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DJ Spence won with 1,911 out of 4,834 votes
Dj Name: DJ SPENCE:CHICAGO City: CHICAGO Country: United States Year you started Djing: 2007 Title of your mix: DJ SPENCE:CHICAGO February 2010 Email: info@djspencechicago.com Web Site: www.djspencechicago.com
Since I began spinning in 2007 I've sought to mix a blend of the most sonically irresistible house music I can find. I consider it a true gift to have the opportunity to share with others the music that"lights up my circuits".
My musical journey began after college when I moved into Chicago and began to spend many late nights at clubs that provided classic banging Chicago House & Industrial as the sonic backdrop. I experienced a late-night epiphany upon stumbling into one of the first show's of Chicago-based underground rockers 'The Jesus Lizard' at the Cabaret Metro. After picking my jaw up off the floor I went backstage and approached Duane, their guitarist, and convinced him to teach me how to play. I was soon playing guitar in a few locally-popular heavy rock bands and my former band-mates kiddingly called me "Kronos, Master of Time" because of my
After a few years I was the co-owner/president of an indie label (Urban Legends Records) with a bunch of local punk and alternative rockers on our roster. Our flagship artist was Wesley, a good-hearted but mentally-tortured 350-lb African-American street artist suffering from schizophrenia manifesting as evil voices and vivid hallucinations. Wesley fronted 'The Wesley Willis Fiasco', a band consisting of 4 skinny white guys playing tongue-in-cheek punk-metal as Wesley read/rapped/sang his street poetry while reading off the original notepad that he wrote it on. The W.W.F. were controversial, but Wesley's band-mates were not only his best friends but his protectors. They toured the East and West coasts and I got the opportunity to fly across the country and meet a diverse group of artists including Henry Rollins, members of the band 'Sublime', and others.
The W.W.F.'s debut album sold well for an indie release but tension between members of the W.W.F. resulted in an inter-band fight right before they were set to walk onstage in NYC, and the band broke up. Our label folded soon afterwards and I ended up with less cash in my pocket, a bunch of great (and not so great) experiences & stories, and a lingering sense of jaded cynicism about the business side of the music industry. Being in bands and running a record label taught me
I put my guitars in their cases, threw all my effects pedals in a box, and discovered new passions in life that didn't involve convincing people to come see my band or paying some rock band goofball's phone bills and rent. I had always been a house head, and during a chance meeting with local I've spun at Victor Hotel, The Zoo, Paramount Room, K2, and numerous parties & events in Chicago. One of my 30 minute mixes is featured every Friday night on WCRX 88.1 FM I also have a 1-hour soulful modern house mix featured every Saturday night at Midnight (00:01 +2GMT) on Pirate Radio 91.0 FM in the Greek Isles, and streamed live @ http://www.piratefm.net Catch my energetic 2-hour house mix show via live streaming video and join the live chat every Tuesday evening between 9-11 pm CST/10-Midnight EST @ http://www.newagesoul.com FACEBOOK: http://www.facebook.com/pages/DJ-SPENCECHICAGO/72664091328?ref=ts |
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