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I have been listening to underground music for as long as i can remember. I walked into a RAVE in 92 and didnt know what was going on. It again surfaced in 94 and by late 1995 i was all but living the underground lifestyle. I have traveled all over America and parts of europe following the music and dancing.I was 1st introduced to "Florida breakbeat" scene, but grew to love trance almost instantly after my 1st Union Jack show. Then i happened upon the Paul van Dyk Seven Ways tour passing through a club in Gainesville Florida and was almost blinded to others styles of music. A 135bpm hard trance beat is the rythm my heart haas kept ever since.
I bought my 1st set of decks and a mixer in 99, and started buying more of the chicago style of hard house records. Unfortunatly the style never did well here in Florida, nor did trance. I then started picking up progressise house and tribal house, it seemed to be the catalyst between the different styles. i was amazed how the breakbeat crowd ,the jungle crowd, the downtempo crowd would all say that couldnt stand house, but at any given club at any given night they would dance their asses off to it. I actually am overly critical of myself and my music, the big problem dj's here in florida, was that they would come out to early and they werent ready, i wanted to make my style and sets so tight that i could draw a good crowd and a good following. Unfortunatly, I got started too late in the scene, although i have turned out my share of underground house parties, i never got set at a club gig, i had chances but never really stepped up to the task. I pulled my self out of the scene in 2001, due to the clubs raids that dessimated the local scene and my intense addiction to the club drugs. I met a girl, cleaned up my life, got married and had a family. The dream and the decks started collecting dust.
I have never stopped listening to the music. It became my drugs. Now 7 years later, the decks are cleaned off, i am searching for new records, and rebuilding my ties with the guys still in the club scene. Who knows i may start a page on here soon!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my influences are:
John Digweed, Paul Van Dyk, DJ Micro, Christopher Lawerence, Dj Hardware, Kimball Collins, Union Jack, Ferry Corsten, Noel Sanger, Seb Fontaine, Andy Hughes, Terry Lee Brown, Pete Shaker Bones, Daniel Poli, Frankie Bones (the godfather of the american RAVE) Aphrodite,Mickey Finn,Roni Size reprezent, BT , John Debo, Terry Mullins, Hooda Hoodia, and all the West Coast Massive DJ's that i never got to hear, and the list goes on,
any of you D&B fans or hard core junglists, drop by my bro's page VOX Technic, he really has it going on and he's starting to produce some mindbending traks
Peace,
Jimmy
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