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About DJ Hinge and Soulful-Selections
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DJ Hinge is a soulful house music DJ who has regular shows on Pressure Radio and SS Radio UK. He plays a combination of deep house, soulful house, broken beat, and other types of deep and soulful music. Hinge first began DJing many moons ago (he won't say exactly when) after hanging out at a local dance club in Washington, DC, where he studied the skills of DJ Earic Patten, who at the time had a residency at one of Washington's biggest and most popular clubs. Observing Patten at work gave Hinge the inspiration to buy a pair of used turntables and start the process of learning how the beat mix. In 2003, after months of listening to UK-based online radio station Pressure Radio, Hinge became the station's first US-based DJ. That show was the launch of the Soulful-Selections mix show, which soon morphed into a Web site. With the exception of a six-month break because of work issues, Hinge has been a regular DJ on Pressure since his start in 2003. A few years later, he was invited to do a biweekly show on SS Radio UK. As stated earlier, Hinge's style is to focus on deep and soulful music, whatever form that takes. As such, it is not unusual for him to play a variety of tracks that inspire him. "My goal is to try to educate listeners to the wealth of talent that is out there. To play the songs that they know, but to also mix in tracks that I feel are ones people should know. There are so many songs out there, that I feel my job, in a certain sense, is to be a curator, or an editor helping people to sift through all of the clutter." Soulful-Selections.net is the medium by which DJ Hinge gets his message to his listeners. Each week the goal is to introduce new tracks, while also paying homage to the earlier songs that lured him into the world of house music in the first place. His inspirations run the gamut, but some of the producers, artists, and remixers who have helped shaped him include (in no particular order):
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