MUSIC TIME LINE:
During my childhood, I was exposed to current rock music of the time: Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles, Seals and Crofts, etc. I have a sister a few years older than me, and when she hit her teens, a new harder style of rock entered the household: Bad Company, Journey, Def Leppard, and assorted hair bands.
Once I hit my teens, I explored more of a progressive rock style like Yes, Rush, Genesis, and older Journey. (Yeah, that’s how I made it through the years of Milli Vanilli!). By the time I hit college, Grunge had taken hold. That fad passed though, and I found the music that followed to be rather uninspired. That’s when I began to explore electronic dance music...
Right around 1996 I began to learn beat-matching. I even got good enough at it to get a couple DJing gigs around where I was living. This wasn’t the only thing going on in my life at the time though, so I gave it up for a couple years. One day at work, someone overheard me talking about DJing. The conversation sort-of shifted toward computers, and he told me he had this program that came with his new soundcard called Acid. Since he had no use for it, he gave it to me.
Wow! How things had changed in a couple years! Now, instead of just playing tracks, I could actually MAKE them! Since that time I’ve discovered other programs like Fruityloops and Ableton Live that let you generate and arrange sounds on the fly instead of just looping wav files. That leads me to where I am today!
A supportive environment is crucial in spurring artists onward with their craft, and artists in turn keep that environment healthy and growing with their creations; a self-perpetuating cycle. I commend the local people who work hard at coordinating quality electronic-music events, and I’m also very happy about the flourishing arts-community that’s taken root within my hometown in western Massachusetts. I’m proud of whatever small part I can play in perpetuating this region’s music and art scene through my own music.
ARE YOU AN ARTIST? CHECK OUT THE CREATIVE COMMONS:
WHY I LOVE TO RAVE:
AMAZING!!! WIND TURBINE EXPLODES DURING STORM....
____________________________________________________________
__
Subscribe to the NEW YORK-NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL EDM SHOWCASE. Now featuring whole DJ mixes, all tracks made by independent producers! To pull in the show from iTunes Music Store, simply click the "SUBSCRIBE with iTunes" button below. Or just drag-and-drop the red "RSS" icon into your favorite podcatcher. Start listening today!
____________________________________________________________
__
what element r u? Your Result: ur element is...A~I~R~! congrats! ur element is air! u r a happy person and pretty intellectual! u can be calm and wise, but a fun person 2! u should love white...maybe...DUH! IT’S THE COLOR OF AIR!...well maybe not quite...
