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Name: DJTURN
Home Page: http://www.mp3.com/djturn
Member Since: Oct 31, 2002
Rank: 120
Rated 46 releases, average: 4.70
Location: Seattle, WA
Profile: I was one of Seattle's premier rave DJ's in the early 90's - know then as DJ Falix. I've been collecting vinyl since the mid 80's and have somewhere between 2000-4000 records, cassettes and CD's. My collection has some large gaps where I quit DJing, but I always seem to start up again.
From the mid to late 80's:
My vinyl collection includes some very early Chicago house, Detroit techno, Industrial, and New Wave. I have a large Acid House collection - mostly from the UK. I also have a lot of Belgian New Beat records, CD's and cassettes. My collection also includes many US "Hip House" releases - a style of house mixed with hip hop styled rhymes.
In the early 90's:
My vinyl collection includes very early "techno rave" including Bleep, HardCore, Break Beat, early trance, early jungle (what would now be considered break beat.) I also started collecting some early American (mostly eastcoast) Deep House.
Mid 90's:
I pretty much stopped DJ'ing and collecting records from 1993 - 1995. One of my friends from when I was a kid was killed at a rave and I got out of the scene. I did buy some Deep House and early Funky Disco house records.
Late 90's - present:
I made a small DJ'ing comeback and started buying mostly funky filtered house and hard progressive house, a few jungle records.
My collection also includes alot of sample records and scratch records, since my style of DJing includes alot of very technical scratching and some beat juggling.
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Reviews:
V.I.M. - Maggie's Last Party - 06-Nov-02 02:17 PM
Margaret Thatcher preaching about "Acid Party...Let's have a party, rave, rave rave, murder...never mind the politics." Early breakbeat.
M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up The Volume - 05-Nov-02 03:52 PM
This is probably the first "House" track to get international radio play. It is also probably the first "House" track to have a video played on MTV.
Xpansions - Move Your Body (Elevation) - 01-Nov-02 05:10 PM
What an amazing track! Sweet synthesizers ambient pads and one of the first "high pitched" samples i'd heard. They sampled "Theme from S-express," or Rose Royce's "Is it Love you're after" (the original sample that S'Express used.) I first heard this when a DJ played this at one of Seattle's earliest "acid house parties." This track stuck out from all the rest that night. This track has been sampled from, as well, a few times.
Markus Schulz
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C.L. McSpadden* - Tales From The Vault - 01-Nov-02 05:00 PM
This track isn't from the UK. Henry Street is located in New York and both Markus Shulz and CL McSpadden lived in Phoenix, AZ during this release. I thought this was an amazing release combining deep house and funky house, typical of other Henry Street tracks. A few years later, I moved to Arizona and met Markus Shulz. He owned a record store in Tempe, which I've heard has closed up and he's moved to Florida. Unfortunately, he started producing and playing trance records (I don't care much for trance.) Apparently, Johnick - one of Henry's streets owners, left to work for a major record label and disbanded Henry Street. "Mugsy Records" followed the Henry Street label.
Fast Eddie* - Yo Yo Get Funky - 01-Nov-02 04:53 PM
You may think Fast Eddie sounds "Uber Cheesy" and it might if it was released today, but this was released in '88. This is classic "Hip House" - what happened to Hip House, anyway? I guess bangin' and bouncy Chicago house took over that scene. Fast Eddie, Tyree Cooper, and Mr. Lee were some of the forerunners of that scene. If you like Hip House, you'll like these tracks.
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