Art is long. Life is short. Life is short. Art is long. Life is short.

About fifteen years ago Thomas "Ogre" Davis stood up and decreed, "I'm tired of hearing you talk about it. You get your tax return, we're going to the store and you're buying some damn turntables!" Sure enough a few weeks later I found myself walking out of Mars with a Gemini DJ Starter Pack and looking at my car trying to figure out how to get this huge box inside of it. Typical Ogre shoved it in the rear and began to listen to me abuse his ear holes for a few months.

Since then production of vinyl has gone away and slowly started to come back, Mars has long gone out of business, Technics stopped making the entire line of 1200's and the digital wave has taken over. I've gone from mixing house and trance, to a sort stint in break beats and now finally resting in drum and bass. At least for now that's what I'm playing. In between I've done a couple of parties, I don't think Project Akon will ever be the same, and started working on recording myself. The next step? Who knows maybe a few sad attempts at producing...

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