About Me
Name: Kevin Elphick
Age: 22
Location: Wales, UK
Musical Styles: House (Club/Funky, Progressive, Electro) Trance (Progressive, Uplifting, Tech)
Musical Influences: Armand Van Helden, Daft Punk, Armin Van Buuren, David Morales, Frankie Knuckles, Masters At Work, Erick Morillo, Jamie Principle, Marshall Jefferson, Ron Hardy, Tiesto, Derrick May, Todd Terry, Steve Angello and many more.
Started DJing: September 2006
Previous Equipment Used: Numark Axis 4 CD Players, Numark DM3050 Mixer, Stanton C.314 CD Players, Vestax VMC-002 XL Mixer, American Audio Q60 Mixer.
Setup: Denon DNS-1200 CD players, Stanton T.60 turntable, Pioneer DJM400 Mixer.
I was influenced to start mixing because of my passion and love for House and Trance music, I used to go clubs regularly, saw my first gig in June 2006 (Tiesto’s In Search of Sunrise 5 party in Brixton, London) and all of this inspired me to try mixing myself. I began at around that time using PC software and a cheap Hercules control. The kit was like a toy but it helped me early on to make simple mixes and to learn how to fade/mix between the songs.
In September 2006, after a lot of thinking and shopping around the internet for the best equipment for my low budget, I bought my first setup – a pair of Numark Axis 4 CD Players and a DM3050 3-channel mixer.
I could then practise beatmatching and mixing more without the aid of auto-sync and a wave-form in Virtual DJ software. It was difficult at first but after 4-5 months I was confident enough to record and upload mixes on the internet.
In March 2007, I had enough money to then upgrade to better cd players, Stanton C.314’s, which were packed with excellent features such as effects and sampling. Also I changed my mixer to a Vestax VMC-002 XL.
You can read more about my equipment over the last couple of years on my Setup page
The type of music I like is funky and vocal soulful house, Electro kind of dominated house a year or two ago but I didn’t really get into it. I also like progressive, vocal and uplifting trance.
My favourite tracks at the moment can be found here
