I was given the opportunity to learn to spin actual vinyl records from the legendary icon, Ben Man of the Basement in Louisville, KY (The Basement in Better Days Record shop was the place to go for dance music on vinyl). Saturdays, I performed live on 1080AM WDJX, as well as spinning turntable delights every Friday thru Sunday until 4am at Louisville's only eccentric underground industrial gay club, where all were welcomed, called Sparks.
The turntables would explode and the crowd would go wild on the dance floor, at times wearing only undies or nothing at all! That was Louisville, KY in the '90s! It took much personal resistance to begin dropping digital nuggets instead of vinyl toys; but now I'm loving life, mixing records (not so much on vinyl) anywhere I can get my hands on a turn table--well, uh, a computer and a zip drive! I call my music "high energy girlfriend music with an edge." I'm not a fan of too many lyrics but cream over a diva belting on a track in a minor key.