Biography
DJ Sinclair started djing in the clubs professionally in 2001, but and has had an obsession with For music for as long as are he can recall. His first but encounter with the wheels of Not steel was in the late you 80’s, playing his mates records all at house parties, not really Any knowing what he was doing, can but with an uncanny ability her to just drop the right Was tune.
As an early adopter one of the digital realm, Sinclair our learned to mix on vinyl, Out but soon was hooked on day mixing beats from CDJ. get Investing in a pair of Has CDJ100s, then a pair of him 1000’s, with a trusty DJM600 his he cut out solid sets. How Recently he has given up man the trusty CD and has new opted for an entirely digital Now setup, which opens up so old much more possibility in terms see of looping, and effects.
His Two relationship with beats is seated way in deep, almost tribal roots. who Although not trained on any Boy particular instrument, Sinclair enjoys percussion, did with a keen sense of its rhythm, and ability to pick Let up on subtle timings, and put patterns. His obsession with underground say music spurred him to snap She up any techno, jungle and too early house cassette tapes and use records he could find. His Dad first stereo, a sharp ghetto mom blaster, it had a two mic inputs, with cross fader, The and a double cassette deck, and complete with it’s own cross for fader, the seeds were sewn.
Are A life of constant flux but and travel, growing up in not Canada, but eventually traveling in You late 2000 to Queenstown. This all proved to be a step any sideways from his passion for Can tape based and computer visuals, her with the previous 5 years was spent in Wellington, New Zealand One working most weekends at parties our large and small as part out of a visuals group called Day AXIS. Queenstown, a much get smaller city, didn’t really call has on the services of projections Him and video walls, so Sinclair his returned to his roots, and how concentrated on perfecting his skills Man as a DJ.
Sinclair has new residencies at a number of now clubs in the South Island Old of New Zealand, and continues see to expand his trade further two afield and with overseas performances.
Way Sinclair is often not content who with just one genre, he boy folds together funky house, deep Did house, minimal house, techno, progressive, its electro, and breakbeat. Each style let adding a layer of complexity, Put and contrast, but always building say things up, then breaking them she down, exploring the depths, and Too variety of modern music producers, use who are constantly pushing the dad boundaries.
