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About Me

Long time lover of big drums and old vinyl (thanks to my Pops (RIP) who used to take me digging with him from 4 years old!).Member of The Twelve Original Players alongside my brother Don J, who has a similar addiction. I've been making hip hop beats using Akai whatevers since 1993 (until infinity!) under the previous monikers of ACE-1 and Joe Maximus, but now I just use my given name because it's cool and I'm old.MC'ing used to be the name of the main game, but I'm out of practice from both reciting and writing. Don J is now the man in the group to hold down full microphone control, but you may see the occasional guest verse cropping up in the future!Big up all those who purchased and supported the Joe Maximus "Tangents" EP back in '97, my first and only release thus far as a producer. I've blessed the mic on the Fraudulent Movements LP, "Schism" for two tracks in 1999 and on Don J's extremely rare "Doom J" project, which was hatched in 2006.

My Interests

Digging in the crates for that good, vintage vinyl and chopping sounds up for your listening pleasure!

I'd like to meet:

Bruce Lee, Richard Roundtree, Prince Buster, Mohammed Ali, James Brown.

Music:

The best genre: GOOD music! But if you want to be specific, mainly hip-hop blesses my ears with the odd dash of free jazz and pysch rock to spice up my day.

Movies:

Lost In Translation, Juno, Memento, Mars Villa (and many other good old school kung fu flicks before wire work cheapened everything) and King of The Beats!

Television:

CSI (apart from New York: Gary Sinise should only play bad guys), Heroes, Family Guy (Peter Griffin for President!, Everybody Hates Chris.

Books:

Jamaican Warriors, Flowers for Algernon, The Book of Five Rings, The Art of War, The Alchemist.

Heroes:

My Pops, Bruce Lee, Mohammed Ali.

My Blog

Using your loaf.

First and foremost, will those people in my area who enjoy feeding the pigeons from the comfort of their window sills, please stop throwing bread at me! I've been hit by random crust and crumbs three ...
Posted by Dean E James on Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:06:00 PST

Welcome Adda Elouise!

Peace ladies and germs... It has been a while indeed since I've updated this wee page of mine. Apologies first and foremost for messages unread and stale in the bread bin; now I'm talking back to them...
Posted by Dean E James on Sat, 26 Jul 2008 02:49:00 PST

RIP Lilla James

What's good folks? Not me that's for sure! I was awoken at 5am this morning by a call from the same hospital that my Pops passed away in, to tell me that my Ma had "passed peacefully" just after midni...
Posted by Dean E James on Mon, 12 May 2008 01:09:00 PST

Random beat update

Hi folks, Just a swift entry (oo-er!) as I’m on my lunchbreak and I’ve got five minutes left in this sweet smelling internet cafe. I’m without an internet connection at the moment du...
Posted by Dean E James on Wed, 09 Apr 2008 06:36:00 PST

Paris Je Taime!

What’s up folks? Monsieur James is back in L’Ecosse after his last pre-baby holiday with the missus. Feeling nice and refreshed after plenty of strolling around the beautiful streets of P...
Posted by Dean E James on Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:53:00 PST

Dilla Thoughts

Well, as most hip-hop heads know, February 10th marked the second anniversary of the death of James "J-Dilla" Yancey, one of the most revered producers in music (not just hip-hop, remember th...
Posted by Dean E James on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 10:26:00 PST

2007 in perspective...

Well, here we are again at the end of another year, ready to formulate soon to be broken resolutions and thinking of yet another master plan. It's just another night in the cage for Pinky and the Brai...
Posted by Dean E James on Mon, 31 Dec 2007 10:11:00 PST

Merry Christmas Beathounds!

Well, it's that highly commercial time of year that everyone loves. The fat women stepping on your new Clarks on the High Street as they bustle down the road with seventeen bags in their hands. The cr...
Posted by Dean E James on Sat, 22 Dec 2007 03:58:00 PST

Charity Digging Madness.

I've been meaning to post up these thoughts for a while now, as this issue has been bugging me. What is the craic with charity shops and vinyl nowadays? Perhaps Oxfam is to blame, as since t...
Posted by Dean E James on Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:19:00 PST

Blog neglect, life enhancement...

Wow. That sums up the emotional intensity of the past couple of months. Those of you that are married will understand the grind, the arguments, the compromises and essentially the unification that goe...
Posted by Dean E James on Mon, 01 Oct 2007 02:16:00 PST