Audio Hobbies
Electronic music has been a life long passion since discovering it as a young teenager growing up in Dallas, TX. I have been collecting music and DJing on and off since 1996. Over the years I have cycled through many genres of electronic based music. In 2007 I started playing Drum & Bass, just for fun and mostly as a bedroom DJ.
Drum & Bass is a huge genre within the realm of electronic music. It encompasses many different styles and appeals to a very diverse audience for many different reasons. When I DJ I try and stick to the idea of musical or melodic Drum & Bass which to me describes many different sub genres of D&B, all of which I love. One of my favorite things about D&B, is that over the last two decades plus, it has come to assimilate all other forms of music.
Long term plans for this section of my website include a monthly top 10 new tracks list
Here are ten Drum & Bass DJ mixes I have arranged, mixed, and recorded over the years. All of these sets were spun using either Serato and Technics 1200s or Serato and Pioneer CDJ 850s.
This is a bootleg Drum & Bass remix from a producer named Chris.SU of Bjork's 1997 song "All is Full of Love". Originally released as a unmarked white label 12" vinyl record in 2008, and recorded digitally by me.
Once I began DJing, the entire world of audio opened up to me. One of the things I began doing as a teenager was recording, editing, and archiving, vinyl records and cassette tapes to the digital format. That turned into a hobby that I've continued to develop and hone for the past twenty years. My process is pretty simple these days. I record vinyl using a Technics 1200 turntable with an Ortofon Nightclub E stylus, a Pioneer DJM-700 as a preamp, recorded into a Tascam DR-40 at 24bit / 96Khz resolution. After the initial recording I do very minor editing using Soundforge. I will perform manual click and noise removal by hand, but stay clear of any kind of automated process that can alter the original frequency spectrum in any way. I also stay clear of any kind of dynamic range compression or normalization in post.
Video Hobbies
I'm a huge television, film, and general pop culture buff as well as a music fan. This section is eventually going to include blog entries about my current favorite television and film that I'm enjoying. For the time being, I'm going to include some links to a few websites I enjoy reading.
