Bonjournos! Would first just like to point out that there is more of my music & mixes to be listened to in my aptly named blog 'Listen to more music HERE!!!!'
I first got into musc production about 3-4 years ago. It began when i was about 12 and one of my dads mates gave me and my sister a 2 octave casio as a gift. I hogged the keyboard most of the time, and started listening to themes and stuff off the TV and playing them back on my keyboard. I got my first cassette soon after which my dad bought me. He got me 'The Greatest 80's Hits' which i loved back then and would bop down the street with my Sony Walkman strapped to my side singing along to it.......... ........."Golden Brown textured like sun.........." dear lord bajeebus i was cool!
Anyway i got my first full size keyboard at 15 and with this decided to take up lessons. After moving to my high school i took up GCSE music. My music teacher, who i still thank today for getting me into production, was the first person to introduce myself and the rest of the school to music prod and audio engineering. With him by my side showing me the inside outs of the software and hardware (no sexual innuendo intended) i continued to spend breaktime's and after school hours in the studio making tunes. As of then i had quite a small CD collection if any actually, most were mixtape's and cassettes and i gathered a lot of my inspiration from DJ Shadow, Q-bert, Shiggar Fragar etc.
Towards the end of School i decided that i still wanted to carry on producing so i got myself a place at college in BTEC Music Technology. For me this was a big step, an advantage of doing this would be having all the equipment and people at my disposal to help me out with anything i needed to know on music prod. At first college was a big change for me and had my doubts about carrying on. But after a few months there i made some good friends and carried on to enjoy the course. Throughout the duration of my college days i began listening to lots of different types of music. My main musical interest then was Drum n Bass. For me when i first heard it on a mix CD free with knowledge mag, i was hooked straight away.
These days i have quite a broad range of music taste. House, Trance (the older stuff), Breakbeat, Trip Hop, Turntablism, Drum n Bass, Jazz, Swing, Downtempo. Since becoming a producer i feel that its made me appreciate music much, much more. Anyway to bring you up to date with things these days. I predominently produce trip hop/downtempo & hip hop, but also enjoy producing electro and dance on the side. You can check out these tunes at www.myspace.com/i_love_joystik
