ozone333's Biography
I was a DJ first... then became an electronic musician.
I got my start in the Boston area night club scene in the 1980's at a small place called "CHOICES Dance Club Lounge"... I helped design the new DJ booth and learned a lot about the fast paced world of spinning music in the night club scene...
Over the following years I worked as a DJ for a lot of the night clubs at the time including: Michaels Seaside, Narcissus, The Other Side,& The Palace. I also taught a friend of mine named Jimmy Ethridge how to spin music... He went on to work as a DJ in the club scene as well..
In February of 1989 my brother and I moved to California to get a break from the life in Massachusetts. We drove across the united states in two vehicles. I drove the 18 foot U-Haul and my brother drove his car. We took a minor detour to Vegas and blew most of our money there. We arrived in beautiful Sun Valley California on February 14th, 1989.... Valentines Day with about $800 left.
About a month after arriving in California, I was already living in my car... my DJ stuff was in storage and I was a newly active participant in a 12 step program...
4 years after I moved here, I got married...
My new wife said that I needed to quit spinning music and "Get A Life" as she would put so bluntly... I felt that she was making a good point so... I became a Data Telecommunications Technician with the IBEW Union... That lasted a few years but got boring, so I transferred to the Motion Picture Studios and became a Sound Electrician... Life was good again, I was making good money.. but something was missing....
I really missed being a DJ...
Life was starting to suck cause I wanted to do gigs... I wanted to be creative.... But my DJ stuff was in no shape to drag around from place to place... and I couldn't bear to think of carting around those heavy records that I had been collecting for years...
Then I got it... "Build a studio in my home and try to write some music" That was a challenge that I had not yet attempted.
Within 5 years I had written about 3 albums of decent dance music.. I was off and running... ozone333 was born!
Now... please bear in mind that I have left out lot's of stuff cause I don't want to bore you with my life story... So, I'm trying to only give you the most important stuff to read...
The Adventure began...
In 2004 I divorced my wife, sold my house, spent the profit from my house on DJ Equipment, a Lightshow, Pro Tools school, and living expenses for 2 years and set off to rid myself of boring work.
My music was discovered by a music scout for MTV on MySpace.com and ozone333 Electronic music was put on the map... I guess?
Since then, I have licensed my music to tons of people for use in TV and other projects... My experimental album "The JIMI" did very well in 2006 sales...
My present music library consists of 30 electronic music albums averaging 10 tracks per album and I have done a special remix series of albums called MySpace Mixes that celebrate the ozone333 DJ mixes that I have uploaded over the years to the MySpace player. I give these mix albums away free to buyers of my music from CD Baby. com
I've always had this ability to do a lot of things at once... So... In order to keep myself from getting bored, I now teach Fiber Optics, Structured Cabling, Electricity, Electronics and other Telecom trades to the Telco Industry!
Life is great... once again... because I'm being creative, AND getting paid for it... What could be better than that?
Being ozone333 is hard work and it's not paying as well as I'd like, but it's fun and I love it.. Never give up on your dreams!
Thanx 4 reading...
ozone333 ;)
