AdLib
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Home Town: Seattle, WA
Genre: Progressive House
Posted By: Adlib
Joined On: March 26, 2005
Page Views: 11,082
Song Plays: 2,281
Current Rank: 7,103
Highest Rank: 51
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Albums
Iconoclast!
Similar Artists
See below.
Group Members
Devin Kelly
Instruments
Turntables, Mixers, CD Tables, Software, Hardware, Keyboards, CPU
Musical Style
House: progressive, tribal, deep, funky. Breaks: party breaks, progressive.
Influences
Danny Tenaglia, Tilt, Deep Dish, Blackwatch, Chab, Dano, Chris and Kai, Sasha and John, Josh Craig, Doc Martin, Halo, Hipp-E, Hybrid, Jon E Thin, Nick Warren, Pllump DJs, Steve Lawler, Lee Coombs, Lemon 8, Hooj Choons, Yoshi Toshi. |
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Brief Description
Devin Kelly, AKA Ad-Lib is a house DJ hailing from the Pacific Northwest. He has been mixing electronic music for the last eight years, and producing progressive house music for the last four years. For a long time, he was a staple DJ in the Salt Lake City and Boise party scenes, where he would play out frequently. He now resides in Seattle Washington, where he plays semi-regularly at clubs and intimate parties. Please see below for his produced and mixed music, along with a full bio.
History/Biography
After attending parties around the northwest US for a year and a half, Devin Kelly (Ad-Lib) felt a strong desire to mix records, make his own music, and give back to the electronic music community. In January of 1998 he scored his first set of used Technics free from a radio station. Things could not have possibly worked out better since then.
In the last seven years, Ad-Lib has managed to become very involved with the underground music scene in Boise, Salt Lake City, Frisco, Los Angeles, and Seattle. For how long he's been playing and for where he lives, he's had the rare opportunity to play out of state many times. He's worked and spun with some of the west coast's best underground DJ's; including Jon E Thin, Taj, Daemon, Matt McCoy, Moda, Tracer, Dig-Dug, Josh Craig and Beaker, DRC, JZ, CL McSpadden, Tillman, Atomic, Kultcha, Enrie, Dave Epstein, and Greg Sandler.
In addition, he's also played with world renowned talent such as Captain Tinrib, Dan, Dano, Max and Amino (of Alien Trax), Alice Deejay (yuck), the Head-Hunters, the House-a-Holics, John Kelly, Donald Glaude, Mars & Mystre, Daisy, Christopher Lawrence, Leonard, Joeski, and others.
Ad-Lib moved to Seattle Washington in September of 2002. He is now trying to break into the much larger but very contained Seattle scene. He hopes that he will start gaining major local recognition with his consistent quality mixtapes and CDs and smaller local bookings. He plays out semi regularly at Tengu, a progressive house night at the En.
Throughout his experiences, Ad-Lib has developed different levels of appreciation for different types of music, mixing styles, and personalities within the rave and nightclub community. There are those who make the experience worth it and those who detract from it. By working with the promoters, DJ's, and producers he appreciates, adlib feels he is working with and for the community.
The experience of a party is largely based on the promoter ability to place sets and the DJ's ability to progress a set. As a promoter and a DJ, Adlib specializes in trying to find the best experience. That is why he tries to be as versatile as possible. He prefers progressive house, deep trance, and tribally music, but he can also mix breaks, progressive breaks, trance, hard trance, tech house, and funky house.
Adlib started scratching about three years ago and producing using reason, acid, logic and some outboard gear towards the beginning of 2001. He started in both of these directions as a hobby, but is now incorporating elements of his own music more and more as he plays out. One of his tracks is available for download on this website.
He has also began to fuse political activism with progressive music in party environments. As a promoter, he tries to make his events as informative and immersive as possible. With his crew, People of Earth, he hopes to expand on these ideas and work with promoters and DJ's across the west to create a more sustainable party culture. He would love to play out in as many new communities as possible and return the favor to talented underground DJ's/promoters in his area.
Visit www.myspace.com/Ad_Lib to contact Devin. |
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