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 Break Da House DJ Profile - D*Funk DJ Name: D*Funk. aka Doug Masters. Music style:
Influences: My early influences came from the rave scene as when I was growing up this was the first kind of music that I really got into & felt a part of. I reconised that it was something different & exciting. It had a purpose to it that I hadn't seen or heard before, uniting people to dance to one beat. After getting older & the early rave scene splitting off into sub genres I started getting into house & garage. My musical taste changed as I aged & I appreicated the 'funk' this music had to it. At first the kind of house I was into was the harder stuff from people like Tony De Vit but then the more prog stuff from artist such as Sander Klienenburg & John Digweed. I then discovered the whole Nu-Skool breaks thing mainly through Adam Freeland, Rennie Pilgrem & Tayo. I got my first decks around the age of 15 & initally played rave/techno/hardcore but as my musical tastes changed so did my record buying. I started playing house & trance as this was what I was enjoying when I was going out at the time as it was the golden era of trance from 1997 to 1999. It was around 2000/2001 & I was getting bored of just playing 4/4 beats that I first started focusing on breakbeats. It was first mainly a sideline for me but after hearding people like Stanton Warriors fusing house & breaks together I was inspired to do something different. I started playing breaks at mainly house venues that I was playing as there wasn’t a breaks night at all in Bournemouth so hence Break da House being started in July 2004. Production wise my influnces have been from many genres as I enjoy & play so many different types of music. Breaks wise producers like Elite Force & Lee Coombes both have such a good, soild sound. But recently the wave of new breaks producers such as Bass Kleph, Hexadecimal, Vandal & Metric have been doing some great stuff. Pretty much all the tune I have made have been aimed at the dance floor so Im trying to tie in all the influences from many different genres to but into my breaks stuff. I also make more electro & minimal stuff as I play this style as well so want my production to reflect all the styles I play. Fav producers & DJs: Elite Force, Lee Coombes, Rennie Pilgrem, Hexadecimal, Anja Schnider, Rene Amsez, Dub Pistols/Dogtown Clash, Bugz In Da Attic, Sebo K, Jesse Rose, SpeakerJunk, Vandal & Metric. Current top 5 (from past 6 months):
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Plans for the next 12 months: Keep working hard in the studio & making music. For me the future really is all about making as much music as I can. I’ve been producing stuff for about 3 years now so I’m just starting to find my own sound & know my way around my studio. I’m really enjoying making music right now, be it original material or remixes, re edits or bootlegs that I make to play in my DJ sets to make them stand apart from other DJ’s. We have also just launched Break da House as part of the 2020 Rocks series which will see us take a set up to the next level bringing some of the worlds best underground dance music artists to come play for us. For me as a DJ its great because I will get to play alongside so of the best DJ’s on the planet & have a great time doing it! Other web links:
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