Member Since: 29/07/2006
Influences: I use an instrumentation of hardware rack samplers inspired by watching Infusion at the 2003 WMC.
Coming from a musician's background; live bass player, drummer & flute, I prefer the feel of mixing a hardware sample set-up over the software set-ups such as Ableton to time sets for live performance technique.
I like jazzy deep house, combined with Elements of Rugga, Dancehall & Reggae.
Alvin Ailey African Dance Company Master classes in NYC put the heavier Zulu styles into my dancing, which brought out the experience of hearing sub-waves and expressing myself physically to the dj's at large venues.
Influences are from growing up with Emerson College Radio in Boston, and the live Reggae radio: WERS ROCKERS & their jazz; Miles Davis, etc. & alternative Hip & Trip came from that school's musical programming in Boston.
Sampling is in my roots as the development in modern layered sounds formed into Hip Hop from the dub works of Jamaica, a basic part of the community of Island & Dominican Republic, Latin American world beat sounds added to the deep soulful house dance sound that surrounded me in Boston & Cambridge.
Kraftwerk and electronic pioneers, & later the club/party/dance scene.
After years of ballet, I had technique to stay on my feet for the sixteen hour sets such as Danny Tenaglia's Be Yourself parties, Big East parties at Hammerstein Ballroom & especially the Bi-monthly jungle Massives at Limelight.
A Guy called Gerald, Clifford Gilberto, Lee Scratch, Chucho Valdez
In Sound From Way Out, & The Beasties' collabs w/PortisHead, downtempo New York Shadow & Ninja Tune Labels, Massive Attack, Dust Bros, Cold Crush releases, DJ Krush & FoodFight, Sasha, DeepDish, Felix the Housecat, Charles Feelgood, Donald Glaude.
Ritchie, the Surgeon, Sven Vaths' Scorpion's Movement track, Playhouse records, Naked Records, Leandro Gamez, Antoine Clamaran.
Type of Label: Unsigned