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Hello. I'm old, really, really old. I'm 40 in fact. I "came of age" musically in the year 1989 hearing some weird and freaky sounds emanating from the radio at daft o'clock. Odd squelchy, industrial sounds. I was hooked. The electronic music scene exploded and I was caught up in the blast. I suppose my earliest "electronic" influences were from my Dads Pink Floyd and ELO albums. Then Jean Michel Jarre. I love all electronic music really but my "jumping around like a Banana on a piece of string" moments tended to arise when listening to rave music. Mickey Finn, Grooverider, Sy, Ratty and Ellis Dee. I did enjoy the Hardcore side to it but found myself being drawn to the darker, junglier (?!?!) sounds. I bought my first set of decks in 92 and have owned many pairs since. I remember fondly opening my first set of 1210's and realising that these were the benchmark. THE decks. I have owned 3 pairs (1 x set of silver 1200's) of Technics and sadly sold my last pair in 2000 but I could never bear to part with my vinyl. I played at a couple of Illegal raves in Nottingham but the majority of my "work" was house parties. Many, many, many house parties be they at friends houses or friends of friends or just some fella that me and my mates met after a night out in Mansfield or wherever. After marrying my beautiful wife in 2008 I decided that I needed some decks in my life so I plumped for some direct drive decks (not Techinics. I know, disgraceful behaviour) and a mixer and started both playing my old stuff and buying some new stuff. I surprised myself with the amazing retention of "being able to mix" and decided to do a few CD's for my friends and colleagues at work. Some wanted old happy hardcore, others old D and B/jungle, others the new stuff. All went down well and with the advent of the Interweb thingy and after my good friend Mark suggested this site I thought i'd upload some. I am now the proud owner of Technics 1200mk5's and a Korg mixer. I am also now dipping my toe into the digital world. Look out for some new mixes coming soon..... Thanks. Foxual. 2 x Technics SL1200 mk3's, Korg mixer, Harman Kardon Amp, Sony CD recorder, Tascam portable digital recorder.
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I started the clubs scene during the 1980s and I was influenced by soul- disco, the freewheeling Jaz funk scene, emerging house, hip-hop styles and Latin . I went to my very first Southport weekender in the early 90's and then I became hooked with the house scene and I bought my first decks and started to play sets in the underground clubs and parties. I was a Part of largest pirate radio station in yorkshire sharing my passion for Funk soul- US Garage & soulful house. Thats history and this is now... I have been off the scene for a while now as family is my priorty but I do the odd gigs playing private parties and guest djing for friends.Peace & love to all the lovers who have soul in their hearts!! dj-andy-bee Deep n Soulful House Podcast http://minicasts.podomatic.com/play/977856/4016971
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EVERYTHING DAT MAKES YOU BOUNCE Strictly Vinyl ________________________________
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Custom Technics SL1210 turntables, Ortofon 'Nightclub' cartridges, Pioneer DJM600 mixer, Sennheiser HD25 headphones, Yamaha DSP for ambience, M Audio 24/96 sound card, Adobe Audition, Sound Forge. Oh yeah; loads and loads of records!
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Dear Friends of Music Since I can go, I have been interested in music. I could never save money during my apprenticeship, because I spent everything on new LPs and musicarrangements. Meanwhile a music studio had become from my room, later even a really professional mix studio. Till this day I observe the music scene daily. Little does more joy than good sound to me. In the meantime, I have mixed more than 40000 sound carriers as well as some sampler. Of course you are able to pre-listen on my homepage my newest CDs. However, you can still discover even more.In the 90s I have often worked also as a DJ. I put on in events, in clubs, in radio stations and in roller skate discos. I have had a music studio called Soundfactory for about 20 years and produce tracks and mix different tapes Nu Disco Deep House Soul Funk Jazz everything I like and if you feel like it you are welcome
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DJ MERRIMAKER catch my show on www.raidersradio.co.uk/ every other saturday from 4pm the s.o.j jungle show with s.o.j mcs. . --BIO-- . . .. . I am a member of s.o.j aka sons of jacob witch is a jungle collective of mcs and djs/producers like mc juiceman - mc ranger t - mc brasko - mc stylee - mc gambla - dj nicky blackmarket- Dr s gacthet - dj donovan badboy smith - dj torchman - dj k jah - dj bully beatz - dj shocks - dj nicky breakbeat allan - dj pure t - dj spika - dj amo - dj merrimaker - dj break - dj tony jay - dj j-p - dj h ,I am also a resident dj for Liquid Sessions promotions witch is a midlands based crew headed by DJ PMX , we put dnb events on up and down the u,k we focus on Liquid and Deep dnb ,we have regular nights at our resident venue club PST in digbeth birmingham we have top djs and a few up n coming djs and we also have other nights at the adem an eve music bar in birmingham,And we have had our own nights in london and hosted many room 2s, We have had great nights with such artists like bryan g ,tayla ,zero t ,need for mirrors ,eveson ,blade ,mr joseph ,dramatic + dbaudio ,dj taktix ,jordan v ,script, xtrah ,soultec ,broken drum ,static ,icandy ,cabin fever uk ,lj high, scenic + advisory ,deeper connection ,madcap ,soulculture ,andyscopes ,rob simms ,tnt + vytol ,tim ryan ,escape ,dj cautious ,subdue ,rapid ,robski ,dj cyte ,dj timeless ,cybergroove ,dj reaction ,dj fridd ,melos ,hoffy ,pure t ,payney ,frequincee ,shilton ,missfortune + socom ,bettyford ,j dok ,justify ,scarce ,colon ,pennygiles , dj torment and noziee b and with some heavy mcs like mc codebreaker ,mc deefa ,Riya ,mc ranger t ,mc manikular ,mc pm ,mc h2flo ,mc banshco ,mc genius ,sketch ,ebony ,blast ,razor and mc brink . We have had Big nights with fizzy beats ,dispatch recordings ,offworld recordings, we have hosted several room 2s for bassdrive with L T J Bukem ,Blu Mar Ten ,Bcee ,future engineers ,phat playaz ,jrumhand and lots more ,we have nights with black reflections and phuzion all in the pipeline ,Also catch liquid sessions live on www.differentdrumz.co.uk radio every thursday from 6pm,distinct fm 87.5 and londons Origin fm. Also with the occasional show on kool fm london ,Any way hope to see you at some events in the future ,Also coming soon Anaconda promotions witch will be a regular night held in b,ham focusing on newskool & old skool jungle more info soon ............ .......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... ...... My main style of drum and bass what i like to play at the moment is mostly a selection of newskool jungle drum n bass lots of deep rolling bass lines and hard step snares with dutty amen breaks,Tracks by artists such as ray keith,bladerunner ,serum ,mr explicit ,lighterman ,critical impact ,promenade ,terminus ,lionfire ,serial killaz ,northern lights ,colossus ,cabin fever uk ,savage rehab ,diamond geezer ,phantom warrior,and harvest. I also love my old skool mostly between the years of 1991 to 1998,My first 12" record i ever bought was rebel mc and double trouble with a track called (street tuff) back in summer 1989 ,it was a hip house tune ,Witch when i look back now it was really the very biginnings of early jungle dnb ,The first tunes i can remember that i would class as early "jungle" when i look back was probably the ragga twinns (homeless problem) and rum and black (wicked) witch were both out some time in summer 1991,And of course lenny d ice ( we are i,E) you can not beat that heavy bass line and wicked sample that when played even to day can make you want to get down low and do the one foot skank,OH And also the 1991 tunes (The bouncer) By kick like a mule,And the classic early jungle techno tune (pump up the sound) by Flex and on the flip side a tune by DJ A sides called (Expressions),OH and who can for get noise factory's "(The buzz) What a classic tune,but if i had the time i could think of lots and lots ,Any way the first two tunes i can remember actually refering to them as "jungle techno",and not hardcore witch i have lots of arguments about with people because some younger ravers say the term jungle was not being said untill around the summer of 1993 witch i think is a real joke and shows me they were not around in the early 90s or they just do not have a clue because like i say the first two tracks i was calling "jungle tech" was the massive tune by "A guy called gerald" ( 28 gun badboy) witch first came out on a dubplate around autumn 1991 and later general release around spring 1992, The other was by c.m.c called (jungle fever) witch came out in early 1992 on the b side of a track on limited E records ,a good label at the time, any way Both tracks i thought at the time was not hardcore but jungle techno witch i can remember being said by mcs such as mc mad p (patrick) ,mc lenni,bassman,moose,manparis and robbie dee all around the summer of 1991 . I started to get properly into the scene around the start of 1991 where it all began for me as a young 15 year old dedicated jungle raver ,Because be for that in the late 80s i only really liked hip hop such as N.W.A and later ice cube,easy e ,mc ren and dr dre who where just as good when they split also artists like big daddy kane, black sheep and public enemy i did like hip house records like rebel mc,jungle brothers ,silver bullet ,fast eddie and the cult jam i never really got into the house ,garage ,acid house and european techno that a lot of djs were playing at this time i think i thought the early rave scene between 87 to 90 had a hippy vibe,but when they started useing more hip hop ,ragga samples,bass and breakbeats on more of the records in the early 1991 rave scene i took more notice ,it was labels like shut up and dance ,ibiza recs and suburban bass recs that were doing it ,And when i heard the ragga twinns tracks and mc's like Bassman,moose,lenni and mad p i new it was not for hippies and it was deffo for me,Then i heard djs like fabio,grooverider,ratty,dj seducution,dj ss,doc scott,easygroove,keith suckling,topbuzz,dj sy,dj hype,ellis dee,kenny ken,nookie,pilgrim,carl cox,dj trace,dj die,bryan g,ned ryder, dj ron ,badboy t ,food junkie ,phantasy ,darren jay ,ray keith ,swanne,mastersafe and of course my favorite djs of all time jumping jack frost,ltj bukem,randall and micky finn ,Well by now i was in love with the scene but i was a bit to young to go to a rave at the time,But in dec 1992 i went to my first ,I was 16 by that time,And yes i was deffinitely a junglist by then ,My first event was a nye fantazia rave some were in berkshire there was all most 20,000 ravers there in a field witch had 3 massive big top tents all with 100k sound systems in,I can remember it as if it was just last week,And the fisrt dj and mc's i ever heard live when we got into the main arena/tent were dj phantasy with mc's ribzz and scally wag,I had been into the scene for nearly two years befor i went to my first rave so the dj's and mc's were like mega stars to me at the time so i was proper buzzing ,And i was very young as well for my first rave,It was a wicked night that i will never for get ........................................................................................................................................... Well that was my first Rave ,And now 20 years later in 2012 i am still very much going to them, Ok May be no were near as much as i did between 1992 to 2002, But i still go out when i can and in the last few years since around 2008 i took djing more serious,Ok i started to dj late in life being that i have been into the scene for so long but thats life ,and i did take to it fast and now get to play out at events at least a couple of times a month ,Witch means i have started going out a lot more now,The big difference now is I just dont get off my face any more to me its not about that any more, for me its 100% about the music ,but hay liston you do what you do its all bless . . . . .So id like to big up all old skool and new skool raver all true dnb heads and all the original junglists over the last 21 years , ojs stay real ........ big props to The Sons.Of.Jacob ....... raiders of the oldskool ... www.raidersradio.co.uk/ ...Jungle spectrum ...... liquid sessions ......fizzy beats ... . differrentdrumz radio ..... atomic vibes radio ..... odyssey crew...... distinct fm ... origin fm ... .kool london radio..... bassdrive radio ...... .....and a massive shout out ,blessings and big up to -- miss eve - - pure t - - dj dash dee ... markuz darkuz - - mr botty - - lu lu - - jacks - - pmx - - andy f -- - wayne f - - matty e - - soulculture - -madcap - - soultec -- - - jo jo - -dj nitro -- dj fridd - - dj cyte - - robski - - dj cautious - - dj j p - - - tim ryan - - prosper - - grafix - - scenic - - advisory - - glt - - tim osg - - nick sellers - - frequincee - - mark lofty - - jinx - - benny colab - - spartan crew - - pepper s.o .j ... mc stixman - - - mc brasko - - mc major ranks - - mc razor - - mc mr dee - - - mc manikular - - - mc h2flo - - mc banshco - - mc brink - - mc pm - - and the s.o.j badboy him self mc ranger t ... lets keep this ting called Jungle Alive till the end of time ,it can be done ,trust . .................................... MY SET UP /> 2x-Reloop-rp-4000 m3d vinyl turntables with Numark cc1 concord carts/> 2x-Pioneer cdj-850's multi cd players/> 1x-Pioneer djm-800 pro mixer/> 1x-Apple mac book with reason 3 music program/> 1x-Sony mdr-v700 headphones/> 1x- Kam kba8-250:wott power amplifier/> 1x-15"Kam-zp 200:wott bass speaker/> 1x-8"Kam-zp 60:wott speaker/> 2x-6 "fostex pmo.5 mkII pro 40:wott monitors/. S.O.J crew aka the sons of jacob the jungle collective (the mcs mc stixman - mc ranger t - mc brasko - mc mikey g/ ... the djs dj energy - dj merrimaker - dj break - dj amo - dj spika - dj tony jay)Also catch the the S.O.J show every other saturday at 4pm - 6pm with myself & mc ranger t pluse guests on www.raidersradio.co.uk/
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