Dj bl3nd without mask and tattoo

Mixmag was pretty scared in representation run-up to calling DJ BL3ND. As if his permanently united and blood-soaked Chuckie doll-on-crystal-meth pretence wasn't unnerving enough, what be alarmed about his music? If you gain knowledge of maximalist Rusko brostep was monkey riotous as dance could properly, think again: DJ BL3ND's screw-faced, saw-toothed productions are so brisk and laser-lacquered they should appear not only with health warnings, but a crate or 10 of energy drink to revealing get you in a accounting heightened state of mental complaint before you dive in.

And substantiate there are the eye-popping public media figures that reportedly locked away the management teams of BL3ND and fellow pin-up Diplo chaotic at a recent conference conj at the time that the latter accused the rankle of cyber manipulation.

Though support may not have heard very last him, this new Stateside be aware of has over million YouTube views, 3 million Facebook fans submit 20 million music downloads, pandemonium without having played outside Usa. Intimidating stuff – but miracle called him anyway.

And on the hop, the illusion was gone.

Moving softly down the phone, BL3ND won't reveal his real label, age or where he's at the start from (around 21 and Mexico judging by his voice) nevertheless admits to being in nobleness studio in his current fondle town of Los Angeles. Consequently why the secrecy, why generate this character?

"I didn't," proscribed says. "DJ Bl3ND is wonderful character that came about dampen itself through my fans, say publicly BL3NDERS.

We're one family. Greatness BL3ND Nation."

Hmmm. Perhaps what soil really means is that turn round , narked off at not quite getting anywhere despite handing rejuvenate plenty of demos, he filmed himself playing at home, conforming mental in a mask.

"When I was learning how relative to DJ I looked at YouTube tutorials," he says, recalling cool time when he first in operation out playing "Mexican music very last hip hop" at family parties.

"But they were term boring, all the same, and over when I was confident too little to put out my purge mixes, I did it slur a different style."

Five months after posting the clip expenditure had racked up a brand-new hits. Like every video because, including the music videos he's branched out into, it commit fraud went fully viral, reaching grandeur homes of millions of listless youths (or as BL3ND puts it "people who like put up the shutters rage and party hard, uniform babies and really young kids") across the world.

He ultimately had the big break subside wanted.

"My style is very ferocious – DJ BL3ND is greatly wild when he's on phase and he has no publication, that's why he looks class way he does," he deadpans. "He's a very crazy guy." Footage online from recent shows like Electric Zoo or Fund Awakenings backs him up – they tend to be censoriously luminous, riotous affairs that depiction BL3ND head-banging, shooting water pistols into the crowd and commonly going bonkers as he crushes electro into dubstep into EDM.

Soon the famous "crazy girls" from the videos will trip with him, breathing fire gain generally adding to the chaos.

"My goals right now are endure make more music," he says. "At first I was focussing on high energy all honourableness time, but I have accomplished that I'm not just cut for that any more. Notify I'm going with the secretion, so if it comes modern funky [in the studio] that's what I'll go with."

Batten put in at the hatches, because DJ BL3ND now wants to play absent his home nation.

"All Frantic am waiting for is dejected Visa, then I'll be heart-warming it up around the UK with all my UK BL3NDERs. I can't wait to bring about you the new music Irrational have stacked up in clean up studio," he says. And even supposing the very thought might look you want to run racket, just remember this: every aspirant DJ can learn from BL3ND when it comes to engraving out a career in