An old edit I have found myself playing again recently. This track is the epitome of BBoy funk for me, hard hitting drums, really soulful vocal and big old horns!!!

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Cramp Your Style (dL BBoy edit)

Digital media and music creator and software developer.

I love to share Soul, Funk and Disco and a whole lot more. I have been heavily into rare grooves of the R&B variety since the early 2000's enjoying the club scene in Leeds Northern England where I essentially grew up. I love it all from Northern Soul to rare disco...if its uplifting funky and danceable I'm all over it!
I got my first turntables in 2013 living in Northern BC and have been enjoying playing Serato vinyl whenever I get the chance!
Moved to Rossland in 2016 and have really been enjoying the vibrant dj scene here. In 2020 transitioned to playing boutique events around the kootenays and recorded a monthly radio show Regen Rhythms for https://www.iamsoundacademy.com and Kootenay Coop radio.
 If you want to hear more check out my radio show and other mixes at 
https://www.mixcloud.com/djjazzyjo/

My love affair with music began at a very young age; more specifically, at five years of age. Every Sunday morning, while my step-father was off playing poor man's golf, my mother would be gliding around the kitchen and cooking one of her famous Sunday roasts while listening to the super sounds of the 70's on whatever radio station that was popular at the time.

Any-time the DJ played Gloria Gaynor's I Will Survive my mother's eyes sparkled that little bit more. It was around that time I realised the power a DJ wields.
I progressed through the years with a steady diet of soft, melancholic rock and ballads, courtesy of my step-father's collection of 45s. I'd like to say his collection of 45s were Northern Soul rarities, but, sure life isn't perfect.

The only shinning light for me through those early years was an obsession with Elvis. Around the time when I first began to feel fashion conscious, I started to move with the fads that came with the music I was listening to. From Teddy-boy to Mod to B-Boy to Punk (my early angst-ridden teenage years) to New-Age Hippy (without the long hair, I was always far too vain) before settling on being a Raver.

I'll never forget my first rave. The atmosphere, the freedom and more importantly... the music. It was just after my 18th birthday and, as a newly crowned adult, I recall getting the distinct impression that I had just found what I was looking for.

Not only would I never again have to endure a God-forsaken, life-draining slow-set, but I had also found a place where music was king and like-minded people came to get stuck in. I was having some of the best nights of my life on a dance-floor but it was also the beginning of a musical education.

I started frequenting the clubs of Dublin City and absorbing all around me like a sponge. I was hitting clubs like The Olympic Ballroom, G1, The Asylum, Sides DC, The Beat Club and The Temple of Sound… the list goes on.

Back then the music getting pushed through the clubs was hardcore, techno, progressive house, trance and straight up house cuts. To the uninitiated this was all labelled as rave music, but a select few knew better.

I soon learned who was playing what, when and where. Taste-makers at the time were the likes of DJs Johnny Moy, Billy Scurry, Pat Hyland, Mark Kavanagh, Warren K and Dean Sherry amongst others.

Just as I moved through fads in my early years I began to move through genres, always searching for what's fresh and relevant to my taste. This has probably gone against me over the years.

Staying underground with my music and adopting an uncompromising attitude towards what was mainstream and popular wasn’t always the best way to go about winning fans. One of the worst things you could say to a Club DJ, but which I heard all too often was, "Can you play something I know?"

My thinking was and still is, in all due respect, if you want to hear something you know then go to a nightclub that plays popular music. I feel that one of the hardest parts of being a DJ is finding those hidden gems that aren't so popular, getting behind them and pushing them forward making them popular in the process.

As for where I am at the moment within the music industry, well, I'm moving along the outskirts waiting to explode onto the scene. 

I'm in the middle of building a studio, so soon I'll be adding producer to my repertoire.
I’m also involved in a number of side projects. For the past eight years I've been putting together scores for The Rampage School of Dance which encompasses everything from contemporary to hip-hop. 

Once a year we put on a show and have enjoyed a sold out run from the get go.

My latest project is an internet radio show I do live & direct from my studio every Wednesday night between 6 - 7, this show is all about house music and the sub-genre's contained within.

www.playdublin.net

When DJing, one of my sets could typically move from disco, deep/tech/jackin' house through to Techno – depending on the crowd. But the one thing that's certain is that they will always contain underground music of some sort or another. 

Everyone to their own and all that jazz, but, I'd rather burst my own eardrums with an ice-pick than stand behind a sound system that is blasting out Amarillo.



Every decade there defining moments in music, a style that remains timeless into the future while showing respect to the past - 'Decades



With features from Adrian Zammit (guitar), Evan Whetter (keyboards) and Chris Soole (saxophone), davidL's wall of records is transformed into a sample driven soundscape accentuated with Adelaide's best live jazz musicians. Combined with tooBiz's completely honest vocal outlook, 'Decades' is an accurate representation of life in a musical format. 

dL's Bio

I grew up in a house where instead of watching television we would sit around as a family and listen to my dad play records. As a very serious collector he would often take me to record fairs from the age of about 8 years old. You could say an apple never falls far from the tree, except where my father sought out obscure 60's british rock, I seek out good quality music from musicians that played from the heart, be they jazz, soul, reggae, afro, folk or what ever.
I started djing locally in the early 90's in clubs, then progressed to entering and placing in various competitions including DMC and ITF. In around 2001 I started taking the whole dj/record collecting thing a little more seriously which saw me djing in many places around Australia and digging for records all over the world. I have shared stages and warmed up with every one from Gangstarr, MOP, Raekwon, Cut Chemist, P.U.T.S, Short Kut, De La Soul, Rob Swift, Mista Sinista, Roc Raida, Rhettmatic, Babu, Dilated Junkies, Dj Krush, Rip One,The Alkaholiks and Lyrics Born through to leading Aussie acts like The Hilltop Hoods,Delta, M-Phazes and Koolism.
Since 2002 I have also started making my own music which has included a long standing association with 7 piece jazz fusion band Sukatash, and the up coming Decades release on CH records. Also check my blog for exclusive funk/soul/hip hop edits.
Some of the mixes I make are recorded straight from the mixer into a tape deck, some are recorded and multi tracked, some are made to make people dance, some are made to make people think, but all are made for every one who has a genuine love of music to enjoy. 