My Pasteboard Stuff — May 23, 2009  

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  About Me — May 23, 2009  

Ornette was drawn into electronic music and house parties in 1993 when he went to his first warehouse party in San Francisco. The idea of large groups of people getting together and staying up all night socializing, listening to music, and dancing was very appealing to a kid who had spend his whole life in a household with a father who was a hi-fi nut and record collector of the highest order. Throughout his childhood his parents had exposed him to everything from the avant garde jazz music of Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane to the raw sounds of punkers Iggy Pop and the Ramones, early electronic groups like Devo, Kraftwork, and Gary Numan, even the operatic masterworks of Wagner, and Mozart. In his middle and high school years while his grades were failing he would spend all his time on his Dad's stereo making mixtapes of R&B and Rap music and even secretly bought a radio shack dj mixer which his folks made him immediately take back to the store. Strangly, this purchase was deemed a waste of money at the time.

Out of high school and on his own, Ornette was drawn to commercial cd's of Deee-Lite, DJ's like Danny Teneglia, Keoki, Dj EFX, and Mark Lewis. He knew immediately he had to be a part of this new music that was exploding in underground parties around the world. Taking every opportunity to go to raves in Sacramento, Santa Cruz, San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area, sometimes going by himself or taking anyone that would with him go he delved headfirst into the nightlife and met people of all colors and backgrounds getting along under laser lights and jumping around with the tribal spirit that only comes through true freedom and self-expression.

At 21 he took what money he had and bought a pair of Technics, a handful of records, and never looked back on wanting to do anything else. Eventually getting together with some of his raving friends the group started throwing house parties, playing beats and partying into the wee hours of the morning. After a few years the parties got bigger, the music got better, and he was finding himself residencies with respected rave crews, working at a record store and playing in large and small warehouse parties and on the bill with heavy hitters like Gavin Hardkiss, Garth, Jeno, Fishbone, Johnny Fiasco, Angel Alanis, Sandra Collins, Slacker, Christian Smith, Adam Beyer, Christopher Lawrence, Miguel Migs, and many others from all over the wide spectrum of house and techno talents. He has played in the cities and forests, on the beaches and rivers up and down the western coast of the United States.

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