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DJ Misfit

About Me

Full bio here : DJ Misfit

Vital stats: DJing 16 years. Started off with chicago house, rap, hip house, got into industrial music, punk, skate rock late 80's/early 90's, fell into the Chicago rave scene in 1992. Headed down to school (Purdue University) and helped found what eventually became the first electronic music club at Purdue. Started as Purdue Raves (PURaves) eventually renamed to the Purdue Beat Society (PBS). Graduated, been DJing off and on until a few years back when I got an internet radio spot on kunninmindz.com. Getting back into production. DJing mostly mellow, "liquid" style drum and bass, jazzy rollers, vocal tracks, ambient influences."If we are to truly achieve greatness in life,
we must live each day as though we were never going to die."

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DJ Misfit, the Soul Rollin' Show recorded live on kunninmindz.com 12 December 2007 - a solid mix of old and new!

More current mixes available on djmisfit.com


My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 05/03/2006
Band Website: http://www.djmisfit.com
Band Members: Me, myself and I. DJing since 1990, Drum n Bass / Jungle since about 1993 on.
DJing Setup: Klipsch full range unpowered monitors, one very large very loud MK subwoofer, Alesis Amp, Alesis Compressor, RackRider Power Conditioner, one Technics SL-1200MK2 Turntable, one Technics SL-1210MK2 Turntable, Stanton SK Six Battle Mixer, Sony MDR-V700, Traktor 3.
Studio Setup: All digital. Macbook Pro, M-Audio Axiom 25 Midi Controller. Many samples used from the freesound project under Creative Commons. Remaining samples are used from beat digging and manual recordings.

Influences: Lots of dnb producers, UK, American, worldwide. On the ambient side: Aphex Twin, Boards of Canada, Autechre, Brian Eno. Shoegazer biz like Slowdive. Chicago house music, Wax Trax!, old industrial, thrash and body music like Front Line Assembly, Front 242, Ministry, Skinny Puppy. Solid hip hop like Tribe Called Quest, Jeru the Damaja, Gangstarr, Dilated Peoples, DJ Shadow, DJ Z-Trip, Jurassic 5, Blackstar, Blackalicious. Long live Chicago Hip Hop: The Molemen, All Natural, Common, The Pacifics, diggin People Under the Stairs. Anything that makes me react, good or bad, got it's point across.
Sounds Like: It came to me as if in a dream....
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

New track - Renewal and other bits

Got the new track up called "Renewal".  I put this one together around the holidays in December 2007.  I'm also working on a bootleg remix - details not divulged yet.  For those that t...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:27:00 GMT

Pictures up from kunninmindz.com allnighter 18 aug 07

It was a great time - big thanks to the DJ K for putting me up for a few days.  The man with the skills on the proper English breakfast fry-up! http://www.flickr.com/gp/37359081@N00/5mR997 Videos...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:34:00 GMT

He has gone too far

This is worth the 9+ minutes.  Keith is right on. No President is above the law.
Posted by on Wed, 04 Jul 2007 08:33:00 GMT

New track! "Fire Hazard" and April 4th kunninmindz.com set up

You can download it from myspace but if you want a high quality version (320kbps) let me know by sending me a message with your email, MSN chat or AIM ID. Comments, ratings, etc. always appreciated!&n...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Apr 2007 12:37:00 GMT

I'm not worthy

I will never complain about not being able to make drum and bass w/ a computer and midi controller. This guy is ridiculous.
Posted by on Sat, 24 Feb 2007 20:44:00 GMT

Deep Current, and a differet blog

New track - "Deep Current" - just finished mixing it down this afternoon as I was coming off my novacaine adminstered by the friendly dentist this morning..  Enjoy! I will probably discontinue o...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Jan 2007 18:05:00 GMT

New track - Future Back

Brand new track, just finished the mixdown.  "Future Back" is the title.  Heavy bassline, some fairly futuristic synth riffs, vocal sample, straightforward beats.  Turn up the bass! Jus...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Dec 2006 20:51:00 GMT

New track, new Congress and Abelton Live 5

Well hello! Just put up my latest from the studio, a dancefloor-ready tune called "The Session" created entirely in Abelton Live 5.  I really dig this software, you can tell it was created by peo...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 09:21:00 GMT

Oh, it's on!

6 days and counting.  After 11 years of being together, my girl and I are finally doing it up right and getting married.  A small group of close friends and family (about 50) will accompany ...
Posted by on Sun, 20 Aug 2006 18:21:00 GMT

DJing, and the death spiral of the powers that be

So first off, my laptop is tolerable but not completely acceptable for using Stanton Finalscratch 2.0.  The last 3 or 4 weekly shows I've done on kunninmindz.com have been predominately digital m...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Jun 2006 10:40:00 GMT