00:00:00 1 BQE – B.Q.E Freestyle 00:02:55 2 Sade – Cherish The Day (Pal Joey Remix) 00:09:23 3 Pal Joey – Heaven On Earth 00:15:24 4 Brothers Of The Mind – Lines 00:19:19 5 Spiritual Vibes – Forbidden Fruit (Pal Joey Mix) 00:23:47 6 Pal Joey – Drum Major Instinct 00:28:11 7 BQE – Verbal Mystifier 00:31:37 8 Brothers Of The Mind – Check the Pattern 00:35:27 9 New Breed – Temple Music 00:37:56 10 Brothers Of The Mind – Vocab Spills 00:41:24 11 Pal Joey – Summer Madness 00:44:16 12 BEATATTITUDES – TIME Foot 00:48:19 13 BQE – Punishment 00:51:46 14 BQE – Sun Moon Stars (Instrumental Mix) 00:55:00 15 Pal Joey, Deejay PH – Someday 00:57:57 16 BQE – Arabian Nights 01:01:57 17 BQE – Astral Plane 01:05:56 18 BQE – Blitz Doctrine 01:09:06 19 BQE – Intellectual Massacre 01:13:57 20 BQE – Last Messiah 01:17:24 21 New Breed – The Stars 01:21:34 22 Pal Joey – Architek of Time 01:26:04 23 Pal Joey – Thats How It Is 01:29:02 24 BQE – Its Over (Instrumental Mix) 01:32:16 25 BQE – King of the Castle 01:35:17 26 Brothers Of The Mind – My Enemies 01:39:01 27 New Breed – Summerstory 01:43:07 28 Odin – Another Day 01:46:11 29 Odin – Another Day (Instrumental Mix) 01:48:08 30 Pal Joey – Go Go Go 01:50:50 31 Pal Joey – Once a Man Twice a Child 01:53:37 32 Pal Joey – Puff and Lounge 01:57:42 33 Pal Joey – Swim for My Intellect 02:00:40 34 BEATATTITUDES – I WANT (Beatattitudes Instrumental Remix) 02:03:11 35 Brothers Of The Mind – Mental Fitness 02:06:34 36 Odin – Casualties 02:10:05 37 Odin – Trees 02:14:06 38 Pal Joey – Freak Freak Yall 02:18:48 39 Pal Joey – Movin Up 02:21:27 40 Brothers Of The Mind – Stop Scheming 02:25:34 41 Expression – Keep On 02:28:48 42 BQE – Awaken 02:31:23 43 Brothers Of The Mind – Catch Wreck 02:35:25 44 Brothers Of The Mind – Do What Ya Know 02:38:48 45 Brothers Of The Mind – Kick Facts 02:42:27 46 Brothers Of The Mind – Pop Shit 02:45:31 47 Brothers Of The Mind – Shootin da Gift 02:49:06 48 Godchildren Of Soul Featuring The Klezmatics – Crown Heights Affair (Pal Joey Mix) 02:53:19 49 Pal Joey – Got to Be a Pro 02:55:42 50 Pal Joey – Making Hits 02:57:59 51 Pal Joey – Platinum in the Making 03:01:54 52 Pal Joey, Brothers Of The Mind – Be Sleepin 03:05:09 53 New Breed – Insanity 03:09:52 54 Brothers Of The Mind – Rough and Tough 03:12:39 55 Pal Joey – Blues
00:00:00 1 Boogie Down Productions – Black Cop 00:02:59 2 Boogie Down Productions – Love’s Gonna Get’cha (Material Love) 00:09:26 3 KRS-One – Questions And Answers (Pal Joey Remix) 00:13:25 4 Leta Davis – You’ll Never Get To Heaven (Joey’s Groove) 00:16:59 5 Leta Davis – You’ll Never Get To Heaven (Club Mix) 00:21:51 6 New Breed – New Breed (Take Me) 00:25:18 7 Pal Joey – Bounce 00:29:21 8 Pal Joey – Brothers Theme 00:32:42 9 Pal Joey – Come On 00:36:37 10 Pal Joey – No Need to Guess 00:39:09 11 Pal Joey – Try to Take a Lead 00:41:32 12 Pal Joey – Want My Money 00:44:25 13 Soho – Keep It Together (feat. Pal Joey) 00:49:41 14 Pal Joey – Crowd Jumpin 00:53:03 15 Pal Joey – Test Me 00:56:01 16 Cooly Live – Up High On the Down Low 00:59:57 17 Expression – Bless Me 01:04:42 18 Pal Joey – Ah Baby 01:09:06 19 Pal Joey – Aids 01:10:45 20 Pal Joey – Check Out 01:13:54 21 Pal Joey – Goin 4 Mine 01:17:59 22 Pal Joey – Yes Yes Y’all (feat. Benjamin Muller) 01:18:38 23 Pal Joey – Breakin Necks 01:21:58 24 Pal Joey – For All of Yall 01:24:12 25 Pal Joey – The Brothers Don’t Miss 01:26:36 26 Pal Joey – Watch Ya Back 01:29:43 27 Pal Joey – Words Preferred 01:32:27 28 Pal Joey – Just 4 da Bros 01:35:54 29 Shabba Ranks – The Jam (feat. KRS-One) 01:39:44 30 Boogie Down Productions – Duck Down 01:43:19 31 Brothers Of The Mind – So Be It 01:46:22 32 The Brand New Heavies – Never Stop (Pal Joey Remix) 01:53:12 33 Latin Alliance – Know What I’m Saying (Pal Joey Instrumental) 01:57:53 34 Pal Joey – It’s Like That 02:01:03 35 Pal Joey – Retarded 02:02:59 36 Real Rap – Ruffneck Reality (feat. Jamalski/Scientist/Pal Joey) 02:07:43 37 MC Lyte – Take It Off 02:12:13 38 Pal Joey – Catch da Bodies 02:15:21 39 Pal Joey – Running in Circles 02:19:53 40 The Orb – Little Fluffy Clouds (Cumulo Nimbus Mix) 02:26:18 41 Beautiful People – I Got The Rhythm (Hip Hop Mix) 02:31:09 42 Pal Joey – My Girl 02:34:46 43 Boogie Down Productions – Who Are The Pimps? 02:37:38 44 French Touch – You Know Me 02:41:10 45 Pal Joey & Robert Owens – Between The Lines (Radio) 02:46:33 46 Pal Joey – Santeria Samba Groove 02:53:01 47 Pal Joey’s New Breed – My Dear Boy 02:56:30 48 koizumi kyoko(KOIZUMIX PRODUCTION) – TOKYO DISCO NIGHT(Pal Joey Disco Night Mix) 03:00:21 49 MKS-7 ／ Zulu 03:07:03 50 Pal Joey – Keep It Simple 03:09:42 51 Pal Joey – Love Dub 03:12:25 52 Pal Joey – One of a Kind 03:15:59 53 Pal Joey’s New Breed – Sunshine 03:19:43 54 Pal Joey – Free 03:22:24 55 Pal Joey – Let’s Go (Remix) 03:25:50 56 Pal Joey – Let’s Go 03:28:27 57 Soho – Subway Series 03:33:09 58 Soho – More Hot Music 03:38:07 59 Pal Joey – Hot Music 03:42:37 60 Ingrid Chavez – Hippy Blood (Pal Joey Remix) 03:48:48 61 Olonga – Feel The Melody (Pal’s melody) 03:54:15 62 Pal Joey, Dana Byrd – The Simple Things
00:00:00 1 No Guilt – Playtime 00:05:35 2 Rock Posse feat. Fonda Rae – Do You Want My Love 00:11:01 3 DreamHouse – I Can Feel It (Club Mix) 00:17:31 4 The Brothers Macklovitch & A-Trak – I Can Call You (Pal Joey Remix) 00:23:45 5 Pal Joey – Flight 801 00:28:54 6 Pal Joey – I Fell… 00:33:23 7 Pau Roca – Euphoria (Pal Joey’s Touch) 00:38:49 8 Pal Joey – Philly Mix 1891 00:42:29 9 Expression – Ancestoral Groove 00:45:22 10 K-Creative – To Be Free (Brother John) (Pal Joey Remix Instrumental) 00:49:29 11 Pal Joey – Runaway 00:54:12 12 Pal Joey Feat. Robert Owens – The Me Inside 00:58:34 13 Underground Inc. – Magie Noire (Pal Joey Mix) 01:03:12 14 Deee-Lite – Good Beat (Shake Your Body to the Beat Mix) 01:08:25 15 Pal Joey – Love Me Tonight 01:15:53 16 Children Of Planet Earth Featuring Raven – Fly Away (Pal Joey’s Interpretation) 01:19:39 17 New Breed – New Breed (It’s Allright) 01:23:14 18 Espresso – Let’s Get Down (Bleep Mix) 01:29:50 19 Beautiful People – Harmony 01:36:29 20 Los Dos – Tomorrow 01:42:11 21 takecha – Duration Rhyme (Pal Joey Remix Instrumental) 01:45:50 22 Deee-Lite – How Do You Say…Love (A Delicious Pal Joey Dub) 01:52:14 23 Pal Joey – The Flight 01:57:47 24 CFM Band – Hold Me Tight (Pal Joey Remix) 02:01:28 25 Blood – Peace In The Nation 02:08:05 26 Beautiful People – I Got The Rhythm 02:17:22 27 Pal Joey – Feel High (feat. James Duncan) 02:23:29 28 Pal Joey – Shanana 02:27:59 29 Pal Joey – What Can We Do Now 02:32:20 30 Pal Joey & Robert Owens – Between_The_Lines_(Dance Vocal) 02:35:15 31 Sol 2 Sol – It Feels Good 02:38:13 32 Los Dos – Mi Savor 02:42:55 33 Pal Joey – Everytime That We… 02:46:25 34 Pal Joey – Surprise 02:50:50 35 Pal Joey’s New Breed – Mardi Gras 02:55:58 36 Loop Trick feat. Maria & Maria – Beat Freak (Pal Joey Action 1) 02:59:28 37 Pal Joey – Do What You Want To 03:02:02 38 BEATATTITUDES – I WANT( Featuring Labo) 03:04:57 39 Zhana – Jam 03:10:43 40 Cookie – Choose Me (Dave Lee Fazor Dub) 03:14:26 41 Cookie – Choose Me 03:19:42 42 Pal Joey – Givin It to You 03:23:54 43 Pal Joey – Can’t Deny This 03:30:11 44 Pal Joey – Fathers Day 03:34:29 45 Pal Joey – Get Down 03:35:55 46 Pal Joey – Rat Race 03:40:49 47 Pal Joey – When I Get Crazy 03:46:51 48 Alexis P Suter – You Don’t Know (Pal Joey Interpretation) 03:51:15 49 Contrasts – Glee 03:54:21 50 Pal Joey – Choices 03:59:27 51 Pal Joey – Freaky 04:06:35 52 Pal Joey – Put All the Others Aside 04:09:04 53 Pal Joey – Mothers Day 04:13:08 54 Pal Joey – So Fine 04:16:35 55 Pal Joey – What Ya Gonna Do? 04:22:05 56 Pal Joey – Do It Good 04:24:35 57 The Minute Men – I Like It 04:28:11 58 Pal Joey – Battle
00:00:00 1 Earth People – Dance (Party Mix) 00:05:11 2 Earth People – Party Mix (Instrumental) 00:08:19 3 Earth People – Reach up to Mars (Martian Mix) 00:13:11 4 DreamHouse – Jump and Prance (Club Mix) 00:17:57 5 Pal Joey & Between_The_Lines – Think_Positive 00:20:50 6 House Conductor – Tonight I’m Gonna Love You (Instrumental Mix) 00:25:00 7 Pal Joey – Gettin’ Hot 00:29:30 8 The Paris Ford Project Far (Saxy Mix) (Joey’s Remix) 00:34:03 9 Pal Joey – Spend the Night 00:38:43 10 Pal Joey – Thong Test 00:43:04 11 Pal Joey – We Show Off 00:47:16 12 Zhana – Can’t Stop Dancin’ (Vibe Mix) 00:51:12 13 Pal Joey – Chopsticks 00:56:40 14 Pal Joey – Raw Love 01:01:57 15 French Touch 2 – What Would You Change (feat. Teddy.G) 01:06:01 16 Pal Joey & Shelia – Romantic 01:10:43 17 Pal Joey – Power (feat. Ben Muller) 01:14:49 18 ODJ Pirkka – keskustori 86 (Pal Joey remix) 01:22:23 19 Soho – Give It Up (Passion Mix) (feat. Pal Joey) 01:27:00 20 Wild Boys – Do Your Thing-Raw Mix 01:33:20 21 Sol 2 Sol – No More (No More-Beats) 01:35:56 22 Sol 2 Sol – No More (No More-Remix) 01:39:49 23 DreamHouse – Jump and Prance-Dream Mix 01:44:57 24 Earth People – Dance (Club Mix) 01:48:19 25 Earth People – Dance (Beats Mix) 01:51:59 26 Earth People – Dance (Dub Mix) 01:55:48 27 Gary Michael Wade – I Wanna Dance 01:58:50 28 Pal Joey, Teddy G – Life-2 (French Touch) 02:01:08 29 Lisa Stansfield – Time to Make You Mine (House Dub) 02:05:17 30 Sol 2 Sol – This Is Class 02:07:04 31 Pal Joey – Thanksgiving 02:11:07 32 Pal Joey, Dana Byrd – Tomorow Is Today 02:14:17 33 Pal Joey, Teddy G – Life 02:17:11 34 Pal Joey – Here It Is 02:21:28 35 Pal Joey – Partytime 02:27:31 36 Roots Foundation – Aye-Le-Love Mix 02:32:59 37 Paul Violet – C’mon 02:35:30 38 Walk The Dog – I Can’t 02:39:01 39 Las-Civ-I-Ous – Nice To See You 02:45:03 40 Pal Joey – Happy 02:47:47 41 Espresso – Ping Pong 02:53:10 42 O.P.M. – Fuckin’ With You (Main) 02:57:54 43 Pal Joey – Crazy Cowboy 03:01:50 44 Pal Joey – Toi Et Moi 03:04:01 45 Pal Joey’s New Breed – Say 1 Say 2 03:07:08 46 Three Kings – Shake Dat Booty (Edit) (feat. Jaygun & Bashy) 03:14:14 47 Pal Joey – Higher Now 03:16:55 48 Contrasts – I Sing (Instrumental Mix) 03:21:31 49 Pal Joey – Hearts 03:26:21 50 Pal Joey – Keepin On 03:30:34 51 Las-Civ-I-Ous – You Glow 03:34:41 52 Pal Joey – Show Me 03:39:06 53 Pal Joey – Because of the Wind 03:41:36 54 Dana Byrd – Your Love (Pal Joey Original Vocal Mix) 03:44:43 55 Pal Joey – Everlasting 03:48:43 56 Pal Joey – Just the Way You Are 03:51:42 57 Pal Joey – Glace 03:54:57 58 Las-Civ-I-Ous – She’s Here (Pal Joey’s Original Mix) 04:01:23 59 Pal Joey – Perfectionist 04:04:24 60 Brio – Ingratitudes (Remix) 04:09:36 61 Paul Violet – Make My Day 04:13:02 62 Pal Joey – Elegance 04:16:44 63 Pal Joey – Computer Love 04:19:33 64 Pal Joey – No Bongos
Go Bitch Go! – Work This Pussy (Original Bitch Mix) DJ Sneak – Work It Sub-Culture Feat- Marcus – Dreams (Tribal Life Mix) Springboard – Be My Man (Club Mix) Todd Edwards – Winter Behavior Sound Design – Searchin’ Gypsymen – Bounce M.A.D.A. – The Good Stuff (Culture Mix) Mental Instrum – Bott-ee Rider (Open Wide!!) Gayland – Get By (The Instrumental) Georgie Porgie – Strawberry (Georgie’s Club Mix) Deep Style – …Down (Elementary Dub) L.J. – No Work O.D.C. – Model 9000 Aswad – Shine (Remix Dub) DJ Sneak – Come Together Nature Boy – Tobago The Cover Girls – Wishing On A Star (Magic Sessions Vocal Dub) Martha Wash – Carry On (Masters At Work Dub Mix) Uncanny Alliance – I Got My Education (Underground Dub) Louie “Balo” Guzman – Don’t Shut Me Out The Miners – Calling You (Giancarlino Stress Mix) Mood II Swing Productions – I Need Your Luv (Right Now) (Balo’s Banji Mix) Full Swing – Choices (Choices Vocal Mix) Marina Van-Rooy – Sly One Lectroluv – If We Try (Hard Dub Edit) Pal Joey – Rat Race Celo-Sound – Every Day Every Nite Hardrive Feat. L.G. – Sindae (Kenlou Dub) Black Rascals – Sympathy (Club Dub) Three Generations Feat. Chevell – Get It Off Romanthony – Falling From Grace Interceptor – Together (The S-Man’s Miami Mix) Daniela Mercury – O Canto Da Cidade (Murk Boys Miami Mix) Mission Control – Outta Limits
I picked this because of the extraordinary lyrics, which reappeared eventually in the house scene. Kerri Chandler did a version of it. And there are some rhythm patterns that you use as well. It was also a hit in the gay house scene. There are many house tracks based on this tune.
Personally, I really like Nina Simone a lot. I think there have been a lot of really bad remixes done of this track. For example, the Masters of Work remake added a really cheesy synth pad over her, so it’s really been bastardized a lot. But I think that’s part of the whole schmaltz of the gay house scene as well. That it has this way of reducing things to a cheap standard.
I think there’s a way in which it’s complicated to play music that verges more on gospel than soul in the club environment. And I think that’s something that Nina herself would like in a weird way. She identified herself less as a jazz musician, and more as a folk musician. And felt that she was channeled in the jazz corner by the industry. In her biography, she talks about being—if anything—a folk musician. That kind of cross-categorization is really interesting to me. And there’s also this idea of “How could her music get worked into a DJ set?”
Especially with this contrast between the euphoria of her live performances that is associated with her work, and her audience’s reactions to her work. She’ll play something like “Mississippi Goddamn,” this sad, tragic song. And the audience is like, “I love this song!” They’re cheering like idiots.
I think the same goes for this song. The way that she sings this song is not cheerful at all. That contrast struck me in that gay house context as well. It’s not the same sort of material that you ordinarily associate with it.
For sure, that’s something that I identify with in my own music. I often produce it from a perspective that people don’t sympathize with particularly. Or they approach it from an angle that is different from where I produce it from. They want to turn it into something, despite the complaints, that is energizing for a party. For me, I’m totally not concerned with this type of energy.
I really have a respect for her. I can empathize with this idea of immigration, of leaving the United States. It was under different circumstances, of course, but as an American who emigrated to Japan I feel a kind of simpatico with her.
Would you basically say that this streak in your work, where you reference things like this, is that you try to remain faithful to the original vibe of the material?
No. I don’t believe there is an original, or that there is something to be faithful to. I don’t believe in faith at all, in any form. I think this is important to clarify. That doesn’t mean just being kind of aloof or naïve about the connotations either. It’s about thinking about them in a way that allows for complications or recontextualizations as opposed to simply doing an homage or a tribute. Nina Simone has had enough tributes, you know? It’s OK if we don’t tribute always.
Gary Numan – Cry, The Clock Said (Beggars Banquet) 1981
Your Rubato series where you do piano renditions of Kraftwerk, Devo and Gary Numan. It struck me that all three of these acts have this weird relationship between technology and humanity. Was that your purpose with it?
Yes, of course. The purpose of the series was to investigate the techno pop icons that were the seminal acts of my childhood. And to think about how it polluted or influenced or channeled my own productions, as well as my own politics. And, of course, techno pop is very phallo-centric, Mensch Machine, so I wanted to also complicate the homo eroticism of this musical world that almost exclusively prevents the entry of women. Which makes it either a misogynistic or gay space. Or both. Or neither.
So all of the piano was composed on the computer, which I felt kept the technological association with these original artists and what I feel their vision was for using technology, but also to have the result be this neo-romantic piano solo that wasn’t a Muzak version, but going towards an avant-garde piano that—unless you were a big fan—you might not be able to pick out the melodies.
Sexuality this genre seems really warped in a way. As you said, like with Kraftwerk. The only time that they explicitly dealt with sexuality was on Electric Café on “Sex Object,” which is a really weird track.
Yeah. They had it in Computer World , they also had “Computer Love,” though. But it’s always about either the machine or the woman is the object. Always objectified. “Sex Object” has a very weird elementary school approach to gender.
Everybody likes to think of Kraftwerk as being very much in control of their image, but if you look at their catalogue, it’s a total mess. You have this Krautrock stuff. The Ralf und Florian album, that was cut from the catalogue for a long time because it didn’t fit in. They are much more eclectic than they want people to think.
I think their concept is also much more open than many people think. They left some leeway.
I think a lot of it is due to the record company. I’m coming at Kraftwerk as an American, and which records were distributed to us there may have been different than what was sold in Europe. So things like the first ones with the pylons were never seen until I was in New York. And they were, like, a million dollars. It was Autobahn , Trans Europe Express , Radioactivity , Computer World , Mensch Machine and that was it. If you could track down the Tour de France EP, it was a miracle.
How would you place Gary Numan in this? He also played with these ideas, but it always had a bit of a tragic note to it.
I think that the Dance album… Remember when you interviewed me about the Dazzle Ships album, and I talked about it being a kind of crisis moment when an artist is trying to figure out their own artistic direction, and they’re faced with the pressures of the major labels that they’re signed in and locked into. Dance was right around the same time, and I think it was Gary Numan’s crisis with the industry. When you look at it in relation to the kind of progress of the sound of his work—and at that time he did have a very linear channeling of what he was doing—this was the album that was the peak of this weird electronic Latin percussion thing. He had people from Japan working with him. His next album, Bezerker, was this more industrial thing. It was samplers and all this sort of stuff. For me, though, Dance was the height of this certain kind of sound that he had control over, but also dealing at the same time with pressure from the label.
Image-wise, what he did up to Dance certainly served him better than what he did after. I remember this sleeve of Warriors … Maybe the image that he portrayed earlier wasn’t exactly original, but it served his voice quite well. And his persona.
For me, the conflict of something like the Warriors cover, where he’s standing in this S&M gear, all leathered up with a baseball bat as though he’s some kind of bad ass road warrior guy, is that he has this posture that is totally faggy and limp. And the bleached hair. And then he’s not queer-identified. He’s straight-identified. He plays with gender in his lyrics, but he makes it clear in his interviews that he’s not. For me, it’s this contradiction between the kind of costume play that you could find in a gay club, but for me it was also a mismatch…like the leather bottom.
It also has to do with being a nerd that is really into science fiction. He also has this nerd component. His lyrics are all about Philip K. Dick and Blade Runner . He was totally into that stuff. And I think that’s also what drew me to him. And it also made me repress the impact that he had on me. By the time you reach 18 or so, it’s too tragic to say that you’re a Gary Numan fan. People react in this horrible way. But he, more than Devo or Kraftwerk, was really influencing me.
I used to plagiarize his lyrics and enter them into the school district contest and get ribbons for it. And when my father was upset with me about music and things, it was my Gary Numan records that he would lock away in the closet so that I couldn’t get at them. There was a lot of battle around Gary Numan in my adolescent life.
I think that’s why the “Cry, The Clock Said” has such a special connection for Comatonse. Because the first EP was basically a dub remix of this song. Read the rest of this entry »
This is a 70’s reggae track by Jackie Mittoo. It’s almost Minimal, very basic.
True. It’s got some Techno appeal, it’s just rhythm. That’s what I like about this Dub stuff, there are so many things you can recognize that were used later on in electronic music like House and Techno. Dub was so important for that.
So these ancient production techniques are still valid? There seems to be a direct line from Jamaica to today’s productions.
Yeah, I listen to Dub. I don’t listen to a lot, but I like some of it. But I like to use the state of mind of Dub in my music. It’s more a musician thing. I like to use the techniques of it. I’m getting more into the music, too. It’s amazing, the way they were mixing the bass and the drums in the 70’s. Really crazy.
They also put some emphasis on just doing tracks, not songs.
It really is the basis of what came afterwards, from Hip Hop to House to Techno. Drum and Bass also, of course. They all took elements from Dub, that’s really interesting.
> Yukihiro Takahashi – Walking To The Beat (Pick Up Records)
The next one is by Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Yukihiro Takahashi. A Synthpop track.
It is interesting. It has this kind of proto-House feeling. What I really liked was this crazy soprano sax solo at the end. It is almost like Free Jazz, for 30 or 40 seconds, and then it stops. That was quite bold.
I think he actually wanted to do some kind of pop hit though. The singer on this record is the one from the 80’s pop group Icehouse for example. But for a pop hit it is probably too weird.
I think the harmonies are built up quite traditionally, but this solo part really surprised me. It is almost like New York ‘s Post Punk era. Trying some new crazy stuff.
Maybe you should use some sax solo in a House track.
Well, I used to play sax in the past.
Really?
Yeah, for a long time. But I kind of really got tired of the sound and I don’t think I’m going to use it. But you never know. I started playing Alto Saxophone when I was 13 years old. I had tried piano a few years ago, but I wasn’t so much into it. I don’t remember why I chose saxophone, but I remember I wanted to do a wind instrument. With the saxophone, I learned to play jazz and I absolutely loved it! I began rehearsing with a few bands, mostly Jazz or Funk groups. When I discovered DJing, I was instantly hooked and I started playing less and less saxophone, until I quit around 2001. DJing, collecting and discovering music became more important for me. I dabbled into production around 1996, but got a home studio setup two years later. I remember that my main reason for producing was that I found that certain records were lacking something or were arranged in a way that I thought was not so effective. I was thinking “Hmm, the producer should have put this part first” or “the chord there doesn’t sound nice although the beat is dope”. After a while I just thought I should make my own tracks.
I remember that a lot of the early Deep House tracks used the same sax sound. Really flat and synthetic. They seldom used a real saxophone, always this cheap sound effect.
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