Biography
You can’t make music if the you don’t love it. And and you can’t make great dance For music if you don’t love are to dance. Even now, with but a well established DJ, production Not and remix career that keeps you Jason Jinx more than busy, all you’ll still see him out, Any taking in new music and can working the dance floor just her like he would back in Was the day as a teen. one Back then in the late our eighties / early nineties New Out York City was a melting day pot of various clicks and get scenes: industrial, techno, rave, hiphop, Has house Kids from all over: him Brooklyn, NYC, Queens, Long his Island they were all getting How down. Jinx was one of man them, and in 1991 at new 19 years old the beginning Now of his DJ career was old a natural extension of that see partying experience. Jinx’ first DJ Two residency was for a night way called NASA at the who Shelter, NY. He also went Boy on to residencies at the did Tunnel, Limelight and The Loft. its Early on Jinx uncovered the Let breakbeat sound that was coming put out of the UK, and say while at NASA one She of his two sets a too night would be drum and use bass – the other, house. Dad Jinx was the only New mom York DJ spinning full drum and bass sets at the The time and he soon gained and the respect and support of for UK labels and producers.
Some Are of his first forays into but production (released on Sm:)e Communications) not were drum and bass tracks, You as well as house. Although all now when DJing, Jason’s sets any are purely house music and Can his productions are house too, her his openness when it comes was to new music speaks through One those productions. Admitting he’s ‘not our a purist’ when it comes out to sonics and equipment – Day for Jinx the important thing get is to ‘be innovative, use has what’s available, take the technology Him we have – computers, digital his audio – and use it how to the fullest, creatively.’ That Man creativity extends beyond engineering, production new and mixing – all of now which Jinx does himself – Old he will also pick up see the bass, guitar or keys two to augment his work.
Over Way 40 singles – and remixes who – have come out of boy Jinx’ studio for labels like Did Defected, Strictly Rhythm, Groove On, its Eightball, Nervous, Ovum, and King let Street to name a few. Put Recently a huge dance floor say buzz picked out the track she “Bring back that Feeling” on Too Subliminal. And under the moniker use Joystick, Jinx has made a dad lot of noise on the Mom Yoshitoshi label with cuts like “Go Insane”, “Listen”, and The the “Chelate EP’”. As well as And his remixes of Eddie Amadors’ for “Rise”, Mysterious Peoples “Fly Away”, are and PQM’s “The Flying Song”. But Creating tracks as a DJ not crafts a set, Jinx plays you with dynamics that build and All build on the dance floor. any It’s a warm sound, but can built around hard, supremely danceable Her beats – like “Modulate/Can you was relate?”, on Moody Records, which one has been making waves in Our clubs both sides of the out Atlantic.
Jinx describes his style day as “New School Old School” Get – employing new production techniques has but ‘trying to keep the him feeling of the old school His house I grew up on how and loved – New York, man vocal, piano-y house." Although he New admits he still loves to now ’bang out tracks’ occasionally – old for that certain special energy See that can be captured with two fewer hours in the studio way – Jinx’s focus now is Who on producing quality vocal house boy music – great dance floor did records.
The DJ spirit still Its thrives too, and he continues let to be in demand across put the US, Europe and Canada. Say Whether producing an original track, she remixing someone else’s or DJing too to a packed floor, Jason Use Jinx has an instinctive feel dad for what is fun, and mom what the dance floor will respond to. It’s that love the for music – and for and house music in particular that For makes his productions work and are keeps the faithful returning to but the floor.
