
We took a week off but rest assured, your favorite column about awesome people in Orlando, 20 Questions, is back. This week we are featuring Docta Dawes roommate and the guy who use to spin Hip-Hop on Saturday Nights at Jesse Blacks, DJ T-Gibbs.
DJ T-Gibbs, has since moved on from Jesse Blacks (obviously) and is now the Master of Rage on Saturdays at Roxy with his masked group, Hysteria. He also, with Docta Dawe, runs a couch surfing company in their house but vacancy is slim right now. The questions in this round are definitely some of the more fun ones I have done and Gibbs was a very good sport and took all of them in stride.
1. Weapons of choice? (Equipment, mixer, software)
Currently CDJ 1000s, DJM 900, Serato, Dicers, and Akai MPD 26.
2. Favorite genre to spin?
Dirty Electro.
3. Favorite producer?
Your making me just pick ONE?!?……from a strictly technical side, Skrillex. His synths (if you can call them that) are pushing the envelope of electronic music. Any producer that has tried to recreate his sounds knows what I mean.
4. What are you listening to in your car?
Nero – Promises, on repeat.
5. Banger of Summer 2011?
Avicii – Levels
6. Most slept on song of 2011?
Deadmau5 – Raise your Weapon. Such a sick track, but I feel like it didn’t get any love until Madeon remixed it.
7. Who influenced you early in your career?
DJ Skribble’s Summer Essential mix 2001 changed my life lol Throughout highschool I worked for a production company that did strictly corporate events, weddings, and bar/bat mitzvahs. So my music knowledge was quite narrow and that CD opened my eyes to electronic music. More locally though, DJ Eric Velez really helped to push me out of the bartending scene and back into DJing.
8. Song you hate getting requests for?
LMFAO – Shots
9. Where was your first weekly?
Friday night at Devaneys…awwwyeeaaahhh.
10. Where can we find you now?
Rage Saturdays at Roxy.
SWITCH!
11. Tell us about your group, Hysteria, and how that came about…
When we started up Rage at Roxy, we wanted to bring something different to the night. The premise is that the first half of the night is a normal club night with free drinks and top 40 music, then we fucking RAGE. Hysteria is the by-product of excessive Raging. It started with myself, but we really wanted to have a duo. Enter Rudy Zwaans: My friend, Producer, button-pusher, and David Guetta look-a-like. But the DJ duo has been done before and I felt we needed something else to brand ourselves and push the envelope which is Rage. Hence our wicked cool smiley masks….
12. Who did you model your mask after?
Everyone wants to know where they came from lol I didn’t make them, they came from an undisclosed country. As for what they are modeled after, if you play as many xbox games as dLux you should be able to figure it out. (I’m drawing a blank!!)
13. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being smellier than Columbia after he’s been working on cars all day, how bad does the inside of your mask smell?
Actually they constantly smell of rich mahogany.
14. How great or not great is it to DJ out at UCF?
I enjoyed DJing out by UCF, I think its safe to say that I worked at the best and worst college bars, but very few DJs can pull off DJing UCF side for a long period of time. “It Ain’t Easy Being Greezy”
15. Whats the going rate to sleep on the floor/couch at your house?
5 hours of manual labor and the right to name your firstborn child, or apparently its free if your banging Dawe or Columbia.
THIS OR THAT!
16. iPhone or Android?
iPhone
17. Tuxedo Condom or Regular?
Always keep it classy…
18. Last Nights Hype Photography or My City Scene Photography?
Whats2Hot….im a big fan of batch editing. (Clever!)
19. Tyler, The Creator or Kreayshawn?
Kreayshawn….Tyler who?
20. Any final words?
Sure, why not? First off, I just want to say thank you to anyone who has come out to one of my nights, or supported me in any way. Thanks to dLux and the rest of the Last Nights Hype crew, nice dick, and thank you to my friends that are helping me move forward in every aspect of my life. Life is short, live your dream and share your passion.
Thanks again to T-Gibbs for being such a good sport about my slightly asshole-ish questions, as always its all in good fun on Last Nights Hype and some people take things we say/do a little too close to heart. We don’t say anything that isn’t the truth and sometimes, like Tom Cruise, you can’t handle the truth.
Join us next week as we have the black man playing the white jams and one of the best DJ names out there, Bevrly Kills. Be sure to check out all our past entries as well.
DJ Trendkiller
DJ A-Rock
DJ Rincon
DJ Y-Not?
Kid Judah
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