Back in Tha Days...

I've been mixing on and off for several years now. It all kicked of in the early 90's when I started getting into the Bhangra Music scene. Back in those days the Bhangra scene was very monotomous and every album had the same old formula, which consisted of annoying dholki's and Tumbi's. 

As well as listening to bhangra, I have used my other music influences such as Hip-Hop, House, Rave, Techno and Garage music to shape my mixes. I've always been into high-octane dance music and in past few years there was only one artist that has catered for that perfect East-West fusion, and that was Bally Sagoo with his album "Wham Bam". Since then he's totally gone downhill. He's totally mellowed and is now sadly pussy-footing about with Slow Hindi Music, and this is reflected in his latest offering "Star Crazy 2" which is a massive letdown. The Sagooster needs to spend more time producing music, rather than collecting Airmiles and trying to achieve a decent looking Goatee.

I'm sick of hearing all these out-of-date Bhangra Bands pumping out the same old crap and saying "This is an album that will cater for everyone". The listener only gets one or two tracks that they are likely to listen to whilst the rest of the tracks go of on a targent to a different audience. This is the record-companies/bands cashing in, and providing an album which is NOT 100% value for money nor focused to a certain group of listeners. It's about time the music fat cats catered for selective audiences, rather than self-catering themselves with the profits of ill-gotten gains from unsatisfactory albums.

I initially started with mixing bhangra with house music, and since then I've incorporated Rave, Hip-Hop and Trance. But as a general rule anything with wicked grooves and hard-dance beats always hits the mark.

Starting to mix is relatively inexpensive, I don't have any mixing decks or any other hi-tech mixing equipment, I simply have a few basic essentials which do the trick nicely. I stopped buying tapes and got more listening pleasure out of creating my own brand of music and have been doing it since. What I will advise people who want to start out mixing is, you must have a genuine appreciation of music and have the time and patience to make your ideas materialise.

When I first recorded my mixes i used to pass them around to mates to listen too, and from the good response, I've developed plans to release an album mainstream. But meanwhile to get some exposure, I will release selective mixes via the web.................

Any feedback would well and truly be appreciated.

The Infamous Habby aka MC E-Zee P-Zee