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DJ NaNa The World Inside My Head Vol.LecturesJ Da Flex
BBC 1xtra, London, UK
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Ty Food For Thought Pt.People often ask me: "Where does that name come from?"It was the first name I thought of after listening to people like Karl 'Tuff Enuff' Brown, Matt 'Jam' Lamont.It just seemed to be the 'in thing' to have something linking your name to.For me it was J Da Flex that works.It had a ring to it and it was a Matt 'Jam' Lamont, it was like a Karl 'Tuff Enuff' Brown, it had a ring to it so I started to it basically.Huddersfield and I was hanging about with a guy called Andy Jay.He was the main local DJ in that small town and I was hanging about with him and had no real intention of being a DJ.Going to the parties, it was more of a 'vibes' thing for me.In Huddersfield, we travelled to Leeds, Manchester as well.He was a DJ obviously, I was a punter.After he had finished these CD's, I had asked him if I could have a mix and he showed me a few tricks.What kind of records are we talking there?Drum'n Bass scene, I was very much kind of Hip Hop, then Drum'n Bass and my roots were very dubby.My ears twitched at the sound of a good beat or a good bassline.That's what really drove me.This is one of the tracks that influenced me into the sound basically.And at that time, the scene was very drug orientated.This is Louie Vega and it is again the dub side to the vocal side.Because the natural progression for me, the root for an upcoming DJ, was through the pirate station, through the pirate radio.And in order to be involved in it, you had to be closer to it.Just hanging about in a record shop.Levi's and just from the off chance he asked me if I was available to do a day covering for him.He let me to do a Wednesday and I sold probably more records than he had in a week.As a lot of the UK producers got involved, got into the studios, there was no need for the UPS shippings.Or you pressed up 500 copies yourself and do your own footwork.So there was no particular best day to come in to a record shop because you might have a producer coming in on Monday, having this fresh track.Black Market Records in Soho and there was Uptown Records.There was a big pirate scene in London.Not just the for Garage scene or the Hip Hop scene, for all genres of music.You could drive around London and see the state blocks and see antennas.How did you find your way into pirates?DJ at the time, he must been given out the number for chart requests.And I called up the number and I asked to speak to the station manager.Soon after, the manager realized that I was getting a lot of exclusive music.Then I progressed further more.No primetime spot, but a more recognizable spot on the radio.This was the kind of track I played on the radio.When you talk about building your name, and probably for those of us, who are not from England, it always sounds rather than sports than music.But here I am, a romantic record collector and I just want other people to like the same sort of music that I like, why do I need to do that?This is one of the tracks for me, which started to change the sound of the scene.This is still back in the day, it is vocal orientated.They were very smooth, the drums were very smooth.Whereas at this point, the whole drum patterns started to change.Everything started to get a bit harder, sounds started to change, the basslines came into it.And at that point it was definitely a London sound.We stopped playing the US dubs.House people, but it was just because the music was slightly harder, and we were doing it ourselves.It was the sound that was blowing up.It was the sound that was getting big and there was no real name for it.You got the progressions in the sounds and the basslines.But I mean, on the label we got part of the dilemma already."Where did you get these breaks from?"How long did it take for people to get that one?This was a landmark tune.Then you had people like Zed Bias making tracks.He was coming from the Drum'n Bass era.The beauty about 1xtra is the fact, that all the DJ's involved are pirate DJ's.If you are not on the top of your game."And at that point, just before I was going to 1xtra, I ran a record label called Ghost.Blaze or Nude or one of the other guys involved.This was our first release.What sort of equipment were you using to get a bassline right?We used the general equipment, we used Akai samplers, Mackie mixing desks, Roland synthesizers and things like that.House structure, to a two step.It actually came from a track by Tina Moore.It just changed the scene again.The scene was changing all the time.At the time, that was fresh.By that time there was the particular situation in London with all the labels, all the medias and stuff, there was about the second time around you had a lot of public attention put on your scene with the weirdest stereotypes.How do you survive all these ups and downs, like: "Hey, we all love you, we want to sign you, we want to give you a free house, a free car or whatever?"They really mess up your scene.You start with something, which is fresh, and over the time it becomes more mainstream.Right down you lost the real essence of the underground.We were becoming more mainstream.When you switch on the TV and hear tracks on dry commercials then you know, your scene is in trouble.Are there any songs you played on white label, you regret having played them?His first track was a Garage track.But there's a new hybrid sound of the garage underground, championed by producers in their bedrooms making music on little more than a Playstation or a PC."PCs are so cheap and it's easier and easier to make music on them.Producer
"There's a lot of people on their computers making tunes.There's a generation where being on the computer and programming beats is second nature to a lot of youth right now.Zed Bias, Producer
"PCs are so cheap and the music packages are making it easier and easier to make music on them.The industry is quiet in every way, so the stuff we are making we're just playing it for ourselves and when we are playing out and getting bookings we're playing tunes that we've made so that people are like 'Yeah, we'll book him because he's the only one playing that kind of sound'."Key Tracks
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