John Henry (AZ)
From the the deserts of Southern Arizona comes the floor pounding Hard Trance sounds
of John Henry.
Tell me about your history? How did you get where you are now?
I started out as an HIPHOP mc. Fom 90' 'till 2001 iwas prodicng beats for various artists in AZ, including Imperial,ColdFront,and TU ("2").In 2002, I got in touch with an old and very good freind of mine, DJ Rhinox. And soon I became part of Surreal Entertainment, one if the biggest electronic event/promotion groups in Arizona. I still loved hiphop but i fell in love with the way you can communicate to people thru trance. So I started to write my own songs. But I dont have any of my songs pressed to vynil so I decide to start playing live.
Have you performed live in front of an audience? Any special memories?
I play what I call a "half-live" show where I mix in and out of my live sequencing, using my own produced tracks of course. Ive been doing it for about 2 and a half years in Southern Arizona, including Tucson and Phoenix. I love the sight of the crowd dancing to my music, MY MUSIC that I MADE!..it's such a rush.
Your musical influences
some of my influences include Ferry Corsten,dj Premier,Guyver, Erick Sermon,NOFX,Lee Haslam to name a few. I'm very diverse in what i listen to. I also produce hiphop tracks which allows me to widen my spectrum of sound.
What equipment do you use?
eMachines 2.2G Pentium 4 running Reason 2.5,FL Studio 5.1,SoundForge 7.0,Acid Pro 4.0,Cool Edit 2.1, T-Racks 24, and CD Architect 5.0
Roland MC_307,Yamaha RM1X,Yamaha Cs1x,Roland Alpha Juno,Roland SP-303,Roland VS 880EX,Behringer Autocom Pro-XL,Vestax PMC-05 PRO 2
