Muujun.

Hello, my name is Stacey, but most people seem to know me as Jung (this is pronounced with a J not a Y, incase you were planning on making that mistake).
I like music a lot, and spend the majority of my time either listening to or trying to find new music.

One day I when I was quite small, I heard some people take some music made by other people and blend it together to make a flowing nonstop amalgamation of sound, I thought this sounded like quite good fun and was very nice to listen to.
I kept listening to all kinds of mixes from different people. Then when I got a bit bigger, I started going to places where you could listen to someone play other peoples music mixed together (sometimes very well, sometimes very badly).
I thought I would quite like to get some peoples music and mix it together myself because it didn’t seem that difficult.

I am a bit of a computer geek, so I looked around and found some software called Ableton and discovered that using this was the most fun and reliable (maybe) way to take other peoples music and make mixes with it.
I kept doing this for a while and gave a few of these mixes to people. I think some people liked them because they asked me to do some more.

Then one day some people from NSB Radio asked me if I would like to do a radio show, playing other peoples music, this seemed like a good idea because it meant more people would hear me playing records. You can listen to this on every 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month at 5pm.
I kept doing this for a while, and then some promoters from clubs and nights asked me if I wanted to play music to people in some small clubs & bars, I thought this would be fun so I said yes.
I must’ve done okay because people danced in the club and told me they liked it.

Then sometime last year I thought I should do some more mixes and tell people about myself a bit more, so I made myself a little website and started doing a podcast.
Even more people downloaded the mixes this time, and then bigger clubs and bigger promoters came to me and asked if I would play some music to more people.

To be entirely honest, I only started making mixes for a bit of fun and have accidentally found myself DJing all around the South of England, I even get paid in money to do it.
It’s great fun because now when I DJ lots of people dance and smile, which I hope is due to the music I am playing them and not the amount of methylenedioxymethamphetamine they have managed to consume.

Sometimes using Ableton and a laptop is a bit annoying, because it’s a lot of stuff to carry on trains to other places. When I am travelling I think it might be a good idea to just start using CDs because it’s less to carry, but then I get to a club and remember you can’t really chop up the music to do live re-edits and throw loads of weird acapellas or different beats in with the music.
CDs are a bit linear, but with Ableton you can do all kinds of magical tricks and edits that make your mixes sound completely different to anyone else’s.
If you do this properly it sounds excellent and gives the listener a completely different experience than just playing one record after another… But be careful, make sure your acapellas are in time and don’t overdo the effects, people stop dancing when you make a mistake; I have learned this the hard way.

If you like music as well, perhaps check out some of my mixes, the links are on this page somewhere and they are nice to listen to on the way to work or before you go out drinking on a Friday night.
Also, if you are a band or producer (unsigned or not), send me some music. If I like it there is a very big chance I will play it in a club or on the radio, but please don’t be offended if I chop it up and do my own little edit of it, it is meant in the most affectionate way possible.

Anyway, I’m sure it’s quite obvious by now that I quite like playing music to people in clubs & bars etc, so if you are promoter give me a shout and ask me if I will come and play at your night, I will probably do it for a small fee.
Although I do also have a rider which is 4 bottles of Hoegaarden beer and a Doner kebab afterwards (no salad, garlic mayo and some chillis). I might waive the Hoegaarden, but no kebab, no Jung.

I think that’s pretty much it…