DJ BCFebruary 20, 2006
*Name: DJ BC
*Are there any additional names used to describe this project: dj BC is my DJ name, The Beastles is the name of my Beasties vs Beatles project (2 albums) and Glassbreaks is the name of another album (Philip Glass vs hip-hop) while Mash Ave is the name of the mash-up night I host with compadre Lenlow (lenlow.com)
*Do you use a pseudonym? Sort of, not really. I don't try to hide my identity much.
*Members: Just me. Robert M Cronin Esq.
*Founding Member: The Beatles, The Beastie Boys, and me.
*Tape manipulations, digital deconstructions or turntable creations: Digital reworkings - ie Mashups!
*Another genre descriptor: Mashes. Mashups. I haven't thought much about new terminology, to be honest!
*Location: Boston MA! Slummerville represent.
*Original Location: Mashachusetts.
*What is your creative/artistic background: High school Theatre, show choir and chorus, bass in a punk band, first electronic music studio work in college, about 1993. Started recording pieces using a 4-track about that time and made my first beats using a guitar delay pedal as a sampler/sample trigger/looping mechanism.
*History: About 10-15 years I suppose, though it was pretty horrible at first.
*Born: 7/72 Boston MA
*Motivations: I love music and I want to mess around with it. I like dancing and I like making people dance. I like collage style art. I like stealing from other artists, I don't see it as a crime.
*Philosophy: Pop works recontextualized and rebeated can give a new persepective on old or current music and revitalize it for pop consumption and fun good times. I get a kick out of mashing music and other people seem to like the sounds too, which is why I do it. I love hip-hop and I take some inspiration from the early DJs, trying to work out a nice blend and a fly party with some surprising twists and turns, by trying out neat new approaches to presenting familiar songs and elements of music. I do not see music as only a commodity, for sale or resale. I see it as a vital expression of our times and our personal grooves, and I think that this form of music is a perfectly valid expression of today's fragmented digital experience.
*How would you like to be remembered: As a musical tweaker who looked at music in a new way, and made some good songs for the fun of it, though it was not commericially viable and was often seen as artistic theft by society. Someone who made mixes people enjoy and are are inspired by.
*Web address: www.djbc.net/mashes
