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DJ Name: Pagan
Real Name: AR Young
Location: Durban, KZN
Website: www.pagan-za.blogspot.com
Residencies: Not for many a year now, but played various places around JHB in the 90's
Date of birth: lol, i'm a hippy. Born in the last year of the 70's
Style: Blues / Rock / Psytrance / Trance / House
Favourite song: MAtchbox Blues - BB King and SVR
Favourite food: Beer (lol, really)
BIO:
This is the hard part, finding enough to say about me to fill a bio...
*ponders*
Well the strange part is I've never had any form of musical training ever, if I remember correctly I once played the triangle in music class in primary school, and i can vaguely remember learning how to play a xylophone.
Luckily for me though, musical ability seems to be genetic, my mother was a dancer and i seem to have picked up her talents.
It all started just about when i turned 18, like all teenagers I got the bug for going out clubbing, I started hanging out at a local club and befriended the people that worked there.
Before long i was hanging out behind the bar and in the DJ booth, and slowly started to see just how this whole thing was done.
I learnt alot in those years(I think, dont really remember), spent about two years bouncing from club to club random nights of the week, just hanging around and having a jol.
About the only benifits where copious amounts of free alcohol and the chance to play inpromptu sets. As well as partying hard
After that though it all fell to the side, just gave it all up and carried on with normal life, uptil about 3 years ago. Slowly got started back into DJ'ing, bought a bass guitar and finally taught myself how to play, then started learning how to produce music.
I'm not actually sure what I enjoy more, playing guitar or producing music.
Playing guitar is awesome, just for the fun of it, but there is something to be said for sitting down and istening to something that u created.
I've always had a very strange and specific taste in music, luckily its always been generally good, although there is alot of stuff I like that most people dont(although we can all say that)
Its strange, but i dont listen to radio, EVER. I only like what I like, not whats popular, and I've always been like that.
I probably have the strangest taste in music ever.
I listen to metal.
I play the blues on my guitar(12 bar basslines FTW!).
and I party to house music.
Pretty strange mix in my opinion, but I like it.
Bob Marley put it better than i can,
"You dont need to be educated. You dont need to even understand the lyrics."
and
"Music is something you feel, it is a part of you, it is something you feel all around you"
I just like music, and to be able to make it is a blessing for me.
So. enough rambling. lets talk about the making of teh music.
I wouldnt say i have a specific style. Every song comes out a bit different, music kind of writes itself as you go along. I'll be sitting there listening to it and in my head I can hear other sounds and i think "yeah, that will sound groovy", then I try and do it.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. One of the hardest parts about making music is knowing when to lose something, even if it was the hook or melody you started with in the beginning.
I also dont really believe in following set structure for songs. Every now and then I'll hear stuff and they all sound the same and you can tell that they're trying to emulate whoever is popular at the moment, and to me thats not music.
People have been making music since they learnt to smack two things together with rhythm.
I think Billy Sheenen put it well once.
In an interview with him, he casually mentioned how he only knows one scale.
The interviewer asked him what about the minor scale?
and he replied that it was just a part of the major, just some bits are missing or different.
Later when he played an example the interviewer went "aaaaaaaah!! That was a <insert long winded technical explanation>"
And Billy turned around and said "whatever dude. thats your department. I just play it"
Pretty much sums it up.
I'd love to shake the hand of the man that thought up the VST though.
and Dr Hoffman.
Real Name: AR Young
Location: Durban, KZN
Website: www.pagan-za.blogspot.com
Residencies: Not for many a year now, but played various places around JHB in the 90's
Date of birth: lol, i'm a hippy. Born in the last year of the 70's
Style: Blues / Rock / Psytrance / Trance / House
Favourite song: MAtchbox Blues - BB King and SVR
Favourite food: Beer (lol, really)
BIO:
This is the hard part, finding enough to say about me to fill a bio...
*ponders*
Well the strange part is I've never had any form of musical training ever, if I remember correctly I once played the triangle in music class in primary school, and i can vaguely remember learning how to play a xylophone.
Luckily for me though, musical ability seems to be genetic, my mother was a dancer and i seem to have picked up her talents.
It all started just about when i turned 18, like all teenagers I got the bug for going out clubbing, I started hanging out at a local club and befriended the people that worked there.
Before long i was hanging out behind the bar and in the DJ booth, and slowly started to see just how this whole thing was done.
I learnt alot in those years(I think, dont really remember), spent about two years bouncing from club to club random nights of the week, just hanging around and having a jol.
About the only benifits where copious amounts of free alcohol and the chance to play inpromptu sets. As well as partying hard
After that though it all fell to the side, just gave it all up and carried on with normal life, uptil about 3 years ago. Slowly got started back into DJ'ing, bought a bass guitar and finally taught myself how to play, then started learning how to produce music.
I'm not actually sure what I enjoy more, playing guitar or producing music.
Playing guitar is awesome, just for the fun of it, but there is something to be said for sitting down and istening to something that u created.
I've always had a very strange and specific taste in music, luckily its always been generally good, although there is alot of stuff I like that most people dont(although we can all say that)
Its strange, but i dont listen to radio, EVER. I only like what I like, not whats popular, and I've always been like that.
I probably have the strangest taste in music ever.
I listen to metal.
I play the blues on my guitar(12 bar basslines FTW!).
and I party to house music.
Pretty strange mix in my opinion, but I like it.
Bob Marley put it better than i can,
"You dont need to be educated. You dont need to even understand the lyrics."
and
"Music is something you feel, it is a part of you, it is something you feel all around you"
I just like music, and to be able to make it is a blessing for me.
So. enough rambling. lets talk about the making of teh music.
I wouldnt say i have a specific style. Every song comes out a bit different, music kind of writes itself as you go along. I'll be sitting there listening to it and in my head I can hear other sounds and i think "yeah, that will sound groovy", then I try and do it.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesnt. One of the hardest parts about making music is knowing when to lose something, even if it was the hook or melody you started with in the beginning.
I also dont really believe in following set structure for songs. Every now and then I'll hear stuff and they all sound the same and you can tell that they're trying to emulate whoever is popular at the moment, and to me thats not music.
People have been making music since they learnt to smack two things together with rhythm.
I think Billy Sheenen put it well once.
In an interview with him, he casually mentioned how he only knows one scale.
The interviewer asked him what about the minor scale?
and he replied that it was just a part of the major, just some bits are missing or different.
Later when he played an example the interviewer went "aaaaaaaah!! That was a <insert long winded technical explanation>"
And Billy turned around and said "whatever dude. thats your department. I just play it"
Pretty much sums it up.
I'd love to shake the hand of the man that thought up the VST though.
and Dr Hoffman.
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