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A hip-hop head from a very early age, Hess has been immersing himself in beats, rhymes and hip-hop culture since he was 8 years old! When he discovered Jungle in 1997 through the Detroit and Chicago rave scene he found the only genre of music and culture that even came close to rivaling the passion that he felt for hip-hop. After 3 years of partying and promoting, Hess realized that in order to keep his passion for the electronic music scene he was going to have to get a pair of decks, and a mixer and start learning how to DJ. Catching on extremely quickly, he started to play out in 2000, the same year he purchased his first pair of decks. In the spring of 02 Hess moved from Lansing, MI to Chicago for a change of scenery and met up with fellow Junglist Souljah Kru member Zebo, and an unstoppable junglistic force was born! Although Hess has some production credits to his name alongside Zebo, with blazing dubwise riddims such as “Ditka’s Revenge”, he is mainly a DJ/Turntablist whose sets are a smooth mixture of new and old ragga-jungle, breakcore, hip-hop, and plenty of scratching and cutting. A true Souljah in every sense of the word, if you don’t find Hess behind the decks rockin your ass and beating you into dancing, you can find him constantly honing his skills in the studio, digging through Chicago’s underground record shops for unique samples and rare gems, or promoting JSK and Irie Way Records all over the Windy City!
“Building a culture takes a lot of time and patience. In order to grow, we need to try new things without compromising our values and forgetting where it all started”
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