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What are some of your favorite cities or countries to play in?Los Angeles, Denver, New York City, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta, Toronto, andplenty more. I love playing in Holland, Japan, and South Africa as well.Who are your favorite producers today?Phace, Misanthrop, Mefjus, UpBeats, Gridlok, Original Sin, Audio, MindVortex, the list goes on.How hard do you push yourself?I want to be the best. Whatever that takes. I don’t cut corners.How often do you tour?Every week nonstop for over 17 years. On average, two shows a week.What would you be doing if you weren’t a DJ?Cooking or involved in a restaurant somehow.What are you listening to lately?Lots of chill music and Indie Rock. My favorite album of last year was Swayby the band, Whirr. Heavy, droning, and beautiful.the word, “destroyer” on my right hand and a bone crossinspired by a piece of jewelry from a company called BloodMoon on my neck. These were also done by Jason June.Do you have any plans to get more tattoos? If so, whatelse do you plan on getting?After I finish my left sleeve, I have been thinking aboutwhat to get next. I want to fill in some space on myright arm, so probably more work from Jason Juneand hopefully a little more tentacle action fromCarlos Torres to round out his piece.Why is body art important to you?It is a constant visual reflection of personalaesthetic. I love showing people what mytaste is like.www.Facebook.com/Dieselboywww.SoundCloud.com/DieselboyWhat is your favorite album by another artist?The new Phace album for Drum and Bass. I usually say my favorite albumof all time is Loveless by My Bloody Valentine. Lost Souls by the Doves isalso up there.What’s next for you?I’m kind of hitting a ceiling for what I can pull off in a DJ set. I am on fourdecks now, with unplanned sets to make it interesting. I could theoreticallygo to five decks but then a lot of nuance would be lost and I would endup somewhat metal jerking myself off on stage while no one in the crowdwould even know what is going on. So right now, I am going to focus onwriting more music and branching off a bit more into my food and cookingendeavors.Explain the stories and history behind your tattoos.On my left arm, I’m currently working on a full sleeve, courtesy of theamazing artist, Dan Bones. It is originally inspired by a piece of work byartist, Ryan Begley. My sleeve is now somewhat dungeons and dragonsand fantasy themed. It is an epic battle between snakes, skulls, mutantravens, wolves, and more, featuring a giant sword and a twenty sided die.It also incorporates an earlier tattoo I got with the words, “DISCIPLINETHROUGH PAIN.” I love it!My first tattoo ever was on my upper right arm. It was the logo of the Drumand Bass label, Metalheadz. It was a quickie done at some shitty bikertattoo studio near Pittsburgh. Years later, I had it lasered off to make roomfor a better tattoo. On my right forearm, I have a piece done by a superawesome artist named, Jason June. It is a design featuring a woodenstaff, feather, and swords by a metal artist from Italy named View fromthe Coffin.My chest tattoo is my favorite. It took me two years to get theappointment with legendary artist, Carlos Torres, but it was worthit. This is a black and grey piece which I call, “a death’s headkraken”. There is a skull on my upper right arm that has octopustentacles that stretch across my chest and down my arm.It looks like some serious dutch master oil painting.On my back, is another early tattoo, this time from triballegend, Leo Muleta from Blackwave in Los Angeles. Itwas one of his original dragon designs. It is well doneand of the time period that I got it.I also have some miscellaneous tattoos. I have158 InkSpiredMagazine.com