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Jim Carson blends old school and new school house & rave with a grittiness that is ripe for the dancefloor. The renegade commando, remixer, DJ, house music producer Jim Carson (aka Bodylickin' Bootleggers) is at it non-stop with his funky, bangin beats. Since 1996, Carson has been a force to be both reckoned with and beloved on the decks. Falling in love with the electronic house music sound at events like "Nocturnal Wonderland," and "Dr. Freecloud's Mixing Lab's 1 Year Anniversary Party," it was not long before Carson picked up a pair of Technics 1200s and moved from LA to Santa Barbara. Rocking the party town of Isla Vista with his funky acid house and funky breaks from 1998 to 2000, Carson developed a reputation for providing the best in house, trance, and breaks. In early 2000, Carson would return to LA to rock and groove raves and clubs like Club Blue, Liquid Butterfly, the Masterdome, The Orange Show Fairgrounds, 31 Flaverz @ The Fox Theatre in Pomona, and Vibrations Within in San Bernardino.
Carson has traveled the globe and back keeping girlies dizzy and dancers entranced with his uplifting and funky rhythms. Always funky and always fresh, Jim Carson, once known as DJ Mad Hatter, is one of LA's most talented dance music artists. As a member of Icon Collective and one of LA's veteran house music and breaks DJs of the early 21st century, Jim Carson is on the rise as the international ambassador of cutting edge, high-energy, funky, electro dance music.
Carson has shared stages with some of the world's biggest dance and urban music artists including Gabriel & Dresden (Spundae, Circus Disco), Donald Glaude (Nympho/Sky Sushi), Frankie Bones (Cafe Sureal at E2 in Chicago), Scooter & Lavelle (Chemistry/Avalon), The Wu-Tang Clan (Oracle 3; Orangeshow Fairgrounds), and DJ Ruff & DJ Peran (Afterhour Power/Avalon). In North America, he has traveled to play gigs in South Beach Miami (Wet Grooves-Shelbourne Hotel), New Orleans (740), Calgary (SEX), Edmonton (Twilight Afterhours), and Las Vegas (Empire Ballroom, Drais, and Seven) to name a few. In 2007, Carson secured a residency with FunXion Entertainment and continues to represent FunXion -- one of the West Coast's leading dance music establishments in 2008. Other alias you may recognize Carson's work by are Barney Rumble, DJ Illicit, and Higher State. A name to be trusted with delivering booty shakin' funky house music, juicy high charged electro-funk grooves, progressive house, and breaks, Carson crosses the musical spectrum from deep and soulful house to pumping high charged electro house, techno, progressive, and trance. Carson credits early '90s rave DJs Jason Blakemore, Jesse Brooks, Fester & Oscure, and DJ Lindsey as sources of inspiration to pursue the art of DJing.
Mastering the North American dance club scene as one of the most inspiring and funky programmers of euphoric dance sets, Carson creates magical moments on the dancefloor, connecting with the audience and inspiring new fans and DJs alike. Once again in 2008, Carson is leading the charge as a DJ that plays from his heart and soul to connect with the audience. A resident and special guest at many nightclubs across the US including Avalon, Spundae, Deep, After Hour Power, and Grand Avenue, Carson gives the fans what they want to hear -- deep, soulful, driving, electro, progressive, and wonky music that sends hands waving in the air. Booties shaking on down to the ground, breaking boundaries and sending groovers into total ecstasy, electro-chemically charged endorphins are sure to rush through your body when JIM CARSON drops the needle on the record and pumps your body full of bass. There is no other sound quite like the energy and funk of JIM CARSON behind the decks. Watch for this superstar DJ to climb the dance charts in 2008 with his own original electronic music productions and productions with collaborator Arthur Galestian under the monikers Carson & Galestian and Bodylickin' Bootleggers.
"Jim Carson is one bad ass DJ!!!" -- Dave Dresden of Gabriel & Dresden
"Jim Carson has more than what it takes to be one of the top producers in the electronic music industry." -- David Alexander, Icon Underground, Icon Collective
"Jim Carson is one funky white boy when he drops the needle on the record!!!" -- Abstract aka Christopher Wight, Icon Underground, Icon Collective
"Jim Carson has experience you can hear and feel out on the dancefloor." -- Joy Basu, recording artist
To hear and download Carson's October '07 Mix CD Promo -- Nuthin' But An 'Electro' Thang, Baby -- click here: Nuthin' But An 'Electro' Thang, Baby; October 2007 Promo
Activities Jim Carson enjoys when not DJing or produce music include skydiving, hiking, modern dance, hip hop dance, jazz dance, improv comedy, acting, kundalini yoga, and working out. Jim Carson is a certified personal trainer (NCCPT) and is CPR Certified for both Adult and Infant. You can see Jim Carson in the new ABC Family Show "The Middleman" playing a cop in episodes 2 and 4.
"Each soul has a role to play. Each human has something to say. May consciousness prevail so we can come through the veil of arrogance and ignorance to the joy and happiness of life. May we count our blessings to be beautiful, bountiful and blissful." - Yogi Bhajan
"Your life work is a statement of Who You Are. If it is not, then why are you doing it?" -- Neale Donald Walsch
"Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life, to compare it with such things as we know, would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments. If we respected only what is inevitable and has a right to be, music and poetry would resound along the streets. When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, -- that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality. This is always exhilarating and sublime. By closing the eyes and slumbering, and consenting to be deceived by shows, men establish and confirm their daily life of routine and habit every where, which still is built on purely illusory foundations. Children, who play life, discern its true law and relations more clearly than men, who fail to live it worthily, but who think that they are wiser by experience, that is, by failure." -- Henry David Thoreau "Walden" excerpt from Chapter 2
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Jim Carson & DJ Jeffrey Jeff @ Electric Daisy Carnival 2008