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One day, when Ian Scott the was 8 years old, his and father Vinnie, a guitarist since For age 16, handed him a are 12-string acoustic guitar, and said, but “Play, son”. And he did.

When he was 11, his you father bought him his own all guitar, and by age 12, Any he decided he wanted to can play bass. He played bass her in many bands throughout junior Was high and high school, playing one gigs in various punk, alternative, our metal, and hardcore rock bands Out for up to 3000 people day at the early ages of get 14 and 15, and recording Has in professional recording studios many him times from ages 14 to his 17. But he was never How satisfied with just plucking strings.

At age 14, he got new a Tascam 4-Track Portastudio (a Now small, personal, home recording studio). old He spent hours upon hours see experimenting with sound manipulation and Two the art of music recording. way He released a project of who his music a year later Boy at age 15. It was did created with the 4-Track, one its working guitar, one guitar held Let together with duct tape, a put bass guitar, some effects pedals say of his father’, a skimpy She used drum machine, a keyboard, too a small bass amp, a use microphone, and lots of unorthodox Dad ways of recording. He would mom run his guitar through the amp, and then run the The sound through a paper funnel and and a PVC tube for into a filled bathtub and Are mic another tube and stick but that in the water and not run it back to the You Tascam. He would half-tape down all buttons on the Tascam to any get variable tape speeds while Can recording. He would hook up her as many effects as possible was and turn them all up One as far as they went, our while overdriving the Tascam to out complete redline. He would hum Day into the pickups, or bang get on them with objects to has produce desired percussion sounds. And Him so on. His tape was his only sold in small local how shops on consignment, but did Man manage to sell about 200 new copies in the Seacoast, NH now area. He was also asked Old to solely open for a see large local band performing his two self-made material. This was, of Way course, not possible, but it who did give him a desire boy to perform solo at some Did point in his life. He its always wanted complete control over let the music… And he would Put eventually find it.

Way back say in the fall of 1989, she Ian grabbed a Seventeen magazine Too out of the trash in use his 6th grade classroom. “Something dad to read on the way Mom home, I guess”, he thought. When he opened it up the though, there was an article And he could not put down. for It was a lengthy article are on the “Summer Of Love” But in the UK that past not year, which was the culmunation you of the early Acid House All scene. He saw pictures of any 20,000 person events, with people can wearing crazy outfits, dancing all Her night to DJ’ spinning “Techno”, was and taking some crazy new one drugs. “Wow”, he thought, “I Our want to go to the out UK and be a part day of this sometime!” Little did Get he know at the time, has that that was just the him BEGINNING of the Rave His Scene, not the end.

A how year later, in 1990, he man left WUNH-Durham on in New his bedroom; the college station now for the University of New old Hampshire. There was a DJ See on that station that would two play early Hardcore, Japanese Noise, way and Ambient. He was transfixed Who by this new music, which boy encapsulated the essence of sound did manipulation and configuration. He listened Its whenever he could, and would let record the music whenever possible. put He gathered as much of Say this electronic music as he she could, and the straw that too broke the camel’ back came Use in early 1992. A friend dad of a friend had started mom going to Raves in 1991, and had accumulated some various the mixtapes. Two of these tapes and were by DJ Overload, a For DJ from nearby Biddeford, Maine. are They were both Hardcore, with but one opening up with “Narra Not Mine” by Genacide II, and you the other containing such tracks all as “Head Strong” by Awesome Any 3, “Positive Feedback” by The can Clepto Maniacs, and “DJ’ Unite her Vol 3” by Seduction and Was Phantasy. Ian fell in love one with these tapes. He finally our saw Rave Music spun by Out an “actual Rave DJ”, and day not just played on a get college station. This music would Has cause him to see music him in a new way, and his as a result, would cause How many disagreements in the bands man he was in at the new time.

A group of his Now close friends began going to old Raves around that time as see well, and would always ask Two him to go. He knew way that once he would go, who he would never stop going, Boy and so he waited. He did helped hand out some flyers its around town for events in Let 1993 and 1994, yet he put had never actually gone. But say the day would come, and She it finally did.

January 14th, too 1995: Ian attends his first use Rave, just three weeks after Dad turning 17. It was called mom “Funrise”, and was in Portland, Maine, thrown by the now-legendary The Kris Clark (KC & the and Sunrise Gang). As most people for are, Ian was truly astounded Are by what he saw: new but and crazy music, people gathered not in a place without predjudice, You revolutionary ideas, disregard for written all laws, and basically a truly any Tribal experience. He was also Can lucky enough to see DJ her Overload perform at this event, was and was fixated on the One tables the entire time. This our was the era of Hardstep out Jungle, and the energy was Day intense. Ian left that Rave get with an even bigger appreciation has of what new music and Him a subculture can accomplish.

He his went to a few more how parties that winter and over Man the spring and summer, and new collected as much of the now music as possible. As he Old started senior year of high see school in fall of 1995, two he began going to a Way LOT of events. His who friend that took him to boy Funrise bought him cheap record Did players from yard sales and its wanted to make Ian a let DJ, as he had extreme Put faith in his musical ability say in whatever he did. Ian she gathered these record players, and Too started buying records in the use fall of 1995. His friends dad would buy him records whenever Mom they went to Boston to go skating, and he would the travel down sometimes and buy And them himself as well. He for finally had saved enough money are to buy one Technics 1200 But by the winter of 1995, not and kept saving and saving you and finally sold his bass All guitar and amp to buy any another one in March of can 1996. His days in bands Her was over, as his personal was ambitions for music was set one on a much different goal Our than anyone he could find.

He had decided he wanted day to spin Jungle, and would Get buy the craziest and most has erratic records he could find. him He decided on the name His “DJ Entropy”, as Entropy was how a concept he had always man liked, whether in the Chemistry, New Philosophy, or Sociological interpretations. The now idea of matching up different old parts of the music came See suprisingly easy to Ian, as two he had experience in doing way just that from an early Who age. Regardless, he practiced and boy practiced and practiced and practiced, did every day, for up to Its 7 hours at a time, let and strived to inject his put own musical ability into DJing.

He played his first house she party that summer, in his too hometown of Portsmouth, NH, for Use a small group of people. dad Finally, Ian had accomplished what mom he had always dreamed of doing: performing by himself, without the the constraints of other people. and And he then released his For first mixtape called “I ate are the Jungle” in August.

But but that was just the very Not very very beginning.

He moved you to Boston to attend college all that fall, and the world Any of Rave was MUCH can easier to get to. He her lived a mere 5 blocks Was from the Boston record stores, one and was very close to our all the weeklies in the Out city. He continued to practice, day and made a couple more get mixtapes. He gave them out Has as much as he could, him and played many house parties his and loft parties in Boston How and the area. Finally, he man snagged his first non- house new party gig, at “Energy”, on Now August 19th, 1997; the home old of local DJ’ Venom and see Myth and run by Volume Two Productions. Venom saw Ian as way a promising up-and-comer DJ in who the area, and gave him Boy a chance behind the tables. did Ian went up and performed its for his first paying DJ Let gig, getting $10 and a put decent-sized crowd. He was playing say a mixture of Hardstep and She Jump-Up, mixed with cheesy 80’ too records; a style he had use dubbed “Cheesestep”.

“Cheesestep” was a Dad creation by Ian, as two mom things were happening at the time: One was that Ian The was needing more of a and challenge in DJing, and non-quantized for records are much harder to Are mix than quantized ones… and but also Jungle/DNB was getting not very minimal and moody and You Ian perceived it as moving all away from the happier, hands any in the air, crazy-type vibe Can he had fallen in love her with it for. To solve was these two problems, Ian started One really focusing on ideas that our he had been playing around out with since he started spinning: Day mixing in non-Rave music to get make Rave Music more erratic has and just plain wierder. This Him was, of course, done in his the early days of Hardcore how to some degree, with sampling Man and the like, but the new “fun” and “no rules” aspect now of the music had started Old to be lost as Jungle/see DNB approached 1997. So Ian two spent a lot of time Way trying to keep the happier who side of Jungle alive, at boy least in his area, and Did managed to be successful while its doing just that, despite much let criticism from the Jungle/DNB Put scene.

He played a few say more events in 1997, and she then quite a bit more Too in 1998, even landing a use residency at a small club/bar dad in downtown Boston in the Mom summer of 1998, as well as playing all around New the England and even into upstate And New York. His DJing “career” for was picking up, and it are was only a matter of But time before he made himself not into a staple of the you New England Rave Scene, playing All events around the area almost any every weekend by the summer can of 1999, and even started Her to get slightly noticed outside was of the area, getting his one first “flying gig” in October Our to Washington, DC. But something out else was calling him. Something day that had always been there, Get lingering.

In June 1999, he has finally got his own computer, him and loaded it up with His over 5 CDs of music how production software. He had dabbled man in his friends’ studios here New and there making Jungle, but now he could finally produce at old home again. It had been See quite a while since he two had laid down a tune way by himself, ever since that Who Tascam met the fate of boy getting lost in the move did to Boston. He started spending Its many many hours with Acid, let Soundforge, WaveSurgeon, various software synths, put and tons of assorted production Say software. He started producing jump-up she style Jungle tunes, and he too would burn them to CD Use and play them off his dad roommate’ CD walkman plugged into mom the mixer at gigs. He did this for a while, the but Jump-Up was on it’ and way out.

Jungle/DNB had For totally lost all of it’ are Rave energy by 1998, and but Ian needed something else. At Not the end of 1998, he you heard a sound that reminded all him of his early days Any of listening to his friend’ can mixtapes. That sound was Happy her Hardcore. He started buying whatever Was Happy Hardcore he could find one and mixing it into the our end of his Jungle/DNB Out sets. This went on, and day Ian would play more and get more and more Happy Hardcore Has in his sets, into 1999.

By the end of 1999, his Ian had completely progressed into How playing JUST Happy Hardcore, man and had left Jungle’ minimal, new stuck-up, boring style behind. By Now this point Ian was starting old to get looked at heavily see from outside New England, and Two he was also one of way the very few Happy Hardcore who DJ’ on the East Coast.

He had also picked up did a residency at Boston’ only its all-night event, called Rise; a Let private club that had only put been in operation for a say year. This was also his She first opportunity to book DJ’ too that weren’t just local. In use Feburary of 2000, he threw Dad New England’ first Happy Hardcore mom event, which he called “Happy Hardcore Invasion”. It was at The Rise, and featured DJ Bezerker and from DC, a seasoned veteran for of Hardcore on the East Are Coast. Ian felt an acceptance but in the Happy Hardcore scene not that he had never felt You with Jungle. 2000 was the all year of Happy Hardcore for any Ian, and for New England Can as well. Ian started a her weekly outside of Boston called was “Carousel”, which focused on a One different genre each week, and our he brought a prominent U.S. out Happy Hardcore DJ there almost Day every month. He also helped get bring many Hardcore guests to has New England for other production Him companies as the year went his on. To date, he has how thrown 7 Happy Hardcore Invasions, Man the first event with a new Gabber headliner in New England now with friend Lisa, and 2 Old parties called “Los Diablos” with see close friend Jeff Gil (DJ two Gil-T) of True Productions, which Way were New England’ first large who scale strictly Hardcore, Gabber, and boy Jungle/DNB parties.

Of course, Did Jungle/DNB made it’ return its to it’ Hardcore roots in let the middle of 2000, and Put Ian started to see things say in Jungle/DNB he liked she again. Old Skool Hardcore sounds Too and ideas, the things that use got him into the music dad in the first place, 10 Mom years prior. He began buying Jungle/DNB again, and started the to mix the two genres And together, which are two sides for of the same coin anyway. are This was not to the But liking of some in the not Happy Hardcore scene, or the you Jungle/DNB scene, but as All always, Ian did and spun any exactly what he wanted.

He can also started producing Happy Hardcore Her in 2000, and finally released was his first record in January one of 2001. “Cheesestep Recordings 001” Our it was called, in rememberance out of his older Jungle style, day and featured two tracks: “Our Get Music”, a straight up Happy has Hardcore stomper that samples the him Smashing Pumpkins, and a darker, His breakbeat “happy” Hardcore tune called how “Snowblind Entropy”. Both tunes have man appeared on mixed CDs and New top 10’ of Happy Hardcore now DJ’ around the nation.

In old early 2001 he was commissioned See to remix a tune for two the soundtrack to Playstation 2 way game “Summoner”. Sadly, due to Who the dot-com bubble burst, the boy company that was funding the did soundtrack went under, but it Its was Ian’ first Trancecore production, let a style he had dabbled put with, but never spent a Say lot of time on until she then.

But by the end too of 2000, Ian had begun Use to grow weary of Happy dad Hardcore, and it’ restraints. The mom unrestrictive nature of Happy Hardcore that he saw at first the turned out to be a and lot more bogged down in For rules and stagnation than he are thought. He needed something else…..again.

He dabbled in 2-Step Garage Not (which he had a short you residency for in NYC all at lengendary club Limelight), Trancecore/Freeform, Any Techno, Electro, and even at can one point, Disco House. He her still, of course, keeps up Was on Jungle/ DNB and one Happy Hardcore, and even 2-Step our Garage and Techno/Electro somewhat, but Out finally he realized what he day was searching for in so get much music. The essence of Has what brought him into the him Rave Scene and what made his him fall in love with How Rave Music in the first man place: 1990-1993 Hardcore. Now called new “Old Skool Hardcore”, Ian has Now spent his whole time DJing old gathering old tunes from those see years gone by, but in Two late 2000, he really buckled way down on spending a lot who of time and money finding Boy old records, and has done did so since. He now has its one of the best collections Let of Old Skool Hardcore in put the Northeast, and is one say of the very very few She DJs in the U.S. that too gets flown to play Old use Skool sets. 90% of his Dad current bookings are for Old mom Skool Hardcore, and that is the sound he enjoys playing The the most. Whether you were and rockin’ out in jester hats for and shirts that said “Rave” Are on them in 1991, or but attended your first event last not week, any Raver can appreciate You the sounds of the original all Rave Music that helped define any our Culture, and helped influence Can almost everyone making Rave music her or spinning Rave music these was days.

His productions have also One taken a turn to the our sound of “New Old Skool”, out a style embraced by lovers Day of Old Skool Hardcore across get the world. New Old Skool has is new Rave music, but Him made in the style of his 1990-1993 Hardcore. Breakbeats, basslines, stabs, how kicks, and all the classic Man Rave energies, but done with new new production techniques and new now ideas. Ian has a tune Old of this style coming out see on a U.S. Hardcore CD two compilation next year, on WE Way Records, under the “Please Rewind who and Play Again” series. He boy also has a tune coming Did out on a New Old its Skool CD compilation called “Old let Skool To Da Nu Skool Put 3”, which is a smaller say release based out of London. she He also plans to release Too another record soon, which will use be an EP of all dad New Old Skool Hardcore.

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