DJ Q

Keep it wild and interesting right here on Sister Bliss in session.

Before we go into our blissed out moment, this is DJ Q.

Come back raw.

Let's have a bit of UK G.

It was kind of an accident of necessity.

Around the late 90s and early 2000s, local Sheffield DJs like DJ Q, Jamie Duggan and Sean Scott started experimenting.

They took speed garage and house tracks, stripped out the 4x4 kick drums and sped them up, pitched up the female vocal hooks and cranked up the bass.

The speaker system at Niche was so absurdly overpowered that Bailey admitted it literally made his ears bleed.

Yeah,

exactly.

Followed by H2O's What's It Gonna Be, which also hit number two, and DJ Q's You What? The UK establishment tried to squash a northern youth subculture, and the scene responded by taking over national pop charts.

Oh, crazy really.

I want to say I saw something today on Instagram that's really interesting, and I want to give a little shout out to it because I haven't been able to fully dive into it yet, but it could make things really interesting if you're a Serato user.

Q, DJ Q, a friend of the show, he's been on the show, released a free DJ library tool for Mac and Windows.

It says play your Serato library, set and labels and cues, cleanup tags and export your crates to Pioneer USBs for CDJs.

So it's a free software.

... to the bigger moments, like ...

And, and I think I, I even learned, like, the first time I did it, the, the main stage at Boom, it was, like, me, Sammy, and DJ Q, and it was ...

Like, I tried to do so mu- 'cause it was, like, 30,000 people.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was...

I think it was just such a new sound, and I started out DJing, like, UK garage and, and the stuff like Champion and Flava D, DJ Q, people like that were making was just, like, a more gritty version of that.

Um, and I'd listen to, like, mixes from various DJs.

That's how I'd find, like, new music, and any song that I liked happened to be one of the four, you know, Champion, Q, Flava D.