Your early DJ influences?

[Hausgeist]

I saw this shit and it was all over...

[dlove]

Andy Weatherall, circa 1990/91.

I don't play anything like he plays, but he got me, back in the day. Total Legend.

[I'd sat he was the main influence because he's a master at creating & maintaining an atmosphere; you really went on a journey with Weatherall.]

[DTR]

Hype and Andy C. And Slipmat are all the fucking dogs bollocks.

I saw Andy C a couple of years ago at a festival in Holland, some of the most brutal tunes mixed perfectly over the course of hours. That shit rocked. Hard.

It knocked my mate for six and left him writhing on the ground like a fish out of water. That is the power of Andy bad boy C

I'm surprised so many people in this thread alone have listed Hype as an influence

I still have my first Andy C tape from around 2000 / 01, I've caned that tape hard

[gudy2shuz]

I'm gonna make this as short as I can...
I didn't grow up around edm related culture. The first time I thought "I wanna do what the DJ does" was in '92 when I heard "The Butcher Goes To Basstown" by KMC Kru. The scratching pretty much blew me up. At the time, and for a while after, I didn't associate DJ's with electronic music (y'know--"techno"). Later on, the first piece of edm I purchased was Dieselboy's 97 Octane. Later yet, I met this cat named Caleb Werking, and he had decks, and I learned a ton from him. He cemented my desire to learn by introducing me to DJ's like LTJ Bukem, High Contrast, Goldie, etc. I managed to grab 2 Stanton STR8-30's and a $100 Numark mixer to start, and spent every dime I could on dnb vinyl.
Also to note: I would never have gotten into edm (and therefore ended up spinning records) if Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine had not shown the dark side of electronic music.

Well, that is as abridged as I could get it. Thanks fa listenin'.

[Nick Bike]

Skratch Bastid

[Dj_4-$hure]

Dj Babu.

[BuddyUK]

Andy Weatherall, circa 1990/91.

I don't play anything like he plays, but he got me, back in the day. Total Legend.

[I'd sat he was the main influence because he's a master at creating & maintaining an atmosphere; you really went on a journey with Weatherall.]

Horrribly overused word nowadays but he truly is/was 'eclectic' as a DJ and producer, rate him very highly for both.

[BuddyUK]

I'm surprised so many people in this thread alone have listed Hype as an influence

His constant scratching over everything has always annoyed me, have not heard him play in a very long time so this may not be a fair comment any more.

I still have my first Andy C tape from around 2000 / 01, I've caned that tape hard

His douchebag fanbase annoy me, please do not take this as me saying you are one.

[BuddyUK]

Met John Peel (RIP) in person before he died, (was at uni with his daughter) best DJ that ever lived if we are being honest, wasn't his record collection donated to the British Library? Says it all really.

Have a great quote about his 'John Peel Roadshow' from the 70's from one of his biographies, will dig it out later as I'm off to work very soon.

Also remember DJ Cheese (and MC Cut?) being interviewed on the Mike Allen show when they came over to England for the big StreetSounds gig, they were both awestruck at the reception they received in London, it was probably the first time they'd ever left threir own neighbourhoods, never mind country.

[dlove]

Horrribly overused word nowadays but he truly is/was 'eclectic' as a DJ and producer, rate him very highly for both.

His sound was the first 'out of this World' experience I ever had; thinking, 'that can't be just records playing'. Some of my friends complained he was too eclectic; you never knew what you were going to get with Weatherall; he could go off into gypsy music just as easily as acid house, but I loved that; still do. He's on his own musical journey; true to himself. Last I heard, he was on a rockabilly tip...