When I started my journey I bagged a direct drive turntable and a belt drive turntable second hand for about £10 which back in when I was 14 was a substantial amount of money (10 B&H were 60p !).
I talked my parents into buying me a tandy mixer for my birthday and purchased 4 vinyl's from a shop (funky world in staffs). Mixing hardcore / jungle I had no idea what phrasing or beat matching was, but learned to pick up a few tricks and before I knew it I was addicted !
A few year later I was running into the local record shop humming the tunes I'd heard at Quest on a Friday night and quite astonishingly they even managed to decipher the rambling of a madman.
I eventually upgraded to vestax PDX2000's and an Allen & Heath mixer while amassing a pretty impressive vinyl collection from early 90's through 00's and 2010's.
My fairly naive and disgracefully snobby attitude to digital media and controllers was, well, in short, completely misplaced. Buying a second hand controller through the first COVID lockdown and getting used to rekordbox well and truly smashed all of my preconception's and, in truth open my eyes to an almost limitless and unrelenting wave of creative possibilities. It felt like a re-birth and since then an insatiable appetite for all things dance music, multi genre has again taken over my soul.
Uploads from me will be weekly. Dont expect pro DJ transitions, chops, loops but this is a learning process and up for sharing with whoever fancy coming along for the ride.
Tech house, Bass house, House and maybe even a few surprises along the way (funky house, 90's, disco and even DNB).
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