What inspired me were a few experiences of electronic music through other people. The first time was when I tried LSD and a friend of mine played some Jungle tapes. They blew me away because I thought they were strange hiphop tunes. Also, BT’s “Never Gonna Come Back Down” music video came out on TV while I was trippin’ and I was in awe. This was in the middle of August of 2000. Months later I was at another friend’s house (October 2000) and we were browsing through his large CD collection. We went from Rap to a strange CD that I thought was House music. He said, “no, that’s Trance.” It hypnotized me. This was when I decided I wanted to be a DJ. Flash forward a couple of months (March/April 2001) – I was at another friend’s house who was a DJ. He introduced me to Platipus Records material and Acid Trance and Hardcore. He took the time to give me basic training on bars, measures, patterns/structures in music, and let me use his turntables. It was fun!
There are actually three choons that ultimately inspired me to reach out to others to get into DJ’ing. They are:
Technique – Sun Is Shining (Mash-Up Matt Remix)
Push – Universal Nation ’99 (DuMonde Remix)
Space Frog – Lost in Space (Yves DeRuyter Remix)
The tapes were from local LA legends like DJ Thee-O, DJ Curious and Ron D. Core who are still playing at raves all over town.
