Dj Style "E"

"E" grew up in Oklahoma with his mother, two brothers, and sister. His family used to house sit for a rock n roll/ blues band (Wanda Watson and the Middleman Band) who played orignals, to ZZ Top, to the Stones, etc. His mother played the guitar and wrote her own music that had folkish, blues sound probably cause she was listening to Dylan, Baez and Joni Mitchell. His father also was a talented musician playing the guitar (6 and 12 string), piano, bass, and drums his influences were Zepplin, Stones, Hendrix, and all the other Classic Rock greats. Along with being exposed to his parents music (which he loved of course) he was/ is into N.W.A., 2 Live Crew, Dre and Snoop, Guns N' Roses, Metallica, U2, etc. etc.



When he was 14 his mother moved the family to Port Townsend, Washington. Soon after he bought his first guitar and began writing and performing his own tunes, with and indie-folk rock, blues sound. That lasted for 6 years when one day he was at friends' who had a set of Technic 1200's and heard Dj Icey's "Big Ditch" and was completely "souled." The very next day he went to Seattle and bought his first set of turntables, and can't say that he ever really looked back.



After just three months (of bed-room djing) he started getting booked at clubs, shows, private parties. At one of his gigs the owner of one best talent booking agencies in the NorthWest (Entertainment Northwest) happened to be there and asked "E" to join his crew. This is where "E" learned to take on more formal and high class gigs and high-dollar weddings like crazy. Through 2002-2004 "E" was rate as one of the top 10 Dj's in the Northwest. In 2004 "E" brought his turntables and MPC 2000 to Seattle's FolkLife festival performing as part of a Tango trio. Prolly the first year FolkLife has ever seen a set of Techs. For the past decade he's helped produce/dj thousands of shows in the Northwest, and volenteer hundreds of hours of time to charity and non-profit organizations and it can safely be said that not only has he help build a strong dance/ club scene but, have allowed other artists like himself to able to put themselves out here in Port Townsend to be heard as well.



It is especially hard in this small town that really never had a scene like this before, mostly blues, folk, jazz, and rock n roll. It does get frustrating at times because most people around here have never been exposed to these style's of music. He began spinning funky-breaks and electro. Now loves spinning deep-house, downtempo, trip-hop, break-step, good underground hip-hop, etc. Typically, anything that sounds good to him.



Being very open-minded to good music, his influences are all over the music map from Bob Dylan, Zepplin, Doors, Elliott Smith, GNR, Wu-Tang Clan, (older) DR. Dre, Tribe Called Quest, Public Enemy, Tone Deff, Atmosphere, Sage Francis, Johnny Fiasco, Andy Caldwell, Migs, Icey, Baby Anne, Rithma, (a personal favorite) Dj Monk, Adam Freeland, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Thievery Corp., etc. Those are just a few but the list goes on and on. and on. Just three years ago he got a job at one of the oldest independent record stores in the State of Washington, Quimper Sound it only took him like 5 years of bugging them, but he was (and still is) one their best customers and had knowledge in many areas of music especially hip-hop, electronic/ dance.



Around the same time he began producing his own music under Style "E" Productions so far he has only put out two releases but, he is still pretty pickey about the music he puts out. In 2003 he released his first Ep (The Style "E"P) and just a couple months ago he released his first full-length. (Small Town. Big City Nitelife) Both albums range from down-tempo, hip and trip-hop, breaks, house, and even techno, which is why he goes by Style "E" because he can't just choose one style, because he doesn't like being predictable and is always looking for something new.



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