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| Here are some of the Artists & Performers from the eJay community who regularly play to a live audience |
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| White Roots |
| Paul Enderson (formerly known as Partners In Ryme) has been a DJ/MC for about eight years and started off playing for small private parties, progressed to playing some major clubs, then scaled down to playing pubs and karaoke events when the pressure from the clubs got too much to bear! He classes himself as a house and garage DJ, a garage and happy hardcore MC, and a hiphop/r&b performer. Paul is also a graphic artist and web designer and was the man behind the development of the original opening sequence of the Fest pages. He's been involved with eJay since the very beginning and tried out Dance eJay about a week after it had been officially released. His eJayed! site (www.enderson.freeserve.co.uk/ejayed) was the very first UK website supporting eJay software. Paul has worked with Jon Silvara (MD of Fasttrak Software) on many occasions, he's had his music played in Virgin Records Oxford Street store when FastTrak were promoting HipHop eJay, and he has worked on samples for Dance eJay 2 and HipHop eJay 2. The first track he ever submitted to the eJay website (It's All Good) was nominated for EOTW and won week 18! |
| Paul's Top eJay Trax 1-5 1) Venemous MC - Yep! Yep! 2) Bird In A Tree - The Funkmaster 3) Madang - Girl-On-Da-Bass 4) Harry Turn - How 5) ConKuss - Alien Invasion |
| Paul's Top eJay Mixing Tip Use eJay software as a tool, rather than an exclusive music studio. Try to incorporate elements from other products and sample sources. |
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| Conkuss |
| ConKuss (or CK to his friends) is an alternative/metal techno artist. He's been part of the eJay community since December 2000 and has enjoyed every day of it. He loves homemade dabblings and solutions to things, and recons there's nothing like getting your hands dirty and simply experimenting. He makes his music with some software synthesisers and a physical keyboard, and has been using Dance eJay 2 for a couple of years now after playing around with a mate's copy of DE1. CK used to play bass guitar/drums in a Thrash Metal Band called 'Formerly Neclecide' around Oldham for about two to three years around the end of the '80s - the start of the '90s, but got fed up with carting a fifteen piece drumkit around. ConKuss is a well known character on the eJay boards, who has done regular reviews, and generally contributed fully to the community. How would you class his music? A combination of spoken word poetry to hard dark dance. Having met CK at this years eJayberFest 2001 party where he performed live for the very first time, it's easy to see that he's a kind of gentle giant and he recons he's in a strange half way point within his eJay career. Now he's done that first performance, he is quite excited about all the exposure, and the fact that peeps are starting to know who he is and what he does. He's fired up about the potential that the eJay community has to expand into something unified and recons the community is far more powerful than just a bunch of peeps competing to see who can use a £30 piece of software to make music better than the other persons. |
| ConKussed Top eJay Trax 1-3 1: Alien - Raise The Machine 2: Sentry - Sean X 3: Wilfreda - The Delivery System (Plus the Unspined Remix) |
| ConKussed Top eJay Tip To make a tired eJay sample sound a bit better, have a bit more prescence, export the sample by itself, at the eJay's original set tempo speed to a wav file. Open it in a good audio editor and start experimenting by boosting frequencies, adding or removing bass, removing or boosting top end sounds, reversing the sound, adding flange, filter sweeps and echo etc, it'll make your mixes sound a lot better (and slightly more original) in the long run. Then cut off the silence at the end of the sample and re-import back into eJay. |
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| Go through the following process: Lay down the backing using something like HipHop eJay 2 or StreetStyle eJay. I often import custom samples which I construct using programs like Fruity Loops (www.fruityloops.com). I then export the mix to a WAV file. Load up a media player called Winamp (www.winamp.com) and a sample editor called Sound Forge (www.sonicfoundry.com). Using a cheap headset mic which I bought for a £5, I then play back the WAV file using Winamp while I simultaneously record the vocals in Sound Forge. Save the vocals to another WAV file. Import both of the WAV files into Acid (www.acidplanet.com) and tweak them until the volume balance and timing are correct. Export all tracks to another WAV for burning to CD using Nero (www.nero.com) or converting to an MP3 using Musicmatch Jukebox (www.musicmatch.com). As you can see, it looks like a fairly straight-forward process, but it can often take several hours and many re-records of the vocals to get a track sounding completely right. It's worth the effort in the end though! |
| Pauls Tips for budding Rap artists |