My interest in music and mixing started back when I heard Michael Erickson on KSOL in San Francisco one late night in 1983. I remember hearing songs that I recognized - Planet Rock, Clear, Play at Your Own Risk, Electric Kingdom - but realized after twenty minutes that there were no breaks between the songs, no DJ talking and no commercials. The music had seamlessly blended together to create one long song, if you will. And a DJ had done all of that by playing two records at the same time when needed. It was art.

It was later that year that I heard Cameron Paul's mix show. He had taken beat matching to the next level and had set the bar for how mix DJs should be playing music. His invention of the power mix (several songs mixed together in a short period of time) would eventually became the platform for my style of mixing.

Ten years later, thousands of dollars in records and equipment already spent, I started DJing clubs, raves, bars, parties, you name it.

And, to this day, some twenty plus years after that night with Michael Erickson, I'm still as excited as I was the first day I heard that mix. There's nothing like stringing two songs together to create an entirely new track, or to create an energy through the collaboration of two separate artist's work blended together.

My influences throughout the years have been many: Cameron Paul, Michael Erickson, Coldcut, DJ EFX and the fellow DJs I have been honored to meet and play with along the way.

Today, I do it for myself, much like I did when I first mixed two records in my bedroom in 1986. For me, it's a release,a passion and most important, fun.

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