DJ BACK TO BASICS KNEW HE WAS DESTINED TO PLAY MUSIC. IT ALL STARTED WHEN HE WAS FIVE YEARS OLD AND ONE MORNING WHEN HIS PARENTS WAS ASLEEP. HE PUSHED HIS HAND IN THE 8 TRACK PLAYER AND IT GOT STUCK. THAT WAS THE FIRST TIME HE TOUCHED A PLAYER. A DJ WAS BORN AND OVER THE YEARS HE HAS REFINED AND DEFINED HIS MUSICAL EXPERIENCE INTO AN ART FORM THAT HAS MADE HIM BECOME THE ULTIMATE PARTY ROCKER!!! IT ALL STARTED BACK IN TRINIDAD & TOBAGO WHEN HE USED TO LISTEN TO LEGENDS ON THE RADIO. AT THE AGE OF 10 HE WOULD LISTEN RELIGIOUSLY TO THE LIKES OF RENNIE BISHOP, GLEN “THE THUNDER†ANTOINE, IAN “THE GOOSEâ€ELLIGON. ALSO HE LISTENED TO MANY OF THE MIX TAPE ICONS OF THAT ERA. THE LIKES OF BRYAN REGIS, TEDDY MOHAMMED, XTC AND THEN ULTIMATELY THE MOBILE DJ’S ALSO LIKE D PROFESSIONALS, DJ CIN, DJ AMITAF, ROCKIN RANDY TO NAME A FEW. BACK IN THOSE DAYS HE IDOLIZED DEEJAYING SO MUCH THAT HE USED TO SNEAK OUT AT NIGHT AND MOVE SPEAKER BOXES FOR D PROFESSIONALS AND NOT GET PAYED. HE WAS ONLY 13 THEN. AT THE AGE OF 18 HE GRADUATED FROM SCHOOL IN TRINIDAD AND WENT TO NEW YORK TO CONTINUE HIS STUDIES IN COLLEGE. IMMEDIATELY AFTER ENROLLING IN KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE HE WENT STRAIGHT TO THE SCHOOL RADIO STATION THERE. FOR A YEAR AND A HALF HE DEEJAYED HOUSE MUSIC. HE BECAME THE PRODUCTION DIRECTOR THERE AND DEEJAYED AT VARIOUS CLUBS AND COLLEGE EVENTS. ALTHOUGH HOUSE MUSIC WAS GREAT TO PLAY AND A LOT OF FUN SOMETHING WAS MISSING AND HE WANED TO GO BACK TO HIS ROOTS. HE USED TO GO TO THE LOCAL BROOKLYN PARTY SCENE WHERE THE ORIGINAL GB PRODUCTIONS, DJ ANONYMOUS, THE SUPREME TEAM, KING CHOW, MAD MAN MADDY AND SWEET NEEDLE SCOBIE WAS BLAZING EVERY WEEKEND. HE SOLICITED TRYING TO JOIN ANY OF THEM TO PLAY WHAT HE KNEW BEST WHICH WAS CARIBBEAN MUSIC. HE SAW WHAT THEY DID AND HOW THEY HAD TOTAL CONTROL OF THE CROWD AND HE SAID HE WANTED TO DO THAT AND NOT ONLY COMMAND THE CROWD BUT HAVE THEM BEGGING FOR MORE. UNFORTUNATELY THEY ALL HAD A FULL CREW ALREADY WORKING WITH THEM AND THERE WASN’T ANY ROOM FOR ONE MORE. HE WAS DISAPPOINTED. THAT WAS ABOUT TO CHANGE. ONE DAY HIS BLOCK HAD A BLOCK PARTY AND HE LISTENED TO THE DJ PLAYING AT THE TIME. HE HAD A STYLE THAT HE LIKED AND STARTED TALKING TO HIM ABOUT MUSIC. HE SAID HE WILL COME SEE HIM THE NEXT DAY TO HANG WITH HIM AND GET A REMIX HE TOLD HIM THAT HE DID. HE DIDN’T BELIEVE HIM SINCE HE ALWAYS GOT DISAPPOINTED BUT THE NEXT DAY HIS DOOR BELL RANG AND THAT VERY DJ WAS AT HIS DOOR. WHO WAS THAT DJ? PRESIDENT REGAN FROM SOUND CITY. REGAN AND RICARDO DEVELOPED A FRIENDSHIP AND REGAN LIKED HOW HE PLAYED SO BE BROUGHT HIM TO THE OWNER OF SOUND CITY (FLOYD) WHO IS ALSO REGAN’S BROTHER. FLOYD LIKED HIS STYLE AND ASKED HIM TO JOIN. THIS WOULD BE THE BEGINNING OF THE SKYROCKETING SUCCESS OF SOUND CITY. BACK TO BASICS AT THE TIME WAS KNOWN FOR 10 YEARS UNDER SOUND CITY AS “SOUND CITY 3, D PROFESSORâ€. HIMSELF ALONGSIDE FLOYD AND REGAN TOOK SOCA MUSIC TO A NEW HIGH AND WERE THE FIRST TO USE DRUM MACHINES, SAMPLERS, AND ULTIMATELY CD MIXERS. WHEN SOUND CITY 1,2 AND 3 PLAYED AT A PARTY THEY WERE SUCH A PRESENCE THAT NO OTHER DJ COULD NOT COMPARE. THEY DOMINATED THE BROOKLYN SCENE FOR MOST OF THE 90'S. IN 1999 D PROFESSOR DECIDED IT WAS TIME FOR A NEW CHALLENGE AND DECIDED TO GO ON HIS OWN. HE DECIDED TO TAKE THINGS BACK TO BASICS. HENCE A NEW NAME WAS BORN. RICARDO FORMED DJ BACK TO BASICS AND TOOK HIS EXPERIENCE TO YET A NEW HIGH. TO DATE DJ BACK TO BASICS HAS TRAVELLED ALL OVER THE WORLD DEEJAYING AND HAS TRULY BECOME THE ULTIMATE PARTY ROCKER.
