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About Me

I started "spinning" in 2001 as a crappy, dime a dozen living room DJ in New York City ... playing out infrequently and beatmatching even more infrequently. Fast forward to 2003 and a move down south to the cozy confines of Charlottesville, VA. The move to the south suddenly opened up the option of doing actual "gigs" and making $$ to support my habits (cars, bling, several houses). I can't reveal anymore details as my life story is currently being optioned for a LIFETIME movie. UPDATE: "The Roy" as he affectionately refers to himself has relocated to the waterfront section of Jersey City ("the new "insert trendy NY hood"). Gigs have been sparse as Q-Roy is home perfecting his new style of less mash up more metal.Highlights so far: *New years eve at MAS 2003 *winning "Best of Cville" award for 2004 and 2005 * playing for a packed tent at Bonnaroo 2004, 2005, 2006 * opening for Dave Matthews in the Bahamas -- I was such a hard act to follow that God had to step in and rain out Dave's set with the most insane storm I've ever seen. Dave and band lost alot of gear ... I lost a cool pair of headphones that friends brought back from Japan for me and my prized Japanese Jackson 5 remix cd (which thankfully was backed up on my itunes). Sorry Dave!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/27/2005
Band Members: Roy
Influences: I grew up listening to all types of music ... jazz, punk, indie, jam bands, hip hop ... chances are if its music - I probably spent at least 10 minutes with it. I always loved electronic music and DJ culture so when I first bought turntables and a mixer in 2001 it seemed like a natural growth in music obsession. I didn't really get what I wanted my style to be until catching a unnannounced DJ set by 2 Many DJs in the basement of Lit in NYC. They mixed trendy euro-techno with hip hop and rock and played some of the craziest remixes I've ever heard not too mention people crowd surfing to a DJ set. Expect: some rock, some dance, some hip hop, some punk, b-more and the Roy to be wasted.
Sounds Like: hip hop classics, mash ups, good metal, light rock and old school punk
Record Label: large ham
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Its A Long Way Back From Hell

Just a heads up for you industry scum-bags and socialites ... its looking like DJ Quarter-Roy will be making another stop on the "Watch a Grown Man Cry" world tour. Roy will be hitting the C3/Ticketm...
Posted by Quarter-Roy on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 12:29:00 PST

Best of (sorta)

Instead of doing a cliché favorite album of the year list, in which I would roll out a list of hip ..blog.. worthy records that no one has heard or cares about ... This year I give you a list of songs...
Posted by Quarter-Roy on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 11:48:00 PST

hoes hoes hoes

Relix must got a fetish going for the big boys, first they let the mighty Tenacious D grace the cover of their esteemed magazine... Now they have delved deeper into the plus sizes with the hiring of D...
Posted by Quarter-Roy on Thu, 07 Dec 2006 10:31:00 PST

Robot jokes

A rabbi, an Arab, a robot, and a Catholic priest walk into a bar. Only the robot exits.A robot walks into a pharmacy. The pharmacist asks him if he'd like anything. The robot replies, "A soul."How do ...
Posted by Quarter-Roy on Fri, 17 Nov 2006 09:07:00 PST

Jersey is the Reason

Friends, acquaintances and lovers, This Saturday begins a new phase in the long and storied career of DJ Quarter-Roy. Quarter-Roy will be making his Jersey City debut at The Corkscrew in the Jersey ...
Posted by Quarter-Roy on Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:05:00 PST

Three Is the Magic Numbah!

Howdiey kiddies, I just wanted to let everyone know that I will be making my third consecutive "dj" appearance at this summer's Bonnaroo. As always I will be kicking it off in the arcade tent on Thurs...
Posted by Quarter-Roy on Tue, 06 Jun 2006 08:59:00 PST

Here's looking at you Cville

Yes kiddies ... The sad day (or happy depending on where your sitting) has arrived. Quarter-Roy's last gig before moving back up north to a deluxe apartment in the sky is here this Friday March 24t...
Posted by Quarter-Roy on Thu, 23 Mar 2006 06:01:00 PST

ham

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm ham.
Posted by Quarter-Roy on Fri, 03 Mar 2006 08:26:00 PST

Welcome to my first "shlog"

I continued my monthly residency at MAS last night. The crowd was smaller than it has been lately but it actually was a good thing. I've been suffering from a variety of sicknesses ... probably need a...
Posted by Quarter-Roy on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST