Spetts
1000 characters is just asking too much of me, I assure the speed dæmon smoking his guns as capitulation to the Millennial music Gods ran on, centripetal in it's variability to 'genretrication' if I may, pseudo-anachronistic misanthrope that I be y'all. Drop the beat a minute, I need a smoke. And no mirrors........
Technophiles will be at home with me, sub-genres run as rampant as thou please! We'll see what I have to say, to fill up these oh so generous 1000 millstones of posterity, when I can recover from the recent past and get my mixes wired and queued and intercorrelations of the past and unpaid dues to lost potential masked with pounding grooves. Tweak those highs, shred the mids and bottom out 'till then.
Oh, apparently I rap I dunno I think it's shit so you'll likely never hear it but who knows how drunk I'll be one night! What, were you expecting some promotional material?! Peace, and until then we call the Yin the Yang the Yo; The Sun The Moon The Stars.........
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
Well, my father was a musician and my mother was a singer so I grew up in a musical household. When I was about 11 we moved to a small but famous city in Southwestern Ontario, Canada called Stratford which is a very artistic and musical city and hung around with a lot of musicians throughout my youth and played guitar and bass with some local musicians while seeing a few who went on to larger careers up close and as friends (no, not Bieber, but I knew his father) so I always wished to make music. Around 1999 I started to get to know some professional DJ's and became obsessed with learning to spin records and mix techno, but never could afford my own decks back then. And my life took other twists and turns for the next 24 years which saw me give up hope on ever making music until 2023, when I met a hip hop artist and producer who, despite being a huge letdown in our plans to make music together opened my eyes to using Digital Audio Workstations and MIDI to finally allow myself to start learning to craft my own sound as well as start doing DJ Mixes; you can find some of my full sets on www.mixcloud.com/Spettz and SoundCloud@p2pegotist or @spetts. I love so many styles of music, so despite not being a singer I have been able to fulfill my lifelong desire to create unique music of my own and mix as a DJ as well and hopefully will continue on making music and improving my techniques and sounds while hopefully collaborating with some like minded people.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
Closest I've came was busking with an acoustic guitar! Hopefully I'll sometime be able to afford a professional DJ setup and be able to start doing live sets!
Your musical influences
The Smiths, Ritchie Hawtin, Adam Beyer, Broken Social Scene, Do Make Say Think, Pink Floyd, Aphex Twin, Square pusher, Autechre, Skinny Puppy, The Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, Extrawelt, Ann Clue, Kirsten Kleo, DJ Duane, VNV Nation, Aestrid, Sonic Youth- I could go on but you get an idea.
What equipment do you use?
Right now I use a Yamaha DGX - 305, Music Maker, Cubasis 3, Remixlive, an Akai MPC Mini professional, Voloco, Bandlab and Virtual DJ but I'm saving up for a few more MIDI instruments plus I'm learning FL Studio Pro and Cubase 13.
Anything else?
Support independent music! My music can be found on almost all major music streaming platforms including Spotify Apple Music Tidal Deezer etc. under Christopher Paul Bettridge and on YouTube www.youtube.com/@christopherbettridge and a few tracks on TikTok as Spetts and all my tracks www.bandlab.com/spetts plus you can support me on Ko-fi @cpaulbettridge thanks
