NiLo JoNeS

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essex, United Kingdom

November 15, 2006

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A bit about me....

I have always had a love of music; growing up listening to my ma and pa’s stuff on a Saturday and Sunday morining, and then my sister whose a few years older, seems to have encompased the last four decades of musical taste that i now hold.

I myself started to get into dance music around 1988 and before that it was the whole Electro - breakdance scene. Ahhh those were the days, dragging lino around so you could have a pop fest, hehe (i was never any good!).

Since then i have DJ’d (hasn’t everyone now!) which allowed me to put myself thru university and that led to an interest and willingness to learn how to make this musak stuff. In the beginning it was all too expensive and i was left watching my rich friends of friends making stuff with their old Akai’s and Atari ST’s. Things have changed - i love technology!

Now i primarily use Reason, I still don’t have lots of cash, so am limited to that nifty little program. But thats not a bad thing as i am delving into sound design in greater depths and it leads to scenrios where you have to be creative to obtain what you want. I enjoy what i do with what i do it with.

Ultimately i like music to be uplifting and happy, original and funky - if i want to be down i just watch the news! So when i’m making a tune i generally find they turn out, more often than not, happy, funky or some mxture of the above - it just depends what mood i’m in.

Music is for the masses and so dependant on the ears of the noodle thats listening, let and let live is what i say. If you enjoy what you do - then do it more!!

Dance, bop, jive, jingle and smile!

Your musical influences

Electronic to funky breaks. 40’s to present. Classical to techno. I like most music types. Or..... Aretha, Nina simone, Hendrix, buddy Holly, Faithless, Chemical Bro’s, john lee hooker, vivaldi, mowtown, benny goodman, gene krupa, blondie, stranglers, the la’s, nwa, electro 1-10 and uk, early shamen, frankie knuckles, derek may, mighty dub kats, flloyd, doors, aphex twin, isaac hayes, curtis mayfield, joni mitchell, donovan, the man who warned about the brown acid, stone roses, spacemen 3, ian drury, police, bob!!!, toots and the maytails, the zombies, desmond dekker. ella fitzgerald, paul weller - duh - the jam, not style council, elvis costello, lfo, leftfield, laurent garnier, tresor records, novamute records, shut up and dance records, homeboy hippie and the funky dread, rising high records, skint records, positiva records, boy kill boy, helen ready, bo diddly, josh wink, erik b and rakim, double trouble, bel biv devoe, kid n play, the break dance movies with turbo, chaka khan, the cure, jeff mills, dave clarke, josh wink, 808, jam and spoon, ninja tune records, dopeonplastic, mo wax, fffrrrr records, robert hood, Johhny Preston, the who, ma and pa, derek may, norman cook, the housemartins, stones, stone roses, bob, rhubarb and custard, brown burger, strawberrys, st germain, nilo jones and probably a few others. What can i say i like music.