I am an international dj and promoter based out of Black Mountain, NC. I play a wide variety of music depending upon the venue, crowd, or circumstances but specialize in the dubwise and blunted. I play reggae, dub, hip hop, soul, drum n bass, downtempo, jazz, dubstep, and any genres in between.
I am the touring dj for Asheville based roots reggae collective Chalwa.In addition to Chalwa I have also provided DJ support for Dubconsious, the Boostraps Burlesque, Laura Reed & Deep Pocket, Snake Oil Medicine Show, Peter Rowan, Ras Alan & the Lions, Hope Massive, Ethos, CX-1, I.T., Jon Scales Fourchestra, and Motorskills.I have DJ'd with D:Raf and Xist from the Alien Technologies crew, Medisin from T.O.U.C.H. Samadhi, Matt Harder, DJ Krumbz, Obvious World, DJ Chalice, Selector Timothy, Quetzatl, George Pond, and Cary, NC based DJ Rang.I have provided rhythms and beats for the likes of Higher Seeka, Ras Berhane, and Birmingham based the Village.In Asheville I have played at the Grey Eagle, Hookah Joe's, Bo Bo Gallery, Emerald Lounge, Mela Indian Restaurant, Stella Blue, Westville Pub, the Garage, & "Upgrade Chicken Porch". I have also played the Town Pump Tavern, the Watershed, Ja Vin, and Lake Tomahawk Park in Black Mountain; Deerfields Amplitheatre main stage (as part of the One World Innernation music festival); Warren Wilson College; Soul Infusion Tea House & Guadalupe Cafe in Sylva,NC, the Boone Saloon in Boone, NC; Ivan's Yacht Club in Marion,NC; Artistika Nightclub in Greensboro, NC; the Next Door in Johnson City, TN; Backstreets in Clemson, SC; and Creekridge Campground in Madison County North Carolina, as well as at the Southeast Regional Burn , Transformus.Every Wednesday night I hold down a couch and sometimes select at Upgrade Studios in North Asheville.In February of 2008 I went to Jamaica with Chalwa and played shows at Negril Escape Resort, Elvis & Laura's Positive Vibrations Bingo Party, the 2008 Negril Cannibus Cup at the Rough House in Negril and well as random sets at various local soundsystems.I have numerous mix cds which are available my contacting me or at a performance.I am currently coordinating the hosting of Soundclashes at various locations around Western North Carolina. The idea being to bring together area djs from different backgrounds who may not normally play together and see what happens. Participants have included myself, D:Raf, Medisin, Funky Franklin, Obvious World, Krumbz, Quetzal & Xist. The first Soundclash was held November 24, 2007 at the Emerald Lounge in Asheville with two more following over the next month. A packed Soundclash was held at Guadalupe Cafe in Sylva, NC on Feb 15, 2008 featuring myself, D:Raf, and Obvious World.THE GOGOGORILLA YEARS: around the late 1990s Cleofus Williams, along with Birmingham native Garth Gilbert, Ray the Shark, Laslo Eel and several other devious individual ran an early online e-zine called GoGoGorilla based out of Birmingham, AL. The site specialized in guerilla entertainment with Cleofus heading up the music side of things with a diverse staff that included Funky Franklin, Cephus P. Nelson, El Servo the Last Pervert, Dr. Buzz Brown and others. The site was controversial and gained prominence arounf the Dirty South before being shut down by the Powers that Be following a crackdown on subversive material after the 9/11 attacks.THE GRASSHOPPER YEARS: my earliest forays into djing began around 1990 with my creation and distribution of the Grasshopper Music Mixtapes showcasing my own evolution with styles as diverse as heavy metal and grunge and my first experimentations into the electronic and dub side of things. Tapes were spread out around the Middle Tennessee region with archivist "the Mon Frere" still in possession of numerous of these very limited single print tapes.
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