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welcome, here is a quick history of my musical tastes. my intrest in music started when i was about 6 when i used to listed to my grandads rock n roll tapes i got my 1st turntable for my birthday at around ten years old and a copy of rod stewarts greatest hits. after that my 1st real interest came along with new wave, i used to buy tunes from the likes of blondie, gary newman, buggles, boomtown rats etc. then i got into my sisters collection of motown and disco, oddessys use it up wear it out beeing a paticular fave. then came adam and the ants, to me this was something new and it grabbed my attention in a big way. but still bought music from all genres, if i liked the sound i would buy it. my 1st real scene was ska i was around 13 got into the specials, body snatchers, the beat and selector, had at one point every mandess record made, but looking back now can realise that mandess were the pop band of the genre, (as were the sex pistols to punk)after a brief venture into the world of sigue sigue sputnik which i still am adiment they were ahead of thier time. i got swept away by the ny sound of hiphop, and this sound is still with me to this day. funky four, busy bee, ultramagnetic, streetsounds electro. the list is endless, got into breakdancing and formed a crew called the sheeptown rockers. and got myself a bit of a deck setup, an alba turntable, and my sisters fidelity, which was the type where you could stack the records and it would drop the next track automatically, got a hacksaw and a file to it in no time, (she went mental) between the decks i had a keyboard and a cowbell (which i could never play) and to finish the rig i hooked up an echo machine, the sort you would use for a guitar. then came the big boom, that is house music my 1st experince of this was early 90s at a club called rickys in leeds then came the warehouse partys and i got swept away with the whole scene, got myself a pair of 1210s and got into the mixing, never really wanted to dj as anything more than a hobby, but ended up doing a few spots here and there as fill ins for others or cos friends had pushed the issue in a club to get me a slot, then finished up getting every friday and sat 11, till 2 at a club called the waterfront in skipton. i did this for about 10 month, but got tired of it as dare i say, the scene was dead :o or at least after nelson, the magic had gone ;( still went clubbing all over northwest and leeds and bradford for a while, but when the warehouse partys ended i lost alot if interest and the dj thing. it bacame more of, i might as well get paid for beeing in a club that i would probably be in anyway and get free drinks (which was part of the deal i struck with the owner to get a tenner an hour, free bevvys and to start after last orders) plus i could listen 2 whatever i liked, which seemed to please the crowd. in 93 i really had fallen away from the scene and sold my decks and my record collection, which i often regret. but still liked my music. pink floyd beeing the band which had the most impact, but having such a broad range of musical taste i would buy anything from funk to punk. the only other real love was the bigbeat sound, which to me was a funked up dance sound keeping a hiphop vibe. and thats about it really. then came the internet and after looking up blackburn warehouse partys, i stumbled across wellys site and everything came flooding back, started collecting all my old tunes on mp3 and via that site and the people i met there, i found this site and osa and got my mitts on virtual dj, and started having a dabble on the decks again, but on the pc. phew, that took some writing due to me beeing alot lashed. hope if you have bothered to read it, i havn't bored the pants off ya, and dont laugh too much at the grammer. i will no doubt read this sober, in the future and change it ;) thanks for taking time at reading about the musical journey off an ex small time dj.
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