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Hi my name is Dave want to buy any pegs!!.......Well, this journey all started for me listening listening to Piccadilly radio around 1985-86, Stu Allan used to present a slot at about 1am called "the house half hour". I remember the anticipation each week listening to the latest imports from Chicago, it was all so new and exciting. I was only twelve at the time and fondly remember going to Spin-inn records in MCR every week with my bruva with our list. These were halycon days, imagine being able to buy every release for that week because you'd get maybe twelve new releases a week with it being such a new and undiluted genre. Unfortunately being twelve meant funds were limited but nothing else seemed to matter. As time past the bags on the number 12 bus home on a Saturday afternoon grew bigger, this then kicked off the dj'ing which has never stopped since and the record collection just gets bigger & bigger. I first started to try and make music when acid house sprouted from the chicago sound. I remember many hours spent on my bruvas computer, we purchased a amazing little drum machine called "Amdrum" this allowed you to program beats using different sampled simmons drum sounds. So I was starting to make beats and new I needed more to create the sounds I was listening to on early chicago trax releases. Then late one night I was watching a short lived show on Granada tv called "the otherside of midnight" presented by Tony Wilson. It was about the time Coldcut had bigtime success with their cover of "the only way is up", T-coy did a live set with Mike Pickering on his emulator holding down one key while the rest of the band cranked out the classic Carino (no change there then) but part of the segment was a guy with an tr-808,sh-101, & a sk-5. This to me was the defining moment, music had truly gone diy. I remember the following week down at Argos buying my sk-5, no longer was sampling a reserve of the elite. Shortly after my first real synth was a dx-100 which gave me access to midi then things slowly started to form a sound. Since those early days technology has come and gone but i feel that starting from those humble beginning has allowed me to appreciate the progress which has been made, no longer are the machines made as a happy accident, they are tailored to the creative process. I still resist trends and truly think about how I approach the music making process. I have given up on midi as I feel this is the orange badge of a generation who've forgotten what it is to feel out of control. Currently my set up is orientated around a Dj based format, all the tracks you hear on here are midiless & totally live. Also everything has to be done on a budget, I feel my setup & I bring a unique blend to the melting pot. What's your style?

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