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One thing for sure, whether it is hard house, break beats or progressive house style it always has the DJ Self funk.
What is the DJ Self funk you ask? "The best way to describe it is all these styles blended into one track! So if your
into the mellow underground house music, ..don't bother picking up one of his tracks. Self is all about banging the hard & funky tracks."
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Biography:
"It all started back in the early 80's in the middle of the roller skating rinks & break dancing battles!" says DJ Self. Self started back in the day recording & listening to DJ mix shows to make copies for himself and his break dancing crew. He then evolved into spinning throughout high school doing house parties & dances. From there he slowly purchased his own studio equipment and started producing. His first release was a Miami Bass style song,
"The Street Racing Song", which talks about one of his favorite hobbies of building cars & street racing. "Way before Fast & the Furious was ever thought of! DJ Self went onto competing in DJ competitions in
Washington DC & South Beach Miami in the 90s and also doing some guest DJ appearances at some of the hot clubs in South Beach Miami. His next record deal came in 1995 producing a few freestyle tracks for Tazmania records. Then he moved onto producing Baltimore break beat tracks. In 1996, he went to his first Winter Music Conference with his partner Jeff C. where he met up with two major Chicago hard house producers, DJ Trajic and Rockin Duke, who influenced and started his hard house career. From there he started banging out the hard house and really enjoyed making this kind of music. "One of my all time funnest tracks Ive produced was "Let the Bass
Go" which I still enjoy spinning in my DJ sets". Just to name a few of the independent Chicago and Los Angeles hard house labels he produced tracks for Jasperstone Records, Musik Factory, Abstract Music, Renegade, DMC , Dynamic Tracks, Pyramid Records, and Waxworks. Signing his first exclusive record deal with Bobby D @ Jasperstone Records was a beginning of his style of hard house with a touch of break beats. This opened the door for DJing in the Chicago & Texas clubs. This led to a following in the Texas break beat
scene where he met up with Latium Records, Latin One Stop Records, R2M Records where he began his next
exclusive record deal with Phusion Records. His career also included spinning on a Top 40 station, Z104, based
out of Washington, DC. With his partner, DJ Fadi, they rocked the air waves on their own nightly mix show.
Recently, he opened for the group, Science, who performed the smash hit "Masquerade" at the Sanctuary Night Club in Melbourne, FL. With the same label, Nivek Records, he has also produced some tracks soon to be released on Nivek Records late 2002 and recently released a hard house & break beat mixed CD with them.
Throughout his career DJ Self has received numerous write ups in the DMA magazine on many of his songs. He
has also had write-ups in the DJ Times.
Currently, a new exclusive deal was just signed with Kaleidoscope Records. He is excited and looking forward to
pumping out some dope tracks and being a part of Kaleidoscope Records!
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