the hats I wear is as music critic for The Big Takeover, in both print and online versions. I used my Top Ten list of favorite recent reviews to assemble a DJ set, which morphs from punk to metal to noise to mutant blues.
Thanks to all the artists and labels who sent me stuff to review. Keep sending it to me. You inspire me in so many ways.
Sometime around the summer of 2007, a friend asked me and a few other people to join him in DJing a night at Molly Blooms II in Amityville, NY. We'd each get an hour to play whatever we wanted and, if things went well, we'd be able to do it again. Unfortunately, at the last second (like the day before) the people at Molly Blooms canceled and nothing ever came of it. I always wondered what that set-list I'd had in my head would have sounded like and, after looking over my notes, I finally assembled an approximation of what I would have played that night. My intention was to show my interpretation of dance music, beyond the confines of what it is commonly perceived to be. Being the first real DJ mix I've ever assembled, it's not perfect, but I think it's a lot of fun and, hopefully, it gets my philosophy across in an entertaining manner.
Wow, 2011 went by and I didn't post a damn thing.
Well, I've been working on some new stuff so I thought I'd start posting it here.
Here's a "mixtape" I constructed of ultra-noisy dubstep and drum & bass using samples from my favorite horror movies, something I call GAINSTEP.
Tracklist: Intro, Instrument of Evil, Piledriver, Piss Your Pants, Guadelupe One, Macumba, Death, Gallbladder.
One of the hats I wear is as music critic for The Big Takeover, in both print and online versions. I used my Top Ten list of favorite recent reviews to assemble a DJ set, which morphs from punk to metal to noise to mutant blues.
Sometime around the summer of 2007, a friend asked me and a few other people to join him in DJing a night at Molly Blooms II in Amityville, NY. We'd each get an hour to play whatever we wanted and, if things went well, we'd be able to do it again. Unfortunately, at the last second (like the day before) the people at Molly Blooms canceled and nothing ever came of it. I always wondered what that set-list I'd had in my head would have sounded like and, after looking over my notes, I finally assembled an approximation of what I would have played that night. My intention was to show my interpretation of dance music, beyond the confines of what it is commonly perceived to be. Being the first real DJ mix I've ever assembled, it's not perfect, but I think it's a lot of fun and, hopefully, it gets my philosophy across in an entertaining manner.
Wow, 2011 went by and I didn't post a damn thing.
