MASSIVE GRITTY

 

I was Introduced to and immediately fell in love with hip hop in the early 90s through skate
videos. When I saw my first live hip hop show the DJ had a huge influence on me. I had to
give it a try.

 

I found a direct drive turntable at a garage sale and a friend lent me a few 12"
to mess around with. I ended up having to replace his 3 records as I scuffed them up from
constant use. I immediately became addicted to buying vinyl at Toronto's  Play De Record
and other record shops. Eventually, I started playing gigs in bars in the early days of the hip
hop scene.

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Digging for records that had been sampled by my favourite artists, led me to afro
soul, funk, rock, latin and reggae music to include in my sets.

 

Years later I broadened my
musical tastes to include drum and bass, jungle and trip-hop. In the early 2000's I got my
first Serato digital DJ setup and my love of computers and deep digital crates merged with
my love of vinyl and turntablism.

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I was able to take on more professional DJ work in the
corporate and wedding space and made a decent side hustle DJing. In the late 2000's I held
a residency at Margret on Dundas for a few years and migrated to playing a monthly reggae
party dubbed Massive Gritty.

 

As things slowed down in the mid-2010s professionally my DJing returned to skateboarding as I got the nod to DJ some skateboard contests around
Toronto; notably the Hoedown at the Hoof every summer for Vans Canada and recently the
Canadian Open Olympic Qualifiers. Adding punk and metal to my sets for skateboarding has
been a fun challenge.

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The Pandemic of 2020 has led me to live streaming Dj sets from home and it has been so fun and inspiring to see so many DJs doing the same.

 

I plan to continue
and am looking forward to sharing the music I love with a new audience.

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josh@fullcircle.to 

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