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I am a 16 year old DJ which loves anything having to do with music. I love to party with people and I'm chill with whatever to do. My favorite genres of music include Elektro House, High Energy, Italo Disco, Good Ol' Fashioned Disco from Studio 54, West Coast Hip Hop, and Top 40. Anything I'm pretty much down with. I have my own radio show called "High Energy Heroes" which airs on DaQube Radio (www.Daqube.com) Every Sunday at 5 PM Pacific Standard Time.
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Remember what all the teenagers back in the day did on Fridays after school? Remember when the ladies would go home and pucker up in their rooms where they would have pictures of Al Pacino and John Travolta in their rooms. Playing records of KC and the Sunshine Band in their record players. They were getting ready for a disco night. Do you also remember making a fake ID to try and get in the discotheque because you were too young? Remember that you had to wait an hour in line until you finally paid up only to find out you were too young to enter and still tried doing anything to get in? That was a disco night. Remember the smoke machines inside with a packed dancefloor with polyester jackets and gashing long dresses. Do you remember the strobe lights flashing in colors and the heavy beats and percussion moving you across the dancefloor in the steps of John Travolta. Do you remember winning those 500 dollars in a dance or constume contest? Or maybe not winning, but at least having fun dancing your heart out or trying to find your date for next weekend? Those were disco nights. Do you remember the DJ with an afro placing 12 inch records on the turntable and remember going up to the DJ booth to try and get the DJ to play your favorite disco song? Do you remember hearing those songs like "My Number One Request" by Destination, "Give Me A Break" by Vivien Vee, and "Flashlight On A Disconight" by Rofo where you would clap your way to the middle of the dancefloor to bust our your best moves with uncontrollable euphoria? Those were disco nights. Those years was the Disco era from 1979 until 1988. From here is where the story of DJ Flashback begins.
The story of DJ FLASHBACK he says didn't start when he arrived in the music scene, but merely before he was even born, when his father was also in the music scene.
A teenager in his high school years, his father (with the same name), the young Ricardo resided in the suburbs of Mexico City in the late 1970's. At the center of North American Culture Capital, Ricardo was influenced by world culture in which would later inspire him to enter into the music business. However, since there was no musical-oriented family members in his family, he was the first one to actually make it through.
By the late 1970s, acts like the Bee Gees and Gloria Gaynor came to be in Mexico and the movie Saturday Night Fever proved that Mexico City would become the disco capital of North America, in which he would be in front of. He would make mixtapes by songs he would record on cassette and would play them at parties.
As his high school major in electromechanics, he was influenced in many technical things. He would fix old broken speakers, light sets, and many other electric things that would go faulty to earn several cents here and there. He eventually bought his Technics SL 1200 MK2s in early 1981.
Starting in his college years, he would now play for his friends parties and block parties in the suburbs of the buzzing capital city. He would make clean mixes with his Technics MK2s and his Pioneer mixer and he would make mixtapes for the next two years. While the acts of Duran Duran and Jane Wiedlin's The Go-Go's dominated in the United States, in Mexico the acts of Lime, Trans-X, Tapps, Frank Loverde and Patrick Cowley would dominate the capital city making the streets a dancefloor for the foreign acts. This, however, was short lived.
After the earthquake devastated the capital city, Ricardo was forced to move to the United States to seek a better life, and would sell his mixer before moving. In late 1985, he would settle in Santa Barbara, CA. "My dad was indeed a true inspiration, not only because he went what he went through, but the fact that I indeed was in his position and got to witness [this] for myself."
After settling in the United States, he got married and had his first child who would become DJ FLASHBACK, more than ten years later.
After DJ FLASHBACK was born (Ricardo Cano Hernandez) in Santa Barbara, his family moved back to Mexico City where FLASHBACK would experience the continuation his father experience in his heyday, fifteen years before.
By age three, his dad was left without a job due to the economic crisis of the 1990s, and he would go to the third story room, which overlooked the city (as FLASHBACK would say) where his father was playing his records. Using an old two channel mixer a neighbor let him have, his father would play the countless records that were a hit in his fathers heyday. From here is where FLASHBACK became interested in the acts of the 80s High Energy decade wave, while listening to the acts of The Real McCoy, Ace of Base, and La Bouche on the radio around 1996.
Finally in 1997, his family moved back to the United States and resided back in Santa Barbara. FLASHBACK was now only five and he would attend grade school where he would live a normal kids' life. In the beginning of 1998, he participated in a singing contest for Kid's Day at the Santa Barbara Zoo and placed 10th out of more than 70 kids, however singing was not what FLASHBACK wanted to do.
In the following years, FLASHBACK would attend several weddings and parties where he would notice the music that they put and wanted to be a part of that one day to please the crowd, but was not sure how to start.
A straight A student in grade school, he would participate in several school-sponsored events and would often hang with his cousins who also brought him into more music. In 2000 he discovered Claudio Yarto, a DJ from Mexican pop group "Calo" and would listen to Los Angeles based disco station "KBIG 104" and their Friday and Saturday night mixshows. His father eventually got him a two channel Radio Shack mixer for his good grades in school.
FLASHBACK began making his own mixtapes by 2001 and he would buy CD players in 2004 where his mixes were taken to the next level, and in 2008, FLASHBACK finally got his own TECHNICS SL 1200 MK2s which he named "Bonnie" and "Clyde".
By 2006, FLASHBACK was now spinning at several parties of friends with the help of his friends and one of his closest "Sebastian Louis" who is also a DJ after FLASHBACK became a DJ. Both DJs formed "The Blue Sunrise" a soundsystem modeled after Mexico's "The Polymarchs" which consisted of two DJs.
In 2007, FLASHBACK began now spinning at several community dances in Santa Maria where he now resides along with several DJs, including Wild 106's DJ SOL, and 95.7 The Beat's DJ BUTTER and DJ L.S. He also became the permanent DJ for the Ars Nova Radio show: "The Blue Sunrise on Ars Nova Radio" which plays from Top 40 songs to old Disco and High Energy hits.
At this day, FLASHBACK has began his own DJ service on his label Vicious Recordings, started by him and Sebastian Louis. They both have made several remixes of hit songs on their label. Today during his spare time, he likes to hang around with his friends and also manages Metal act "Silent Asylum" and continues to sign on bands onto his label.Some of his famous blends as a mixer include a remix of Phil Collins' Another Day In Paradise which features Jam Tronik and Alyson and Amanda Joy Michalka in 2006 and he is currently working on a remix of Nicki French's "Total Eclipse of The Heart" with teen-pop superstar, Demi Lovato set to be completed in mid-May 2009.
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