I've been disc jockeying, acting as a masters of ceremony, dancing, and generally doing graffiti for over 20 years now. The times have changed, yes. But there's still room for every person to be liberated from bondage, and delivered to the great Glory of anthems and bangers. I've played on big sound systems very often over the course of about 10 or 15 years. There was never a time that we did these shows and such, that we didn't have fun. We always had a good time. But my favorite thing is hearing my original clip and carbine tracks on a club system. You would think that the bass, you know the subwoofer, would sound like it does in car auto sound systems? But really in fact there's almost zero sub as such, and it's more just a really crunchy low mid range. It's such a buzz hearing my originals on sound systems. I remember I started as a promoter. We bought a sound system with the money we made delivering pizzas, and so we would bring the sound system out to parties and club nights and other shows. I remember the first show we threw was called War for Peace. What we tried to do at the time was book underground hip hop MC's, to draw in the crowd because at that time right after 9/11 what people called underground hip hop was really in Vogue. So we would draw people in with the hip hop, and then hit 'em with the jungle.
It was a great formula and it worked in a kind of Hit or Miss way. But in terms of my own disc jockeying and being a masters of ceremony, I honestly couldn't even recount all of the times I've played out.
But over the course of about 20 years I've gotten up on the wall more than any other DJ. I've done more masters of ceremony work than any other sound system. I've DJ'd out more than anybody else. And I guess the one thing I'm lacking out of the four elements, would be breakdancing. I don't know perhaps somebody can beat me at that although I'm a pretty good dancer 😄
So anyways as the boss DJ, I'd just like to say shouts going out to everybody all around the world who likes my clip and carbine music. There's a lot of ways of getting up on the wall so to speak, but allow me to delineate one final story about just how bigly big and excellently excelling my clip and carbine brand of jungle really is.
I randomly rendered out a bunch of what they call stems in techno terminology. I took all of my drum rhythm lines, and rendered them out solo. This basically means I had audio files with nothing but drums looped. So I put them into a pack and sent them to a site that was just currently doing a listing of sample packs for jungle. I had no idea how much play my clip and carbine ragged jungle sample pack would have... This is an example of truly getting up, because these sample packs part 1 and 2 of clip and carbines ragga jungle sample pack, literally got over 30,000 downloads. And when I talk to my man in Ukraine, he sent me a folder that was in Ukrainian type font. And inside of it? My clip and carbine sample pack. So that means not only did it get around 30-35,000 downloads on a sample pack that then people would go on to make tracks with, but also that they're sharing it!
So to me that makes me the number one sound right there!
So remember this is the big bad sound riddim killers
Keep it real
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