İstanbul, Turkey

https://www.youtube.com/@selimse_dj

DJ | REMIXER | BOOTLEG MAKER

Paul Tailorman

ENG: I was born in 1989 in Slovakia. As a child I was listening to music daily. When I was 15, I've tried Virtual DJ, and from that moment I decide it, that I will be a DJ. First time when I had a chance to try a CD players I had 18 years and I really like it.

In 2009 I made the first party with my friend, and the party people were very satisfied. From this moment my carreer can be started. I've played in some small clubs like Takko, Tutti...

From 2010 I've made some Mash-ups & Bootlegs

In 2011 I was playing in Liquid Club, Marakana Club...

This year at summer and actually I am playing in M2 Club in Kolárovo, and even where I am called to play.

As a DJ I am playing House, Electronic & Dance music.


ABOUT ME:

(TLDR)
 I'm from the "Old School" of DJ's that play Underground House Music!

BIO:
Started to put together compilation mixtapes in my young pre-teen days in the late 80's, to share with my friends at school, then saved my lunch money to start my vinyl collection when it happened: I Discovered House Music!

Way back when, it was all about electronic music with a 4/4 beat. There really wasn't a focus on sub-genres. I really liked the smiley faces covers though :D

I usually carried my latest 12"s to school so i could play them through the School radio's PA System, and got my first gigs at the students parties in my early teens.
That led to a live show at my local Radio Station (Radioeste) every weekend, which took me a few months after to my first Club residency at Sai de Gatas. The Year was 1995, i was still underage so there was some challenges to overcome, but still i was really grateful for all the learning experience and access to huge curated record collections.
Eventually got my hands on a pair of Technics 1210's and all my earnings from gigs and summertime jobs went to buying records, and got really serious about DJing as a full time job.
Meanwhile, played almost every venue in my area either as a guest or just hanging around with other DJs. Every step of the way, it was frequent the trips to the record store buying new records and meeting other DJs.
Once that circuit was "completed" i got a residency invite in another city, so i dropped out of school and moved away to pursue the dream. Instead of playing only on weekends i was a full time Monday to Sunday DJ and the learning curve really shot upwards dramatically.
Got familiar with various genres, styles, crowd reading, and had to keep up with the mainstream music to make it work, but was really far away of being able to explore my creativity in playing exclusively House Music. So, Home Studio it is for that freedom to play what i loved.

To play exclusively House Music in a venue, the place to be was Lisbon, so after a couple of years, by the turn of the millennia, got a place to live and spots to play in the capital.
By then the sub-cultures in clubbing were starting to get heavily defined, and for a open format style DJ like me it's not an option to choose just one avenue to be a household name. 
I like deep vocal soul House as much as Hard Dark Underground House, it's impossible for me to pick a favourite simply because there are different moods for different venues and crowds. Besides i tend to ramp up the musical energy gradually as the set progresses. Just Old School DJ idiosyncrasies i guess.
So, i got to be more Incognito and play all kinds of Venues rather than being a solid reference to a particular genre. I like to label myself as all terrain, ready for whatever challenge. My peers knew and respected me, managers and Club owners were all aware of my work, also because i got to know them well through my part-time selling records from one of Lisbon's biggest shops.
I got the privilege to play as resident at the best Night Clubs in Lisbon from 2000 to 2007, got invited to be in a partnership with Pioneer as a sponsored artist, and hosted my own radioshow (U.S.F.L.) weekly on the only radio station exclusively dedicated to dance music (Mix FM).
At that level you have to become freelancer, and so i did just that. Played all around the country and abroad, toured or shared the booth with the best of the best both national and international, met and learned a lifetimes worth about DJing in all areas.
By 2010 i was done with touring and travelling and it really got overwhelming just how much i got over my wildest expectations as a career. From my teenage years pipe-dreams i got to a point of living a ten fold excess over the top and i am more of a simple individual, and some boundaries you set get annoying to the people around you, specially when you become a "Brand" or a "Product". I'm fully aware that press coverage, interviews, photo shoots, singles or album releases, massive shows and award nominations all MUST come with the territory, but by the end of the day i decide what is right for me.
And there it lies... the reality of modern days in this industry.

I just like to play music, find new stuff, mash it together with older stuff and watch people react to it. That simple! No spotlight is required!
Don't care if my name gets headline spot or warm up, if the people know who i am or not, or making my image appealing to sponsors. Also i tend to stay in my lane, and by that i mean that i don't feel any need to make my own music. There are many talented producers out there and i use all that inventory to create my own "sound".
The last 10 years i've been on and off to booking gigs, just enough to "scratch the itch" or to be around friends.
Now, i'm just happy to put out there what i like so people can find a different approach to mixing tracks, creating musical journeys and time travelling to older sounds that got refreshed tastefully.

Obviously i will do live gigs when all things go together smoothly in the venues that are suited to the magic i bring to the table, and hopefully share those spots with the world.
I have become aware that a lot of people find much more rewarding to discover artists like myself rather than follow the latest trend. That is EXACTLY the category where i want to be in: Underground!

Forever Grateful to all i was blessed with in the journey so far.
More to come.

Paul Rodhy

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