To describe myself as an audiophile would not give justice to the extreme love affair I share with music.  As a “Ritalin Child”, you’d usually find me locked in my room, lights out, music blaring. Cassette tapes of radio mix shows, novelty songs, and sound effect scattered about…I began experimenting. Spending endless hours sifting through & splicing audiotape, to create my mock versions of what I heard professionals doing on the radio. This led me to follow the path I’m on presently.

I began mixing when I was in the Navy stationed at NAS Lemoore, California… otherwise known as the pesticide armpit of the Central Valley. It was there that I spent most of my free time practicing and experimenting with turntables. Most of my DJ friends focused on scratching but I just couldn’t get into it. I became obsessed with harnessing a unique seamless mixing sound. 

My childhood obsession with radio mix shows led me to take a chance. In 1999 I sent 3 demos to 3 music directors in 3 west coast cities: San Diego, San Francisco and Seattle. KNHC “C89.5”, a high school dance music station in Seattle was interested. My radio career was launched. It was there over 8 years, that I mixed the “Drive at 5”, co-created “House Arrest”, and established the “Mid-Day Mix”. Although I enjoyed mixing dance music, particularly House, I always kept an interest in mainstream music.

In 2000, KBKS “KISS 106.1” in Seattle hired me under the fragile regime of the Programming Department as an experimental mix show, which actually still continues to this day as “Club KISS”. In June of 2007, I was asked by Jazzy Jim (Program Director of WiLD 949 San Francisco) to become one of their resident Mixshow DJ’s. My on air schedule as of now is Friday Nights from 10-11 PM on WiLD 949 (listen online at www.wild949.com) and Saturdays from 9-10 PM on KISS FM (online at www.kissfmseattle.com). These mix shows are more or less a showcase for my new productions (mash-ups, breaks, interesting segues) and an ongoing attempt at petty self-promotion.

My fascination with contrasting music also draws me to the Mash-Up scene. Two or more songs interwoven creating one piece of “plaid audio” if you will. No other music form excites me so personally. Very addictive stuff.  Every piece is unique…variations are infinite. Although along with the good comes the bad. These productions are considered illegal by record companies which forces the scene to subside underground. As a member of this scene I will state that I believe Mash-Ups are a form of art and audio expressionism.