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DJ Plateau

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About Me

"Taking each note as if it were a breath, music invades my every ounce of being. I am consumed by the beat, and the driving bass line keeps my heart rhythm in check. I'm always open to new styles of music and I'm not afraid to experiment with sound. As the years go on my mind expands and gains more insight into conscious living."
With a knack for pristine musical selection, tight mixing ability, and first rate production skills, DJ Plateau has been active in the electronic music community for more than 8 years. His musical path was chosen long before being exposed to techno when at the ripe age of eight he began to study piano. Years would pass and a general interest in recording with digital instruments would develop. In 1997 his first exposure to the electronic world began with such artists as BT ("Ima" and "ESCM" were getting played to death in his CD player), Prodigy, The Chemical Brothers, and Moby. It was in 1998 that he felt it was his calling to move from in front of the speakers to behind the decks. During his studies at UNC-Greensboro in North Carolina armed with a pair of belt drives and a Blue Dog mixer he began to record demo tape after demo tape. Eventually he was able to spin at his first party "Headstrong" at Club Babylon in Greensboro, NC in November 1998. 1999 rolled around and the wheels were in motion for a very productive year. He received offers from Hoodwink Records, joined a local DJ/production crew, Sinirgi, and played many local bars and clubs. By the end of '99 DJ Plateau gained enough popularity to be coined as "...the best kept secret in the NC underground scene."
By 2000 he had begun to record his own music and comtinued to promote his style around the Greensboro area. In 2001 he placed 12th out of 50th in the preliminaries of a Raleigh-Duram based DJ competition called "Da Skillz" and competed in the finals that same year, placing 5th. Not bad for an out of town kid who was up against some hometown favorites.
In 2002 DJ Plateau moved back to his home state of Virginia and decided to spend more time in his home studio recording a number of tracks including an EP entitled "Trance Mission vol.1." In 2003 he moved back to the beach area of Virginia and joined with a local DJ promotional crew and would play out regularly that year. 2004 brought about new songs and more local DJing gigs even getting his feet wet in the PsyTrance scene. In 2005, he performed a couple of times in Washington D.C. under the name "Psy Kick" but found that the ethereal, hard, vocal trance was more his style.
2006 has been a busy year for Plateau. His recording studio is the main area of interest and he is currently putting the finishing touches on his second EP "Trance Mission vol. 2." At the same time he has built a following in the New Age community with his 2005 side-project release of an ambient/chill out album under the performance name of Deosil (http://www.myspace.com/deosilmusic). He also runs a very small private recording/production company, "Other Realm Music." Now with 13 demo CDs later (including one that explores Drum'n'Bass) and an "official" release, the sky is the limit....so stay tuned.
Taking music to a higher level is his goal....are you ready to go on that journey with him?
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My Interests

DJing, working with VSTs, mixing, mastering, recording songs without words, trying out a new sequenced pattern, updating my Myspace page, living, loving, spinning, star gazing, trail blazing, being brave, refuse to be a slave, wishing & hoping, staying real & not moping, trying new things, cutting old strings, rockin' out without a doubt, and just making the best of every situation.

I'd like to meet:

The inventor of the Chia pet - I mean come on, the pottery that grows??? What a concept! Um....let's see....well, there's too many people in this lifetime that I'd want to meet!

Music:

Let's see....Classical music, techno - psy trance, breakbeat, drum'n'bass, electroclash, EBM, industrial, nu-wave, synth pop, downtempo, trip-hop, lo-fi - classic rock, 80's tunes (not the mainstream stuff), native music, celtic, experimental.
Bands: well, myself (heh heh), Paul van Dyk, BT, Ferry Corsten, Matt Darey, Dave Ralph, Mike Koglin, Cor Fijneman, George Acosta, Tiesto, Above & Beyond, Armin van Buuren, Interstate, Carrie Skipper, Super8, Marcella Woods, Jan Johnston, Kirsty Hawkshaw, Second Sun, Dogzilla, John Digweed, Sasha, Darren Emerson, Karl Hyde, Rick Smith, Steve Porter, Chab, Coldcut, Mr. Scruff, Bjork, The Sugarcubes, Tricky, Goldie, Source Direct, Funckarma, Squarepusher, Mars Lasar, Gabrielle Roth, Sacred Spirit, Enigma, Pilgrimage, Lesiem, Libera, Sarah Brightman, Sarah McLachlan, Ani Di Franco, Nora Jones, Chantal Chamberland, Madeleine Peyroux, Diana Krall, The Fixx, The Cure, The White Stripes, The Vapours, The The, Mister Mister, Duran Duran, Sting, Prince, Covenant, Apoptygma Bezerk, VNV Nation, Assemblage 23, Hocico, Suicide Commandos, And One, Nine Inch Nails, Three Doors Down, Sevendust, Six Pence None The Richer.....more as the years go on!

Movies:

The Blade Trilogy, The Lord Of The Rings Trilogy, The Alien Quadrilogy, Star Wars, Indiana Jones, The Matrix (and the Animatrix), Anime including the Ranma 1/2 series, Miyazaki films, Akira, Ghost In The Shell, anything by Kurosawa, Aronofsky, Spielberg, Hitchcock, Lucas, Cameron, or Shyamalan. I love independant films, "arthouse" movies, spiritual cinema, comedies, silent movies, and the old Movietone newsreels from the 1930s and '40s.

Television:

Don't watch television!

Books:

Don't read books too much.

Heroes:

Ron Popeil - some of you know who he is......, Jay Kordich (heh heh), Steve Jobs, John Lasseter, Steven Spielberg, M. Night Shamalayan, John Williams.

My Blog

To all DJs some feedback is needed

Years ago, DJ forums and personal opinions about the 'scene' were all the talk about CDs being used side by side with vinyl. Back around 1998-99 DJs had begun to slowly replace their music with that ...
Posted by DJ Plateau on Tue, 19 Dec 2006 05:05:00 PST