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As a third wave musician with a long musical background, it is safe to say that Jay Denham has been around the block a few times.
At fifteen, he picked up his first instrument, a bass guitar, and by the time he was seventeen was playing in a rock band for friends at parties. He developed a taste for punk and what Americans refer to as “new wave”, moving on to the funk of Parliament, Cameo and The Time as the eighties arrived.
In 1982 he came across a Chicago Hot Mix tape, which opened his ears to the then revolutionary sounds of Farley Jackmaster Funk and Frankie Knuckles. Immediately blown away by this new sound, he took to making expeditions to the Windy City to find records and tape the local radio shows he couldn’t pick up in his home town of Kalamazoo. A chance meeting in Chicago with early house producer Chip E implanted the idea that he might actually try making this music himself…
The next step came for Jay when he started Michigan State University and met up with Shake aka Anthony Shakir, who now runs Frictional records with Claude Young. Shakir had a keyboard, Jay had a drum machine and it wasn’t long before they were jamming together on early tracks. When Shakir got to know Derrick May he passed him some of Jays’ tapes. Mays’ favourable reaction led to Jay moving to detroit after college to work for the nascent Transmat label, and releasing his first records: “Ritual” as Vice on the Techno 2 LP and then the mythic 12” “Insync” as Fade II Black.
At fifteen, he picked up his first instrument, a bass guitar, and by the time he was seventeen was playing in a rock band for friends at parties. He developed a taste for punk and what Americans refer to as “new wave”, moving on to the funk of Parliament, Cameo and The Time as the eighties arrived.
In 1982 he came across a Chicago Hot Mix tape, which opened his ears to the then revolutionary sounds of Farley Jackmaster Funk and Frankie Knuckles. Immediately blown away by this new sound, he took to making expeditions to the Windy City to find records and tape the local radio shows he couldn’t pick up in his home town of Kalamazoo. A chance meeting in Chicago with early house producer Chip E implanted the idea that he might actually try making this music himself…
The next step came for Jay when he started Michigan State University and met up with Shake aka Anthony Shakir, who now runs Frictional records with Claude Young. Shakir had a keyboard, Jay had a drum machine and it wasn’t long before they were jamming together on early tracks. When Shakir got to know Derrick May he passed him some of Jays’ tapes. Mays’ favourable reaction led to Jay moving to detroit after college to work for the nascent Transmat label, and releasing his first records: “Ritual” as Vice on the Techno 2 LP and then the mythic 12” “Insync” as Fade II Black.
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