Unfortunately I spent the last 4 months in the dungeon of the evil Russian superscientist Baron Von Flooby. His goons kidnapped me after the Static Guard show in Rome. His plot was to lock me up until I agreed to a showdown scratch battle! They didn't need to wait though, because I'm always down to drop some beats ( Read more... )

1.Ignore the trends. Play what makes you TRULY happy. If you are not enjoying the music, your audience won't either ( Read more... )

This is a picture of my cat. His name is Kitty Cent.

He likes to sit in the window and take potshots at sucker DJs

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I just got one of those DVD players that have a little screen so you can watch movies on the go. I'm pretty excited about it because now I get to watch porn while I spin! what an excellent invention

Spinning is definitely an art because music moves people. And if you're playing an instrument and you're playing somebody else's music, or if you're on the turntables and you're playing somebody else's music, or if you're playing someone else's music and you're scratching your nose, sometimes you're playing someone else's music and you spill hot ( Read more... )

I was spinning at a club in Helsinki. It was hot as hell from all the people and the place was packed. I was sweating my ass off and the crowd was moving. I had just got done doing this 5 minute buildup, and the crowd was going wild with anticipation. I dropped the bassline and when I did, this old guy straight up dropped dead right there in front ( Read more... )

Will Shays aka Dj Awesome
Why this name?
Because I'm fucking awesome!
Do you play live?
I play live all the time. I love it.
I’m lucky, it’s a lot easier for me... because I’ve reached a point where I can play pretty much whatever I want and people are wondering: ‘Hey, what’s Dj Awesome going to play for us tonight,’ ”
How, do you think, does the ( Read more... )

I was in England last week spinning and there was only one turntable, and that was so crazy. There were two of us, so we had two DJ’s and one turntable. It was strange, because we just had to play a record and take it off, put on one real quick. I roll with the punches. When you're as awesome as I am and you’ve got some beat up equipment you deal ( Read more... )