Amit Shoham

Bio:

I've been making music for as long as I can remember. I took organ lessons when I was six. I wanted to play guitar and my parents wanted me to play piano. They said "you're going to take piano lessons, and when you're old enough we'll get you a synthesizer. It'll sound just like a guitar." I could tell that this wasn't quite what I had bargained for, but at the age of six I didn't know how to formulate a counter argument. We settled on the electric organ, which was as close to a synthesizer as I was going to get in Haifa, Israel in 1976.

Somewhere along the way I picked up guitar, bass, and percussion. I played in a few bands (progressive rock, jazz, reggae, funk), did a bit of studio work and some live sound work. I'm an electrical engineer (yes, a geek!) by training so I had dabbled in all sorts of music-related technology, from designing studio components to computer-based composition and synthesis (which was still cutting-edge when I played around with this stuff in the late '80s).

For a very long time I hated dance music. That's because I didn't bother to seek out the good stuff until I was introduced to the San Francisco rave scene in 1993. Oh, the good old days! All the geeks and the freaks seemed to be going to the raves. It was a good time for exploration, both musical and otherwise. So I decided I'd try making this thing called house music. I was introduced to DJ Blackstone in 1995 by a mutual friend (Jackie-O of the Big Love Show on KZSU) and we started working on music together, and eventually started our label, Tarantic Records. (You can find most of Tarantic's catalog on Beatport, and select releases are also available on iTunes, among many other digital download sites.)

I've been refining my production skills ever since, and started DJing along the way. I'd like to think that I'd hold the title of "world's quietest DJ," if there were such a thing. Those who know me will get what I mean...

Music flows in my veins, so when my nose bleeds grooves emanate forth into the cosmos, and when I cut myself a song is born. Ouch! ...here comes another one.

Check out some of my DJ mixes:
Proton Mix Feb. 2008
Vibrant
Impact

Free track download: Beautiful
This is my remix of Yello's "Oh Yeah," originally released on vinyl and now remastered for CD.

Free track download: White Lines remix
This is my remix of the Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel classic "White Lines," remastered for CD. Download the 320kbps MP3 file FREE! ..

Member Since:

February 07, 2006

Influences:

Jay-J, Miguel Migs, H-Foundation, Garth, Jeno, DJ Blackstone, DJ Adnan, Dubtribe, Doc Martin, Theloneous Monk, Miles Davis, Eric Clapton, Van Halen, Yes, Rush, Phish, The Pretenders, Les Nubians, Talvin Singh, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Talking Heads, Prince, Genesis, Yello, Yothu Yindi, U2, Burning Spear, James Brown, Brand New Heavies, St. Germain, Sting, Paul Simon, The Beatles, Tiga, Rick Preston, Joey Negro, Masters at Work, Dirty Vegas, Dennis Ferrer, Fred Everything ...to name a few...

Sounds Like:

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Now available from Beatport


Downloads available from:
Beatport
Junodownload
Traxsource
iTunes

Record Label:

Tarantic Records