Macusa

Sometime towards the end of ’89, the UK’s second summer of love, dj macusa, or mac as he was then known, decided he wanted to get into some serious DJing by figuring out how to mix properly with the small but growing crate of records he had been gathering with his frequent visits to Glasgow’s infamous record shop, 23rd precinct. This revelation came after he heard a bedroom mixtape by a young Welsh DJ who exploded on to the scene taking up residence at the legendary Hacienda, Manchester, who went by the name of “Sasha”. This was not the first game changer for a young aspiring DJ; First time at Fat Sam’s, all the early Rhumbas & Sweatboxes in and around Perth & Dundee, even a visit to the Hacienda itself all added to flavor his musical tastes which were progressing from the early Italian Piano house, Belgian & Detroit techno to more of a homegrown progressive sound. With artists & labels like Leftfield, Fabi Paras, Junior boys own, Guerrilla, etc all breaking through in the early 90’s it was enough to wet anyone’s appetite for the love of the beats. As the nineties drew to a close, macusa’s love hate relationship with the dance scene phenomena had him opting for the road less traveled; preferring a more experimental underground style akin to “big beat” found on labels Ninja, Finger Likin’ or Marine Parade, rather than the huge trance superclub fad that was happening at the time. By the time he got to London in ’98 he was playing purely breaks and thankfully there was scene for that down in the smoke, where he took his place. In 2000, a move to California proved to be a bit of a culture shock. Cut off from the source of readily available record shops, dj macusa found inspiration in imported CDs from back home. He has since transitioned into the digital world of djing and into his current style of progressive chunky beats, tech house, and electronica.