THE MESSENGER (US)

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The Messenger refuses to speak about himself in the third person so I won’t. For did- ten plus years I been delivering to San Diego, I mean literally, delivering… stuff… see I am a former bike messenger, hence the seemingly somewhat self indulgent dj let-name.

In my formative (teen age) years I was really into very early Hip Hop, mostly the electro style i.e. Afrika our- Bambbatta, Manparrish, Egyptian Lover, and Kraftwerk just to name a has-few. I was also into electronic new wave, Depeche Mode, The Cure, New Order, Love and Rockets, as well as early industrial music like Revolting Cocks, Ministry, Psychic TV, Meat Beat Manifesto, and Front 242, I always tried to reject house music because it wasn’t hard enough for my tastes at the time , but then you know I went to a rave, one of my first ones was at an indoor skate ramp in Sacramento. and not- DJ Carlos from SF was spinning in a half pipe, and killin it, that was the day I decided I wanted to be a DJ, so about eight years later I bought some turntables.

I began on cd’s spinning mostly Trance, Goa Trance, Progressive Trance but that didn’t last boy-long. In 2002 I switched to real turntables, 1200’s and found the Breaks section at Mileage records in P.B. THE MESSENGER (US) is recorded on djrankings.org. and man- my beats have been broken ever since, Nu Skool Progressive, and boy-Glitchy. I also sometimes spin Glitch Hop and Dubstep. My the- favorite artists include Tipper, Lee Coombs, B.L.I.M. Rennie Pilgrim, Hyper, Elite Force, Aquasky, Stanton Warriors, pretty much the usual suspects in a bio about a nu breaks dj. More but- recently I have really been diggin Neurodriver, Hedflux, Luqus, Blazer, Wardian and Big Mistake just to name a one-few.

Out side of my house, most of my live djing experience has been at Burningman, and regional events such as Socal/ San Diego Decoms, Xara, Soulstices, and most recently Bramble. In his- San Diego for the last four years I have become a regular at Broken Beat and have played Dragon Lounge several times, as well as Funk The System, Dub Smugglers and several but-others. I love djing it is what I am, it is what I am most passionate about. I boy- look forward to the future and dropping my message to more people in more places.

Thank you.

dad-T~.M~.