DJ Ear
This is the first DJ feature profile from Breakoutbeatz.com. We want to focus on the underground
scene and become an outlet for DJs ,producers, and artists to show off their talent in creating
music. We do want to keep the focus on dance and hip-hop music because thats what we know.
Music has changed since we first got a break 25 yrs ago, and I’m happy to be a part of that
change.. So check out the facts about Huepow00 and enjoy the music.
In the year 2000, DJ EAR began producing original and remixed/arranged songs for family and friends. In 2005, he began work on his first 2 Original Mini-Albums (6-tracks each).For the next 4 years, DJ EAR produced over 200+ songs and 12 Albums ranging from Trance and Techno, to more Underground genres like Hard House and Happy Hardcore. On rare occasions, DJ EAR has even been asked to produce songs for use in non-profit Fan Games.By the year 2007 DJ EAR began DJing at several House Parties and online radio stations. With the help of local professional DJ’s and others – DJ EAR continues to expand his skills and improve.
D.J.Ear/Huepow00
In high school I picked up a copy of FLStudio and it just clicked. By this time I was no longer on my parents old Windows 95 Gateway computer – I had my own HP Media Center. I slowly started making little ditties just like I had done when I first started in MIDI. Little experiments to figure out what this did and how to make something sound a specific way. I still do that every now and then to just play around. I made a few 6-track long albums for my friends and they seemed to love them a lot, and I think that gave me the initial confidence to continue doing this (besides the fun I got from making my songs).As I started Jr.College living withe mydad in
Palm Springs I was really getting into making Progressive Trance even though what I was listening to at the time was Eurobeat, Rave, and Hard Trance. Every little album I’d put out for my slowly growing fan-base on the internet through social networking sites and forums was always mixed somehow… Even though I didn’t have the tools to do any serious DJ mixing… I of my mind, I always wanted to give DJing a try, but it seemed like such a daunting task – and I was allready busy with schoolwork and producing my own music.In 2007 and 2008 I started to jump on the ball and actually attempt to promote myself and my work, to local radio stations, local DJ’s, online radio stations – Anybody I could find. It was about this time I ditched trance for a while and was drenching myself in Hard Dance & Happy Hardcore. I setup a bandcamp page and now my fans can actually download exclusive songs that are only available to those willing to pay. That’s not to say I wasn’t, making any music for free. In fact by this time, I had already created about 200+ songs (not all of them great, I’ll be the first to admit) that were all online and completely free to download. This was around the time I was really getting interested in DJing. My dad had been a DJ at a club when he was in college and he still had a lot of his old gear laying around, I dunno if seeing it all the time was part of my inspiration or not.After a lot of research, I ended up settling on Virtual DJ, which I love – and a mobile setup (laptop + external harddrive) so that I could go anywhere and Mix as long as I had some speakers nearby. I had been in contact with a local DJ named Eric Ornelas who spun a radio show and a few places around town, and he give me tons of advice encouragement. – I even managed to spend some money and buy a small, cheap USB mixer by ION that I could carry around with the rest of my gear.At the start of 2009 I paid to setup a little booth at a local convention called CALIFUR where I sold copies of a new Happy Hardcore album I had spent about 4 or 5 months working on. This baby was my first step into getting serious. 12 Tracks, ACTUALLY Mixed by myself in Realtime. I made a lot of new friends and fans that way. Mid-Way through the year I had pulled together a website that showed off my DJing skills, and I was getting a lot of experience DJing at house parties. Near the end of this year I had a job offer to DJ a local night club and was set to take it, but had to decline for personal reasons and moved back to Orange County where I am now. I’m trying to finish up a few Theme Song commissions for fans, and I’m also working on several new albums that will be released in 2010 Including a new Trance album, a Chiptune Fan-Disk, and even more of my game soundtrack concepts. I’m really looking to the new year as a breath of fresh air – and I hope things just keep getting better!