The person who made the record didn't make it for you to take the bass out at a certain point or do all this with it
It's just play the record. Oh, you haven't just played the record. If the record is good, just play the record
That's all you have to do. You're never bigger than the music anytime. You think you're bigger than the music in the wrong business
I was born on a small Caribbean island called Trinidad
Half of Trinidad and Tobago, but I grew up in East Flatbush, Brooklyn
Everybody had to be good at what they did no matter what it was because you had so much
Competition and influence at the same time. So if you wanted to step out and be a basketball player
You had to be really good to be taken seriously
So, you know, you just had to always have your skills up no matter what you were doing from that era. I was
mixed master Mike
And my friend Terry was a mixed-master team and you know, we did little parties in our neighborhood
Back then rap was really regional
It wasn't you didn't have the big radio play like it did now
So you could go to different neighborhoods and certain records you wouldn't hear in Brooklyn that you could hear in Manhattan or in the Bronx
I love disco, but I always knew there was gonna be something more than disco
And I just didn't know what it was gonna be and the first time I heard the first house record I ever heard
I think I was running around the club in Trinidad screaming because I couldn't believe like this was happening
Just as I thought it was gonna happen when I was younger. I was too caught up in blending two records together
I listened to myself from years ago with cassettes
I made with mixes on them and I'm just mixing records really really long
But I was just caught up in the fascination of showing off that skill one of my biggest rules
You don't play vocals over each other because that sounds crazy sounds like two trains having a fight on a train track
so it doesn't make any sense and you try to put the
Musical parts together to create the scene where one record introduces the other while it's also
Taking itself away same spot same speed at the same time gives you
this beautiful distortion effect
where everything sounds like it's
In a canister and it's being echoed and thrown all over the place
Music to me has power in it. It's always gonna be the
The impetus for people to to come to something together
Like you know you go to a place to hear music and you meet other people who like the same music
And even though you don't know them you have this one thing in common
So it makes it easier for you to communicate because you think well if you like this then we might have other things in common
So let's explore that because we like this kind of music. So what else do we like I like
You know
