Submitted By: kica

Genre: Progressive

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I grew up in Atlantic Canada, in Nova Scotia, and didn't move to New Brunswick until I started university. I wasn't very involved in sports or that kind of extra-curricular stuff when I was growing up. Most of my time outside of school was spent working with computers and music. I've studied a lot of instruments over the years ... violin, drums, woodwinds, guitar, and keyboards. I've let most of those slide though since I finished high school, although I still play the piano a lot. I've played classical piano for about three decades now, so that's where I learned a lot of the musical background that's been pretty helpful in my DJ'ing. For a while, while I was in university, I played various instruments in a band called Loose Gravel. We went through dozens of band members, and had a lot of fun. Looking back on some of it now, I cringe, although I'm happy to say that there was some real talent in that band occasionally. Just don't let me sing.'

I started off playing music as a DJ at small parties and dances in high school, and then did the same with residence and off-campus parties in university. I also played keyboard and guitar in a band during university, playing events like like rugby parties and semi-formals and so on. Anyway, that was about the extent of it, until I got hired at the campus bar as a DJ in 1990. I played there for a while, but didn't really enjoy it - the musical styles then were changing rapidly, and didn't match my tastes, so I moved into a bartending position. In late 1993 (by then I was the Manager of the bar), I hired an unknown young DJ from the local high school who had a good radio show. His name was Shawn Cole. He ended up completely turning around our music situation over the next couple of years, and turned us from an unimpressive bar into a real club, playing cutting edge music. He and I did a lot of musical work together, and he was actually the one who taught me to beat mix properly, around 1994 or 1995. Since then, I've played a lot of private events, but not much as a public DJ until the last year.'

'As far as influences go, obviously Shawn would be a big one, although he isn't a well-known name as a DJ anymore, since he's working as an audio engineer out west right now. In terms of professional DJ's, I would have to say that I've mostly been influenced by Canadians, such as Sean Keating, Max Graham, and Jay Hamilton. But I've always been a big fan of Mark Farina, Sasha, Digweed, hm ... Danny Teneglia to some extent.'

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