Roger Sanchez reveals his break-dancing past! When he was a young high-school kid in New York, he would go to the Bronx and party. At one packed, crazy party, Sanchez was friends with the DJ, and saw how his friend was ‘rocking the crowd’; it was then and there that Sanchez saw what he wanted to do. “It would be really, really cool to influence people.”
Pete Tong saw his first live DJ at a school disco, back in the days. After seeing what DJing was, he “Made a bee-line for it”. Life as a DJ started off modestly; Pete stuck two turntables together and fed them through a High Fidelity mixer, using his father’s records.
David Guetta thinks back to the first time he ever ‘beat-matched’ a mix. Beat-matching is the art of finding two different tracks and synchronizing the beats to one-and-other. He had a ‘Eurika’ moment when he successfully beat-matched two tracks. They were Michael Jackson’s ‘Billie Jean’, and Oliver Cheatham’s ‘Get Down on a Saturday Night’. To this day he remembers that first mix.
