Before they became BIG! (Question about DJ's!)

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Posted by trancearmada on May-31-2002 01:30:

Before they became BIG! (Question about DJ's!)

Just so you all know! I am going to post this in two forums, for one particular reason, I know some of you don't even read the chill out forum! So this topic won't get as much exposure, and I really feel that this is a great topic! So there! NO NEED to REPLY on why this has been posted in two forums.

My question is how did all the DJ's start out? I mean did most of them work somewhere, did they go to school. How did their DJing carrer started? etc....

The only two people I really know about are Tall Paul and Armin Van Buuren.

I know that Armin has just finished his lawyer degree in school.
He took on DJing as a hobby and continued from then on!

Tall Paul started DJing at the parties of his dad, and then through friends moved on to a couple clubs and so on.

So does anyone know anything else about any other DJ's???

Tiesto? Gielen? PVD? Marco V? ............... etc (and not just the super popular DJ's anyone and everyone! and even if you are a DJ yourself, please post how you started out?)

Posted by torontotrance on May-31-2002 01:42:

PVD was a carpenter before becoming a deejay....gave a mixtape to a friend.....who passed it on to a promoter.....he got a gig then from then....his career progressed

Sasha....someone passed his mixtape to geoff oakes....head guy of renaissance and he got booked. Eventually started to play along side of john digweed

Sander Kleinenberg has been playing in many clubs all over holland for yrs and he has really just built his rep up.

Timo Maas has been playing all over germany too....for yrs..and built his rep up....got popular from his remix of azzido da bass - doomsnight

Oakenfold was a chef then bike courier then an a/r frontman for a record company....then deejay.....was a warmup deejay for u2 in 1993

Fergie.....was a amazing dj that mowed ppl in ireland and .....who eventually moved in with tony de vit (his mentor) for yrs.

Carl Cox was a wedding dj before becoming big

Jeff Mills did radio before becoming a big name dj

Darren Emerson was the warmup dj for underworld for yrs....helped them produce stuff

Lisa Lashes...her flatmate had decks....she eventually decided to try it....has been hooked ever since.

Posted by El~ZaPo on May-31-2002 01:47:

Well I know how Ferry Corsten became a 'famous Dj':

Basically he was producing a lot of quality tracks in the early / mid 90s but under many different aliases. He would work in solo projects and also with friends of his for all kinds of different record labels, that way he learned a lot about the music industry and how record labels are run, etc. Also durring this time he was a DJ as well. When he first produced under his famous System F alias, he pressed a bunch of whitelabels with only his phone number on it. He then sent them all out to tons of record labels and he and his agent basically picked the best one out of the list. The track was released and it was MASSIVE to say the least. I believe it was Ministry of Sound who first booked him for major gigs as a DJ since he was becoming very popular around that time, and that is how he became a famous DJ, since everyone wanted to hear him spin live as well as hear his new tunes.

Posted by benfica88 on May-31-2002 02:02:

I heard Tiesto was mixing in clubs back in the 80's...

Posted by torontotrance on May-31-2002 02:06:

Oh and laurent garnier worked for a catering company in france that catered to the top clubs.....that is how he got into the music business, he has close to them

Kevin Saunderson worked some copy centre job before becoming a dj

Posted by Dmatrox on May-31-2002 03:17:

quote:
Originally posted by benfica88
I heard Tiesto was mixing in clubs back in the 80's...

I beleive he started in 1984, getting booked when he was 15 years old or so.

Posted by nrjizer on May-31-2002 03:43:

About Tall Paul, I beleive his dad is/was the owner of one of those huge clubs (cream I think), and would give him gigs there

Posted by dark_tenshi on May-31-2002 03:54:

Tall Paul's dad owns the Gallery Turnmills and that's how he started.

Posted by trancearmada on May-31-2002 15:44:

bump!

Posted by dj_cuba on May-31-2002 16:04:

quote:
Originally posted by torontotrance
Lisa Lashes...her flatmate had decks....she eventually decided to try it....has been hooked ever since.

I met lisa lashes b4 she was famous, she comes from my home town of Leicester, one of my dad's mates knows her, but unfortunately I was only 5 at the time

Posted by StereoPrincess on May-31-2002 16:48:

There was this picture of Sasha posing in his early years with long hair and stuff. Does anyone have this picture??

Posted by torontotrance on May-31-2002 18:17:

I've seen the pic....it's in mixmag.....don't remember what issue.....august 2001 (i believe)....

Posted by trancearmada on May-31-2002 18:21:

on the topic of long hair, have you guys seen Oakenfold with a mullet it's fucking hilarious!

Posted by dj_cuba on May-31-2002 19:35:

quote:
Originally posted by trancearmada
on the topic of long hair, have you guys seen Oakenfold with a mullet it's fucking hilarious!

haha, yeah Judge Jules looks the worst imo

Posted by DJ A.i on May-31-2002 19:39:

quote:
Originally posted by torontotrance
PVD was a carpenter before becoming a deejay....gave a mixtape to a friend.....

this is why people believe that PVD is the messiah of dance music LOL =)

Posted by mos man on May-31-2002 22:08:

I don't understand that ^

Posted by TranceGiant on May-31-2002 22:14:

Jesus' father, Joseph, was said to be a carpenter.

Tse tse ts..even I as a JEW know that

Posted by trancearmada on Jun-01-2002 18:51:

bump!

Posted by Biohazard on Jun-01-2002 19:00:

Armin was DJing at the age of 16 at a local club, the he started producing and got famous witrh his track 'Blue Fear'

DJ Jean used to be a hip hop DJ

Posted by NIGHTERROR on Jun-01-2002 19:00:

quote:
Originally posted by Dmatrox

I beleive he started in 1984, getting booked when he was 15 years old or so.

15 years old ?WOW
are you sure of that?

Posted by Durafei on Jun-01-2002 19:52:

I read interview with Montana where he mentions that Tiesto was working at a video rental store when he was a teenager.

TranceArmada, how do you like that?

Posted by integrity1 on Jun-02-2002 01:04:

thats cool that pvd was a carpenter before hitting it big. not only can he tear up a nite on the decks but he can install some crown molding up in your house too!

Posted by trancearmada on Jun-03-2002 00:10:

quote:
Originally posted by Durafei
I read interview with Montana where he mentions that Tiesto was working at a video rental store when he was a teenager.

TranceArmada, how do you like that?

hmm I wonder could that mean that I can become as big as Tiesto one day! LOL!

Posted by benfica88 on Jun-03-2002 01:14:

quote:
15 years old ?WOW

Yep, it says that he started djing about 15

Posted by trancearmada on Jun-03-2002 05:47:

bumped!

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