Friday, November 19, 2010

Biography

My best friend Matt drives me home one day after play rehearsal for my high school's production of West Side Story.  The entire ride home Matt continually brings up this video he MUST show to me when we get to the house.  The video is "Shuffle Practice IV".  Watching this video is the first time I heard Hardstyle, the hard snares, the booming kick, the reverse bass, and the insanely distorted melodies of Hardstyle.  I fell in love, with both the Melbourne Shuffle and Hardstyle.  I always liked techno, but never dove any further then Tiesto, Benny Benassi, and Daft Punk, the gateway producers to the huge world of electronic music.

A week goes by and I have already downloaded over 5,000 Hardstyle, Hard House, and Hard Trance songs.  Between listening to this amazing music I watched Melbourne Shuffle tutorial after tutorial in hopes of learning this intriguing dance.  It mystified me.  Striving to master this dance I joined an online forum dedicated to the dance, Shufflin.net (At the time is was Melbshuffle.com).  Here I talked with masters of the movement.  I learned everything I could.  This forum had a section entitled "Music Production".  I Had to check it out.  I got my hands on Fruity Loop Studios and my curiosity led the rest of the way.  A new hobby took over:  Producing Hardstyle.

I needed a name now.  David Leek doesn't sound cool.  My first thought was Geistsoul13, a username I have used on many websites before music production took over my life.  Eventually I decided to shorten it to DJ Geist13.  Under that name I stated releasing song after song almost monthly.  They were half produced and never mastered.  I didn't know what mastering was at the time.

College hits, and hits hard.  School work takes up most of my time and clubs and events take up the rest.  Even still I wanted to continue to produce music.  I want music to be my career.  It is already my life.  I approached everyone on campus asking if they needed a theme song, score music.  The University's Television Network jumped at the chance to finally get away from copyrighted music and poorly produced royalty free tracks.  Most producers could not wait to get their very own theme song for their show.  Two semesters later I made the theme song for 8 shows, the score for a short film, and the score for a commercial by She'sTheFirst.org.

Sophomore year.  DJ Geist13 is getting old, and hard to say.   I wanted a change.  I needed a cooler name, an easier name, something with Sub or Woofer, or Bass.  I typed every name I could think of in Google, Last.fm, ReverbNation, and Youtube.  Subcycle!  Finally, one that isn't already taken.  With the new name I wanted a new level of professionalism.  I vowed never to release a song unless it's massive.  I will not settle for anything less, and neither should my fans and future fans too.

Thank You,



Subcycle
- (David Leek)