Word: ryans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Ryan has become a pillar of Boston electronic music and club culture. He's a long-spinning resident at Axis, one of the most popular clubs in Boston, and his Friday night set, Spin Cycle, is broadcast weekly live on WFNX and on-line. Word of his prowess with vinyl has also extended well beyond Boston, and his track "Supa Crush" features on the recently released CD "Torchbearers: A Compilation of 11 Club Culture Vanguards...
...down with Ryan, a 32-year-old North Shore native, a few weeks ago at Axis to talk about music and the life...
...Ryan: I present a mosaic of all different styles, trying to get as many people into all different kinds of music, within dance music, as I can. It's a little bit more involved than you might think, other than just going up there and playing recorded music or music that I myself have recorded before and am playing. It's more than that; I hope to take people on some kind of a journey, so that it has a beginning, a middle and an end, rather than just playing one song or another...
...started way back when in college [Ryan attended the University of Maine in Orono] in the '80s. It actually wasn't called electronic back then; it was called industrial, and house music was just starting. I had a radio show on my college station, and I became obsessed with music from then. What became of that was me, from my obsession, trying to get other people into what I was hearing, which has brought me to this point. That's where I started, just college radio...
...Fifteen questions completed, Ryan headed off to the DJ booth, and I stood aside as the magic that is the music of Spin Cycle began...