Andrew Owen Lewis sprouted from an L-shaped road that ran right through the core of a large square development shielded from the Jericho Turnpike bandits of Long Island, NY. Heir to a messy soup of influences, he got addicted to that next raw sound. His aggressive consumption of music came to a head with his friends turntablism, where he found himself suffering ever more complicated needs that were only partially being fulfilled from a hardcore scene and the peak of early 90s hip hop. He started out accompanying his friends on trips to Jamaica, Queens, to buy equipment and records and to house parties on the raw side of the tracks in Bellport, NY, where he would carry equipment and keep his childhood DJ friend and his mentor company all night.
Living in New Orleans during a stint in the Air Force and going to parties at the State Palace Theater between 96 and 99 sparked an interest in Electronic music. Aggressive consumers breed eager producers. Hours spent on his friends tables led to hours on his own, which made him hungry for an ample Seattle scene. He met DJ Diskyze in 2001 and begin playing drum&bass and working in the studio. Lewis established himself in the too-good-to-be-true gig of his peers envy: a weekly gig spinning downbeat at a snazzy restaurant in 2002 at the 67 lounge, Edgewater hotel Seattle WA. Playing downtempo, house, and chilled out beats, he maintains his residency tuesday thru saturday.
While Patrick Bateman sourly remarks Forgive me, Im a child of divorce! in American Psycho when arriving late for a dinner meeting, Lewis muted his struggle with the childhood equivalent of an emotional earthquake that befell most of our generation when it was time to get down to business. Equipped with an older sibling, a concerned mother, and a wise-guy step dad, Lewis swam through his teenage years downing out boredom in recreational drugs then soared to adulthood to reclaim his Self, vision intact. He got this done by his mid twenties, when we typically get our opportunity to stop talking about who we might be and actually do something about it. While his peers await his next step, only Lewis knows what the hell might happen for him.
