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DJ4Joy hit the Hip Hop culture in 1982. There was on Norwegian TV about the 'new' phenomenon in Bronx, NY. He saw graffiti and some Breaking/Boogie. He had no idea what this was, but at the same time a friend of his came back from living in USA for a year. He brought back some records and some dance moves. The records were from Enjoy recordings and had Treatcherous Three on them. And at the same time Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five had their hits in Norway. And he got his very first Rap Album. "Greatest Hits - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five" Exchanged it for a Krokus (german rock) album.
From there on nothing happened until 1984 when it all blew up. DJ4Joy was hooked on this culture from day one. He started as a dancer, then did some Graffiti. But as drawing was not his thing he soon got interested in music and by 1988 he had become a DJ. As a dancer he was on and off and held several classes until 1990. He then moved to Moss, got new contacts and started up 100% again. By 1992 he was involved in a radio show, a Rap crew, classes and running a Hip Hop sunday club. He was also involved in youth against drugs. And from there on a lot of stuff happened. Today he is an organizer, a freelancer, a DJ/Producer and a Dancer.
He started playing on turntables in 88 and have never stopped doing it. today he is specialized in B Boy funk and plays only on Dance Jams. He is also in The Dynamic Duo with DJ Impaalskee. They both are leading in Dance music in Norway.
Today he still DJ, but only at Hip Hop Jams and Battles. He play all dancestyles. But his love is for some real nasty dirty groovy funk. He also mix and remix alot of styles and has released several mixtapes and mixes.
He was the very first on Internet with a site on the elements of Hip Hop. It was a couple around then back in 1995, but non on the entire culture. 4Joy was also the very first starting writing the history of Hip Hop. The site is still going strong over 10 years in the league. Today the site contain the largest videoclip section ever on the net on the subject Old School. www.thefourelements.net
Besides this one, DJ4Joy also run Norways finest and biggest Hip Hop site. ALL modern/street/funk styles/new styles and not at least all norwegian B Boys hang out there. And it has become the no 1 meeting spot.
He also in all this years has arranged jams, battles and sessions. DJ4Joy is now 40 years old and are still brutaly involved with the scene as one of the very few pre Old Schoolars in Norway.
Dj4Joy run his own dance school and have now been going strong for 8 years. The school was amongthe very first in battling and has done good in battles.
As a producer 4Joy make Rap beats. He make remixes of all kind and produce megamixes, short mixes, medley mixed..s, mixtapes and show mixes.
CV DJ4JOY
*Radioshow in 80's & 90's
*Rap crew 92-95
*Organized Jams in the 90's
*Owner of www.thefourelements.net from 1995
*Started several youthclubs in the 90's
*Organized a huge danceparty in in 99
*Organized PC lan in 2000 and 2006.
*Judge in SBOTY 2000
*Developed a dance school model driven by youth for youth in 2001
*Judge at NM in Breaking 2001
*Co-organizer of Rock The Spot 2001
*Organized SummerJam in 2001
*OrganizedAskim Jam in 2001
*Organized SummerDANCEcamp in 2005-2008
*Organized The Norwegian championship of Breaking 2006
*Organized several Dance Camps 2005-2008
*Judge at two huge Dance Battles in Murmansk, Russia 2006
*Hosted several instructor work shops.
*Been DJ'ing on numerours Jams, still active.
*Done several Dance shows and orginized many battle jams.
*Done several tasks for Norges Danseforbund 2007-08
*Organizeing The Norwegian championship of Streetdance 2008
Projects & prizes
*The Voluntary Award of 2005
*The Culture Award 2006
*Owns www.straightup.no
*Owns a dance school
*Helped out on the Norwegian book "Hip Hop Heads"
*Had a track on Battle Of The Year ost 2005
*Remixed two tracks of tranceartist Pacific Blue
*Handpicked among 8 DJ's in the world on Red Bull's Beat Battle 2007
*Formed a dance School model, traveled around and sold it.
*Worked with the Crossing Borders prosject with Russia in 2007.
*Released over 20 mixtapes.
*Was a House artist for a couple of years and performed live several places. 2005-07.
