Hey guys/gals i'm Mark and here is a little introduction of who I am.
I'm 35 and from the UK and I live in a city called Manchester. I'm a Merchandising team leader and I'm also a DJ. Been into dance music since the 80's (I was a breakdancer for a while and loved old school hip hop) got into Jungle, Drum&Bass, Rave and happy hardcore in the early 90's (when EDM really took off in a very big way) (That's also when I got my 1210's) and then moving to Trance, House and Progressive in the later 90's. Over the years my record (Vinyl) collection has grown to over 10'000 and I have thousands of CD's, having moved to CD mixing a few years back when I got Denon and Pioneer CD Mixers. I'm also in the process of transferring all the Vinyl to CD. I still use Vinyl, I guess I always will but I mix with CD's 99% of the time now. I also do my own Edits of Tracks to make them stand out a little more.
I use to do DJ reviews on the Net. Basically I would review up and coming DJ's and give links to their mixes for people to have a listen. I saw it as a way of giving the little guy a chance. Sadly, the reviews proved so popular, they had to be pulled as people were taking the reviews and links as their own and putting them on other sites. At last count, before it was pulled, there were over 1000 different web pages with the reviews and mix download links.
I've Dj'ed in the UK and also in Thailand and China. I was the first western DJ to play in Hui'an China in 2006 and I was also the first western DJ to play trance in the same place. I'm looking to move to china by 2012. My wife is Chinese and lives in the UK and we've been together for 5 years, we got married on October 2008.
I was an Admin on a very popular oldskool website called Pureoldskoolers. Sadly, after a year an a half online, it closed it's doors in March 2009. I stepped down as Admin due to "creative differences" and as a result, I decided to go it alone and open up my own Oldskool website Its All About Oldskool - Oldskool Rave Music Forum It opened it's doors on the 25th March 2009. I'm also in the process of opening up a few other sites dedicated to particular genres of music, I now have a Trance site Its All About Trance - The No1 Trance & Progressive Music Forum and there is also a House site in the pipeline and a general Dance Music site planned which will cover all forms of EDM.
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I'm 35 and from the UK and I live in a city called Manchester. I'm a Merchandising team leader and I'm also a DJ. Been into dance music since the 80's (I was a breakdancer for a while and loved old school hip hop) got into Jungle, Drum&Bass, Rave and happy hardcore in the early 90's (when EDM really took off in a very big way) (That's also when I got my 1210's) and then moving to Trance, House and Progressive in the later 90's. Over the years my record (Vinyl) collection has grown to over 10'000 and I have thousands of CD's, having moved to CD mixing a few years back when I got Denon and Pioneer CD Mixers. I'm also in the process of transferring all the Vinyl to CD. I still use Vinyl, I guess I always will but I mix with CD's 99% of the time now. I also do my own Edits of Tracks to make them stand out a little more.
I use to do DJ reviews on the Net. Basically I would review up and coming DJ's and give links to their mixes for people to have a listen. I saw it as a way of giving the little guy a chance. Sadly, the reviews proved so popular, they had to be pulled as people were taking the reviews and links as their own and putting them on other sites. At last count, before it was pulled, there were over 1000 different web pages with the reviews and mix download links.
I've Dj'ed in the UK and also in Thailand and China. I was the first western DJ to play in Hui'an China in 2006 and I was also the first western DJ to play trance in the same place. I'm looking to move to china by 2012. My wife is Chinese and lives in the UK and we've been together for 5 years, we got married on October 2008.
I was an Admin on a very popular oldskool website called Pureoldskoolers. Sadly, after a year an a half online, it closed it's doors in March 2009. I stepped down as Admin due to "creative differences" and as a result, I decided to go it alone and open up my own Oldskool website Its All About Oldskool - Oldskool Rave Music Forum It opened it's doors on the 25th March 2009. I'm also in the process of opening up a few other sites dedicated to particular genres of music, I now have a Trance site Its All About Trance - The No1 Trance & Progressive Music Forum and there is also a House site in the pipeline and a general Dance Music site planned which will cover all forms of EDM.
China-Rising
