About Gave Pauze
Greetings DJ Pauze and welcome to DaMajority! I’m glad we have a chance to talk to you this afternoon.
DJ Pauze: Greetings, its a pleasure to be here to hold a reasoning with you, thanks for the link up.
My pleasure, so please tell me about yourself? What you do within the entertainment industry?
DJ PAUZE: I am a Radio/Club DJ, Producer/Engineer and a Songwriter/ poet as well as being a web designer amongst many other things that are involved in running a business. My passion is spinning records and I started doing that in clubs around England and Scotland around 1995 and playing on the radio in the UK since 2006 full time and now reaching out to over 150 different countries worldwide in 2012 and 13. I have been known as DJ Pauze since around 1997 but when starting the radio shows in 2006 and seeing that more DJ Pauze’s where popping up around the world I decided to use my own name Gav Pauze to spearhead the works, Gav being short for Gavin.
Pauze History
How long have you been dj’ing and how did you get into it?
DJ PAUZE: For many years I have had a passion for vinyls, mixing, producing and music in general. I first remember in 1989 a DJ at a family wedding encouraged me by letting me select the next song and cue it in. The passion just grew from that, no matter where I was or what other hobbies I took part in vinyls captured my attention more than anything else. It wasn’t until about 1995 that I started collecting records properly for mixing.
After moving house I linked with some local DJ’s who gave me access to equipment to practice on. I was hooked on spinning records, it became like a drug, so addictive and when in the zone with mixing that just spurred me on to practice harder and save up to buy a set of Technics 1210′s with a DJ mixer and continue collecting records to which I still do to this day.
Inspiration & Specialties
Who has inspired and does inspire your works?
DJ PAUZE: Many artists have inspired me over the years and a whole variety of musicians and people. Nowadays with all the radio work and communicating with Reggae lovers all over the world it’s a combination of the positive artists like Mikey General, Bunny Rugs, Wild Life, Sylford Walker, Chanter, Solo Banton, YT to name a few and not forgetting probably the most important part of the show, the listeners they inspire me.
When I am having a hard day I usually press play on an old radio show on my website and have a listen. So I would say it is the music and the people in the music that inspire me the most today.
Do you specialise in any specific genre and if so why?
DJ PAUZE: From 1995 to 2004 I was a Jungle DJ spinning records in clubs and house parties all over the UK. In 2004 I had a life changing experience falling off a BMX bicycle and seriously banged my head. In the recovery time from this accident I got more in to listening to positive Reggae music which helped me heal through depression.
My main genre of focus over the past 6 years has been all positive uplifting Reggae Roots & Culture and Lovers Rock, since finding it helped heal. I still play Jungle music as both genres are very closely linked so it seemed like a natural progression. General Levy broke the charts in the UK in the mid 90′s with his hit Jungle tune “Incredible” and Buju Banton was also one of the most sampled artists for Jungle music in that era too.
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