Started the journey in my home City Aleppo and at home with the family: My father collection of disco and pop, 70s and 80s through the ninties, after that I strated buying music tapes form different styles dominated by instrumental Jazz and new age music, I also must admit that I liked summery tunes of american deep house. At the universtity I started listening to heavy metal (influenced by Lebanease friend), I think that any music can be enjoyable if you learn how to listen and appreiciate the good sound arrangements, as well as Jazz; we had a one month of European Jazz festival and some independant location where they hosted some american-Michigan jazz aritists. The city also hosted International folk perfmances ,dances and music, in the Citadel of Aleppo (ancient Roman theatre like stage).I personally love the dubbier deeper groovier sounds.
In My garduate years in ITALY (Trieste) I enjoyed some salsa and merengue tunes (enjoyted some nice salsa on the beach) and some meldoic sexier tunes in the Italian clubs. Also some sort of international influnece were strong since I have studied at the UN programme dominated by International folks, lot of social events, priavte and on ocassions at some dedicated location in the city of Trieste, some infuences from neighbouring Slovenia and Croatia flolky music also were interesting.
One year later I was in the former eastern German City of Halle (Saale), It was not impressive apart from some good house music in the exclusive `Kleine Saal` = `Little Room` in one of the clubs that were dominated by popular nusic. The last 7-8 years in The Netherlands were dominated by dance oriented music and here where I bought my turnatables with my other two friends Tony and Hanneke ( We called ourselfs the `Trio from Rio`), we played in the south of ITALY (Syracusa) in different bars, me on the turntables, hanneke on the jambe/flute and Tony performed some capoera on the stage. After that summer, everyone went in a different direction. I kept the turntables and from there, it all went extreme, collecting Vinyl.
At the moment I am into all of these new sound arrangments from artists like Mikael Stavostrand/Jay Haze/Villalobos/losoul/Pheek/´Someone Else´ to name few, also artists on lables like Playhouse, Perlon, Tunning Spork, Circus Company,oslo and Below .
You can listen and download my mix sets for free at:
http://www.musicv2.com/artist/dj_juan_amir
Also you can listen to my sets at my "myspace" fan account:
http://www.myspace.com/juanamir
You can Listen to my two co-productions tracks ("Spiral Funk" and "Minimal Horse") with Artek at my space Artist account:
http://www.myspace.com/djjuanamir
My next gig is at the 25th of July at the De rechter in Eindhoven (www.derechter.com)
Peace;
Dj Juan Amir
