| Sounds Like | Aaron del Campo, or better known by the bass driven underworld as DJ Hymn, emerges from the East Coast as a shining symbol of the great urban breakbeat era of the late 70's and early 80's. And continues to inspire and be inspired through the linear decades.
DJ Hymn was born in rural Granby, CT on September 19, 1975. This is where he began his musical journey becoming a master guitar player and also teaching himself many other various instruments. He was heavily influenced by such musical moguls as Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Run DMC, James Brown, and countless other rock greats.
The musical inspiration of rock and funk awoke a sleeping giant in DJ Hymn during an elusive transition into the electonic breakbeat and house music scene of the early 90s. Inspired by Bassbin Twins, DubTribe, DJ Dan, Doc Martin, Chemical Brothers, Hardkiss, Keoki, and Uberzone , just to name a few, Hymn began to master the turntables and become a superior mixologist. His mixes take crowds to higher levels of spirituality with lots of energized, uncontrolled dancing.
He's been a resident DJ for legendary venues such as Club Firestone in Orlando and Club Eleven50 in Atlanta, and has travelled and played venues all over the states including his home now of Los Angeles. Setting up shop on the Venice Beach Boardwalk with his amazingly impressive scratch techniques and award winning personality. His innovativeness has won him World Wide acclaim as the Venice Beach DJ. And, hence, has been featured showing off his DJ skills on American Idol, Ford commercial, Step it Up and Dance on Bravo, MTV, NPR, Music Plus TV and is currently working with Puma on a commercial project.
Since his excursion into the scratch world, DJ Hymn continues to set his own standard of sound and creativity by constantly "breaking the rules" and challenging himself to higher levels of skill. And now has become an expert at music production. He's mastered all the industries standard audio engineering programs: such as Pro Tools, Logic Audio, Ableton Live, and Reason. He's put his extensive knowledge to good use by working on movie scores, remixes, commercials, music for video games and websites. In 2007 he produced a George Clinton remix for George Clinton's new album, and worked extensively on a new Nintendo Wii game not yet released. Recently he produced a track for Will Smith's new movie Hancock set to release this summer of 2008.
Clearly, there are no limits for this rising star.
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