Started the journey in my home
City Aleppo and at home with the family: My father collection of disco
and pop, 70s and 80s through the ninties, after that I strated buying
music tapes form different styles dominated by instrumental Jazz and
new age music, I also must admit that I liked summery tunes of american
deep house. At the universtity I started listening to heavy
metal (influenced by Lebanease friend), I think that any music can be
enjoyable if you learn how to listen and appreiciate the good sound
arrangements, as well as Jazz; we had a one month of European Jazz
festival and some independant location where they hosted some
american-Michigan jazz aritists. The city also hosted International
folk perfmances ,dances and music, in the Citadel of Aleppo (ancient
Roman theatre like stage).I personally love the dubbier deeper groovier
sounds.
In
My garduate years in ITALY (Trieste) I enjoyed some salsa and merengue
tunes (enjoyted some nice salsa on the beach) and some meldoic sexier
tunes in the Italian clubs. Also some sort of international influnece
were strong since I have studied at the UN programme dominated by
International folks, lot of social events, priavte and on ocassions at
some dedicated location in the city of Trieste, some infuences from
neighbouring Slovenia and Croatia flolky music also were interesting.
One
year later I was in the former eastern German City of Halle (Saale), It
was not impressive apart from some good house music in the exclusive
`Kleine Saal` = `Little Room` in one of the clubs that were dominated
by popular nusic. The last 7-8 years in The Netherlands were dominated
by dance oriented music and here where I bought my turnatables with my
other two friends Tony and Hanneke ( We called ourselfs the `Trio from
Rio`), we played in the south of ITALY (Syracusa) in different bars, me
on the turntables, hanneke on the jambe/flute and Tony performed some
capoera on the stage. After that summer, everyone went in a different
direction. I kept the turntables and from there, it all went extreme,
collecting Vinyl.
At
the moment I am into all of these new sound arrangments from artists
like Mikael Stavostrand/Jay Haze/Villalobos/losoul/Pheek/´Someone Else´
to name few, also artists on lables like Playhouse, Perlon, Tunning
Spork, Circus Company,oslo and Below .
You can listen to my mix sets at:
http://www.musicv2.com/artist/dj_juan_amir
also on:
http://www.myspace.com/juanamir
Peace,