Dhisk Jointed

Please pass this onto your friends, family whoever u might think may be interested in this funky little number .... and maybe, just maybe i could actually win or become a runner up for the first time after years of entering these damn remix competitions ......Thanks for all your support, please keep listening to and sharing my music.Dxx--------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------------------------------------- I first got into music at the tender age of 15 – I started to learn the guitar. Found the drums at 16, got my first drum machine and four-track recorder at 17, started DJ'ing at around 20. But I suppose it all started when my Dad bought me a tape recorder when I was 7 and I started to tape the weekly charts off the telly ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- A long while ago, I remember being in my mate’s front room and he and his flat mate started playing me their old school hip-hop and hardcore collection, all that 80's stuff. I was hooked, loved those old hip-hop sounds, the next day I went and bought up nearly every Sugarhill and 80's hip-hop record I could find… Then came the funk, I became obsessed in finding out where the samples used for these 80’s hip-hop records came from – 70’s funk, 60’s funk, I discovered a whole heap of new music, it was a great learning curve. ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------- I used to DJ and promote club nights from 1997 – 2003. Had a night which I promoted and played at with friends, at a club called the Clinic, in Gerrard Street in London’s Chinatown. Consisting of two floors, downstairs at the bar we’d play, funk, electro, hip-hop, 80’s pop… upstairs we’d have guest DJ’s – Danny Breaks and Mark Pritchard doing a hip-hop and breaks set, Bushwacka, Tom Myddleton, Chris Simmonds from Cross Section Records (deep house label). We also hosted the Jedi Selectah Album launch party – and sometimes we (me and my co-promoters) would spin some tunes, usually consisting of a nice blend of house and breaks. ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------- Sadly the club closed due to “unforeseen circumstances”, but we did manage to get a short residency in the Baby Box room at the Ministry of Sound – but that wasn’t enough and we all eventually called it a day. ------------------------------------------------------------ -------- After many years of attempting to produce music I’d got fed up – wasn’t DJing much, and was about to jack it all in. That’s until I met a guy called Gary McKinnon - we met through a friend and through a love of making music. He played me one of his tunes and I just had to have a tinker with it. “I know” I’ve been working on for years, lost all the bits to it a while ago so went about recreating it recently (its on the Myspace player). I suppose that was my first real attempt at remixing, it meant more because it is a friend’s voice, and to some extent the lyrics I could relate to… ------------------------------------------------------------ ------ And that’s where it all began, the remixing. Some friends have given me the opportunity of remixing some of their tracks, I like the idea of playing with other people’s ideas, rearranging them, adding my own tint to them, but I still hadn’t found my sound. My technique was still basic, I felt I had to practise – so I did a random search for remix contests on Google, found some websites, entered some competitions, didn’t get anywhere, but felt I was getting better as a producer. ------------------------------------------------------------ --- In January of last year I came across the realworldremixed website, a fabulous idea from Peter Gabriel’s record label to have a remix contest website. The artist was Joi and the remix was of a tune called “What You Are”. It meant that much more to me because of the way it sounded like the music my dad used to listen to. I knew I had to have a go at remixing it. Bobby and Nihal on radio one played it, after it was sent to them for four weeks in a row! I was chuffed. And felt that maybe this might be the sound I’m looking for … Asiatic electro funk type thing… ------------------------------------------------------------ -- So I went about producing my own tunes that weren’t remixes and maybe make some kind of attempt at connecting with a culture and country I sadly know very little about in the only way I know how. So I searched for some Indian samples, downloaded quite a few sounds that I now own and came up with “Bol Basuriya Bol” – I love the way it sounds. Turns out Bobby Friction and NIhalthaught BOl Basuriya Bol was good too, they played it countless amount of times on they're show on radio 1, then had me on their BBc introducing show this time last year, intervied me, then played two of my tunes every day for a week (that week was the week of my birthday, what a present!) At the moment I’m looking for inspiration, India is a big inspiration for me, and there is a lot to explore. Im gonna take my time and have fun while im doing it. www.myspace.com/dhiskjointed"If it wasnt for the breaks, the world would be a different place ..."