Tell me some of the dj’s you’ve performed with?
Lots of homies and a few decently sized names. we don’t get many notable djs around the way so its usually friends and family djing parties. i kinda need to get out of eastern North Carolina to dj bigger parties with bigger names, but so far the lack of that hasn’t really held the dude back.

Who would you like to perform with in the future?
I guess speaking on “who do i like” at the moment, I’m pretty into a lot of people. most of which are probably everyone Else’s favorites as well though nothing too crazy. russ chimes is pretty consistently good. im into bag raiders who are currently in the US touring, although i will not catch them. I’m really into a lot of van she remixes. id be into atrak as well but that goes back more to my turntablist days as well. round table knights are real fly.. the glamour would be nice. kind of off the wall and silly but it would be cool to play with totally Michael, which alot of people say is weird but that guy is great. id also like to dj with easy tiger more than i do now, cus he rulessssssssss.

Who were your greatest influences musically?
Hard question because varys greatly and alot do not directly connect to what i do now. in a broad sense as a quick summary… 90s east coast hip hop like Nine, Das Efx, Mobb Deep etc… house/electronic shit i got into during my high school years like Basement Jaxx, Cassius (lots of astralwerks stuff)… late 90s / early 2000s eary bands like portrait, frail, reversal of man, los crudos… my high school was filled with tons and tons of underground hiphop which iv fallen off a bit since then however. alot of the hipster electro / house artist that everyone else likes. it seems kinda like everyone got turned onto that in the last few years, its the new grunge. i bet 90s rave kids are pissed off because what they have been doing for so long and getting made fun of by everyone else for so long is now the hip thing, only they still don’t get any credit for it and are still made fun of… you know they have gotta be pissy every time they roll out in super baggy pants with 20 pockets and straps and everyone else is laughing at them. also it tends to be a surprise for people but i hate drum and bass and always have. it seems a large majority of people into the electro craze come from that, im not hating on it i just never got into it. while all of that seems random and spread out, it all culminates to who i am and how i get down both ethically, culturally and musically. DANG.

When did you finally realize you wanted to be a Dj/Producer?
I don’t know like 8-10 years ago i cant really remember. i got into turntablism first. my friend turned me onto xmen/executioners around the same time zoo yorks mixtape came out with the roc raida scene. thats why i first started djing.. obviously i blasted lots of hip hop at the time too. the natural progression of wanting to produce obviously came along much much later, and still isnt very good, but i will be the greatest producer in the universe one day.

Who affects you today musically?
My rapper stranger day. my partner Easy Tiger (myspace.com/itsdjeasytiger). both of them live almost exactly 4 hours from me so its hard but it keeps me a bit motivated to do stuff and not just watch tv all day. im really into the musicality of people like russ chimes and treasure fingers etc.. their songs just have so much going on. i have zero music playing abilities which limits me from being as awesome as i should be… so.. I’m under construction like a 90s yahoo  personal web page.

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