Aslam
Biography: Aslam
BORN
I was born on the 21st of Nov '80, IN Dubai lived there for fourteen years and at the age of 15 we moved to Egypt, Alexandria.
Family
My dad, back then was a football trainer, he wasnt really into music and my mother was a schoolteacher she was listening to all usual stuff like everyone. As I remember I was really into music at a very early age.
FIRST PROJECT
It all started year 2001when I went with one of my friends back home to a house party that he was spinning in (wow) was my first word when I say him mixing his tunes and every one was jumping on the music this is when I said to my self that's what I have been looking for to do as I loved music so much, straight after the house party I told him that I to start djing as well, I started buying Records and chasing down imports finding someone that was going into Europe specially London to grab them for me, I was always trying to find stuff that other didnt have, after a short time when I started mixing I asked my friend to try to get my a house party or a small gig, I never though that I can do it until my friend got me my first gig to spin in,,,,, it was amazing, after that I went to Lebanon to mix there but still I wanted more. So my next step was hitting to London in summer 2003 to performing at some of London's best clubs....
One of my friends told me once something that made me really happy and that was that I am the hot and exciting addition to the internationally reknowned London club scene.
With over five years experience I keep my crowd salivating in anticipation to my next mix, the real ravers succomb to my expertise, my muse is dance and my style is minimal, tech and electro with the added spice of my middle eastern homelands.
My beats echo mysteriously around the dusky dance floor enticing the crowd to move the rhythms of my unique style, in three words: hypnottizing, electrifying and elevating.
The last two years in London I have accumulated numerous residencies, nigths and gigs in London's best clubs such as The End, The Egg, Pacha London, Ministry of sound and The Cross playing alongside some of dance music biggest names.
DJING
I take each gig differently than the other, but it all depends on the sound system, the set-up, the lighting, what time youre playing, whos on before you, and how late or early it is
There are so many things that I have to take into account.
Thats why I take a lot of music with me, I have to be versatile and creative than others, and not caring what others have done before or after me. I always think positive and hard about each gig and I like to be very professional about it.
The most important to me is attitude, every aspect has to be right thats the way I like it to be. The scene needs good gigs all the time. When every theres a duff party people walk away from it in disappointment, it does not only reflects poorly on the promoter, but also on the scene in general and people will lose confidence. You want them going to clubs and parties week after week, thinking it's fantastic.
THE FUTURE
More studio production, and DJing all over, I do what I love and I meet amazing people, I am very lucky.........................................................
Collaborations Aslam appears on...
- Aslam & Karim Mika (2 tracks)
