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Jay

Jay (Basstion, Mother's Finest)

About Me

I have been always attracted by electronic music of any kind. It was in 1995, when a friend played "Timeless" of Goldie to me and I got a first idea of Drum'n'Bass, although I did not get into the scene yet. In that time, until about 2000, I played around with various Trackers running under DOS, mostly with ScreamTracker and ImpulseTracker. Unfortunately, the tunes emerging this way are - from a nowadays point of view - really ugly and would be no fun to listen to here ;).

In 2001 I got the final kick towards Drum'n'Bass, when I attended a big Party at the Conne Island in my hometown Leipzig with the mighty DJ Storm as headliner. Consequently, I bought a pair of decks and a simple mixer in 2002 and started to practice mixing.

In 2004 I got the first opportunity to play at a Drum'n'Bass party in the framework of the Palm Breaks events of the Cuba Crew with Nu:Tone as headliner. Thus, I got to know old hand Inju of the Basstion Crew , who got my homie number one :). Together with him I founded the small Drum'n'Bass project "Mother's Finest" . So far, we arranged several small parties and one bigger event with Kolt Siewerts and MC Zhi.

In the beginning of 2006 I moved to Heidelberg due to professional reasons. At the same time I also got an official member of the Basstion crew, which I already knew quite well at that time, because of the strong connection to Inju.

Since September 2007 DJ Hektik and me are running "BassTon", a small monthly club night in a loungy location called O-Ton in Mannheim, where we alternately play smooth and liquid Drum'n'Bass music alongside guest DJs from our area.

Unfortunately, I don't have much time left for playing around with the amazing today's producing tools. Still, I will try to provide a new small tune from time to time ;).

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/19/2006
Band Website: megajay.de
Band Members: Basstion consists of: Inju, Flare 5, Stranger, Reveal, Rambun and Jay.
Mother's Finest consists of: Inju and Jay.
Influences: Nice Music besides Drum'n'Bass:
Air Liquid , Alec Empire , Atari Teenage Riot , Atmos, Autechre , Björk , Boards of Canada , Daft Punk , De Phazz , Der Dritte Raum , Everything But The Girl , Gaelle , Hed Kandi , Hybrid , Lisa Shaw , Miguel Migs , Morcheeba , Naked Music , Onda, Paul van Dyk , re:jazz, Squarepusher , Tracey Thorn , Underworld ,
many: more to add...
Sounds Like:

Since I come from an "electronic background", I love technoid sounds. Therefore, one could probably consider me as a Neurofunk-Techstep-Child. Still I also like Melodic things a lot, especially I adore nice vocals. I admit, that these two sides are rather contrary, but it provides the chance to appeal a broader audience at most.

I think I can only give some examples of artists or labels I prefer to play here...

Artists:

Noisia, Phace, Break, Spor, Unkown Error, Teebee, SKC, Commix, Craggz'n'Parallel Forces, Bungle, Total Science, A-Sides, Heist, Calibre, High Contrast

Labels:

Defunked, Rubiks, Subtitles, Nerve, Shadow Law, Vision, Ram, C.I.A., Basswerk


Type of Label: None

My Blog

Neuro Mix Feb 2008

Mix. Drum'n'Bass. Neuro. Mp3. 192kbps. 82MB.Download. Stream. Me. Basstion.>> 00:00 Bad Robot - Unjust Intentions From Platoneus 9 [SHADYBRAIN00305001]01 00:21 Telemetrik - Cosmos [BSELP004SAMP]02 05:...
Posted by Jay on Mon, 03 Mar 2008 11:48:00 PST

December Mix 2007

Not having recorded anything for quite a while, here is a new mix of mine. There are some classics inside which I like - so don't expect the brandnu shit only. I hope you enjoy it anyways ;).21 tracks...
Posted by Jay on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 11:58:00 PST

New Mix and finished Tune

Hey folks,first of all I managed to somehow finish the "vampires" track, which unfortunately stayed more or less untouched since august. I would be happy to get some response if you check it ;).Also I...
Posted by Jay on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 12:39:00 PST

Welcome + 2 Recent mixes

Hi Guys!I finally made my way to myspace ;). Welcome to all of you visiting this site. I am always searching for contacts, so please don't hesitate to comment/invite/whatever...To get an impression of...
Posted by Jay on Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:25:00 PST