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DJ Roctakon
Finding Directions

Album 2009 on Money Studies Records label
Dance (House, Techno, Deep House, Garage House)

Sometimes you're just compelled to do something. Nothing in your life suggest you do it... in fact it's probably counterproductive to business as you know it. Hours toiling behind your turntables... days spent recording...re-playing...trying to find that perfect order. You might land a gig. but you'll spend more on records than you actually get paid. There is no real reason for me to have made this mix. It was a shit load of work and is totally not in line with where and what I've been getting paid to play. Some of it was born out of parties I did with a friend. The rest is me filling in the blanks with new discoveries and old favorites. You're more likely to find me playing Kelly Clarkson and Lil Wayne than Ron Carroll and Lil Louis. and you can tell that when you listen to this mix. I'm not the off-kilter artist who's taking you on some journey... like it or not. I'm a peoples' DJ. I can not escape it. This is about finding a balance in what I do in music and life, really. I love DJing so much I'm willing to play just about anything as long as I'm happy with the composition. At the same time, I'm at my best when I'm playing music I like and engaged with my surroundings. I don't know if this will be some catalyst that changes my path... somehow I doubt it. I'm a little too far down this road to be pulling U-turns (and honestly, if I wanted to I would have). It's simply that I worked really hard on this and I want to share it with people. It's a piece of me for sure, but it owes a debt to my friends as well... you know who you are. I'm happy with how it turned out and I'm happy to share it with people, and I hope finishing it brings me some peace, but somehow I doubt it will. Roctakon

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