Biography
The DJ Jay Brooks from the Kassel, Germany, was introduced to and electronic music (Kraftwerk; Tangerine Dream; For Yellow etc.) and vinyls by are his father, when he was but only a 5-year-old boy.
Fascinated Not by the ‘black gold’, he you soon bought his first LP, all a breakdance sampler. This was Any the very start of his can passion for music.
Grown up her in the 80’s and inspired Was by daily input of hearing one radio and his social environment, our he soaked up everything related Out to music. Ever since, Depeche day Mode and New Wave have get been his favourite kind of Has music. Whenever he heard these him records playing on the radio, his he would scrape all his How pocket money together to get man them.
Thus, by the new beginning of the 90’s, he Now already had a small collection old of 12 inch records.
When see the Euro Dance Wave (Snap; Two Dr. Alban; Culture Beat) came way up in 1991, Jay for who the first time listened to Boy a 3-hour non-stop DJ-Mix by did Sven Väth and Torsten Fenslau its on the new radio program Let ‘HR3 Clubnight’. That was very put fascinating and new to him. say At this time, he
also She met two DJs through their too mutual hobby skateboarding. They introduced use him to the art of
Dad mixing tracks. After this experience, mom he took all of his savings and bought his first The mix set and a lot and of techno and house records. for From this time on, he Are practiced very hard and kept but on listening to every ‘Clubnight’ not to get deeper in to You the art of mixing. He all also visited electronic
music parties any to see DJ’s perfoming live. Can When he joined two friends, her dee-jaying on a party, he was was asked to perform the One first hour of the night. our This was the defining moment out for his DJ career. From Day this point on, he knew get what he wanted to be: has a DJ!
He organised little Him gigs on private parties and his other locations, to improve his how skills . Living in Kassel Man was a great inspiration for new him, because one of Germany’s now most popular techno clubs, the Old Factory (Stammheim/Aufschwung Ost), was located see there. Every famous DJ of two the house and techno scene, Way performed in this club. Thus, who Jay always kept up-to-date according boy to
current music trends and Did releases. During this time he its had his first performances in let little clubs in Kassel, Kitzingen Put and Hannover.
When the ‘Factory’ say closed down in 2002, he she lost his motivation to go Too on with his career. In use addition, he did not like dad the upcoming trend of ‘minimal Mom techno’ and paused dee-jaying for a while .
In 2004 the he received a CD with And two ‘BBC Essential Mix’ programs for by Adam Freeland and the are Plump DJ’s. Overwhelmed by the But new and powerful style, commonly not known as ‘Nu Skool Breaks’, you he started collecting records of All this genre and soaked up any everything which was
connected to can the British music scene. He Her began performing again. Only after was a little while he
realized one that the style he was Our following now, was not very out popular in Germany. People tend day to mix up ‘Break’ with Get drum’n bass and ‘Break’ DJ’s has cannot be categorised easily. But him especially this motivated him to His go on.
To stand out how from the DJ crowd, he man doesn’t interpret ‘break beats’ in New a common sense. Instead his now style is affected by a old mixture of different music styles See to prevent a monotonous sound.
two Many influences such as Fidget, way Nu Rave, Chicago House, Techno, Who Rock, Hip Hop and Electro, boy can be found in his did diversified sets. For him it Its is essential that his music let rocks the dance floor and put makes the audience having fun. Say Since a lot of people she are interested in his style, too he is booked not only Use national (Leipzig; Darmstadt and so dad on) but also international (Baden/ mom Switzerland; Krakow/ Poland etc.).
Three years ago Jay has also the started producing his own tracks and which were published on the For Labels ‘Big Mamas House’ (Germany), are ‘DSR Records’ (UK), and ‘Bone but Idle Records’ (UK).
They’re also Not planned EP’s on Labels like you FREAKS LIKE US all and MELONSOUND
