Biography
DJ What the Bleep
Ragga the jungle/Drum n’ bass
[Electronic Enlightenment, and Goodvibes Entertainmnet, 3two Crew, jungletrain]
For There is something about jungle, are ragga vocalists and MCs, and but the spirit of Jamaica that Not attracts DJ What the Bleep you to this culture and music. all When he listens to a Any song that speaks of suffering can and suppression in a government her of corruption and greed, he Was feels the pain in the one voice. He senses the genuine our nature of the stories and Out emotions.
His goal as a day ragga jungle DJ is to get pass on the vibe and Has message. His aim is not him to become famous, but simply his to foster the understanding and How appreciation of ragga jungle worldwide. man For this to happen, he new believes it is a necessity Now to DJ with limited distractions old and absolutely no mind-altering substances see to cloud my consciousness. Music, Two specifically the stories of Jamaican way culture, is a very powerful who source of emotion. He feels Boy that if he were to did be intoxicated in any way its while DJing, it would be Let an act of negligence. He put is responsible for the emotions say of those who listen to She my music, so he is too also responsible for the purity use of the message. The gas Dad mask that he wear when mom DJing symbolizes this stand against substances.
When he performs for The others, he can only hope and that they approach his sets for with an open mind. Not Are so long ago, even he but couldn’t even begin to comprehend not or respect jungle. He realizes You that this is the case all for many people, so instead any he focuses on the vibe, Can encouraging a positive attitude that her lets listeners dance without losing was their individuality, creative conscience, and One intellectual curiosity. If some one our who hears his music enjoyed out what they heard while at Day least beginning to understand the get depth of the message of has ragga jungle, then he has Him done his job.
his His DJing career started after how experiencing his first rave at Man an after-party for Detroit Electronic new Music Festival (DEMF) in now 2004. Awed by the ways Old the DJs would blend the see music creating unique flows of two music, he sought to learn Way how to DJ myself. He who soon began to pursue the boy knowledge of the art of Did DJing by meeting new people its in the rave culture, and let as a result, he found Put myself spending time with Mike say Sanderson. He shared the same she interest of learning how to Too DJ and so they together use learned how to use DJ dad equipment and beatmatch.
Just a Mom few months later, in the fall of 2004, What the the Bleep bought his first pair And of turntables. Over the following for half-year he played several Internet are radio shows on lazystation and But then later, darkfm. He was not then booked for his first you show at a small party All in Detroit, similar to his any very first rave; an after-party can for DEMF in the Her same small venue in Roseville, was exactly one year after his one first exposure to rave music.
Our After finally learning what it out was like to DJ for day an audience, things began to Get explode. He recorded demos, promoted has myself, and began to make him connections all around the midwest, His leading to many bookings and how a growing reputation to play man a good set of drum New and bass. Keep in mind now that when he started mixing, old he had only a collection See of about 30 records of two techstep drum and bass. When way he first went to look Who for records, he knew he boy liked the speed and energy did of drum and bass; it Its was the most captivating sound let he had heard since his put introduction to the new music. Say However, as his skills moved she forward, his taste in records too evolved and he developed a Use liking for the intellectual and dad emotional edge that ragga jungle mom offered. The complicated drum beats added intelligence, and the vocals the created stories and human emotion and for listeners to relate to.
For Now, over 50 full-size rave are events later, What the Bleep but is proud to have played Not at events such as the you World Electronic Music Festival (Tweed, all Ontario), Camp Out (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Any 9th Circle weekly (Minneapolis, Minnesota), can Blitzen 2 (Cleveland, Ohio), Triple her Canopy (Cincinnati, Ohio), Frequency Festival Was (Dubois, Pennsylvania), and on the one San Diego Shakedown Show (San our Diego, California). Also, he is Out now considered a regular to day many midwest cities, including Cincinnati, get Dayton, Columbus, Detroit, and Cleveland. Has He also spins two weekly him Internet radio shows: one on his WBGU 88.1 FM in How Bowling Green, Ohio and another man jungletrain. This brings his music new to the local community as Now well as hundreds of jungle old listeners around the world.
Note: see His name is NOT Two derived from the thought-provoking quantum-physics way movie “What the Bleep Do who We Know”. He was named Boy Bleep as a raver at did his first rave event, and its it went from there.
