Dj @ Lisbon. He has started his music carrer with 4, when his grandfather taught him how to play melodica (He still have it). At 10 he started to play drums getting everybody furious. At 12 he started piano lessons. With 14 playing bass guitar in a garage band with a selfmade bass guitar. In 92 he got a Maison bass guitar and in 93 a Musicollection bass guitar. Since then he's been learning almost everything there is to learn around music scene. He went to music school, sound engineering school [Magnetic Analog/Digital Recording and Mixing machines like Ampex, Revox and Fostex]. In 95 he got a Warwick Fortress One. Worked with rock bands as a technician and even in theatre as a light and sound technician. In 96 he started to learn what radio was. In 1997 he got his Mackie 1202 Mixer and a Yamaha Spx 990 Processor. In 1999 he went to RNARadiostation and in 2000 in MarginalRadiostation. In April of that year he won The "Prémios Maqueta" with the Band Purge. In 2001 start doing Djing and gettting in touch with House Music. During that 6 year residency he developed also music technology training in a big variety of softwares that emerge in computer scene. He begun in former Emagic Logic Platinium 4 and 5 [then bought by Apple], and FrutyLoops with a Creative 5.1 Live! 1024 sound card with a secret: The EMU10K1 chip Inside. He discovered a firmware upgrade called Kx Project. It's Still a very good choice for those who ain't got money for a good soundcard, it gives Creative 5.1 Live! 5ms Latency tweaking the EMU chip to it's best! Then he got in touch with Steinberg's Cubase Vst 5 and after Cubase Sx... Which came with Rewire technology to link Propellerhead's Reason 1.0. Rebirth and Recycle came next. In 2002 came Sx2 and Reason 2.0 and Sx3 in 2004. In 2005 he got a Delta A192 and Keystation 49e both from M-Audio. In 2007 came Merging Technologies "Piramix 6" and got the Numark D2 Mass Storage Player. In 2008 Cubase Studio 4 and Reason 4 and Ableton 7 M-Audio Enhanced Edition. For him they create the perfect combination for a inspired producer who is also his own recording engineer, guitar player, keyboard player, bass player, singer, DJ and VoiceOver making him a complete killer package.
Influences
Frankie Knuckles, Vibe, Martin Solveig, Simon Grey, Marc Grant, Charles Schillings, Vinny Troia, Jestofunk, Jamie Lewis, Bruno Marciano, Full Intention, Dubtribe Soundsystem, Jinks, etc...
Other Artists
so many on my list...
Website
www.myspace.com/dadeedjay
