DJ
BIJAL aka Mr. Everywhere
World
Renowned DJ, Producer, Entrepreneur, Ground Breaker. I'M
EVERYWHERE YOU AIN'T NEVA THERE!!!
As
waves of music ebb and flow, we tend to occupy ourselves
with the idea that our favorite DJs, the gatekeepers of
dear old music, hail from our bordering neighborhoods and
cities. To this we attribute our unyielding embrace. We
are not all too familiar with the small city of Surat, located
in Gujarat, India. Nestled only a few miles from the Arabian
Sea, on the Tapi River, Bijal was born here. No sooner than
hed reached the age of 1 his parents, middle-class tobacco
wholesalers, took a valiant trip to America. Throughout
his adolescence he moved from town to town along the Northeast
Coast, living, at some instances, in Motels. We had no camera,
TV, video games or anything nice, all money went to my clothes,
[and] food, Bijal recalls. It was then that he was swept
by the power of music.
At
age 15, [my cousin] caught me and showed me how to [play]
a record Within a few months he paraded to Canal Hi-Fi (a
sizeable electronics boutique located on Canal St. in Manhattan)
and bought his first pair of turntables. Playing 24 hours
a day at first, he soon wanted to record some of his handy
work. The now self-proclaimed DJ Bijal made his first mixtape,
entitled No Doubt Dancing, when he connected his DJ equipment
to his tape deck. He began recording himself DJing and his
personality on tape transformed. It was his calling. In
2001, while attending Long Island University in New York
City he landed his first weekly gig at Club Exit in NYC.
In May 2002 during a Network 40 magazine interview Bijal
comments, I dont just scratch into every song. I blend vocals
and beats and toy with repeating words and playing with
the instrumentals... With trendy mixtapes under his belt
he harnessed his cult following. What I like to do is slowly
work some Indian artists in on my own mixtapes and put them
alongside hip-hop and R&B heavyweights. New Yorks hiphop/
reggae crowd flocked to his room each and every Friday and
Saturday night. With career highlights including honorable
mention on MTV as the next big thing and numerous features
in MTVs Mixtape Monday, he capitalized on his notoriety.
In Fall 2005, The Ave Magazine dubs him DJ Clue of the Indian
urban music market. Bijal adds, I feel Indian artists fusing
their sound into hip-hop or R&B has the potential to
create the next wave of music
As
his popularity increased he became the first Indian DJ to
have his own syndicated urban radio show on AOL Radio and
Sirius Satellite Radio simultaneously. In February 2004
Bijal joined forces with well-known mixtape master DJ Kurupt,
The Master Jedi, to create Team Jedi. Within a few short
months Team Jedi was branded by MTV as 2004s DJs On the
Rise and the partnership gave birth to Bijals first commercial
release on vinyl, Sumeet and Jay- Zs Agony - DJ Bijal Remix,
which was featured on Jedi Blends Volume 3. From spinning
vinyl to being featured on vinyl, he went on to produce
the Sumeet featuring Nivla Ghost - Remix and Deesha featuring
Saj Supreme Do You Remember - Remix.
What
began as fascination and hobby blossomed into his lifes
work. He currently provides wireless content such as voice
tones, ring tones, and wallpapers to wireless providers
Jamster & Candy Mobile. Consciously bending and shifting
to his ever-changing, ever-growing career, he has solidified
himself as outstanding DJ Royalty.
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