I was listending to a lot of old CDs recently and came across an old DJ CD by Jack Trash. Usually I remembered him as JT, a friend of my friend Rich aka DJ Pike (the fish not Christopher "no no" Pyke). I remember one time being surprised to find an old copy of DJ JT versus the empire in a bin at Aardvark records on Penn in Bloomington. At least someone else in this world had that album too. I can't seem to find evidence of it online, but I think with Star Wars making a resurgence every time a prequel comes out, someone else would have liked it as well. It probably violated the heck out of copyright laws on sampling, but when the Sith lords rile up Luke, it makes a perfect intro to a a hardcore track.
I remember once in college trying to help out at this rave that he was DJing at, I think it is the 1992 rave they keep mentioning in the articles concerning him. I was running the lights for a while, but he made me quit was I was doing manually and went back to a more random music style. I think that I was putting too much strobe out there - some kid might end up a seizure I later realized. I was not really dressed for the rave, I think I was wearing a normal hoodless striped sweater. I remember his compadre DJ Woody from my first party at the University of Minnesota for incoming freshmen.
He used to have a pretty cool show with my friend Rich, called Overdrive on Radio K. I used to listen to taped of that while driving around the northeast for work. I think I heard a little of his show on the Rev radio station before moving away.
I also remember when DJ Rap (Coming in 2005 again) was playing at Glam Slam, he came out to help her with some technical difficulties before she really got going.
He started to get a little too much into the jungle house and drum and bass for my liking, but that was the club trend at the time.
Here are a couple articles about him:
City Pages Article (2000), and Sound in Motion Bio (2005).
Posted by ledlogic at April 10, 2005 09:15 PM