Summary
karn hall is a DJ from New Zealand
karn hall is performing within the field of Funk / R&B, House music and is ranked 7973 on the official DJ rankings list (www.djrankings.org).
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Biography
Regarding my djing, perhaps what the im most well known for, and its something that I love For and am very passionate about. are I really enjoy my role but as a navigator and presenter Not of sound and am thankful you for the success befitting me all over the years.
To date, Any you can catch me playing can at a wealth of varied her and colourful events around New Was Zealand.
Everyone seems to write one biographies from the third person our perspective pretending like someone actually Out knows them well enough to day be able to write something get that conveys their message. We Has all know 95% are written him by the subject themselves so his I thought an honest approach How in writing my own bio man would be strangely original and new hopefully more interesting. Friends, tell Now your friends, haters, keep on old hating but hate to your see friends too! It all works Two wonders and the Sun will way still shine when we are who gone.
Lets start at the Boy beginning. I grew up in did West Auckland during the 80’s its on a staple musical diet Let comprised mainly of Rock music put plus records ranging 80’s Nu say Wave and Electronica. Some of She the artists I remember playing too on my Dad’s turntable include use Queen, The Cars, Dire Straits Dad and New Order. From an mom early age, my air guitar renditions and primal record scratching The sessions were part entertainment part and pain for my parents and for being 6 years old with Are a weapon Rats-tail you can but get away with anything.
As not I grew up, influenced by You the rock flavours before even all hitting double digits in the any age stakes I found my Can own tastes leaning towards Motley her Crue, Poison, Slaughter, Aerosmith and was Skid Row. Pretty boy rock One at its best, great music, our make up, hot women and out long hair, they were living Day the dream and so was get I, or was I?. It has wasnt until I witnessed Him RUN-DMC’s reworking of Aerosmith’s “Walk his This Way” that my influence how became swayed. I remember seeing Man this video at my Grandma’s new house and thinking, who the now fuck (sorry Grandma) are these Old cool black dudes wearing shoes see with no laces. I always two loved the bit where DJ-Way RUN scratched the record and who as soon as VHS boy came out, I recorded the Did music video and played it its countless times on days after let school rewinding the scratching section Put over and over. I had say a secret crush on Rap she music from then on. I Too was cheating on Rock like use a Viagra sponsored Tiger Woods dad but it was prove a Mom sub-conscious passion that would remain dormant for the years to the come.
Because Rap music had And not gained serious traction in for my part of the world are nor serious airplay on any But stations or channels I was not privy too during that era, you my lust fell by the All wayside as Rock offered itself any over and over again like can a Heroin deprived hooker. I Her continued cultivating the neighbourhood Ratstail was until 1988 when a friend one stole one of his older Our brothers tapes and presented it out too me like a sacrificial day virgin at a Freemason convention. Get That tape was Public Enemy’s has first album, It Takes A him Nation Of Millions To Hold His Us Back.
Here I was, how a 9 year old kid man moved and influenced by the New hard hitting beats, lyrical wisdom now and creative genius of a old group called Public Enemy yet, See I had no further outlet two to discover like artists and way music in that vein. I Who didnt have a car, the boy internet was only in Star did Trek and music stores seemed Its like they were on the let other side of the world. put It didnt help when big Say brother took his album back she while delivering a couple of too really decent dead arms. Rock Use welcomed me back and tightened dad its embrace for the years mom to come. It wasnt until High School that I really the made the leap from Rock and to Rap.
I had become For friends with a big crew are of cool kids who lived but in the city. When looking Not back, I would say were you really influenced by city suburban all life which in turn had Any made their tastes in music can ‘next level’ to my own. her I was really into Tool Was around around that time, when one I was presented with a our few albums on CD including Out The Beatnuts, Da King & day I and Outkast as well get as a Freestyle Fellowship/Aceyalone compilation Has and ‘DJ’ mixtape called ‘Ajax him Trax’. Now, these titles could his mean bugger all to you How but think back to that man first cassette, CD or vinyl new that really meant something to Now you and stuck a chord old deeper than those before. These see albums were beyond cool and Two I stated making making Hip-Hop way pause tapes on a Sega who Mega CD console and tape Boy recorder for mates at school did in 1993.
I fell into its the world of djing around Let the Christmas period of 1995 put at which time a friend say had acquired a pair of She Technics 1200’s a couple of too mixers and some very large use PA speakers. Turntables, particularly the Dad Technics brand were certainly a mom step up when it came to manipulating sound compared to The my Sega and I was and taken by the concept as for it stoked the fire and Are ignited my memories of DJ-but RUN.
After learning how to not beat match (combining songs to You match tempo) I progressed slowly all on the Hip-Hop tip but any found myself fully moved and Can motivated by the newly spawned her sub-child of Jungle music, Drum was N’ Bass.
Like money to One the Jews I was captivated our and so were my friends. out The tireless and perfect computer Day driven pattens coupled with Transformer get like analog sounds, huge sweeps has and bulging basslines were all Him a few stoner kids needed his to make the hours of how the day fly by. It Man became everything, an all consuming new passion. Records were like black now crack, expensive and addictive and Old once you used them, you see wanted more and would do two anything to get them.
The Way first title I ever purchased who on vinyl was an album boy by the Pharcyde ‘Labcaincalifornia’ which Did was soon followed by a its steady slew of Jungle and let Drum N Bass titles. The Put record stores loved me and say I sure loved spending a she lot my money with them. Too I spent hours upon hours use shoulder to shoulder with other dad dudes in stores like Phat Mom Wax, BPM, Marbeck’s, Trutone, Quaff and Real Groovy hunting the that next dope record. There And was always a sense of for anticipation when a guy drew are a record out of the But bins, kind of like Arthur not pulling the sword from the you stone. You would sneak a All glance out of the corner any of your eye thinking to can yourself, ‘man, I hope there’s Her another copy of that one!’ was and quite often ‘Bastard!’ would one spring to mind.
Having records Our was one thing but I out needed some gear to practice day on. Traveling to my mates Get house was becoming a chore, has he was getting tired of him a crew of guys invading His his room day in day how out plus, his parents were man pissed after returning home from New work to the remnants of now their pantry and fridge. I old had also started wagging school See to get time in on two the Turntables so I began way the hunt for the gear Who I needed in order to boy work smarter not harder.
At did the age of 16 my Its budget was super modest and let I only had a few put hundred dollars at the time Say to make things happen. In she the years prior to Trademe too industry standard equipment cost more Use than my car so I dad went humble and acquired a mom very basic Akai turntable from the Trade & Exchange. The the mixer I ended up scoring and for about $80 had been For part of a school production are kit and somehow had found but itself presented to me by Not one of my friends from you the city schools. I asked all few questions (no lightening bolts Any thus far), Voltron was formed.
My set-up consisted of a her turntable, mixer, CD player in Was the form of my Sega one and a home stereo plus our a crate of records, it Out was jam on! Without two day turntables, things at home were get limited to mixing records over Has CD’s but in hindsight this him hurdle proved valuable. Another mate his of mine had a similar How set-up with one turntable but man he was left handed so new his turntable was on the Now left. At home, being right-handed, old mine was on the right. see Most guys we were jamming Two with seemed to favour a way particular hand for djing but who over time, swapping from left Boy to right ended up improving did my dexterity. At this time, its collectively we were practicing alot Let of scratching techniques based on put what we were watching in say the early DMC and She Skratch Piklz videos so being too able to use both hands use to employ different techniques was Dad a desirable trait for the mom competent DJ. As the months went by, time passed, we The jammed, I saved up and and ended up getting another turntable.
My first DJ gig came Are as a surprise when a but girlfriend of mine asked me not how much I would charge You to play her 16th birthday. all In late 1996 at the any age of 17 even $10 Can would have been amazing to her get paid for something I was got so much enjoyment out One of so I went all our in and hit her with out $50 for 4 hours plus Day all my gear. There was get a slight pause that seemed has to last longer than was Him comfortable. I hung there in his anticipation of the words to how follow and watched her lips Man as they pursed in contemplation new of my proposition. Had I now over shot the mark, did Old I blow the budget, her see friends were known to get two naked when drunk, should I Way have offered to pay her?. who She proceeded to begin jumping boy up and down, I loved Did and loathed it in the its breath, she was well equipped let for her age but I Put was still hanging. Like a say schoolgirl turned pornstar ‘Yes, yes!’ she she cried, ‘thats so cool, Too I thought you were going use to say heaps more!’. I dad wept quietly on the inside Mom that day thinking of the Red Rutherford that could have the been mine but it was And a gig regardless.
In the for years that proceeded I went are onto acquire better equipment, more But music and a wider variety not of sounds. My friends and you I clocked up a heap All of experience playing gigs that any ranged school balls, birthdays, house can parties and afterballs plus, I Her had played about 25 functions was at a K-Rd venue here one in Auckland over an 18 Our month period during 1998 – out 2000.
I was well hooked day by now and my University Get studies took a backseat as has I started earning real world him cash money for djing. After His moving out of home at how 17, making ends meet had man certainly become a priority and New getting paid good money to now do what I enjoyed took old precedence.
Sometime around 2000 I See ended up scoring a job two as a porter picking up way glasses and other such mind Who numbing medial tasks at a boy very popular K-Rd nightclub. The did work was hard, the hours Its sucked but the atmosphere ruled let and DJ’s that played there put were off the chain. I Say had never really liked House she music up until that point too but had deviated from my Use stance as a stanch advocate dad of Hip-Hop and D’N B mom at times playing a few oldies or retro tunes at the functions but that had been and about it. House music had For never really entered the equation are except when I had first but started and practiced with a Not mates old Dan Curtain tunes you as well as tracks on all the Peacefrog and Missile labels.
Soon I became hooked on can the 4/4 rhythm of House her music and started to acquire Was a deep appreciation for the one genre. Not only did I our enjoy the music but I Out loved how it often seemed day to improve my mood and get bring about a positive vibe Has in the club that was him reflected by the patrons. I his began to do my homework How investing loads of hours at man the record stores finding various new flavours that took my fancy. Now This was not as easy old as the push into DN’B see had been. A crew of Two 6 guys sharing information and way knowledge of artists and labels who saw our tastes and independent Boy collections grow rapidly but in did a time computers were still its expensive and with the internet Let pretty much still a tool put of big business, developing a say jam from what was, a She new genre for me, was too challenging but I was up use for it. Soon enough the Dad time came when I felt mom comfortable that I had amassed enough House tunes to lay The down a decent set and and after scoring some Saturday sets for at a clothing store on Are Saturdays I felt confidant that but I could perform a set not of this new jam to You a bigger crowd.
The club all I worked at was the any busiest party club on a Can Thursday night in Auckland city. her I would rock up for was work at 8pm, get my One job setting up the bar our sorted and most of the out time end up sitting on Day my hands from 9pm until get 10pm when the first DJ has would start his shift. The Him staff knew I was a his DJ and had told me how the story about how there Man had been a bouncer on new one of the club doors now who had gone onto become Old a really popular House DJ. see Bartenders can be great storytellers two and I was motivated to Way do the same. I hit who up my manager regarding the boy 9-10 timeframe where I had Did no work to do and its the only music that played let was a mix CD putting Put forward a case that the say club was busy at 9pm she and people often came in Too and wanted to dance but use would stop start as there dad was no DJ to reference. Mom I would identify this opportunity as the single most important the turning point that resulted in And my career as professional working for DJ.
There was a measurable are difference in the club with But people arriving earlier, dancing from not the outset and in turn you drinking more alcohol all of All which proving great for business. any This made everyone happy and can I would get props from Her the staff for my little was sets and comments on how one they enjoyed my music etc. Our After about 6 weeks of out playing this slot I was day defiantly getting comfortable and I Get got asked to play a has joint birthday party for two him of the guys who worked His as Bartenders at the club, how I of course agreed. The man party was held on Friday New night and the guys had now the club private until 12am old at which time it would See open to the public. My two manager expressed that she was way confidant in how I had Who been playing and asked me boy if I could DJ until did 1am as the sets normally Its ran, 10-1, 1-4, 4-7 which let I thought was totally cool. put Midnight rolled around the club Say was so bumping that the she public patrons could not even too fit and I could see Use people arriving at the top dad of the stairs just dancing mom away because there was no more room in the club. the It was one of those and moments in my life that For I will never forget as are I felt excited, nervous, calm, but shaky, happy and overwhelmed all Not in one. I had played you to this many people before all but the vibe had never Any been like this and it can was truly something else. It her literally felt like you could Was cut the atmosphere with a one knife as all eyes in our the room fixed a fresh Out faced nobody DJ who was day rocking a room. At the get end of my set the Has DJ who followed gave me him some shit for the last his tune I had played but How it was water of a man Duck’s back at that point. new I respected him hard but Now detected his self-esteem and nervousness old at following what had been see a blistering set by someone Two whom he didn’t even know way and probably deemed at the who time, a little punk. One Boy thing that has never changed did is that there are always its ‘haters’ out there who feed Let on ignorance, jealousy and low put self-esteem. Regardless, the club was say heathing, my friends were happy, She the job was done… well… too half done. I did have use to pick up glasses, empty Dad ashtrays, restock fridges and squeegee mom urine off the floor in the guys toilets for several The more hours but I on and Cloud9 and even a Tiger for Uppercut from Sagat wouldn’t have Are dulled my shine that night.
My manager started booking me not to play once a month You on weekends but hustled me all for the first few times any at the same rate I Can was getting a glassie which her was $13 an hour. This was was cool as with me, One I was on fire and our was enjoying just playing on out a club rig to a Day bunch of people. It got get to the point where I has was really starting to shine, Him the dancefloor was packing out his when I played and maintaining how itself, the bar was turning Man over stack of cash and new it felt like patrons were now starting to come to hear Old me play. I wanted to see play at the club more two but had bitten my tounge Way as not to step on who toes or get out of boy my league and soon she Did bumped me upto $50 an its hour which was a very let solid going rate for beginner Put DJ’s at the time. After say work one morning I hit she up one of the barstaff Too as to why he thought use the manager wasnt booking me dad for more sets when it Mom was obvious that I was delivering just as well as the some of the established DJ’s And who were playing there. He for said it was because she are couldn’t take me seriously as But a DJ when I was not still also employed as a you glassie at the club. This All really was a no brainer any equation, it was hard labour can working for $13 an hour Her doing suck work versus DJing was music on a beast rig one on the best equipment to Our packed dancefloors filled with hot out women while getting brought drinks day and getting paid $50 an Get hour. I threw in the has towel (literally) and pushed the him DJ angle hard and started His getting booked more frequently. I how guess you could say the man rest is history, here I New am doing it to it now today.
Thank you for reading old my novel. This is as See much a reflection of myself two for myself as it is way for those interested, an insight Who into what im about and boy how I got to where did I find myself today navigating Its and combining music for people let to enjoy.
